DM is a possibility and I can see the potential in what you've said. The one thing I will say is that our fullbacks were tucking in quite a lot against Liverpool, in front of the CBs. How this will influence his role remains to be seen, unless an Ajax fan can comment. It might create a hybrid CB/CM type role for him. Depending on what ETH likes to do with his tactics.
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DM is a possibility and I can see the potential in what you've said. The one thing I will say is that our fullbacks were tucking in quite a lot against Liverpool, in front of the CBs. How this will influence his role remains to be seen, unless an Ajax fan can comment. It might create a hybrid CB/CM type role for him. Depending on what ETH likes to do with his tactics.
What if Maguire was transformed to play as a DM?
On a serious note, his height is a concern for defending high balls in EPL, but he can still be good at other areas. I am not exactly too comfortable with our back line whenever high balls come in.
On a serious note, his height is a concern for defending high balls in EPL, but he can still be good at other areas. I am not exactly too comfortable with our back line whenever high balls come in.
Glad to finally be reaching the end of this one. Bit apprehensive that he seems to have been our second choice CB from the same team, but Ten Hag clearly must rate him
Or that Arsenal rejects him because he is too short.
Shrager also welcoming Martinez.
Wait, what, he's how tall?
Quite excited about this one. Him and De Jong are about as press resistant as you can get. This will help us enormously as we try to dominate more and more.
Hope it works out, Argies don't have a good record at United. 
Him and de Jong are important signings for the manager imo. Build up play is critical in ETH's system. Those two signings together will improve our build up play, which helps a lot for ETH to play the way how he wants to play.
We have our very own mobile left-footed Ajax midget
Get in. Heard nothing but good things and I think he'll be excellent here. Left footed CB who is excellent with build up play finally.
Despite my reservation about him for the obvious reason, I hope he would improve our backline, which couldn't have been any worse than what was seen last season.
Maybe not a great but Azpilicieta has been one of the best defenders in the league over the last decade including in long stints as a CB and he's just 5ft 10.
Granted he's nearly always been a CB in a back three but then you can equally argue that ETH's style of play also helps protect smaller CBs like Martinez, albeit in a different way.
Has this interview been posted and translated before?
There's a part about his height. People having doubts about him being a central defender, him saying that timing is very important and he worked extra hard on his timing. He comes across very well. Very likeable and articulate.
Arsenal in the mud again
I heard he cooks everything in the oven.
Romano can't even copy Nurse properly. It's "here we go, then" not "then. here we go".
Here we go confirmed
His mouth is so weird when he talks. It looks like a deep fake video!
Compared to other defenders in the Dutch league.
Can we please stop with thr height issue. Defenders don't have to defend high balls for 90 minutes. Also, how many teams play with 2 tall strikers? If there is one in a team we play that could cause an issue then our other CB will be marking that player. His 1 on 1 defending is better than all of our centre backs , his positional awareness is better than most, his passing is incredible and he knows the system coming into the team. He wouldn't be signed if he wasn't an upgrade on some of our current players or if ETH thought he wouldn't be able to play in this league. He also allows us the option of playing a back 3 which would allow him to push into midfield slightly as he has played there (i know ETH didn't prefer him there) and join FDJ in building play with our wing backs actually providing effective width. Hes a great signing and a lot of you will be surprised by how well he converts to the EPL.
Compared to other defenders in the Dutch league.
If he's actually solid in the air, the height thing might play in our favour. Like the time, some PL teams heard that DDG had a weakness against long shots so they spent games just peppering our goal from 30 yards away before they realised its a bit of a stupid strategy.
The fact that he's comfortably better than Blind, who didn't really struggle is reassuring.
Hope it works out, Argies don't have a good record at United.
Our best second goalkeeper since Raimond van der Gouw begs to differ!
Carlos Tevez and Gabriel Heinze also played very well, they just didn’t last long nor leave amicably
Marcos Rojo did as well as one should expect.
Veron was quite good most games, just never as good as his price tag (coming and going).
Di Maria, nuff said.
Garnacho and Martinez will have each other
Hope it works out, Argies don't have a good record at United.
Tevez and Heinze were both quite good when they were here
Compared to other defenders in the Dutch league.
Considering the earlier links with Timber, these stats should leave us worried about the aerial ability of only one of the two players.
Compared to other defenders in the Dutch league.
Interesting stats that should surprise many. Particularily given that Ajax spend most of their time in the oppo half and there are no other players to take the heat of him (look at Timber and Blind for comparison).
Tjere are a few NT CBs there, and this is supposed (by quite a few) to be his prime weakness.
Timber was a smokescreen for Martinez
He doesn’t look well to be fair
Timing won't matter when big Chris Wood uses him as a launch pad. He'll be starting at the big man in wonder the way year 7s look at year 11s.
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