[Xeque_279]

Shit penalty. Hope the Maguire injury doesn't mean that he starts. Rather see Heaven play, this guy won't be here next season.

 

[Carl]

Hasn't he been injured the last few windows, thus scuppering any opportunity to try and sell him.

 

[Yagami]

The most surprising thing is that it was José who signed him. Defenders were supposed to be his thing.

 

[Foolsgold21]

No offence to him, but the fact he’s still at United in 2025 sums it up.

Bored of seeing his face after the latest chucklebrother effort.

All the best, Victor

 

[Kostov]

The moment he came on, was the moment that you started seeing CB backing of on every single occasion, up till the goal line. Only on one occasion he demonstrated a bit of ball when Jimenez previously hit him and he set up on a revenge tackle. Complete pussy, always was, always will.

 

[pascell]

Shit penalty. Hope the Maguire injury doesn't mean that he starts. Rather see Heaven play, this guy won't be here next season.

Personally I'd go with Yoro-Casemiro-de Ligt.

Casemiro allows us to bring the ball out from the back and has a good passing range, also helps he's strong in the air as well.

 

[Lay]

The most surprising thing is that it was José who signed him. Defenders were supposed to be his thing.

Jose buried hima couple of years ago too when doing punditry. Saying that Lindelof hates heading the ball.

 

[Xeque_279]

Personally I'd go with Yoro-Casemiro-de Ligt.

Casemiro allows us to bring the ball out from the back and has a good passing range, also helps he's strong in the air as well.

Zero recovery pace though and goes to ground more often than not.

 

[Olecurls99]

He'll go on to have a good stint somewhere else for the end of his career.

Maybe join Dave at Fiorentina.

 

[Yagami]

Jose buried hima couple of years ago too when doing punditry. Saying that Lindelof hates heading the ball.

It's funny that he wanted to replace Blind straight away (who had just formed our best CB partnership with Smalling the season before José joined, and was probably our MOTM in the Europa League final just before Lindelof joined) and brought in someone worse on the ball, physically weaker and non-existent in aerial duels.

 

[Borussia Teeth]

Yeah we’ve got to get away from this. I read something around the time when INEOS took over that players would get a couple of years and if they’re not up to it they’ll be shipped out. Let’s see if they back that up.

Lots of posters have referenced this Berrada quote but we can't just force players out. Contracted players have the right to stay. We can't magically generate interest from other clubs either, and if there is genuine interest, it's doubtful the interested clubs will match the wages we're paying.

Ineos will struggle to clean up the old regime's mess.

 

[RuudTom83]

My memory isn't great but I think Victor has been a bit unlucky as whenever the transfer window opens he seems to be always be injured or recovering from injury.

Hard to generate much interest in a player who hasn't kicked a ball for months and will be available for nothing come the summer 2025.

 

[Bwuk]

My memory isn't great but I think Victor has been a bit unlucky as whenever the transfer window opens he seems to be always be injured or recovering from injury.

Hard to generate much interest in a player who hasn't kicked a ball for months and will be available for nothing come the summer 2025.

Funny that. Almost like he’s avoiding a move…

 

[ThanksBoss26]

Lots of posters have referenced this Berrada quote but we can't just force players out. Contracted players have the right to stay. We can't magically generate interest from other clubs either, and if there is genuine interest, it's doubtful the interested clubs will match the wages we're paying.

Ineos will struggle to clean up the old regime's mess.

Yep very true.

 

[GL21]

Lots of posters have referenced this Berrada quote but we can't just force players out. Contracted players have the right to stay. We can't magically generate interest from other clubs either, and if there is genuine interest, it's doubtful the interested clubs will match the wages we're paying.

Ineos will struggle to clean up the old regime's mess.

yea 100% a right to stay, but who in the right mind would. people say it's a short career to make money etc but if it was me there's no doubt I'd be thinking it's a short career to make memories. any player with pride would be looking to see out their twilight years actually playing good football. Any footballing person? maybe anyone thinks otherwise loves money more than the game. sure Victor, casemiro and Co have easily made enough to last a lifetime. and that's not getting into the moral obligation for the club. It's the epitome of modern football and it's sickening

 

[NicolaSacco]

yea 100% a right to stay, but who in the right mind would. people say it's a short career to make money etc but if it was me there's no doubt I'd be thinking it's a short career to make memories. any player with pride would be looking to see out their twilight years actually playing good football. Any footballing person? maybe anyone thinks otherwise loves money more than the game. sure Victor, casemiro and Co have easily made enough to last a lifetime. and that's not getting into the moral obligation for the club. It's the epitome of modern football and it's sickening

You can say that there is 'no doubt', but you are guessing. No one knows what they would do.

 

[MadDogg]

Funny that. Almost like he’s avoiding a move…

The easier way to avoid a move is to just refuse signing for another club. Let his agent tell any club who makes contact that he's not interested.

Lindelof has simply become a bit injury prone over the last two seasons. He's missed significantly more time in the last 18 months than he did in the six full seasons before that. Hell, while we don't know if they were true, there were quite a lot of rumours towards the end of last season that Lindelof was looking to leave to get more gametime.

 

[Red_toad]

yea 100% a right to stay, but who in the right mind would. people say it's a short career to make money etc but if it was me there's no doubt I'd be thinking it's a short career to make memories. any player with pride would be looking to see out their twilight years actually playing good football. Any footballing person? maybe anyone thinks otherwise loves money more than the game. sure Victor, casemiro and Co have easily made enough to last a lifetime. and that's not getting into the moral obligation for the club. It's the epitome of modern football and it's sickening

Casemiro is supposed to have a net worth of around 100 million, why on earth is he happy to settle for life on the bench? just doesn’t make sense.

 

[A-man]

yea 100% a right to stay, but who in the right mind would. people say it's a short career to make money etc but if it was me there's no doubt I'd be thinking it's a short career to make memories. any player with pride would be looking to see out their twilight years actually playing good football. Any footballing person? maybe anyone thinks otherwise loves money more than the game. sure Victor, casemiro and Co have easily made enough to last a lifetime. and that's not getting into the moral obligation for the club. It's the epitome of modern football and it's sickening

I think most elite footballers are too competitive to just give up because they don't get the game time they want. Otherwise everybody except 15 players would leave.

You talk about a short career and wanting to create memories, but if you look in the past: last season was the only one where Lindelof had little game time (that included 100+ days of injury). Before that, he has been one of the players with most matches for several seasons. His average is 37 games / season over his time here (this season excluded). Most of them are full 90 minutes.

Season	Matches for club (league and cups)	Minutes
23/24	28​	1960​
22/23	35​	2511​
21/22	35​	2960​
20/21	45​	4029​
19/20	47​	4108​
18/19	40​	3502​
17/18	29​	2364​
Total	259​	21434​

 

[FrankDrebin]

A true survivor.

 

[Oranges038]

Funny that. Almost like he’s avoiding a move…

Just like Neymar and his sisters birthday injuries.

Very unfortunate timing.