That would be an extremely flimsy sword to die upon.
All he has to do to brush off any unwanted criticism of his Antony transfer is to highlight the need for depth of quality in all areas and competition for places.
I'm all for this transfer, providing he can stay injury-free for the rest of the season.
He is much more dangerous and unpredictable than Antony and would be a much bigger and more multi-faceted threat from our right side.
I traded my soul to the devil under the proviso that United would buy a holding midfielder.
This better be worth it.
Is anyone else willing to make the same sacrifice for a striker, a winger, a right back and another midfielder?
Ole had no kind of tactical ideas to speak of let alone a defining system of play so I suppose pundits were given free reign to choose their own grievances with players in that period :D
It's nothing to do with any kind of agenda.
We have just hired a manager whose primary tactical feature is pressing - this is why players who are incapable of or unwilling to press are being highlighted.
Had we hired a manager who prefers tiki-taka, people would be rightfully pointing to our...
It looked more like a diamond to me, Fred was further ahead of McTominay and positioned to the right. Pogba was on the left and Bruno was in the middle behind the front two.
Up until the first game of the season you can make as many free transfers as you like so you still have time to completely rework your squad without penalty.