Once De Ligt and Ugarte are in, I think that it's finally do or die time for ETH. The football better get good, and fast.
I've maintained on here for a whole season now that (particularly last season) no manager could play reliably good football with the actual XI players that ETH had to field each week. Modern football with Evans and Maguire in your back 2? Nope. Retention-based control with Casemiro and Bruno in midfield? Nope. Balance without a LB for an entire season? Unlikely. An actual fit CF to play CF? Nah. There were many games where the majority of the XI were players with known issues that were here before ETH arrived, and shouldn't be starting. Because a combination of an enormous clear out (no idea what the number is now, but last season ETH had shipped off 23 players that had strated for us. 23!) and outrageous injuries meant ETH still didn't have an XI that had an coherence to it to choose.
Now he does. Maguire's combination of lack of pace and composure should no longer be a problem. Lack of legs should be solved with Ugarte and Mount. CBs able to play through the lines? He has two of them. Reliance on an undisciplined, past-it Casemiro who can't play fro more than 65 mins? Sorted. Options when Rashford plays poorly? Yep.
And in theory he'll even a CF or two in the squad! Madness.
But this is it. A team broadly of Onana/De Ligt/Martinez/Mazza/Dalot/Ugarte/Mainoo/Bruno/Rash/Garnacho/Hojland is absolutely built to play this fabled ETH football. So. It has to happen, and immediately.