Should be our director. Can obviously talk a good game. Shame he can’t coach one.
Donny van de Beek | van de Beek's father: "[Moving to United] a dream come true."
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
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And Fosu-Mensah (Donny’s mate) and Fernandes, too...
It’s a done deal. What number will he get?
And the main man, Romano.And Fosu-Mensah (Donny’s mate) and Fernandes, too...
Van DeBeek, Sancho, Thiago and Upamecano?! That would shock me!!!! Go on Ed!!
Hasnt posted on twitter since 2018, up the SM game, Donny
Yeah, people have short memories. Bruno was totally gassed at the end of the season and our bench options were Perreira, Lingard and Mata.
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He was part of the 30-man shortlist for Ballon d'Or in 2018-19. Probably because Ajax reached the Semi-Finals but still a good achievement for him
Do you remember first half of last season where Ole was forced to play Scott and Fred pretty much every game and had to rely on Pereira, Mata or Lingard to add some creativity and playmaking skills? Would be awesome if we could avoid that again!
But yeah, we certainly need to adress other positions as well!
Marcus Rashford liked Romano's instagram post on van de Beek, apparently.
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Is he playing that far up the pitch for Ajax then? Thought he might be more of a Herrera replacement, a 6 or 8 rather than a 10.
100%
Just the matic position needs a tweak sooner rather than later but on paper yeah that’s formidable. Even better than the schmidfield
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Looks like it’s about to happen. Shout out to club legend Van Der Sar for seemingly making it easy(ier) for us
This a is great signing. Excellent business. On to Sancho.
My thoughts exactly!!!!Ladies and Gentlemen!! We got him.
His YouTube compilations are full of goals
Play 3 at the back and 7 attacking players....can’t go wrong
Yeah must be actually true that Dortmund introduced third parties to delay and obfuscate the issue.
With how smooth this has apparently gone according to reports, it proves we can apparently do it, so why do we seemingly balls up most other transfers? Mind boggling club. Still very happy about this and to finally see some activity!
Rashford is a transfer muppet confirmed. We should start pressing him into giving us some transfer news
Pretty much in agreement with everyone else that this is a good signing. Hopefully we progress onto other targets as we need much more.
I imagine this deal could have been done months ago, but given we aren't even back at training yet, there was no real rush.
I imagine this deal could have been done months ago, but given we aren't even back at training yet, there was no real rush.
Can't believe no Muppets had done this.
Should get your Muppets juices flowing.
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All it took was one signing for Woodward acolytes to come crawling out.
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BBC now saying it's all agreed
I've been watching Donny for years now. He's a typical Ajax number 8/10. A guy that has a lot of depth in his game and knows how to run behind the enemy defense. He scores 10-15 goals a season. For years now we play with a system where we make room for a players like Donny. Before we had Siem de Jong, Then Klassen and now Donny.
Donny is better than Klaassen and Siem de Jong. Donny has a very functional technique and can contribute in the build up in the game. He is very focused every time hes gets the ball. The challenge for United is to find a position for him in the midfield where he will function optimal. Where he can make the meters in the depth behind enemy lines. You need to balance your midfield with a strong 6 and a creative player next to Donny. You need to create an "Ajax like" midfield. That is gonna be a challenge.
Donny is better than Klaassen and Siem de Jong. Donny has a very functional technique and can contribute in the build up in the game. He is very focused every time hes gets the ball. The challenge for United is to find a position for him in the midfield where he will function optimal. Where he can make the meters in the depth behind enemy lines. You need to balance your midfield with a strong 6 and a creative player next to Donny. You need to create an "Ajax like" midfield. That is gonna be a challenge.
I am really excited by this signing, some quality depth to midfield and i bet bruno is fecking over the moon he wont need to play 55 games this season!
I think that is largely due to the reasonable asking price and wages more than anything and a lack of competition. An easy but sensible deal to complete.
Thread title change!! Yuppie
This is a purchase that I have a very hard time understanding and therefore enjoy. When Fred and McTominay played together over a long period of time, they became really good together. I think we're pretty strong in the central midfield already. Therefore, I do not see that we are getting stronger with this purchase. McTominay should be in our starting 11 along with Pogba and Bruno. Fred and Matic are the alternatives to the central midfield, if I could decide. So I do not see that we have a need for Donny van de Beek.
I can actually picture rashford browsing and refreshing the caf over and over on his phone
They've not covered themselves in glory during this saga at all. Even when there were times when clubs were trying to sign players we didn't want to sell, like Ronaldo and De Gea, there still wasn't anywhere near this sort of obvious obstruction that Dortmund seem to be engaging it. From start to finish this has just come across as them trying to make a statement of some sort by making this as difficult as possible. Very small time.
I think Van Der Sar had a big part to play in making it smooth but still it shows we can do it
Be interesting to know the structure of the deal. I’m assuming we’ve tried to spread the cost to enable us to go after other signings.
Done diddily done!!
Maybe take a night off? This isnt the deal to be hating on Ed
Fantastic signing. Well done to Ole and team for seemingly choosing the sensible option rather than Grealish for £80m. Can play loads of positions and will mean that we don't need to see as much of Pereira, Mata and Lingard, which can only be a good thing. This is the signing of a club going places IMO
More importantly, he needs to pressure his mate Sancho into putting in a transfer request.Rashford is a transfer muppet confirmed. We should start pressing him into giving us some transfer news
How do we think we will use him? Could he relieve some of Matic's and Bruno's games?
Also IF we get him (knowing us I'll only believe it when we officially post it) will he have to self isolate when he arrives or will he be able to link up with the squad straight away?
Also IF we get him (knowing us I'll only believe it when we officially post it) will he have to self isolate when he arrives or will he be able to link up with the squad straight away?
Whoa, time for another thread title change!
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