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Transfers Summer 2022 Transfer Thread.
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Bearing in mind how crazy clinical Son is, the 3G 4A that PEH did get seems entirely reasonable.
too short, we need good aerial ability on at least one of our CBs ffs
IIRC he's had a few offers and is gonna decide after his hols; so another team 'swooping' in the meantime sounds unlikely.
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yea i dont think his passing is as bad as others say. ive seen him play some decent long balls, ive seen him do one with his left foot that actually surprised me as it was a good long ball to switch play and hes done it with his weaker foot.
yea but thats it isnt it, cant have it all. id like two luka modric's there but its never going to happen. like i say due to his body being more rigid and robust you get benefits in the challenges and the gritty physical battle side of the game. unless the rest of the team are all impeccable at keeping the ball, you need some steele in the middle of the pitch whos going to win it back for you.
great squad/rotation player to have in that position. its horses for courses just like a lot of players. PEH will be more suited for us to start with against certain teams, and other games hes better off being left out as his qualities arent required as much. against the bottom half sides that try to counter us hes not really needed as you need a bit more silk back there to help break through, but against the better sides where you need some robustness and a bit of an all rounded CDM, hes your man.
if PEH was the legit weak link that we was looking to upgrade then we would have one hell of a team! theres a couple CB's and LWB's before you even think about getting to PEH
id say the first 16 from strongest to weakest link is something like this
1. kane
2. son
2.romero
2.kulu
5. bentancur
5. PEH
7. doherty
8. lloris
9. dier
9. davies.
11. reggie
11. sess
13. sanchez
13. emerson
15. rodon
15. tanganga
didnt include players strongly linked with moves away, or skipp cos hes going to be like a new signing considering how long hes been out.
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Point is that he ends up in prime goal scoring situations too often without actually scoring. There's a lot of goals to be had if we could find someone who does what he does but with a bit of composure in the box.
Some may be interested by this list of players we bought and who was the manager at the time:
| Lloris | 12 | AVB |
| Davies | 8 | POCH |
| Dier | 4 | POCH |
| Son | 17 | POCH |
| Sanchez | 36 | POCH |
| Moura | 22 | POCH |
| Etete | 0.5 | POCH |
| Clarke | 8.5 | POCH |
| Ndombele | 42.5 | POCH |
| Lo Celso | 41 | POCH |
| Sessegnon | 25 | POCH |
| Bergwijn | 26 | JM |
| Devine | 0.5 | JM |
| Hojbjerg | 15 | JM |
| Doherty | 13.5 | JM |
| Reguilon | 27.5 | JM |
| Paskotski | 0.5 | JM |
| Lavinier | 0 | JM |
| Rodon | 11 | JM |
| Gil | 30 | NUNO |
| Romero (L) | 42.5 | NUNO |
| Sarr | 13 | NUNO |
| Royal | 21.5 | NUNO |
| Sayers | 0.5 | JC |
| Kulusevski (L) | 8 | JC |
| Bentancur | 16 | JC |
| Perisic | 0 | JC |
| Forster | 0 | JC |
| Keeley | 0 | JC |
| Bissouma | 25 | JC |
The "talent" they have is past its sell by date mostly.
Take out an ageing Ronaldo, an ageing Cavani, an ageing Mata and what have you left talent wise?
Bruno Fernandez? Definitely has talent.
Jason Sancho? Has talent, but does he have the desire?
Marcus Rashford? Too inconsistent.
Pogba? LOL! If they changed their shirts to French Blue and bought Kante...
Luke Shaw? See Marcus Rashford.
Wan Bissaka? Limited.
That's about it really. The rest are just expensive journeymen. I've left out Greenwood for obvious reasons.
I couldn't see Conte turning that lot around in 2 seasons, much less Ten Hag.
Just noticed that Ndicka has 4 goals 4 assists for Frankfurt in Bundesliga this season. Impressive attacking stats for a LCB.
