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25 Aug 2024 15:01:11
Mctominay bid accepted, now it seems ugarte is finally going to happen on a permanent deal rather than a loan.
1.) 25 Aug 2024 16:29:54
Would have preferred a loan with no obligation for Ugarte.
2.) 25 Aug 2024 16:52:20
As I understand it, the player is yet to agree to move.
3.) 25 Aug 2024 20:26:09
Similar to awb he wants a payoff from us and still has to agree terms? Do these payoffs happen all the time or is it just us because we’ve been ran by clowns for so long. I never hear about this with other clubs! Ed’s can u help with this one?!
4.) 25 Aug 2024 22:13:19
Was thinking the same norn.
5.) 25 Aug 2024 22:24:59
Norn_84
It has to do with the wages they are paid. F. eks Antony gets paid 200K a week, and has 4 years left on his contract, no other team in the world would pay him those wages so if Utd were to sell him and the buying team are only offering Antony 100K and there are no other offers and Utd really want rid, they'll have to pay the remaining 100K a week for the remainder of his 4 year contract. Never pays off to give players the huge wages utd pay. McTominay gets 60K a week so i doubt there are the same problems there but it might be the loyalty bonus of 5% of the transfer fee he is looking for because as far as i know he never asked for a move.
6.) 25 Aug 2024 22:41:15
Not to mention Sancho on 250K a week and Casimero on 350K a week with 2 years still to go on his deal. These players will only move if they can get the same wages elsewhere.
Sancho f. eks (Juventus are offering to cover 100K of his weekly wages) and united have to cover 150K a week for the season loan.
Its very very costly to get rid of players on huge wages that are not justified on the pitch and that almost no team want due to their huge wages. Antony came from the Dutch league, why is he getting 200K a week when he was getting 25K a week at ajax. Couldn't 100K convince him? Shocking really.
7.) 26 Aug 2024 05:05:12
Taxes are different in Italy though. You can be paid £100k/ week in the UK and £80k/ week equivalent in Italy and still end up with the same amount in your pocket after taxes as an example.
8.) 26 Aug 2024 11:43:08
Good point Fuser.
9.) 26 Aug 2024 18:34:35
If I’m McSauce, a move to Serie A will see him being a top player there, at a great club that is a footballing hotbed. Food, climate etc. good luck to him.
As for Sancho, he needs to find his fire again wherever he goes. Right now, seems like he can’t be @rsed.
29 Jul 2024 20:23:05
Fulham are about to sign smith Rowe Rowe around 27 million plus add ons and will come back for mctominay. Rumour was they offered 15 1st time around surely he's worth more than him. Mctominay is a much better player, not the standard for us to be a starter, but would come alive at a club like Fulham imo.
1.) 29 Jul 2024 22:08:23
Likeable guy mctom. I'd love to see him do well wherever he goes if he does move on.
It's a big wrench leaving United but if he wants to maximise his playing time he needs to leave I think.
2.) 29 Jul 2024 23:43:31
He needs to leave because he is simply not good enough.
3.) 30 Jul 2024 05:28:21
I’d imagine we get lower fees for our players due to the high wages they’re on, I mean I agree that McTominay is valued more than Emile Smith Rowe but then mctominays wages will be significantly more than than ESR.
I think its time to move on, he’s a hard worker and you can see he gives 100% every time he’s on the pitch, but I don’t think he’s good enough to start for us so for the best of his career, he should move on.
4.) 30 Jul 2024 08:48:58
McTominay lacks discipline. He gives away needless fouls at the wrong time.
I'll never forgot his half arsed tracking back against Bayern last season.
5.) 30 Jul 2024 10:07:37
McTominay is like AWB for me. There are good reasons to keep them, they work hard and give everything, don't cause problems, have a specific role that they do well.
However, we are moving forward looking for players that are good on the ball, play a certain style more attacking with control. Unfortunately neither of these fit this mould.
You sometimes have to let players go to fund incomings and whilst we could keep these, the benefit of selling and re-investing means we should do this.
6.) 30 Jul 2024 11:43:56
McTominay has plenty of positive aspects. He's hard working, has a great attitude, and can be a useful player if used correctly.
