What a wonderful description of an actual human being.
De Ligt | €45+5m agreement reached pending medical | Signed!
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It’s written in the stars mate. And to top it off we’ll pay 10m more after the mistake
That would be lovely! Is this meant to be a negative scenario?
Some of the quotes from bayern subreddit:
Varane 2.0
Barca may not want him anymore and his contract goes only for another 2 years if I’m not mistaken. Good chance that we come back for him next year, ETH loves him.
Why limit yourself to next year, plenty of the summer to goIt looks like we're going to have De Ligt and Martinez with Onana behind them. You would assume that we should at least be able to see some progress in playing it out from the back like Ajax
De Jong next year anyone.
Well, if De Ligt has played more in two seasons than Martinez, which one's the injury prone?
All I'm saying is he might be less injury prone than Martinez.
Ouch, that one stung a bit
Bit rich from a club that just hired Burnley's relegated manager as well
And came third in a one-horse race.
I don't see how this can be true at all.
Why limit yourself to next year, plenty of the summer to go
Van Der Beek is due a renaissance
Any idea why he's not making the starting lineup for the Dutch at Euros?
Taking a pay cut to join us apparently.
Been covered many times. Van Dijk is their main defender and de Vrij has been very reliable next to him so there's no need to mess with that by trying to integrate de Ligt. He simply has great competition.
Ouch, that one stung a bit
But rich from a so called big club who came 3rd in a one horse race. They even hired a manager who just got his side relegated
His salary would be taxed at 45%, so hardly any difference from Germany.
The alternatives are better.
I assume because he’s competing with Van Dijk, as the Dutch have essentially fetishised having a left footed centre back.
Same question every single page, this isn’t Quora, just have a read man.
De Ligt and Branthwaite doesn't make great sense to me. I understand Branthwaite is left footed and prefers the left side, but both of them seem to have pretty similar traits. Big[ger], great in the air in both boxes, quite aggressive and no-nonsense.
Surely after signing De Ligt (or Branthwaite) the focus should be more on type of centre back who can double as one of these more "inverted fullback" types -- very fast across the ground and comfortable on the ball? The Ake, Timber, van de Ven type?
(The above paragraph predicated on us selling Lindelof and/or Maguire. I don't see us buying two CBs unless another goes)
Erik: "we're getting the band back together..."
It's the same thing with people commenting injury prone' on every page without actually looking at the posts showing stats and detail on him not actually being injury prone.
Still do not see the infatuation with Branthwaite, especially not at the price tags being brandished, but I love the idea of two CBs. We really need to prioritise CBs who are top notch on the ball because we may not change CBs again for a while.
interesting to see the tweets about De Ligt willing to take a wage close to the wage structure and United trying to do the deal on 50m euros total, that is not as expensive as I was thinking before (I thought Bayern would start negotiation from 70M+, but if we believe the tweets, they want 50M and some add-ons/bonuses).
This could be a good deal for a good defender, I still do not think he is a top-class CB like Stones, Dias, or Rudiger but he still young enough to turn into one.
This could be a good deal for a good defender, I still do not think he is a top-class CB like Stones, Dias, or Rudiger but he still young enough to turn into one.
We definitely need 2 CBs. Martinez is unreliable when it comes to fitness. But buying MDL doesn’t fix this as he seems to be prone to injuries as well. Maybe we just hope that 2 out of 3 are always available?
I was astounded to learn he’s still 24-25 when I thought he was 27 or so.
That centreback to us speak of that can double up is none other than Martinez. He can play the Gvardiol role perfectly. He won't always have to but will be able to play there with Brantwaithe, De Ligt and Dalot in the back four. That would be very solid. In game we can also switch to a 3 at the back by bringing on Shaw if need be and alternate. Gives us tactical flexibility and a fit Shaw adds another potential CB to the fold too so signing Brantwaithe and De Ligt works perfectly.
Told y'all, he's not the type to rate PissG
Great post!
Rio was blessed with great pace, but you rarely ever saw him in a foot race - if he did, he would blitz past them, but very rarely dis that happen due to his anticipation. Just as he didn’t often get into sliding tackles.
Evra was the opposite; he knew he was quicker than most attackers so he blocked the inside forcing the attacker wide, the. He would makenup the ground an tackle. Worked on anyone bar Lennon.
Going on a 40 yard foot race against defenders is also very rare. Bale would do it because he was mostly faster. Valencia, Giggs, Ronaldo would do it. However, most quick wingers accelerate past their defenders when they are wrong footed, thus anticipating when to run. Walker is almost impossible to beat because of his speed and strength though.
Bruno is agreat at getting in behind defenses, not because he’s the quickest, but because of his timing
Is he any good?
This doesn't tell us much because our defence finished midtable last season.
I wanted to bite until I read this comment. This is important context to remember. If a team is dominant, those defensive stats will always be lower. Those are some bad selective stats to compare.
Not sure about this one. The guy is a leader and he can play but I would have assumed that the way it looked like we were heading in style of play we would need more quick footed people who are comfortable going out wide. He to me has always looked a little slow on the turn and given how poor our midfield is I can see our defence still ending up with a lot of 1 on 1 defending from us giving the ball away needlessly in midfield.
If we can make a high press work and get better at ball retention then it’s an issue we can work around because that is something you would think he and Martinez would thrive on and if you can add a fit Shaw to that we should be fine with those 3 sitting back squeezing the space.
If we can make a high press work and get better at ball retention then it’s an issue we can work around because that is something you would think he and Martinez would thrive on and if you can add a fit Shaw to that we should be fine with those 3 sitting back squeezing the space.
Magiure my captain.
my captain.It doesn’t say anywhere in that tweet he wouldn’t join PSG, it only says he’s willing to join us even without CL football. PSG could easily offer something crazy like doubling his wages and giving Bayern a bigger fee which could attract him and cause Bayern to push him in their direction. I’d hope playing in the PL and talks with ETH will be enough to swing it in our favour though.
I love how the person behind that tweet immediately responded to it with something similar to "by the way this entire stats comparison isn't helpful".
All of our defenders made more defensive actions per game than a defender who played for a team that didn't need to make as many defensive actions per game. There must have been better stats for then to choose from, surely?
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