Just looked up the stats for this season, 33 matches in the league (9 goals, 3 assists for what was a bit of turmoil season at Juve, no?). Has he lost his pace?
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Just looked up the stats for this season, 33 matches in the league (9 goals, 3 assists for what was a bit of turmoil season at Juve, no?). Has he lost his pace?
He's been having constant knee problems since doing his cruciate, poor guy.
EDIT: And has not looked the same player since.
Damn. What a shame. Such a wonderful player (when I last kept abreast of his journey).
Yeah, he looked like he was heading for the top and now he's most likely heading to AS Roma (no disrespect to Roma).
Hmmm let's see if Romano, Ornstein or any of the tier 1's corroborate this story in coming days
A make or break transfer window for Ten Hag. He will lose his job if we feck it up and then we're probably stuck with Southgate.
Maybe don't spend 80m on Anthony then.
Kerkez, only buying one midfielder IF Casemiro leaves.. doesn't sound inspiring but let's see
Another former Eredivisie player
ETH is reported to "take a back seat" in recruitment, so can be no longer blamed for transfers
Another former Eredivisie player
Well he is 20 - and has actually performed in the P.L so I don't care about his season in Holland
I’m happy he’s staying. Better than the available managers. I’m unsure whether the right decision is to give him a new contract now though. Surely you’d want to wait until like December when your half way through the season and see how we’re doing because on the off chance he has another terrible season and they want to sack him later on it will just be more money wasted to pay him off.
Imagine the new contract is to show they’re backing the manager after all the chat of him being sacked, leaving him on current contract just makes him look like a lame duck with everyone just waiting for him to be sacked.
A chance? That's bollox. Romano hasn't a clue (and under Ineos I get the impression there won't that many leaks) He's great for the here we goes 5 mins before anyone else, if you care about that type of thing, but don't bother outside of that.
Transfer podcasts are a waste of time.
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The new contract will surely be to change his role to more of a ‘Head Coach’ and reduce his involvement in transfers etc.
What about 35m + Soule?
United and doing nowhere near enough to fill their holes in the squad, name a more iconic duo.
Will only sign a midfielder if Casemiro leaves? So our ponderous, defensively terrible midfield will just have to improve under the coaching of a man who has clearly not been able to do that for 2 seasons. Yeah that sounds real promising and I’m choosing to not believe that. If a quality DM is not one of the priorities this summer, regardless of Casemiro, we are in trouble.
Agree. I wanted ETH gone for obvious reasons during the season, but I think this is the most reasonable option given the alternatives.
He's only talking about the obvious transfers though. Varane and Martial have left, so need replacing and we clearly can't go into the season without another LB. He's just being safe, I would be shocked if that's all we do.
So, who will pick the team for each match?
I mean if ETH doesn't pick the players we sign this summer & he doesn't think they are good enough to get in the team because he didn't want them then what?
According to Sportbild
Would be an unbelievably disappointing window if that's the case.
A LB isn’t that urgent tbh. We almost certainly won’t be losing a LB so I don’t think we need one really. We needed one last season of course, but last season has finished now.
We haven't got a reliable left back.
I think we'll be looking for a Malacia upgrade / replacement. We just can't run the risk of a repeat of last season.
A LCB is probably a smarter move than a LB in my opinion. If we bought Branthwaite for example then Martinez can cover LB.
But we do need one or the other, Shaw can't be relied on.
But we do need one or the other, Shaw can't be relied on.
It's basically urgent. We've got Shaw, who can't be trusted at all, and a lad who didn't make a single appearance last season and for all we know won't ever play football again.
I think you are right. But are we comfortable entering the next season with three out of three left footed defender injured basically the entire prior season?
We probably dont need a LB, but it would help if we brought in a flexible LCB (Inacio).
If these reports are true sounds like the club are writing off next season not just the fans. Meet the new boss exactly the same as the old boss.
If we go into another season with the same midfield...
If we go into another season with the same midfield...
After witnessing a season where we had Dalot, Wan Bissaka and Amrabat featuring at left back you think we don't need one? I think we are desperate for one.
Shaw was out nearly a full season, malacia was out the full season, Martinez missed most of the season. That may sound extreme but when you add context; Shaw can’t last a full season (ten haha words) and we don’t know how Martinez will fair after a really bad injury or if he’s going to be prone to niggles. It would be negligent to not bring in other LB or LCB. Particular when shaw and Martinez are considered crucial to how we play
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Yep, someone who can cover both positions on the left side of the defence would be a huge insurance policy.
I like the look of the Serbian Milos Kerkez who plays at Bournemouth, he was very good against us at the vitality this season, I think he would be great business for £20-25m, I think we need at least 3 defenders, one FB and two CB.
A perfect window would be selling AWB,
V Lindelof, T Malacia for hopefully £35-40m, losing R Varane and replacing them with J Frimpong(35m), M Kerkez(20m),
J C Todibo(30m), J Branthwaite(55m)
If we were able to do something like that, it would be a huge upgrade and set us up for at least 5 or 6 years. Buying super attacking Wing backs like Frimpong on Kerkez means we need huge investment in a true Defensive Midfielder.
First DM, now LB... Not sure whether I like that or not. Think Martinez would also be too slow for that position.
Do you need to be that much quicker at LB than CB?
In the traditional understanding of those roles yes. But these days, probably not as much. I mean, Blind made it work somehow so Martinez could probably as well. I am a fan of more traditional fullbacks though, players that support the attack and cover lots of ground. I guess I'd rather put Dalot on the Left, probably even AWB.
someone with your username shouldn't be asking such daft questions..