PSG have any interest in Sancho?
Manuel Ugarte | Romano - he’s signed | Awaiting Club announcement
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Im more interested in how much they still owe to Mbappe and how it will affect how much they can pay for Neves.
With who?
He gives me more confidence of making a trio work with Mainoo and Bruno (more so than Neves for example)
Considering hes been warming the bench for about 3 months….
Starting midfield is Ruiz Vitinha Zaire-Emery
Although he is excellent defensively, my worry with him is his positioning and his desire to chase players to win the ball back instead of focusing on actually protecting the defense. He is not a holding midfielder in that sense as he prefers to be a ball winner like Kanté rather than be a holding midfielder sitting in front of the back four.
Regardless, I'd absolutely love to have him as it's clear we - and most teams - need a player like that. We have no real ball winners other than Casemiro and he has completely lost his legs so we can under no circumstances go into the next season without one. He is an excellent player and would make our midfield much more balanced. If we could close the deal for around €40m, that would be an excellent deal for us.
Regardless, I'd absolutely love to have him as it's clear we - and most teams - need a player like that. We have no real ball winners other than Casemiro and he has completely lost his legs so we can under no circumstances go into the next season without one. He is an excellent player and would make our midfield much more balanced. If we could close the deal for around €40m, that would be an excellent deal for us.
They’ve got 18 year old Brazilian DM Gabriel Moscardo coming in already, there is their replacement.
Alex Scott is a woman, she is retired, and didn't even play midfield. Good luck getting promoted with suggestions like that!
Straight swap?
This was pretty satisfying to read.
You should hear a nice whoosh sound somewhere over your head soon enough.
Was this guy linked to Liverpool? Cos he will definitely end up there. We've not done well against them recently in regards to both wanting a player. They always seem to choose the dippers
They're allegedly still keen and can dangle CL football. But then again he's leaving PSG to be a starter, so United may be the more attractive option.
ok..
Hahaha
If certain mods were around from the old days, you'd already be demoted for making that post.
OK so which deep lying playmaker would you like to see us targeting just out of interest?
Agree with this analysis.
Think we'd need Martinez and Shaw to be fit and a RCB to help with progression and aerial duels. But he has a lot of great qualities and is still a very young player.
Still say we need to look at LB options because you are never too sure how long Shaw stays fit, which would be the ideal RCB to help with progression then?
You are absolutely right in that he is more Kanté than Carrick. We have neither really and the former is more pressing/useful if you ask me. Once the oppo have the ball we usually just dilly-dally until they feck up somehow.
He was but they've signed quite a few midfuelders since.
All we have to do really is send him a tape of our average game and he will know he would walk into that midfield and be an absolute beast for us.
Yeah, I would consider the starting midfield sorted and move straight into that brief, both as a Licha partner but even more so if/when he isn't available.
Let's go! We make it happen anywhere around that price, I'll start coming around to the INEOS camp
I don't like his face. He looks thick. But sure, bring him in.
PSG dumping him after 1 season?
They have Zaire Emery breaking through who could potentially be better
Looks like Paulinha, feck it I'm in.
Praying that Bayern don't get in on the action because they've been after Palhinha for so long and still can't get the deal over the line.
I meant he actually looks like him, I've never seen him play.
Pretty similar players from what I read. The only difference I see is easier on the eye ball carrying from Ugarte.
Surely people aren’t actually pretending to know how good this guy is. You’d need to be following PSG pretty avidly. The lad barely got a look in during any of their CL games this year.
I was actually going to tag you again! After he first caught my eye for your international youth team, I had to tag you back then and it seems like he's progressed well for you. Albeit, not in the way I thought as I predicted below with my thoughts on him years ago:
As I said, when I saw him for your youth team, he was very much like Frenkie. A composed, press resistant 6 who dictated games. However, it seems like he's developed into a box to box ball winner since moving to Europe. It has surprised me.
For what it's worth, his standout game against Brazil when playing as the deep playmaker that I initially watched for Matheus Henrique also contained our Anthony and Arsenals Martinelli, and Anthony looked just as good as Martinelli. You never know how players are going to develop.
let's see what Bielsa can do for him while on international duty in the Copa America
Interesting watch, thanks. His passing looked quite simple but neat, quick and a couple verticals through the line.
What would you say his main strengths and weaknesses are? From watching United, could you see a Ugarte/Mainoo/Bruno midfield working?
Palhinha got benched and later sold from Sporting because of Ugarte.
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