Wasn't fussed about Tosin but would be annoyed about this one, makes it more complicated as managerial situation and need to sell Sancho/Greenwood to fund it too
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Wasn't fussed about Tosin but would be annoyed about this one, makes it more complicated as managerial situation and need to sell Sancho/Greenwood to fund it too
Why would we assume 2 must go for 1 to arrive?
Question, Eze or Olisse if you could choose one for Utd?
Not fussed at all about this. Chelsea can have him.
Olise
If only the whole ETH review ended soon. Im leaning more towards keeping ETH (not because he is amazing but because a lack of good other options) but i would like INEOS to sack him and hire a new manager if that is their plan.
It would be a lot easier to go for a player when you actually know who the manager will be next year. Easier for the club and also for the player.
He’s an excellent player and if the boy has any ambition he’ll join us, let’s wait and see.
Just doesn't have the raw pace / acceleration which limits Sancho's ceiling quite a bit. He's basically Mata, sure he could be good on his day when the tippy tappy football comes off but Olise is much better suited to the PL.
That’s why I’ve always said Sancho should be a 10 and why we didn’t ever need to waste £50 million on Mount, that £50 million would have gone a long way towards a world class centre back or defensive midfielder.
Problem with Sancho isn't even physical. It's the complete lack of aggression or directness in anything he does. He's talented enough technically that he could in theory play a number of different roles in a team even if he'll never be a blazing winger. But he refuses to ever try anything remotely risky or creative on the ball, and off the ball he hates getting stuck in/pressing/any sort of "dirty work" that many others will do.
Basically if you had Sancho and gave him Bruno's attitude and approach to the game you'd have a world class player most likely because his natural on ball ability is top class. Instead you get a lazy/passive playmaker that too often is just happy to let the game pass him by while just playing a few neat passes.
Olise. He looks special.
He has alot of creativity and his crosses would really benefit Højlund and Garnacho!
Mata had a brilliant brain, Sancho doesn’t have a brain.
The Mount injury situation was unfortunate but the thinking at the time was: We want an #8 who can carry the ball up the pitch, counter press well and get back and defend on transition. We put Eriksen in that #8 role and sure he progressed the ball through passing more than running but it was clear that Ten Hag wanted a runner. He kept saying if we didn't sign FdJ for instance, we'll replace his skillset by using players already in the squad. The whole Zidane Iqbal situation in the friendlies when Ten Hag first joined was a preview of that. Mainoo was still something of an unknown quantity and I don't think we planned to rely on him as much as we actually did.
Anyway, I don't think Sancho would have done well if we put him straight into that Eriksen role but there was probably some tweaking that was possible to get him through the middle
I’m not talking about playing Sancho where Eriksen did as Eriksen played effectively the role that Mainoo does now whilst Mount was signed to play two attacking midfielders alongside Fernandes with a sole defensive midfielder which was Casemiro when ETH wanted to play a 4-1-2-3 that transitioned into a back 5 and front 5 otherwise known as suicide and why we were overrun in midfield.
Where we’ve played our best and most consistent football was with a 4-2-3-1 whether it was Jose, Ole or ETH and I’ve always thought that Sancho would work as a 10 so an alternative to Fernandes but with the ability to drift out wide.
That’s why Mount was a pointless signing as it was an experiment used for a few games and then abandoned due to it clearly not working and Mount getting injured as well as Mainoo returning from injury was a blessing tactically, the Mount money should have gone on a centre back or defensive midfielder.
I think Chelsea will have snapped him up way before we’ve sorted out our transfer shit.
Well we finally know who is our manager for next season we should go and get him. Yes I know it's maybe 5th priority behind DM,RCB,ST & LB/LCB, however those other positions we haven't got direct competition for those targets.
I agree. Should sign Olise before Chelsea do. And be confident that we’re selling Greenwood and Sancho so we’ll make most of that back. The other positions like you said we haven’t got competition for.
Antony too ideally
I don’t think that’s a bad set of signings there. I think a striker around the 30y/o mark makes sense to me and Olise obviously could explode onto the scene.
Swap Branthwaite for Tobido/De Ligt and I’m on board
Yoro.
Surely a young midfielder should be on that list ?? Would love Olise but need to sell sancho firsy
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We just finished 8th, you want to lower your standards son
All the players listed play for teams that finished lower than us. We'll get torn a new one for any of them. I just don't see the point chasing those listed.
We wouldn't finish close to 8th with those players in the team, Ivan Toneys goals alone would bump us back up to top 4-6ish position.
Olise, Branthwaite and Toney would be three great additions to this team. Need a midfielder, though.
Just having a fit team will bump us to 6th nevermind Toney.
Todibo better on the ball and De Ligt in the air
Really ?
Have you looked at his premier League goals record ? 25 from 85 , 36 from 85 if you include pens . Which he is unlikely to take here .
25 from 85 is less than 1 in 3 . For perspective , hojlund got 10 in 30 in his first season with next to no service . A better average . He's also statistically one of the more clinical strikers.
Know he divides opinion but still say he would relish playing in that Utd shirt given the opportunity. I will admit I'm not sure that you juggle keeping him and Rasmus happy though.
Goodie...
If he's stupid enough to go Chelsea when they have 50 RW's then so be it 
If he's stupid enough to go Chelsea when they have 50 RW's then so be it
We have 2 right now, and one of them is Palmer who plays centrally too, so my guess is Olise would be in direct competition with Madueke only.
The thought of us not signing a DM seems as ridiculous to me as selling Martinez and not replacing him. Or selling hojlund and not buying a striker. It's that glaringly obvious of a problem
Palmer played a tonne on the right, even if he can play centrally. You've also got Paez and Estevao coming in, makes 0 sense to splash another £60m on Olise but nothing about Chelsea's recruitment makes sense to me. I find it short-sighted from both the club and player, but hey-ho it's not my career.
Where do you see Palmer's position being? Does Maresca tend to play with a number 10, or will he favour Palmer from the right?
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