comment by manusince52 (U9692)
posted 1 minute ago
If it's his choice let him go.
If it's ours keep him, at least for a season.
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I don't think that Bruno would disrespect the club by letting his agent go and talk to Al-Hilal without our approval. So if feels to me like the club are open to him moving on.
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 4 minutes ago
I'm very torn on this. Rosso is right that there's a strong chance we get worse still if we sell Bruno. On the other hand, if we turn down £100m now and he finally starts to show signs of physical decline, we could come to regret another strategic error of holding onto a player too long, failing to cash in at the best moment. Ideally this offer would have come in a year or two further into the rebuild.
What's clear is that if we sold him, we'd need to nail all of the incoming transfers. £100m isn't going to be enough to offset Bruno's contribution with net improvements across the field, so I think this is something we can only do if we also manage to sell two of Rashford, Sancho and Antony, as well as Garnacho. Then there's some serious money to invest, and a lot of wages off the books.
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There’s only some serious money to invest if we get good prices for them. Is anyone gonna take Rashford for £40m for example?
comment by Elvis (U7425)
posted 24 minutes ago
comment by EVERYTHING’S POTE! (U17054)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by Elvis (U7425)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Michael Scofield (U11781)
posted 47 seconds ago
I’ve always said our over reliance on Bruno and Rashford was holding us back from progressing as a team over the years, if we do get £100m bite their hands off and invest in more players.
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We do certainly need to spread the goals out a bit and be less reliant on one player. It feels a bit harsh on Bruno, but I do think its the case. Its kind of the same as when Ronaldo returned. He played well as an individual, but his presence was detrimental to the team as a whole.
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How do we replace 40 goals and assists, many of them (15) from central midfield?
We’ve just had an historically, spectacularly poor season in terms of goalscoring. This is the one guy who consistently delivers goals and creates chances (as many as anyone in Europe’s top five leagues, every season).
If we take his goals out, and we take his chance creation out (almost a third of all of those for the entire first team squad), we’re putting ourselves in dangerous territory.
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One of the main ways will be to have less greedy and wasteful wide players. The main culprit is Garnacho. His conversion rate is absolutely criminal. And he rarely passes/crosses. Rashford was the same before him as was Antony.
I know its standard to just slate Hojlund, but the level of service he receives is woeful. Whoever is playing up front for us next season needs better service. Amad being a regular starter will help in that regard, as will Cunha. We will have to see what other players we bring in, but other teams aren't so reliant on one player. There is no reason we should be. It's the managers job to solve the problem.
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Replacing Hojlund with a 15 goal striker and Garnacho with a 20 goal and assist winger might get us competing for a European spot. We could potentially add 40 goals and assists with (big, successful) upgrades up top and wide.
But if you then you take Bruno out, you've just lost the same number of goals and assists and you're effectively back to square one.
If he goes, we need to replace him with probably several *more* players who can cover his contributions across positions. We'd need to add serious goals and creativity from midfield and from the wingback positions.
I don't see how we significantly upgrade two to three positions with £100m and Bruno's salary to spend. At a push, if you get it absolutely right, you get a Bruno replacement. But who is that? With De Bruyne, he's been the most prolifically creative player in Europe over the last five seasons.
Fwiw, I think the club would respect his decision either way, and I think he'll choose to stay. And if I were a religious man, I'd be praying day and night that he does that, because I think given the resources at our disposal, even with an addition of an extra £100m, he's irreplacable.
comment by Michael Scofield (U11781)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 4 minutes ago
I'm very torn on this. Rosso is right that there's a strong chance we get worse still if we sell Bruno. On the other hand, if we turn down £100m now and he finally starts to show signs of physical decline, we could come to regret another strategic error of holding onto a player too long, failing to cash in at the best moment. Ideally this offer would have come in a year or two further into the rebuild.
What's clear is that if we sold him, we'd need to nail all of the incoming transfers. £100m isn't going to be enough to offset Bruno's contribution with net improvements across the field, so I think this is something we can only do if we also manage to sell two of Rashford, Sancho and Antony, as well as Garnacho. Then there's some serious money to invest, and a lot of wages off the books.
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There’s only some serious money to invest if we get good prices for them. Is anyone gonna take Rashford for £40m for example?
