Probably but it's a very defensive pairing, prime Mourinho/Simeone would love it.
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Ordinarily I don't think this would be the smartest business but we're not in a position to be squabbling over what's smart right now. The manager needs some players who are capable of doing a job, whether that's short, medium or long term.
When the current lot of owners are gone then we can worry about getting our house in order with recruitment but right now we just need to see some money spent on the team. Initially I didn't think we had a prayer and Casemiro was another name being thrown around to give off the impression we're trying to do something. If there's actually a realistic chance of getting it done and he's open to the move, I'm not even that worried about the numbers involved anymore. We need to salvage whatever we can from this season.
When the current lot of owners are gone then we can worry about getting our house in order with recruitment but right now we just need to see some money spent on the team. Initially I didn't think we had a prayer and Casemiro was another name being thrown around to give off the impression we're trying to do something. If there's actually a realistic chance of getting it done and he's open to the move, I'm not even that worried about the numbers involved anymore. We need to salvage whatever we can from this season.
Champions League 'Miro...
He's been one of those Brazilians with the most consummate attitude around so hopefully he's gonna keep that drive to succeed when he comes .
Agree, CR7 in SAF era was a long term planning, then what's happened！？ He gave his best and peak time to RM.
The thing is, Casemiro isn’t the most press resistant player or best passer out there. Real have Modric and Kroos for that.
Who besides Eriksen offers that at United?
He's a specialist in that regard anyway isn't he
Fredemiro, let's make it happen.
I'm starting to believe we might actually pull this off, I laughed at the notion just yesterday.
I'm starting to believe we might actually pull this off, I laughed at the notion just yesterday.
You appear to be conflating role and position. The fact is we have players for every position on the park, apart from a holding, defensive midfielder for a single pivot in a 4-3-3 or 4-1-4-1 or 4-4-2 diamond. That isn't really De Jong's position; he doesn't want to be holding. He can do it, but ideally you don't want to hamstring him with that responsibility. Casemiro right now makes a lot more sense to fill that gap, which then, without signing anyone else, allows you to dispense with McFred and get at least one of Eriksen or Donny in team to play in midfield with the ball. We can still look to sign a good playmaker regardless, but the vast majority would be better for Casemiro's presence anyway.
If we could find a way to pair Casemiro with FDJ, that would be an incredible transformation of our midfield. Wishful thinking, I know.
He signed a new one last summer, and with their recent recruitment isn't in a position to demand another.
This is most likely the biggest offer he'll get from here on in his career. Madrid would only begin to phase him out for the younger midfielders (even though he's still ahead now). He could stay at Madrid for say the next two years but he wouldn't be getting a double your money offer by then so its tempting.
He's won it all at Madrid so we offer him a new challenge.
I agree, which is why I said that Casemiro isn't and wasn't a better fit than De Jong. We really need both profiles.
Have you been living under a rock? There were many journalists that said we'd been given assurances.
Now I'm wondering if you're just on the WUM. No way you missed all those tweets and articles.
Ok perfecto. Hope you got the context and point. If not, please read that post again.
You'd hope so. There's no basis to beleive they think that far ahead - where's the succession plan for Ronaldo?
Fair enough. I'd take that.
I also thought Varane that of Varane and Ronaldo though
We're going to play Casemiro - McT - Fred and make Mou proud
Hope we don’t delay till the end and just pay what real wants and close this deal.
Spoiler: this will not be the player we see at Man Utd
I've scraped all the tier one credible journalists and theyve been careful in their wording. The consistent news out of Barcelona is that he never wanted to join us, so I'm not sure why you're peddling some other silly narrative.
I love that his compilation video is just about him tackling in midfield. Exactly what we need.
We appear to have activated some economic levers.
Sorry, I missed your first comment since I didn’t read back a lot. And I absolutely agree with you. A midfield of Casemiro, Eriksen and Bruno is unbalanced and Casemiro will get pressed and United fans will wonder how he looked so good at Real.
Yeah we fired that fecking no mark because he was talking a little too much sense. Disneyland United is back, baby!Remember what Ralf Rangnick said about signing players after their last big contract?
Here we are, making the same mistakes yet again
Just bossed the scousers around in the CL final 3 months ago and fits a poistion we have desperately needed, which we got reminded about these first 2 matches of the season. Guess these are people that wanted Declan Rice for 140m
So other than FDJ, who'd be the ideal second CM signing to go with him?
Totally
By new challenge he probably means a doubling of his wage, much like Varane. Can't blame him though.
Casemiro and De Jong instead of Mcfred.
Thats why this signing won't work out unless you add players who give you quality on the ball to compensate for what Casemiero doesn't have.
This is why we want him. Look at him just seductively smirking at Verratti. Ball progression? Press resistant? feck all that noise. He’s here to slide tackle and chew bubblegum. And Ancelotti took his last hubba bubba.
I'm conflating nothing. We need both as much as the other.
Ain’t it mad how we could be signing someone we never thought we would be as you can tell we only have 56 pages in this thread. But de Jong has over 1500 pages and we haven’t even got close to signing him
Wasn't he just repeating what Neville and Scholes have been saying? Except the part where he wanted to replace the entire XI because he couldn't get results if his life depended on it
If murtough somehow pulls this off, I'd personally write him a letter of apology using my cock.Casemiro and De Jong instead of Mcfred.
Exactly! Like this de Jong guy at Barca or a similar profile. United supporters that expect Casemiro to be the savior will be in for a surprise
Yeah and half the caf
If ever you were looking for evidence of our non-sensical, scattergun transfer strategy...Ain’t it mad how we could be signing someone we never thought we would be as you can tell we only have 56 pages in this thread. But de Jong has over 1500 pages and we haven’t even got close to signing him
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