Jadon Sancho | £72.9M fee agreed

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This Jan guy in twitter should be on our ban list. He's a known bull shitter.

If we do get Sancho, I'll initially expect him to be much less effective than his Bundesliga numbers, but we will see a significant improvement in our game, given that we will finally have a right winger.

A lot depends on AWB also and how he improves on his movement going forward. We have seen what a huge difference it has made with shaw on the left flank.

Also, in midfield and especially against teams with lesser quality, we will need a midfielder who can hold on to the ball, spread it around and make the occasional line breaking pass and it'll need a hell of an improvement from VDB in order to do that role.
 
It'll definitely happen. The guy wanted out badly last season and they kept him, which led to him being in a sulk at the start of the season, he's not staying another year.
 
DWelbz19 said:
It'll definitely happen. The guy wanted out badly last season and they kept him, which led to him being in a sulk at the start of the season, he's not staying another year.
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Only if we pay up, same was said last summer
 
This is the dumbest shit ever. Look he ain't signikg till England get knocked out. Till then nothing new will happen. How the hell is this still being talked about. It's like a merry go round.
 
Manchester United and Borussia Dortmund are close to an agreement over the transfer of Jadon Sancho, @BILD_bvb reports! A deal in the coming days is very likely. Manchester United have reportedly offered almost €90m #BVB #MUFC
 
I expect Romano will also break this news soon, you know, from his sources..
 
sewey89 said:
:lol: so predictable.

I take my hat off to him, he deserves credit for being across basically every transfer in the world. But I don't think he has any exclusives. Or at least, very few.
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Your peculiar hate for Romano makes you a bit of a comedy act on here.

If you use your eyes, you'd see Romano's tweet is a minute earlier than Falk. It's as if all these people get their info from a close circle of others involved in the transfer yet somehow you've figured then all out.
 
Ikon said:
So what?
Paul Scholes always played second fiddle to Lampard & Gerrard, who cares, he was utterly priceless for United.
What about Michael Carrick..?
Not much of an England career, fantastic United career though.
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No he didn't.
 
Sphaero said:
I don´t believe that.

Kagawa was a systematic and tactical misfit, but this came down more to the Japaneses inability to adept (he only ever excelled as CAM and nowhere else) and his dependence on a playing system with a lot of off the ball movement, which United did not provide at that time. Sancho in contrast is far more versatile with similar degrees of productivity from both sides. Sancho is also the person who runs the system he excels in instead of just being a benefactor of it. Kagawa was a system player who furthers a system, Sancho is a play maker who makes it happen in the first place. Signing Sancho would undoubtly change Uniteds attacking approach (the most obvious way will be to balance out Uniteds heavily left leaning approach), because that is what play makers do.

Mkhitaryan had nothing to do with the system. The guy is mentally simply not cut out for elite club football, which is something that had been predicted by pretty much everyone on here who closely followed his entire tenure at Dortmund. The guy already struggled massively at times with pressure in the far more protected and less exposed environment that was Borussia Dortmund.
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Can't fully agree with that. I agree that Sancho is a natural play maker with incredible abilities and intelligence but he's best when surrounded with clever movement. Overlapping full backs, strikers making runs, other players coming short, etc. Everytime I watched United in recent times, I didn't see such movement of patterns of play. United is best when they can attack space in behind. He will of course have his moments since he just oozes class with every touch but I don't believe he'll be as impressive as he is for Dortmund. I also disagree that he's equally good on both sides because his best plays happen when he cuts inside and has the ball on his strong foot. He's just less predictable when doing that since he can utilize his body feints and quick foot work to play seemless short passes into the lines he just opened from himself as well as leave one or two players for dusted if they over commit. I just think he won't find himself in such situations nearly as often for United since a) he'll be playing mostly over the right and b) United's attacking patterns are more improvised and less orchestrated. Especially if he has a defense minded fullback like Wan-Bissaka behind him, he'll struggle. He always looked far worse when playing with Meunier, too. Sancho is just no player who's best in isolation of his team mates. Though one has to say, one change in management could already change that since United generally has the players to play a vastly different style, too. If he moves to United I'll make sure to watch lots of games to see how he's doing but I'm definitely not excited about seeing him under Solskjaer.

What I do agree with is that he's incredibly good at breaking down defensive lines. I think he's already among top three in the world in that regard, alongside Messi and Neymar.

Adnan said:
I completely agree with you and have said on countless occasions that your width comes via your fullbacks. But the fundamental difference is that your team has a concept on how to play the game which has been developed over a long period of time. United don't have a concept in transition as things stand and hence we don't look a fluid team. And that's mostly down to the tactical approach, lack of quality in the build up and a lack of quality in certain positions.

So Sancho playing on the right with Hakimi in the wide space (who is superior in attack to AWB) along with the likes of Dahoud and Witsel etc in the right sided CM role, provides a control and fluidity which really helps the collective. Our midfield (Mctominay-Fred) isn't as good as yours on the ball either, so unless we adopt a more proactive approach next season and implement it successfully, I can't see us being a more fluid team going forward.
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On point!
 
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