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I think that will come down to whether he accepts a team that aren't in the CL. He will probably have to take a wage cut or we will have top drop the price so the buying club can give him a bigger signing on fee. We might struggle to get £40m, but maybe £30m.
comment by kinsang (U3346)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by Elvis (U7425)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by kinsang (U3346)
posted 20 minutes ago
I feel I am going to go a bit 'Championship manager game' here, but I guess we can all be guilty of that.
With Bruno, my ideal scenario would have been to keep him for a further year, to allow to bed in new signings and just have a bit of continuity with our best player from last season.
But sometimes circumstances can dictate that you have to bite the bullet and make a decision that you will get pillared for if it doesn't work out.
So.............we sell Bruno, Onana, Sancho, Rashford, Antony, Nacho..............maybe we get about £200 - £250 million all in
I assume the Cunha funds were available already.......
Bring in another Cunha / Mbuemo type player to play off the CF. Bring in a GK, another CM (should we go back for Frankie De J??!!)
But most importantly, a CF. I see the likes of Delap, Oshimen, David, Kean etc being mentioned, none of them really float my boat - i would rather we tried to bring in as proven a player as possible for that position. Honestly, I don't even know who that is, but I appreciate the financial restrictions, but we seem to be linked to players based more on price rather than quality.
Of course no guarantees with any transfer, but even Mateta i would consider, or Evanilson, who has been unfortunate with injuries this season and I would expect to improve. At least they know what the EPL is all about.
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I like the idea of Mateta. How much do you think he costs?
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I would think he would be similar to Cunha price wise, maybe a little less. In a dream world I would take Eze also, but could see him being more in the 70-80 million range.
But if we sold Bruno, Nacho and Rashford, it would be more than covered.
A front 3 of Cunha, Mateta, Eze / Mbuemo - if they can't get a hatful of goals between them, we really are rubbish. Bring on the Lion King chants
We need to both score goals but spread amongst the team also, and have less reliance on one player.
Greater consistency and team performances, we have relied on moments of individual brilliance and nothing else for too long.
I would go for Matz Sels as GK also.
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"A front 3 of Cunha, Mateta, Eze / Mbuemo - if they can't get a hatful of goals between them, we really are rubbish."
From a midfield of Ugarte and Casemiro? Mainoo and Ugarte? Who would be feeding these players from midfield?
Part of the reason why Mateta hasn't had as prolific a season this season as last is because Palace haven't had enough creativity in midfield.
But take Bruno out of our midifled, and they still probably have more than us.
It's impossible to answer unless we know what we will do with the money.
If you told me now that we'd sell Bruno and Garnacho for 150m combined and use that money for:
Cunha (25) Mbuemo (25) and Osimhen (26) then I think it's probably a fair deal.
However if we spend that money on more players like Hojlund, Mount and Zirkzee then it's far less attractive and probably pushes us closer to the drop.
I love Bruno and would be sad to see him go but if we do get £100m offer for a player who is soon to be 31 and realistically now is never going to win the PL or CL with us........I think it might be time to cash in whilst we still can.
These transfers simply all have to land for us though. No gambles. Go get proven quality players
comment by Michael Scofield (U11781)
posted 13 minutes ago
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 4 minutes ago
I'm very torn on this. Rosso is right that there's a strong chance we get worse still if we sell Bruno. On the other hand, if we turn down £100m now and he finally starts to show signs of physical decline, we could come to regret another strategic error of holding onto a player too long, failing to cash in at the best moment. Ideally this offer would have come in a year or two further into the rebuild.
What's clear is that if we sold him, we'd need to nail all of the incoming transfers. £100m isn't going to be enough to offset Bruno's contribution with net improvements across the field, so I think this is something we can only do if we also manage to sell two of Rashford, Sancho and Antony, as well as Garnacho. Then there's some serious money to invest, and a lot of wages off the books.
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There’s only some serious money to invest if we get good prices for them. Is anyone gonna take Rashford for £40m for example?
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With Rashford and Sancho out of the door, having their salaries off the books is just as important as whatever transfer fees they bring in. But I think if we can generate another £100m in transfer fees if we sell Garnacho plus two of Rashford, Antony and Sancho.
comment by EVERYTHING’S POTE! (U17054)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by kinsang (U3346)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by Elvis (U7425)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by kinsang (U3346)
posted 20 minutes ago
I feel I am going to go a bit 'Championship manager game' here, but I guess we can all be guilty of that.
