Morgan Rogers

Not sure what to make of him.
He isn't a winger , but is played out there by Villa because they want to compact the midfield.
Is he good, sure. Good enough to become a main star for United? doubt it. And for £80m+ i'd rather we not go there. even if we didn't have to fix midfield i don't see him as a elite star to take us to the next level.
 
FrankDrebin said:
Can see him at Arsenal.
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With his size, dribbling style and penchant for far corner curlers, he does look a bit like a poundland Thierry Henry.

I feel like he's having a bit of a Rashford 22-23 season, though. Seems as though there's a banger flying in for him every other week and I don't know if it's sustainable.
 
Not good enough nor the profile for the Clubs expected to dominate and take initiative for most of their games .

United shouldn't go anywhere near him even if price is reasonable , we already have plenty of players who excel in transitional football .

Need to add more rounded players who can help in breaking teams down and creating chances by retaining the ball better in final third , grinding them down with constant pressure not just relying on transitional and counter attacking football
 
Think he has great potential to be an amazing player, and would love him here in future, but he's not ready for a top club.

He can have immense impact, but too often games just drift by him. Once he starts taking more initiative to dominate games, it would be a good move.
 
I think Carrick really likes him, having coached him before. I’m not sure we really have a place for him at the moment as he’s not a traditional deep lying midfielder that we need. He either plays in the Bruno role (where he will be an expensive backup for us because he won’t displace Bruno) or he plays out wide where we already have Cunha.
 
MattofManchester said:
Think he has great potential to be an amazing player, and would love him here in future, but he's not ready for a top club.

He can have immense impact, but too often games just drift by him. Once he starts taking more initiative to dominate games, it would be a good move.
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That's always going to be the case though with someone at 23. Very rare are 23 year olds completely dominating week in, week out. He's ready to take the next step in my opinion.

I don't think we need to gamble on it with that sort of money though. If we're feeling spendy, he's probably one of the best English prospects you could get, so we should definitely be in for him.
 
Villa will rinse any club that shows interest in their best players, just like they tried with Watkins and Martinez last summer. United should stay well clear. We need a proper LW anyway.
 
V.O. said:
I feel like he's having a bit of a Rashford 22-23 season, though. Seems as though there's a banger flying in for him every other week and I don't know if it's sustainable.
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Given his last goal was early February I’d say there’s good reason for having doubts.
 
Very weak at holding on to the ball, poor at passing and crossing.

Good at chipping in with goals. Overall not a player who would move the dial forward.

Also where would he play for us? In Bruno position?
 
Him and Palmer. Big no.

The future post Fernandes could be so easy to get wrong… it’s scary.
 
Doesn't matter the price, he's not the right player for us. We need an actual left winger who is quick and a strong dribbler like Amad.

Rogers is a floaty #10 who can play wide to an ok level but he's not good enough as a 10 to long term replace Bruno. So it's a non starter IMO.
 
Fortitude said:
£80m. Hilarious.
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We paid £70 mill for Mbeumo who was two years older at the time. Arsenal paid close to the same for Eze who was three years older at the time.

Rogers has been a key player, probably even the best attacking player, for a top six side.
 
Strikes me as the emperor's new Jadon Sancho. Absolutely not the kind of signing we should be making this summer.
 
He is one of my favourite players in the PL but plays too similar to Cunha.

I see him more as a LM/LAM than a LW.

Considering that both our right-sided players are RW's we need a LW or than a wide midfielder/LAM.

I think we need to find someone like Amad at LW.

Still I wouldn't be crying if we signed him, he's been great for 2 seasons now. Rogers & Mbeumo would have more balanced in game style than Rogers & Amad.

I want a LW who gives an Amad like headache.
 
We just don't need that profile of signing this summer, at all.
 
Reds Under The Bed said:
Strikes me as the emperor's new Jadon Sancho. Absolutely not the kind of signing we should be making this summer.
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Absolutely not.

Other comments are right that he's very much like Cunha. Has great skill on the ball, great balance and can hold off defenders under pressure, also works really hard off the ball as well.

Other than Sancho being skilful on the ball, the two players have no similarities. Not sure how anyone thinks of Sancho when they see Rogers.
 
andersj said:
We paid £70 mill for Mbeumo who was two years older at the time. Arsenal paid close to the same for Eze who was three years older at the time.

Rogers has been a key player, probably even the best attacking player, for a top six side.
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Not getting your point. He’s worth nowhere near £80m.

This insanity needs to be arrested.
 
He had a purple patch, but hasn't done much at all outside of it.

I'd still rather United signed Diomande this summer, then saw who the best possible Bruno alternative was the summer afterwards to go all out on.
 
goldenboy said:
He had a purple patch, but hasn't done much at all outside of it.

I'd still rather United signed Diomande this summer, then saw who the best possible Bruno alternative was the summer afterwards to go all out on.
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Rogers won't be signed to replace Bruno. Rogers is a LM/LAM which is why many people say he is too similar to Cunha for us to sign.

By the way, Rogers has similar stats to Diomande's current season for 2 seasons now & I'm not sure how that's a purple patch.

Rogers is performing less because Aston Villa has gone downhill after January, its not just because he is average in a well performing team.

He has 18 g/a PL last season, 6 in 12 CL games, 13 this season with some more games to go. Diomande sits at 15 in the Bundesliga.

I feel like a lot of English players get called average when they perform to more flashy players out of the Premier league. They usually cost us the same amount because the price is represented mostly by the club that's interested. For example the signing of Sesko wasn't much different to signing Mbeumo or Cunha.
It's the same thing that happened with Declan Rice and many calling him overrated at a time we could have got him around 60million.

Rogers doesn't currently suit our tactics - if we hadn't signed Cunha - I would have all been up for signing Rogers instead and considering his age and output might have had a higher ceiling. But we don't need him now.

We need Amad like player on the left.

Diomande is a player to me who looks better on the right than the left because he is harder to read on the right. He has the ability to take a man on the outside and on the inside on the right whilst on the left he is much more likely to cut inside. He is much more predictable.

I notice this in players like Semenyo & even Dorgu. I find them better players when they play on the side of their stronger foot.

Right footed right wingers that can cut in and cut out are better than left footed RW's that can only cut in. With all due respect to Mbeumo sometimes as a RW his game looks a bit predictable and the positions he wants to move in to.
 
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There is a world where we spend 200m on him and Baleba this summer and once again wonder why we keep sacking managers in late autumn / winter.
 
No thankyou, hopefully just agent noise. Nowhere near being worth £80m, which hopefully rules us out.

I don't think he offers anything unique that we don't already have to pay a premium for.
 
What ive taken from this is that he's very under rated on here. Would love him. Would be a pointless signing if Bruno stays though.
 
Freak said:
I think Carrick really likes him, having coached him before. I’m not sure we really have a place for him at the moment as he’s not a traditional deep lying midfielder that we need. He either plays in the Bruno role (where he will be an expensive backup for us because he won’t displace Bruno) or he plays out wide where we already have Cunha.
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All this.

What would we do with Mr. Rogers? He's too qualified to be a squad player but there's no chance he usurps Bruno. But if Bruno leaves for cash, then we're going in for Palmer. But if Bruno leaves and we can't get Palmer and we bring in Rogers 60m, let's go it. But none of this 80m madness at a time when we'll be forced to spend 150-175m for a 6 and an 8.
 
He is an excellent player but we don't need him at all.

We need a pure LW and if Zirkzee leaves we will then need a second striker, he's not a winger or a striker.
 
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