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Bruno Fernandes | United not interested due to doubts over passing ability
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
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If we sign him we could potentially finish 4th. If we dont, then we are likely to finish 6th. We havent replaced Fellaini. We havent replaced Herrera
They got Gueye and Herrera for £27m. Absolute bargain when you factor in the free transfer of Ander.
Why are we never this smart in the window?
United didn’t officially confirm but there were a few links to that in the previous weeks by a few other papers. I would imagine they are taken from sources at the club
Dubrovnik in August? Dear Lord, you mad? Come to Split, we can have 10 beers here for the price of one in Dubrovnik.
Please. Nobody at the Caf wanted Gueye, and that guy from Southampton, Lemina or something. You only have to take a look at their threads when they were linked to United
I don't care whether anyone else on here wanted Gueye. If we'd signed Gueye for £27 million I'd be very pleased.
We need positive vibes here guys. Please someone get monitoring the situation in Portugal and find some tweets. I will take anything to keep this alive
Really?
Gueye turns 30 in September and Herrera is on big wages. You can see why we didn’t sign them.
Remind you of this when Matic is killing us week after week after week.
We signed Matic when he was 29. This guy is also 29. You’ll be moaning the same about him like you are on Matic in a year or two
PSG are paying Herrera £350k per week. Absurd wages for a fairly limited player. You call that smart?
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Limited? Ander is a very good player. We will miss him a lot this season with no replacement signed. Nobody at the club presently who comes close to what he offered us.
Also the 350k a week is apparently a load of BS. He is supposedly on closer to 200k. It was the length of contract that swung it.
Yeah I feel the same. It's classic press twist like saying lvg vetoed kroos.
Ander is limited.
I don't know what people see watching this game.
I feel so left out in this players case, dont know a single thing about him, didnt watch a single game not even a clip of him. So weird, wouldnt recommend.
Well he's not a ball playing creative wizard is he. Or a goal scorer. Or a particularly strong defensive guy.
Ander is limited.
I don't know what people see watching this game.
Don't get me wrong he had some good spells and one stand out season as player of the year, but let's not overrate him.
Ander Herrera is the epitome of the phrase 'jack of all trades, master of none'.
He just might be finished.
Wait, you don't think that any of our defensive signings and emergene of the youth players will do anything to last seasons team, it's only down to replacing Herrera and little-impact Fellaini?
He is the master of the weighted pass. He reads the game very well. perfect breaking up play. An excellent box to box player.
Not a goal scorer like Scholes.
But to say he is limited is ridiculous.
He is limited (in quality). We should still have gotten a replacement as he was our only mobile midfielder defensively
He is good. But lets not kid ourself here. Like a poster before me aptly mentioned, He is epitome of a midfielder who can do everything reasonably well within a limited scope of time without necessarily being a week in and week out performer that all title winning midfielders have. Imho
I think this is a case of absolute no interest from our side apart from scouting meanwhile portuguese media have been reporting since May that he's a done deal. He would probably go for around £60m so I'd say if we actually wanted him he would have been here by now. Strongly believe this is just another Gaitan in the making which is truly a shame as I really hoped we would sign Bruno.
Doesnt look like this one will happen with the club now seemingly intent on bringing Dybala and Mandzukic in. We are desperately short in midfield
No I dont. I dont think the youth players will play that many games in the Premier league. I still think Ole is going to play Mata, Lingard ahead of them. We are really short in midfield and signing someone like this who can create and score goals will improve our chances of finishing 4th.
Maguire played plenty of preseason.
Gaitan 2.0
We had two bone headed managers who did not know how to use him.
Ole came in and saw his quality. He desperately wanted to keep him and pissed about losing him.
The banker added insult to injury by sending a letter with an offer rather than treating him with respect.
With the fitness regime Ole and Phelan started with we could have got darn close...2nd or 3rd if they had a full season.
Now we have a wantaway midfield player.
A very good squad player and a Player on the downside of his career.
We have a few days to address the midfield.
Not hopeful.
As to the assessment of Ander's ability, we will just have to agree to disagree.
Christ I'm fed up reading shit like this
Easy, so dont read it and jog on.
Even easier if the shit wasn't posted in the first place
We are, but he is not the solution.
Don't be silly. He would probably be our most dangerous attacking player if he joined.
All right, i don't watch the portugese league but i'm gonna watch the Sporting game later to see Bruno. Hopefully there's a good stream lying around soon
Except ball winning, which for some inexplicable reason doesn’t count when we discuss Herrera.
Dubrovnik is beautiful though. Been a couple of times. First time, pre civil war we did a cruise thing that went round all the little islands including the ports of Split and Dubrovnik. Boat caught fire and sank. Got evacuated.
Second time we were in Dubrovnik for a fortnight in June 1991. Except, my passport had run out, so we missed the first two days, then it rained for a week and then you started killing each other. Got evacuated.
Nice place though.
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