With Bruno, my ideal scenario would have been to keep him for a further year, to allow to bed in new signings and just have a bit of continuity with our best player from last season.
But sometimes circumstances can dictate that you have to bite the bullet and make a decision that you will get pillared for if it doesn't work out.
So.............we sell Bruno, Onana, Sancho, Rashford, Antony, Nacho..............maybe we get about £200 - £250 million all in
I assume the Cunha funds were available already.......
Bring in another Cunha / Mbuemo type player to play off the CF. Bring in a GK, another CM (should we go back for Frankie De J??!!)
But most importantly, a CF. I see the likes of Delap, Oshimen, David, Kean etc being mentioned, none of them really float my boat - i would rather we tried to bring in as proven a player as possible for that position. Honestly, I don't even know who that is, but I appreciate the financial restrictions, but we seem to be linked to players based more on price rather than quality.
Of course no guarantees with any transfer, but even Mateta i would consider, or Evanilson, who has been unfortunate with injuries this season and I would expect to improve. At least they know what the EPL is all about.
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I like the idea of Mateta. How much do you think he costs?
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I would think he would be similar to Cunha price wise, maybe a little less. In a dream world I would take Eze also, but could see him being more in the 70-80 million range.
But if we sold Bruno, Nacho and Rashford, it would be more than covered.
A front 3 of Cunha, Mateta, Eze / Mbuemo - if they can't get a hatful of goals between them, we really are rubbish. Bring on the Lion King chants
We need to both score goals but spread amongst the team also, and have less reliance on one player.
Greater consistency and team performances, we have relied on moments of individual brilliance and nothing else for too long.
I would go for Matz Sels as GK also.
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"A front 3 of Cunha, Mateta, Eze / Mbuemo - if they can't get a hatful of goals between them, we really are rubbish."
From a midfield of Ugarte and Casemiro? Mainoo and Ugarte? Who would be feeding these players from midfield?
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But where has Bruno played most of his games this season? As a CM or as one of the no.10s?
The CMs really need to get the ball to the no.10s/wide players and let them do the creating. Mainoo and Cas are more than capable of getting the ball to the forwards line.
comment by Tyranny of the majority (SE85) (U21241)
posted 4 minutes ago
It's impossible to answer unless we know what we will do with the money.
If you told me now that we'd sell Bruno and Garnacho for 150m combined and use that money for:
Cunha (25) Mbuemo (25) and Osimhen (26) then I think it's probably a fair deal.
However if we spend that money on more players like Hojlund, Mount and Zirkzee then it's far less attractive and probably pushes us closer to the drop.
I love Bruno and would be sad to see him go but if we do get £100m offer for a player who is soon to be 31 and realistically now is never going to win the PL or CL with us........I think it might be time to cash in whilst we still can.
These transfers simply all have to land for us though. No gambles. Go get proven quality players
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Yeh, I think that it is really important that we try to do our shopping from the PL if possible. We really need to get most if not all of our transfers right.
comment by Elvis (U7425)
posted 21 minutes ago
Reports this morning that ETH wants to sign Antony. I don' think that we will have any problems getting rid of Nacho. And I am hopeful on Rashford. Sancho is the problem for me. Just can't see anyone wanting to buy him.
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Seems like 50-50 to me whether Chelsea go for it. He's not massively impactful, but he has been playing regularly in a team that has made the CL, and the transfer fee is low even for a player of his limitations. Wages is a different matter.
Agree with Rosso that we'll need serious upgrading in midfield. Need that anyway, but if we're losing Bruno, it places a lot of emphasis on upgrading the quality and athleticism.
And obviously the issue with Mbuemo and Osimhen is AFCON.
We could be without Amad, Mazraoui, Onana, Mbeumo and Osimhen for up to 6 PL games, 1 FA Cup game and possibly Carabao cup game too.
AFCON is 21st December to 18th Jan this coming season. The busy Christmas period in the PL.
Far from ideal.
comment by Elvis (U7425)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by EVERYTHING’S POTE! (U17054)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by kinsang (U3346)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by Elvis (U7425)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by kinsang (U3346)
posted 20 minutes ago
I feel I am going to go a bit 'Championship manager game' here, but I guess we can all be guilty of that.
