Thomas Lemar| Staying at Monaco

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Lemar is a top class footballer.. but like Griezmann, I am confused as to where he would fit in.

He's a left sided midfielder, like a Beckham/Pires wide midfielder type, not an out and out wideman and never seen him play on the right wing either.

Not sure where this signing takes us tactically.
 
I'd take Lemar. Not as good as Perisic, but younger. I'd even suggest that we could let them loan Martial for a season, get his confidence back up and give them breathing space to find a replacement.
 
Von Mistelroum said:
I'd take Lemar. Not as good as Perisic, but younger. I'd even suggest that we could let them loan Martial for a season, get his confidence back up and give them breathing space to find a replacement.
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I don't think swapping Martial for Lemar would be beneficial to us, even just for one season. He wouldn't solve any of the problems that we are trying to address, whilst losing a very decent attacking player in the process.
 
Von Mistelroum said:
I'd take Lemar. Not as good as Perisic, but younger. I'd even suggest that we could let them loan Martial for a season, get his confidence back up and give them breathing space to find a replacement.
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How would that improve us? Martial is better than Lamar!
 
Lemar is class we'd be daft not to sign him if we could.

He can play in midfield in a 433, or out wide in the 4231.

It'd mean less games for Lingard in the 4231, but honestly, that's a good thing.
 
Depth:

Striker: Lukaku / Rashford / Martial
Left: Lemar / Martial / Rashford / Lingard
10: Miki / Mata / Lemar / Lingard
Right: Mata / Miki / Rashford / Lemar / Lingard

Basically it pushes Lingard down to 4th choice. Bring it on.
 
Bwuk said:
Lemar is class we'd be daft not to sign him if we could.

He can play in midfield in a 433, or out wide in the 4231.

It'd mean less games for Lingard in the 4231, but honestly, that's a good thing.
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I'd be happy for us to sign him, but I'd rather keep Martial if it meant he'd be going elsewhere.

It could take Lemar months to adapt to a much harder league.
 
Like I said, he would be great addition. But not at the expense of Martial of course. We need the pace, dribbling and goal threat that Martial offers.
 
WoodysWallet said:
I'd be happy for us to sign him, but I'd rather keep Martial if it meant he'd be going elsewhere.

It could take Lemar months to adapt to a much harder league.
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We'd have Lemar, Mata, Mkhi, Rashford and Martial competing for the 3 behind the striker in the 4-2-3-1. It's the likes of Lingard who'd lose minutes to Lemar.
 
Bwuk said:
We'd have Lemar, Mata, Mkhi, Rashford and Martial competing for the 3 behind the striker in the 4-2-3-1. It's the likes of Lingard who'd lose minutes to Lemar.
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If that would be the case, then I'm all for it. Although I'm not sure if it would improve the aspects of our game that are in need of improvement.

I was thinking more along the lines of a new Lb or an out and out Lw.
 
reddevil702 said:
How would that improve us? Martial is better than Lamar!
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If we sign Lemar, it's not for the bench. Mourinho clearly thinks we need a proper winger who can cross on the left. He'll play over Martial, who could still develop his game at Monaco
 
beingshe7don said:
He's one footed and is 5'7... Not too sure about him. Rather not deal with Monaco who are not interested in selling and this may drive up the price. I would consider Draxler... 6'2 and he's equally good with both feet and more importantly, PSG are looking to get rid of him which means he won't be too cheap. He would be a much better acquisition than Perisic.
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Where does this crap come from, might as well say we are signing Messi and then us all post how he'd fit in. Jose probably said he's a good player which somehow translates into we are signing him......
 
Raees said:
Lemar is a top class footballer.. but like Griezmann, I am confused as to where he would fit in.

He's a left sided midfielder, like a Beckham/Pires wide midfielder type, not an out and out wideman and never seen him play on the right wing either.

Not sure where this signing takes us tactically.
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He didn't play on the right because a player like Bernardo Silva basically has to play on his opposite side to be effective. There's no reason to think he wouldn't be effective on the right and he'd give us a 2-way option on the left side when we want to play 4-2-3-1.

I think Lemar could fit real well for us in the 3-4 formations we might conceivably play.

Also, another quality player would help. We really can't start Fellaini (except to do a specific job in about 5-10 games a season) or Lingard and not suffer from it.

We would have no need for Lingard, who should be sold to a mid-table Prem side to recoup a third or so of the Lemar fee, I would guess.

