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Sofyan Amrabat | signs for United on loan
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Until Amrabat gets a start and ETH realises how much more stable we are with him in the team.
Your reply is even better than what I was thinking. I was just thinking we are short on cash right this moment but either of your options are possible. And both show how fecked we are because of the glazers.
0 days. Some of the reactions here are bonkers. Amrabat will prove them silly.
Very good deal, that.
No chance for Sunday.
I'd say he will spend the international break getting himself in shape for when the league resumes.
This looks bad and reflects muddled thinking but I think it's better to solve a problem, doesn't matter how hurriedly you do it, than to walk into certain disaster with your eyes open. We now have the tools to map a way forward without watching an unfolding disaster on the pitch whilst waiting for January and predictably the summer when the Glazers deny us funds in January.
This signing, if it works, should bring us stability, make us harder to break down and thus give us a better chance for top four and doing well in the CL. Next year we know we have him to sign up, Kobie is a year older and the picture is much clearer. It's better for us to go into next summer needing a back up striker, CB, making the Amrabat signing permanent and having the base to make a long term Cm project signing.
Well, we need someone who plays in front of the back 4 and knocks the ball about, but I’m not sure this guy changes our prospects a great deal. It’s not like we fought off Real, Chelsea and City for him.
We were spoilt rotten ey. Mad to look back at those teams.
At least its not a rowing boat.
Is that how every signing is judged now?
I reckon vast majority of signings we don’t fight off competition. Clubs express interest and said player says yes long before anything ever gets done more often than not.
have city and Chelsea fought stiff competition for everyone of their signings so far this summer?
Every sensible signing doesn't have to be measured by the fact how many teams are also pursuing that player.
Maybe he fits a certain team's play style, but not another one's? Maybe they already have a good player in that position?
There are many reasons by which you can judge a signing, but that one certainly isn't it.
I think he's a very good addition, not only to the potential starting XI, but also to our depth. Especially with the injury woes we're having at the moment.
Maybe he fits a certain team's play style, but not another one's? Maybe they already have a good player in that position?
There are many reasons by which you can judge a signing, but that one certainly isn't it.
I think he's a very good addition, not only to the potential starting XI, but also to our depth. Especially with the injury woes we're having at the moment.
It was a stupid comment. Salah or de Bruyne were not really chased by too many clubs yet they turned out great. So
We don’t have room to spend the wonga mate
Otherwise I’m sure we would
I had the same question. Only thing I can think of is that until Henderson was sold, we did not have room, but that we now do. (We also have more clarity on Maguire not leaving,, which sounds like it would likewise have burned quite a lot of space.).
Now we have about 15m plus 5m wages of space, and we want to use every dollar of that space this year so as to require less of it next year, when the purchase is completed. On transfer day, we know exactly the dollar value of space remaining and want to use it all up. Make sense?
Does make sense. But that would be another loophole. Transfer fees could be broken down into big loan fees for that year if FFP has room, and rest paid in different years with lower amounts amortized per year.
Above leads me to wonder how one years incoming profits for FFP are used in the following years. Say for example if Liverpool sell Salah for 200m£ this summer, unless they spend it all within a year, do they lose the benefit of that 200m£ for next year's FFP? That sounds counter productive to the idea of FFP to ensure responsible spending.
Is he in Manchester?
Been at Carrington all afternoon
He is good but he is not the #6 we need
Don't know much about him, really only the WC and European final, where he was great, so I'm very hopeful, maybe overly so.
Amrabat, Casemiro, and Bruno in midfield just seems like it will be really good.
Amrabat, Casemiro, and Bruno in midfield just seems like it will be really good.
What manner of sorcery is this? A midfielder running with the ball!?
Also, it won't be long before he gets a red card
I’m fairly certain that EtH wants to play a certain way and has certain roles to cast. There are favourites to get those roles, as you say, but Amrabat is coming in to compete, mainly for no6 in this set up.
I agree that, where he isn’t selected to start in the no6 role, he will still get minutes as a tactical or relief sub.
