Carvalho can play as CB and CDM, but I would prefer to sign someone like Neves next year. Martins for free is a good option, we need pacey and direct winger like him. If we sign a top attacker, Martins could rotate on the wings.
José looking to sign 6 players in summer - 2CM, LB, RB, W, CB [Times]
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Someone like Neves would be great. We need a smart player who’s excellent on the ball, and can play a killer pass and be great positionally. Basically a better version of Herrera.
Maybe Fred’s like that, never seen him play.
The top teams are way better than us, and they will get stronger this transfer window. We need quality players if we want to compete with them.
CB: Koulibaly or Alderweireld
LB: Sandro or Tierney
CM: Thiago or Verratti
LW: Bale or Dybala
CB: Koulibaly or Alderweireld
LB: Sandro or Tierney
CM: Thiago or Verratti
LW: Bale or Dybala
It's gone very, very quiet since the Dalot signing.
There's this very small regional tournament that kicked off today.
Maybe Woodward awaiting to offload some players before buying more ?
Get the Fellaini and Martial situaution solved..its taking forever. Either stay or leave.
Get the Fellaini and Martial situaution solved..its taking forever. Either stay or leave.
Also Once there are a couple of good performances, those players will likely be linked everywhere
Times, reliable like always...
CM - Fred ✔
CM - SMS?
LB - betting we won't get new one (Young, Shaw, Blind?, Dalot, Tuanzebe?, Mitchell?).
RB - Dalot ✔
W - depends on Martial situation. Willian?
CB - chance Jose won't get new one (Bailly, Smalling, Rojo, Jones, Lindelof). Alderweireld?
CM - Fred ✔
CM - SMS?
LB - betting we won't get new one (Young, Shaw, Blind?, Dalot, Tuanzebe?, Mitchell?).
RB - Dalot ✔
W - depends on Martial situation. Willian?
CB - chance Jose won't get new one (Bailly, Smalling, Rojo, Jones, Lindelof). Alderweireld?
I know it's WC and all that, but been a while since we saw us linked to anyone now.
My muppet juices are ready.
My muppet juices are ready.
This is exactly to a T what we need . Never understood why we didn’t go for VVD he was well worth 75m IMO
Why would a relatively inexperienced centre half that is poorer than Smalling (just an example) when it comes to the basics of defending be worth £75 million?
These players are always "exactly to a tee" what we need. Until next summer, when we're still shite, the existing players are all deadwood and the next list of sorry plonkers are paraded throughout the transfer forum.
Out of the 6 positions listed 2 are now covered even if one is just with a kid for rotation. LB is seemingly going to be ludicrously overlooked and hopefully we stand firm with Martial and don't buy an attacker given the ones we are linked with are a downgrade.
Of the other 2 positions I think all of the CB's we are linked with would be good additions to the side, and if we can get Thiago or Verratti as the big CM signing it would be a huge missing piece to the midfield.
So do you think that this squad of players could win a PL and CL under a different manager?
Of the other 2 positions I think all of the CB's we are linked with would be good additions to the side, and if we can get Thiago or Verratti as the big CM signing it would be a huge missing piece to the midfield.
So do you think that this squad of players could win a PL and CL under a different manager?
Why not? Liverpool are weaker in several areas across the park and made a good fist of winning the Champions League. City have some brilliant players but they still played the entire season with Fabian Delph and a previously-maligned Raheem Sterling in the side for the most part. Guardiola is partly (or hugely) responsible for their huge improvement. They're a better side than us, mind you.
Don't get me wrong, we do need to improve in areas. Left back has been a problem position (albeit Mourinho may not see it that way) and we have been crying out for a proper right winger since Ferguson left. That we still don't have one is farcical, really. Apart from that, we're well stocked with some great players and a very exciting academy team.
But I just find it funny that even now people think that these lists are going to make much of a difference. We've seen with Bailly, Mkhitaryan, Pogba, Matic, Lindelof, Lukaku and more recently Sanchez that it doesn't. But for some the penny will never drop.
I mostly agree, and even with regards to the right wing, there's no reason Sanchez can't play there, he has done so for large chunks of his career to great success, alternatively Martial is young enough that with the right coaching and managerial support he could learn to play on that right side. It's like this sudden need for another striker that is apparently going to see us skip buying a LB, we don't need another striker, we just need management and coaching that can play without a giant striker to lump it up to, we have Rashford but he'll never be that kind of forward, so we should be able to form a functioning attack that works with him as well as with the big target striker, not push him further back in order to add a 30 year old 6'4 striker so we have another option to lump it to if Lukaku is out.
The only place we might disagree is CB as I don't know your thoughts on CM, I think we have some decent CB's that all lack organizational composure, someone like Bailly would benefit massively from a CB that can marshall a back 4 and lead him, same with Lindelof, other than that though I think we could spend £300M on forwards alone and we'd still have many of the same issues due to how we are coached and the mentality with which we are managed.
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If we’re looking for a conductor/tempo controlling midfielder on a budget then Wilshere has confirmed he’s leaving Arsenal on a free, his range of passing and calmness on the ball could replace what we’ve lost in Carrick retiring.
If we’re looking for a conductor/tempo controlling midfielder on a budget then Wilshere has confirmed he’s leaving Arsenal on a free, his range of passing and calmness on the ball could replace what we’ve lost in Carrick retiring.
Injury prone, smoker, who was benched at Bournemouth...
Wilshere bought into his own hype, probably still reckons he's something special. Pep had him pegged very early in his career tbf. Wouldn't mind him joining on a free and getting a standard salary to play a squad role but he's too much of a billy big bollocks to to do it at Arsenil, so I expect he wouldn't want to take up such a position at a big club either.
