Im sure Woodward gets the message Lazio are sending here
Gonna need a new set of fullbacks if you’re switching to a diamond.
Else he’d be a great pogba replacement and then sign sancho, which would be much more balanced imo. Or keep pogba and just sign Sancho or someone for the right of course
Don’t see anywhere’s for him unless we sell pogba.
We’re high in numbers in midfield, although I thinks we could do better than Fred, Pereira and Matic.
Do not want, That ship has sailed.
Have you guys been linked with Traore? He makes great sense as an alternative to Sancho
Stop trying to make the diamond a thing.
comment by Imran The King Khan (U10026)
posted 5 minutes ago
Stop trying to make the diamond a thing.
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No
We might get the diamond if Poch comes. He was using it as Spurs.
comment by Kunta Kante (U1641)
posted 35 minutes ago
Have you guys been linked with Traore? He makes great sense as an alternative to Sancho
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there were reports about a month ago that we were in for him as a "cheaper" alternative to sancho...which didn't make much sense then (£70m was the mooted fee at the time), and makes even less sense now. but he's a good player, clearly, though whether he can make the step up to world class player i don't know.
still, it beats the more recent rumours that we're looking at young willian.
I’m not advocating playing it every week, and the argument about our fullbacks is valid.
But if creativity is people’s issue, surely a five man attack of Bruno, SMS and Pogba linking up and feeding Greenwood/Sancho and Rashford would address the problem? You’ve also got five proper goalscorers on the pitch there.
And what happens if Pogba is injured yet again as things stand? You’ve still got the problem of two of an ageing Matic, polygon boots Fred, and McT trying to feed a frustrated front four.
It just always ends up being too narrow. So having even more creative players in the midfield doesn’t mean it’ll be a more creative team. We won’t sign him if Pogba stays anyway.
comment by rosso is done with this (U17054)
posted 4 minutes ago
polygon boots Fred
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this would be funny if it weren't so apt
comment by Imran The King Khan (U10026)
posted 30 minutes ago
It just always ends up being too narrow. So having even more creative players in the midfield doesn’t mean it’ll be a more creative team. We won’t sign him if Pogba stays anyway.
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I don’t think that squad would be badly suited to making it work well, though, apart from AWB at RB.
You need outside midfielders who are good athletes, versatile, good in close quarters/triangles and inventive. Pogba and SMS are that.
You need a super-mobile ten, which is Bruno, and pacy forwards comfortable working in wide areas, which describe Rashy and Greenwood.
If Dalot is any cop and sorts out his defending and if Brandon comes on as I expect (he was superb offensively for the U23s), then it’d make a lot of sense to me.
Otherwise, I still don’t see, for 50% of our games, how Pogba and Bruno play in the same side.
I do, because we’d still lack width. Narrow formations are easy to defend against in the prem. Even Conte played a 343 because he knew it. We won’t sign him anyway.
Who is SMS? Genuine question as I don’t follow Lazio.
comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 2 minutes ago
Who is SMS? Genuine question as I don’t follow Lazio.
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it's this guy, lanky midfielder, we were linked to him a few years ago:Sergej Milinković-Savić
we actually had his brother, a GK, on the books a few years ago, but could never get a work permit so he left the club.
comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 3 minutes ago
Who is SMS? Genuine question as I don’t follow Lazio.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergej_Milinković-Savić
He’s the Serbian Yaya.
comment by Don Draper's dandruff (U20155)
posted 2 hours, 5 minutes ago
comment by Kunta Kante (U1641)
posted 35 minutes ago
Have you guys been linked with Traore? He makes great sense as an alternative to Sancho
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there were reports about a month ago that we were in for him as a "cheaper" alternative to sancho...which didn't make much sense then (£70m was the mooted fee at the time), and makes even less sense now. but he's a good player, clearly, though whether he can make the step up to world class player i don't know.
still, it beats the more recent rumours that we're looking at young willian.
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Yeah for that price he’s not worth it, for less though I think he makes great sense as a right sided winger for you. He’s convinced me of this talent and progression this season
He wouldn’t be of grate use to us for the majority of games. Despite him improving, he still doesn’t have the best end product. And his crappy floated crosses wouldn’t be of much use to a team that has nobody that can head the ball.
comment by Kunta Kante (U1641)
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Yeah for that price he’s not worth it, for less though I think he makes great sense as a right sided winger for you. He’s convinced me of this talent and progression this season
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wolves' owners are loaded, and seem to be ambitious, so we all saw how united were bent over a barrel by leicester last summer, i would fear a similar outcome if we tried for traore.
but i do like him, i saw him against city earlier this year and mentally had him down as a somewhat clumsy force of nature - very fast, very strong - but his close control is very impressive, and his crossing seems to be improving all the time. at the moment he seems a little more one-dimensional than sancho (who can happily go either way, be a playmaker as well as a wide forward, and is much more prolific), but he is improving all the time.
Saint-Maximin for the win.
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posted on 22/6/20
Im sure Woodward gets the message Lazio are sending here
posted on 22/6/20
Gonna need a new set of fullbacks if you’re switching to a diamond.
Else he’d be a great pogba replacement and then sign sancho, which would be much more balanced imo. Or keep pogba and just sign Sancho or someone for the right of course
posted on 22/6/20
Don’t see anywhere’s for him unless we sell pogba.
