He’s a misery-guts a lot of the time, but he’s been on the ball a lot recently.
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He’s a misery-guts a lot of the time, but he’s been on the ball a lot recently.
Well if this was RAWK it would probably be our sisters but since it's not, probably Camavinga or Niguez. CDM next priority.
Massive waste of money and building years...
Still no communicado official.
Where’s Ball ache? The summer isn’t the summer without his wisdom on Spanish transfers
so you think Maguire is closer to Vidic than Varane?
fair enough. no more Lindelof. I know your soul is burning.decent but in patches. He has never been consistent enough playing at the top level that draws attention from all football fans / pundits and players (unlike Kante for example) at all and his best patch was when his contract was due for renewal to be perfectly honest, since then it's gone back to being too erratic.
We need a world class box to box or holding (pending what you think we need there to finish things off....(bar a wc striker)
He had one bad injury, I wouldn’t say he’s injury prone. Not like Jones, Saha, Hargreaves and Bailly. He certainly deserves credit for getting back into such good form, though he was better before the injury.
Reminds me of the famous Massimo Di Culo of years past
Varane stands to gain alot from this move. In my opinion, I've never Madrid have truly appreciated their defensive players. Even in the case of Ramos, his goals and attitude rather than his actual defensive performances have been what have truly been celebrated at Madrid. Them letting him go despite not truly having a player of his calibre replacing him is a clear sign of this.
In addition, I have always felt that his game in terms of his ability to win duels and his aerial ability were features that were not truly utilized in Madrid due to the style of play in La Liga. Those elements of his game are used when he plays for France; I feel that playing in the Premier League will allow him to fully showcase his full skillset in a way La Liga never will. Unlike Madrid, we do celebrate our defenders. Yes Maguire is an anomaly in that area, but that has more to do with his look and his nationality than him being a defender. As a club, we are and have always been great at letting good players know that their talents and attitude are fully valued and I feel that is what Varane is looking for. He can become a legendary centre back for us.
In addition, I have always felt that his game in terms of his ability to win duels and his aerial ability were features that were not truly utilized in Madrid due to the style of play in La Liga. Those elements of his game are used when he plays for France; I feel that playing in the Premier League will allow him to fully showcase his full skillset in a way La Liga never will. Unlike Madrid, we do celebrate our defenders. Yes Maguire is an anomaly in that area, but that has more to do with his look and his nationality than him being a defender. As a club, we are and have always been great at letting good players know that their talents and attitude are fully valued and I feel that is what Varane is looking for. He can become a legendary centre back for us.
Reminds me of the famous Massimo Di Culo of years past
Now there's somebody who was always at full moon.
Out of work. BBC don't need him as much as Sky Sports did.
I think he stands in Speakers Corner now, shouting about how close Messi was to City because of the lure of Pep and his shiny head.
Just spat me coffee out
Great post. Fully agree just with exclusion of Maguire bit. I always saw Harry as a great defender. Him and Varane will become legendary. They compliment each other so well.
The only reason he played so much was that the others were injured. He started every season as a backup.
And when we had two defenders who don’t get injured he was shipped to sone Italian mid table team and has been meh there.
Smalling was promising a long time ago, but when they shared the same club, Lindelof was the better player.
Wow!If there are quarantine issues causing a hold up can they not just try and get him a seaman’s book and get it stamped by some rogue captain. Arrive in Heathrow show them it and skip all quarantine issues then get a train up.
That’s a bit radical.
Only 3 pages in 5 hours, disappointed in my fellow muppets. Are the tweets all dried up or something.
Or he could just chill in the Lowry Hotel for 5 days and not get himself banned for the first few months of his United career for false paperwork...
Well the transfers done, we've all moved on, rightfully so. The train has reached its final destination. The muppet train doesn't wait for some official confirmation when there's more muppeting to be done!
The reaction on here to Lindelof is a disgrace. Is he a Champions League winning CB? No. Should he be regarded as the worst signing of modern era? Absolutely not nor should he be anywhere near such list. The hyperbole is doing my head in.
Yeah we’ve disembarked the train, no time for the after party. More trains to catch
It wouldn’t be false paper work and be totally above board. It’s how many offshore workers have been skipping quarantine.
Site crashed. Thought it was because of big news. Checked the BBC. Nope. We haven't signed Sneijder.
We got a fundraiser going for a new fax machine? Don't want it breaking down this time
Mourinho has no eye for talents for a long time already. He doesn’t assess and treat players as personalities in the first place, they must earn his respect.
Ole has a much better transfer record for us than Mourinho. Ole is personal with his players and assess them as personalities. He gets references from people around him especially those who knew him for a lot of time. SAF‘ school.
Varane is not an ageing mercenary looking for a nice retirement contract as often portrayed. He is a seasoned professional and serial winner, he wants to be in a good team, great squad, young and challenging. He will turn turn out to be great.
Ole has a much better transfer record for us than Mourinho. Ole is personal with his players and assess them as personalities. He gets references from people around him especially those who knew him for a lot of time. SAF‘ school.
Varane is not an ageing mercenary looking for a nice retirement contract as often portrayed. He is a seasoned professional and serial winner, he wants to be in a good team, great squad, young and challenging. He will turn turn out to be great.
Wonder if he will make the Van Dijk/Dias effect?
Does someone want to explain what the full moon stuff is all about?
Tier system used by one of the Madrid ITK's
Varane is not even remotely close in style.so you think Maguire is closer to Vidic than Varane?
Neither Varane or Maguire are like Vidic....they more like Rio the both of them
Call me dumb, that's fine, but I'm not seeing the connection between a full moon and the ITK tier system.
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