He's a high-risk high-reward player who doesn't control the center of the park. He's a similar type of player to Bruno, albeit with better physicality, more attacking midfielder than the conductor type like Frenkie that we need or the upgrade on Fred, an aggressive possession-winning type of midfielder.
Sergej Milinković-Savić
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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?
Who's next ? Nico Gaitan ?
He is nothing special. Tadic is a miles better player but we refused to take a risk on him when it was a good time for that - 4 years ago.
Milinkovic-Savic would be a decent squad player in premier league for a top4 team and that is it. Would be great for Leeds.
Milinkovic-Savic would be a decent squad player in premier league for a top4 team and that is it. Would be great for Leeds.
He is a midfielder who is better than McTominay in all respects - and as such would immediately improve us via taking McTominay’s place on the pitch.
It wouldn’t mean we don’t also need to upgrade on Fred, though…
Sorry mate - completely disagree. Bruno is a 10. SMS used to play in that role but has played much deeper in recent seasons. Plays much more as a CM and takes fewer risks. He would be a replacement for Fred imo, but hey, what do we know? I'm sure if he is actually a target, ETH knows exactly how to use him. Whatever the reality is, he can play that CM role and at this stage we just need some feckin quality there.
Tadic? You mean the winger who went from Southampton to Ajax?
It doesn't make sense spending a significant amount of money trying to shoe-horn him into a role that isn't his best. It would be Pogba all over again.
Bruno can also play deeper that doesn't change the type of player he is. Milinković-Savić has the worst pass completion rate out of Lazio's 3 main midfielders, he gets dispossessed more often as Luis Alberto and Cataldi combined and he almost has twice as many miscontrols as both of his midfield partners combined. All of that because it's his role to take more risks, since he's one of their creators. We already have Bruno, Eriksen and van de Beek. Even if you think that we need an upgrade on Bruno, which I think is a fair take, it would be an utter waste this summer.
I can still see him do well for us in that CM role. I definitely wouldn't be looking to replace Bruno. Think I'm one of the few that still thinks Bruno is probably our best player. He's been out of form for a while, but he's still a quality player.
I agree regarding Bruno.
This needs to stop now
Yep, that guy. Savic ? You mean the guy who is playing for Lazio that won nothing since Erickson was their coach. And what do you mean a winger? The guy literary wears number 10. He is attacking midfielder who is in my eyes way better than Bruno. Have you seen his performance against Real Madrid in Madrid from 2019? Anyhow, this is not about Tadic nor Bruno. It is about Milinkovic-Savic and my opinion of him is that he would be at best slight upgrade to McFred. What we need is someone with real potential, not a guy who played for unimpressive Lazio for past 7 years.
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Whats your alternative or suggestion?
I feel some people are so sad that Frenkie isn’t coming they are just being negative on every other midfielder linked for the sake of it. A midfield of SMS and Rabiot is many levels better than what we’ve got at present!
I've never been convinced by him. He's technically a very good player but i'm not sure he suits a fast paced league like the EPL. I think the likes of Nunes (SCP) and Bennacer would potentially be a much better fit for us imo.
I’d rather us sign this guy and guido Rodriguez then rabiot. Would allow us to play 4-3-3 much better. We’d then have an all rounded midfielder and an actual DM.
But are those two even gettable?
i've no idea mate. But one would think we can lure Nunes from SCP with a good offer to SCP.
I bet that's the one that won't happen.m while Rabiot and Arnautovic will. Would piss me off I'd actually be ok with SMS,
Not sure why we are after this guy and Rabiot. Rabiot only makes sense with a DLP or a creative energetic box to box
SMS seems to be a better fit with an actual DM than Rabiot and with that we could recreates Ten Hags previous Ajax system with that
SMS seems to be a better fit with an actual DM than Rabiot and with that we could recreates Ten Hags previous Ajax system with that
Eriksen
SMS Guido
Berghuis
Gravenbach Alvarez
SMS Guido
Berghuis
Gravenbach Alvarez
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Sneidjer duh. We’re going dutch now.
I think if United offer around £50m, they will sell him. That's just my opinion of course.
Doesn't really seem to be the kind of CM we need.
Yeap. I like him. Physical presence of a McT but with heaps of technical ability and confidence to drive forward.
Agreed, would leave us pretty imbalanced in midfield
But he's fat now
Him, Gaitan and Sneijder will seriously give our midfield option a huge boost. Looking forward for see them at Old Trafford soon...
Still a better option than Scott.
We sure are. I don't want to see McFred starting for us ever again. I would gladly take a chance on 2 players even nominally better than Fred and McT.
This is on isn't it?
Fingers crossed
Why are you comparing him to Tadic
Again, just feels like this isn't going to happen.
Rabiot in the Fred role against Brighton and SMS instead of McTominay in the advanced role makes a lot of sense. They'd bring more quality on the ball along with being quite a physically imposing duo.
I guess United finally accept that de Jong isn't coming and move to plan B. This is not a bad plan B tbh. Physically and technically very good midfielder
I'd love to know the clubs view on players like this and whether they even consider them. Caqueret is another (my no.1 choice). Caicedo's performances can't have gone unnoticed either.
Agreed, I just dont see us signing more than 1 midfielder this summer. If we wanted to, we would have done along time ago.
Every window, we are linked with midfielders, every window we dont sign one. I dont see anything changing this time around.
One out of Caqueret, Bennacer or Nunes is a must if we can't sign de Jong imo.
Inclined to agree. He’s quite clearly got a bit about him, but I think he’s just too big and immobile to be truly great.
We really are stuck in a time capsule.