Jose Mourinho targets new Manchester United midfielder to replace Michael Carrick
http://www.skysports.com/amp/footba...-united-midfielder-to-replace-michael-carrick
Jose Mourinho wants a new Manchester United midfielder this summer
https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/fo...-new-midfielder-this-summer-a3769106.html?amp
"If, next summer, we are going to sign a midfield player, it's to replace Michael Carrick and Michael is a phenomenal player that, this season, he couldn't give us anything at all.
"He's in the end of his career so if, next summer, we buy a midfield player, it's not to improve our squad - it's to replace Michael Carrick.
So, to improve our squad in the midfield, we would need to buy two."
http://www.goal.com/en-in/news/mour...s-as-he-targets-two/n501fzabb9wx15j38zbx83c53
The one thing I can say for sure about our transfer targets for the summer is that we would be buying a midfielder. And most of the players we have been linked with are midfielders - Seri, Sergej, Jorginho, Kovacic,Doucoure ,Vidal to name a few.
About our midfield options -
Matic and Pogba : first team quality
McTominay : young learning but doesn't offer enough on the ball other than from a defensive POV
Fellaini - leaving most probably or hopefully
Herrera - has not played for a long time, looks like Mou has lost faith in him or something
Pereira - don't think Mou trusts him or that he wants to come back, even if he does come back, is he good enough to be a regular starter
I hope we dont go into the next season with a 30 year old Matic and an inconsistent and some what injury prone Pogba as our two top midfield options.
I would be happy if we bought even two CMs, a #6 and a #8 as I don't feel McTominay and Pereira are good enough to be starting in a club with CL aspirations, atleast they are not good enough now