I don't think there's much difference between a 9-0-1 and a 8-1-1 which is basically our current formation. It is just that we are shite.
Andreas Granqvist
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Probably we want a new sponsorship deal with Ikea
Swedens's international and captain 33 year old has confirmed united's interest in him. According to the Swedish press he is expected to join on loan ½ season in the winter in a deal similar to the one of Henrik Larsson.
https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/fotboll/a/J15VQj/granqvist-bekraftar-intresset-fran-united
https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/fotboll/a/J15VQj/granqvist-bekraftar-intresset-fran-united
Awkward...but he isn't a bad player though.
The feck!?
Really - why not just recall tuanzbe?
he was good in the world cup. He will be a quick fix. He is a leader but he is not young, I have doubts of him coping with the tempo of the league.
Swedish second division player, that's how bad we defend.
Right now what United needs in defense is someone with experience and that gives confidence to the rest of the team. It would be too heavy of a burden on Tuanzebebe at the moment and you already have Lindeloff and Bailly.
You can only laugh.
This can not be true.
Zidane working his magic already
Smalling, Jones, Rojo, Bailly, Lindelof are all still at the club, and yet we are having to resort to signing Granqvist on a half a season loan deal. Absolute madness!
Wow
Whatever makes Jose happy I guess....
I'll go out on a limp and say it's not true.
So let me get this straight, the same board did not sanction the purchase of perisic, willian and others but are happy signing this guy.
We’ll have to be quick or one of the many other top teams that are in for him will do the deal first
Guys are CB situation is not this bad
Granqvist might not be the greatest option and it'll probably won't happen but he's type of centre back that United badly need at the moment, a leader at the back.
He's too busy warming the Aston Villa bench.
I had no idea the Swedish second division was that good.
I beg your pardon.
Exactly the type of player we need to take us to the next level
I seriously doubt this is true. I like Granqvist but he's nowhere near good enough atm.
No thanks.
I get that we need experience at the back. The point I was trying to make is that our board knows exactly which kind of CBs we have, and yet they chose not to do anything about it over the summer, despite options like Alderweireld and Maguire being potentially available, and Jose keeping tabs on Koulibaly and Skriniar. Now we'll have a bloated squad with reduced playing time for the out of favour CBs, and potential for more disruption in the team dynamics, all to accommodate a short term option.
This couldn’t go in the existing thread?
We're going to extreme lengths to make Lindelöf look good.
His best ability was to babysit lindelof. Which means we can look forward to 2 shit Swedish cbs in our team
To be fair you have to be some kind of demi God to make Lindelof look like a good defender and he did do that during the world cup.... so.....
Serious though... never did i ever expect this when he played for FC Groningen. It is kinda sad if it is true though
Serious though... never did i ever expect this when he played for FC Groningen. It is kinda sad if it is true though
Surely if we’re going down that route then John Terry is a more obvious choice?
He has retired and is now Aston Villa’s assistant manager.
Since when is 11 starts in 14 games warming the bench? I know the Championship is no top league like the Swedish second division but at least don't make shit up.
Player power run amok if Lindelof gets us to sign him.
He has, but only today. If Jose was going down this road then you’d think he’d have given his old captain a ring at some point in the last few weeks. After all, he was touting himself round Europe looking for a new club.
I'll retract that and note semi regular starter in one of leakiest defenses in the Championship. I'm sure he's the right man to sort out the United defense.
A man who demanded an option to miss games against Chelsea if Villa were to go up written in his new contract?
I think many are massively underrating him here, but whether we should be targeting him over others is another question. From what I've seen of him playing for Sweden, he's very good at organising and leading a defence. A 6 month loan wouldn't be the worst deal.
Like Newcastle, Cardiff and Huddersfield