A rodri type?
Javi Guerra - United most interested
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Looks much more advanced, kind of a weird area to target, would much rather a more rounded CM
No one suggested that you said he was prolific. The point was that if he isn't prolific then it's not something that he brings. I'm not sure why it's even debated.
His height does look appealing but only if it's matched with more physicality, I feel we need a player in this position that's strong on the ball, i think we've undervalued this quality in the past.
In the past two seasons and a half he has scored 7 league goals and 4 were scored in two games. That's where stats can be totally misleading but if you want to believe that McTominay's strength is scoring goals then fair enough.
Given where he plays you need to tweak this to the AM comparisons, he's not really a CM by any stretch. We basically play 1 midfielder and then there's a chasm to the others.
Yeah agree with you there.
I don’t want to believe anything. Ten Hag has said it and McTominay has shown that what little quality he does have is in this area.
McTominay has been playing further forward as a box crasher.
He’s been doing it for Scotland too and is 2nd highest scorer in qualifiers 7 goals in 8 games?
McTominay’s role has also changed since last season. He was previously played deeper as a ball carrier.
Is he better than Enzo?
Which kind of in itself suggests one might say he’s in the team to be a concern to the opponents net?
Some sort of danger to the area in which we’d like to put the ball to win?
A goal threat.
Yes 100%, that's his role. I don't think he's very good at it but his role is essentially to run channels, arrive late in the box and carry the ball forwards.
A real Guerra of words over Scott in this thread
so perfect for United then. we dont like good midfielders
All of which Javi Guerra does as well (though not so much arrive into the box as Valencia play with a 2-man midfield). He'll struggle to carry the ball with as much freedom as he does in La Liga given the tighter defensive shapes of the PL sides, and he may need to tone down on his riskier forward passes, but the potential is there.
I know nothing about him but what we need is a midfielder who is good on the ball but has defensive qualities. We have enough 10's.
I understand the comparison, I'm personally against this type of signing overall (I want us to have more control of games) but understand he has some promise.
He is doing the same Enzo did there at a younger age. So he probably is
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What a name. Have a war.
Clearly needs to bulk-up to stand a chance in the premier league.
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Quick google says Javi guerra is 41 years old.
Given that he gets lots of shots off and where he gets involved, looks closer to a box crashing midfielder and not passer. One of those van de Beek type players...
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You can never go wrong with spanish midfielder.
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This looks like the exact type of player Ten Hag expects McTominay to be. A bit like Gravenberch.
Kaka vibes
Hopefully they don’t hit us with a Neville tax!
Am I missing something? He looks rubbish.
He looks good here! I just saw a welcome to Utd video on YouTube and he looks average
The video above he seems to have good close control, can beat a press, nice varied range of running into space, can finish around the box and has a good bit of size and fight about him. If this is an INEOS - Mitchell thing then bring it on. 40 million is grand if it doesn’t fully work out. I’d have preferred if we went for two promising players like this instead of Casemiro. I expect to see quite a high squad turnover in the next few years until we find the winning formula again.
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caca vibes?
Looks bang average
Doesn't look very good.
Is he a young Matic mk II?
He's elite for his age for goal scoring central midfielders. He seems like a much more skilful and direct McT but he can also actually play CM too.
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He's more attack minded than Matic ever was. If anything, stylistically, he's more like Dani Parejo but with more directness to his game.
He looks really interesting to me. He's big and strong enough to impose himself, a goal threat and he can play. He could be really nice beside Mainoo,
Scott has played as a DM for the previous 18 months, and before that as a more defensive-minded box-to-box. Even then he was a good finisher when he actually got into goal scoring positions, he just rarely got in those positions. Since moving to an attacking role this season he's scored 6 goals in less than 17 matches worth of minutes (and he hasn't played in the attacking role in every game).
I criticise pretty much every other aspect of his game but he is (unfortunately) one of our bigger goal threats at the moment. He's obviously not a Lampard, but he's decent.