We don’t have an U21 cbs who are good enough to step up or looks they will go on to become better than Maguire or Lindelöf.
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We don’t have an U21 cbs who are good enough to step up or looks they will go on to become better than Maguire or Lindelöf.
Erm ... Good passing in depth then.
It was forest
Right you are.
I really do not think we can say anyone was good in that shitshow last season but I agree he was not too bad in the season we finished second but I think that may have been more to do with his defensive partner and that would be my answer to the question you pose;
https://www.sportskeeda.com/footbal...r-league-season-2020-21-shaw-alexander-arnold
When is his contract renewal?
Again, the point is that even though you always cred everybody else, if he was such a weak link in the team, we would t have got those result. If he was starter for the second best team in the PL two years ago, and has developed since imo, he’s good enough as 3/4th choice.
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I will agree he is ok for 4th and 5th when it comes to the LCB position.
Man Utd 3:1 Reading
Honestly dont know wtf he was doing for their goal.
We have seen him defend like that over and over and over. Its not going to change.
Actually, I wasn't that irritated by his defensive performance. He didn't have a lot to do and, what little he had to do, he mostly did alright. However, the slow speed at which he moves the ball out of defence drove me crazy. Same with Maguire.
You can see how he and Maguire will be casualties of the Ten Hag era. When you've got Licha or Shaw at left centre back finding Rashford's runs over and over, its horrible to default to seeing our other centre backs take 10 touches, ignore the runs in behind and then call frantically for someone to come short.
Him and Maguire were both basically fine I thought.
It's just when you are able to watch Varane and Martinez for the best part of 6 months, it's such a notable step down in quality when it goes back to Maguire and Lindelof.
It's just when you are able to watch Varane and Martinez for the best part of 6 months, it's such a notable step down in quality when it goes back to Maguire and Lindelof.
Thought Reading were targeting him in physical duels and I thought he was never found wanting. Went for everything and came out winning most of the time, if not all of it.
Yeah, Carroll tried to clatter him a good few times on headers etc and he just stood firm and competed.
Handled it well, I thought.
Yeah, I was always expecting him to cower, but he stood up to it all. Great to see.
Did he take one down his achilles right at the end from Long? Was limping to the final whistle.
It’s a chasm in difference. Championship team with 10 men when Carroll went off still manage to score from a basic corner
Someone stamped on his foot. His boot was hanging off. I think the limp was more due to the boot than any injury.
Had no problems with defending tonight.
You are confusing him with someone else? The goal was far away from him, not sure how he could have reached that.
We should sack Casemiro and the others.
Which De Gea should come for but doing his Dracula impersonation as usual
Which is what I guess many who like Lindelöf dreamed of. He is a good CB, and now we have two brilliant CBs ahead of him.
Lindelof is a comfortably better central defender than McTominay is a central midfielder. He's not good enough as a starter, but it'd be difficult (not impossible but difficult) to have a better squad defender who is happy with that role. Whereas it'd be very easy to improve on Scott.
Of course, that's on the presumption that Lindelof is happy to stick around as a squad player.
Watching Lindelof and Maguire together after Varane and Martinez really makes it stand out just how long they dally with the fecker.
Varane, in particular, moves it on almost immediately. These two slow it down so much.
Varane, in particular, moves it on almost immediately. These two slow it down so much.
Apparently Inter are interested in him to replace Skriniar, that's after Atletico wanted him too earlier in the window. I also remember Barcelona being interested a few years ago. He's a good player, won't bully forwards but very good at reading the game and good in possession. He's not world class but he's a very solid player. Clearly not as bad as some posters here say he is.
Good news. We might have some taker that want to give us money to move him on.
Internazionale can feck right off
I wouldn't sell him. He's decent cover for Varane and Martinez.
Cover for us or likely a first teamer for Inter.
28 years old now in his prime years, I think he needs to be a regular first player.
28 years old now in his prime years, I think he needs to be a regular first player.
Someone to cover Varane should be a young centre back to replace Varane in the future. If we can sell both Lindelof and Maguire, we can use the fees to get a new good young centre back with lot of potential.
Sell him and get as much from them as we can.
Woohooo!
Internazionale won’t offer very decent money. How much would you lot say he’s worth? Do you think you could get the 35 you paid?
I think in the modern day you'd want close to what we paid for him.
Italian clubs are cheap bastards though so they'll probably offer us 6m paid over 12 years.
I would still be happy to get £20m-£25m. Let’s say if we can get those money for each Lindelof and Maguire, that will give us £40m-£45m. More than enough to sign a new young centre back.
Not a priority to sell Lindelöf, he provides decent cover at CB. However if Inter are willing to pay around 20-25m those money can be used at a CM in this window (urgent CM-need if Eriksen is out for a longer period).
I seriously doubt this will happen even though United are in need of money. I can see how ETH would like to keep him and if needing to sell a CB, that would be Maguire who doesn’t really fit the way we are set up now. The money Italian clubs pay will never be enough for United to get someone at the same level.
Varane is injury prone and given that it'd be a very bad idea to sell both Lindelof and Maguire. I'd much rather have Lindelof here
People seem to think we cannot win matches unless Varane-Martinez start however it is not true. Last time we won a game with Varane - Martinez is more than 100 days ago (19 games ago). It shows that we are dependent on having many options.
Swap like for like with Skriniar but plus a few mill because he isn't out of contract? Wouldn't hate it. 6 months for Skriniar to adapt before we try to offload Maguire in the summer...
The fact Varane is injury prone means we need better CB than Lindelof. It's just sensinble and no brainer to sell both to buy a young centre back as long term replacement of Varane. Both Maguire and Lindelof have no future, cash in when the opportunity arises.- Status