No he likes a left footed right wing back for a specialist reason when his team switches into 2422 attacking formation through the thirds, the left footed. Wing back goes to play as a narrow Right inverted striker next to the physical dominant number 9!
That is not a traditional wing back role, it’s a role that suits a specialist type of player!
Why do you think Amad has a right wing back is chasing down the southampton defenders and robbing the ball off them, why do you think his number of 9 goals and 9 assists are. So high?
It’s part of his specialist role. Tyler Dybling also suits this role as he’s left footed right 10 who could plays as the RWB specialists who operates much higher than the left wing back does in his system.
We agree the team requires good footballers but more importantly where young players from the age of 14/15 are over coached with numerous ideas, these players require an extremely high football IQ because there’s so much for them to think about in an Amorim system, this is why we are recruiting so many young players, they are more malleable and take on new ideas easier as well as still being worth a decent sell on value in The transfer Market.
We might have maybe 7 to 8 players in our squad who are ideal type Amorim players, Kobbie at the moment isn’t because he has huge stamina issues and he’s still young and learning the game as an 8 or as a creative 10.
There is much more to this than just the statement from Ruben, yesterday the EPL voted to keep PSR for one more season which has made life much more difficult for Man United.
The PSR rolling three years for next season will now be season 22/23, 23/24 and 24/25 with permitted losses of £105m after Add Back concessions.
This is good in one sense as we lose the £150m loses from 21/22 season however the other two seasons are £28m and £113m of loses plus whatever this season is. The club had a lot of add backs due to Covid concessions and SJR investment of £230m last year, redevelopment of Carrington etc, however we really do need to sell at least one maybe two academy players for big money.
I’m convinced Ruben means that Rashford and Garnaucho might have to be sold for a combined £100m or at least Rashford must be sold and probably before July 1st to add to the Mctominay and Greenwood sales which will also go into this accounting year.
This year’s accounts should see a net transfer profit which would allow them to spend maybe as much as £200-250m on new players but only on acquisitions after July 1st 2025.
The bigger concerns are cashflow and actual liquidity, what money is available within the clubs bank accounts to allow them to spend the £100-150m in the summer to buy new players. The Club can’t keep paying in instalments on all new transfers as the club still owes £350m+ in transfer debt alone.
Sir Jim has put his £230m in and isn’t putting any more in unless he gets more shares, remember the Glazers own 49.9% of the shares but still own over 70% of the voting shares.
I genuinely believe Berrada, Judge, Vivell and Wilcox have been tasked with clearing out as much of the squad as they can to raise cash in transfer sales and clear the wage bill.
I saw a ridiculous story today saying Antony will go to Bayern for £42m, never going to happen, but all part of the spin to try and sell him for £25m which is what he’s worth.
These are the players I think we will sell or will leave on a free;
A Bayinder / Sell £7m - wages £40k
V Lindelof / Free - Wages £100k
J Evan’s / Free - Wages £60k
Casemiro / £15m - Wages £350k
C Eriksen / Free - Wages £180k
Antony / £25m - Wages £200k
J Sancho / £25m - Wages £250k
M Rashford/£40m - Wages £325k
R Hojlund /£40m - Wages £90k
Plus we will sell at least 2/3 academy Players like; Harry Amass, E Wheatley
and Joe Hughill for £20/25m combined again 100% profit. I expect to see at least 3 to 4 of these players sold which is unfortunate and everything that’s wrong with the PSR system.
It’s important to note that all of these lower value transfers are normally paid upfront in cash in the summer so the club could feasibly raise £120-130m of cash which would then be used to buy players and help Ruben in his rebuild. More importantly the wage bill would be reduced by £1.6m per week or £80m per year that’s 30% of our players wage bill!
