Think we will have to get by (yes I know its not enough) with just the one midfield signing this summer. Hopefully I will be wrong and talks of a second midfielder pick up if we can sell Hannibal, Eriksen and McTominay
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Think we will have to get by (yes I know its not enough) with just the one midfield signing this summer. Hopefully I will be wrong and talks of a second midfielder pick up if we can sell Hannibal, Eriksen and McTominay
Still expect this to get done, but in reality we need two midfielders brought in ideally. Time still on our side though.
Haha could have easily agreed a couple more deals by now but for the money pissed away last season
For now I'm happy to see us active in the transfer market instead of waiting till the very end
Yea I'd imagine we'd have to sell at least one of Casemiro, McTominay, Eriksen in order for us to bring in a midfielder like Ugarte or Fofana.
I’m reading “expansive” to mean something akin to “Scholes”, and I agree he’s not one to get the ball and ping a 60 yard ball into someone’s back pocket. Mainoo is more in the efficient mold but he hasn’t had the right personnel around him yet to really start stretching.
PSG seem to have interest in Sancho. Player plus cash deal for Ugarte maybe?
https://www.skysports.com/football/...terested-in-signing-manchester-united-forward
https://www.skysports.com/football/...terested-in-signing-manchester-united-forward
Yea I'm a patient person, obviously all of this will take time. I think it's because our midfield as felt neglected for such a long time that it bothers me a little.
Ugarte and Fofana have nothing in common, though. The team is desperate for a proper DM and has been for a very long time. Fofana isn't that, and he is also another player with obvious deficiencies in the technical parts of the game without bringing much of anything else. Not the right profile and not good enough.
PSG have to be realistic in their demands, however. That fee isn't happening.
We're going to have to accept being short in certain positions because of the mess the INEOS team have inherited. It can't all be fixed in one window and they don't want to make the mistake previous regimes have made by hanging on to average players as a comfort blanket.
For me, better to play an Academy player who's probably never going to be a superstar, like Toby Collyer, over someone like Eriksen who should just be allowed to leave for whatever we can get for him.
I’m confused to what the actually end goal is from PSG.
They seem to be very interested in brining in Joao Neves and an attacking forward but they like most clubs need to sell to buy.
Perfectly fine however the midfield they are looking to sell is a midfielder they are happy to let go due to preference in style but also he cost them €60m. His book value would have decreased due to being a year into his contract so I don’t understand why they believe they can sell him for a profit. I understand his age but they are not in a position of power.
We should do what we have done with Branthwaite and possibly De Ligt and walk away. I like the profile but he’s not that amazing, plus no other club is going to give them more money than what we are willing to pay. Unless Chelsea have some type of relapse.
They seem to be very interested in brining in Joao Neves and an attacking forward but they like most clubs need to sell to buy.
Perfectly fine however the midfield they are looking to sell is a midfielder they are happy to let go due to preference in style but also he cost them €60m. His book value would have decreased due to being a year into his contract so I don’t understand why they believe they can sell him for a profit. I understand his age but they are not in a position of power.
We should do what we have done with Branthwaite and possibly De Ligt and walk away. I like the profile but he’s not that amazing, plus no other club is going to give them more money than what we are willing to pay. Unless Chelsea have some type of relapse.
70M? We should give ultimatum at 55M. Then move on. Don't waste time if PSG refuse to be reasonable.
Maybe time to focus on Rabiot. Keep Casemeiro and sign Amrabat for cover.
Maybe time to focus on Rabiot. Keep Casemeiro and sign Amrabat for cover.
that might be the most depressing sentence I’ve read on here so far this summer
https://www.skysports.com/football/...er-could-help-shore-up-erik-ten-hags-midfield
There is room for improvement when it comes to threading passes through the lines. He only directed 15 per cent of his passes forward last season in Ligue 1, according to Opta. His conservative passing choices were a reported source of frustration to PSG boss Luis Enrique.
Just don't expect everything from him. He likes his sideways pass.
There is room for improvement when it comes to threading passes through the lines. He only directed 15 per cent of his passes forward last season in Ligue 1, according to Opta. His conservative passing choices were a reported source of frustration to PSG boss Luis Enrique.
Just don't expect everything from him. He likes his sideways pass.
How does he compare to other similar defensive midfielders in this metric?
