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Also bonkers!
£60M for arguably the world’s best DM. Bargain.
madrid are a way classier club than those Catalan twats, that’s all I know.
Interesting. Sure hope you’re right (if he comes here!)
We paid £80M for Maguire.....
Feck it. May as well spend the money before it's all gone
My thoughts exactly.
Haha, better on Casemiro than Joel’s back pocket!We paid £80M for Maguire.....
Feck it. May as well spend the money before it's all gone
And he cost 20m, not 60m! For that price, no one would be worried about signing Casemiro either.
Always forget Fabinho was at Real Madrid. Crazy how difficult it is to make it into their midfield. While we’re pissing around with McTominay for the past 5 years. Laughable.
I wasn’t singling you out , just in general there’s a few negative comments. I think he’ll be a great signing . Exactly what we need
Would be a great signing for us. He is a proven winner and a leader on the pitch.
Slightly confused as to why United waited until the end of the window to get this done. They could've had Casemiro signed and ready to start against Brighton but are running around late on in the window trying to get a deal done.
Cracking player though. Definitely the type of player United have been missing.
Cracking player though. Definitely the type of player United have been missing.
Before anyone says Varane, let me just add that this guy will add some serious steel to our team. Something we've sorely missed since Keano left.
We were chasing that Dutch fella.
By all accounts Ten Hag wanted Eriksen and De Jong in midfield as his first choice. Doesn’t matter if we get De Jong or not after this, we now know that midfield simply would not work.
Can’t get better than Casemiro
I'd focus on players who are more self sufficient than Casemiro but that's not even the point. Casemiro could totally work at United, I'm not a fortune teller, but it'll greatly depend on what other midfielder United signs. Also when you're assessing the relevance of a transfer, you need to look at both sides of the coin, and Casemiro inconsistency really needs to be brought up because it was not obvious to a lot of people here who only watch foreign teams when they play in the CL (where Casemiro almost always shines).
Well, if we still use McFred in every matches until Jan, we may book the relegation already and ETH may be fired before Jan. Also, why the breakthrough stars who shines at the WC will choose us piror to RM, ManCity, Liverpool, Bayern, PSG who want him?
Also, a top potential player with young and hungry will cost more than Casemiro (i.e. 80m for Tchouameni) and no one knows whether that young guy will reach his potential fully or not / no one guarantee the player will not dream to RM or Barca after 1-2 years when Spanish club say hi.
We need players who can help us NOW to let new managers and new CEO to buy time for something.
I still think we could get FDJ as a rotation option
He was a right back at the time.
De Jong was clearly first choice and we were too slow to read the room.
I wrote this in response to someone in the thread but I've changed it so it's now a general comment to the usual suspects...
I'm getting sick of people saying "we should've bought *x* last year". Names thrown out simply because another team bought them this summer. Unfortunately we don't have a time machine and in case you hadn't noticed our scouting has been monumentally shite for a long time. Yes, it's shit but be practical ffs.
We have two options right now; keep our money and have a tremendously shit season where we're dominated by 19 teams who just press us until someone makes a mistake, or we swallow our pathetic pride and pay the money needed to get players that actually improve us. We don't have a third option, unless "chuck the money randomly at Football Manager wonderkids and hope for the best" is a viable strategy. We're bottom of the league, experiencing the same problems that we had last season because there's no leaders in this team. Long term this deal might hurt us but if the club doesn't actually do something NOW then our long term problems are the least of our worries.
This isn't a panicked reaction to two losses this season. This is the culmination of a decade of misdirection and falsehoods we tell ourselves that somehow these things will just turn out fine if we believe it in our hearts enough. Like Peter Pan but a shit version who can't pass to someone five feet away.
I'm getting sick of people saying "we should've bought *x* last year". Names thrown out simply because another team bought them this summer. Unfortunately we don't have a time machine and in case you hadn't noticed our scouting has been monumentally shite for a long time. Yes, it's shit but be practical ffs.
We have two options right now; keep our money and have a tremendously shit season where we're dominated by 19 teams who just press us until someone makes a mistake, or we swallow our pathetic pride and pay the money needed to get players that actually improve us. We don't have a third option, unless "chuck the money randomly at Football Manager wonderkids and hope for the best" is a viable strategy. We're bottom of the league, experiencing the same problems that we had last season because there's no leaders in this team. Long term this deal might hurt us but if the club doesn't actually do something NOW then our long term problems are the least of our worries.
This isn't a panicked reaction to two losses this season. This is the culmination of a decade of misdirection and falsehoods we tell ourselves that somehow these things will just turn out fine if we believe it in our hearts enough. Like Peter Pan but a shit version who can't pass to someone five feet away.
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Because we are idiots and spent entire summer waiting for De Jong.
FDJ is not a defensive midfielder. We need a DM and FDJ/other ball progressor simultaneously.
Because we've wasted the whole window laughably thinking we had a chance of De Jong.
Thaigo isnt a DM, hes a playmaker. Midfielseds who rely in their physical abilities often see a decline in their early 30s. Kante, Patrick Vieria etc etc
Always liked those Madrid lads. Never had a bad word to say about them even when they were diving shithouse cnuts.
As someone who never watches Real other than in the CL, is he often pretty bad then? Worrying.
Awful comparison.
Agree, someone still dream to buy young potential player with 50m+ and big contract and HOPE them to become world class.
But now, we have a chance to have a world class player actually (at least 1-2 year)
Fernandinho, Busquets, Gattusso, Gilberto, Senna
Awful post
Often pretty bad would be an exageration. But he's often less dominant than what he is in the CL and can show real difficulties on the ball or have a tendancy to be late when he commits.
I'm on the fence with this signing but I don't know why some fans are so against other fans being quite abit wary of this potential deal.
Especially considering the shambolic nature of the club's ownership and running in the past decade, and this particular window hasn't exactly been smooth, then being slightly pessimistic is almost understandable.
Especially considering the shambolic nature of the club's ownership and running in the past decade, and this particular window hasn't exactly been smooth, then being slightly pessimistic is almost understandable.
Wait, is this actually something that is seriously being considered???
Like Henderson, and Milner, and Fernandinho.
Who says Casemiro relies on his physical attributes though?
Just like 9/10 of your posts.
Haven’t even gotten a thread title change in yet. I was thinking “The Red Devil Wedding: The reins of Casemiro” or something like “Our DM watch has ended?” with the new Game of Thrones content coming out, but they’d need some improvement...
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