Unless it came out from Taylors mouth and he wrote it, I would take it with a pinch of salt.
Unless it came out from Taylors mouth and he wrote it, I would take it with a pinch of salt.Yes but that guy Sunlivk quoted on the last page is reliable.. from the time I've followed him anyway.
We don't need any High profile signings for gods sake.. Rather fill the missing pieces with Dutch players & Shaw than go and try to be badass. We have high profile players already, Rvp, Rooney, Mata, Januzaj, De Gea & so on. We just need players who fill the missing gaps and work for the system now.
Can have the best attack in the world but it is useless without a good spine to the team... we have non-existent midfield and badly need a revamp in defence and possibly wide positions. Yet you say we don't need any high profile signings? Am I missing something here? You think young Dutch players are going to produce miracles?
Not sure about revamp in defense. Rafael, Jones, Smalling, Evans are good enough and we need a good LB. At max we may need one more experienced CB but again that creates same problem, Smalling and Jones can never grown in their position.
De Gea(23)I don't buy all this Fellaini hate, everyone underperformed with Moyes as manager and Fellaini was no different. He showed that he is more than good enough playing for Everton playing against some very good midfielders.
Rafael (23) Smalling(24)/Jones(22) Evans(26) LB (Shaw 18)
Fellaini(26) New CM
Januzaj(19) Rooney(28) Mata(26)
RVP(30)
Also the average age of that team is 24 years.
Also our second team would be
LindegaardWe still have Young, Valencia to fit in somewhere.
RB(Varela) Jones CB Evra/Buttner
Carrick Cleverley
Nani Kagawa Welbeck
Hernandez
Also we have players like Powell, Henriquez, Zaha, Anderson, Bebe, Lingard back from loan and players like Wilson, Lawrence who are ready to fill up numbers in the squad.
Don't let Moyes reign fool you thinking the team/squad is not good enough.
All we need is 1 or 2 CMs (1 is enough), 1 LB and if needed a CB. Yes we also need a winger with pace to stretch defense but that will again create lot of problems with Kagawa, Mata, Januzaj, Rooney in the team.
But why do they need to be high profile? I would take 4 ?1m signings if they were good enough.Can have the best attack in the world but it is useless without a good spine to the team... we have non-existent midfield and badly need a revamp in defence and possibly wide positions. Yet you say we don't need any high profile signings? Am I missing something here? You think young Dutch players are going to produce miracles?
Fellaini is really not a United player at all.. he doesn't fit anywhere and I can never understand his true role. Positionally I always find him to be questionable. You are cutting it rather short by saying we just need 1 CM? Cleverley and Anderson and Fellaini should be gone, but even if we keep Fellaini, that just leaves us with CM options of Fellaini, Fletcher and Carrick. Definitely need 2 quality additions here.... 1 can be perhaps on the younger side.
Defence wise ASSUMING and this is assuming, that we get Shaw.. LB should be fine. But CB wise I just don't think what we currently have is good enough.. definitely 1 CB at a minimum of true quality needed... Hummels is obviously perfect. But I'd say we may need a RB as well to offer Rafael competition, Smalling and Jones just don't cut it there and need to concentrate on their CB positions if they are ever going to live up to the full potential.
That attack is really narrow and it reminds me of City before Navas... I don't like not having a player who offers full width to stretch the opponents so we really do need a winger to go in that team. I'm sure LVG knows that... Valencia may not be able to live up to the heights of past anymore. Nani and Young should be sold... so that needs us definitely needing work there. 1 winger very minimum.
All in all that's a lot of work to address in my eyes, we can't rely on players who just fill the numbers despite everyone knowing they are never going to be United quality. So they need to be sold like the ones I mentioned and if we are going to compete with the best in the league, we need quality brought in to have any hope.
Dutch managers love to drag their countryman around, was it at Barca that LVG had like 7 or 8 of them? Lol.
Still, I find it really bizzare that he just blows off all previous targets - Moyes may have made a lot of mistakes, but the players he was targeting seemed absolutely rock solid.
Dutch managers love to drag their countryman around, was it at Barca that LVG had like 7 or 8 of them? Lol.
Still, I find it really bizzare that he just blows off all previous targets - Moyes may have made a lot of mistakes, but the players he was targeting seemed absolutely rock solid.
he wants players that suit his style, he clearly thinks Kroos doesn't, and he knows him very well, he's worked with him.
He'll want Strootman, but can't because he's injured.
He wants a different German entirely in Schweinsteiger
It would be good if for once in last 3 windows we can target and sign realistic players. Schweinsteiger is the symbol of Bayern and I can't see them selling him.
Not sure why we'd want him. Carvalho is along a more similar mould, but younger. Schweinsteiger is older, expensive and on high wages. Although, same can be said of Carvalho, and he's as yet unproven.
Not sure why we'd want him. Carvalho is along a more similar mould, but younger. Schweinsteiger is older, expensive and on high wages. Although, same can be said of Carvalho, and he's as yet unproven.
It would be good if for once in last 3 windows we can target and sign realistic players. Schweinsteiger is the symbol of Bayern and I can't see them selling him.
Mundo saying we have bid ?25m for Sanchez.
Mundo saying we have bid ?25m for Sanchez.