God help the league if they click during pre-season.
At the very least, it's going to be nice having three players up front who at any given time will need double-teaming.
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God help the league if they click during pre-season.
At the very least, it's going to be nice having three players up front who at any given time will need double-teaming.
It's what you can expect yes but it's not such an easy result to achieve because some players have a hard time reshaping there role. Lets hope it works, because Sancho is an amazing signing for Man Utd.
Dude, you need a course in math. Could have been much easier.42 combinations. If the defenders were Jones, Smalling, Lindelöf, Bailly, Tuanzebe, Rojo, Blind:
Jones Smalling
Jones Lindelöf
Jones Bailly
Jones Tuanzebe
Jones Rojo
Jones Blind
Smalling Jones
Smalling Lindelöf
Smalling Bailly
Smalling Tuanzebe
Smalling Rojo
Smalling Blind
Lindelöf Jones
Lindelöf Smalling
Lindelöf Bailly
Lindelöf Tuanzebe
Lindelöf Rojo
Lindelöf Blind
Bailly Jones
Bailly Smalling
Bailly Lindelöf
Bailly Tuanzebe
Bailly Rojo
Bailly Blind
Tuanzebe Jones
Tuanzebe Smalling
Tuanzebe Bailly
Tuanzebe Lindelöf
Tuanzebe Rojo
Tuanzebe Blind
Rojo Jones
Rojo Smalling
Rojo Bailly
Rojo Lindelof
Rojo Tuanzebe
Rojo Blind
Blind Jones
Blind Smalling
Blind Bailly
Blind Lindelof
Blind Tuanzebe
Blind Rojo
How many combinations of three players can you choose from 4 players? 4 * 3 * 2 = 24
How many combinations of two players can you choose from 7 players? 7 * 6 = 42
Math!
You have to think Pogba and Bruno are going to be in their element with all the space they'll have to play in with the distraction and movement ahead of them. It's very exciting.
Bruno roams all over though: he's not static or rigid in how he plays the role like a Riquelme or Valeron or even a Deco - he'll go wide; he'll drive into the box; he'll come deep; he'll move laterally, so there's plenty of room for both of them to operate in. His combination play is also always begging for someone to bounce off of, cue Sancho and his game, which is like manna for the Portuguese.
For me, the only concern is Bissaka not being up to it, but the rest of our attack, he should be superfluous with as he's not stepping on any toes whilst being a conduit for others to do considerably better next season than this. Numbers should be going up for the whole unit, imo.
We don't really get a pre-season though, do we? Season starts a few weeks after the EL finishes.
Rashford will have to watch out, he's probably the most in danger of losing his place compared with Martial and Greenwood based on post-lockdown performances.
We qualified for the CL.
To be fair it didn't exactly look like we were qualifying back in Feb, and this deal was definitely dependent on it.
I’m glad I had these bookmarked
So then, what happened here?
We qualified for the CL.
To be fair it didn't exactly look like we were qualifying back in Feb, and this deal was definitely dependent on it.
Mourinho thought he could turn Fellaini into Matic, I guess. Seems kind of ridiculous now. Or maybe it was equally ridiculous then and only Mourinho couldn't see it due to hubris or whatever.Pogba having to play in midfield with Rooney and Fellaini.
Reported for muppism.
Didn’t Sancho play more games starting from the right than the left last season?
Virtually all of Sanchos games were from the right wing. He played occasionaly from the left wing. OGS will have absolutely no problem fitting them all in.
It's probably one of the rarest times in history where a team has 4 forwards who can all play in any of the attacking positions. You can't get more fluid than that!
Yep. Looking forward to seeing how they'll go about adjusting their games.
They both have the ability to penetrate into the box and draw defenders and create openings on literally every possession. As long as they don't try to defer to the other and just let it happen naturally it's going to be really fun to watch.
Heh. That's the point! We get like a tissue-paper scrap of a pre-season.
Imagine though if fortitude's hope comes true and everyone clicks straight away. Post-Bruno/Pre-Sancho we were on 85-point pace. A chunk of that without Pogba, too.
Dude, you need a course in math. Could have been much easier.
How many combinations of three players can you choose from 4 players? 4 * 3 * 2 = 24
How many combinations of two players can you choose from 7 players? 7 * 6 = 42
Math!
Yeah, I have been studying counting from a book during lockdown (ref), I knew the number of combinations but I wanted to list them out
.Far too generous; the only one out of those 4 I would even consider taking instead of Sancho is Mbappe. Those two are the only young players who I’d put on the highest tier at the moment, with the tier just below them containing Haaland, Greenwood, Vinicius and Ansu Fati (I’m not saying they necessarily have less talent than the top 2, but any of these 4 could elevate themselves into that top tier with another season or two of proof and consistency).
