I wonder if United was ever in for Malcom. I mean, before Barca came in he was actually going to Roma. Surely United could have offered more than Roma?
Right Winger... Who do we go for?
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Interest was there - Christmas 2017 but we ended up with Sanchez and now we are days into very defining season with perspective of Mata trying to dribble past way faster left backs. It's mind boggling.
I'm with you on this. I'm sure Mourinho's need for a CB emphasises that he wants to play this way, it'll get the best out of our major players, Pogba, Lukaka & Sanchez. It means we don't need to have world class defenders LB & RB and in that case Shaws liabilities won't be as exposed as the are with 4 at the back.
I'm suprised this depressed caf hasn't worked this out yet.
Dinking angled passes into 5ft7 Sanchez up front all whilst playing entirely in front of the opposition, with Darmian and Shaw at fullback and Jones/Smalling CB partnership, the league is ours
Yep, we can also play Sanchez there, and he has played RW plenty of times in his career. The fact that he prefers Mata, who is the worst option there is just baffling. This would have also avoided the whole Martial saga imo. Also, Willian and Perisic are decent, definitely better than Mata but not woth the prices being quoted.
My thoughts exactly. It's a sorry state of affairs.
We don't know for a fact that there were any winger targets on these lists at all never mind alternatives.
Dinking angled passes into 5ft7 Sanchez up front all whilst playing entirely in front of the opposition, with Darmian and Shaw at fullback and Jones/Smalling CB partnership, the league is ours
You just know it's coming when the yearly injury plague comes. We sold Blind who could do defensively better than Shaw but decided to keep Fellaini to continue the old ways of the most found out plan B in new history of this club.
At this point Tahith Chong despite what Jose said about his body build is still looking stronger than Mata, is twice fast and know how to press.
Of course and we won't know as club is so confidential about everything we might aswell write to MI5 and CIA for our transfer gossip.
Absolute zero linking to any right winger in last few days. Even professional bullshitters like daily Mirror gave up on guessing.
My thoughts exactly. It's a sorry state of affairs.
Yep, not good at all.
Mourinho said before the summer he's not after a forward and with 3 days to go it seems like he wasn't bullshitting.
If that's the point then perhaps we are really after left back which would make whole lot of sense.
From attacking standpoint fast and creative left back would improve our build up and counters so it's win/win situation at some point.
The problem with Mourinho's early on views on forwards/attackers is that:
a) None of our current forwards plays well on the right and Sanchez is the only one that plays well on the left
b) Martial wants to go and seems to not be giving a single feck atm.
c) Mata is regressing with every year and it's safe to say that he shouldn't be starting games on the RW when we're playing teams that press us. Which will be all top teams.
With that in mind I would have thought that bringing in a RW/RF would have made absolute sense. But Mourinho is sticking to his guns by the sounds of it and gunning after another CB. Which makes no sense to me.
Yeah there have been no solid links, which i think points to us not even being after a winger. I actually doubt if we've made any sort of moves for one all summer.
It basically leaves us with playing Lingard there and hoping he'll adapt also against strong Champions League sides and it seriously doesn't sound too good despite player genuinely improving. Rashford or Martial could get about 15 games more if they accepted RW role but looks like none of them want to play there.
You know what's funny ? We have natural wingers in Valencia and Young but we play them out of position from many years and nobody's protesting. The mindf*ckery is sometimes strong in this club.
Fekir would be our "Silva" on the right. He offers pace, great technique,can beat a defender, a lot of creativity and is a goal/FK thread. Excellent player! I reckon Perisic is a more Mourinho player.
Now that Mahrez, Ronaldo or Bale not being available I'd go for Dembele from Barca, Fekir, or Pulisic. Fekir could be the most gettable.
Bernard anyone? He is on a free from Shaktar
With a lack of any other viable options I'd give this one a go. If he's shit we can always sell him for a few million next year. Something is better than nothing.
We should have gone for Fekir, guy has been brilliant for Lyon, left-footed playing on the right, very technical, very quick, would have been an immense upgrade on Mata and he can actually hug the touchline!
No one it seems.
We aren't getting anyone. The right winger problem is the new "midfielder problem" for us. We are the only club that can have a glaring weakness and keep ignoring it for several years. We did it previously with the midfield and doing it now with the right flank, simple as that.
More of a #10 or SS than a touchline-hugging winger.
Fekir would be Mata’s replacement tho. He’s not a true winger but more of a 10 or SS.
I said he can, watched many games last year and the way he starts from the right channel and cuts inside is a fecking peach to watch, good shot on him, excellent delivery, wish we can get him.
He's a 10 who excels playing wide like Silva/Zidane. He isn't an old fashioned winger. But I said it monts ago. This guy could do wonders for us.Stop all the "run and cross it to Rom" stuff, please! He has a lot more to his game. He can unlock defenses (pace, vision, one touch football, shooting, FK, creativity, powerfull, beat a defender, create a chance out of nothing, hard working). A great asset vs defensive teams too. I can feel he has it all (usually I'm not a transfer muppet). He's 25 now, a lot of exprerience & frustrated with Liverpool's blow).
Think we should forget signing a right winger for now and continue with a 352.
Righto. No RW needed then, but we do need to get two new wingbacks in.
Bring back David Beckham jesus christ. Probably could still do a better job than anybody else in the team at RW
Just ask Barca to loan Dembele for a season seeing as they’ve got Messi and Malcolm ahead of him on the right now.
Martial scored 17 a couple of years back when we were even worse at attacking. Play him as a starter and he will easily score 20+.
The solution is and has always been to find a way which utilises all three of Lukaku, Sanchez and Martial, not to sign 29 years old wingers without end product who cost 70m+.
Would you bet your life on it ?
Nah, but would yours without a problem.
Well, we could have sigend a player that works in that system and as a right-winger. If we play with a #10 in that system, I think we need a better player than Lingard and Mata.
So you're not that confident on Martial after all.
Would you bet your life that if we sign Messi he'll score 20? As in, he doesn't, you get your head chopped, no question asked?
Messi would score 20 goals.
You're braver than me then.
Absolutely not. You would put your chips in Messi basket too. Common sense Amigo.
As far as Martial is super talented, he need to grow on the pitch but how Jose will make peace between Sanchez, Martial and Lukaku ? Maybe that's where Fred and Pereira come with bit of extra forward passing because so far, that's our only hope... maybe Dalot, too.
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