Desperate, inept. Words fail me.
Sofyan Amrabat | signs for United on loan
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Yeah begging through email or phone doesn't have as much of an impact as doing it face to face.
@horsechoker what is your take on all of this? I have no idea why I'm asking you other than your name always comes to mind when I think of the Caf
Maybe united needed to show they are serious after putting it off since June?
Hope Ryannair fly to Florence
Bayindir.
Flying over to show him his bank balance on his phone and tell Amrabat to chip in with a few quid if he really wants to join.
This will go down the wire in the last second like it did with Berbatov is my guess.
We desperately need him to play against Arsenal, Eriksen does not have the legs for top matches is my fear.
We desperately need him to play against Arsenal, Eriksen does not have the legs for top matches is my fear.
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Even if we sign him he'll hardly be thrown in to a game against Arsenal two days later.
I don't know why his on the ball ability keeps skipping over people's minds. I believe that's what has attracted EtH to him over other potential candidates. He can shield the defence if he has to but can also pass it very well when we have it. Even if we had 60m to spare I would say don't get Palhinha and get someone who can shield as well as pass well.
We won’t get him, our season will collapse once again due to the amount of injuries and huge questions marks in so many positions, ETH gone at the end of the season and Conte will be in by the end of preseason. Rinse and repeat. It’s the United way.
I think it's too late in the day to do the medical and register him on time for weekend fixtures.
Whilst I get that we don't necessarily need 11 world class players, there is an argument to be made that actually the best teams do have 11 very good players these days. The bar is so much higher than it used to be. Often clubs will buy players that can take that step to becoming 'world class' or something around there - but I just don't see it with some of our signings.
A guy can dream can`t he?
I really do not want Casemiro to have Eriksen or Mctominay on his side when we face Arsenal.
But you are probably right.
He’s the Ja Rule of the caf.
We should try and see if we can get him for a bag of balls.
Why are they so accommodating?
I thought trying to get him on loan without an obligation was insulting?
No chance. Think he needs to be registered in the next 30 mins and he's barely played or trained in weeks.
There's been talk since the beginning of the window that they want to shift him out.
Ok if 30 mins left then no chance.
He have trained on his own so not like he have not moved at all.
Watch first half against Spurs.
Doubt he'll feature against Arsenal but i'm confident that he will improve us considerably if played alongside Casemiro and Ten Hag reverts to 4-2-3-1 like we had last year. If Ten Hag tries to force him to be a number 8 a-la Mount/Bruno, it will be a waste of money and effort. Amrabat is a full time defensive midfielder.
He'd need a Visa as well. That seems to take an age these days.
It doesnt fit with Mount is crap and a waste of money narrative.
Mount basically played alongside Casemiro in the first half at Spurs which was why we looked half decent for the first time all season. As soon as Ten Hag reverted to his experiment in the second half, we got overrun and lost.
Hopefully this gets done and we have more steel in midfield
Yep, we clearly need to pump the breaks here.
No way we should be trying to buy a player from a club that actually wants to sell him to us.
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Is he though? A few weeks ago all his stats were being posted here and he looked hopeless defensively.
Like how does this work? Do the guys in the negotiation just ask to pause for a toilet break then leave the room and text Romano directly then just come back and keep negotiating until some other point has agreed and then go again. I can imagine them just sitting there guzzling glasses of water in between agreeing points of the deal to make the toilet breaks look needed.
Amrabat a complete midfielder except for decisive actions in final third.
I’d say that’s a significant step forward to signing Amrabat, now that Fiorentina have their replacement.
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This statement isn't correct as he can play alongside a dm as a dlp. He has the ball skills and the mobility to go up and down the field.
For it work Mount had to play in a role that is not his preferred role. Deeper and closer to Casemiro. So why not sign someone who is actually used to playing in the role rather than trying to shoehorn Mason Mount in there.In the 2nd game of the season
You've kind of agreed with the poster as well.
On the looking decent bit, that's the only half of football in 3 games that we actually looked solid in and Porro still hit the post in that half. We have been shaky in every other half of football played.
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