Living up to your name I see!
Guess I need to spell it out...
With that jawline his dad is either a Greek god or the troloIol meme.
Maybe dude felt he needed a vacation after a very stressful summer.
I think we just wanted some outgoings first, tbf.
I do think Ugarte has a deceptively decent passing range, he’s no Kroos but I think he’ll surprise people
I could actually see ETH try that midfield trio now, with Ugarte instead of Casemiro, like he must have originally planned to.
Probably around 35 million, simply because he's not a player I can see having a long-term key role in our project, as of now, but I obviously hope that's not going to be the case, and also because his value should've diminished a bit more after 1 rather unsuccessful year at PSG.
Jesus, he hasn’t even signed and you’re already thinking of moving him on.
Sure that was the report, but like I said I trust Orny more than L'equipe. You are free to think this is a great deal, I'm not gonna rain on your parade on signing day.
Yea. Considering how he had no pre-season and knowing ETH, we might see Ugarte play for us only after the international break.
That's only 1 game away to be fair
Clearly don’t watch Rice closely enough if you think he falls into the category of a strict ball winning midfielder. He has way more to his game than Ugarte. Rice plays a far more advanced role for Arsenal with Partey the most defence minded in there.
We have too few fatalist supporter songs!
He's a good passer he just won't dictate tempo or be some creative guy, which is fine. He holds his own in possession and isn't dispossessed easily. Some people making it out like he's McTominay on the ball and it isn't true. We need both a deep passer and an elite ball winner, we have one of the 2. More chance of Eriksen being useful now as a squad player as well.
Yeah a playmaker next summer and we’d be in a great place.
He's not bad but he's not a one touch DM, he'd rather go long, and that isn't what Enrique wants.
Again I ask do you not know how contracts work? In a hypothetical scenario he could sign for £50k a week but when we will sell him in 2 years if the signing club is only willing to pay £20k for him and we want to get rid of him then we have to do a payoff. Payoffs dont happen only in the case of inflated wages.
No, we need to stop changing our team based on the opposition. We need to play one way whoever it is just like the good teams.
Do we have a way? That's one of the biggest criticisms Ten Hag gets these days. However we always play well when we set up to counter or do a mid press, which is exactly what we'll do.
He was 15 at Sporting. He wore 4 at PSG.
I can definitely see it being an asset we use, since Pogba we've been appalling at spreading the play which leads to us getting boxed in, at least in my view.
That team won't score with Rashford. Play Garnacho
Long ball, quick counter?
Yeah I understand what you're saying and I agree, but the issue is that this style of play we seem to want to play under Ten Hag is a coin flip win or lose and you can't build upon that, so he either needs to find something more consistent or relax on his 'principles' and play something that benefits the players we're signing that cost massive amounts of money. And bringing it back to Ugarte, he's better suited to a counter attacking team, he isn't an intricate passer or ball player, he's just there to track back and spoil.
24 is Onana, mate.
Excellent, just what we need, it’s going to be difficult in a few weeks time to pick the team, I suppose this chap will replace Casemiro?
Jolly good.
They're not going to play together.
I suspect he will play alongside Case. The Mount experiment hasn't worked so we'll move the 'pressing' from AM to DM instead and try a mid block instead of high block.
