General Manchester United Chat

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  • #2006036
    foxyfoxes
    foxyfoxes
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    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

    #2006056

    mufc
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    Being honest I’m not a fan of Rice.

    #2006058

    jm1502
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    You’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.

    #2006061

    jm1502
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    Agree 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.

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    Blacky
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    I 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.

    #2006113

    happyhurling
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    I’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?

    #2006123

    jm1502
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    Yeah 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 😂😂

    #2006129

    Blacky
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    @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!😂😂😂😂

    #2006135

    jm1502
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    And Kante’s probably about ready for us to buy for about 60 mill Blacky 😂😂

    #2006137

    jm1502
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    Come to think of it, quite cheap when you compare it to 40 mill for Matic.

    #2006154

    Blacky
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    Yeah, and Ole will probably stick him out on the left wing!!😂😂

    #2006159

    jm1502
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    😂😂

    #2006161

    To 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.

    #2006163

    happyhurling
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    Cockwomble? Ha ha, this site has been overloaded with them since saturday Blacky! 😉

    #2006168

    Blacky
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    Nah mate, they’ve all been very quiet!🙈🙈

    #2006170

    jm1502
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    Matic should have been replaced sooner than sooner mate 😂😂

    #2006178

    moral
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    Matic 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.

    #2006216

    jm1502
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    By 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?

    #2006232

    Blacky
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    I 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.

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    happyhurling
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    Bruno has been the best midfielder in Europe in the last 4 seasons but ok!

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