Raphael Varane | Signed for United!
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Seems fair enough. Won absolutely everything there, multiple times.
Don't care about the argument y'all are having but there's always a group that questions a signing. There are people questioning Sancho and Varane right now. People questioned signing Bruno.
Can't really use that argument.
Varane, looking for a new challenge, probably took a quick look at our set-pieces and went "yep, challenge accepted". Fair play to him 
May be Victor Valdes. Minus the 1 UCl he has won more I guess.
He's already made them
He wanted to leave for a new challenge. It happens. After 9 seasons in Spain, people with ambition want to try a new league, new club, no doubt if he joined us 9 years ago and we’d been very successful after 9 seasons he’d want to try a new league.
Heard the story he drove or took the train down but Zidane was already in a role at Real and persuaded him to join Real.
Only won a World Cup and 4 CL’s… so can’t see what he’ll bring to a team that regular gets to the last hurdle but seems to miss that winning mentality to get over the line.
Still got a feeling, we might have an agreement with RM that if we can’t extend with Pogba then we’ll accept an already agreed offer from them, hopefully after we signed a CM or CDM, don’t mind giving DVB the second main CM role if we have a proper CDM
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Really tough one with Pogba. If given freedom to roam more and a solid DM behind him, he is great. But for me, it is him OR Bruno against the good sides. Their best positions are in similar areas of the pitch and I would choose Brunos mentality over Pogba all day.
Defensively Pogba makes too many mistakes. Offensively he can be world class.
If we replace Pogba with a top quality DM it will actually be an upgrade, in relation to what out first team actually needs.
Man this transfer makes me so happy! We really needed to improve on Lindelofs position. What a pairing we'll have!
The thing is Pogba has played with Herrera and younger Matic. Both were quite good at doing the dirty work and yet Pogba didnt have the same impact as Bruno. While Bruno just walked into the squad, joined Fred Scott midfield that people said were bang average and still had very good numbers. So if theres only one option to play to keep the balance of midfield, it has to be Bruno. Pogba wont be a massive loss, it is a loss that is very manageable.
I can’t really believe this is going to happen a right winger and Raphael Varane, it’s nearly as if our club is competent in the transfer market all of a sudden.
I'll know the damage Woodward has done to the club - if you don't, you haven't been watching
Did I say I believed them? No. Did you put words in my mouth? yesYou're happy to believe all the negative rumours.Carry on.
I thought you were taking the piss for a few seconds until it finally dawned on me that we did actually sign Valdes.
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Credit to Samuel, the first one to report this in march.
Blah. They have ability to spend unreasonable amount of money is what they have. And possibly better recruitment, but either way - the ridiculously deep squad is what makes the difference for City, the whole "genius manager" and "better system" are mostly urban legends. Genius manager my ass, got beat by Chelsea and failed again to win Champions League. Also, honestly - there is no one superior system in football, that is the beauty of football.
Let's hope we don't also sign a great defensive midfielder, because then we would have no excuse not to win the league
Lots of people have forgotten this. And more specifically United's own roots to success to football. They now look at the likes of system managers like Pep, Klopp and want to emulate them blindly. Forgetting that even post SAF, the teams most successful in CL have had similar systems to United (Zidane's RM, Bayern).
Do you think we will get any form of announcements before medical and he flying here like Sancho?
I'm expecting a "Comunicado Oficial" from Madrid anytime soon.
I'm expecting a "Comunicado Oficial" from Madrid anytime soon.
I’m more surprised how many you are who don’t understand how he plays or what style he has.You have poor reading comprehension. I never said Varane is like Vidic. Read again as many times as you need:
and make sure you take your time, so you don't make erroneous statements again.
Also, the prospect of Lindelof never being seen again in our starting 11 has me prepping the biggest post-covid jamboree
He’s unquestionably a genius when it comes to using those vast resources to annihilate cannon league fodder, no doubt. He’ll win many many more titles that way.
Where he’s nothing like genius is when he comes up against comparable sides, when the playing field is much more levelled out.
So this is what it's like to have a world class pair of CB's.. it's been so long I barely remembered the feeling. Can't wait for the season to start!
He also was one of the first to report our interest in Sancho before he was sold to Dortmund. Luckhurst is the transfer muppet king for 2021
We're a no 6 away from being a seriously good side.
Woodward would have to sign 11 players, all the world's best on their positions today! That's if he could have any chance of making up for his 8 years of dive bombing our club into decline.
He reckons we're still after a holding midfielder and a right-back (I assume that would be contingent on us finding buyers for Lingard and Dalot), plus a replacement for Pogba if he goes.
Agreed.
And a new goalkeeper - DDG isn't the same as he was 2 years ago - and Henderson isn't good enough.
I'd say we're a no 6 away from being a what I call "lucky" contender. I still think we're a RB and ST away from being a seriously good side considering that AWB can't cross for his live and Cavani can't play any game.
If Ole will somehow work some magic with them rotations then yes, we might be in for a surprise next season.
Why would Real use up their wage allocation on Pogba when they're saving it up for Mbappe?
Do me a favor and watch this:
Best United Comebacks 20/21
It is easy to overlook how many chances and goals Lindelof consistently gives away. So happy with the Varane signing.
Best United Comebacks 20/21
It is easy to overlook how many chances and goals Lindelof consistently gives away. So happy with the Varane signing.
Hoping we'll use the Pogba money on that. It'd be a net improvement to the team.
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