With Bruno, my ideal scenario would have been to keep him for a further year, to allow to bed in new signings and just have a bit of continuity with our best player from last season.
But sometimes circumstances can dictate that you have to bite the bullet and make a decision that you will get pillared for if it doesn't work out.
So.............we sell Bruno, Onana, Sancho, Rashford, Antony, Nacho..............maybe we get about £200 - £250 million all in
I assume the Cunha funds were available already.......
Bring in another Cunha / Mbuemo type player to play off the CF. Bring in a GK, another CM (should we go back for Frankie De J??!!)
But most importantly, a CF. I see the likes of Delap, Oshimen, David, Kean etc being mentioned, none of them really float my boat - i would rather we tried to bring in as proven a player as possible for that position. Honestly, I don't even know who that is, but I appreciate the financial restrictions, but we seem to be linked to players based more on price rather than quality.
Of course no guarantees with any transfer, but even Mateta i would consider, or Evanilson, who has been unfortunate with injuries this season and I would expect to improve. At least they know what the EPL is all about.
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I like the idea of Mateta. How much do you think he costs?
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I would think he would be similar to Cunha price wise, maybe a little less. In a dream world I would take Eze also, but could see him being more in the 70-80 million range.
But if we sold Bruno, Nacho and Rashford, it would be more than covered.
A front 3 of Cunha, Mateta, Eze / Mbuemo - if they can't get a hatful of goals between them, we really are rubbish. Bring on the Lion King chants
We need to both score goals but spread amongst the team also, and have less reliance on one player.
Greater consistency and team performances, we have relied on moments of individual brilliance and nothing else for too long.
I would go for Matz Sels as GK also.
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"A front 3 of Cunha, Mateta, Eze / Mbuemo - if they can't get a hatful of goals between them, we really are rubbish."
From a midfield of Ugarte and Casemiro? Mainoo and Ugarte? Who would be feeding these players from midfield?
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But where has Bruno played most of his games this season? As a CM or as one of the no.10s?
The CMs really need to get the ball to the no.10s/wide players and let them do the creating. Mainoo and Cas are more than capable of getting the ball to the forwards line.
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I'm bringing in Frankie De J
comment by Tyranny of the majority (SE85) (U21241)
posted 2 minutes ago
And obviously the issue with Mbuemo and Osimhen is AFCON.
We could be without Amad, Mazraoui, Onana, Mbeumo and Osimhen for up to 6 PL games, 1 FA Cup game and possibly Carabao cup game too.
AFCON is 21st December to 18th Jan this coming season. The busy Christmas period in the PL.
Far from ideal.
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Good point.
FIFA really need to look at trying to bring in a more workable calendar, but I guess its difficult with the different climates/seasons.
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 4 minutes ago
Agree with Rosso that we'll need serious upgrading in midfield. Need that anyway, but if we're losing Bruno, it places a lot of emphasis on upgrading the quality and athleticism.
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Carlos Baleba...
Brighton will probably demand Caceido money for him, which we'll only be able to afford by letting go of Bruno. But he'll be one of the best midfielders around in a couple of years.
On Bruno, if an offer of 100m+ comes in I would very, very reluctantly have to say that it would be too good to turn down for a player of his age.
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comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 4 minutes ago
Agree with Rosso that we'll need serious upgrading in midfield. Need that anyway, but if we're losing Bruno, it places a lot of emphasis on upgrading the quality and athleticism.
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Carlos Baleba...
Brighton will probably demand Caceido money for him, which we'll only be able to afford by letting go of Bruno. But he'll be one of the best midfielders around in a couple of years.
On Bruno, if an offer of 100m+ comes in I would very, very reluctantly have to say that it would be too good to turn down for a player of his age.
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I'm a Baleba!
Of course Bruno would be a big miss, but we need to accept that the others would simply need to step up. No-one was anywhere near the level that Bruno was producing, even on his bad days.
But that's up to Amorim to get that out of the players, and really get the players playing as a team. Of course players can have wow moments, but the players still look like strangers to each other under ETH hasn't really improved much under Amorim so far - that's where the pre-season improvement really has to come for me.