1+1 year pay-as-you-play contract and we've got a winner. Could rotate with Matic and Fred, and stand in whenever Pogba is out or not up for it. I doubt he'll accept it though.
Absolute madness, he's shit.
Wilshere ? Sure, Jones wants a friend in the hospital through the season as he feels lonely.
Dalot and Fred are good start for the market but we haven't solved anything yet. Dalot will be backup for a year till he settles so Valencia will be the main RB and with his rubbish delivery we still need a proper right winger and a left back to solve the rubbish delivery from width. Fred hopefully performs well but we are losing both Carrick and Fellaini which will leave us very short in midfield options.
We still need another midfielder, LB, RF and see if we can sign a cheap backup striker as I don't trust Rashford for this role. Still don't know what will happen regarding Martial but we will need to sign a RF regardless.
We still need another midfielder, LB, RF and see if we can sign a cheap backup striker as I don't trust Rashford for this role. Still don't know what will happen regarding Martial but we will need to sign a RF regardless.
Think we will see a surprise signing or 2, Yaya Toure for example would be a Carrick replacement in every sense albeit a short term one and will allow us to seriously strengthen other areas of the team.
Wilshere would be an awful signing. Would be all for Kovacic though. He has a €50m release clause apparently, he wants to leave and I'd bet Madrid let him go for a bit cheaper. Would suit our midfield 3 perfectly IMO. I know we signed fred, but still not convinced that Fred, matic and pogba is balanced enough. Not enough attacking in there for me. Kovacic would come in no problem and we'd have 5 quality midfielders to rotate from and have a good balance and proper competition.
I have hardly been convinced with Pogba as a CM, being in 4-3-3 or not, he shows ignorance of this role requirements many times. It's not just about attacking.
I have been thinking of playing Matic and Fred as double pivot with Pogba pushed forward as number 10 just behind Lukaku. He enjoyed these runs to the box and this will give total freedom to go anywhere while attacking while always close to the goal, while Matic stays as c!ear number 6 and Fred as number 8 in a box to box role.
I have been thinking of playing Matic and Fred as double pivot with Pogba pushed forward as number 10 just behind Lukaku. He enjoyed these runs to the box and this will give total freedom to go anywhere while attacking while always close to the goal, while Matic stays as c!ear number 6 and Fred as number 8 in a box to box role.
Koulibaly, Sandro, Thiago and Bale would be good
I'll pass on scrappy doo thanks
Wilshere.
A couple of years ago, Thiago, Bale and Sandro were unrealistic. Now, it seems that they are available. We could strength our first eleven with top players like them.
This would be very good. I'm trusting Ribalta to come up with someone we've not been linked with.
Yes. Any combination from those players would do nicely .
Agree 100%.
VVD isn't as good as some poeple think he is. When we played LFC and beat them, he was pretty average.
As for buying the players on this list
Alderweireld is not leaving Spurs, unless the fee is big...which I doubt we'd pay. Also, we are absolutely stacked with CBs. We have too many, IMO. Why would go and buy another?
LB - Agreed on this. We need to get a top LB (not a prospect, but someone who is ready to make immediate impact)
CM - We have just purchased Fred and with Fellaini about to re-sign, we don't need another CM.
LW - We have Martial, Rashford and Sanchez all competing for 1 LW position.
Perhaps you meant, RW, Where we are weaK?
Bale's injury record is very suspect and worrying if he signed for us.
And I am not confident that Dybala would be any good for us, in the EPL. In Italy he is great, but the EPL is a completely different animal. Darmian has failed. Veron (who was a record signing, who came from Lazio), didn't do nearly as well as he did for Lazio. Pogba, did great for Juve, but is stuttering at MUFC. I'd much rather buy an RW, who is proven in the EPL. Mahrez would've been ideal, but he is MCFC bound.
Wait, what?? When did this happen??
What's with this recent obsession on here with one of our scouts?
I can't remember at any point people even mentioning others suddenly everything revolves around Ribalta. He's not even the chief scout.
I think Fellaini will go to Milan or even Arsenal.
If a big team like Real Madrid have Casemiro, Kross, Modric, Isco, Kovacic, Llorente, Ceballos, Asensio, etc... and they are linked with Savic. I think we could sign one more if there's a top midfielder available.
I like Pogba, but he was above average last season, Matic looked tired, Herrera injured most of the time, and we don't know how Fred is going to adapt, the premier league is not the ukrainian league. So, I would sign a player like Thiago if he is on the market... But I agree with you that another CM is not a priority like a LB or RW.
BTW, my bad... I meant RW, not LW. Mahrez would be my choice. If not, a young talented winger could be a good option.
Because he was a high profile signing for United.
So with Fred and Dalot in the bag, and supposedly 4 more signings according to the rumour this thread is about
how about going for mostly low key / future stars approach like Fergie used to.
CM: Ndombele
LB: Philip Max / Tierny / Sessegnon
CB: De Ligt or Pavard
RM: Lozano / Leon Bailey or go big here and sign Bale to get some star power as well
how about going for mostly low key / future stars approach like Fergie used to.
CM: Ndombele
LB: Philip Max / Tierny / Sessegnon
CB: De Ligt or Pavard
RM: Lozano / Leon Bailey or go big here and sign Bale to get some star power as well
Google him, you'll understand then. He's probably one of the main reasons why Juve are so dominant in Italy at the moment.
There is? When does it end.
These Mickey Mouse tourneys stopping us from signing players, is a real nuisance.
That's an interesting approach, to build for the future. You can also add players like Lenglet, Golovin, Pulisic, Brandt, Malcom, Henrichs, Neves, Barella, among others.
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