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  • Yeah this is the issue for me as well, there was all this talk about Southgate to United from the pundits and mainstream media because they had no United material for 2 weeks, then when England didn't blow away their opposition in these...
  • RedRocket08 replied to the thread Amadou Onana.
    Oh 100%, I'm Onana-in but we need to also reinforce that RCB spot, and possibly sell at least one of Varane/Maguire/Victor and get a better replacement + if we sell Casemiro, it'd be good to have 2 options for CDM instead of just replacing...
  • RedRocket08 replied to the thread Amadou Onana.
    I think we also have to factor in the age profile of Onana v Rodri (Who is currently at his peak) here as well as the type of teams they play in. Onana has all the tools to become a top DM with time, so he's not a bad choice at all if the fee is...
  • Varela had good games against Barca as well - He's definitely tenacious, reminds me a bit of Gattuso / Keane and Ramelow as you mentioned, we could do with 1 or 2 players like that at United. A few clubs are keeping tabs on him (apparently) at...
  • Is this one going to come a bit too soon for Licha? I'd love to see him get a half, with Victor coming on in the 2nd half, Toney of course is a risk and I'd feel a lot better with Lisandro there. They're going through a few injuries themselves so...
  • I like both but aren’t they more like central / B2B midfielders, or can they slot into a single pivot DM role? What do you think of Alan Varela at Porto by the way? He does play in like a double pivot over there but I thought he had good games...
  • Well deserved player of the match award for him I feel - he created the chance that led to the first England goal with a lovely bit of dribbling, made a superb 1v1 for Bellingham, made a clear chance for Bowen as well and was generally really...
  • Yeah I thought Italy absolutely dominated that final as well, after that hiccup with the early goal. I thought were a defensively solid outfit that didn’t score a lot, reminded me of the ‘06 Italy team. England could have done a lot more in...
  • Nice jinx, we'll get a 2-0, 2 pens like Everton :p
  • RedRocket08 replied to the thread Ratcliffe austerity?.
    I prefer this approach over the last 10 years of ‘galacticos’/ football manager signings. What he’s saying doesn’t mean we’ll focus only on youth, what he means is that we need to have a best in class recruitment team that identifies those world...
  • RedRocket08 replied to the thread Who replaces Ten Hag?.
    A few snippets on their official Twitter account: https://twitter.com/GTCyclingClub This one in specific is about Arse and Artetta: Full podcast is on Spotify or Apple (Around the 31.30 min mark for United content).
  • RedRocket08 replied to the thread Who replaces Ten Hag?.
    Yeah I mean this kind of stuff sells which is why they put it out there. Notice how Ogden says 'if Ten Hag loses his job', that in itself is speculative.
  • Yeah but that can then be extrapolated to judging him on his whole tenure here + situations he's had to manoeuvre around, and not just this season. I think he's done the best he can, I just don't see another manager changing us all that much. I...
  • This for me is what it feels like too, we just don't have the pace/physicality throughout our defence to play a sustained high press. Our CBs will just back off until the midfielders who've overloaded the box come back to reinforce them. Casemiro...
  • RedRocket08 replied to the thread Who replaces Ten Hag?.
    Judging by Ratcliffe's comments today in which he was praising Arsenal for giving Artetta time, I think this is just media stirring the pot.I expect INEOS will be patient with ETH, but of course if we lose quite a few games between now and end of...