Another reason it would be really convenient if this were happening a year or two later is that it would buy us time to buy and ease in a player or two who aren't quite there yet but have the talent and physical tools to be really good (like Caicedo when he was in Ecuador rather than at Brighton). And to buy time for some of our academy talents to come through. Sekou Kone might be one of the midfielders we need, but he's obviously not been quite ready for senior football this season.
comment by Elvis (U7425)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by Tyranny of the majority (SE85) (U21241)
posted 2 minutes ago
And obviously the issue with Mbuemo and Osimhen is AFCON.
We could be without Amad, Mazraoui, Onana, Mbeumo and Osimhen for up to 6 PL games, 1 FA Cup game and possibly Carabao cup game too.
AFCON is 21st December to 18th Jan this coming season. The busy Christmas period in the PL.
Far from ideal.
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Good point.
FIFA really need to look at trying to bring in a more workable calendar, but I guess its difficult with the different climates/seasons.
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Massively puts me off players from there to be honest.
Our players all play for the bigger nations too who tend to go quite far in it. Not sure we're in a position as a team right now that we can be without 5/6 of the first team for 15% of the season.
Be nice to solve that problem by signing Gyokeres instead of Osimhen however I don't think he's going to entertain us with no European football sadly.
Having Zirkzee, Mount and say Kobbie as as makeshift front 3 whilst players were at the AFCON would be a bit crap I have to say.
Looks like this could happen, and it would be completely mad.
The guy was arguably one of the best midfielders in Europe last season, and is showing no signs of letting up.
How on earth people expect the club to replace him adequately, with little money, and our transfer record, is beyond me.
All this will do, is make us worse at football, which is why we all watch United.
I know how this is going to go now, but it’s still just sad really what our club is becoming.
comment by Elvis (U7425)
posted 59 minutes ago
comment by Diafol Coch 77 🏴 JA606 Class Act (U2462)
posted 10 minutes ago
£100m would be a lot and I could see how it could be very tempting. However, if we are trying to get players in over the Summer I wonder what kind of look selling our best player would be? For example if I were Gyokeres would I want to see my most probably source of supply leave?
Bruno still has plenty in the tank and he can go to Saudi in the future. Perhaps next Summer once we've sorted ourselves out even if it's for only £50m?
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Well that is up to the manager to explain to any new striker how we are going to play and where the chances are going to be coming from. So it might be the case that any new striker is the last signing after we have got a few signings through the door and an idea of how the team will look.
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I accept that. It's just that to some players they may look at it like United are selling their best player.
If the Saudis are really serious about Bruno I'd just ask for silly money. At least make him worth selling.
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posted 25 minutes ago
comment by EVERYTHING’S POTE! (U17054)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by kinsang (U3346)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by Elvis (U7425)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by kinsang (U3346)
posted 20 minutes ago
I feel I am going to go a bit 'Championship manager game' here, but I guess we can all be guilty of that.
With Bruno, my ideal scenario would have been to keep him for a further year, to allow to bed in new signings and just have a bit of continuity with our best player from last season.
But sometimes circumstances can dictate that you have to bite the bullet and make a decision that you will get pillared for if it doesn't work out.
So.............we sell Bruno, Onana, Sancho, Rashford, Antony, Nacho..............maybe we get about £200 - £250 million all in
I assume the Cunha funds were available already.......
Bring in another Cunha / Mbuemo type player to play off the CF. Bring in a GK, another CM (should we go back for Frankie De J??!!)
But most importantly, a CF. I see the likes of Delap, Oshimen, David, Kean etc being mentioned, none of them really float my boat - i would rather we tried to bring in as proven a player as possible for that position. Honestly, I don't even know who that is, but I appreciate the financial restrictions, but we seem to be linked to players based more on price rather than quality.
Of course no guarantees with any transfer, but even Mateta i would consider, or Evanilson, who has been unfortunate with injuries this season and I would expect to improve. At least they know what the EPL is all about.
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I like the idea of Mateta. How much do you think he costs?
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I would think he would be similar to Cunha price wise, maybe a little less. In a dream world I would take Eze also, but could see him being more in the 70-80 million range.
But if we sold Bruno, Nacho and Rashford, it would be more than covered.
A front 3 of Cunha, Mateta, Eze / Mbuemo - if they can't get a hatful of goals between them, we really are rubbish. Bring on the Lion King chants
We need to both score goals but spread amongst the team also, and have less reliance on one player.