He's an ideal squad player, someone who offers something different from the bench, hasn't cost anything, is on relatively low wages, and won't kick up a stink when he's not starting.
That said, at his age now I suspect he'll want to start playing regularly, and while not at the level we need to battle it out at the top of the league, he is more than good enough to be a starter for 70% of the teams in the league.
It's probably time for him to move on and play for a club where he starts most weeks. If played as a No.10 for a club like Fulham I could see him getting 10-12 league goals a season. Which would be massive for them.
The biggest hurdle he has had in his career is that people call out his short comings when he's playing in a position that isn't natural for him.
He played most of his youth career as an attacking midfielder/ No.10, bar one season where he played a run of games as the striker due to there being no one else.
Because of his size he's often been tasked with playing at CDM/ CB, but he has never really been a defensive player, and unfortunately he's not had the quality coaching in the first team to make him a defensive player.
His reading of the game, his positioning are nowhere near good enough, while his passing and technique are average and often exposed in tighter/ busier parts of the pitch (centrally and deeper) .
None of this is his fault and I feel it's not really fair to slate him for it. He is playing out of position without complaining, just sacrificing himself for the team, while doing the best he can.
Hopefully he gets a good move and has a great rest of his career, while United bring in some much needed funds to improve the first 11.
I'd wish him the best and give his a cheer/ round of applause every time he returned to Old Trafford.
7.) 31 Jul 2024 11:15:32
McT is a fantastic professional and has never been found wanting. You can point out one example v Bayern. But otherwise, always top, scored an awful amount of goals. Ideally would like to see him kept as he can be an important player for us. But, if we are in the scenario where we need to sell to fund much needed transfers, well it's unfortunate but they will have to sell him. I just hope they get what he is worth.
8.) 31 Jul 2024 12:39:04
Nearly always been found wanting for passing ability and positional sense.
14 Jul 2024 10:13:55
Rumours that Notts forest are close to signing nikola milinkovic for about 15 million.
I remember we were looking at him at one point. Has that interest completely gone, as 15 million for him is a bargain.
1.) 14 Jul 2024 11:14:59
Maybe there is a reason why he is no longer being linked with top clubs for 30-50m and is instead heading to Forest for 15m.
2.) 14 Jul 2024 11:29:11
Because the world has woken up to transfer fees? Everyone apart from Everton anyway!
{Ed025's Note - but if you have the Kohinoor Diamond Spenno you dont want sell him to someone offering Cash Converters prices mate.. :)
3.) 14 Jul 2024 11:36:41
lol Ed. Maybe Utd got stuck in the queue for him.
{Ed025's Note - its like when you are haggling for prozzie spenno, we know the deed is going to happen its just agreeing a price mate.. :)
4.) 14 Jul 2024 12:18:03
Branthwaite will come down to a simple decision.
Is it better to overpay for what you really want, or compromise and spend good money on something else instead.
The reality is that the CB market for a club with ambitions to be amoungst the best is limited.
Players like Max Kilman who is a decent, solid EPL CB is 40m when moving to West Ham. If he was joining a club like United, Arsenal or Chelsea you could add 5-10m to that price.
That is just the way the market is right now. If you are signing a younger player with potential or a top class proven player then you'll likely have to pay upwards of 55-60m.
There might be the odd exception, but you'll struggle to find more than one of those a year.
If we do the maths, there are probably around 25 or so CB's who are good enough for where we want to be. Half of those at least are already playing for a top side and we probably won't be able to get a player from them.
Which leaves maybe 12 viable options. Yet not all of those will be willing to or want to join us. While some of them might have recently moved or signed a new deal meaning they will cost a premium to get them out of there club.
Which all means there are probably about 4 or 5 viable options for us to sign who are all at the level we want/ need or have the potential to get to that level.
If we are looking to sign at least 2 maybe 3 CB's then that really doesn't give us much wiggle room.
Todibo has been ruled out.
MdL seems oddly available, and might be the exception player.
Yoro really wants Real Madrid.
Branthwaite will cost a premium.
But let's say Yoro chooses to turn us down as he wants Madrid (which is rumoured to be the most likely outcome), and we sign MdL.
