Spot on. I can’t believe this question is asked. You don’t miss out on Varane for 40m you just don’t
and if he had not got sancho and instead a DM the cry would have been but our RW is missing for years
Why did Ole prioritise a CB over a DM?
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and if he had not got sancho and instead a DM the cry would have been but our RW is missing for years
I won't bother repeating what I said in another post other than to say if a manager wants a player gone, he'll find a way. Ole clearly likes having Lingard around. Grow up.
Which supports my point that I think Ole wants Lingard to stay. One thing that might not have been clear in my early post: I don't think it's a case of Ole being weak-willed in the face of a player not wanting to leave; it's more that he doesn't want to lose Lingard for some reason. I should have mentioned his previous ruthlessness getting rid of the likes of Fellaini as well as mentioning the previous managers.
We should try and sell Martial in the winter and buy Bissouma or similar. Some club is going to be desperate for a striker in the winter and we would hopefully have our full complement with Ronaldo, Cavani, Mason, Rashford. We also have Elanga who can cover for the LW spot if needed.
Absolutely
the question should be why couldn’t we budget for one more position even if it meant no major signings next summer?
Well for one thing we can't play a high line with both Lindelof and Maguire at the back, as the first half against Young Boys evidenced.
Maguire - injured towards end of season
Lindelof - 4 seasons of having to cover for his defensive weaknesses
Tuanzebe - injury prone and not good enough yet. Needs first team football to produce consistently
Bailly - walking brain fart
Jones - not fit for 18 months
That’s why we desperately needed a cb
Lindelof - 4 seasons of having to cover for his defensive weaknesses
Tuanzebe - injury prone and not good enough yet. Needs first team football to produce consistently
Bailly - walking brain fart
Jones - not fit for 18 months
That’s why we desperately needed a cb
The answer is pretty obvious, who's available? If Casemiro available then we would have gone for him. Varane is top class, there is no top class midfielder available last summer. We might should just stick with McTominay while Rice cost 100m.
Yep the midfielders we wanted that were in the budget like Camavinga didn't fancy England it seems.
Think we also wanted rice but a combination of their valuation and lingard staying probably killed that deal.
Yeah that order is absolutely bang on
Varane was far too good to pass up. The upgrade over Lindelof is absolutely massive. I don't see us prioritising a CB over a DM. For me, we chose Sancho over a DM. Greenwood was in fantastic form at the end of last season. He can (and probably will) continue to play on the right side. He's also started this season like he ended the last. I think midfield was a more pressing matter over that, but our management decided otherwise. Sancho will still be an excellent player for us, but if that money could have been spent on a midfielder, I would have done that instead.
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What a pathetic post, sonny.
Because Lindelof is shit.
Sonny
but I just finished saying in another post that I shouldn't clog up posts with tedious back and forths, so I'll do the same here: apologies for the antagonism.How does anyone on the Caf know what his priorities are or were? Maybe just maybe the identified targets were unavailable and Varane was available, so the club correctly IMO signed him. It's not likely the club will just sign someone for a position without due diligence, we tried that with Bebe.
If a player of Varane's caliber becomes available you go for him. No matter what the priority is. And we kinda needed to replace Lindelof sooner or later.
We shouldve prob gone for a dm over a rw with how greenwood is playing. Sancho is quality but not much different than our other options if we play him LW.
We shouldve gone for bissouma. Hes literally what we need.
We shouldve gone for bissouma. Hes literally what we need.
This and the fact that Varane was available. He's not just any CB.
The whole allotted budget thing went out the window when Ronnie became available. The James deal wasn't in the works when we signed him. Does that mean we prioritized a CF over a DM? Unlikely.