Manuel Ugarte | Romano - he’s signed | Awaiting Club announcement
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I doubt any one single player will.
Interested to see how we look in all areas with our new players in the starting 11.
I'd love to see him start against the dippers but truth is he's not had much of a pre season if at all.
He's been likened to a young Mascherano and I'm excited to see what he can do for us.
He's been likened to a young Mascherano and I'm excited to see what he can do for us.
Arghhh. The LVG era. When our players all turned into a bunch of soft touches!!!
Thank goodness Jose turned up. He was spitting on City badges after that.
Compilation creators should stick to all touches in X match type of videos. But my guess is these don't do as well as the "highlights" or "lowlights" types.
It's a Mourinho esq type move, to completely nullify the opposition or close out a game.
Liverpool is a must not 'lose' game
What’s his long range passing like?
Don’t call him a defensive midfielder. Chop the defensive part out and he should be okay.
Any idea on how long for international clearance and work permit because that's generally required?
That would be so 'unlike Eth like' He'll be happy to let us stew until the 85th minute.
fantastic signing and addition we badly needed....some energy and toughness to our midfield that was pretty soft
still think we need another CM added as to what i think they hoped Mount would be....a ball carrying CM that could offer goals and have a bit of creativeness as well
still think we need another CM added as to what i think they hoped Mount would be....a ball carrying CM that could offer goals and have a bit of creativeness as well
All I'm seeing is a guy make easy passes.
Unpopular opinion: I would love to see his partnership with Case rather than Mainoo.
Spot on. Ugarte is a Casemiro replacement. Can you imagine the outrage when we are chasing the game to take off Bruno and bring on a straight CDM which is what Ugarte is instead of McTominay. Ugarte isn't a goal threat. My worry is McT who we are losing is more of a goal threat and that option is disappearing because we don't have the dough. Our options as a goal threat midfielder outside of Bruno are zero. Mount isn't good enough and Eriksen is no longer wanted
It will be nice to have a little of grit in our midfield, also I was surprised this guy is only 23, honestly I thought he was like 27 or something.
I genuinely would fancy my chances of doing everything he did in that video 
Agree with this. We are severely lacking creativity in this squad. Rashford is finished, Garnacho and Amad are young so expect them to be inconsistent, Antony does nothing. Mount runs a lot but hasnt scored or assisted yet and seems to get injured alot. Bruno is so hollywood and his goal and assist output has reduced considerably. Zirkzee is a bit of an unknown.
That’s like Tom Cleverley and we didn’t need to play 50M for him to do those things?
That's a terrible video to highlight any positives as I could have easily completed the same actions highlighted. It's probably not a good match to highlight either, I don't remember his involvement but Newcastle ended up thrashing them 4-1, where Urgarte was subbed off after an hour while 3-1 down.
And the scoreline going up.
Brilliant signing.
The thread title says 50m + 10m. How much did we save on transfer fee by holding out on PSG as long as we did?
The thread title says 50m + 10m. How much did we save on transfer fee by holding out on PSG as long as we did?
So the money is £42 (£8m add ons)
Potentially a £50m deal.
Seems about right to me.
Potentially a £50m deal.
Seems about right to me.
If we can actually get a decent (at worst) DM for the next 5 years, something we have missed since Keane, then £50m will be a bargain
I agree, massive upgrade on what we have.
That is an "all touches" compilation
This doesn't fill me with much confidence.
The thing is, Toby Collyer was doing that in pre-season. I mean it's good to play it safe at the right time.
Why? Cause a player isn’t allowed to have a bad game?
They wanted €60m upfront.
Hm....Cleverley did that with his eyes closed.
I'm happy to start with a midfielder who can definitely run, and press, and is reliable on the ball. Can build from there.
€10M. We offered €35M they wanted €60. Compromised at €50. Overpaid €5M.
Looking at other DMs this window for comparison :
£50m Joao Neves (19)
£50m Onana (22)
£43m Paulinha (29)
£42m Ugarte (23)
£27m Matts Weifer (24)
£17m Fofana (25)
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