General Manchester United Chat
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October 18, 2021 at 5:20 am #2006036
All this talk of Rice being the answer to your midfield issues, sorry he would just add to what you already have. You need a proper grafter, in the style of Ndidi or K Philips. Someone who is going to pick up the slack for the prima donas who refuse to graft. There’s a reason Pogba plays well for France and his name is Kante
October 18, 2021 at 8:54 am #2006056Being honest I’m not a fan of Rice.
October 18, 2021 at 8:58 am #2006058You’ve clearly never seen Rice foxy. He actually is a grafter, as well as being an excellent player in every other sense and, importantly as far as United is concerned, a leader. He’s head and shoulders above Ndidi and Phillips mate.
October 18, 2021 at 9:09 am #2006061Agree with you about Pogba homer, should be left to go forward and create, not fuck about trying to tackle. Agree with you about him and Bruno in the same team as well, doesn’t work. Funny how the manager and his bunch of cronies can’t see it. Anyway, he’ll be gone in the summer but the crime is that we’ll have allowed him to go for nothing instead of selling him 18 months ago. Another Ole fuck up. Fred needs to be gone too and Matic, and VDB if we’re not playing him, and we need to bring two in that are good enough. We’ve just got way too many players in that midfield pool that aren’t good enough. And don’t even get me started on the back four.
October 18, 2021 at 9:17 am #2006067I agree about Rice, he is far superior to either Phillips or Ndidi, but I suspect he will end up at Chelsea rather than OT. Fact is, to have got to this point and still be relying on plod donkeys like Matic, McT and Fred after 3 years in charge is criminal negligence and one incompetence on an industrial scale by Ole. He’s bought an entire new back four, wingers galore, attacking midfielders and strikers yet has not at any point seen fit to strengthen the one area that needed it the most.
The last time we made any attempt to strengthen the engine room was when an already ageing Matic was brought in over 4 years ago, that’s just totally unacceptable when you’ve had 400m to spend.October 18, 2021 at 10:57 am #2006113I’m not sure how Rice can end up at Chelsea as well as all the other holding midfielders they’ve got. Although he does find a way to cram them all in, Tuchel, doesn’t he?
October 18, 2021 at 11:10 am #2006123Yeah happy, but Chelsea also tend to sell players for good money most of the time (Drinkwater apart. Another United flop from the youth team by the way). So instead of waiting until Kante and Jorginho are dead, they’ll be looking for their successors now. It’s called a planning rather than scatter gun approach mate. They’ll probably end up with Rice AND the Monaco guy. We, on the other hand, are more likely to have Darren Fletcher and Carrick in our midfield next season 😂😂
October 18, 2021 at 11:22 am #2006129@happy – As @jm1502 rightly says, both Kante and Jorginho will be in their 30’s by the time next season starts, so it won’t be a massive surprise to see them looking for a younger version to take them forward, plus Jorginho will probably end up back in Italy in the not too distant future.
Try taking a day off from cockwomble duties mate!😂😂😂😂October 18, 2021 at 11:37 am #2006135And Kante’s probably about ready for us to buy for about 60 mill Blacky 😂😂
October 18, 2021 at 11:39 am #2006137Come to think of it, quite cheap when you compare it to 40 mill for Matic.
October 18, 2021 at 12:20 pm #2006154Yeah, and Ole will probably stick him out on the left wing!!😂😂
October 18, 2021 at 12:34 pm #2006159😂😂
October 18, 2021 at 12:43 pm #2006161To be fair, I don’t think that the 40m we spent on Matic was THAT bad… we got a couple years out of him and he was great in his first season; the problem is that anyone could see that he would need to replaced sooner rather than later yet never was properly.
October 18, 2021 at 12:46 pm #2006163Cockwomble? Ha ha, this site has been overloaded with them since saturday Blacky! 😉
October 18, 2021 at 12:52 pm #2006168Nah mate, they’ve all been very quiet!🙈🙈
October 18, 2021 at 12:52 pm #2006170Matic should have been replaced sooner than sooner mate 😂😂
October 18, 2021 at 1:07 pm #2006178Matic had one good season.
Nobody wanted Fred except for Ed, it would seem.
Ole et al seem to like him.
McT is a squad box to box player who will give his all but is short of quality.
Nobody wanted VDB except for Ed, it would seem. Ole et al dont like him.
Pogba and Bruno compete for the same spot.
No combination of the above works.The failure to address midfield by Ole and co. beggars belief and it tells so much firstly about their very poor judgement of midfield players and secondly their very poor understanding of what is needed to challenge for the big prizes.
Meanwhile Ole creams himself about signing Diallo, Pellestri, Sancho, Ronaldo et al while waxing lyrical about Marcus, Antho and Mason.All the while the engine of the team runs on fumes. Rome is burning but Ole et al cant see it.
October 18, 2021 at 2:50 pm #2006216By the way, I’m surprised there hasn’t been a thread on here about Bruno, because, the odd flash of brilliance aside, he’s been pretty shite for some considerable time. If Pogba goes, is Bruno good enough to be our only creative midfielder?
October 18, 2021 at 3:33 pm #2006232I have been thinking the same for a while as well mate, he’s another one who never turns up in the big games, but he has now started to go missing far too regularly in others as well. He deserves a spell on the bench, but we know it won’t happen.
October 18, 2021 at 4:10 pm #2006248Bruno has been the best midfielder in Europe in the last 4 seasons but ok!
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