Ok, PL proven, cheap and athletic. Lets presume CM will get strengthen with someone, cheap. who would that be?
Ndidi has a £8mil release clause at leicester.
Doucoure left everton on a free. are we talking bargain basement reinforcement due to our financial situation?
I was just speculating, though ndidi is 28. Palhinha is 29. If we needed to bring in a sort term athletic CM for a season who is PL proven, they aren't bad shouts.Both seem at least 3 years too late
Ok, PL proven, cheap and athletic. Lets presume CM will get strengthen with someone, cheap. who would that be?
Ndidi has a £8mil release clause at leicester.
Doucoure left everton on a free. are we talking bargain basement reinforcement due to our financial situation?
Alejandro Rodriguez could fit what we're doing with signing youth prospects.
He came through Southampton's academy. Been talked about as a big striker talent for a while now. 21 goals in 22 games for England's various youth teams (U15/16/17).
His most recent goals came against Italy a few weeks ago.
Ok, PL proven, cheap and athletic. Lets presume CM will get strengthen with someone, cheap. who would that be?
Ndidi has a £8mil release clause at leicester.
Doucoure left everton on a free. are we talking bargain basement reinforcement due to our financial situation?
My gut feeling is bar a huge offer for Onana we will be looking to find competition for him rather than someone to replace.GK, 1-2 WBs, 2 midfirlders, 1 striker. Still a lot to do
I was just speculating, though ndidi is 28. Palhinha is 29. If we needed to bring in a sort term athletic CM for a season who is PL proven, they aren't bad shouts.
Doucoure is 32, i didn't realise he was so old.
Yeah we could well do next summerAll of them are too old and not good enough all round at both sides of the game.
We should go all out for Adam Wharton.
Missed the point entirely. It was about finding a very cheap stop gap for a season.All of them are too old and not good enough all round at both sides of the game.
We should go all out for Adam Wharton.
I’m sure I read the other day that he would drop his wage demands to 200k for United.Still hoping we can find wage structure to get Osimhen but highly unlikely, mind you also worry about Ekitike going to rival.
Missed the point entirely. It was about finding a very cheap stop gap for a season.
I think I read something before from one of Liverpool's transfer gurus (Ian Graham or Michael Edwards) where he was saying that these kind of buys that don't really move the needle are what kill you and that you just should save your money until the right player emerges. I wouldn't be touching Ndidi or Palhinha for those reasons and that both are replicas of Ugarte in terms of busy defensively but zero contribution on ball.All of them are too old and not good enough all round at both sides of the game.
We should go all out for Adam Wharton.
We do that a lot as well. Most of our signings are just squad players at best rather than people significantly improving the starting 11I think I read something before from one of Liverpool's transfer gurus (Ian Graham or Michael Edwards) where he was saying that these kind of buys that don't really move the needle are what kill you and that you just should save your money until the right player emerges. I wouldn't be touching Ndidi or Palhinha for those reasons and that both are replicas of Ugarte in terms of busy defensively but zero contribution on ball.
Will be absolute maximum of one and that's only IF we can actually manage to sell most of the front 4Sign midfielders! Just sign them
This makes sense in the very short term. 2 year contract. Also Ghana didn’t qualify for Afcon.Partey on a free transfer?
No, it doesn't. We rightly got rid of Mason Greenwood so why would we bring this on ourself unnecessarily. Not to mention that he's lost his legs so we'd be stuck with another Casemiro.This makes sense in the very short term. 2 year contract. Also Ghana didn’t qualify for Afcon.
Precisely why I wouldn't want to go near himNo, it doesn't. We rightly got rid of Mason Greenwood so why would we bring this on ourself unnecessarily. Not to mention that he's lost his legs so we'd be stuck with another Casemiro.
You have answered reason whyWould anyone not take Partey on a free as seemingly he and Arsenal haven’t been able to agree terms
I know there’s allegations about but he’d instantly improve us
Yeah especially that kind of profile midfielder, just look at someone like De Bruyne to see thatI originally dropped his name here assuming he is 30, but after further looking into it, he is 32 years old, will want longer contract on good money and there is the baggage with the rape.
I doubt he would accept a 2 year performance based contract, where we can use him while he still has legs in him, and we wont be contracted to him for like 3-4 years. The drop off in some PL players performances after they pass 30 is monumental. Not much upside.
A CM, a CF and a GK are much more imminent than another WB in my opinionMy list included these players as soon as the season finished
Cunha - a must, for the left 10
Mbeumo/kudus - one of the two for the right 10
Semeneyo - as the other wingback with Amad on the other side.
Striker - Gyokeres/Osimhen/Watkins
GK - someone like Martinez/Ter stegen
Cunha is done so is Mbuemo supposedly. The key for me now is Semeneyo. He’ll be a game changer along with Cunha. If we address all these positions ( a long shot I know) then for me, we are going to win the league or the very least would be challenging with one game per week. You can laugh all you want but I genuinely believe that.
Agree. It’s looking dismal at the moment, but still time.I feel like we're going to struggle massively next season. The top clubs have been bolstering squads which were already leagues above ours with multiple new signings while we're only able to bring in one player who was just a case of meeting a release clause.
We've sold nobody and don't look remotely close to doing so. Then we're (possibly due to finances) only able to focus on one deal at a time, while dragging out the Mbeumo deal to the point where Brentford are coming out with statements to try to wring more money out of us.
We should have had back up options ready to go, and we need to be finding creative ways of improving the squad. Swap deals, free transfers, whatever it takes to ensure that we are still in the PL after next season. Currently our squad is weaker than it was when we finished 15th and with very little sign of much happening imminently.
In terms of what we need, I think we know the positions we should be looking to fix. At this point I would be looking to do quick deals that aren't too expensive to bolster the squad and ensure a bedrock for the next few seasons. I would try to make swaps with Juventus maybe, and if we can get these players for decent prices I'd try to go for:
-----------------------------Martinez
--------------Yoro-------De Light-------Heaven
Amad---------D Luiz--------Bruno-----Dorgu
----------------Mbeumo---------Cunha
----------------------------Mateta
Not for me. Semeneyo as a WB is equally as important as the GK if not more. A injury to Amad and we are back to Dalot and Dorgu again and that’ll be terrible. As for Striker, I truly believe Zirkzee will flourish with Cunha and Mbeumo behind him.A CM, a CF and a GK are much more imminent than another WB in my opinion
Knows Mbeumo too so would be no issue with them fitting together as a unit.I think it’s worth a punt on Ivan Toney, I saw a lot of him playing at Peterborough and when he left there for Brentford I thought United could have took a chance on him, he’s very good at both ends of the pitch, can hold ball up and can help defensively, very good in the air.
The only issue I had with him was picking up silly bookings for dissent.