They are a basket case of a club. Phillip Auclair the French football journo recently explained when interviewed by Duncan castles.
PSG philosophy is to now target young talented players who fit with Luis Enrique's posession football. However the marketing department at PSG hold alot of sway and they want big name stars. Which is why PSG are being linked to Kharsa or Sancho or Oshiem.
PSG have also been embarrassed by the Mbappe fiasco (he left for free and they turned down a £180mil bid from Madrid 18/24 months ago). PSG don't want to be seen as pushovers in the transfer market. Plus UEFA FSR (financial sustainability rules) is hamstringing the club in terms of what they can spend without being in revenue from sales.
This is why they are being stupid and trying to make a profit on Ugarte.
Would be depressing to start the new season with Casemiro as CDM. It did not work last season.
Yeah completely agree, so one needs to be a pure destroyer type DM and the other I guess more of a DLP
Yeah they have inherited one hell of a mess but particularly bad in the midfield area, there is not enough different profiles of midfielder there
Leave out people who like to throw up the notion that possession football is not Madrid cup of tea.
There is no football team that is successful consistently that doesn't take possession of the football as a serious issue.
Only United through it's fans, using coping mechanisms, try to allude to and wanting success without being top 2-3 in possession ranking season in season out.
We can sign 10 Yoros, but if we average 50% possession in a season we will never win EPL or CL. You need to be in control of 90% of the games in any given competition you're in.
No better way to control football game, than through having pressure possession.
Every DM needs to have passing stats like Rodri. Forget he's probably a one in a generation DM...
What he meant to say was sign Rabiot and either Zubimendi or Ugarte, Amrabat shouldn't be at the forefront of our thinking
Rabiot , Casemiro and Amrabat , it would be a great summer if all 3 weren’t at the club by September
https://fbref.com/en/players/c9817014/Manuel-Ugarte-Ribeiro
I've led you to the water. That's more than most do on the internet.
Of course Madrid played posession football, hard not to when you have legendary midfields like mordric and kroos.
Possession football is a recent change in football that we can blame Guardiola and the Spanish national team international success for.
Teams playing deep and hitting on the break or on transitions have been very successful in the past. Mourinho treble winning inter milan team for one. Or the Bayern team that spanked a Messi led Barcelona 7-1 at nou camp on the way to their CL win.
ETH has said as recently as last season that he wants Utd to be the best transition team, nothing about possession.
That would be asking for a bit much indeed.
Nice find! Definitely using that site going forward. People should definitely not expect too much from him offensively. It might be the biggest reason why he's even up for sale after spending just a season with them.
https://www.givemesport.com/luis-enriques-concern-about-manuel-ugarte-should-worry-man-utd-fans/
I know he probably gets hounded for updates, but why can't he just say "nothing new has happened".
felt exactly the sameSeems like a pure out-and-out destroyer doesn’t he.
I wonder what it says about how we want to play. Presumably we want to give Mainoo as much freedom as possible
My personal preference is having a Carrick type in DM who can spray the passes, but I guess that’s not how we’re looking to play
Because any one of us could have come to that conclusion. He probably wants to substantiate it in a superficial way by making it seem like it an update.
Yep, that's pretty much the meaning of these 'updates with nothing to update' tweets.
I guess regularly saying 'nothing new to report' on all these lengthy drawn out transfers just isn't clickbait. Whereas they learn to word the 'updates' in ways that make them sound fresh and newsworthy. Even though what they're really saying much of the time is 'still nothing new to report'.
The update is that it's not dead in the water like some assume if too many days go by with no coverage.What exactly is the update he's provided here?
Tightening things up defensively is the quickest path back to a top 4 berth considering our offensive outputs under EtH. Mainoo has shown some very promising offensive glimpses and Ugarte is a very good press beating dribbler they say.
Not the best article is it? So what if he doesn't have high level of progressive passes? Did Kante have high level of progressive passes for Leicester and Chelsea? That's who he is most like in the way he plays apparently.
Then comparing him to Rice and Rodri, both who sit deep whereas Ugarte is more of a Kante, who will go search out the ball and create turnovers.
The likes of Enrique and Guardiola are very demanding in the passing ability of players for their system. Apparently Guardiola doesn't rate the passing ability of Matheus Nunes, which is why he hardly plays for city.
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