Ugarte alone doesn‘t fix all our midfield issues, we need Eriksen replaced.
Where? Nowhere i've seen has reported this.
True . But Rome wasn't built in a day. That was a solid Transfer window
When and where does Eriksen play?
Midfield, whenever he is needed. He is our only outright passing midfielder, but physically not up to playing in the PL anymore.
Even if we get a 8-10M loan fee, that will just towards covering Sancho's wages(and still wont cover it fully).
No, I've mentioned it on the Chelsea season thread but no-one else seems to think it an issue.
I find both of these comments odd. From the little I've seen and what I've read of Ugarte, he sounds nothing like Carrick or Keane. It's very simplistic to look at Keane as midfield destroyer just because he was all action and liked a tackle. He was a lot more than that. Carrick was literally a deep lying playmaker, which doesn't sound anything like Ugarte?
The idiots will never learn.
My original comment was because he's the new number 16 and his first name started with M. I was referring to the M16 part of the tweet. I don't actually think he plays anything like Carrick
Amad is #16
Exactly. Keane was a complete all-rounder and Carrick was a playmaker. Ugarte is a pure destroyer, a type of midfielder we haven't really seen often at United. Fergie considered such midfielders too limited.
Djemba Djemba and Alan Smith? Hargreaves was mostly a destroyer when he was in midfield too.
Butt had really good technique, I'd put him in the all-rounder category too.
Hargreaves is a good shout yeah, I still forget that he played for United sometimes.
It's name doesn't help. "Muppetiers." Very easy to sneer at though its very clear he has genuine sources at this point.
Only Rabiot comes to mind
I think the polite way to say it is "earning the right to play."
After the news about his crisis of confidence because MUTV mildly questioned him signing 2 years ago, and then having to deal with his mum as well, I think it’s best we stay well away tbh
If we wanted him, we would’ve got him already. Pretty clear we aren’t interested.
I care.Nobody cares about Alan Smith
Are there any other free agents of similar profile? We would need a good all-rounder for central midfield
I would accept EtH reluctance about selling McTominay but the story that he didn't want Ugarte is obviously bogus one, because now we a have an actual football structure that is doing what its normally supposed to do, which is identify targets and convince the manager why the club should sign said player, EtH has no reason to not want Ugarte but it's fair to say that he might've needed convincing which is normal, Klopp needed convincing about signing Salah, he wanted Brandt but the club signed Salah instead.
So Rabiot is pretty much the only decent option available
