So far Mourinho has been 100% accurate about our transfers. No journalist or twitter ITK even comes close. When he starts getting things wrong I will stop believing him.
Thomas Lemar| Staying at Monaco
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So far Mourinho has been 100% accurate about our transfers. No journalist or twitter ITK even comes close. When he starts getting things wrong I will stop believing him.
Again with the resale value brigade. I genuinely don't know why people bring this up when talking about a youngster.
Lemar or Draxeler, I don't mind. I just want a new wide player.
Wait, he's only 21?
No brainer if at all possible.
No brainer if at all possible.
60 million Euros, if that's the price, is quite cheap for a young player who scored and assisted in double figures. Bargain, should be all over this.
First time Bald Dunc is reporting something positive about us this summer.
First time Bald Dunc is reporting something positive about us this summer.
How tall is he, if he is anything less than 6' 2" he wont pass our medical?
Poor old Monaco. Oh well, it's about time we got in on the exodus.
Excellent crosser/set piece taker, which would come in handy for a team full of giants.
Oh please make this happen.
I know, we're Man Utd not Southampton for god sake. I blame Football Manager.
Let's hope this gathers a bit of momentum and becomes a thing.
5' 6" apparently.
I thought Mourinho was looking for a winger rather than another player who prefers to drift inside.
2 years ago we signed a highly gifted young left-winger from Monaco, and now we want the upgrade? Is this guy sufficiently different to Martial that we could use them both, or would this be the end of Martial? Those who know French football hit me up - I know bugger all about it.
I hope we sign him with the amount of height in our team we dont threaten more on set pieces with Lemar in the side atleast we will be dangerous
Don't see this happening. Think we'll be buying a LB, if anyone at all.
I don't really believe we are in for him tbh. Not a natural winger, doesn't like to stay wide and I don't think hed be much better than what we have.
Lemar can play on either wings and his preferred position is as an attacking midfielder.
Can he play on the right?
Firstly, the natural wingers breed is dying. No wonder our best chance of landing a natural winger was Perisic.
He is pretty good out wide and has a decent cross on him. More importantly, he is very good through the centre too. Except Mikhitaryan, no one has shone there for us the last couple of seasons.
Considering his versatality and age, I would take him without a second thought.
But why even use that as a parameter. If you were to word your post and say that Perisic is a short term signing and Lemar isn't, it would have made sense imo. But to make resale value one of your key parameters to compare the two doesn't make sense for a club like ours. We never buy players with that in mind. Not a single one.
Similar to Mikhtaryan then? Why would we want another?
Cheers mate. So not necessarily the end of Martial, but could threaten his gametime, along with that of Mata and Mkhi?
Martial was not a left winger at Monaco.
Last time he did was two seasons ago. Been purely on the left since. If signed, I'm pretty sure he'll be exclusively on the left.
Or maybe Castles is talking baloney. But I'd still take him due to his undoubted qualities. Not a winger though in the traditional sense. Would be wasted out wide.
He's more of a playmaker.
From memory he used to drift into the wide left position a lot at Monaco. And we have predominently played him on the left wing.
No Martial replacements please. And Lemar is a fab player, although the type of player to excel in a functioning system. He's less an 'individual' than some I've seen mentioned for the wide areas.
I would have thought that it was obvious. Perisic's age makes it apparent it would be a short term signing.
I wish we could ban the the whole re-sale value stuff.
Not the out and out winger we need, see the tweet from Coast about him cutting inside.
We have Martial and Rashford to do that. We need some variation.
We have Martial and Rashford to do that. We need some variation.
We dont need another number 10, and we don't need another winger who naturally drifts infield. We have enough of both.
It's quite clear what profile a winger our manager wants and I struggle believe Lemar fits that type.
Lemar helped a lot Pogba against England. He has a great vision and a great engine.
But he isn't a true winger, more like a Pires than a Giggs.
But he isn't a true winger, more like a Pires than a Giggs.
He's different. Sole reason I watched Monaco last season was for Lemar then obviously the emergence of Mbappe happened.
For me if we wanted a left footed winger type then it should always have been him, decent workrate so could maybe also do a job as WB. Can also play through the centre and on the right.
He and Martial are different, also Martial was a striker who on occasion played on the left for Monaco much like Mbappe did. I guess it comes down to how you view Martial but I'd rather have him as a striker who drifts wide than the opposite.
Lemar would be a tremendous addition to our squad but I just don't think we have any real intrest.
I'm not sure who he is exactly but I'd be pissed if we don't sign him.
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