I was surprised 5 minutes into the Brighton game when Eriksen started as a false 9 and McTominay played as an 8 without the ball but was often the highest up central player in attack, because that seems like the best possible role for Van Der Beek to play. Early days, but that seemed like a weird choice if he thinks VDB can hack it here.
Casemiro | United Player
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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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All he has to do is to text varane and ronaldo as ask them what the club is currently like and tuen the move down.
Does anyone know Casemiro's injury record? Is he available most of the time or often out?
The guy just won his 5th ucl while putting on a master class in the final calling him a reject is taking things too far.
There are question marks over this transfer but his quality should not be in doubt.
If I were Leicester, I'd hold out and go for more. We're desperate and our window is renowned as a shambles. I'd gamble Tielemans would have to get over himself in lieu of a WC starting place plus having to try sell himself to potential suitors come January.
Plus, does that £30m-£35m get them a suitable replacement this late in the window? Definitely a time to be bold from their position, I would say.
Would be useful if he signed before our relegation six pointer with southampton next week.
how anyone could believe anything else is beyond me.
if he signs then this has potentialMostly, with the additional element of making late runs into the box. But make no mistake, if not under pressure he's also a pretty good passer. We mostly don't use him much on the ball in the buildup *because we have Kroos and Modric*, not because he's poor at it. Although he can struggle a bit under pressure. So yes, ideally, you want to partner him up with a great ball progressor to take pressure off him. The few times teams zeroid in on Modric and Kroos in our buildup and dared him to run the game, he dominated
Reject is too strong. But, things have changed. There was a time not too long ago when Real Madrid were floundering and Man Utd sold them Van Nistlerooy, Beckham and the Argentinian left back as they aged out at United. Now, things are pretty much reversed. We are floundering and buying up there players as they age out of their starting line-up.
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We said similar about Varane and watched him get ripped apart all season.
Come on chelsea, get involved, make a bid and offer him CL football. I was looking forward to a relegation battle this season.
He was injured for most of it. What the feck were you watching, when he did actually play.
Beckham and Ruud played well in Madrid.
Varane came of a less than stellar season and always had some slight injury problems and he could still turn it around, we'll see.
While true he could certainly be of great use in our way to a proper rebuild, I doubt he's gonna reach Madrid heights with us but him just brings some composure in an area we severely lacked in quality will be greatly appreciated.
That site makes me feel bad for Phil jones.
Hah! That's why you buy a 30 year old, they know what we once were
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Train has left the station
Do we have a sizable fan base in brazil?
Didn't Neymar talk about his desire to play for us a while ago? If so it's a shame we haven't managed to exploit that great region, hopefully having a Brazilian great in casemiro sets a trend.
Didn't Neymar talk about his desire to play for us a while ago? If so it's a shame we haven't managed to exploit that great region, hopefully having a Brazilian great in casemiro sets a trend.
Holy shit. This is how to do transfers
Rocket has left the launchpad, we're heading to the moon!
Wow, the end of McFred and that in the form of Casemiro. Impressive!
Happening too fast, no time for hype
Sounds like they are referring to english reports which don't actually exist though.
https://www.marca.com/futbol/real-madrid/2022/08/18/62fea70ae2704e3e308b45e5.html
https://www.marca.com/futbol/real-madrid/2022/08/18/62fea70ae2704e3e308b45e5.html
Let's go. Right into the starting lineup to get sent off vs Liverpool with a crunching tackle 
We wouldn't. Erikson is average at best nowadays and Casemiro is not want we need. Rather than a destroyer type DM we need a deep lying play maker who can sheild the defence and dictate play. A Carrick, Busquets type player. I might be wrong but from what i've seen Casemiro is a good DM and good at winning the ball but he's not the Carrick, Busquests type and he'll be yet another player who isn't particularly good on the ball or comfortable in possession.
That's one of our biggest problems. Our current squad is very limited in terms of players who can keep hold of the ball or are comfortable in possession. They all want to get rid of it as quickly as possible. Casemiro will be more of the same I expect.
He was mediocre like the rest of the team. The feck were you watching?
Woohoo!! Get the feck in!
Holly shit, never doubted you Jon
Mad how we can quick and decisively when we need to but spend 99% of our time arsing around all summer.
I hope he stamps the shit out of Robertson and get away with it.Let's go. Right into the starting lineup to get sent off vs Liverpool with a crunching tackle
Madrid tier 1
If it's all done by tomorrow, can he realistically make his debut against the Scousers on Monday?
8 signings to go
Will this signing help stop Ronaldo sitting in the corner crying into his chicken pasta at the player canteen?
Wow. Incredible how fast things have gone with this if Marcas claim is true
He has missed 31 games in his whole career due to injury. His longest injury was fibula shaft fractures in the 16/17 where he missed 13 games.
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