davidmichael
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Need that qatari oil
Qatar is gas mate, not oil.
Need that qatari oil
Qatar is gas mate, not oil.
He is the chosen one... Please
Can see Napoli holding out for a Neymar esque figure if he keeps doing this and they reach the semis or final.
Was flip flopping between the two for a while. Ignoring age, I think Kane would be more of an instant guarantee and would suit Rashford perfectly. Osimhen i think could lower Rashfords ceiling a tad, but ultimately the more I think about it, I think that it would serve us better on average to have someone else with that pace and power in behind so we don't rely on just 1 player like we do now with Rashford. If we get Kane and Rashford goes down, then we are extremely slow in attack with nobody capable of running in behind.Didn’t you want Kane over him just a few weeks ago?
Can see Napoli holding out for a Neymar esque figure if he keeps doing this and they reach the semis or final.
For beating FrankfurtAdded another 20m to his price tag tonight. I doubt that we can afford him unless we spend 80% of our budget on him.
And I thought a 5yr contract was being generousWould love him but feels like we just don’t win transfer races. Can see chelsea being all over him. The only saving grace is chelsea can no longer offer 45 year contracts to players and also don’t have champions league football to offer.
Tbf to Rashford and Antony I would suspect that to a large degree the lack of crosses is an active and very changeable choice on the manager's part.
This season we've averaged fewer crosses per game than we have in any of the previous six seasons, beyond which fbref doesn't have stats for crosses. And also just 60% of the crosses Ajax averaged per game in ETH's last season there.
And on an individual level Bruno has put in the lowest rate of crosses in his recorded career thus far, ditto Rashford, ditto Antony, Dalot the fewest since he joined United and Shaw half the crosses that he did in previous two seasons. Etc etc.
Which makes sense given one of the main issues in our attack this season has been the lack of that classic centre-forward threat in the box. Our main goal threat is Rashford, not that sort of player in the slightest. Neither is Martial. Ronaldo while great in the air wasn't a #9 and was constantly looking to vactate that position. And the 6'6" Weghorst has been both surprisingly unimpressive in the air and surprisingly utilised in a deeper position in a lot of games.
Put an actual aerial threat into the team as a constant presence in the opposition box and I think you'd see that tactical shift. Wide attackers aside, it's easy to imagine Bruno and Eriksen (our current two most prolific crossers of the ball) benefiting a lot from having that classic CF to target as well.
It has feck all to do with who he is a fan of and I have read nothing to suggest that he is.The guy is a confirmed United fan and spoke of his PL dream just the other week. Let’s not fumble this one.
Napoli is a possession based team. Other than Pep's midfield oriented system, other possession based team has no issue around a traditional no 9. ETH had Haller as his top scorer.Isn't ETH a possession manager, as many thought? Will he improve the team's possession to suit ETH's "style"??
That’s fair but I think from what I read wheee Osimhen excels is that he’s hyper aggressive without the ball too which is very important nowadays unless you have the quality to offset that. Kane wins headers but others he’s not a very unsettling striker to face in terms of pressure. I’m very wary of us once again becoming a lethargic team that can’t deal with the intensity of big teams. Maybe that contributed to Kane’s big game defeats too, not sure.Napoli is a possession based team. Other than Pep's midfield oriented system, other possession based team has no issue around a traditional no 9. ETH had Haller as his top scorer.
The issue now is whether we can supply Oshimhen as well because Rashford is more of a scorer than supplier. Antony and our RB crossing is inconsistent. We don't just want our expensive CF to be Welbeck/ improved Weghorst
Osimhen is clearly one of the better CF there is right now, but my preference would be Kane because in theory, Kane would fit in with Rashford better. Rashford is not very different than Son approach to attack. Kane can handle both creating for his partner and scoring himself.
Oshimhen is like Drogba, Saha that he athletically can dominate, outjump his marker. Kane is more RVN approach h to hold up play. He positioned, and back into his marker prevent them to win/challenge for the ball himself.That’s fair but I think from what I read wheee Osimhen excels is that he’s hyper aggressive without the ball too which is very important nowadays unless you have the quality to offset that. Kane wins headers but others he’s not a very unsettling striker to face in terms of pressure. I’m very wary of us once again becoming a lethargic team that can’t deal with the intensity of big teams. Maybe that contributed to Kane’s big game defeats too, not sure.
Chelsea are more than welcome to sign him for £150m+, the price at which he'll turn out to be a dud.
Imagine wanting a 30year old Kane instead. We cannot let him go to Chelsea
If we were a small club like Newcastle or westham maybe but one of the biggest sporting franchises in the worldWho in our squad plays to his strengths?
Shaw, Bruno and possibly Eriksen.
If we sign him up we are going to need players that play him headers from crossing.
I hate to mention him up but I personally think Greenwood is going to come back and eased back in by Ten Hag - that makes Osimhen inbetween Rashford and Greenwood a highly mixed style of 2 types of forwards.
That maybe good or maybe unrealistic.
Either way as many have said - ten Hag is the man to trust.
Add Martinez IMO. Martinez can hit some delicious long ball from the back if there is someone up top capable of taking it down. This is something we lack in comparison to Ajax where Blind, MartInez can cut through opposition whole structure with ball nice over the top to Haller. We saw Martinez tried here and there with us. One of the latest one is for Weghorst who failed to take the ball under control vs Barcelona in the return leg.Who in our squad plays to his strengths?
Shaw, Bruno and possibly Eriksen.
If we sign him up we are going to need players that play him headers from crossing.
I hate to mention him up but I personally think Greenwood is going to come back and eased back in by Ten Hag - that makes Osimhen inbetween Rashford and Greenwood a highly mixed style of 2 types of forwards.
That maybe good or maybe unrealistic.
Either way as many have said - ten Hag is the man to trust.
FDJ??????I was hopeful a month back or so, but now its impossible. We need to pay between 120-150 million and I dont think we have that kind of money, unless we get new owners. We also need to buy a CM.
Most likely Harry Kane and FDJ are the ones we will be signing
No sensible footballer would go to PSG in their prime. They play in a mediocre league (similar to BuLi) and have absolutely no strategy interms of signings to have impact in the UCL.He really wants to play in the premier league so United and Chelsea seem the logical choices due to finances....United the edge b/c we should be in the champions league and chelsea might not even get in the Europa League
however...PSG are going to need a striker so they'll be in the mix as well.
can't see anyone else that could afford him