I watched most U23 games of 2019 yes, I just don't see the relevance in discussing that level of play. Only Gomes and Greenwood performed better then Chong at that level last season. Some inconsistent performance from Chong, but that is as expected, especially considering he came back from a year long injury, at max level Chong was tearing up the U23 defenders.
Its not a good comparison at all. When we play the class of 92, we trust them by selling our regular first team key players like Hughes, Kanchelski and Ince and expected most them to go straight into our starting line up as our 1st choice (Scholes, Beckham, Butt, Nevilles). But those kid we had now (Greenwood, Gomes, Tuanzebe, Chong etc) most of them are only expected to be 3rd or 4th choice or bench warmer, and all we did is selling our flop or bench player like Lukaku or even Sanchez.
Lukaku was a consistent top scorer, herrera was our 2nd best CM and Fellaini had his uses. Sanchez would be needed in a team that can't be bothered to really strengthening a side who ended 6th place last season
No one dreamt of us winning the league that year. Critics placed us between 2nd and 4th. Meanwhile our shares plummeted while Sir alex spent a summer chasing Anderton. Even he thought that the step we were making was a step too far
I was talking about Sanchez and Sanchez alone. Nothing to do with Lukaku, Herrera.
I don't see how. On the bench you have room for a keeper, 2 defender, 2 midfielders and two attackers of any kind. Hence a James can comfortable make a bench with a matic, greenwood and alexis, tuanzebe, young and Romero. For example....
You’ve answered your own question really. Why would we keep somebody even worse than those players?
Last season. The last time he played any football was at the Copa America and he looked far from useless.
We are talking of the entire squad. If we keep dismantling the squad then it's only fair you end up reliant on what you've got. I wouldn't have said anything if Rojo or Jones were sold. Unfortunately we are ridiculously light upfront
Of course we are light up front. So we have decision to make, stick with proven shit that ended up as a failure in the last 18 months or take a step in right direction and start the rebuild by making space for promising youngsters.
Sanchez has scored 5 goals in 45 games. The idea he is a goal threat for us is a nonsense.
Not much
.You have to think about the wider impact on the squad though. If the players see him doing nothing every day, picking up more money than all of them, the dressing room is going to remain a powderkeg waiting to explode. We need to get him out of sight even if it means paying half his wage to leave.
I was responding to your earlier comment where you said Greenwood was the replacement for Lukaku, which was nonsense.
He wasn't great in those games either. Scored a goal and everyone said he played well. He was actually very poor in that game. Losing the ball constantly.
It's not about afford. It's about taking an opportunity that will probably not come again to offload Sanchez without shelling anything out from our end. Llorente happens to be the only decent option on a free. We would probably go for a better option if the window was still open
I would keep Sanchez around as well until the January window to begin with. At the same time if he insists on going I dont think it will make or break our season either.
Exactly,if we keep him now nobody might come forward to take him in January,let alone next summer.We will be stuck with him for the next 2 seasons...,He’s been a disastrous signing and he can’t perform in the PL anymore,it’s better to offload him while we can...
I think its quite apparant that Ole wants him in the team, what he is basing it on is hard to say - but that he have hopes that he can perform for sure. Its either Alexis himself or Woodward/Glazers that is pushing this. Ole is overruled yet again, sad to see.
Neither of those players are injury prone, but sure, it can happen that both of them are out for a couple of matches at the same time. In that event, out attack would be James on the left, Greenwood in the center and Lingard in the right, with 2 or 3 of Mata, Gomes, Chong and Dalot in the bench. It is hardly great, but replace any of those names with Sanchez and it doesn't get better, in fact, it would be worse based on the 18 months he played for us.
We should have improved our attacking department irrespective whether Sanchez left or stayed. Now we are extremely light there and we can't keep losing players
Point is the most important thing is removing Sanchez from the wage bill.
James will get minutes as RW. We're shit there as well. Sanchez has had a horrible 18 months mostly due to injuries and 2 managerial changes. Id say lets give him till January. We can then assess things then. If he does well then we will rediscover a top top player. If he does badly then the kids will play. If the kids do badly then we'll have the numbers needed to hold the fort till January when hopefully Mr Woodward will be ready to part the money to finally get a forward. I can understand the urge to rely on the flavour of the season. However these guys have done absolutely nothing to deserve such trust. Even our U23 had been shit by the looks of it
The most important thing is to make it to top 4. Sorry if I still see Manchester United as a football club not as a corporate business whose sole aim is to generate as much revenue to the shareholders as possible.
Do you seriously believe that he will contribute to that. If we get rid now we can also get a replacement in January.
Our U23 is at second division? Seriously? Reading the posts in here I thought that the Greenwoods, the Chongs, the Gomeses and the Garners were scoring hat-tricks at that level for fun. If we keep dismantling the team up then the first team we'll soon catch up with our elite U23 (ok that was a joke)
I think he's got a bigger chance of contributing to the team if he stays here rather then at Inter.
Greenwood has been class. Why don't they deserve trust? If they don't then players who stunk up the place for 18 months for sure don't deserve.
Maybe you should watch few Greenwood games before dismissing their performance like that.
Well he's 17, he barely have any EPL experience and he's probably part of the same 'elite' U23 who had been relegated to division 2. That's quite surprising considering how ridiculously rated our kids are.
