And Huddlestone. Hooray
A decent player will he a huge upgrade over those two. Would you say that at the very least he has got natural talent / ability?
Didn't work so well with Pogba
pointless was a step too far, given he's an improvement on mctominay, but if somebody told me in april that wed be in for rabiot and arnautovic under our new 'fresh' regime id have laughed until i passed out
I'm not as rich as Jeff Bezos.
I already shared it, he is a decent player. A jack of all trades, master of none. You can use him in multitude of roles and he will do a decent job but rarely make you think that he is great. He also rarely turns into a shit performer, it happens but it's not common.
Of course I too want better. But we've made a mockery of our rebuild already so I'm trying to look for positives. A talented midfielder who can find his team mates and is decent with the ball at his feet? I'll take it if I don't want to watch mctominay tackle opponents with pieces of trickery. Even if he hasn't lived up to his potential.
Under 10m for sure, he’s on very high wages, the bs excuse people make for us getting peanuts of our sales is that the players are on high wages, well this guy is on high wages and he’s only got a year left on his contract. Juve paid £6m for Zakaria. We are fools if we pay anything close to £15m let alone £30m for this guy.
He can pass a ball and run with it.
He does, frankly his development has been very disappointing, his raw abilities should have led to a better footballer.
This is all that matters
Bentancur is not a better player than Rabiot.
Yep. Would 100% rather we sign nobody and play U21s than sign Rabiot and fecking Arnautovic. If we're really looking at bringing in either of those two (and it looks like we are) then the club is absolutely screwedThe club has lost the fooking plot. Old Trafford will probably burst into flames by the end of the year.
Please let this be the final year of the Glazers.
A defensive midfielder with poor final ball stats, who would have thought...
yeah you're right in the optimistic view, but weve seen all this before. we have fred, mctominay, van de beek, fernandes, garner, eriksen, plus youth players, and havent a clue what our midfield is or will be. If Rabiot doesnt come good we're just continuing to stockpile mediocrity. Even a free transfer for a player isnt worth it if it's just because they became available and not part of a well thought out strategy of exactly what we need and are building towards. This is just all so familiar.Of course I too want better. But we've made a mockery of our rebuild already so I'm trying to look for positives. A talented midfielder who can find his team mates and is decent with the ball at his feet? I'll take it if I don't want to watch mctominay tackle opponents with pieces of trickery. Even if he hasn't lived up to his potential.
Beggars can't be choosers and all that. Arnautovic sounds like a prank though that I'll admit
I am surprised at myself for remembering that Yacob played for the Baggies
You can sign Tielemans, who's 3x the player Rabiot is, for even less.
Its the primary reason, his teams just sit back and let other teams have the ball
Pretty much
FDJ is not happening man, let it go
We don't have that money available though as it's quite obvious that money is tied up in the pursuit of FdJ... As fruitless as that may seem.
You’re entitled to your opinion but please read my post from a year ago when I thought we should sign Bentancur (before he came to Spurs)
We're not signing Ruiz. Seems as obvious a club briefing as you can get.
De Jong is already behind a screen of Kevlar and a 6 inch think lead wall, in his desperation not to leave Barcelona.Maybe it's just a smokescreen to force the FDJ move
I agree. We need to eventually add excellence otherwise this being our level will be standard fair. But I guess it depends, if we add Rabiot to eventually replace someone like a Mctominay then I wouldn't worry as we'd be I the market for more Cms and who wouldn't be an improvement over him.
