We should hire Savage as trainer. He's quite good at it whenever Rooney is mentioned
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We should hire Savage as trainer. He's quite good at it whenever Rooney is mentioned
Luxury signing. He would improve the squad no doubt but for me I hope we concentrate on players that suit the system we play. I want to see a midfield enforcer along side Herrera and Pogba.
Rashford, Lingard, Martial, Mikhi. You need to keep up. Ross Barkley wouldn't be too bad. Have you seen how well he's done this season?
This says it all, luxury signing. There are some other positions in team that are priority, not another number 10.
Hope not. Don't want him.
Don't think we are in for him. If this was a DM, CB, LB then fine, but a pre-contract for a position which is not even a top priority is hard to believe. So many of our own players can fill in his position, Mkhi, Mata, even Rashford.
Personally, I don't want him. Not that he is bad, but because Jose's system requires players to constantly track back and then push ahead, mixing defense and attack. Don't think he's that kind of player. Would fit into City's system better than us.
Personally, I don't want him. Not that he is bad, but because Jose's system requires players to constantly track back and then push ahead, mixing defense and attack. Don't think he's that kind of player. Would fit into City's system better than us.
Seems like he is a left footed Beckham, for whom lack of pace was never a problem. (A better dribbler too)
If his mentality is good then I have no problem with him taking up a wide role.
As for pace, I'd love for us to be a fast counter attacking team, but I don't think we will be heading that way under Jose.
We have fielded some quick line ups already, but we usually let the opposition get back into position.
Maybe an imaginative player like James could unlock some of that pace, without necessarily adding it himself. (He is faster than Mata, and Martial rarely uses his)
If his mentality is good then I have no problem with him taking up a wide role.
As for pace, I'd love for us to be a fast counter attacking team, but I don't think we will be heading that way under Jose.
We have fielded some quick line ups already, but we usually let the opposition get back into position.
Maybe an imaginative player like James could unlock some of that pace, without necessarily adding it himself. (He is faster than Mata, and Martial rarely uses his)
If he's part of 4-5 signings this summer then great, but adding him to our attack without a proper wide attacker isn't going to help much.
Saying that though Rodriguez is a much better player than people realise, his control, passing, crossing and shooting would be the best in our team.
Yes he's got average pace but if he's surrounded by speed then that won't matter. He can actually dribble and accelerate well which is the main thing to work tight space.
Saying that though Rodriguez is a much better player than people realise, his control, passing, crossing and shooting would be the best in our team.
Yes he's got average pace but if he's surrounded by speed then that won't matter. He can actually dribble and accelerate well which is the main thing to work tight space.
Does he want to leave then because that's important.
He is a pretty boy for sure.
He is a pretty boy for sure.
Yeah exactly, still need one out in the ilk of robben and a fabinho/dier type. Midfield selection of pogba, herrera, miki, james, mata, one if not two proper wide men and another midfielder.
Rashford and martial cannot play the wide role and lingard is muck.
They wont have to be superstars but we need talented guys in for those positions. Every man and his dog is saying it so Id be hopeful this signing would be one of many.
Yep Class of 92 is what's missing here for sure
I dont agree with some things. Mata has better control and is better technically in terms of first touch and manipulating the ball. Passing could be true, but playing for us is a different thing than playing for Real. Most of our players are not making the runs we need, which leads us to the problem of his lack of pace and that it doesnt matter if we surround him with pace. If we surround him with Lingard and Rashford/current Martial, we are in trouble. He cant really dribble, he is somewhere between Mata and Mkhitaryan in terms of pace and dribbling. I think some people will be surprised that he actually isnt that good of a dribbler. He was better when he was younger and playing for Porto in terms of dribbling, he just tried more and was more livelier. Nowadays he looks a bit heavy and plays it mostly safe in that regard. He doesnt go past 2 or 3 players, most of the time he fends off a pressing player and plays a safe pass and runs to receive the ball again in a better position.
