Can you see Diogo Dalot stating a serious claim for the RB-position?

[simplyared]

Would love to see him develop further and take the RB-position. Reckon he could be a better proposition than AWB. Views on this!

 

[sewey89]

Nope. I don’t think he’s anywhere near good enough

 

[EngimaMK]

What?!? Drop Luke Shaw, who has been amazing, for Dalot at LB? MENTAL

 

[simplyared]

What?!? Drop Luke Shaw, who has been amazing, for Dalot at LB? MENTAL

Mistake now corrected!

 

[Red Shorts]

I think against the lower teams he could be valuable. Much better attacking than AWB, and could overlap nicely with Sancho.

Otherwise, would start Aaron more often than not.

 

[Matthew84!]

Sorry he's just not good enough, might make a better winger than defender, he'll get bored by the end of the season and ask to leave again.
I hope he plays well enough in the cup games so he still has value at the end of the season.
Let's all hope he proves me wrong.

 

[Ajr]

I see him moving right back to AC Milan's starting 11

 

[thegregster]

Scouting reports suggested he was one of the best young RBs in the world before we signed him. I cant remember any match he played for us where he lived up to that billing.

 

[arthurka]

Don't know what to make of him but clearly not good enough defensively. Don't see it happen.

 

[Red00012]

Nope

 

[Ish]

Development trajectories aren’t linear, so he has time to turn it around IMO but you’d have to think it’s unlikely, having watched him for us before. Here’s hoping though! Would be great to have some competition for that spot.

 

[DevTheRed]

In short no.

He’s got a decent cross on him but the lack of pace, dribbling ability, defensive ability really let’s him down. I think he’s good enough to be a decent back up to AWB but not good enough to make a claim for the starting spot.

Hope I’m wrong because there was so much hype around him when we first signed him.

 

[elmo]

Can't defend at all and his supposed attacking game isn't impressive at all.

 

[JJ12]

He’s not very good

 

[Pexbo]

Honestly he’s not fit to lace AWB’s laces. The difference in quality is massive.

 

[Alemar]

No, Dalot lacks ability and needs to be sold

 

[VanDeBank]

No, I'll be satisfied if he does better than Williams to the point we can give AWB the occasional rest.

The criticism of AWB last season was overly harsh considering we played him into the ground.

 

[Paxi]

No I cannot unfortunately.

 

[JB7]

Nope. Happy enough if he develops into a reasonable backup but don’t see him improving on that.

 

[Leftback99]

No chance.

 

[FrankDrebin]

Nope.

 

[12OunceEpilogue]

I'd love him to prove me wrong but I think there's no chance whatsoever. I don't even see him as a reliable squad player.

 

[harms]

He’s 22 and football has seen more unimaginable turnarounds, but so far it’s hard to see how exactly he’s going to do that. His defensive positioning is as bad if not worse as Wan-Bissaka’s, his one-on-one defending ability is simply incomparable and his attacking, which is supposed to be his main strength, is really nothing to write home about — I mean, he is kinda decent at it, but that’s about it.

Wan-Bissaka still has a lot to learn, but he at least has one world-class ability and defensive positioning is something that players usually improve on with age. His attacking is never going to be good enough for a top side and his stats have been boosted by the fact that no one even bothers to cover for his overlaps, preferring to double down on our attackers... but maybe with Sancho now he would be able to play in a more comfortable role and keep improving at what he’s good at.

 

[Gandalf]

I doubt it, he just does not know how to defend and despite a few random moments I am not sure he has done much to earn the reputation of being better in attack than AWB. He would need to improve significantly this season just to justify continuing as a backup.

 

[Tallis]

I don’t think he will be better than AWB (who I think is very underrated). However, he has good physical attributes and is good on the ball so if he can work on his defending, can become a solid backup to AWB. He also sounds like a great lad - saw some news about how he helped some kids from his old club after he moved to Utd so I wish him all the best.

 

[KcB32]

I don't see why we should write him off so quickly. He has a good touch, seems quite confident on the ball and has a very good cross on him. I think he's a good backup and solid option as a wing back.

 

[roonster09]

I hope he can which means we will have 2 very good RBs and improves our squad depth but I don't think he will.

 

[ChaddyP]

Yes i can see it. Hes progressed a lot from when he was with us.

 

[Baneofthegame]

He’s 22 and football has seen more unimaginable turnarounds, but so far it’s hard to see how exactly he’s going to do that. His defensive positioning is as bad if not worse as Wan-Bissaka’s, his one-on-one defending ability is simply incomparable and his attacking, which is supposed to be his main strength, is really nothing to write home about — I mean, he is kinda decent at it, but that’s about it.

Wan-Bissaka still has a lot to learn, but he at least has one world-class ability and defensive positioning is something that players usually improve on with age. His attacking is never going to be good enough for a top side and his stats have been boosted by the fact that no one even bothers to cover for his overlaps, preferring to double down on our attackers... but maybe with Sancho now he would be able to play in a more comfortable role and keep improving at what he’s good at.

Pin this post and move on.

 

[mu4c_20le]

No, cash in and bring in Trippier, then keep tabs on the next young talents

 

[pascell]

Nope, he'll be gone next summer for less than what we were asking this summer.

 

[villain]

The underrating of AWB continues, the guy is a great RB and will look even better with Varane at CB and Sancho/Greenwood at RW.
Dalot is a decent option for rotation in cup games, he'd have to raise his game significantly to take the spot.

 

[LazyRed-Ninja]

I’d be very surprised if he manages to turn his United career around. He only played 20 games in two seasons at United. I can not see him play more games consistently if Wan Bissaka keeps developing like he does. Is he good enough to be an extra option? I doubt it, but the reports of him trying to fight for his place are positive.

 

[OmarUnited4ever]

The thing with Dalot is he was very unlucky with the long injury layoff of 2 years that robbed him of his formative years, he is still young enough to turn it around, but he needs to step up big time to get Ole's confidence in using him as a rotational option in the RB position. For now I can only see him being an ok option against minnoews in cup games.

 

[dal]

AWB’s attacking was fine last season, yes there are better but I thought he made big strides, couple that with his defensive game and I think he’s been very very good for us.

His attacking game will keep improving. He won’t have a TAA cross but will be one of the best in the league next season.

 

[Borys]

I'd rather give another chance to Williams, who had a good spell on the left once. Surely RB would be more even more natural to him.

 

[Mickeza]

I still think he’ll be sold last week of the window. Transfers games are afoot.

 

[Strats]

Thought he was shite against Brentford with his usual stepovers that led to nothing. Showed no signs of improvement whatsoever.

People are getting ahead om themselves thinking he's good enough just because he got a goal against Everton.

 

[Withnail]

Never say never but I don't really see it happening for him at United.

He hasn't really shown anything that would give you confidence that there is a United player in their apart from some brief flashes in his debut season.

 

[JPB]

No, because Wan Bissaka is the best RB in the league. He can clean AWB's boots at half time though.