So...what could Van Troll's Surprise be!? | LVG: "not a striker - it's something else"

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Di Maria leaving replaced by Kuyt

De Gea leaving replaced by Cielessen

That's a huge surprise you'll see

Watch this space, in 7-10 days you'll be surprised.... We tought it would be in a good way but not !
 
Di Maria leaving replaced by Kuyt

De Gea leaving replaced by Cielessen

That's a huge surprise you'll see

Watch this space, in 7-10 days you'll be surprised.... We tought it would be in a good way but not !

They should really stop letting kids use their telephones in class
 
After watching the video of LvGs presser, I'm not convinced the "surprise" is actually a signing at all.
 
Upset because I talked about Cielessen ?

No just your comment in general had 0 added value to the discussion by making stupid statements like di maria getting replaced by dirk kuyt. Its just childish and a waste of time.

And the fact that you can't even spell Cillessen correctly, twice in a row.
 
The surprise is Depay to be a striker or Herrera to play in goal.
 
LvG's command of English isn't great. So if he says it's not a striker and it's "something" else, probably just means a player who's not a striker. I don't think it's any other kind of surprise, and I doubt he'll try to be overly clever. And maybe it won't be as surprising as we think, because I doubt he follows the transfer news the way we do. So maybe it's someone already mentioned by the media, but probably not the big running stories like Ramos, Cavani etc.

One thing's for sure though ... he's got everyone eating out of his hands. He's the perfect troll, and combined with wheeler-dealer Woody, we've got a muppets' dream summer. And we've not even reached August yet!
 
Gonna be great when this surprise is just Romero instead of Cillessen.
 
De Gea signing a new contract? Ronaldo coming home? Pedro?
I know it's hard to believe, but maybe he will sign the new contract. He saw how Casillas was treated and probably changed his mind about going to Madrid
 
I'm looking at our first choice lineups in preseason and thinking it'll be a #10

---------Rooney
----------Depay
Young Carrick Schneid Mata

That seems to be the system that LvG wants to bed in. If we start our next game with the same lineup, I'll begin to think he wants to play 4-4-1-1 in the season proper. Van Gaal used last preseason to get the side used to 3-5-2, so it's not impossible he could be following the same process this time around.

Looking at the front 6, Depay's position is the one that seems least assured. I think we could be after a #10 in a similar mould: pacy, strong, incisive passer, good finisher. Could be Bale, Reus or Griezmann. I reckon it's Bale.
 
I'm looking at our first choice lineups in preseason and thinking it'll be a #10

---------Rooney
----------Depay
Young Carrick Schneid Mata

That seems to be the system that LvG wants to bed in. If we start our next game with the same lineup, I'll begin to think he wants to play 4-4-1-1 in the season proper. Van Gaal used last preseason to get the side used to 3-5-2, so it's not impossible he could be following the same process this time around.

Looking at the front 6, Depay's position is the one that seems least assured. I think we could be after a #10 in a similar mould: pacy, strong, incisive passer, good finisher. Could be Bale, Reus or Griezmann. I reckon it's Bale.
None of those you mentioned are #10's. If it's a #10, it could very well be De Bruyne, doesn't get much better than that.

I find it odd that Memphis is playing #10 at the moment. Maybe he's trying to adjust him and Rooney to each other, but why don't they switch positions?

As for the #10, I don't want one. We have Mata, Rooney, ADM, Fellaini, Herrera, Januzaj, Pereira and probably someone else I forgot to mention who can play there. Buying another 10 would destroy Januzaj and Pereira's chances of developing themselves in this club.
 
I'm trying to think about what the rest of our business will look like...

We'll probably get Romero (1)
If DDG goes, we'll get... Cilessen (2)?
Centre Back - I thought this Ramos stuff was bollocks and dead in the water... but it isn't going anyway. So is he an actual option? If not him, probably Otamendi? (3)
I reckon ADM is probably off, so a winger, and it seems like Pedro? But then there are other decent wingers around... so one of them? (4)
A striker. As this thread shows, feck knows who this is. (5)

So that's possibly 5 more new players... making it 9 new players for the season... that's a hefty overhaul!
 
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