We still need at least one more CB maybe two.
If we don't agree to pay a little more for Branthwaite then where to we turn?
Marc Guehi is probably one of the few who looks both good enough and potentially available. Will he cost less than 55m? Almost certainly not.
Inacio and Diomande from Sporting both look like potentially good enough prospects, both will also cost 50-60m each. While neither are proven in the EPL like Branthwaite and Guehi. Also both have exceled in a back three system, would they look as good in a back four?
Which other options are there who are both good enough and available?
Calafiori will be joining a UCL club and probably wouldn't consider joining us. Same for Bastoni if he is available.
All other options are a step down in quality and potential.
Which for me seems to bring the question round to whether its better to over pay for Branthwaite and pay 60-65m for him.
Or sign Guehi for 55-60m, Inacio or Diomande for 50-55m, or Antonio Silva who will cost 60-70m, or to sign someone that next level down like Hancko for 35-40m?
Where is the value in that market?
Surely it makes more sense to pay 5-10m more for the younger and potentially better option in Branthwaite than Guehi?
Or 10-15m more to sign Branthwaite than either Inacio or Diomande who have not proven themselves in a back four or in the EPL.
While I don't think dropping down a level to sign the likes of Hancko is really a sensible idea, we need to make sure we are signing players who can become key players in our next title winning side, not place holders until a better player becomes available.
I understand that people have mixed views on Branthwaite, and no one wants the club to over spend on players.
But if not Branthwaite then who do we sign instead?
5.) 14 Jul 2024 11:45:21
Maybe Ed, maybe. if he's the one they want it would be silly to lose out over a £10-15m gap in valuation. Maybe there's some middle ground.
{Ed025's Note - he wants to go to United spenno so i think there is a deal to be done mate..
6.) 14 Jul 2024 14:14:59
In the whole of world football there surely are really really good defenders. Why can other clubs find them, sign them and a year or so later sell them on at huge profit yet Utd can't find them?
7.) 14 Jul 2024 18:02:49
Salford, we have signed players like that, they were Kleberson, Djemba-Djemba, Bebe, Tosic, Prunier, Tiabi, Manucho, Bellion, Forlan, Vidic, Solskjaer, and Johnsen.
Sometimes they work out, but more often than not they aren't able to make the massive jump up.
Football like education has levels, and for the most part you need to build your way through the levels to get to the top. GCSEs, A-levels, Undergrad, Masters, and PhD.
There are the few special talents who could jump from GCSE or A-level right up to PhD. But they are few and far between.
Football is very much the same, players need to build themselves up in terms of technical ability, mentality, and experience before they are ready to take that next step to a massive club like Manchester United. Where the expectations are insane in terms of the level you need to play at and the consistency. While mistakes are amplified and made out to be huge errors.
Most players need a stepping stone club between their first professional club and a global giant club like United.
The biggest issue is the reason these players are cheaper is due to them being more raw, less refined and needing more coaching and development to see if they can step up to that next level. However, to do that they need game time. Which is something that is hard to come by at a top club unless you are performing most weeks.
Other top clubs have taken gambles on players like this, more often than not they end up like Victor Roque at Barcelona rather than Vinicius Junior at Real Madrid.
Even our most recent signings is an example of how it's very difficult for highly talented young players to get the minutes they need to develop at a top club. Zirkzee signed for Bayern, but never really got the game time he needed. A couple of loans and a permanent move later and he finds himself at a "stepping stone club" (absolutely no disrespect meant to Bologna) and with less pressure and more game time he has been able to flourish and show the talent he has.
We had a similar situation with Diego Forlan, highly talented player, but couldn't get the game time or had the freedom to make mistakes at United and he struggled. Then he moves to a club a step down from United and he flourishes and wins the European golden boot.
So sure, there probably are dozens of defenders who aren't quite ready for a step up to the level we will demand that we could sign. But most of them would flop if we did sign them.
I think if you have a thin squad you can afford to maybe sign one player like this a summer to have a gamble on. Knowing that they probably won't work out but you could sell them in a couple of seasons time for a similar amount as long as you don't give them silly wages.