His shooting, crossing and freekicks are top class though, but he is more of an attacking goalscoring midfielder with a bit of creativity and good technically that will only work for us as a CAM, similar to Sneijder for Mourinho at Inter. The similarities position wise and in their abilities are uncanny, thats why i think we really want him.
If he comes then that surely means Mata will be sold?
I'd imagine. But it'd be a dumb move on our part. He's essentially an expensive version of Mata.
Mata is a top professional on and off the field and barely injured though ,James has some huge question marks about his lifestyle. There were some stories of him partying hard in the Madrid clubs time and time again.
He'd bring competition but I don't think it would mean Mata would be sold.
Mata is decent but not top quality in my opinion, my preference would be Silva from Monaco than James.
He wouldn't be my first choice but some of you need to get a grip. You would think we are being linked with Mark Noble with the way some of you are going on.
James has key characteristics which this team severely lacks. He guarantees double figures each for goals and assists, great crossing and set piece delivery, long range shooting and playmaking abilities.
If we plan to sign a striker like Belotti who is probably the best header of the ball today, then signing a player like James whose delivery is outstanding makes so much sense.
Also unlike Di Maria and Ozil, James hasn't really reached the peaks that they did so would have more to offer and more motivation you would hope.
James has key characteristics which this team severely lacks. He guarantees double figures each for goals and assists, great crossing and set piece delivery, long range shooting and playmaking abilities.
If we plan to sign a striker like Belotti who is probably the best header of the ball today, then signing a player like James whose delivery is outstanding makes so much sense.
Also unlike Di Maria and Ozil, James hasn't really reached the peaks that they did so would have more to offer and more motivation you would hope.
Good post.
God I hope this isn't true. We need to play with 3 men in midfield!
Silva would be my preference too, even if they are different players with different strengths. James would only be a top player if he would be 100% committed and really would prove himself again and his doubters wrong. Otherwise we would be looking to offload him again in 2 years time.
Good signing I think.
I've already said that Griezmann seems to have decided to stay in sunny Spain so James is probably 2nd choice for that position.
Finally we will have a set-piece taker, improving our corners and free kicks which will be worth a fair few goals a year especially with someone like Belotti getting on the end of them.
He will bring the intelligence, vision and guile to help unlock all those parked buses we face. Mourinho knows him well so less time getting used to each other. I see him as replacing Rooney rather than Mata or Mhki and think that he can be the intelligent partner to those two players allowing for one twos and some one touch passing in our final third. As well he can swiftly play Rashford on the counter with a through ball, down the channel or over the top. And he can hammer home goals from outside the box which makes parking the bus against us even more dangerous.
Personally I don't see his nationality or club or prior players of that club that we have signed as having any significance whatsover and to think so would be fallacious.
He will also only be one signing, a cheaper one than Griezmann, which helps now that we also need a CF. Remember our original budget was without buying a CF. That he can play wide too is also a bonus and will allow tactical flexibility and more competition for places.
Don't see what all the crying is about.
I've already said that Griezmann seems to have decided to stay in sunny Spain so James is probably 2nd choice for that position.
Finally we will have a set-piece taker, improving our corners and free kicks which will be worth a fair few goals a year especially with someone like Belotti getting on the end of them.
He will bring the intelligence, vision and guile to help unlock all those parked buses we face. Mourinho knows him well so less time getting used to each other. I see him as replacing Rooney rather than Mata or Mhki and think that he can be the intelligent partner to those two players allowing for one twos and some one touch passing in our final third. As well he can swiftly play Rashford on the counter with a through ball, down the channel or over the top. And he can hammer home goals from outside the box which makes parking the bus against us even more dangerous.
Personally I don't see his nationality or club or prior players of that club that we have signed as having any significance whatsover and to think so would be fallacious.
He will also only be one signing, a cheaper one than Griezmann, which helps now that we also need a CF. Remember our original budget was without buying a CF. That he can play wide too is also a bonus and will allow tactical flexibility and more competition for places.
Don't see what all the crying is about.
