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Midfield full of plodders
The ease with which Lamptey goes past mctominay and coasts into the midfield is just laughable (it’s after the 3rd pass).
Mctominay forces him up the line but has absolutely no support from a 2nd defender and Lamptey obviously beats him for pace.
Then Casemiro and Mctominay just slowly jog back without a worry.
Woolwich, Man Utd, Brighton, Villa & Newcastle all benefited hugely from Liverpool having a subpar season and Spurs and Chelsea having shockers.
Woolwich & Brighton less so. - but the other 3 became insanely arrogant and reality is going to hit them so hard this year.
View: https://twitter.com/MailSport/status/1703782337568288962
Getting the sense of Dejavu, again...
At Real the assumption, as I recall, was that it was more so Casemiro making the trio tick, because Modric/Kroos could go do their thing with him patroling. Maybe it was never the case. Maybe Real was just damn good. Maybe you're not going to find a stronger pair of 8's than Modric/Kroos, to make the 6's job look easy.
Oh it's worse than that:
Varane - 30... Injury prone.
Lindelof - 29... Never been the answer
Maguire - 30... Never been the answer
Evans - 35... LOL
Shaw - 28... Injury prone.
Casemiro - 31..... Legs going/gone & card-prone.
Eriksen - 31.... Legs going/gone
Fernandes - 29..... Sketchy, fair weather captain.
Martinez - Struggles to stay fit.
Martial - Never been the answer
McTominay - Never been the answer
Van De Beak - Bust.
Sancho - Gone wrong.
Anthony - Gone cunt.
Greenwood - Rapist
"Hey Mr Glazier; can I have another £1bn please."
Tbh, Casemiro is one of the greatest midfielders of his generation, he was definitely great at Real Madrid.
Let's not try and rewrite history because of his current form
Can we expect an afternoon of paint balling where Rashford tells Nev he dreams of playing with Madders? No? Why not?
But rewriting history is fun, when it lets you shit on United.
Seriously though, you're right. That midfield trio is the best, we've seen for decades. Better than anything City or Barca have had imo. So not discounting the player Casemiro was.
I just always felt, and feel even more now, that the narrative was that Casemiro made the trio, and Real, tick, while I thought it was Modric, Kroos, Casemiro in that order, which made them great.
Definitely close between that trio and Busquets, Xavi and Iniesta.
Heard they are in for Russell brand as Anthony is away...
Casemiro was phenomenal at Madrid for 8/9 years. Let's not do revisionist history here.
He's beginning his slow decline, but he's been ok all things considered. Still has a goal in a cup final.
The second a club like Madrid opens the door for a player of his reputation to leave - if your aim is to get on par with/surpass Madrid then you should ask yourself why are they allowing him to leave? Especially since they had the likes of Camavinga and the French John Boyega stunt double in their ranks.
Utd bit the bait from Madrid because they got thumped by Brentford early last season, Casemiro was the big name used to show that they are still relevant.
It's exactly the same reason that I wanted us to avoid Laporte like the plague this summer for the LCB role.
Oh it's worse than that:
Varane - 30... Injury prone.
Lindelof - 29... Never been the answer
Maguire - 30... Never been the answer
Evans - 35... LOL
Shaw - 28... Injury prone.
Casemiro - 31..... Legs going/gone & card-prone.
Eriksen - 31.... Legs going/gone
Fernandes - 29..... Sketchy, fair weather captain.
Martinez - Struggles to stay fit.
Martial - Never been the answer
McTominay - Never been the answer
Van De Beak - Bust.
Sancho - Gone wrong.
Anthony - Gone cunt.
Greenwood - Rapist
"Hey Mr Glazier; can I have another £1bn please."
They brought Casimero and Eriksen and they are already deadwood they need to sell as their legs are going. What a club.
Madrid definitely know when to sell a player , made a nice profit on Varane and CasemiroOh it's worse than that:
Varane - 30... Injury prone.
Lindelof - 29... Never been the answer
Maguire - 30... Never been the answer
Evans - 35... LOL
Shaw - 28... Injury prone.
Casemiro - 31..... Legs going/gone & card-prone.
Eriksen - 31.... Legs going/gone
Fernandes - 29..... Sketchy, fair weather captain.
Martinez - Struggles to stay fit.
Martial - Never been the answer
McTominay - Never been the answer
Van De Beak - Bust.
Sancho - Gone wrong.
Anthony - Gone cunt.
Greenwood - Rapist
"Hey Mr Glazier; can I have another £1bn please."
They have B.Munich on Wednesday.....
No AWB.... And at least one of Maguire or Evans + Reguilon.
No he was really good. The best DM in the world. Totally shut down huge teams on numerous occasions in Europe and it was very obvious what he was doing on an individual level. Of course a Modric is a much better footballer but in terms of the DM role he was exceptional.
And he was very, very good for a lot of last season for United - its just a decline and that club seems to accelerate declines because of the culture/lack of cohesion/whatever. So many good players seem to tail off there.
Apart from the odd player, such as Roberto Carlos, Brazilians seem to go downhill fast once they hit 30