Like who? As I said Dembele was realistic target going by our last few season transfers and I see nothing wrong about banging about him.
Meh soon I have to start sign Ever Banega again.
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Like who? As I said Dembele was realistic target going by our last few season transfers and I see nothing wrong about banging about him.
Meh soon I have to start sign Ever Banega again.
So why the **** buy a player who isnt a CM? Stop twisting my words. Dembele adds to the list of players who are not CMs. but you want to spend 15 million on him any way. Your option was Fellaini/Strootman, and Dembele. I choose one CM. Because Dembele still doesnt fix the issue.
The fact that someone like Strootman would be available for a similar price to Dembele, means that the latter's name should never come up. Because common sense dictates you would always pick the former for that role.
Wasn't a CM but played most of the games in the second half of the season as CM and did well.
No I didn't twist your words, I would rather buy Dembele for 15 Million than signing just 1 CM and saving 15 Million in the bank.
If we can sign other CM then fair enough, would love to sign 2 CMs, if we buy only one CM then I would rather sign Dembele along with that CM than signing noone.
Strootman and? Signing Strootman and Dembele is better than signing Strootman alone.
Dembele is over-rated, not needed and I'd be ****** off if we paid £15M for him when we could get Strootman for that price. Duncan Castles is the one who tweeted we'd had a bid rejected, he also tweeted Moutinho has asked to leave Porto, so Sir Alex needs to get a deal sorted before Spurs sign him.
No it isnt, because Dembele isnt a natural deep CM by any means, its a waste of 15m pounds and X amount of wages.
Something you posted about Kagawa, might suit Dembele also.
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) Imo he will very good addition, not as first choice but can play against midtable teams.Something you posted about Kagawa, might suit Dembele also.
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But that was posted in relation to using him there every now and then. Not as a regular option. As i immediately said next sentence. You know this so why spin it? Talk about clutching at straws.
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Your last point proves it. Kagawa as CM over Giggs. Player who never played as CM over the player who played as CM. So I would take Dembele over Kagawa as CM. It all fits. Not to forget you gave Modric as example for player adapting to new role. There is every chance Dembele can learn and become even better CM than he is now.
No, I'm not spinning anything here, just highlighting what you said in the past. Not to forget he is versatile enough to play as CM, AM, Either wings.
It proves nothing, you're just making **** up to try and prove your point, and failing to boot. Kagawa was always signed as AM, having him play at makeshift CM as an ultra attacking gambit would cost the club nothing, as would having our other options fill in. I dont rate Giggs at CM, but i'm not going to spend 15 million buying a player to use him as a makeshift deep CM, when there are options available. I would rather do that with what we have. They bought Modric for the wing, and over several seasons he adapted to the midfield, more through trying to get him more involved because his ability to dictate was so good.
You tried to deliberately take my post out of context and you know it. So lets not beat about the bush on that.
Not really. It was about our lack of depth in CM dept and how players can adapt playing different roles. Simething fits with Dembele. Not to forget he has already played as CM for half a season and that's more games than Cleverely who at this point is our first choice CM with Carrick. Also it was more about how you said players can adapt and at the same time not giving any chance for Dembele to improve his weakness.
Also at the same time he adds depth to CM, AM, and wings. That's more than enough and he is just 25.
But anyways you have your points I have mine. I would rather sign him than no one else along with only CM. If we can sign 2 CMs then fine, if not then Dembele would be good additions. Also we wont be watching Rooney playing as CM like he did in 1 or 2 CL games.
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We should sign either modric.strootman.moutinho. play one with Carrick then leave fletch,ando,Cleve,scholes,giggs as rotation don't forget petrucci,Powell,tunnicliffe will all be floating around first team aswel. I would rather play tunnicliffe then buy/ waste money on dembele least e natural in that position.
Lets see if I can sort this out..
Sunil says: He wants Dembele and another natural central midfielder because signing two natural midfielders is unrealistic due to finances and he'd rather bring in two players for squad depth even if they're not naturally capable in that role to avoid having to play Giggs/Rooney/Rafael etc as CM's when injured.
Everyone else says: Don't sign Dembele at all. He doesn't solve the problem, plus we can go and sign one midfielder who naturally does the job needed then save the money so we can buy another class midfielder or just break the bank and go for both to address our problems ASAP.
I get both points completely, but the only one that makes sense to me is Mike./GodCubed/Alcaraz etc.. No point in signing Dembele. He won't improve the squad in the way we need to improve it, all he'd do is add bodies to the squad so we had more established players to play during a crisis. Not worth the gamble in my eyes, plus he's not that great anyway.
Sunil says: He wants Dembele and another natural central midfielder because signing two natural midfielders is unrealistic due to finances and he'd rather bring in two players for squad depth even if they're not naturally capable in that role to avoid having to play Giggs/Rooney/Rafael etc as CM's when injured.
Everyone else says: Don't sign Dembele at all. He doesn't solve the problem, plus we can go and sign one midfielder who naturally does the job needed then save the money so we can buy another class midfielder or just break the bank and go for both to address our problems ASAP.
I get both points completely, but the only one that makes sense to me is Mike./GodCubed/Alcaraz etc.. No point in signing Dembele. He won't improve the squad in the way we need to improve it, all he'd do is add bodies to the squad so we had more established players to play during a crisis. Not worth the gamble in my eyes, plus he's not that great anyway.
Moutinho - Carrick
Valencia - Kagawa - Nani/Young
Rooney/DW/JH
Valencia - Kagawa - Nani/Young
Rooney/DW/JH
We did get the point, but as he points out, it didnt make sense.