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Short term options are fine as long as they are either cheap (both in transfer fee and wage) or they are the final piece of the puzzle. Casemiro doesn't fit either of those categories unfortunately.

Should have put that one punch out wider instead of back into a dangerous position, but otherwise a solid game. I'm guessing it's percentage wise that he succeeds with, not taking into account how many he's actually coming for. He's certainly...

It would have made sense if the idea was to bring in a striker on loan instead, which is what I and probably most people assumed was the plan at the time. You can only have two loaned players at once, so we'd have to cancel either Amrabat or...

They've never been good partners for each other, and it hurts both of them. Instead of helping cover each others weaknesses, they both have many of the same weaknesses. Maguire's top level has certainly been better while he's been here, but his...

He was better the season after Mykonos.

The signing of Antony is arguably the worst, in terms of it being so obviously overpriced whereas you could somewhat understand the fees for some of the others. But the player himself certainly isn't the biggest flop. He did enough last season to...

To be honest, it's more a result of poor investment rather than a lack of investment. We've spent an absolute shit-ton of money on recruitment. More than almost anyone else. It's just that it's almost all been spent terribly, and there's only so...

*The new manager, DoF, CEO and other high-level members of the board decide if they want him or not. Although, they may not have any real choice if we can't find anyone to buy him.

How long do we wait for that great manager though? One season? Two? Three? You mentioned in another post that 'we'll be left with the scraps after Liverpool, Barca and Bayern pick the best of what's available, and we're better off waiting'. But...

The issue in Greece was at the end of his first season, a season where he was already up and down quite a bit so I'd hardly say he was solidly consistent. While he did struggle a bit for the first month or two a in his second season, after that...

We need the best possible manager who can implement the style and philosophy that the board wants. If they decide that ETH isn't suited to doing that, we are far better off going for another manager that is, even if that manager ultimately isn't...

Obviously I don't know what happened from the clubs perspective, but from the outside looking in I think most fans were looking at it as Rashford, Sancho and Greenwood rotating between the two wide positions, so Sancho would have played either...

I do think context matters, and we don't really have that context. If the club has multiple options lined up, but ETH turns around and basically says he doesn't want anyone but a certain player then it's all on him. Well it's also on the club...

You make it sound like he'd barely started for a couple of months or something. He came off the bench three times in his last four games. Before that he'd started almost every game that season. Mount was largely poor last season, and then got...

Sancho was much worse. Antony was decent enough last season. Obviously not worth anywhere near what we paid for him and not as good as what we wanted, but he was rightfully our first choice right winger and played his part in the build-up...