General Manchester United Chat

Homer – I think defensively he probably is, yeah. But you look at Chilwell for the amount of goals he creates and he’d probably be first choice. And then the Premier League as a whole you can’t really look past Roberston. But yeah i think Shaw is in the top 3 left backs in the league. (Don’t tell Redblood!)

@redblood – I don’t think we can sacrifice all 3 of the clubs only strikers to get one in: Ighalo is out the door for sure and Cavani is 33 so we have to be a bit careful.

I would sell Martial and get in either of the two; keep Cavani for another year and then bring in a young striker or a backup (someone like Jovic or Dembele of Lyon for example).

I think the squad issues are multi-tiered. So at the bottom of the pecking order we have players like Jones and Rojo who simply have to go like TFM did. Doesn’t matter how much we get for them, they just need to leave and be replaced with players who could actually be called upon to play.
Then we have players in and around the first team who aren’t good enough to be Manchester United players such as Lingard, Pereira, Ighalo etc who we need to upgrade. Dan James may also fall into this category if he doesn’t improve dramatically.
Then we have ageing players like Matic, Cavani and Mata who need to be replaced, Van de Beek may already be a replacement for one of them.
Then, once all that’s done, we need to make decisions on several first team players. Are Martial, Lindelof, Fred etc really up to the task of delivering Premier League Titles at Old Trafford? Is Pogba going to leave?
We’re still 2/3 years away from having a fully functional squad at all levels that has good fringe players who can come in and do a job, top first 11 players who can go and win any game anywhere and then a sprinkle of star dust backed up by exciting academy players coming through the ranks.
I said it before it’s a 5-year job for Ole to revamp this squad.

You forgot tierney from the list
He is also right up there for me

Sympathy-But I was thinking that we have Rashy and Greenwood to play as strikers,therefore being able to let go of the others.

@redblood – Oh I must’ve missed that Dembele to Athletico Madrid transfer! In any case, we should get someone young/willing to play 2nd fiddle in to be behind Kane / Haaland if we had to break the bank for either.

On Greenwood and Rashford, I think their best positions are wide right and left respectively – don’t think pushing them to play as strikers will help their development or help us to get results; Kane and Haaland are the kind of players we need and I’d much rather we break the bank for Haaland at this stage than Sancho… though both would be great 😉

Cheers

Blacky – Ha ha, well he was shite when we were talking about him last. He was amazing for Celtic and he moved to Arsenal and didn’t set the world alight. He’ll be there 2 years in August and we’re only starting to see performances from him now. Given how quick you are to point out Luke Shaw’s inconsistency i’m surprised you haven’t noticed Tierney’s.

Signing Donny should have resulted in Mata,MessiJL,and Andy leaving permanently.Signing a beast of a DM should enable the club to finally get rid of the dinosaur that is Matic.Oh,and just read somewhere that Bruno has only scored 1 goal against the top teams,a pen against Spurs,surely not right for the best player in the league,right???

@happy – That’s yet another classic smokescreen mate!. BFL has been at OT nearly SEVEN years now and throughout all that time you have continually insisted he’s great even when he was repeatedly shite, but as per usual when discussing another teams players you write them off at the first available opportunity!
It’s they same sort of ‘logic’ that insisted Phil Jones was going to come good, even after he’d been at OT for 5 years or more! If he had been doing his repeated farm labourer impressions playing for one of our main rivals 100% guaranteed you would have been laughing your cock off at the useless, gurning fucker!!😂😂😂