Greater consistency and team performances, we have relied on moments of individual brilliance and nothing else for too long.
I would go for Matz Sels as GK also.
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"A front 3 of Cunha, Mateta, Eze / Mbuemo - if they can't get a hatful of goals between them, we really are rubbish."
From a midfield of Ugarte and Casemiro? Mainoo and Ugarte? Who would be feeding these players from midfield?
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But where has Bruno played most of his games this season? As a CM or as one of the no.10s?
The CMs really need to get the ball to the no.10s/wide players and let them do the creating. Mainoo and Cas are more than capable of getting the ball to the forwards line.
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He’s delivered 15 G+A in games he’s *started* at CM.
I don’t know how many more he’s delivered from CM in games he’s started at ten and then dropped back in, but it must be a handful as Amorim has done that repeatedly when we’ve been chasing games.
I see no evidence that Bruno couldn’t give us three more seasons playing in both positions (probably moreso in CM now with Cunha coming in), and that, to me, would be worth more than the £100m we’d reportedly bring in from letting him go.
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posted 1 minute ago
comment by Elvis (U7425)
posted 59 minutes ago
comment by Diafol Coch 77 🏴 JA606 Class Act (U2462)
posted 10 minutes ago
£100m would be a lot and I could see how it could be very tempting. However, if we are trying to get players in over the Summer I wonder what kind of look selling our best player would be? For example if I were Gyokeres would I want to see my most probably source of supply leave?
Bruno still has plenty in the tank and he can go to Saudi in the future. Perhaps next Summer once we've sorted ourselves out even if it's for only £50m?
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Well that is up to the manager to explain to any new striker how we are going to play and where the chances are going to be coming from. So it might be the case that any new striker is the last signing after we have got a few signings through the door and an idea of how the team will look.
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I accept that. It's just that to some players they may look at it like United are selling their best player.
If the Saudis are really serious about Bruno I'd just ask for silly money. At least make him worth selling.
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I think that if we are at the point where there are meetings taking place, we have likely already agreed the fee with them.
And we are selling our best player. We just have to hope that we invest the money in players that can make us better as a team.
It feels a year too soon, but sometimes you need to bite the bullet and take that risk.
It's not about replacing one individual player, but addressing the needs of the squad as a whole - some players you can't replace, and you just need to cope with it in another way.
It puts pressure on other players to perform, but that is part and parcel with being a player at Utd and both the manager and players would need to just get on with it.
And as good a Bruno was last season, we just don't know what will happen over the next few seasons.
Of course he will be missed, but the squad has to move on if he goes.
However, no doubt there will be umpteen 'why did we sell Bruno' articles if we make a poor start to next season
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posted on 30/5/25
comment by manusince52 (U9692)
posted 1 minute ago
If it's his choice let him go.
If it's ours keep him, at least for a season.
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I don't think that Bruno would disrespect the club by letting his agent go and talk to Al-Hilal without our approval. So if feels to me like the club are open to him moving on.
posted on 30/5/25
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 4 minutes ago
I'm very torn on this. Rosso is right that there's a strong chance we get worse still if we sell Bruno. On the other hand, if we turn down £100m now and he finally starts to show signs of physical decline, we could come to regret another strategic error of holding onto a player too long, failing to cash in at the best moment. Ideally this offer would have come in a year or two further into the rebuild.
What's clear is that if we sold him, we'd need to nail all of the incoming transfers. £100m isn't going to be enough to offset Bruno's contribution with net improvements across the field, so I think this is something we can only do if we also manage to sell two of Rashford, Sancho and Antony, as well as Garnacho. Then there's some serious money to invest, and a lot of wages off the books.
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There’s only some serious money to invest if we get good prices for them. Is anyone gonna take Rashford for £40m for example?
posted on 30/5/25
comment by Elvis (U7425)
posted 24 minutes ago
comment by EVERYTHING’S POTE! (U17054)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by Elvis (U7425)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Michael Scofield (U11781)
posted 47 seconds ago
I’ve always said our over reliance on Bruno and Rashford was holding us back from progressing as a team over the years, if we do get £100m bite their hands off and invest in more players.
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We do certainly need to spread the goals out a bit and be less reliant on one player. It feels a bit harsh on Bruno, but I do think its the case. Its kind of the same as when Ronaldo returned. He played well as an individual, but his presence was detrimental to the team as a whole.
