Move him up to the CDM position, buy Pau Torres to play next to Varane and go all in or forget about FDJ.
------------------ DDG
.Dumfries - Varane - Torres - Malacia
............Martinez - FDJ
...................Eriksen
...Sancho-------------------Rashford
------------------Martial
Go the ffs for once all in and try to give the new manager players and options on every position. Dumfreis, Torres and FDJ would cost somewhere around 140m probably, sell Jones and one of Maguire (i believe Newcastle would pay 35-40m for him, and if they are up for it, make it happen inctenttly.
If this is the squad we are going with this season, we will fight for place around 10-8 - we are right now miles after Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham, Man City and even probably Arsenal. We are not much better then West Ham, Leicester, Newcastle. This is so frustrating, we changed everybody in back office, got a new manager + a new staff and spent 60m on a player that had a good season in Eredivisie where he was playing for the dominating team that had like 70% possession every game and had probably nothing to do in 30 out of 34 games. Im not saying he is not a good CB, but its hard to make much out his performances in Ajax compared to him now being thrown in the best league in the world where he will be facing players like Haaland, Mahrez, Foden, KDB, Nunez, Salah, Diaz, Sterling, Son, Kane (i could probably name another 20-30 players that are all better then any of the players he was defending against the last 2 seasons). Playing him in the CDM position will also give him time to get used to the tempo in PL and being so exposed as he will be in the CB position while we dont have anyone in the midfield helping our defense. If we keep play like this, we will destroy him like we have with many players by throwing them in to the heat imminently with the expectations that comes with us overpaying and hyping up them because of the fee and because we hope that someone will come in and sort out everything. We put to much weight on these players shoulders while we have dysfunctional team and almost every player is underperforming because we have right now nothing that works properly in the team - not the players, nor the system we play, you could see today that almost all players in our offense were just running around without any idea what to do when they got the ball or where to run when they didn't have the ball.
I remember when we brought in Evra and Vidic, Evras first game against City made him look like it would be his first and last game for United, but SAF knew what to do, lower the expectations on him by not playing the next games and giving him minutes in game when (if) he made a mistake, it would't be devastating. You have to let some players build up the self confidence - like Sancho, it took him like 6 months last year before he had one good game and good his first assist or goal.
I just believe that we are destroying many players this way. Overpay, hype them up like they are the Messiah sent to us from up above to save the team and putting to much pressure on them. If we had 10 players that where playing at least decent and understood the system of our new managers tactics then maybe putting in one new player would be ok and he would do fine, but today it looked like we had 11 new players and that nobody knew what to do or where to move without the ball and that is why nothing worked.
So my point is, now that everything is new, the board, the manager, his staff, the system of how we want to play - we can buy 3-4 more players and let them start play together and learn how to play with each other. Throw in Dumfries, Torres, FDJ and in a dream world also a RW and a new ST and give them time (this season) and hopefully next season we won't need to buy many new players and we will have a team that knows the system and each other. Then we can keep adding and selling only 1-2 players every summer like City or Liverpool are doing right now or we should lower our expectations and except that we are not better then this...