He seems to fit the profile we need, and only has one year left on his contract, so I am confused as to why we aren't linked to him more closely.
He seems to fit the profile we need, and only has one year left on his contract, so I am confused as to why we aren't linked to him more closely.
Tottenham in "pole position" for Ndicka isn't a close enough a link for you?
It was from a nonsense source I don't trust. No reliable outlet has even said we're linked with him so far.
With Bissouma, Ali Gold & Fabrizio Romano both said 2 weeks ago that we had our eye on him and had sent scouts to watch him this season. So what happened this week wasn't totally unexpected.
As for Ndicka, window only just opened so ages left for us to add him to our transfer list and hopefully nab him.
Ideal but realistic transfer window activity (bold is completed):
Forster ↔ Gollini
Perisic ↔ Reguilon
Spence ↔ Emerson
Ndicka ↔ Sanchez
Bremer ↔ Rodon
Bissouma ↔ Winks
Eriksen
Raphinha ↔ Bergwijn
Gil, Sarr out on loan; sell Lo Celso & Ndombele
Forster ↔ Gollini
Perisic ↔ Reguilon
Spence ↔ Emerson
Ndicka ↔ Sanchez
Bremer ↔ Rodon
Bissouma ↔ Winks
Eriksen
Raphinha ↔ Bergwijn
Gil, Sarr out on loan; sell Lo Celso & Ndombele
Richarlison?
I understand your point- I just think somebody should be able to craft a great attack out of Sancho, Rashford and Fernandes. Bringing in egomaniac Ronaldo, that snuffed out the creativity of Sancho and Rashford, was a huge mistake.
Add to that McTominay, who I rate pretty decently, Varane and DeGea, and I see a pretty good backbone of players. Yea they have a lot of stinkers, but they also have plenty of cash to go out and buy new 40-50m RB, LB, CM, and ST if they want to. I don't really see it as being too big of a challenge to replace those four and bring in some depth elsewhere.
Their biggest problem in my eyes is that they are unable to understand their squad and situation properly, and therefore take the wrong actions to improve their team almost every time.
Don't really care of course, and am happy to watch them rot.
They absolutely do. They finished 2nd in Ole's final full season and got to a Europa League final. Then added Ronaldo, Varane & Sancho. There's talent there 100%, like with us you won't necessarily see it till a top manager comes in, establishes a plan & suddenly even the likes of Ben Davies look brilliant.
Conte would've got them top 4 with Maguire re-discovering form at the centre of a back 3, and they'd be having a similar window to us right now and upgrading at right back, LCB, RW & midfield.
I would personally prefer Raphinha to Richarlison.
Rich is more versatile, but Raphinha is more talented.
Agree- and we're about to find out if Ten Hag actually has it or not. Based on his "emailing" their team and informing them of locker room policies instead of talking to them man-to-man, I'm already thinking he's started poorly... Shades of Frank De Boer at Crystal Palace come to mind.
Would absolutely love it for you cunts to explain your snide disagrees for once. Bring it.
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Cunts??? For disagreeing.
Aw diddles, I've had about 1400 disagrees, guess what, I couldn't give a shit, people have different opinions, I respect that, they don't need to explain themselves, I'm not precious.
I remember when you posted a picture of you and your mates on Glory Glory or might've been Spurs Community. Your head was massive, huuuuge, someone said they thought it might have its own own postcode.
Does it? If it does let me know and I'll send my reasons for disagreeing to FatAbbott c/o Fathead postcode
I think you're overrating Man United players.
Ronaldo was inconsistent but their best outfield player last season, but he will decline further this year due to age.
Rashford is a dud, Bruno is creative but also gives the ball away a lot. McTominay is mediocre, while Varane is injury prone.
I think United are in real trouble, don't see them getting top 4 with ETH even if they get De Jong.
Rashford absolutely murdered us 2 seasons ago. I think hes just been out of form- likely demoralized from having to kiss Ronaldo's ass all day...
I agree though, I don't see United doing any better than 6th this next season, on current signings...