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How do we replace 40 goals and assists, many of them (15) from central midfield?
We’ve just had an historically, spectacularly poor season in terms of goalscoring. This is the one guy who consistently delivers goals and creates chances (as many as anyone in Europe’s top five leagues, every season).
If we take his goals out, and we take his chance creation out (almost a third of all of those for the entire first team squad), we’re putting ourselves in dangerous territory.
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One of the main ways will be to have less greedy and wasteful wide players. The main culprit is Garnacho. His conversion rate is absolutely criminal. And he rarely passes/crosses. Rashford was the same before him as was Antony.
I know its standard to just slate Hojlund, but the level of service he receives is woeful. Whoever is playing up front for us next season needs better service. Amad being a regular starter will help in that regard, as will Cunha. We will have to see what other players we bring in, but other teams aren't so reliant on one player. There is no reason we should be. It's the managers job to solve the problem.
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Replacing Hojlund with a 15 goal striker and Garnacho with a 20 goal and assist winger might get us competing for a European spot. We could potentially add 40 goals and assists with (big, successful) upgrades up top and wide.
But if you then you take Bruno out, you've just lost the same number of goals and assists and you're effectively back to square one.
If he goes, we need to replace him with probably several *more* players who can cover his contributions across positions. We'd need to add serious goals and creativity from midfield and from the wingback positions.
I don't see how we significantly upgrade two to three positions with £100m and Bruno's salary to spend. At a push, if you get it absolutely right, you get a Bruno replacement. But who is that? With De Bruyne, he's been the most prolifically creative player in Europe over the last five seasons.
Fwiw, I think the club would respect his decision either way, and I think he'll choose to stay. And if I were a religious man, I'd be praying day and night that he does that, because I think given the resources at our disposal, even with an addition of an extra £100m, he's irreplacable.
posted on 30/5/25
comment by Michael Scofield (U11781)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 4 minutes ago
I'm very torn on this. Rosso is right that there's a strong chance we get worse still if we sell Bruno. On the other hand, if we turn down £100m now and he finally starts to show signs of physical decline, we could come to regret another strategic error of holding onto a player too long, failing to cash in at the best moment. Ideally this offer would have come in a year or two further into the rebuild.
What's clear is that if we sold him, we'd need to nail all of the incoming transfers. £100m isn't going to be enough to offset Bruno's contribution with net improvements across the field, so I think this is something we can only do if we also manage to sell two of Rashford, Sancho and Antony, as well as Garnacho. Then there's some serious money to invest, and a lot of wages off the books.
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There’s only some serious money to invest if we get good prices for them. Is anyone gonna take Rashford for £40m for example?
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I think that will come down to whether he accepts a team that aren't in the CL. He will probably have to take a wage cut or we will have top drop the price so the buying club can give him a bigger signing on fee. We might struggle to get £40m, but maybe £30m.
posted on 30/5/25
comment by kinsang (U3346)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by Elvis (U7425)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by kinsang (U3346)
posted 20 minutes ago
I feel I am going to go a bit 'Championship manager game' here, but I guess we can all be guilty of that.
With Bruno, my ideal scenario would have been to keep him for a further year, to allow to bed in new signings and just have a bit of continuity with our best player from last season.
But sometimes circumstances can dictate that you have to bite the bullet and make a decision that you will get pillared for if it doesn't work out.
So.............we sell Bruno, Onana, Sancho, Rashford, Antony, Nacho..............maybe we get about £200 - £250 million all in
I assume the Cunha funds were available already.......
Bring in another Cunha / Mbuemo type player to play off the CF. Bring in a GK, another CM (should we go back for Frankie De J??!!)
But most importantly, a CF. I see the likes of Delap, Oshimen, David, Kean etc being mentioned, none of them really float my boat - i would rather we tried to bring in as proven a player as possible for that position. Honestly, I don't even know who that is, but I appreciate the financial restrictions, but we seem to be linked to players based more on price rather than quality.
Of course no guarantees with any transfer, but even Mateta i would consider, or Evanilson, who has been unfortunate with injuries this season and I would expect to improve. At least they know what the EPL is all about.
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I like the idea of Mateta. How much do you think he costs?
