Recent content by Ishpan2

I think the bigger question is would Grealish be willing to come with Sancho, Rashford, Greenwood, and Fernandes all above him in the pecking order, fighting for the 3 positions he mainly plays. So it's less of a question of overkill and more about how to get him without paying an over the top...

Personally, I think the reason we couldn't score was that the attackers were forced to defend to cover our awful defense and midfield. They also got no service from the midfield. Remember, there was a point where our defensive players were Young, Jones, Smalling, Valencia, and Fellaini.

Accurate. In my opinion Ole is a great player coach, meaning he helps players grow and reach their potential. Unfortunately, he has shown a lot of weaknesses as a tactical coach. He seems to get flustered when faced with a new or unique strategy by an opposing coach, and does not always adjust...

I think the need for a CDM is overlooked in too many of these replies. The truth is, the more games in a row that Matic plays, the slower he gets. This eventually results in him being slower than a snail if we start him every game. I love Scott, but he hasn't shown the growth this season that...

My fear is Fernandes getting tired or Pogba/Fernandes getting injured. Without those two, this team has no creativity (no depth) and we will lose games. Only chance of them getting rest is if we keep blowing teams out, or they will have to play every 3 days with the post-break schedule.

This is true, and it's what I've been thinking every time I heard someone say Chelsea were guaranteed top 4 after the City game. Chelsea were in the top 4 before the break because they have very good depth. They have a lot of youth pieces that can fit in to the side, but most of them need to be...

I think best way would be 4-4-2 diamond. We usually play through the middle better anyway. Pogba and Fred as cm, McTom/Matic as cdm, Bruno as cam, and Martial + Rashford as strikers. This lineup would be world-class imo, with a more interceptive/defensive Fred to balance a more attack Pogba in...

Not about entertaining football for me, that is but one characteristic of the club and how it's been run for recent decades. The United Way is something else, something ancient, something very simple: We (players, managers, fans) always fight for the badge. We bleed red till the day we die...

Because we don't have a proper RW or a good CAM or a third midfielder next to Pogba or Mc. That's not survival of the fittest, that's start whoever we can to get 11 players on the field. I'm behind the players, just not behind Woodward because we have the most obviously glaring holes out of...

Club made 1.2 bill in the last summer and reinvested 111 mill. That's around 9% reinvestment with the rest going straight to the Glazers. I'm curious on how you can be optimistic that a single penny from Lukaku or Pogba's sales will go back into the club. I believe that Pogba is gone next summer...

With the team we have, who starts over the youth? In a 4-2-3-1, we have 3 senior players who can play either RW or CAM- Mata, Sanchez, and Lingard. So either we start Mata/Sanchez, or a youth player has to start. You can't not expect them to play much when we don't have the attack players for...

Honestly, I would consider giving my kidney to Woodward to stop Matic from starting another game. The fact is, he turned into a slow grandpa who always makes us look even more vulnerable at the back than we usually are. The guy is done. Whether we always play Pogba-McTom or we get another cm...

Midfield is a more gaping hole than false 9. But please, please, we need a top star on this team other than Pogba and De Gea. Dybala can be that, so I say we need him more despite our positional needs.

Juventus are willing to trade because they need a young target man alongside Ronaldo. Sarri doesn't need a number 10, but we need a quality cam badly. This isn't as much about a comparison in the quality of the players, but rather each team's positional needs.

If the world was ideal: Lukaku for Dybala Pogba + $70mil for Neymar + Verratti (they both want out, noone else will pay for them) $65 mil for Issa Diop De Gea AWB Lindelof Diop Shaw Mctominay Verratti Neymar Dybala Martial Rashford Will this happen? No, because we don't have city's owners...