Poor McT not even worth a mention
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Poor McT not even worth a mention
feck if he’s anywhere near as good as Fletcher, I’d be delighted. Man was unreal in 2009.
We will finally see the back of Lingard and Andreas, pretty confident we will get a good fee for both too
No one knew this. Our links with van de Beek only got stronger after Ten Hag left him out of the starting lineup yesterday. We have kept our transfer activity quiet for the most part.
I’d be very surprised if we brought in another MF on top of VDB.
We should be moving on to a LB and RW now.
People never stop underrating Fletch.
Very happy with the move, again I would have rather got Tonali but this is a good player as well.
Definitely, unpopular opinion but i would add McTominay to that list of players to ship out especially if we get Thiago.
And that was just in the last day, I think the club has made it more difficult for them lately to know much about our transfers.
I'm delighted with the player and the relatively reasonable price.
Might I add that we have a 100% success rate when it comes to signing 'vans'. Van Nistelrooy, Van Persie, Van Der Sar.
Van de Beek's gonna be great, following in the footsteps of his successful van predecessors.
Might I add that we have a 100% success rate when it comes to signing 'vans'. Van Nistelrooy, Van Persie, Van Der Sar.
Van de Beek's gonna be great, following in the footsteps of his successful van predecessors.
Good signing, impressed me when I watched Ajax last season in the champions league, but I genuinely hope we have at least someone in mind for the right wing if not sancho.
Intelligent off-ball movement
Good decision-making
Strong in the press
Three qualities that our otherwise strong attack doesn't possess in great measure. Pogba struggles to keep it simple at times, Rashford dribbles too much, Bruno shoots too much and Martial and Rashford don't move too well off the ball.
He will be a great addition to the squad.
Good decision-making
Strong in the press
Three qualities that our otherwise strong attack doesn't possess in great measure. Pogba struggles to keep it simple at times, Rashford dribbles too much, Bruno shoots too much and Martial and Rashford don't move too well off the ball.
He will be a great addition to the squad.
Probably the least important to position to strengthen, but I'm always delighted to see new players.
Do my eyes deceive me? An actual signing?
Remember when 40 million pounds was an obscene amount of money?
Glad we are going for players of the right age group again.
Yay a new signing! It's going to be exciting to have a young Dutch talent in the team. Get in 
VDB. Love names that I can spell.
Tonali was never moving to any other club other than AC Milan, Inter or Juventus.
I think some of you might be surprised. Our midfield looks strong, but still lacks balance, and we are way too reliant on Matic.
The Don.The Ron Don.The Donny Don-Don.
No if you consider he's Bruno backup.
It’s a fool’s errand to judge someone on Youtube. You really need to see him play for full 90 over few matches to get an idea of a player.
We were linked with Van De Vaart but never materialised. Van Dijk would have been nice.
bit of depth too, if Bruno went down with an injury we're doomed. This transfer makes a ton of sense, both in terms of midfield quality and quantity.
Van der gouw?
He reportedly didn't want to leave Italy just yet
I’m just a bit concerned that we have only one player in the squad who I’d consider a classic defensive/deep lying midfielder, and that’s Matic. But I’m probably (hopefully) a bit old-fashioned in my thinking.
Thiago? Daddy daddy want!
Lets remember we have a game every 3or4 days for 9 months!!! Let that sink in. We know how that intensity feels from post lockdown.
From what we learned in post lockdown games, OGS will always play 3 mf's, but alter according to weak team or big team. If we assume our best 3 is Matic, Pogba, Bruno, however, likelihood is they won't play together often due to type of opposition, injuries, rotation or form. For the first time, OGS has choices to pick bespoke midfield vis a vis his tactics and the opposition, whilst also having bench options that can maintain quality level or change tactics. Also great competition for places too.
Doesn't look like it needs Grealish either. Sad for him, but his club priced him out of a dream move.
Add Sancho for 3 from 4 up top
Dream would be a CB better than Lindelof to allow 2 from 3 centre backs and we are sorted.
Might even knock one out to some Dutch porno tonight in celebration of this signing.
I’ve heard some of the Scholes comparisons. It got me thinking about Scholesy. In many ways, Scholes had 3 distinct phases in his career. The first phase he came from deep and was very attacking (This seems to mimic VdB). In the second please he was a box-to-box complete MF. In the third phase, he was an orchestrator like Xavi, Pirlo where he dictated the tempo.
I’m not saying VdB is like Scholes, or that I’m completely bought in on the transfer, but I am curious what Ole is going for here. In a 442 with Becks, Scholes, Giggs and Keano we had 4 solid attacking players. With Pogba, Bruno and VdB we’d have 3. I personally think Ole wants more goals from midfield. If our MF starts scoring goals in parallel with our forwards, sweet Jesus.
I’m not saying VdB is like Scholes, or that I’m completely bought in on the transfer, but I am curious what Ole is going for here. In a 442 with Becks, Scholes, Giggs and Keano we had 4 solid attacking players. With Pogba, Bruno and VdB we’d have 3. I personally think Ole wants more goals from midfield. If our MF starts scoring goals in parallel with our forwards, sweet Jesus.
Yes I think Ole would have also chosen that option.
From what I remember, he was an alright backup wasn't he?
If not, our success rate has just dropped 25%.
I imagine they will find buyers late in window, as buying clubs seek best prices.
We've finally sorted out our central midfield,granted it took a while .
Bruno,Pogba,DVDB,Matic,McTom and Fred. Great variety there.
Bruno,Pogba,DVDB,Matic,McTom and Fred. Great variety there.
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