Christian Eriksen | Signs for Manchester United

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He doesn't make sense as a signing. Typical of the panic on this place that it is considered a great idea by some. He's a midfielder, he is free, we haven't signed anyone yet, it must be a decent plan.

Forget all context, like the nicely cushioned role he has at Brentford with midfield protection as they know he's their best player by a landslide so why not plonk him in there and let him shine. He also had this at Tottenham I hasten to add. Forget the fact we can't even put together that scenario if we wanted to, we don't have the personnel. Forget the fact he was poor at Inter in a real competitive environment.

He'd be an anchor around our necks if we signed him as we struggle to workout what to do with him, he'd probably struggle and then you'd have everyone asking why we did it after the event. Like Mata. Let's have a little foresight and buy suitable players - if we're getting FDJ then give the guy a partner. No sense in wasting resources on this, "free" isn't really free.
 
Abraxas said:
He doesn't make sense as a signing. Typical of the panic on this place that it is considered a great idea by some. He's a midfielder, he is free, we haven't signed anyone yet, it must be a decent plan.

Forget all context, like the nicely cushioned role he has at Brentford with midfield protection as they know he's their best player by a landslide so why not plonk him in there and let him shine. He also had this at Tottenham I hasten to add. Forget the fact we can't even put together that scenario if we wanted to, we don't have the personnel. Forget the fact he was poor at Inter in a real competitive environment.

He'd be an anchor around our necks if we signed him as we struggle to workout what to do with him, he'd probably struggle and then you'd have everyone asking why we did it after the event. Like Mata. Let's have a little foresight and buy suitable players - if we're getting FDJ then give the guy a partner. No sense in wasting resources on this, "free" isn't really free.
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Nothing like having a squad player eh? You every signing has to he a starting 11 player. No questions asked
 
I get the feeling that he was looking to put Bruno out wide to enable his full creativity there without being compromised by his slack play sometimes, so he wanted Eriksen as the 10 and FdJ deep.
 
UnitedSofa said:
Nothing like having a squad player eh? You every signing has to he a starting 11 player. No questions asked
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They need a role suited to them and the club, that's the point. Whether they're a young player that can improve, someone that is obvious squad filler or maybe multi functional or a nailed on starter. All those profiles are possible if they are suited to all parties but the problem with this one is he doesn't seem to fall comfortably into any of them. He has always been a key player throughout his career so I think at 30 where he's not old enough to be a rotation player he needs a compelling proposition and we need one to justify his wage package. Otherwise it is just a pure waste even if he's free.
 


Smells like BS. Eriksen is hardly someone to build around at this stage of his career
 
Bastian said:
I don't think it's realistic to acquire him as a squad player when he's been the main man at Brentford and likely offered a starting role at Spurs. And at his age, he'd expect to be a starter anyway. So it presents a headache stockpiling similar players. It's all nice to have loads of good players, but they have to fit and the squad needs to have the right balance. If we were talking about a mobile central midfielder who can play alongside de Jong, physically up for the task of an ETH high intensity game it would be a different story.

That's my take anyway.
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What makes you think he'd be coming as a squad player? What if he was the main option for attacking midfield? Only at United we have this image of the "main player"

"We can't sign a striker, it would displace Greenwood."

"We can't sign a left winger, it would displace Rashford"

"We can't sign a quality attacking midfielder, it would displace Bruno."

Etc etc.

Meanwhile other top teams like City and Bayern stack their squads with tons of talent for each position.
 
I was hoping we would be capable of adding a bit of quality to the squad but we seem to be in a bit of a rut at the moment.
 
bosnian_red said:
I get the feeling that he was looking to put Bruno out wide to enable his full creativity there without being compromised by his slack play sometimes, so he wanted Eriksen as the 10 and FdJ deep.
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I think the same, but it is still problematic. There's hardly any pace with Sancho left and Bruno right. Bruno could be used in rotation with Donny as the furthest forward midfielder of the three as well as playing false nine. If we're genuinely chasing Antony, he'd clearly be bought as a right sided forward for the first XI, and we've still got Amad and Pellistri, both of whom offer more width and pace on the right than Bruno can.

Would people be clamouring for Eriksen if he wasn't out of contract and would cost 25m or so? I doubt it. Seems more of an opportunistic signing than part of a coherent plan.
 
Aeryis said:
What makes you think he'd be coming as a squad player? What if he was the main option for attacking midfield? Only at United we have this image of the "main player"

"We can't sign a striker, it would displace Greenwood."

"We can't sign a left winger, it would displace Rashford"

"We can't sign a quality attacking midfielder, it would displace Bruno."

Etc etc.

Meanwhile other top teams like City and Bayern stack their squads with tons of talent for each position.
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Exactly. We signed Hargreaves and Anderson early in transfer market in 2007 despite having Carrick, Scholes and Fletcher. Nobody gave a feck who was going to miss out. We went and won the league and CL the next season.
 
Andy_Cole said:
This was before his heart attack too right?
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Yup. Almost certain the timeline was Euros and recovery during which Inter didn't extend his contract or they parted on mutual terms because of the uncertainty of his return to football.
 
Aeryis said:
What makes you think he'd be coming as a squad player? What if he was the main option for attacking midfield? Only at United we have this image of the "main player"

"We can't sign a striker, it would displace Greenwood."

"We can't sign a left winger, it would displace Rashford"

"We can't sign a quality attacking midfielder, it would displace Bruno."

Etc etc.

Meanwhile other top teams like City and Bayern stack their squads with tons of talent for each position.
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Nothing to do with displacement. We've just begun to trim our bloated squad and you want to "stack" it again with "tons of talent".
 
