Good post. Bale has really impressive stats.Here's list of 49 advanced midfield players, sorted by whoscored Rating. I excluded some from the list such as anyone (a) over 28, (b) 'creative' players who can't average an assist or goal at least once every 270 minutes!, and (c) who clearly normally play as a #9.
Looks to me like Gabriel Jesus is another right-footed left-winger. He's pretty two-footed so should be good on the right too. I'd say go for: Riyad Mahrez, Ousmane Dembélé or Rachid Ghezzal, with Gabriel Jesus as the wild-card (fans will love him). Not for Sadio Mané or Leroy Sané, because they're either too expensive or not currently highly rated (both stat-wise and in terms of goals/assists per minute).
Note:
Mahrez is 9th best player in the world (according to whoscored stats), just above Pogba who's 10th.
whoscored : whoscored order (e.g. Lionel Messi = 1, with top rating = 8.5)
Players with name highlighted in green are some linked to United.
MotM : green highlight shows player gets a MotM every 8 matches, or better.
Yellows : Only 1 player is highlighted as a potential issue because AM style players generally have a good ratio of games played to yellows.
You may be right. But I still have hope that we target a young and talented winger/inside forward.
We need to sign two RWF's imo. Whilst Lingard is squad player material, he's significantly better playing on the left than he is on the right. Mata causes us to be lopsided. Valencia could probably still do a decent job on the wing, and I remember being enamored with his perofrmance against Argentina() but we need a minimum of one attacking full back playing as an attacking full back at all times. With Shaw's tibia fracture which ruled him out for 261 days, it wouldn't be unprecedented for him to take time to acclimatize to the rigors of EPL football, or forbid to get another injury, or being more positive, just not play every game. Of course, if we made the acquisition of a young attacking full back like Joao Cancelo or Almamy Traore, then it could be a legitimate option. Mourinho once said, “Adnan is fantastic. Let’s be honest, he’s not really 18 — he’s 25! The boy is so mature and comfortable and he is a very good and important player. He for sure can have a great long-term career. I don’t know the lad individually — but he has got the lot.” Although, Mourinho gave him praise, and although he was playing as a winger albeit a freeroaming playmaking one at a time, I can't envisage Jose using him often as a RWF. Whilst, being deceptively quick, I'm not sure that would suffice given he's recently had the likes of Cuadrado and Salah to be his second choice, and they're by all indications speed merchants. And it isn't as if Januzaj is a workhorse either, given his weak defensive contribution and according to Whoscored, he has very weak discipline.
Agree with you. I think he has more future under Mourinho than Mata and Lingard. IMO we should buy a new right winger and he should be 2nd choice.
Agree. Mata basically has no future, especially out wide, and I'm not overly convinced by Lingard. Adnan has shown he has a lot of potential but we'd be foolish not to try to strengthen at the position based on how little he has done in the last two years. Hopefully gets a decent amount of playing time there though.
No chance he leaves Bayern to come here. Even if he wanted, he'd be told to forget it and get on with it by Bayern.I really wish it would be Kingsley Coman .Some player he is going to be
Yes and then juventus has to pay a 100million € fine and coman will get a 5 year ban from the CAS. Seems very realistic.
Could you tell me why seeing as it's obvious I'm missing something rather than simply wading in with a smart ass response before fecking off?
Ok, sorry for that. I don't think it's in juventus' hands what happens with Coman. Otherwise the buyout clause would be pointless. Bayern probably has to let the deadline for the clause pass or juventus has to find an agreement with bayern to be able to sell Coman to someone else. Otherwise juventus and probably coman would break the contract.
I guess you're right. A 3yr loan with an option to buy for a fixed price is the seal so it's most likely a 3yr stay at Bayern till they either sign him or send him back. Only if they sell him back does he become available for Juve to flog. This brings something else that's interesting up. He must be on a very cheap contract as he was just a kid with potential who barely played for Juve. A year later, everything has changed so how long before he demands he wither be signed and given the contract he's worth or sent back to Juve where he could get the same?
I think it's a 2yr loan, so one year left. I don't think it would make much sense in financial terms to buy him now since it would increase the risk and basically give juventus a 1yr 21million € loan for free. It would send a sign to the player though.
Ofcourse, it doesn't make sense from a financial POV. Why buy when you can have him for free for another year and that too at whatever cheap contract he must have been on a year back. I was thinking more of from Coman's POV, guy must want a new contract after the year he's had.
It really depends on what wages he's on right now. If he's on peanuts, we probably should do something about it. If he's happy with his contract for now, maybe he prefers to prove his quality for another year? If he becomes a regular starter, he can demand much more money than right now. So it could make sense for Coman to wait another year to sign a longterm contract.
He must be on a very cheap contract. He had barely featured for Juve. It's all on him really, unless he pushes for it, makes no sense for Bayern to take the initiative.
