Not excited about Mazraoui. He’s good technically, but I’m happy enough with Dalot there. I’d rather keep AWB for this season and invest in a left back because we can’t rely on Shaw for a full season.
Transfer Tweets - Manchester United - 2024/25
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Isn't he on cheap wages and will fetch absolutely no transfer fee. Also looked good at the euros. I am fine with him staying.
We do have a history of it to a certain extent.
Are we expecting Mazraoui to be anything over than Dalot’s backup?
He's on 150K and takes up a place in the squad despite being gassed after 60 minutes two years ago. He's past it. What remains is a theoretical player. International tournaments suit him, but the Prem is not the place. Been linked with Anderlecht and Ajax, both of which I think would be good for him. I just hoped he had more ambition to play, than to collect his money for a year without playing.
I think there’s a place for Eriksen in the last 25-30 mins when we are pushing for a goal. He can unlock stubborn low-block defences, deliver good set pieces and is very calm, composed when things get a bit crazy
Yeah he definitely still has a place in the squad in the last third of the game. He's just not going to start which is fine.
It'd be great if he has an Indian summer. A lot of people do forget that our best patch of form over the last decade was with Cas/Bruno/Eriksen in midfield. I think it was 20 games, 17 wins, 3 draws?
The thing is Casemiro was superhuman at the time, so obviously that midfield would need two miraculous resurrections to work again, but maybe stranger things have happened?
I would just love for Eriksen to go out on a high. The guy deserves it.
I want Eriksen to stay for his experience. We are having a lot of turnover throughout the club, and we have so many young players around the squad. A player like Eriksen would be great to have around.
He is very close to Holjund, and he plays the same position as Mainoo, so it would be good for them to learn from him for another 12 months.
Whether it's the last year of his contract or not, acquiring Aaron Wan-Bissaka for £10-15 million is an absolute steal. Remember, he's a specialist in 1v1 situations, and there's literally no one better in world football.
Well he has a contract. Its not exactly the same as refusing to leave.
I don't mind him staying, is not like his sale would bring in any significant amount he can enjoy his final season at United. I'll be more concerned if he was to play a more prominent role.
Agreed. As a backup he's enough.
That's why we should not repeat it. It is embarrassing for us, disrespectful towards the player and it makes the club as a whole look terrible. It won't make us look "tough on divas".
I'm not Antony's biggest fan, but why blame him for signing that contract? It didn't work out for him and us, but there is no reason to treat players like outcasts unless they're asking for it (out of control behaviour, etc.).
I love how this forum is obsessed with “backups” every transfer is seen as a backup whilst simultaneously claiming that our starting 11 is shit and they won’t even make a league 1 side
I just think there are more players in the queue to go before him, he never cost anything so it’s easier to make that assessment, our midfield is seriously weak and in all honesty we currently only have Mainoo, Mount, Bruno are of the required standard to play for the club.
That means we need to remove Casemiro, Hannibal, S McTominay and C Eriksen who are all not currently of the standard and mobility the club needs. Toby Collyer will become the 6th/7th midfielder so we need at least 2 and Eriksen ability to create in the last 20 minutes is more valuable than Casemiro or S McTominay that both offer the club more in potential sales. I’m staggered we have not done A Rabiot on a free and rumoured £160k per wages when he clearly wants to come.
We need a massive upgrade in midfield and at least Rabiot plus Ugarte or Fofana plus Zubimendi or any 2 player combination of those 4 players to be a serious contender for top 4 next season.
City and Arsenal are locked in, Liverpool have the squad and Chelsea with Osimhen is scary, Villa have done the best business off all the top 8 so far and Newcastle have no European football.
IMO Eriksen is the first one out, if anything. All the other players (well maybe not Lindelof, although Lindelof is better when starting a game) have a role in this team. Eriksen doesn't have a role. He cant start as a deep midfielder, he has at least 3-4 players ahead of him in the no 10 position. The biggest reason to let him go, though, is that he is on 150k a week. He is one of the club's top earners and doesn't even have a squad role. He started 11 PL games last season, United lost 5 of them.
