Walters_19_MuFc
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Throughout the season, United have been linked with both, attacking and defensive midfielders. Grealish, Maddison, Soumare, Zakaria, Partey, to name a few.
Now, it might be the case that we are actually looking to sign both, however, I feel with the recent purchase of Bruno, we will only be targeting one midfielder in the summer.
My question to you is, what type of midfielder should that be?
Quite a lot of people, including myself, seem to be on the Grealish hype. A player who, although has played quite a bit on the wing this season, is also comfortable playing as an 8/10. However, as good as he has been, assuming Ole continues with his favoured 4231 and we continue to play Bruno as a 10, then where would that leave Grealish? Yes, we certainly need to improve our squad, but there's no way we're going to spend 50M plus (or whatever the price may be) on a squad player when there's much bigger priorities.
I guess, the only way we were to bring a starting attacking midfielder in, is if we were to play Bruno deeper as a roaming playmaker - kind of like how Ole uses Pogba when he plays deep.
If not, then as I said, I can't see how we'd fit in a 10.
The other option is keeping Bruno as a 10, who has really hit the ground running since joining, and bringing in a defensive midfielder. Apart from Matic, who to be fair to him, has been fantastic since coming back into the side, we haven't got a specialist holding midfielder. Fred and McTominay, whilst very good options, are more box to box midfielders rather than players that will sit in front of the back four and break up play. Therefore, if we were to get a defensive midfielder, we could have them with Fred/McTominay beside them.
In a nutshell, what would people prefer?
Thanks.
Now, it might be the case that we are actually looking to sign both, however, I feel with the recent purchase of Bruno, we will only be targeting one midfielder in the summer.
My question to you is, what type of midfielder should that be?
Quite a lot of people, including myself, seem to be on the Grealish hype. A player who, although has played quite a bit on the wing this season, is also comfortable playing as an 8/10. However, as good as he has been, assuming Ole continues with his favoured 4231 and we continue to play Bruno as a 10, then where would that leave Grealish? Yes, we certainly need to improve our squad, but there's no way we're going to spend 50M plus (or whatever the price may be) on a squad player when there's much bigger priorities.
I guess, the only way we were to bring a starting attacking midfielder in, is if we were to play Bruno deeper as a roaming playmaker - kind of like how Ole uses Pogba when he plays deep.
If not, then as I said, I can't see how we'd fit in a 10.
The other option is keeping Bruno as a 10, who has really hit the ground running since joining, and bringing in a defensive midfielder. Apart from Matic, who to be fair to him, has been fantastic since coming back into the side, we haven't got a specialist holding midfielder. Fred and McTominay, whilst very good options, are more box to box midfielders rather than players that will sit in front of the back four and break up play. Therefore, if we were to get a defensive midfielder, we could have them with Fred/McTominay beside them.
In a nutshell, what would people prefer?
Bruno
Defensive Midfield - Fred/McTominay
Attacking Midfielder
Matic/Fred/McTominay - Bruno
Could you possibly add a poll @Niall or @Damien, please?Defensive Midfield - Fred/McTominay
Attacking Midfielder
Matic/Fred/McTominay - Bruno
Thanks.