He would ruin the balance of this team. Sigining a bunch of high profile individual players does not make a team better and world class, Balance is key to any team in a perfect system and Philosophy which suits all players strenghts. If we fit james on his prefered position , Others would suffer and james is not that good and important player who will carry the team on his own so that he is put preferred in his position.
So this is the point which needs to be addressed when signing a particular player. There is a reason madrid is letting him go, also lowering de gea's price just makes it eaisier for madrid , why would we wanna do that?
He doesn't want to leave but they have been trying to push him out for a while now.
Benched for most of last season and this one and still doesn't want to leave.
You think james can score 20- 25 goals a season?Just no. It doesn't sit comfortably with me that someone surplus to their requirements we'll be paying premium money for. Since the world cup I've seen nothing to say he's anything other than a good player....
This.
Signing James just forces us to play our biggest signing outside of a formation that gets the best out of him.
Still believe that there is nothing in this rumour though.
I hope we don't sign him, he is a pricey luxury player who really won't fit under mourinho, he is a massive primadonna doesn't work hard enough and most importantly i don't see how we can adjust him in a team with pogba. The most ideal transfer window for will be a semedo,cb,fabinho,griezmann and a striker.
DDG
Semedo CB Bailly Shaw/LB
Fabinho
Herrera Pogba
Griezmann Mkhi/Martial
Striker/Rashford
This will most likely be our formation next season whatever the players signed, james can't play on the wing even with a free role as he will be wasted and we can't play a no 10 as pogba will be underutilised. We can't have a pogba and a zlatan again in the team, our pressing and whole defensive structure suffers because of it, giving pogba a free role and less defensive duties makes sense given his ability and his importance to the team, james won't get that and he isn't really a hard worker. Only good thing about all these links is that they are coming from spain that too from mostly madrid mouthpieces so they mostly will be just paper talk.
DDG
Semedo CB Bailly Shaw/LB
Fabinho
Herrera Pogba
Griezmann Mkhi/Martial
Striker/Rashford
This will most likely be our formation next season whatever the players signed, james can't play on the wing even with a free role as he will be wasted and we can't play a no 10 as pogba will be underutilised. We can't have a pogba and a zlatan again in the team, our pressing and whole defensive structure suffers because of it, giving pogba a free role and less defensive duties makes sense given his ability and his importance to the team, james won't get that and he isn't really a hard worker. Only good thing about all these links is that they are coming from spain that too from mostly madrid mouthpieces so they mostly will be just paper talk.
I agree with you that signing high profile players doesn't necessarily make the team better but on the point of balance I don't see it. This season we've played both 433 and 4231 and James is capable of playing No.10 in the latter or drifting off the right as he does in the former right now at Madrid.
When you say others will suffer I'm interested in knowing who these players are. Also if he's better than said players should it matter?
It's clear we need a secondary (or primary) playmaker with Pogba further up the field to improve us. There's clearly a void there which is why we've been linked with both James and Bernardo Silva.
There's no way we'd sign both. If James comes then I expect we'd be looking for a left-sided wide forward (Sanchez or perhaps Mertens) or a left winger.
Then we should stay clear.
Is that you Paul Merson?
Signing a pre contract doesn't mean a damn thing. I think James is like our plan E option. The priority is signing two legit forwards with versatility (Greizmann and Lukaku).
He looks an excellent crosser, I could see him picking out lukaku with pinpoint crosses and through balls.
I cant see a fixed position for him though, his strengths are both out wide and centrally on the edge of the box.
I cant see a fixed position for him though, his strengths are both out wide and centrally on the edge of the box.
I've heard that he's been playing in CM for Mardid, could we be looking at him to play there?
I just don't see where we would play him. 433 gets the best out if Pogba, we need a proper winger not a #10 playing out wide.
I'm liking the idea of James and Belotti, that could work
Absolutely shocking how many people have been traumatized by Di Maria and don't want him. I want to write a book about how good he is and that Mourinho will sort him out. But I'm just gonna let James feet speak for himself if he signs. He will be an instant fan-favorite within the first month; guaranteed. All its gonna take is one thunderbolt.
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