The problem is can we afford to gamble on a player like that in such a key position when we've had the issues we had last season.
8.) 14 Jul 2024 18:42:22
Maybe our new coaching set-up can pluck out a blinder from thin air. I bet even Shappy hadn't heard of a certain Vemanja Vidic in 2005.
9.) 14 Jul 2024 19:15:40
As a Serbian I can tell u I wouldn't pay more than 30m for him. He's definitely not a top level and plays better in a formation with 3 CBs anyway.
10.) 15 Jul 2024 15:16:45
Spenno, to be honest I haven't heard of "Vemanja Vidic" until you mentioned him.
Is he any relation to former Manchester United CB Nemanja Vidic? ???
Jokes aside I mentioned that Vidic was one such success. Unfortunately for every Vidic there are half a dozen Prunier's.
I think it's much harder to pluck an unheard of player out of obscurity now. Far too many scouts scouring the world. Can still happen from time to time, but it's not a common occurrence.
I certainly hope none of the new coaching staff are suggesting transfers. Coaches should coach, leave transfer targets to the scouts and recruitment experts.
11.) 15 Jul 2024 17:07:09
Spellling, scouting, coaching, you can do it all Shappy. I'm amazed you're wasted sat at a keyboard all day!
12.) 16 Jul 2024 05:19:01
Spenno, I know you're being sarcastic, but you have just described the job of a teacher, which I happen to be ?.
08 Jan 2024 22:38:31
Eds I've heard some murmurings about us getting benzema on loan, is there anything in it? I think he'd be a good signing on a loan but surely toon would have 1st refusal given the ownership.
{Ed002's Note - I know nothing of it.}
1.) 09 Jan 2024 22:05:41
Thanks anyway Ed.
09 Jun 2023 20:02:09
Hearing that sheik jassim has had a bid accepted. I hope its true, after what the glazers have served up we deserve this. Proper owner, willing to put money into facilities, into Manchester and the team.
1.) 09 Jun 2023 21:22:23
Not mentioned anywhere that I can see.
2.) 09 Jun 2023 21:22:48
Not mentioned anywhere that I can see. Where is this information?
3.) 09 Jun 2023 21:25:12
Perhaps someone dreamt of it.
4.) 09 Jun 2023 21:35:00
It would be nice to take away some of the news stories and spotlight from the CL final tomorrow :-), but it won’t happen unfortunately.
5.) 09 Jun 2023 23:21:39
Think these rumours are coming from fake Romano twitter accounts.
6.) 10 Jun 2023 05:37:19
Don't be believing anything on that blue bird site.
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25 Nov 2024 10:55:16
I don't know how many times I've said it, it's the players that are the problem not the manager. We had a good manager in eth and the players let him down massively, ultimately he lost his job.
We get another manager in, early day still because he's only had a few days with most of them, but it's the time to impress and not one of them grab the game by the scruff of the neck or try to be brave, it's all simple passes looking for the safe option. Onana touches the ball more than any of the supposedly creative or attacking players. It's not good enough at Manchester united
Our biggest problem is now apart from this embarrassing group of players is ffp, average players brought for massive money and on massive wages and we can't shift them, how is the new guy ever going to succeed with what he has and no money to get players in he would like.
We need a total reset in the summer. Hopefully amorim can blood some hungry youth team players before now and the summer and we cut some massive losses on over payed freeloaders and get them off the books.
I've said it before but we need keano to come in on the coaching team, can you imagine having to come in at ht or ft having put in a half arsed performance like that? He would tear them all a new one and sort the men from the boys.
1.) 25 Nov 2024 12:39:20
Spot on dannyc.
2.) 26 Nov 2024 00:35:08
We didn’t have a good manager in ETH though did we, his managerial skills were terrible, his team selections were awful and he couldn’t handle the pressure, his interviews were that of a mad man and his substitutions were like he was picking them out at random.
He may prove to be a good manager elsewhere but he wasn’t a good manager for us.
19 Oct 2024 18:49:41
Rashford and garnacho were both brilliant today. Rashy gets a lot of stick for not tracking back but he covered dalot a lot today and he put in 110% today. Some of the balls he played today were top quality, let's hope he backs this performance up with another good one mid week.
