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Alemar

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I dont think we should sell James. He's hardly played for us. Give the lad a chance.
There is no need - it is obvious for everyone that he is simply not good enough, no footballing ability of required level. It’s not something you may train.

One of United’s problems is that we hold onto mediocre players due to them being young and/or academy graduates - hence mediocre performances and results
 

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Thanks for that. I'm surprised that my guess was that close.
It was reported by Romano yesterday that United priority are left back and right winger. CB is just possible target. I’m sure everyone have the same guesses now.
 

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Not a surprise but the lack of interest in a defensive minded midfielder has been frustrating.
Not sure why we need one this year more than the other three areas. We play double pivot not a lone DM and we have enough players to cover the double pivot for this season.
 

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Translation:
Barca observes a very advanced operation [i.e. Semedo's sale].

In England, Wolves will pay a guaranteed 30 million Euros + variables.

Two options for right back that Barcelona are monitoring: [Sergino] Dest and [Max] Aarons

Tomorrow, the operation can be closed [i.e. Semedo will be sold].
 

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Sounds like Eric Garcia from City to Barca for €18m is close now. Decent deal, to be honest. Also Tosin Adarabioyo will be sold soon.
 

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Our midfield was very dominant without Matic against Sevilla. Did you watch the way how our midfield play in that game?
I wouldn't say dominant by any means, they even had a bit more possession and I never feel we are in any sort of control of the game without Matic. Even with Matic we are often very easily cut apart imo never mind without him.
 

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I wouldn't say dominant by any means, they even had a bit more possession and I never feel we are in any sort of control of the game without Matic. Even with Matic we are often very easily cut apart imo never mind without him.
We are never the type of possession football team, we are more direct and the way how we keep winning the ball back in midfield like vs Sevilla should be the aim we go for imo.
 

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We are never the type of possession football team, we are more direct and the way how we keep winning the ball back in midfield like vs Sevilla should be the aim we go for imo.
I get what you are saying but for that style of play I am not sure we have the defense. To play like that we need 2 CBs with pace who can recover and defend in a high line, our best CB will never be that and that's not even getting to the full backs. If we are to persist with playing like that, we need an athletic CDM who can cover for our CBs, and we the only CDM we have is Matic, he is also far from athletic.
 

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We have some form of a wage structure, 70/75k seems to be the mark for semi regular first team players, it's not exactly crazy money relatively.
It isn't compared to some of our contracts, but I am sure we never ask what these players want, if they did they might find some would be happy with double their wages. The players eyes must light up when someone offers them 4 times as much.
 

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The experienced agents usually know what most players earn and if United’s average salary for a defender is around 80-100 k then the agent of a 27 year old defender won’t accept much less for the last or 2nd last contract of his client.

We started with all this overpaying in transfer fees and wages mainly under LVG and have mostly continued with it since.

I also remember very well that sadly the club and Woodward but also a lot of fans here were happy back then and there were a lot of replies like the following to those questioning this approach: “I can’t understand why fans get invested in what we pay, it’s not my / the fans’ money after all”
 

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We gave both Jones and Rojo new contracts not that long ago, stupid club.
If we are serious we should offer them a payoff and terminate their contracts just like we did with Sanchez and get someone to take them for free.
 

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You could offload them if you released them for free. James left real on a free whilst we’re looking real money for Jones who’s a danger to himself and others. Rojo is a moron. We have unrealistic expectations. No wonder we can’t offload them.
 

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We gave both Jones and Rojo new contracts not that long ago, stupid club.
If we are serious we should offer them a payoff and terminate their contracts just like we did with Sanchez and get someone to take them for free.
Ole's worst decision was giving Jones a 5 year deal. Absolute mug of a move to sign off on that.
 

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Ole's worst decision was giving Jones a 5 year deal. Absolute mug of a move to sign off on that.
I'd give Ole a bye on that one considering he was recently appointed caretaker manager when that happened.
 
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