Lukaku, Rashford, Lemar, Mkhitaryan, Mata, Martial is 6 quality attackers for 3-4 spots. If we assume about a 2-1 ratio of 4-2-3-1 to 4-3-3 starts that's roughly 209 starts, so 35 each, which is about right considering there will be injuries and suspensions and of course bench time.

Pogba, Matic and Herrera is 3 quality midfielders for 2-3 spots, then Fellaini doing his thing a bit and Pereira and Carrick off the bench.


The Jose at Madrid 4-2-3-1:
--------------------Lukaku/Rashford--------------------
Martial/Rashford---Mkhitaryan/Mata---Lemar/Mata
------------Pogba/Herrera---Matic/Herrera------------

The Monaco:
------------Lukaku/Rashford--Rashford/Martial--
Lemar/Martial--Pogba/Herrera---Matic/Herrera--Mkhitaryan/Mata

The Jose at Chelsea, original version:

--------------------Lukaku/Rashford---------------
Martial/Rashford----------------------Lemar/Mkhitaryan
----------Pogba/Fellaini------Herrera/Pereira----
----------------------Matic/Carrick-----------------
 
Damien said:
Mendes isn't his agent according to this, but Mendes does have an association with us/Monaco and was an intermediary in us getting Martial from them.
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Mendes left Monaco with Campos.
 
I am wary of signing Monaco players tbh. Most of their players flatter to decieve because the team is a well oiled machine and firing on all cylinders.
 
Z_Wolf said:
I am wary of signing Monaco players tbh. Most of their players flatter to decieve because the team is a well oiled machine and firing on all cylinders.
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Brave call considering that well oiled machine only really started firing on all cylinders last year and has only started to "break up" this summer.
 
Z_Wolf said:
I am wary of signing Monaco players tbh. Most of their players flatter to decieve because the team is a well oiled machine and firing on all cylinders.
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Who's flattered to deceive? The key players they've sold so far have played a combined total of 7 minutes at their new clubs...
 
I'd be really happy if we got him

Only 21 so Another talented young frenchie to add to our growing collection
 
We need another journalist or some reports from France getting in on this, come on make it happen.
 
Z_Wolf said:
@DannyCAFC @Nick7 Falcao couldn't cut it in the PL. Also, the likes of Silva look completely different players for their national teams.
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Falcao did his knee in January and joined Uinted in August, he also rushed his comeback because of the World Cup.
 
I think he'll be a very good addition and still young so has also plenty of time to improve, but the only one linking us to him now is Castles so better wait for more trustful sources first.
 
Would be a good signing, but don't expect him to be our winger long term.
 
Von Mistelroum said:
I'd take Lemar. Not as good as Perisic, but younger. I'd even suggest that we could let them loan Martial for a season, get his confidence back up and give them breathing space to find a replacement.
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He's easily better than Perisic.
 
bucky said:
He's easily better than Perisic.
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Different player's, Perisic is a touch line hugging winger.

Lemar played out of position last season in a wide position. Mendy was overlapping which helped create space for Lemar and he cuts in alot due to him being a attacking midfielder.
 
Adnan said:
Different player's, Perisic is a touch line hugging winger.

Lemar played out of position last season in a wide position. Mendy was overlapping which helped create space for Lemar and he cuts in alot due to him being a attacking midfielder.
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Don't really care. Lemar is better at almost everything except aerial duels.
 
Any credible links? His wiki page says he is capable of playing on both wings. We don't have a proper RW you know :wenger:
 
bucky said:
Don't really care. Lemar is better at almost everything except aerial duels.
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Lemar is better centrally for sure, but I wouldn't put him ahead of Perisic in a Mourinho team on the wing.
 
He's still more of a left winger or a number 10 more than her is a right winger. If our main options down the left are Martial and Rashford and our main options down the right are Mkhitaryan or Mata, clearly we have the more pacy dribblers down the left and the number 10's down the right. The right side is generally more narrow and less pacy. That's where we could do with signing someone for me. We should be looking at the likes of Pulisic, Lucas Moura, Mahrez or Gelson martins rather than Lemar, Perisic or Draxler. In fact, signing Draxler would be just like having Mata or Mkhitaryan out on the left as well as on the right, which for me is the opposite of what we want. Lemar is at least better suited to playing out wide, but not down the right.
 
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