Should we be in for Eriksen?

comment by Ed The King Woodward (U10026)
posted 25 minutes ago
BK, yeah I agree with the over-egging thing.

It’d be nice to have a central midfielder that can take some of the attacking burden off of Pogba as well. It’d free hik up a bit not having so much attention on him from the opposition and he wouldn’t have to try and take so much responsibility to make things happen. That’s providing Fernandes can actually perform this season, of course.

I’m interested to see what happens with Fred this season. He has some good attributes that could prove useful to the team next season, hopefully he’ll be more settled this season and can start to have a more positive impact on games.
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I too was interested to see what Fred might bring. I'm on the record as to be very sceptical of him from very early on. To me, from what I'd seen, his faults were evident whilst at Shaktar and my hunch was we'd brought a dub. He did however show some promising signs towards the end of the season and his energy has always been good.

But it looks like he's not going to have much if any of a preseason and I think that will be crucial. If he was going to kick on, we'd need to see it over the summer.

Rumours of a loan move away don't sound far-fetched.

comment by Ed The King Woodward (U10026)
posted 8 minutes ago
Yes that’s true, but I suspect we’ll only bring in one midfielder so Fred will stay. I wouldn’t rule it out, of course. Possibly Pereira goes on loan also. We’ve got too many midfielders as things stand.
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One more midfielder in would leave us having to shift TFM and at least two from Jones, Rojo, Sanchez (who could be replaced by any combination of Gomes, Chong and Greenwood, none of whom will have to be registered) and a midfielder.

Lukaku would need replacing, clearly.

I thought it was obvious TFM won’t be a fixture in the squad. I think we’ll move a few defenders on and a midfielder as well.

I think we might be stuck with Sanchez as our back up striker should Lukaku leave. It’s going to be difficult to get rid of him because I don’t think clubs like Sunderland and Portsmouth can afford his wages.

Ravel Morrison is being offered a contract by Sheffield United. Maybe we should be in for him.

comment by Ed The King Woodward (U10026)
posted 14 minutes ago
I thought it was obvious TFM won’t be a fixture in the squad. I think we’ll move a few defenders on and a midfielder as well.

I think we might be stuck with Sanchez as our back up striker should Lukaku leave. It’s going to be difficult to get rid of him because I don’t think clubs like Sunderland and Portsmouth can afford his wages.
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and also

Erickson will go the way of Mata IMO.

Great player, but I think his legs will go before 30.

comment by Ed The King Woodward (U10026)
posted 6 minutes ago
Ravel Morrison is being offered a contract by Sheffield United. Maybe we should be in for him.
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Would absolutely love to see the lad turn it around. A truly special talent. I give it 6 months max before he's out the door again or consigned to oblivion and not seen again.

It’d be funny if he gets the winner against West Ham. They hate Sheffield United enough as it is.

I keep reading that we should 'bin'so and so, get rid of deadwood, move players on.
Dead easy to say, but hard to do;

I very much doubt Spurs would let Eriksen sign for United.