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Pogba and Lukaku IN Sanchez OUT pre-season squad

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The Daily Mail reporting United were due to fly direct to Perth today from Manchester Airport. That flight is shown as cancelled on their departures list
 

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The state of that squad :lol:



6th at best unless a lot changes. In absolute seriousness, I'm expecting 8th.
6th isn't particularly fine either as all it will mean is signing more EL level players or worse. We need 4th then go from there.
 

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I feel like we need 1 more really good player in each category.... forwards, midfielders, defenders all could use one more good player that will start over whoever is in our current squad
 

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The state of that squad :lol:



6th at best unless a lot changes. In absolute seriousness, I'm expecting 8th.
Don't worry, once we take Longstaff from Newcastle and Maguire from Leicester, we'll weaken two of our rivals.
 

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The state of that squad :lol:



6th at best unless a lot changes. In absolute seriousness, I'm expecting 8th.
Nah, I think people give the teams below us too much credit. Wolves and Leicester are solid teams with solid managers, but nothing more than that.

Even with Arsenal having 20 quid as a transfer budget, us losing two of our best players and replacing with younger less proven players, and Chelsea being able to sign no-one, I’d be very surprised if the
‘Top 6’ doesn’t finish as the Top 6.
 

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You never know; Gomes, Garner and Greenwood might turn out to be worldies. Let’s live in hope.

Chuck in Maguire at centre half and the midfielder that will inevitably join, the team might gel together better than the sum of its parts.
 

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The lack of quality in that squad is terrible. Even the players who are going to start are not good enough eg Jones, Smalling, Matic, Martial, Lingard Rashford. I honestly thought this was the season we would rip it all up and have a total rebuild. I have no problem with players like James, Longstaff coming in, but clearly they are not first team players. At a minimum we still need 3 first team players.
 

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Pogba returned for action this morning (Sunday) having flown back from New York on Saturday evening. He was driven into Carrington in the back of a Mercedes van... and HERE is a picture. Pogba, we are assured is in the back. The guy in the front is not Pogba. It is someone else. How do we know? Because he doesn't look like him. ;)

 

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Bring in quality additions such as Milinkovic-Savic and Fernandes, and suddenly, it doesn't look so bad. However, you and I both know we won't bring both in.
 

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Too many people are moaning and need to calm down a little bit. Next season when Pogba, Martial and Lukaku have left and nobody decent wants to sign for us because we finish in 7th so therefore we are deemed as the new 90s Liverpool and can only sign players from Newcastle and Bolton we'll look back at this squad and wish we had players of this quality back.
 
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When is Ed going to let half of these donkeys go? Darmian, Rojo, Jones, Matic, Lingard. And then there are the players who dont want to be there like Lukaku and Pogba. Our recruiting has truly been terrible.
 

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Used to like silly season, now I absolutely hate it. I'm too impatient for this shit.
 

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Pogba is at Manchester Airport in the club suit... and ready for... a long flight.

 

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These threads always end up the same. People moaning about transfers, essentially, fecking boring like, give it a rest.

Anyway ..

I'm looking forward to seeing Daniel James. Think he's going to be a star here.
 

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Too many people are moaning and need to calm down a little bit. Next season when Pogba, Lingard and Lukaku have left and nobody decent wants to sign for us because we finish in 7th so therefore we are deemed as the new 90s Liverpool and can only sign players from Newcastle and Bolton we'll look back at this squad and wish we had players of this quality back.
One can only hope.
 

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Midfielders: Tahith Chong, James Garner, Angel Gomes, Daniel James, Jesse Lingard, Nemanja Matic, Juan Mata, Scott McTominay, Andreas Pereira

Remove Pogba, and that is an awful set of midfielders.

It’s getting very difficult to remain positive.
 

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These threads always end up the same. People moaning about transfers, essentially, fecking boring like, give it a rest.

Anyway ..

I'm looking forward to seeing Daniel James. Think he's going to be a star here.
The problem is that, and I haven't got a spreadsheet to back this up so maybe I'm wrong, in previous years these types of threads would be called pessimistic and over the top, whereas most people have dealt with us playing like shite for too long now and have began to accept that unless we buy a completely new squad we're up shit creek with Lingard and Matic still playing.
 

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When was last time all 5 of Rojo, Smalling, Jones, Bailly and Lindelof were all fit at the same time?

Surely you're going to sell two of them with Axel back and seemingly staying.