Santiago Arias

[Nobby style]

Apparently United have switched their interest from Seamus Coleman to PSV's Colombian right back, Santiago Arias. Pacey right back that loves to bomb forward (too much so at times) and a very good defender not afraid to get stuck in there. Actually, reminds me of Rafael quite a bit.

Arias is yet another example of the modern boom of Colombians that as a footballing nation had been dormant for so long. Would love to see him at United and would definitely give Rafael a run for his money. He would bring a massive Colombian fan base with him as well.

Here's a decent video of him from one of Colombia's last friendlies against Belgium, a 2 - nil victory in which he controlled Hazard quite well for the most part.

 

[Mauzindark]

Hard to judge defenders from youtube videos. Nobby have you seen a lot of him in action ? Will he be backup to Rafa or a replacement ?

 

[Ekeke]

Backup at best. Willems is their best fullback

 

[pocco]

What do you think of Muriel, Nobby?

 

[Mauzindark]

Hmm can't find any reliable scouting reports. But whoscored lists his strengths as passing, dribbling, crossing, tackling with no significant weakness. Unsure if they can be trusted.

 

[Ekeke]

Who was the last fairly ordinary attacking full back in his early 20s that we signed from an Eredivise team. Cant imagine it would work out quite so poorly but theres not a world of difference.

 

[Nobby style]

Hard to judge defenders from youtube videos. Nobby have you seen a lot of him in action ? Will he be backup to Rafa or a replacement ?

Haven't seen much of him to be honest. He played only a year in Colombia's first division for a very unfashionable side, but his talent was obvious. Portuguese scouts whisked him away quite young. Have mostly seen him with the Colombian national side and he's looked impressive.

As for Luis Muriel, I'm very excited about him, and he's obviously a massive young talent in Italy. He does seem to get lost a bit in the shuffle as there is such a huge glut of young Colombian strikers in the world right now. Can't see him playing a big role in the for Colombia in the World Cup, but it looks like Falcao is out so there is a spot for somebody new to come and claim. Right now it would probably be Jackson Martinez who leads the Portugese league in scoring, or Adriano Ramos who's at the top of the scoring tables in the Bundesliga. I really like Ramos as he reminds me a lot of Faustino Asprilla. Who I think will be the best of the lot is Victor Ibarbo who plays for Cagliari in Italy. Unfortunately he might've suffered a bad injury yesterday in a friendly with Tunisia.

It is amazing the massive young talent that Colombia is producing at the moment.

 

[Elliott]

Who was the last fairly ordinary attacking right back in his early 20s that we signed from an Eredivise team. Cant imagine it would work out quite so poorly but theres not a world of difference.

I'm drawing a blank here. Who was it?

 

[Vato]

With a name like that he can only be awesome, anyone saying otherwise knows clearly nothing about the game.

 

[Barney]

I'm drawing a blank here. Who was it?

He might have meant left back. I think he's referring to Buttner.

 

[Chief123]

Seen a lot of tweets over last couple of days saying we are signing him on a free transfer.

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[sebsheep]

Only took us 8 years to complete the deal.

 

[antohan]

ETH feeling bad about Jones and getting him some company?

 

[antohan]

Only took us 8 years to complete the deal.

He wasn't 30 yet. Some things you just have to bide your time.

 

[Telsim]

Literally who?

 

[Sparky Rhiwabon]

If Wiki is correct he doesn’t seem to have played a lot of football the last few years, is he even going to be match fit?

 

[Adisa]

Looks a bit of a crock.

 

[izec]

He is shit

 

[SportingCP96]

I remember when this guy was at Sporting haha

 

[SuperiorXI]

He was good on Fifa back in the day

 

[Brophs]

Arias havin’ a laugh?

 

[Based Adnan]

Can't be worse than AWB

 

[kaku06]

What the feck ? Santiago Arias really ? Why did we pass up on Dest then ?

 

[reddevilz007]

What the feck ? Santiago Arias really ? Why did we pass up on Dest then ?

From what news are saying, Murtough believes in AWB

 

[kaku06]

From what news are saying, Murtough believes in AWB

Then why are we going for Arias then ?

 

[Raoul]

Don’t bump old threads