This is a fantastic deal. Rather than putting Dalot there as cover.
Marc Cucurella - World Class Hairdo
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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?
Good. We need a miracle
I'm not blaming him for the entirety of the season obviously. But it's pretty incontrovertible that a major contributor to our season going off the rails when Chilwell and James got hurt - just like the year before.
We actually started very well under Potter for what it's worth - then we lost our fullbacks and couldn't score goals since their replacements did absolutely nothing offensively.
Just waiting for a picture of him having worked with EtH previously 
Funny how views convenient change, go to his other thread and it's our fans calling him shit and Chelsea lot defending him. Suddenly we have the reverse now 
It's genuinely mental, when you think of our squad composition we have 2 actual centre midfielders, 1 of them previously being an attacking midfielder, and 1 defensive mid yet have 3 (!) left backs, 4 with Cucurella
in 10 to 20 years time there will be PhD students writing their thesis on the transfer priorities and dealings of Man United. I actually think we've gotten worse at squad planning under Arnold and Murtogh, to me it seems like the haven't got the faintest clue what they're doing.
3million is a great deal to be honest. Even if he is just back up to Dalot for the next 6 weeks.
Will be a bit disappointing if this is the last bit of business though.
We need a CM.
Will be a bit disappointing if this is the last bit of business though.
We need a CM.
That's a pretty serious insult.
We’ve signed Zabaleta with hair.
That's football fandom and the nature of transfers isn't it. One of the few transfers that did the opposite was Mount, where it was the selling clubs fans singing his praises, while the buying teams fan were all doom and gloom.Funny how views convenient change, go to his other thread and it's our fans calling him shit and Chelsea lot defending him. Suddenly we have the reverse now
Now you’re confusing me.It's genuinely mental, when you think of our squad composition we have 2 actual centre midfielders, 1 of them previously being an attacking midfielder, and 1 defensive mid yet have 3 (!) left backs, 4 with Cucurella
We still have Casemiro, McTominay, Eriksen and Mount for two positions? (Plus Mainoo, it seems to me, if we’re counting apprentices and injured players as well?)
And we have two LB’s, but both are injured. (Three if you count Fernandez, even thoug he seems quite a bit further down the list than Mainoo). I’m pretty sure if both Case and McTom were out for months, we’d get something done for midfield, don’t you?
Both statically and subjectively incorrect.
On a side note, has any VAR camera ever picked up Cucurella smiling?
We might have numbers, but the quality and what we actually need isn't there.
You’re in danger of tarnishing @bosnian_red ‘s name with comments like this.
Get out.
Would be happy with that tbf.We’ve signed Zabaleta with hair.
Seriously underwhelming.
Seriously don't get all the fascination with fees.
3 or 7, who gives a feck.
3 or 7, who gives a feck.
To be fair, that was always the likely outcome when United went shopping for a desperate, last-minute LB addition with no money to spend and three days to close the deal.
Usually I agree, but when we’re seemingly so poor and it’s stopping us making transfers it seems every penny counts.
Amrabat might if the money saved (plus the Henderson fee) allows us to sign a midfielder. We're on the bones of our arse, financially - every little helps, even £4m.
Don't post that kissy prat in here!We’ve signed Zabaleta with hair.
He's going to shock a lot of you. Didn't watch him at Chelsea but did with BHA. He's brilliant for ETHs system and once Hojlund joins it's going to be an effective combo.
It's a weird one innit? On the one hand, we are paying £3mil for a season of a back up/rotational left back who has just had a below average year (I thought he got better as it went on, an incredibly poor start).
On the other, we might have just paid only £3mil for a season of a backup/rotational full back who was Brighton's Players Player and Fans Player of the year just the season before and was highly sought after by City and whom Brighton, a club whose recruitment is well revered on this forum, desperately wanted to keep.
Cucurella is not the first to go to Chelsea and suffer from a scatter gun approach to recruitment, I doubt he will be the last. As far as we go, there is enough talent there for me and I think if he can get back to his natural game with us, fans in the stadium will love him.
I rated him a lot based on his Brighton days and was making a case with resident Chelsea fans only last week that he could be better than Chilwell if he found his form.
However, it might just be me but loaning a player off a supposed rival is a bit weird. I doubt I'll ever really warm to a Chelsea player who is here on loan. It's also strange that Chelsea are sanctioning this. Do they not see us as a threat or is Cucurella not great behind the scenes and they want rid?
However, it might just be me but loaning a player off a supposed rival is a bit weird. I doubt I'll ever really warm to a Chelsea player who is here on loan. It's also strange that Chelsea are sanctioning this. Do they not see us as a threat or is Cucurella not great behind the scenes and they want rid?
No way we're loaning this guy
Apparently he's a really nice guy who makes people laugh so I guess that's why he doesn't fit in at Chelsea
ETH wants him, therefore he MUST be good.Funny how views convenient change, go to his other thread and it's our fans calling him shit and Chelsea lot defending him. Suddenly we have the reverse now
How many games will he play before the CuCKurella jokes come in?
Doesn't a joke need to make sense and be funny?
Not a bad signing on loan - a few of us were pining for him when he was at Brighton. Let's hope he can recapture some of that form.
We're on caf, of course it doesn't.
You ain't from around these parts are ya?
Every time he skins a right forward or a right back, we can say they got cucked.
What a baptism of fire it will be if he's thrown in against Saka
Harsh on @horsechoker
This is ridiculous! I think getting a player like this in is a recipe for disaster. He’s such a mess of a player that he might cause more problems than he fixes. Do we not have proper scouts anymore to identify players?