If we’re spending that sort of money in Portugal it has to be Neves. We’ve played our hand in signing Hojlund for the price we did, and because of the outlay, it would make little sense to spend huge money on a centre forward, unless we plan to...
You’re preaching to the choir, I’m a big fan of Silva’s work, but Mbappé is a different level and is the best player in the world. Silva isn’t. He’s one of a few midfielders with incredible close control and dribbling ability.
Bruno
Ruben Dias
Ederson
Hasselbaink
Carvahlo
Nani
Luis Diaz
Pedro Porro
Raul Jimenez
Nemanja Matic
Ruben Neves
Diogo Jota
erm, Cristiano Ronaldo
And then others who came to England via a different stop like Cancelo and Bernardo Silva.
Typically abject stuff so far. Bruno carrying the fight alone, but the players seem to have such little quality on the ball and can’t keep it. I suspect that is a confidence issue though.
I think we should bring Amad on for Rashford and Mount...
Mainoo doesn’t look like a skinny young boy at all. Personally, I don’t see that anyone would watch him and think no way he could be 21/22. He’s not Shea Lacey, for example.
Well then there are different arguments at play. The idea that a...
People cite things like this as a reason to hold young players back but I don’t really get it. Would it somehow make it much better if a player debuts at 21 and retires at 36 as opposed to 16 and is finished by 30? Rooney was finished at the very...