Abraxas said:
He doesn't make sense as a signing. Typical of the panic on this place that it is considered a great idea by some. He's a midfielder, he is free, we haven't signed anyone yet, it must be a decent plan.

Forget all context, like the nicely cushioned role he has at Brentford with midfield protection as they know he's their best player by a landslide so why not plonk him in there and let him shine. He also had this at Tottenham I hasten to add. Forget the fact we can't even put together that scenario if we wanted to, we don't have the personnel. Forget the fact he was poor at Inter in a real competitive environment.

He'd be an anchor around our necks if we signed him as we struggle to workout what to do with him, he'd probably struggle and then you'd have everyone asking why we did it after the event. Like Mata. Let's have a little foresight and buy suitable players - if we're getting FDJ then give the guy a partner. No sense in wasting resources on this, "free" isn't really free.
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Caf isn’t signing Eriksen you know, posters here are just discussing the transfer if it happens. We fans haven’t made the offer to him, it’s the club and If the club is trying to sign him, it seems like we are going by the reports then it’s probably ten hag who wants him. So you can save you little rant and just say ten hag doesn’t know what he is doing.
 
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He had a really good second half of the season with Brentford — far better than anyone expected — but he was coming off the back of a bad final season at Spurs and a failed tenure at Inter which led to such a move.

I wouldn’t have said no to the signing, because I’m massively of the opinion we need as many technically gifted players who can play through the middle of the field as possible — even more so on a free — but I’m not massively bothered if we miss out to Spurs. Provided we buy someone else (in addition to Frenkie).
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As an aside though, I’ve always felt that Eriksen is one of those who has been around forever with a lot of football in those legs, and my quick Transfermarkt crap maths skills seem to suggest the same: over 650 matches for club and country.

For CM’s his age in the PL, only De Bruyne comes close at around 620. Henderson not too far off (a year older) at 580.
The likes of Pogba and Coutinho in the early 500s; Jorginho high 400s; Kante, Thiago, mid 400s. Etc etc
 
charlenefan said:


Smells like BS. Eriksen is hardly someone to build around at this stage of his career
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For next season probably since the budget is tight to buy everyone this summer. He's going to turn Eriksen to his Schone if that tweet is legit.
 
ehsanul said:
Its look like nobody wants to join us.
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Feels that way I've never seen so many reports of players that really do not want to come to us.

Shows just where he we are at now that unless we throw crazy money at players or the player is forced out of the club he is at no one would join us.

It's like being the last one picked at school in the playground
 
lsd said:
Feels that way I've never seen so many reports of players that really do not want to come to us.

Shows just where he we are at now that unless we throw crazy money at players or the player is forced out of the club he is at no one would join us.

It's like being the last one picked at school in the playground
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Yeah the vibes aren't good at all, however I take heart in that De Jong apart it's not being reported by the top Utd sources.
 
Didn’t he leave Spurs because he wanted a different lifestyle and city?
 
Lay said:
Didn’t he leave Spurs because he wanted a different lifestyle and city?
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That was before the life changing event. And he has lived in Milan since
 
Lay said:
Didn’t he leave Spurs because he wanted a different lifestyle and city?
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Not sure about that but I remember reading the Inter forum plenty of times under Conte and I read Inter fans were disappointed since he wasn't used by Conte enough as he didn't fit in to Conte's system. I don't know what's the formation Conte is likely to use at Spurs next season but if they plan to sign Kulu or even Richarlison permanently then it looks like gonna be 343 formation, meaning he has better chance to get more minutes under ten Hag.
 
UNITED ACADEMY said:
Not sure about that but I remember reading the Inter forum plenty of times under Conte and I read Inter fans were disappointed since he wasn't used by Conte enough as he didn't fit in to Conte's system. I don't know what's the formation Conte is likely to use at Spurs next season but if they plan the sign Kulu or even Richarlison permanently then it looks like gonna be 343 formation, meaning he has better chance to get more minutes under ten Hag.
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Apparently they want a 10 so Kane can push further forward and stop coming deep
 
I think as club we have to face we arn’t the most attractive proposition to players right now. Players know how badly we have been ran over the last decade, how so many players have come here and fallen in with a seeming toxic culture. We don’t have champions league at the moment and probably are going to struggle to get it next year.
Players with a few offers on the table arn’t likely to pick us at the moment unfortunately.
 
Kaushal said:
Caf isn’t signing Eriksen you know, posters here are just discussing the transfer if it happens. We fans haven’t made the offer to him, it’s the club and If the club is trying to sign him, it seems like we are going by the reports then it’s probably ten hag who wants him. So you can save you little rant and just say ten hag doesn’t know what he is doing.
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What a pointless observation. Erik ten Hag isn't posting on the forum, I believe he has one or two more important things to be getting on with.
 
We've had loads of issues banging players on ludicrously high long contracts.

Yet people are now up in arms that we've offered a 30+ year old player with a major life condition a mere 1 year deal (actually option of a 2nd deal).
 
Surely he'll want more financial security than a 1 year deal, can't see him accepting that.
 
Sandikan said:
We've had loads of issues banging players on ludicrously high long contracts.

Yet people are now up in arms that we've offered a 30+ year old player with a major life condition a mere 1 year deal (actually option of a 2nd deal).
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Because we handed out contract extensions like idiots to players like Jones for absolutely no reason. That's different to signing a player we want to lure away from another club
 
Godfather said:
Because we handed out contract extensions like idiots to players like Jones for absolutely no reason. That's different to signing a player we want to lure away from another club
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That was the "old" us though hopefully.
 
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