Occasionally he may start in a different role if there are injuries or we play a different system. He’ll also get rotation starts in cups etc if he’s not managing to get ahead of Casemiro for the bigger games.
In any case, I don’t think EtH will be inflexible. He will pick players on form, provided they can follow his rules.
He’s a machine. Really solid player.
Better not do those scissor tackles in the PL though.
What manner of sorcery is this? A midfielder running with the ball!?
Also, it won't be long before he gets a red card
I love a midfielder who can run with the ball but I fear that he will be a bit one paced for that style in the PL. Interested to see how Ten Hag uses him, we will see how tied he is to the 2 advanced midfielder set up. Cas and this guy might also be a bit pedestrian as a pairing but we will see.
Really hope that his whoscored stats are the usual shit from that site, average rating of 6.46 last year, probably not helped by the amount of yellows he gets.
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Honestly quite excited for this guy.
Not that he looks that special, but he actually looks like a midfielder that can play the nr 6 role. He seems to read the game just fine, he has decent defensive awareness, strong ballwinner, can find a teammate with a pass more often than not, somewhat diciplined and consistent. Ticks a lot of boxes. Only worry is that he doesn`t seem to be a step faster than Casemiro. Hope he can figure out quickly that he has very little time here to cruise around with the ball and look for a teammate. Specially when we play against the teams that press well.
Not that he looks that special, but he actually looks like a midfielder that can play the nr 6 role. He seems to read the game just fine, he has decent defensive awareness, strong ballwinner, can find a teammate with a pass more often than not, somewhat diciplined and consistent. Ticks a lot of boxes. Only worry is that he doesn`t seem to be a step faster than Casemiro. Hope he can figure out quickly that he has very little time here to cruise around with the ball and look for a teammate. Specially when we play against the teams that press well.
He coming by boat?
Yes he is
Better than that, he's coming by Amraboat.... I'll get my hat
The way he strikes the ball on some of those longer and medium range lofted passes is really good. You can tell he's a player with the passing technique that will pull that stuff off more often than most. With some players you can just see with the way they connect with the ball, it looks right.
Have we signed him?
Hang on, thought this was a done deal !! Sky saying it’s close but not done
Any time I’ve seen this guy play I’ve been really impressed. He seems made for a big stage like Old Trafford. A really good signing and on a really good deal.
Kroos does the same and has his own technique for it. Love to see his shots along the ground end up perfectly in the corner.
It's done. Just not official with him having travelled over etc.
Never seen him play so look forward to watching him with no preconceptions
What manner of sorcery is this? A midfielder running with the ball!?
Also, it won't be long before he gets a red card
I honestly think him and the big Dane are going to absolutely transform this team.
I think he’s gonna be incredible for us next to Case
As delusional as it seems, I will say it again.
If everything clicks, we will either win the league or achieve 85+ points this season. Only a catastrophic injury crisis will hinder the progress as I said 4 weeks ago. If we manage to achieve 95% clean bill of health on our players we will achieve 85+ points.
We just need to tweak now how we build up, as we have Amrabat and Onana very competent players.
ETH has really tried to solve our main issues with what is available to him.
100% on the managers back now.
Just praying we get a good result tomorrow, it will be enormous in our psychological warfare especially this early in the season.
We are right track, with a few buffering issues.
Really good in world cup.and best player in final against West ham.bar that I've not watch much of him. Hopefully he'll be a good signing and be a cult hero,cause we do love a tough tackler.
What manner of sorcery is this? A midfielder running with the ball!?
Also, it won't be long before he gets a red card
It's a very good argument for him being brought in as rotation for Cas rather than to play alongside him
There might be one of those random stats at the end of the year... "Amrabat and Casemiro were only available at the same time in 18.3% of Manchester United's matches last season."I think he'll be a good. From what Ive seen of him, he's basically Fred, but really good at keeping the ball. My guess is he's being brought in to help us in tougher games (thinking away form in particular) without sacrificing our ability to retain possession in those fixtures.
Very undercooked in term in terms of preseason though, so not expecting him to hit the ground running at all.
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