Who do you think will be in our midfield?
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I think that DeJong and Eriksen will form the 2 at the base, with perhaps VDB ahead of them, to start with at least. It may evolve
I’ve become more and more optimistic and positive regarding a deal with Eriksen 
That would be suicide, we would get hammered. Very weak midfield.
Looking like it will be Fred McT and Eriksen.... the FdJ transfer looks over. Perhaps we can get a Neves or someone of that ilk.... we missed out on Bissouma... he would have complemented Eriksen nicely.
Why.
Do people post this to wind up now?
We played Carrick and Scholes as MF base. Also had Park, Hargreaves, and Fletcher as rotation.
with a right setup, coaching and attitude, a highly technical and hard working team doesn’t need a pure destroyer.
Obviously Man Utd will never sign another player again so can Eriksen cover a number of positions?
I think we will go 433 with Eriksen and Fred ahead of FDJ. 3 up front. Sancho and Antony playing off Rashford Martial VDB or Bruno. We have a lot of options if we don’t intend to play with a pure DM beside FDJ. I would much rather an orthodox striker if Ronadlo goes but obviously a much harder working player for the other creatives to spark off
Good in a couple of champions league games vs good for five years in the Premier league is completely different. They could all be good players but I don't expect them to have a huge impact from the get go. I guess we'll see. Losing mane is huge, I don't see any other forward there that works as hard off the ball.
I have Van de Beek deeper than Eriksen personally. I think United fans think he's an attacking midfielder because Ole didn't know how to use him, but he's a great box to box player that ghosts into the box. He's much better with play in front of him than with his back to goal.
That said, I'm still not sure VDB will be first choice. We have a lot of options, especially if we sign Martinez. I'd expect him, mctominay or Fred to play against the better teams.
I think De Jong will be the deepest midfielder generally, dropping between the centre backs and allowing our full backs to bomb forward like Barca used to do, and even spurs when walker and Rose peaked with Dier dropping in. I think this kind of holding midfielder suits our current options, with Fred and Mctominay both better suited to pressing and getting around the pitch, than to holding position and being tactically disciplined.
Pretty much. It's the only explanation.
Buy this boy to finish Eriksen crosser and passes:
Patrick Schick is the name. Can be as good as Tadi & Haller. Eriksen & De JOng & Schick
Patrick Schick is the name. Can be as good as Tadi & Haller. Eriksen & De JOng & Schick
And Nunez will take the place of Mane and the others are squad options
Watching a lot of the eth playstile videos and it seems he uses an inverted fullback as the DM, so a de jong (or his alternative at this point) eriksen pairing could work. FDJ takes up the quarterback position (not sure what role it’s called exactly) in the defence and the full back pairs the other midfield in front of that back 3.
People were screaming for a DM beast on here while Carrick and Scholes were dominating games. If they couldn't accept it while it was happening, they will struggle with it in theory.
Carrick is way better defensively than any of those players you mentioned. And we had another hard working midfielder like hardgreaves with them.
Kinda hope we get to see him play AMC, even though it sounds like on you guys it wont happen, but that was the spot he grew up in, and still has on the national side
United fans probably think he’s an attacking midfielder because Ten Hag played him as a no 10 going on striker in his best season. Solskjær quite likely also saw those games, even if he played him in a pivot quite a few times as well.
De Jong isn’t here now, if he were, he’d probably play alongside someone who was strong at being defensively disciplined, as he can’t help but roam. I doubt wether Eriksen, Van de Beek or Fred is that defensively disciplined player, so it would prob have to be McTominay or someone new, methinks.
De Gea
Dalot Varane Maguire Shaw
Fred McTominay Eriksen
Bruno Rashford Sancho
Might be my favored eleven as of exactly today, maybe.
If mcfred is our starting cm pair ETH is going to be dead on arrival
so they haven't been weakened...
I'm guessing that at least one guy disagrees with you: Jurgen Klopp
You really don't want to understand, right? Mane, a proven top player in the PL is replaced with an expensive player from Portugal that had 1 good season and everything to prove. A lot of Liverpools core is getting older. In no way they have strengthened.
Comparing Nunez and Mane, I would say Liverpool are weaker, presently.
Mane does so much work off the ball he will be missed, havent seen enough of Nunez to formulate an opinion on him other than a handful of games Ive watched, he could surprise everyone.
Signing Diaz last season was a great transfer and he could replace Mane easily, great work rate and ability.
Jamie Jackson knows jackshite about almost anything. He’s just a guy who writes articles and for the most part, later than most. His stories rarely reveal anything and more or less reports on this we all fecking know. I stopped paying attention to him a long time ago.
Yeah, FDJ, VDB and Eriksen against lesser teams probably and one of Fred or McT against tougher opposition.
I'm getting nervy about this deal. We really need a player of his calibre fit, healthy and ready for the season. I promise to watch all our games this coming season if De Jong and Eriksen joins us.
so you know better than him? I said Klopp believes them to be so. I think he knows better than you and me. Let's see... have to admit, I'd completely forgotten Manucho ever existed! (it was just the one game, wasn't it?). I wish I could forget Taibi...
Agreed. and history so far tells me that Klopp is likely to have got it right...
I wouldn’t be surprised to see Nunez start on the bench too. They will start with Diaz, Jota and Salah.
If truth be told, all I really want this season is to enjoy watching United again. It really was painful last season - and boring
I'd be surprised if Nunez doesn't get the nod. Lots of people here telling me Salah is really a wide player, and Liverpool are almost as famous as us for having a real No.9. I expect Nunez to be picked ahead of one of Jota and (more likely) Diaz. Unless Klopp is going with four up front which would be quite a sight. If he'd done that against us last season, they might have scored 10!
I'd love to see a City style 4-4-2.
--------------- Eriksen --- Bruno -------------------
--- Sancho ---------------------------- Antony ----
------------ McT ----------- FdJ -----------------------
But getting there took years of coaching under Guardiola to make sure everyone knows where they need to be, what runs to make etc. I think ETH will go for something more pragmatic next season.
--------------- Eriksen --- Bruno -------------------
--- Sancho ---------------------------- Antony ----
------------ McT ----------- FdJ -----------------------
But getting there took years of coaching under Guardiola to make sure everyone knows where they need to be, what runs to make etc. I think ETH will go for something more pragmatic next season.
I am a huge fan of Mane - in fact, of all the players we were supposedly linked to and "missed out" on over the years, he is one of only three or four that I think would have made an enormous difference at United. I haven't seen much of Nunez either, but I have a feeling that Klopp has something a bit different planned. Lots of people here pointed out to me that Salah is more a wide player than a CF, so maybe he will play there more and Nunez will benefit from his passing.
I hope you are right that Liverpool are weaker. Life is bad enough right now without them winning more trophies!
I hope you are right - things are bad enough without them winning another PL or CL... I just happen to trust that Klopp knows what he is doing. They always seem to have a CF who scores bucketfuls of goals, even in the bad times
The only thing that bothers me about Schick, is why after having such a good few seasons, along with a good international record, are big clubs not looking at him?
Usually you get rumours of big clubs sniffing around but it all seems to be quiet, but I think he has just signed a new contract a month or two ago so that's potentially why.
Swap Fred for Mctominay
Who is the better player out of Mane and Nunez?
Last season was the first time he scored 20+ goals. I think at Juve he failed medical few years back.
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