The reality was shown last night, the squad has little depth but let’s be sensible we need two players for every position and right now the GK is second priority after CFW.
GK - We need 1 at least, Heaton should be kept as 3rd Choice D De Gea maybe as back up but he’ll never be a modern GK so we might need 2 or let him go and let D Henderson fight it out with a new GL like D Costa or Mike Maignan
RB - we are ok, sign Frimpong if money no issue and keep the other 2.
LB. - We are ok as A Fernandez will put huge pressure on Tyrel Malacia soon
CB - Without Question need to sell H Maguire, Lindelof is more than ok but as Swedish captain will be off too, so we’ll need two, K Min Jae and A Bastoni or F Tomari will cost £90m for both and we might get £50m for Maguire and Lindelof
DM - Casemiro is 30, he’s played 42 games and the last 3 or 4 really poor, he’s not on the slide but we may have seen peak Casemiro just after Xmas. After CF, GK, CB this is the next priority, Sign Caciedo or D Rice simple £75m put the money on table and you have next decade sorted. Either one doesn’t matter but one must be signed.
CM - Bruno, Eriksen, Fred, Mctominay, call me CFW y but I’d keep Mctominay purely over Fred because of his physicality and HG Status, Fred should be sold as ETH clearly doesn’t fancy him we need a top operator here, I would try and sign Rabiot on a free, he’s able to play 6 or 8 and he’s better than Macalister or Enzo Le Fey or Y Tielemans.
AM - Bruno, Sabitzer, DVB we’ve not had genuine competition for Bruno in this position for ages, which is why when he doesn’t play like yesterday we look lost as an attacking force, Sabitzer 29 average player who works hard but United need something better, DVB Times up. If Leicester go down we should be all over Maddison, if not we should go get M Kudas from Ajax but we need a young number 10 who can play 8 or wide inverted striker.
RW - Antony getting there, needs competition we could do worse than bring back Amad as back fits the criteria quick left footed can drift in and added goals.
CFW - Weghorst sorry back to Burnley, Martial should be shipped out but on 250k per week he’s not going anywhere so we’ll keep to play Carabo cup until 2024, Number 1 priority we need 2 CFW’ s not 1 as Greenwood will be sold to Italy or Germany, I’d sign R Hojlund and E Ferguson both young they can compete and share the load. We should be able to get both for £110m the cost of G Ramos, Kane or osimhen..
We’ve been looking at this all wrong, no more mercenaries, no 29-31 year old looking for huge 300k per week 4/5 year contracts. No young wannabe upstart under 25 demanding the number 7 shirt and 350k per week.
David De Gea should be released, he’s been a great servant in 12-13 years and won one EPL, one Fa Cup, Two Carabo cups, so he’s not all that is he ? I actually used to prefer Sergio Romero but hey after we get smart and go sign R Hojlund and Evan Ferguson very quickly for £110m and stop chasing Pipe dreams which ruin your pre season with the length of the chase and inevitably over paying £120-140m for osimhen or Kane only to pay them 300-400k per week, we should be throwing 70-80m at Mike Maignan and only resign David on £100k per week.
We can sign this summer ;
Mike Maignan -£40m (+ Greenwood)
K Min Jae - £40m
Ndicka - Free
J Frimpong - £25m
Caciedo - £75m
A Rabiot - Free
J Maddison - £55m
R Hojlund - £65m
E Ferguson - £45m
Total cost is £350m and we sell the following 8 players B Williams, D Henderson, E Bailey, Teles, H Maguire, V Lindelof, Fred, A Elanga £110-120m.
This is what needs to be done but with the parasites clinging to power expect 1/3 of the Problems fixed and 2/3 of the problem players remaining.
Let’s be clear here De Gea needs to go and Maignan bought is becoming as important as the CFW.
