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Wouldn't be an awful move, playing every week in a decent league and the chance to play European football. If he's going to make it here, he should be able to dominate in the Netherlands. If he can't shine there, then he's not got a future here anyway.
Another ETH connect?
Probably, good to build friendly relationships with many clubs, could help us in the future.
This is the value of multi-club ownership. You can farm young players out with a proper plan and with lower risk -- like what happened to Amad at Rangers.
Why? How much worse could he be than Antony? He’s the only right winger we have that can really stretch the pitch and hog that touchline whilst actually beating his man.
He's just never shown any real ability to either playmake or be an attacking threat. Since we've signed him and for Uruguay he'll have 1 or 2 runs in a game, get the odd assist. Then spend the majority of the game failing to get involved or running into dead ends. Another player who I think its better we let go.
If it was up to me I'd have used him far more than he has been, especially last year. Right now It doesn't look like he stands much of a chance for regular football which he desperately needs.
He has, he's hardly been given a chance here but when he has he's shown great ability.
He hasn't really, he hasn't shown more than Elanga for example, not shown more than Garnacho. Hasn't shown more than Amad on loan. Then you throw in that Sancho, Rashford, Antony are also there for the spots, I'm comfortable letting him go. To me he was an interesting punt that hasn't really paid off.
He has, in the rare occasions he's played he's shown how quick he is with the ball at his feet, similar to Garnacho in that regard. Garnacho and Amad are huge talents who have been given more opportunities so that's not a great comparison at all. He's shown more potential than Elanga in his rare features.
Don't get me wrong he has got talent but he's 21, been on 2 loans where he hasn't really torn up trees. Yes he's a decent dribbler but I think everything else is average or lacking. Garnacho is a level above him and shows you the type of talent you need to be to break into this united squad and Garnacho is not even a Greenwood level talent. Amad who to me is also a level above Facundo is struggling to break into the squad. Then you look at the likes of Elanga who I think is better than Facundo and he was not good enough for us. We don't really have space to have Garnacho, Amad and Pellistri breaking into a team which has Rashford, Antony, Sancho and Mount who can play on the wings. Maybe he proves me wrong but at the moment I'm leaning on the side of he's just not good enough to break through.
I think Sancho’s best possible position is that.
Elanga was a starter for almost half a year. Of course he would show more. But last year when both were bench warmers, Pellistri showed more than him. But that doesn't mean he is good enough for here. Definitely not yet.
I don’t see either of them making it here to be honest. Pellistri is just a bit one note.
All the players you mention have had more opporunties and minutes here. Pellestri was loaned to a side he wasnt played that much struggling against relegation and very defensive.....more comparable to Amd at Rangers.
My guess is that Rashford will play games as a CF and when that happens Pellestri and Garancho will be the main options, whilst Sancho and Antony will be the same on the right, I think our new #9 will be eased in a bit more sparingly than we're expecting
I didn’t have chance to watch those two games, but from the highlights Pellestri did pretty well. It seems a very positive development for him.
I saw the Dortmund game, he played quite well but was hampered by the fact there was no CF to pass to and tried to do too much and just ran in to defenders or his final ball was lacking - the latter was the problem with Sancho as well, he has a great chance to put DvB in and undercooked the pass woefully
It’s been our glaring problem. No natural strikers or goal poachers with strikers anticipation and instinct.
