Any midfielder who can pass would be nice.
Look like Mourinho signings. I thought Ole was above that?
January Loan Options
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So weird calling Rakitic a fringe player. He'd walk into any team in the world, including Barcelona under different circumstances.
Rakitic would be amazing but I cant see why he'd come here. I'll be happy with Dzeko and any proven midfielder really.
I'd enquire about Mandzukic.
Experienced player who has been there and seen everything in the game. Would be a brilliant option off the bench and has the nous that could make the difference in tricky Europa League ties, which is our only hope of getting back into the Champions League anytime soon.
Experienced player who has been there and seen everything in the game. Would be a brilliant option off the bench and has the nous that could make the difference in tricky Europa League ties, which is our only hope of getting back into the Champions League anytime soon.
Issue is midfield and at #10.
What about John McGinn, why is his name not mentioned anymore?
And, while I do think Haaland is a player we shouldn't give up on trying to sign no matter what, why do we not cash out big on ONE top world midfielder like Kanté, Thiago, Eriksen, KDB excetera.. In my eyes, a leader type, strong mentality type midfield player would solve ALOT
And, while I do think Haaland is a player we shouldn't give up on trying to sign no matter what, why do we not cash out big on ONE top world midfielder like Kanté, Thiago, Eriksen, KDB excetera.. In my eyes, a leader type, strong mentality type midfield player would solve ALOT
Gareth bale
Coutinho
Odegaard
Can
Coutinho
Odegaard
Can
Doesn't help that Ole hasn't got a clue about the European market outside of those players that you have mentioned, you see paper talk about the likes of Olmo, Zainolo, Zakaria but get the distinct impression he doesn't have any knowledge on these players at all.
He just sees the players with premier league experience or those who are british in the lower leagues such as Phillips and White who don't get me wrong aren't bad players but need to look outside of the UK sometimes.
I think deep down Ole is starting to realise letting go of so many last summer and not being able to replace them properly is proving to be a very costly mistake indeed. We simply have to bring some squad depth in this January because otherwise our players are going to be burnt out pretty damn quickly from playing far too much.
I know that Bale divides opinion on here but why not at least try to see if we can get him on some kind of loan deal, he cannot be popular in Spain after that stuff with the Wales, Golf, Madrid flag last week. We also could really do with a midfield loan signing too to take some pressure off Pogba at least until the summer.
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Prince Andrew agrees.
I bet feckin' Ole doesn't know much about the best tea to buy either when making tea for the club; or the best place to get bacon outside Wilmslow. Dumb ass.
Ole Out.
James Rodriguez?
So the biggest club in the world is reduced to getting loans in a bid to get out of 9th place. Moldefisication of Manchester United is complete
Pure speculation.
Mandzukic & Can are the obvious names due to zero to low appearance records this season. Rakitic also, but I feel Barca would and could get a 20M fee from somebody like atletico - who are probably more appealing to the player.
Dzeko, Bale, Cavani are all part of first team plans at there respective clubs and no go options.
Dzeko, Bale, Cavani are all part of first team plans at there respective clubs and no go options.
Think Real Madrid will be trying to move Rodriguez on a permanent as he will only have one year left on his contract in the summer. So that he doesn't run down his contract and they lose him out on a potential fee which I've read is £60m.
Think Coutinho might be another hard one to get as he is half through his loan already and playing quite regularly. So I cant see him coming on loan. I think we may have a chance at the end of the season if Bayern turn down the option to sign him permanently.
Rakitic would be great if we could pull it off. Quality and experience is sorely needed in CM.
You really think we can get McGinn on loan in Jan??? C'mon be serious.
He is trying to bring in players on the cheap from lower division. Shows how low we have gone. These Cnuts are ruining our club.
Agreed. Our midfield would instantly look much much better especially when Pogba comes back
----Rashford------------Martial---------------James
------------------------------Pogba----------------------------
-------------------Rakitic----------McTominay----------
Williams-------Maguire-----Tuanzebe------AWB
--------------------------------DDG-----------------------------
We still need a defensive midfielder and a striker though.
It's actually amazing how replacing just one player makes a team, at least on paper, look so much better.
how far past it is iniesta? 
If we can get Cavani on loan I would take that. However, we need bodies in midfield more, so if Rabiot, Can or Rakitic are available on loan, I would take either of them till the end of the season with the option to buy in case they do impress.
Adding Rakitic to the starting lineup alongside a fully fit squad makes our team look decent! Rakitic instantly improves our starting 11, while at the same time giving us a little bit more depth in midfield and enables us to bring in Fred and Matic (if he stays) into the team when required if rotation is needed.
Do you think Rabiot may come? He hasn't played many games for Juventus for reasons I'n not sure of. I'm thinking he may want to come for some extra playing time.
Not exactly a loan, but since Jose said no to bringing Zlatan to Spurs, I wouldn't mind seeing him return in some type of short term deal.
I think Zlatan may be able to do a job for half a season but I couldn't see Zlatan wanting to be on the bench at all.
Rabiot has only started 4 games this season and with the Euros in the summer I am sure he would want game-time from January till the end of the season, even though he probably has a slim chance of making the squad due to some issues with him and the national team if I remember correctly.
Not sure why he hasn't played enough for Juve...
Our two most realistic options are Mandzukic and Can. I personally have never been sold on Can but he'd be a huge upgrade on Pereira so beggars can't be choosers.
Who drops out of madrids midfield if they sign Pogba? That’s who we will loan.
Sell Pogba. Can some serious Winter cash$$ It feels an age since we have seen Pogba play. Most of the time you get disappointed, and if not you there's just drama.
Get the cash.
Buy Sancho. Loan Manzukic. Loan Rabiot with option to buy. Loan Rakitic with option to buy. Done.
Get the cash.
Buy Sancho. Loan Manzukic. Loan Rabiot with option to buy. Loan Rakitic with option to buy. Done.
That ship had sailed.
I think Julian Draxler could be an option for a loan deal. For sure not my favourit one, but he could be realistic.
All players like Cavani etc. who are important for their team or out of contract in summer will not be loaned out.
All players like Cavani etc. who are important for their team or out of contract in summer will not be loaned out.
I think he said that if we sell a striker we would look at replacing him but once we actually sold Lukaku he then flipped and made the comment.
It may have been Ed telling him that the money from Lukaku balanced the outlay on Maguire and that the wallet was now closed for the summer.
You're on something aren't you?
We need a couple of experienced players in midfield. Someone around 27-30 or thereabouts. I'll take a couple of journeymen as long as they can really bring these young players on. Fecking shame we let Herrera go so easily
It's so obvious, We're lacking leaders right now
It's so obvious, We're lacking leaders right now
This is such a simple concept. It amazes me how many supporters cannot understand this!
I guess sacking the coach is more fashionable.
It’s not supporters though. I speak and travel to matches with supporters who have been going since the 1960s and they get the concept.
It’s the posters and armchair fans who just feel that Sancho,Haaland,Madison etc plus chucking in Gomes and Chong every now and then is the answer.
I remember Fergie buying a whole group of experienced players: Wallace,Phelan to add to Hughes,Robson,Whiteside. He brought Hughes back as I recall from Bayern Munich