Our defense struggles with the press, our midfield is just fine.
Not so sure about Matic - Pogba handling press fine. We sometimes can't grab hold on the game and play in patches because of it. Thiago would do wonders in that sense.
Exactly.
Not it's not. We've seen our midfielders give the ball away plenty of times under pressure. We've tried all of them in that base of midfield position when being pressed and they've all failed miserably including Pogba.
Yeah, agree with Matic, Pogba does sometimes hold the ball too long, but I expect that to change with more fluidity in the team now.
Fluidity will happen with better players
We just brought a player for around £5m more on less wages whose what, 6 years younger? And who was on the shortlist for balon dor last year, (Thiago wasn't).
Hence the reason I said it will change, now we have Bruno bedded in and DVDB on the team.
You can't expect them to play all the time. We need strength in depth.
The depth comes from Matic, McT and Fred. In terms of numbers we don’t need him. He’s clearly a very good player, but he’s injury prone and we have other priorities.
Jesus H Christ
If he can play RW or CB then sure, these are clearly priorities over another midfielder. There is ultimately a budget, and we can’t buy everyone.
This.
You seriously think that's good enough especially when a quality player like Thiago is available? Like I said, it's not just about numbers. We need quality options and Thiago would provide that. By the way, generally speaking his injuries have been fairly minor and haven't kept him out too long.
We have a very good midfield. Whilst Thiago would improve it, we can make far bigger improvements to the team if we buy a quality CB and/ RW. The priority is elsewhere.
The last part of the season showed that beyond the starting midfield, we are found lacking. Yes, we need other positions but who really knows what the budget is?
Yes. We should have been psychic and predicted that Thiago would be available in the summer.
He's not fit to lace Thiago's boots no matter how you phrase it. If there was a ballon d'or this year he wouldn't make an appearance (barely made it last season) and Thiago would.
Thiago is not better than what we have. That includes Pogba, VDB and Bruno. If you want to know why ask Bayern why they don't want him and also ask Klopp why he doesn't want to spend 30 million on him. I can also tell you now, he is not better than Kevin De Bruyne. Iam glad Ole is our manager because if it was for has been Jose, who wanted to pay 50 million for Perisic , he would have paid 50 million for Thiago. We don't need him. We have Mctominay .
Don't ever compare this guy to the legendary Paul fecking Scholes mate. That is an insult to the ginger genius.
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Well duh. Thiago was an option. Partey is available. Soumare is available. All of those would have been better long term options than giving a 32 year old a 3 year contract worth six figures a week.
I hope you're aware that VDB, Pogba, Bruno will almost never start in a midfield 3 together? Right now our starting midfield is the same as it was last season but with VDB as our first option off the bench/rotation to cover Pogba and Bruno's positions. We desperately need a Matic upgrade/long-term replacement/rotation option because when he's fatigued he's very poor and it costs us. We also have no adequate replacements for him in our squad. Thiago would allow us the option of playing him as the 6 with Bruno and Pogba ahead of him in games where we're expected to dominate whilst also having the capabilities of playing in the positions further forward of the 6 when Matic needs to come in and tighten things up in certain games.
You remember that problem we had this season? The one where we had no competent backup for Pogba or Bruno? A midfield trio of VDB, Pogba and Bruno means that problem still exists.
This is like saying we don't need Paul Scholes. We've got Tom Cleverley.
If pereira and Lingard leave
Did you miss the line in the middle, or need help with reading comprehension?
Hard to know if saga just means Wijnaldum to Barca will see Thiago finally join Liverpool. Obviously I am hoping it involves us as well but not getting invested again.
Was fun to get sucked in for a few days, but this so isn’t going to happen. He has eyes solely for Liverpool and they will also wait it out to drive the price down.
Surely this is a wind up
