Seen Ryan Bertrand’s name popping up, might be pure shite right enough.
Short-term LB signing?
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Barco the left back Brighton are trying to sign for £10m. With Garnacho and Lisandro would be easy to get him.
No point in bringing in some crap player on the cheap just to cover for a month or two. Fernandez can do the job
Bringing in Pavard as planned switch Dalot to LB
Would rather two midfielders than backup LB,maybe it's just me but feels like Utd priorities are all wrong at the moment
Dalot is cover for LB, but we've got that Fernandez lad who looks like he might be heading back to Spain this window.
Can't see there being anyone in the market who's worth us spending money on just to play 3rd backup fullback. Surely what we have in the reserves will cover for a few weeks.
Can't see there being anyone in the market who's worth us spending money on just to play 3rd backup fullback. Surely what we have in the reserves will cover for a few weeks.
Bring in Lucas Digne
Sign a right back and let Dalot play LB. That highly rated Fresneda is close to joining sporting for less than 15m. Either something like this or don’t bother wasting money on any left back dud
If van Gaal can pick one academy defender after another and make them work and ten Hag can't that's highly concerning.
I suspect the dilemma is Shaw/Malacia are going to return in 4 to 6 weeks - do you allow Fernandez a loan now where he will play every week for the season or keep him to cover the next month when after that he’s 3rd/4th choice LB until Jan. I’d keep him and think he can displace Malacia but the kid needs games.
Might be a shit source but I’m here for the reactions
We could keep him for the necessary period then loan him to a National League club until Jan 1. It may not be optimal, but at least he'll start and it's just a few months.
Or we could send him on loan and play that Pye guy, who I admit I know nothing of, but apparently he's a LB and he is a year older than CBJ was.
This is hilarious. We used to have 4 left backs!
How about a loan move for WoutWeghorst? Hear me out: playing him at 10, would free up Bruno to play at left back. Whaddyathink?
How about a loan move for WoutWeghorst? Hear me out: playing him at 10, would free up Bruno to play at left back. Whaddyathink?
I actually thought we might do this earlier after seeing he was a free the other day.
Our window started nicely enough but it’s decided into utter meh now
It wouldn’t be the worst emergency free deal ever.
I hope this is just some trash journo putting 2 and 2 together and coming up with clickbait.
If the club is this reactionary and badly run then we may as well give up hope of ever winning the PL again.
If the club is this reactionary and badly run then we may as well give up hope of ever winning the PL again.
I'd be happier losing because we play a young left back (Fernandez) who let a couple of chances through, than losing because we play a bunch of fat cats who couldn't be bothered to track back, or who started slowly, or who got tired in the second half, or who haven't practiced shooting under the bar (or under row z).
Dalot and Fernandez can cover it, focus on midfield ffs!
I was all for this transfer about 15 years ago...
Ok missed that. He’s changed his tune from last summer
We already have two left backs. We only have 1 DM. (Who already looks knackered) Priorities are fecked up.
We don’t need to bring Pavard in to make that happen
We aren’t winning it this season anyway
My money is on Dutch left backs. Too bad Daley Blind chose a club already.
We aren’t signing Bertrand ffs - he hasn’t played competitively for over 600 days 
Just ride it out with Dalot until Malacia is back. Fernandez as his backup. It's not a huge deal. Dalot is fine to invert.
We aren’t signing Bertrand ffs - he hasn’t played competitively for over 600 days
I mean we brought in the corpse of Jonny Evans on a year-long deal.
It makes perfect sense in Glazernomics terms to bring in Bertrand. Goddamnit, I bet it'll happen now.
Think ETH will play Dalot and move Antony to left so that we have the width.
Yeah. Or the incredible news source that is “Strettynews” made it the feck up.
Ok none of this makes sense. I think Luckhurst is talking out of his ass as usual and there is no chance of a short term signing. We have plenty of cover in the squad and I refuse to believe the possibility of Shaw being injured has not been considered by the Manager when building his team. It will likely be Dalot and we may delay the departure of Fernandez on loan until the January window but that would be more than enough.
Jonny Evans played left back when Northern Ireland beat Spain in 2006
To put into perspective how long ago that was, Danny Welbeck would not make his debut for us for another two years and Arctic Monkeys debut album had just came out January of that year. I'd be surprised if Evans still fancies playing left back at his age.
If Shaw is out until November then it makes the decision to just keep Fernandez even easier.