1.) 20 Oct 2024 06:07:35
watched garna's and hoiland's post match interviews. Both very good interviews and speak well and quiet mature given their age. Both will get so much better as they get older. Sometimes i have to remind myself how young these guys are.
2.) 20 Oct 2024 08:48:39
Typical. Rashford has a good game and I miss it. Hopefully, he has turned a corner.
3.) 20 Oct 2024 16:26:45
With rashford, it is not about 1 good game. He needs to be consistent. Yesterday was a good performance for sure. He needs to keep building on it and he is a major asset with that type of team performance.
06 Oct 2024 20:02:32
Everyone is calling for ten hags head, being realistic who comes in and changes things? There aren't many available good managers. Tuchel didn't want us in the summer I doubt he would have changed his mind. Potter, Southgate, zidane and blanc aren't good enough imo. Leads me on to rvn, heard a lot of people backing him but I'm not convinced, I don't like coaches taking over from the guy who's been sacked, it will be the same, he's one of the guys leading training and it will be much of the same.
I'd get ole back or bring in keano until the end of the season. Keano loves the club and would ruffle a few feathers but he would sort the men from the boys and he understands what the badge on the front of the shirt means and would expect nothing but 100 commitment.
1.) 06 Oct 2024 20:23:30
Danny, you’d do a special job to find someone who could make us worse I guess.
2.) 06 Oct 2024 21:29:04
I don’t think there is an ‘obvious’ replacement, but that isn’t our job to find out, we’ve appointed top people in those jobs to make that decision.
What is obvious is that the right man isn’t Erik Ten Hag, people are saying he’s saved his job with a turgid draw at Villa, give me a break, we were horrendous and if they put that chance away at the end sky would be saying he should be sacked, but they don’t do he says, it’s crazy.
We were shocking today, since the start of his time in charge if we attack we can’t defend and concede goal after goal and if we defend we are so boring that it makes you want to turn the tv off as we don’t attack at all. We can’t be strong at the back and also score goals and he will never find a way of doing that if he hasn’t in over 2 years. Time to move on.
3.) 06 Oct 2024 21:37:17
Caolan, that just isn't true. There are thousands who would do a far worse job.
In fact every single one of the reported 1 billion Manchester United fans worldwide for a start, myself included.
There are maybe only a handful of top level football managers who have the ability to manage a club the size of ourselves.
Everyone else will fail. Are any of those handful available AND willing to join us? Probably not.
Which means we would be swapping a manager who doesn't look good enough for another who won't be good enough.
I get that fans are frustrated, but I'm not sure there is much point in the club spending millions of pounds to sack EtH and replace him with someone who will equally struggle to deal with the same problems EtH is struggling with.
4.) 06 Oct 2024 21:53:34
Keane and Ole are definitely not the answer as managers. Truth is that even Pep would find it difficult to turn this juggernaut round.
5.) 07 Oct 2024 06:34:21
Now we wait to see what the people in charge want to do so. Personally i think it was a good point and pretty astute tactical set up. Many here had us getting ripped to shreds and will have to find something else to moan about. Don't let the narrative and bs that Villa were tired and hence played poorly being the reason.
Generally when a team plays poorly it has something to do with the other team and they played at home in Europe, had an extra days rest and if they were tired then we must have been shattered playing a day later away at Porto.
Any other team manager and if they had made changes with evans getting MOTM would be getting plaudits, unfortunately the narrative for us becomes about who has been dropped instead and what they cost. Make no mistake both Martinez and De ligt had a mare vs Spurs and deserved to get dropped.
A season is 38 games and not 7. People who scream the house is on fire are so over the top. Some of the early season results are not a real indication of where teams will finish in this league imo.
I watched liverpool vs Palace. They won but did not deserve it at all, we drew against palace and we played them better and deserved much more but that's football.
I also watched spurs completely collapse vs brighton and hard to explain why a team that looked pretty good for 30 minutes 2-0 up just collapses but it happens.
Watched city steal 3 points vs Fulham at home.
