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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) was joined by comedian Ali Woods to look back at the best and worst moments of a rollercoaster season with the annual United Hour Awards.
Has Ten Hag been sacked yet? We're not sure and we hope not, but it's looking more likely as the days pass.
Who should replace him and why is it taking so long to make a decision?
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Has anyone got any highlights of him playing as the deepest midfielder. Or do any of our eredivise fans know of a game he played as the deepest midfielder for the full game?
We'll be getting Sancho as well as a midfielders by the looks of this, a lot of silenced moaners when the window shuts.
If we sign Sancho I want mica back!
We don’t need it. We just need to improve on your first 11. We need a RW a improvement on Matic and a Left CB. It’s nice to improve on Lingard and co. But that’s not how you build squads. Sheringham and Solskjær became good subs because we brought players better than them.
I'm really excited about this, hope we get him.
I heard on the grapevine that Sancho was actually just a smokescreen for VDB. For reals, yah.
Make of that what you will.
Why would we need a smokescreen for what has been reported for months as an easy transfer 
We do need a good smokescreen story this window though.
We do need a good smokescreen story this window though.
I would be happy with the signing, but I highly doubt with the Euro2021 on the radar that DVB will sign to be a sub.
Folks around here don't like hearing "Diamond midfield" then let's call it a 4-1-2-1-2 with Bruno playing 10 behind Rashford and Martial. Baby Greenwood as the super Sub. With a Midfield 3 of Paul-DvB-Fred(Matic).
Paul must be at 8 and Bruno at 10 to fully exploit our potential. Paul would have the freedom to drop off for those long-range passes (and move up-think that play against Eric Dier) same with with Bruno dropping to 8 allowing him to run with the ball for those long range shot.
Diamond-midfield Oops I meant to say 4-1-2-1-2 maximizes our potential (until we sign Sancho)
Folks around here don't like hearing "Diamond midfield" then let's call it a 4-1-2-1-2 with Bruno playing 10 behind Rashford and Martial. Baby Greenwood as the super Sub. With a Midfield 3 of Paul-DvB-Fred(Matic).
Paul must be at 8 and Bruno at 10 to fully exploit our potential. Paul would have the freedom to drop off for those long-range passes (and move up-think that play against Eric Dier) same with with Bruno dropping to 8 allowing him to run with the ball for those long range shot.
Diamond-midfield Oops I meant to say 4-1-2-1-2 maximizes our potential (until we sign Sancho)
Fans were shouting for a midfield partner for Keane for a few years though? That was a gaping hole at the time and we still had 4 top strikers up front.
We have one of Europes top young players on the right side now. Hell with VDB coming in we can now play a split striker formation to a high level in case if an injury to any of our forward 3.
He’s potentially better than all of our midfielders bar Pogba (on his day) and Bruno. Why would anyone be opposed to this?
There's an overly inflated opinion as to the quality of Fred and McTominay as backup, perhaps?
There'll be 2 games a week most weeks this season so I'm sure he'll get starts. Pogba and Bruno were run into the ground last season.
Favourite bit is either that lovely pass behind the defence at 8.41 or that cheeky dink pass around 9.11 on the second video
I am referring to Grealish tbh. Grealish is a decent player. However he's not worth 60m-80m. Also his best football came as a left sided inside forward. I feel sorry for both Maddison and Grealish. They are being priced out by their own clubs.
It has been a problem forever. While I agree, first team is equally important both are mutually exclusive . You Still can improve the first team.
I am a huge Grealish fan but certainly can't argue with the fact that Van Der Beek offers us more all over the midfield area
I don't get this ? So is he coming here to sit on our bench? No way will he start before pogba and Bruno. Undoubted a good player and I'd love to fit rid of Jesse and his mates but I just can't see him being happy sat on the bench ?
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We’d actually be able to rotate between quality players and drop out of form stars if needed. Squad depth is something we’ve sorely lacked for too long now.
Do you see Matic, Pogba and Bruno playing every minute of this season?
great player to add some bite to our midfield. Be a great signing if it happens.
I guess the narrative will need to change to "he needs to stop looking only at English, and Norwegian and Dutch players, with the odd Portugese bloke"
he’ll likely start alongside Pogba and Bruno. He ain’t coming here to sit on the bench.
Who is Luke Gardner?
We should start banning posters who cant understand this concept. It was the same in the Sancho thread, oh but why do we need Sancho, what will happen to Greenwood. Fecking idiots on here
I thought Ole didn’t like anyone who wasn’t British? Except Bruno and Ighalo of course....
I don't know a great deal about this lad, is he much of an upgrade on on Matic and Fred?
fecking brexit fc
I don’t know much about him either but I’m just guessing ole thinks so because no way is he going to move to us to sit on the bench?
Aye like football is that one dimensional. It’s so important - how frustrating is it watching players drop out of form because they can’t be fecked? Having a top young talent wanting your spot won’t allow that complacency any more. The likes of Mata and Pereira don’t offer the challenge, with Fred and McTominay offering something different entirely to VDB.
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Imagine if we hadn’t signed 4 players after winning the league in 2007 wondering where they’d play. Especially Tevez and Hargreaves were crucial in winning the PL and CL the following season. But back then there were a lot of discussions especially people asking where Tevez would play as he was similar to Rooney.
Having decent options on the bench is a need for us, not even a luxury
Having decent options on the bench is a need for us, not even a luxury
Get the express out of this thread, nay this this forum
It was inevitable with our American-Jewish owners and Dutch-loving Norwegian manager.
Ye he's a very good player. High work rate, technically very good. Gets forward into dangerous positons. Does a lot of running off the ball which creates space for the attackers. Will provide excellent squad depth for the Pogba/Brun positions.
I think he would be a very good singing. Exactly what we need when it comes to strength in depth, and can cover multiple positions. Pogba & Bruno can't play every game, and if they play most then we will see what we saw at the end of last year, fatigue leading to bad performances.
Finally, after a quiet fortnight, it seems things are starting to pick up in this window.
Finally, after a quiet fortnight, it seems things are starting to pick up in this window.
I would never claim to be a football expert, but it’s not hard to grasp that one man in one position can’t play every minute of every single game, unless perhaps he’s the GK. Even then there are always potential injuries and suspensions.
I’m unmoved.
All for this transfer. Boosts the quality and depth in midfield and hopefully another nail in the coffin for having to rely on the likes of Pereria, Mata and Lingard
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