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A few days old but still
Fair enough really, it's a bit patronising.
Hugely. Who is he to verify another journo's info on West Ham and Chelsea? Especially Matt Law, who has good links.
Current contract expires in summer 2022 so this could be another value signing like Telles if he doesn't renew within the next 4 months. Fiorentina rejected a significant offer last summer from a PL club.
We need to sign someone who will genuinely replace one of our starting CB and has all the right attributes to come into a team to challenge for major trophies, a value type signing like Telles (who has proved to be a useful squad player thus far) shouldn't be our priority in this pressing position / problem in the team.
The trouble is we shouldn't have to be choosing out of CB/CDM when we badly need to sign both
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what is there to “consider” exactly? It’s blatantly fecking obvious we need a new CB. That being said I shouldn’t be shocked if we don’t sign one seeing as we’re still to fill the gaping hole on the right wing which has been there for the last 8-9 years.
Don't worry about that word in the Tweet. The article itself mentions that United are ready to spend big on a CB or a forward depending on who's available and United's situation at the end of the season. Basically, expect us to go beyond "considering" going after a CB this summer.
Chelsea get what they pay for. I do wonder what their budget will be like for next season given that Abramovich has been putting in ~250 million Pounds or more every summer for the past few summers. Maybe the Hazard money would somewhat reduce that, but it'd still be a large sum out of his pocket.
Well that’s a bit more reassuring then. I probably should’ve read the article but there’s so many tweets in this thread I tend to just glance at the headlines..
Think that's the plan I guess. Lose Pogba on a free and sign this guy on a free. Probably make sense as well. Or both will go around same money.
Considering our limited budget, we either have to go for lesser-known (maybe lesser-quality) targets in order to improve lower-priority gaps as well, or we focus on the biggest issues and spend bigger money on them. It depends on the situation, overall. From what I'm aware of (off the top of my head), there aren't too many potentially good deals around, so we may have to spend big.
Ah, I was looking for the original source. If it's from Delaney, then yeah, it's not something to take seriously.
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Yeah my biggest fear is that we will have to go for lesser quality targets due to the budget restrictions
And if that's the case, then I'd prefer that we stick with what we have if the lesser-quality targets don't offer much improvement.
A centreback and a right winger will be good for the summer. Kanote/Upamaceno and Sancho will be grand
Matic and Fred will be fine i think. Can’t be fixing every position in one summer when money is tight
I think DM is more important than RW, even though RW has been neglected.
Matic legs have gone and Fred isn’t a proper DM. It leaves us having to field Fred and McTominay to make up for not having a single top level DM.
The defence would improve and the players in front would improve also. No one position would have a bigger positive effect than DM in my opinion.
I don't think there's any top team around that currently fields or can field a single top-tier DM and still be defensively solid. United would still need Pogba to be better defensively, and a sole DM can't make up for his deficiencies. Even City don't play with two AMs anymore (when Kevin de Bruyne would play in the midfield, he'd defend deeper and play more of a CM role).
If we play with just one defensively reliable midfielder, expect us to concede a few chances every match.
I wasn’t asking for a single DM formation, I’d partner Pogba with this new signing. But it needs to be a top level DM.
Pogba has shown recently he can play that position to a higher level than he’s shown for much of his time here.
Much in the same way we tend to see the better side of Pogba for France.
Right now with Pogba out injured (and potentially moving on soon) our only proper DM is an ancient Matic, who cannot be relied upon.
When Matic is awful or out injured we are forced to play two decent but limited players in Fred and Scott.
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I got you, but my point still stands: Pogba isn't defensively capable enough to keep us solid with one top DM. Real Madrid is a good example of this. They have two midfielders who aren't defensively reliable in Modric and Kroos who typically play with Casemiro, yet Real Madrid still concede several chances. They look better with Valverde in the team along with Casemiro as he not only covers more ground, defensively, but also has better defensive awareness.
If we had someone like Kanté or Casemiro alongside Pogba, we'll see a bit of improvement, but I don't think that it'll be enough. Instead of Pogba, we'll need someone like Barella or Goretzka i.e. someone who can defend just fine but also be a big attacking threat.
Agreed. We can make do without a DM if we sort out the CB and RW. Those are the priority positions.
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