Realistically Ugarte will be required to have a chance of top four so they need to get on with it. Casemiro will run out of gas by mid September.
Manuel Ugarte | Romano - he’s signed | Awaiting Club announcement
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He’s looking pretty fit so I’d say more like November but your point still very much stand's
Ederson (Atalanta) allegedly.
One week left after tomorrow.
Journalists saying PSG playing hard ball as Qatar still p!ssed at Jim. There’s a part of me that wants us to get another target (if similar ability/fit) just to p!ss them off more
Ugarte will have a battle on his hands trying to get in the team as Casemiro will unleash beast mode.
You’d be surprised how quickly he starts over Casemeiro.
I’d play them both against Pool if we get the deal done in time.
Beast mode of Casemiro is difficult to bench. Easier to bench another midfielder and play a double pivot
Now that you mention it casameiro does remind me of blanka from street fighter
Was just thinking the same today
Amortization cafeGreat story. Yeah, we miss that sort of attitude in the locker room.
It doesn’t matter how much of a beast mode Case is in. He is older and slower than he was when he first joined so he will get found out in games. We can lessen that by playing Ugarte.
He will be ours, will learn from Casemiro (one of the best 5s in history), and will make his own our CDM poairion for years to come.
That would be a two for the price of one. Bring it on!
I have accepted the best we can hope for is he's in the stands for scousers next Sunday, if this goes beyond Tuesday then wouldn't have time to train with team anyway so may as well go to deadline if it meant better deal.
Funnily enough, that's what ten Hag wants.
Pretty strange to me to read here that Ugarte could replace Casemiro. Casemiro (his good version) can play as a real 6, he has the passing range and the proper postionning. Ugarte cannot in high level football in my opinion. He's far more a poor man's Kante and a real liabilty with the ball under pressure. That being said, if you're trying to build a high pressing team, he can be your guy but that's a very different gameplan. He also seems like a great bloke.
I really liked his personnality. The player not so much (outside of 5 or 6 really good game that made me think he was maybe more than what I saw when he was at Sporting CP, but it seems that he might have overperformed when he arrived at PSG).
I really liked his personnality. The player not so much (outside of 5 or 6 really good game that made me think he was maybe more than what I saw when he was at Sporting CP, but it seems that he might have overperformed when he arrived at PSG).
When do you see this getting over the line as he has been left out of your last two league games
In all fairness I have no idea. The rumors here is that it's a matter of a couple of days so i wouldn't be surprised to hear news by the end of the week end. Everybody knows Enrique doesn't want him, he's the opposite of what he excpects from a DM so I don't see this deal failing but what do I know.
Soon then.
We have to stick by our guns with this one.
If ever we were holding the whip in a bargaining situation then this is it and if we back down under this new structure then we will continue to be bent over in future negotiations.
Feck these cnuts!
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...QQFnoECCUQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3vn3ppCm5wrjmxuiO9tKiJ
If ever we were holding the whip in a bargaining situation then this is it and if we back down under this new structure then we will continue to be bent over in future negotiations.
Feck these cnuts!
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...QQFnoECCUQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3vn3ppCm5wrjmxuiO9tKiJ
Didn't you play him as a single pivot, though? If so, it's clear he's not the type to dictate play from deep. Even Casemiro doesn't do that; at Madrid, it was Kroos who handled that role. Ten Hag also assigned Eriksen that responsibility in his first season, and it worked relatively well.
To get the best out of Ugarte—or any player of that type—you need someone alongside them who can build from the back. For us, that player is likely Mainoo, with Eriksen as backup.
We did, and while Casemiro isn't comfortable playing as a single pivot on offense, he could defend as such. Ugarte cannot, he just doesn't have the positionning. Like Kante, he's far better when he defends forward. You'll need someone who builds from the back and also locks this central position on defense.
Also, Ugarte can be very dominant when in shape and in tune, he really made me think of Kante in the way he reads and block trajectories. On the other hand, when he's out of it, there's not a whole lot left to his game, he can be pretty much useless on and off the ball because his technical abilities (unlike Kante who's very "clean") can't save him.
So what’s the latest?
Is it really really really really close now?
Is it really really really really close now?
Ten Hag's off-the-ball strategy involves his midfielders pressing aggressively high up the pitch to disrupt the opposition's play and create opportunities for a quick transition. If the press is evaded, the midfielders are then responsible for quickly recovering their positions, forming a solid double pivot.
However, this tactic relies heavily on the defensive line's positioning. Last season, our defense often sat too deep, allowing the opposition too much space to exploit once our midfield press was bypassed. To counter this, pushing the defensive line higher up the pitch will compress the central areas, reducing the distance our midfielders need to recover and enabling them to engage the opposition's counter-attacks more effectively.
I like Eric, but I really think it would make sense to keep Casemiro on a shorter leash. I don’t feel like his kamikaze runs add more than they take away from our overall performances.
I thought it was a private bid by the Sheik? Unless...
Fully agree with you on this. We back down now and it will impact all future negotiations.
Jeez this will really fuel the fire for his biggest doubters in this thread, sometimes players just work out better at one club than another. He obviously suits Erik's system better than Enrique's
So what should we do then?
We should have back up targets, but it seems we've focused so much on this transfer that it'd be too late to start negotiations with another player, unless we're already doing so.
Alternatively, we'll have to just make do with what we have or try and bring someone in on loan like we did with Amrabat.
Either way, it's not a very good situation to be in.
Yeah we did in Berge and Fofana but he has clearly been our number one target all along. I am confident INEOS will find a deal that suits both them and PSG
Hopefully.
If they refuse to negotiate down from their asking price, we just have to move on if we do not have better targets. It's going to take more than a year to straighten our process and team, and if we want to ensure longevity in our future success, then getting the process right may be more important than getting that one player in.
It's hardly a big gap in valuation if reports are to be trusted. Around 8 million pounds is a problem whose solution should be relativity easy to find.
Yeah especially that Ornstein himself has not given a new update after the show having surely saw the new reports. On the other hand, I do think Napoli will find the extra 5 mill Euros to sign him and avoid an early Conte confrontation (possibily meltdown) as he seems exactly the type of player he would fight for. Orny on the money once again.
Are Napoli in for him? They sure are in for Osimhen.
That sounds very similar to Fred/Herrera, but with more safe passing.
What do you mean?
We must have some belief that they’re willing to negotiate, we wouldn’t just keep putting the same stories out and keep asking the same questions if there wasn’t some appetite on both sides to get it done and find some middle ground. Or at least you’d assume so.
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