We’re high in numbers in midfield, although I thinks we could do better than Fred, Pereira and Matic.
posted on 22/6/20
Diamond formation 🤢
posted on 22/6/20
Do not want, That ship has sailed.
posted on 22/6/20
Have you guys been linked with Traore? He makes great sense as an alternative to Sancho
posted on 22/6/20
Stop trying to make the diamond a thing.
posted on 22/6/20
comment by Imran The King Khan (U10026)
posted 5 minutes ago
Stop trying to make the diamond a thing.
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No
posted on 22/6/20
We might get the diamond if Poch comes. He was using it as Spurs.
posted on 22/6/20
comment by Kunta Kante (U1641)
posted 35 minutes ago
Have you guys been linked with Traore? He makes great sense as an alternative to Sancho
----------------------------------------------------------------------
there were reports about a month ago that we were in for him as a "cheaper" alternative to sancho...which didn't make much sense then (£70m was the mooted fee at the time), and makes even less sense now. but he's a good player, clearly, though whether he can make the step up to world class player i don't know.
still, it beats the more recent rumours that we're looking at young willian.
posted on 22/6/20
I’m not advocating playing it every week, and the argument about our fullbacks is valid.
But if creativity is people’s issue, surely a five man attack of Bruno, SMS and Pogba linking up and feeding Greenwood/Sancho and Rashford would address the problem? You’ve also got five proper goalscorers on the pitch there.
And what happens if Pogba is injured yet again as things stand? You’ve still got the problem of two of an ageing Matic, polygon boots Fred, and McT trying to feed a frustrated front four.
posted on 22/6/20
It just always ends up being too narrow. So having even more creative players in the midfield doesn’t mean it’ll be a more creative team. We won’t sign him if Pogba stays anyway.
posted on 22/6/20
comment by rosso is done with this (U17054)
posted 4 minutes ago
polygon boots Fred
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this would be funny if it weren't so apt
posted on 22/6/20
comment by Imran The King Khan (U10026)
posted 30 minutes ago
It just always ends up being too narrow. So having even more creative players in the midfield doesn’t mean it’ll be a more creative team. We won’t sign him if Pogba stays anyway.
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I don’t think that squad would be badly suited to making it work well, though, apart from AWB at RB.
You need outside midfielders who are good athletes, versatile, good in close quarters/triangles and inventive. Pogba and SMS are that.
You need a super-mobile ten, which is Bruno, and pacy forwards comfortable working in wide areas, which describe Rashy and Greenwood.
If Dalot is any cop and sorts out his defending and if Brandon comes on as I expect (he was superb offensively for the U23s), then it’d make a lot of sense to me.
Otherwise, I still don’t see, for 50% of our games, how Pogba and Bruno play in the same side.
posted on 22/6/20
I do, because we’d still lack width. Narrow formations are easy to defend against in the prem. Even Conte played a 343 because he knew it. We won’t sign him anyway.
posted on 22/6/20
Who is SMS? Genuine question as I don’t follow Lazio.
posted on 22/6/20
comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 2 minutes ago
Who is SMS? Genuine question as I don’t follow Lazio.
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it's this guy, lanky midfielder, we were linked to him a few years ago:Sergej Milinković-Savić
we actually had his brother, a GK, on the books a few years ago, but could never get a work permit so he left the club.
posted on 22/6/20
comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 3 minutes ago
Who is SMS? Genuine question as I don’t follow Lazio.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergej_Milinković-Savić
He’s the Serbian Yaya.
posted on 22/6/20
comment by Don Draper's dandruff (U20155)
posted 2 hours, 5 minutes ago
comment by Kunta Kante (U1641)
posted 35 minutes ago
Have you guys been linked with Traore? He makes great sense as an alternative to Sancho
----------------------------------------------------------------------
there were reports about a month ago that we were in for him as a "cheaper" alternative to sancho...which didn't make much sense then (£70m was the mooted fee at the time), and makes even less sense now. but he's a good player, clearly, though whether he can make the step up to world class player i don't know.
still, it beats the more recent rumours that we're looking at young willian.
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Yeah for that price he’s not worth it, for less though I think he makes great sense as a right sided winger for you. He’s convinced me of this talent and progression this season
posted on 22/6/20
He wouldn’t be of grate use to us for the majority of games. Despite him improving, he still doesn’t have the best end product. And his crappy floated crosses wouldn’t be of much use to a team that has nobody that can head the ball.
posted on 22/6/20
comment by Kunta Kante (U1641)
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Yeah for that price he’s not worth it, for less though I think he makes great sense as a right sided winger for you. He’s convinced me of this talent and progression this season
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wolves' owners are loaded, and seem to be ambitious, so we all saw how united were bent over a barrel by leicester last summer, i would fear a similar outcome if we tried for traore.
but i do like him, i saw him against city earlier this year and mentally had him down as a somewhat clumsy force of nature - very fast, very strong - but his close control is very impressive, and his crossing seems to be improving all the time. at the moment he seems a little more one-dimensional than sancho (who can happily go either way, be a playmaker as well as a wide forward, and is much more prolific), but he is improving all the time.
posted on 22/6/20
Saint-Maximin for the win.
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