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He's absolute fucking shit, a clown of the highest order. I can't recall the number of games Barca have been winning and where he's suddenly decided to rugby tackle an opposition player who's facing away from goal or came to the conclusion that slapping the football is the best way to clear it from the corner.I can’t say I’ve seen much of lenglet, anyone care to fill me in?
and likely one of Inter's CB's or Martinez after they complete signings of Dybala and Lusaka both on mammoth wages, even after they sell Skriniar to PSG.
Bremer's good but not going to immediately upgrade our first team CB's I suspect - but certainly gives us far better rotation options
We should focus on Richarlison (he's more in line with our needs) get Spence sorted and then focus on the CB area, I'd like a concerted effort for Pau Torres personally. After that maybe 1-2 squad players but we don't really need a ton more and I'd hope we keep the powder dry after that.
Tbf I'm never going to write a signing off before we've seen them play anymoreThe opposite also applies. If we sign him, we should've gone for Maldini. If we don't, he's world class and Levy out.
Woolwich have apparently agreed a deal for both. I don’t see anything remotely close to that in relation to Spurs mate and our forward search
If we can’t our chosen options at LCB, move on and get the best CB available.Would be a great signing, absolute rock of a defender. Although he would be a CB not a ball playing LCB.
Gold again lamenting some unrealistic Spurs fans over the rate/speed of signings.
Worth reminding people that many PL clubs have yet to make ANY signings this summer, including ManU and Chelsea. My candid assessment of ManU's squad is it needs a lot more work than Spurs does - just looking at their striker options :
Ronaldo - unless every pass goes to Ronaldo he doesn't contribute much these days, goals but no pressing.
Cavani - now getting on, at end of contract unlikely to renew
Rashford - Badly out of form for 2 years for ManU and England
Greenwood - Not allowed into training ground, will he ever play for ManU again ?
Martial - At one time an excellent emerging striker, now hated by ManU fans for lack of effort. Been loaned out but no permanent move found for him
Lingard - Winger at end of contract, wants out
Shoretire - Dane Scarlett's main opposition in England year groups, but missed out of last E squad, just cannot compete with Scarlett's current run of 10 goals in 10 appearances for E u19's, not a great omen for Shoretire or ManU
IMO I don't know how ManU rebuild a forward line from here - other than buying forwards like going out of fashion and dumping all the above ?
Meanwhile Spurs have Kane, Son, Kulusevski and Moura (assuming Bergwijn's on his way) plus youngsters coming through (but probably to young for next season) ...... and its clear we are trying to sign other decent forward options to give us rotation without too much drop off from almost world class forward line. Yet some fans think we are in a bad place and need to do more.
I would hate to be a ManU fan facing a rebuild of our forwards - and they will be looking very enviously at Spurs options even without reinforcements.
Worth watching an interview with Nick Pope on his transfer from Burnley to Newcastle where he talks of the transfer taking 3 weeks (and BTW Bale from Spurs to Madrid took 6 weeks) to appreciate how long transfers usually take to do. We made our 3rd signing just a week ago .......
We get Bremer and Richarlison I am not to going to be too annoyed Woolwich getting Raphinha or City getting Philips.
We can’t sign everyone but Bremer and Richarlison on top of Bissouma and Perisic is some serious business.
If we don't sign him he's shite , poor man's Stuart Nethercott
If we do sign him he'll be the reincarnation of Nesta & Maldini according to many on here
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So basically wilder is saying…We only want to pay fair amounts and we only want to sell for amounts we’re happy with.![]()
Boro will only sell Spence for right price and don't depend on the sale
Chris Wilder discussed Djed Spence's future and Middlesbrough's right to receive a fair pricewww.gazettelive.co.uk
Wilder:" We got quoted £20-25m for a forward playing in the Championship recently, but we didn’t think that was a fair number. We’re prepared to pay fair numbers, as we always have done, but we’re not going to be silly, and we’re certainly not going to be giving our players away for a fee we don’t think is right."
So Wilder unwittingly quotes the amount they think Spence is worth. I can see this playing out like Berahino and Peace saga.
Played badly as France lost to Switzerland. At fault for switzerlands opener and hauled off at halftime. I don’t like him at all because of that because I’m an emotional football fan.I can’t say I’ve seen much of lenglet, anyone care to fill me in?
United need to sell their forwards and I include Mr Selfish Ronaldo in that. Cannot build a team with those players.
Come on man, it’s got to be as vague as possible with a couple of thumbs up emojis ideally after a credible journalist has said something on the subject.So you are pretty sure that Spurs are signing Richarlison and it's just a matter of when and not if. Plus you are confident that Chelsea entering the race won't turn his head in any way?
You can have Ronaldo in there, you just have to compensate with players who drop back and will also press from the front. He's very useful at the very least as a squad option who is lethal in front of goal and offers an aerial threat .. he tore us apart twice this season.
I'm not just not him & Fernandes together works.