Let’s just sign Iniesta then, because Eriksen outside of injury is going to play in zero meaningful games and can’t actually move.
They are all pretty solid players for any PL outside the top 4. The issue is their huge wages which was caused by us having to pay high to get them to come here in the first place!
So on your opinion, we don't need backups ?
I didn’t say that
Think the logic is that last seasons starters should be the backups, and we should be signing players to replace them in starting xi
The logic is - our squad in several positions is paper thin. And Dalot and Shaw (when fit) are good enough - but behind them we have nothing. Nor do we have money to sign players who are better than them - but we have money to sign decent backups.
I agree on the improvement part, we need to improve in the midfield significantly. Casemiro, Scott and Eriksen are somewhat partial players, with huge deficiencies in their game at this stage. If we do get 3 more players in, in De Ligt, Mazraoui and Ugarte, I do see potential rumors for Rabiot as well, we might have half a squad brought in, which will have never played together before, so we are now facing potential Chelsea scenario from last year, where the players were almost all new, and it took them a lot of time to understand each other, and to start implementing philosophy on the pitch. it will take time to get everybody up to speed, a time that Ten Hag might not have.
We won’t move all the players out and right now unless we buy at least 4/5 more players we are fighting for 6th/7th place. The club needs an Elite CB, A decent FB who can play left and right, Two Midfield players and either a wide inverted striker or an established goal scorer like I Toney.
If we had a dream window of selling ; AWB, V Lindelof, J Sancho, S McTominay, Hannibal and F Pellistri for £100m more meaning we would have made player sales for £135m and then bought ; J Zirkzee(36m),
L Yoro(52m), Mazraoui(18m), M De Ligt(38m), Ugarte(loan 7m), A Rabiot(Free), I Toney (50m)
The Total net spend would be about £65m net and the two sides we could field would look more like this;
First 11
A Onana, D Dalot, M De Ligt, L Martinez, L Shaw, Ugarte, Mainoo, Bruno, Amad, Hojlund, Rashford
Alternative 11
A Bayinder, Masraoui, H Maguire, L Yoro, H Amass, Casemiro, A Rabiot, Mount, Zirkzee, Toney, Garnacho
Squad
J Evan’s, T Mallacia, T Collyer, Antony, C Eriksen
This is the type of squad we need to compete over 60-65 matches this season and don’t tell me we don’t need Toney, the club needs goals and Zirkzee is more of an assist king. That midfield is a huge upgrade on the last two seasons, we may even still need another specialist left back or LB/CB hybrid type player.
I really like both those squads to be fair
Never in a month of Sundays are we buying Toney for anything close to 50m
I don’t disagree with you that there is no real role for Eriksen although his experience could be useful for all the young players and he is a level headed, professional, hard training example for them, but if you use stats to make your point use them well. According to sofascore he started 12 games in the PL of which United lost 5 of them. That is a losing percentage of 41,6 percent. Which is pretty in line with the whole season, and so also in line with a lot of other players in the squad, where United lost 14 of 38 PL games, which is a losing percentage of 36,8 percent. Those losing percentages are really bad for Eriksen but it was bad for everyone in the squad last season.
Still ruining people's dreams GB, you monster.
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Oh yeah I agree with that
But it’s fun
Oh I know!Nope however we are looking for another striker other wise, the club would not be linked with DCL, Maximilian Beier and Ivan Toney. If Sancho goes someone else is coming in?
Signing Toney is a personal nightmare of mine
Signing a striker is the last thing we should be thinking about now. In order of priority, we should be looking at:
CB
Full Back
DM
CM
RW
CB
Full Back
DM
CM
RW
Our starting 11 definitely isn't shit. Personally think it's the 3rd best in the league after City and Arsenal. The problem is we basically never get to see our best 11 due to injuries. Our squad depth is among the worst in the top 10.
I don’t get our fans obsession with him. I
Don’t see it