ATM no one will talk about much of this stuff and we are the news and always the news cycle.
Another international break unfortunately and pretty sure we will see lots of wild bs stories and some real news.
6.) 07 Oct 2024 07:06:02
Changing the manager doesn't guarantee a turn around, just look at what happened with Ralf Rangnick, but I agree a change needs to happen.
These aren't bad players, what they need is a leader both on and off the pitch, currently they have neither.
7.) 07 Oct 2024 10:39:08
Snappy are we football managers at the highest level of the game? No.
Pointless response.
29 Aug 2024 13:34:56
Just seen the video of Scott arriving in naples, I liked that he got a proper hero's welcome. Love him or hate him he's united through and through and I sincerely hope he has a great career.
1.) 29 Aug 2024 15:20:08
Yup. Question marks over his ability, but no doubts about his commitment to the club. A top professional who always gave his all. Hope he does well out there.
2.) 29 Aug 2024 15:26:49
I dot. Think anyone hates him. He was a good professional but he couldn't cement a place in the first team and had a tendency to be a bit hit and miss.
3.) 29 Aug 2024 16:16:21
Goodbye and good luck nothing further to say about it.
4.) 29 Aug 2024 18:42:26
Rubbish that's why TW. Frightened of the ball.
5.) 29 Aug 2024 19:39:18
That’s 2/ 2 of McFred gone and it’s a hugely positive step.
6.) 29 Aug 2024 20:10:07
Brilliant, brilliant move for him. Napoli are a proper football club, and a stint in Serie A is perfect for him.
09 Jun 2024 18:52:04
What's everyone view on luke shaws statement about being basically made to play when he wasn't 100%? I have looked at it both sides and thought the medical team said he was fit to play and he agreed at the time, you can't force someone to do something.
Other view is what jose said all along and he's not mentally strong enough to play for the club, we were going through a tough spell at the time.
Either way he must not like ten hag because he's throwing shade on the management team when they are under pressure and feels like he's throwing his support behind getting another manager the sack.
He is one we need to get rid of ASAP whether the manager Stays or goes.
1.) 09 Jun 2024 19:14:00
He said the medical team said there was no issue, and he trained, so was then selected. I think half of Shaw's problem is what's in his head (or lack thereof) .
2.) 09 Jun 2024 21:13:26
Stuff like this happens all the time. Our medical team isn’t the greatest but it’s very difficult to predict these. General tip to the player and staff. Wouldn’t read too much into it.
3.) 09 Jun 2024 22:15:35
He shouldn't have come out and said what he said. He does lack a certain level of professionalism. I understand that he was trying to speak truthfully about his issues this season.
I think it's a big gamble on Shaw being fit for the Euros and perhaps too much of a risk. I can see him being injured again and missing the start of the season.
4.) 09 Jun 2024 23:38:13
He is always a few minutes away from another injury. Doesn't matter how hood you are when you can't stay fit. If varane had to go due to fitness, then luke shaw should follow him.
5.) 10 Jun 2024 02:24:14
I don't know. He and ETH looked pretty close after the cup final. I doubt he was having a go at the manager.
6.) 10 Jun 2024 10:06:06
Think it’s just pretty obvious he’s as frustrated as the rest of us about his injuries, I didn’t notice any digs at the manager at all, people are desperate to find an issue.
7.) 10 Jun 2024 13:49:03
No digs at all. I mean, he's correct, it's a mix of all 3. But Shaw and EtH can only rely on the medical assessment. They're only as good as their doctors.
8.) 10 Jun 2024 18:24:54
Luke Shaw always has an excuse and it’s always someone else's’ fault. He’s soft in the head and probably been spoilt playing for Utd for so long as he’s never fit and 7 out of 10 on a very good day.
And don’t come back saying Shaw is better than 7 out of 10, he wouldn’t lace Evras flip flops and he was a 8.5/ 9.
9.) 10 Jun 2024 23:58:57
He’s a very good left full back but the horrendous injury he got earlier in his career has been one he’s never really fully recovered from, who knows how good a player he would have been had that not happened.
