The plan is to confuse rivals:
Coach: Hey, don't let Onana get the ball, be next to him all time.
Rival player marks our keeper for 90 minutes.
Transfer Tweets - Manchester United - 2023/24
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Coach: Hey, don't let Onana get the ball, be next to him all time.
Rival player marks our keeper for 90 minutes.
He is pretty good and like a gem. But, there are many young players in similar level and potential. How much will they set the price? 30M?
I wouldn’t be against this.
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I rate him. Would be very good for a better team.
Pavard and Onana would not be awful.
Yer he’s the standard of player we are moving away from
Would be
I’d go straight to bans, too many warnings have been given in multiple threads. Nothing stops that conversation when some says something another poster doesn’t agree with.
Completely different type of player to McTominay. Scott's not a dm at all even though people keep acting like he is. All his best qualities come when he attacks the opponent's penalty area. The only reason we played him deeper is because we had literally no dm once Matic left.
I don't mind Onana that much as a backup for Casemiro. He's still young and by far Everton's best player. Amrabat's probably the better player of the two right now. Lavia's talented but quite different and would be expensive.
I never said otherwise, just stated the stats about him.
If Ten Hag wants him, he must see something. I don't think mount is very good at all, but I really think this manager will get him playing good football.
It makes absolutely no sense to keep on banning this topic - it's the stonking great elephant in the tiniest of rooms. Would it not be sensible to have a thread for it, where all opinions no matter how stupid can be dumped in there and moderated from one place instead of all over the site?
Besides, wasn't the initial rationale for the discussion ban the fact that the police investigation was still ongoing? Exactly what harm can a discussion cause?
I shared your opinion initially, but I have come to agree with the mods that banning this topic till the club decides what to do with Mason is the right decision. We simply do not possess ALL the facts to pass judgement on what should happen with Mason, and folks on this forum and social media are waaay too invested in the outcome for some reason.
We need some players in the team who are destroyers....at the moment we only have Casemiro, and he lacks pace. Otherwise we will get overrun by skilled midfielders, which in my opinion is the main reason why we struggle against good sides.
City do fine with just Rodri. We need more quality on the ball not less.
This year we’ve gone from Bruno and Eriksen to Bruno and Mount matching up against De Bruyne, Bernardo Silva and Kovacic.
Put it another way:
Rodri vs Casemiro
Phillips vs McTominay
De Bruyne vs Bruno
Bernardo Silva vs Mount
Kovacic vs Eriksen
To my mind the creative midfielders are the difference for City not Casemiro & McTominay vs Rodri/Phillips because I’d take their three over ours sadly.
Yes we need destroyers but destroyers that can play football and are comfortable with ball to feet. All our midfielders to a man are erratic and inefficient on the ball. That's why we get overrun. We give it away so easily and so quickly as soon as we get it back.
Depends on how good Amadou is in between the sticks.
Agreed has to be Tobido and Amrabat for me.
Ask the site owner who’s been told he can’t have discussions about it on the caf yet and has repeatedly asked people not to start or contribute to conversations about it. It’s not up for discussion until the club make their decision public. We need to respect that and more so, the wishes of the site owner since we are members of his site.
But they need to be good on the ball, we aren’t Everton or West Ham who just want to avoid defeat
Might as well keep Fred or mctom if we just needed someone to run about
Absolutely
Exactly. We need to improve our quality on the ball in midfield, not replace players who can’t pass to team mates consistently with other players that have the same issue.
I remember back in the day when this was a glitch in Champ Man. Set your striker to man mark the opposition goalkeeper and watch the goals roll in.
A little less conversation, a little more tweeting please.
Can someone explain to me why we care about FFP when Chelsea and City clearly do not? Or, how do they get away with it?
I hope this is some kind of smoke screen from the club. Midfield destroyers who can't do anything once we have the ball - where have I heard this before?
Maybe it's all a feint within a feint from EtH to get DeJong out into the open.
I think the simplest explanation, FFP or not : United does not have a lot more money in the tank this summer.
MG talk forbidden - respect the owners rules
I tend to agree, but then again, time is a great healer and people have short memories. Things Arnold will be acutely aware of.
They can not refinance with increasing interest rates and continue to take dividends as well, the part you have neglected is that the Glazers also own an NFL franchise which is also in debt to the tune of $373m, I’m well aware that a lot of companies like to use other peoples money to run businesses but the new FSP rules will mean that you can’t keep amortising your transfer fees because eventually they will catch up with you and your be kicked out of Europe, meaning you can not participate so therefore lose up to a £100m from your turnover, the glazers need to concentrate on their NFL franchise and get out while they can.
The first thing any sensible new owner will do is give the club a clean bill of financial health by paying off all the debt, or do you genuinely believe the Glazers who are already at war amongst themselves will continue to use as much debt as they can to run their NFL team and their EPL team without any consequences whatsoever from the existing sanctioning boards like PL, Uefa and FIFA ?
Both are now under investigation.
Would be an efficient signing, now fans just need to chant the same Rihanna song.
Yes but whether it's 18 or 20 months since it happened - that wont affect how people feel
Well - there is a huge difference. If we sign players for £50 million more than we are allowed according to FFP will worst case get us a small fine or a slap on the wrist. What Chelsea, and especially City are under investigation are some 10 respectively 100 times worse
Chelsea’s big spending in last year or so, it’s all on the length of contracts. Transfer fees amortized over length of contract, so £100m transfer on a 8 year contract, only £12.5m in this years accounts.
Please stop going on about it, it's tiresome. I'm sure there are many other online spaces where you can speculate. This is a free-to-join, privately-owned forum and the owner can make whatever decisions he wishes. All the mods and admins are in agreement, as it happens.
How dare you call me tiresome - you haven't seen me tap dance..
Fair enough I'll shut up now.
That loophole was closed this summer. Their signings from last year are spread over the contract length but all signings from this summer onwards may only be spread over five years.