Sancho’s combination of current ability, potential, output, age and nationality, as well as our needs on the right of our attack makes him the most perfect signing we could make. I personally couldn’t even make up in my mind a more suitable player to sign.
Honestly his wages aside and the privilege of playing for the club... we should give Pogba a special medal for signing up to play alongside that.
I genuinely don't think that Grealish is off limits,yes I will admit it looks a difficult one but still expect us to go in for him later this window.
Yeah after Sancho would say we need to bring in a CB, DM, AM, & LB over next two summer windows. You could also make a case for Haaland when his release clause activates.
We simply don't have room for Haaland.
If martial is not the long term 9, he will probably be sold and haaland will be targeted - IMO.
Imagine saying this a year ago.
If Martial is not the long term 9, Mason will be.
He certainly knows what he's doing attacking wise. We play much better than during Moyes' LVG's or Mourinho's eras.
I beleive everyone fit Dortmund play
----------------------- Haaland-------------------
-----Reus ----------- Brandt --------------Sancho
But they are interchangable, sometimes Brandt pops up on the Right, Sancho on the left and Reus goes into the striker position in a 4-4-2 or Raphael Guerrero covers the left flank at times
We seem to have our forwards switch around quite often now too. Just imagine being a right back and in the same game and you’re going to have to deal with Rashford, Martial and Sancho. All three with different ways to beat you
I’m starting to think that Mason’s best role might be a Ronaldo when he was at United or Bale when he was at Spurs. He can do so much damage all over the attacking third that it sort of feels wasted to contain him to one position instead of giving him a free reign as he gets better.
If we do SIGN him by the end of the week or start of next week I would assume he would be eligible for Europa much like Bruno is?
Rashford Martial Sancho as our main attack next season, with Greenwood as backup
If Greenwood keep developing well in few months/years time, we may even see this as our first choice:
Rashford Greenwood Sancho
or
Sancho Martial Greenwood
Current priority: Sancho>Martial=Rashford>Greenwood?
Future priority: Sancho=Greenwood>Martial=Rashford?
If Greenwood keep developing well in few months/years time, we may even see this as our first choice:
Rashford Greenwood Sancho
or
Sancho Martial Greenwood
Current priority: Sancho>Martial=Rashford>Greenwood?
Future priority: Sancho=Greenwood>Martial=Rashford?
Amadeus moment..
Deserves more green smilies
Deserves more green smilies
Unfortunately the registration for Europa League knockout stages was back in Jan
Proper muppet
By that avatar they obviously still fancy our chances of signing Grealish too
To be honest I must have watched 15 myself
It's been long since I have been this excited about a player. Last was Pogba
Dortmund rinsing us again. £100 million is a fair fee for Sancho but you can bet if it was Bayern Munich, they would have sold for one third of the price. Annoyed we keep having to pay excess sum when other clubs could get it so cheap.
There's no reason not to pay the 120m if its spread out sufficiently. Our squad is so young that once we get another 3 or 4 good players in we shouldn't need huge windows from next season onwards. We may not need really to sign another forward for the best part of a decade if all goes to plan. We could get 12 years out of him. 10m a year for a superstar is a no brainer.
He's 20. We'll get a decade out of him. This will look very cheap in a few years.
You think they'd have sold to Bayern for 35m??
He's 20. We'll get a decade out of him. This will look very cheap in a few years.
just to add to the tweet. It's also reported within the article that a deal is close due to Dortmund now accepting instalments as part of the fee which wasn't the case before due to Dortmund wanting the €120m in one lump sum.
It's no secret to the entire footballing world that Manchester United is a money making juggernaut. Remember Dortmund rinsed Barca with Dembele, too, knowing full well their money making capacity. They're well aware of the United world-wide muppetry that will come with Sancho, and the shirt sales, etc.
I don't blame them for trying to rinse us. As much as we hate it, football is a business.
Yes, Bayern would get him cheaper but the Bundesliga is paying the ultimate price. They have been protecting Bayern‘s status by preventing investors from the outside. We‘d have the same situation and would be celebrating our 30th league title if the PL had the same restrictions.
As sad as it is that we don’t dominate the league like Bayern it‘ll taste so good when we finally win it again. It‘ll be something we needed to work hard for.
On top of that, all the people complaining about Woodward and co should think about why we are one of the few clubs that are financially able to pull off transfers like this in times like this.
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