{Ed001's Note - he has never been 'very good' and would never have reached very good because he is a moron. His complete lack of professionalism on top of that is why he keeps getting injured. He was never going to be anything other than injury prone.}
10.) 11 Jun 2024 12:40:13
A lot of his injuries have followed on from the leg break. But often players who have suffered a major injury can become prone to other injuries down the line. It’s not about being soft mentally, anyone who’s overcome long term injury and rehabilitation knows how dark it can get in your head about not being able to do it and watching teammates.
I’m no pro athlete but having done my knee, I then suffered lots of niggles to the ankle, quad and hamstring on the same leg. Then another surgery with a hamstring graft, left me unable to sprint properly without pulling up and straining. Compensation then led to injuries on the other ankle.
It can happen, I did everything I was meant to in my rehab, I worked in the gym and training doing fitness and injury prevention 4-5 times a week when I recovered. It didn’t help and I gave up playing rugby at 22. I got a partial tear in my acl when jogging last summer ?
I don’t know about shaw’s professionalism, but from my own personal experience I suffered consistently and it wasn’t through a lack of trying to be fit and injury free.
11.) 11 Jun 2024 15:24:00
Ed001,
Yes that is true, heard a lot about his unprofessionalism at a young age but nobody could foresee him getting his leg broken in the way that he did, that was unlucky not because he’s unprofessional. Everything after that may have come from being unprofessional but it does seem like players with bad injuries become injury prone after, though maybe he’s not done enough to negate the issue.
In my opinion he has had runs of games in his career where he has been very good, it’s just not been sustained and I wouldn’t mind if we sold him at this stage.
{Ed001's Note - the leg break is just one of those things, I agree, but his performances were not outstanding before that. He just doesn't have the mentality to be a professional athlete or to understand the game. He looked better at centre-back simply because it involved less running and so exposed his lack of reading of the game less. Pochettino could have sorted his attitude out when he was a kid but he allowed him to get away with it all instead. He had the wrong coach at the wrong time sadly.}
12.) 11 Jun 2024 15:35:44
Caolan you don’t need to see he has had injuries to know he’s soft, watch him speak it’s basics the lights are on but nobodies home. ?♂️.
13.) 11 Jun 2024 17:43:56
On another not how was that not a penalty for that leg breaking tackle on Shaw? We got knocked out 2-1 I think? So pre-occupied with Shaw's injury that no one even questioned it.
14.) 11 Jun 2024 17:45:52
Also was it Luke Shaw who needed someone from the club to come and help him turn the washing machine on not long after he arrived? Hardly the sharpest tool in the box.
29 Aug 2024 16:46:48
Chiesa didn't have a future at juve and no other teams in for him says it all. He was decent a few years back but that injury he had killed him. I think he will struggle with the physicality of English football.
25 Aug 2024 22:13:19
Was thinking the same norn.
21 Aug 2024 19:19:47
It's mad how cheap we have sold some of these players for. Pellestri at 6 million euros is crazy, I know we have a buy back and healthy sell on fee, but he is a full international player for a decent side in Uruguay.
You have players from other top sides going for silly money in comparison to the peanuts we are selling some of our players for.
02 Aug 2024 17:02:42
Awb only has a year left so we will sell him this summer 100%, i think it will be a low fee with add ons. Mctominay I think will go aswell, he would be good to keep as a squad player, but 25- 30 million should see him go. Pure profit on him. B.
29 Jul 2024 19:56:32
Who is this malacia you speak of? Who does he play for? ;)
28 Sep 2024 19:26:30
We have some outstanding players in the youth teams. let's hope a few of these break through over the next few seasons.
18 Sep 2024 22:51:47
Garnacho, rashford and erikson were all fantastic last night.
13 Aug 2024 19:39:34
I would bet that he plays less than 10 games this season.
10 Aug 2024 17:56:10
At 24 he's still a young cb, he's been at ajax, juve and bayern, you can't just walk into their teams, and no doubt will have learnt from some of the best teams. He will be back with a manager this time that knows how to get the best out of him so I think this will be a good move for both parties.
06 Aug 2024 19:12:53
Psg doing the same with ugarte, they sign neves his replacement and want us to pay for it and little more basically.