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Need to try get Mainoo and Amrabat into the team to see if they can improve us.
They need to be fit first.
Is he on that much money though or a super long deal? Sometimes it’s worth moaning about things but moaning about a free transfer who was our 2nd most creative player last season (even with missing loads of games) seems like time could be spent better elsewhere.The only thing good about the deal with it being free. Otherwise United would have been better off thinking about long term than signing both Eriksen and Casemiro last season. Remember that we suck at getting rid of players when they become past it or duds, so the last thing United need is short term players we will struggle to move on.
Is he on that much money though or a super long deal? Sometimes it’s worth moaning about things but moaning about a free transfer who was our 2nd most creative player last season (even with missing loads of games) seems like time could be spent better elsewhere.
Last season the aim was CL qualification. We did that with the bonus of a cup and losing the other domestic cup in the final. Eriksen was a starter until his injury and came back into the team after. For a free signing - and you avoided my question - who is not on a massive salary he was an excellent signing.We are a team at rebuild. The least we need is wasting time on short term business as stop gaps that won't lead us anywhere.
Being good for one season before turning to a deadwood that needs replacement is just a waste of time. The target isn't last season. The target is building a team capable of challenging in the near future. Your business should be based on that, and not just for one good season. These stop gaps are better signed when you have a winning team with one or two defects that you need to quickly plug to keep winning titles , not a team full of holes who isn't going to win anything withing the next one or two years.
Last season the aim was CL qualification. We did that with the bonus of a cup and losing the other domestic cup in the final. Eriksen was a starter until his injury and came back into the team after. For a free signing - and you avoided my question - who is not on a massive salary he was an excellent signing.
We signed a new player to start over him (Mount whatever you think of that idea) and a new player to cover the other position he can play. The planning is there, we simply don’t know how it will work but he’s now basically a solid (and inexpensive) squad player who you’d assume will leave end of this season as game time diminishes.
Moan about things that are worth moaning about.
Bolded will need some explanation.I don't remember complaining about his salary. I said the only good thing about this transfer was it being free.
This is a pretty poor planing. United would have been better spending money on a long term midfielder last season instead of both Casemiro and Eriksen. We would have still finished top 4 anyway and would have saved money to buy better players in othe positions next season than replacing the players you brought one season ago. Instead we have two deadwoods we would want to sell next summer.
United should look at the future and not just the next season.
Finally I will moan about whatever I think worthy of moaning. Nothing in the club at the moment can be considered good or ideal.
He’s a 20/30 minute towards the end of a game kinda player.
The problem for me is that, as a team, we've been terrible under pressure for as long as I can remember now and us still not addressing that will always be the main problem. It doesn't matter if a player is free or not (I assume his wages are relatively high). Any player we sign - especially in midfield and attack - that doesn't address this flaw of ours is a wasted transfer.He’s also slow and weak in the tackle but he’s still a genuine footballer. Something a lot of our current side aren’t.
He needs replacing but as a free transfer, he is the least of our regrets.
Gave the ball away cheaply so many times. No idea why that gets overlooked because he played one brilliant pass.
Yea agreed, seemed to fade after that though, probably not helped by us being down to 10 men. Before they looked class though.Absolute class for about 25 minutes. Totally changed the game and should have had an assist.
Or in behind the physicality of Rasmus, with pace either side of him. It’s not his fault the manager keeps playing him in a role that’s he’s completely unsuited to.
Our best technical midfielder by a mile.
No one is close to him and its so noticeable how he has the ability to control the game when he plays. We really do miss that without him because we have spare parts but not the engine, we have a DM, we have a guy to play the final pass in Bruno but nothing inbetween.
Unfortunately going for Mount was a mistake unless you plan to replace Bruno with him.
Anyway you wanna know how teams like Brighton are good?
By having many players that can play the pass as fast as Erikson and thus control the game. Simple yet no so simple.
I watched Real Sociedad last night and their players were comfortable playing one touch passes easily.
Its something that can be found with right scouting etc, its not necessarily expensive, we just have nothing like it except for Erikson. We have luxury players.
Controlled the game with his 67% pass completion and 17 possession losses. Come on. He had a good 10 minutes and that's it.
First time I've seen mercenary being used as a verb before and that's not even the dumbest part of this post.He should have stayed at Brentford who were using him correctly and played a role befitting of his talent, rather than playing out of position to accommodate a stat-padding shambles in Bruno. If Ten Hag had a backbone he’d bench Bruno and Casemiro until they can go and mercenary in Saudi in January, and play Amrabat and Mount deep behind CE in the #10.
And playing on an awful pitch. No idea why DBU don't move the matches to Brøndby Stadion or somewhere else when the pitch in Parken isn't up to scratch.It was kind of a messy game, partly due to the wind I think, but in the end Eriksen played well indeed. Doesn’t score much for the national team anymore, but still decisive.
He is our best midfielder and he must start every game. Our only central midfielder who can create and set tempo. Others are clueless with the ball
