Thing is that Otamendi would most likely take Rojo's spot in the first XI.
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They'll play together enough times to be happy with our injury record.
Well it really shouldn't. It's nowhere near as big a loss.
Yeah just get it over with. And no, I won't wish him well
Although if Real are offering 'insulting' money, I'd just as soon keep him around for the last year of his contract (it's not like we're dependent on money coming in before making any transfers.)
Rojo seems to be a backup left back if all our players are fit. Jones and Smalling seem to be the first choice.
No, lets accept he's made errors on plenty of players as well as been right on plenty and just give opinions on each potential buy as they come, as opposed nodding in agreement to every possible signing.
That depends on how he’s replaced. While Ronaldo was undoubtedly a massive loss, he was one of multiple players we would use in attack. Hell, despite him being our most prolific player at that point, we actually managed to score more goals in 2009/10 than the year before. Granted, we still missed him massively, but it’s not always too difficult to cover for the loss of a quality player in attack if the entire team is playing well, and if other players (like Rooney that season) significantly improve their game.
With a GK, you’ve obviously only got one, so if you lose a brilliant one and fail to replace him properly, then you’ve potentially got a massive problem on your hands. De Gea was often bailing out our defence and producing incredible performances this season; someone else who’s not on his level will provide an obvious difference in quality, unless a defence can cover him.
Nah...LVG is my clubs manager I will back him but thats just me.
No one’s saying you shouldn’t back him, to be fair. Just that you’re allowed to make signings he makes with a critical mindset. Which is fair enough. Refusing to criticise a manager’s decisions in any way whatsoever is like refusing to criticise any errors a player makes on the pitch, purely because you know you wouldn’t be as good as them. Yeah, you’re expected to support the team obviously, but that doesn’t mean they’re immune to genuine criticism if they make mistakes.
I'm a Manchester United fan, I'll not blindly follow any manager, they don't always know best and I care more about the club than whether their ego is stroked.
Hope so, about damn time they came after one of City's players
Aguero, Verratti and De Gea. feck me, it must be great to be a Real fan.
All very true, but I expect our improved defence will reduce the need for the keeper to bail us out so often.
Would free up Benzema to come here.
Perfect double blow, weaken City and improve ourselves
Perfect double blow, weaken City and improve ourselves
I doubt it will happen. Aguero signed a new contract just last summer. It will be difficult to bully City in that situation.
Not when you have to compete with Barca every year!
There must come a stage where you become desensitised to it all. I was reading another forum and they were discussing replacements for Ronaldo and. Modric and were throwing around names like Aguero, Pogba and Hazard as if they were any other player. It was in the same vein as us discussing signing Clyne or Ings.
As spoiled as they are, they're missing out on that excitement of that signing that could carry the side forward. They expect to sign Pogba but this place would explode if we managed to resign him. It's like playing FIFA or something with a cheat code on
Wasn't that many years ago
No it wouldn't be
I was only 15 back then. I'd just started to properly follow football.
They have a track record of big name signings (and a lot of them dont live up to it because of it). If we bought players of the name value of Ronaldo, Kaka, Benzama, Bale etc over the last 6 years we'd be the same way. We're in the piss rain of Manchester, sadly. It must be the perfect life playing for a giant club on hundreds of thousands a week and waking up to the sun every day. Shame all footballers cant be ginger with bad skin like Scholesy.
Fair enough. I still think Ronaldo was a bigger loss.
Is Otamendi left footed? Van Gaal prefers to have a left and right footed centreback. I think its one of the reasons why he bought Rojo.
Good point!
Ronaldo would still be a bigger loss. DDG is world class but there are great keepers to be had still. Ronaldo and Messi are an anomaly two "once in a lifetime" players that came along at the same time.
Does that mean they're selling one of Ronaldo, Bale and Benzema?
Benzema and possibly Ronaldo both going.
Surely if Ronaldo goes we have to be front runner.
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Don't see LVG going after him. Woody might want him but after the Falcao flop, I think he might be more gunshy.
I think Ronaldo will go to PSG for the money. He has to see that he simply can't compete with Messi or Barca and look for a final big contract.
Nope, right-footed.
You started following football at 15?! I went to OT when i was 4!
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