The club shut rumours down all the time. Messi and Jimenez recent examples. The Jimenez one we even said we were sick of being used by clubs/agents to push up prices.
Also, having VDB, Bruno and Pogba starting would leave us with the same issue as we currently have; making subs means a significant drop in quality. VDB is clearly, at least in the short term, meant to allow us to rotate Bruno and Pogba without dramatically weakening our offensive capabilities.
I'd happily pay that for him, he's in his peak. You can expect that be will command a chunky contract being his last big contract.
Finally someone agrees with me!
Only thing is having all those on the pitch doesn't give us any options to change things off the bench if needed
Reading that article and it’s interesting. Their board got extremely lucky with hiring Klopp because they have never put their hands in their pockets. The only time they did was when they sold Coutinho. It’s seems odd they have not strengthened for two summers now. By which point I expect some of their bigger foreign players may wish to move abroad. By standing still you allow the competition to bridge the gap.
Yeah Sancho is game changing
Come on Woody strike whilst the iron is hot before they can move any players to make money
96+ points for 2 seasons running ....their advantage is that its a massive gap!!!
Are you lot serious?. mctominay has a place in the squad more so than mate, Pereira and lingard. He's homegrown and a good player, who provides good squad depth.
If Thiago comes, he will be a 7th choice in midfield (and that’s if Lingard, Pereira and Mata are all sold). Do we need McTominay as a 7th choice midfielder?
Lingard and Pereira are home grown too. My point was the more midfielders we get the less he plays and he’s not better than Fred. So unless he wants to play CB where they’ll be more opportunities for him. I don’t see anything wrong with what I said.
Totally agree if he has the ability he'll be fine but we need to at least give him a season or 2, he probably relishes the challenge.
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De Bruyne dreams of being technically on a par with Thiago, not even close.
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Matic is aging, McT can wait. Even going on loan.
It is not what the newspapers said at that time. United had the money and was willing to pay the release clause of Thiago and at the last minute Moyes dithered saying that he has not seen enough of the player at that moment in time. I remember even seeing an interview of him saying something like that.
That does look great but I'm not sure if thiago fits the CDM role to play and cover CB from the rest.
Yes the club saw that without Pogba we were dithering 12 points behind top 4 until Bruno had to come in to repair some of the damage. They then watched us make up a 6 point deficit and leapfrog 3 teams in the last 9 games of the season with Pogba (playing at probably 70-80% of his full conditioning and level) in the team. Nothing we saw last season suggests selling Pogba is a good idea, quite the opposite in fact.
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I read we loose 5 million, isn't it similar to all clubs, the revenue loss
If United sign Thiago and sell Pogba next year, they won't suffer as much compared to last year when Pogba was out because there is Bruno, but also VDB and Thiago. Another year of Fred and McTominay with Matic being the old head. Then reinvest any Pogba money to a CM or attacking player.
You believe Mejbri would be ahead of McTominay? Why? Mejbri not even been involved with first team training (stand to be corrected).
Thiago would be ahead in the pecking order than Upamecano in my opinion too, Since although a CB is needed, having Thiago, VDB, Bruno, Pogba, Matic in a midfield as options and then Sancho, Greenwood, Martial, Rashford up top as options would be one of the best midfields and attacks in world football.
I believe that given McTominay is 7th in pecking order (with Thiago), he is surplus to requirements - hence Mejbri appears instead
Why aren’t you guys spending? I don’t get it.