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I would think he would be similar to Cunha price wise, maybe a little less. In a dream world I would take Eze also, but could see him being more in the 70-80 million range.
But if we sold Bruno, Nacho and Rashford, it would be more than covered.
A front 3 of Cunha, Mateta, Eze / Mbuemo - if they can't get a hatful of goals between them, we really are rubbish. Bring on the Lion King chants
We need to both score goals but spread amongst the team also, and have less reliance on one player.
Greater consistency and team performances, we have relied on moments of individual brilliance and nothing else for too long.
I would go for Matz Sels as GK also.
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"A front 3 of Cunha, Mateta, Eze / Mbuemo - if they can't get a hatful of goals between them, we really are rubbish."
From a midfield of Ugarte and Casemiro? Mainoo and Ugarte? Who would be feeding these players from midfield?
posted on 30/5/25
Part of the reason why Mateta hasn't had as prolific a season this season as last is because Palace haven't had enough creativity in midfield.
But take Bruno out of our midifled, and they still probably have more than us.
posted on 30/5/25
It's impossible to answer unless we know what we will do with the money.
If you told me now that we'd sell Bruno and Garnacho for 150m combined and use that money for:
Cunha (25) Mbuemo (25) and Osimhen (26) then I think it's probably a fair deal.
However if we spend that money on more players like Hojlund, Mount and Zirkzee then it's far less attractive and probably pushes us closer to the drop.
I love Bruno and would be sad to see him go but if we do get £100m offer for a player who is soon to be 31 and realistically now is never going to win the PL or CL with us........I think it might be time to cash in whilst we still can.
These transfers simply all have to land for us though. No gambles. Go get proven quality players
posted on 30/5/25
comment by Michael Scofield (U11781)
posted 13 minutes ago
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 4 minutes ago
I'm very torn on this. Rosso is right that there's a strong chance we get worse still if we sell Bruno. On the other hand, if we turn down £100m now and he finally starts to show signs of physical decline, we could come to regret another strategic error of holding onto a player too long, failing to cash in at the best moment. Ideally this offer would have come in a year or two further into the rebuild.
What's clear is that if we sold him, we'd need to nail all of the incoming transfers. £100m isn't going to be enough to offset Bruno's contribution with net improvements across the field, so I think this is something we can only do if we also manage to sell two of Rashford, Sancho and Antony, as well as Garnacho. Then there's some serious money to invest, and a lot of wages off the books.
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There’s only some serious money to invest if we get good prices for them. Is anyone gonna take Rashford for £40m for example?
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With Rashford and Sancho out of the door, having their salaries off the books is just as important as whatever transfer fees they bring in. But I think if we can generate another £100m in transfer fees if we sell Garnacho plus two of Rashford, Antony and Sancho.
posted on 30/5/25
comment by EVERYTHING’S POTE! (U17054)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by kinsang (U3346)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by Elvis (U7425)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by kinsang (U3346)
posted 20 minutes ago
I feel I am going to go a bit 'Championship manager game' here, but I guess we can all be guilty of that.
With Bruno, my ideal scenario would have been to keep him for a further year, to allow to bed in new signings and just have a bit of continuity with our best player from last season.
But sometimes circumstances can dictate that you have to bite the bullet and make a decision that you will get pillared for if it doesn't work out.
So.............we sell Bruno, Onana, Sancho, Rashford, Antony, Nacho..............maybe we get about £200 - £250 million all in
I assume the Cunha funds were available already.......
Bring in another Cunha / Mbuemo type player to play off the CF. Bring in a GK, another CM (should we go back for Frankie De J??!!)
But most importantly, a CF. I see the likes of Delap, Oshimen, David, Kean etc being mentioned, none of them really float my boat - i would rather we tried to bring in as proven a player as possible for that position. Honestly, I don't even know who that is, but I appreciate the financial restrictions, but we seem to be linked to players based more on price rather than quality.
Of course no guarantees with any transfer, but even Mateta i would consider, or Evanilson, who has been unfortunate with injuries this season and I would expect to improve. At least they know what the EPL is all about.
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I like the idea of Mateta. How much do you think he costs?
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I would think he would be similar to Cunha price wise, maybe a little less. In a dream world I would take Eze also, but could see him being more in the 70-80 million range.
But if we sold Bruno, Nacho and Rashford, it would be more than covered.
A front 3 of Cunha, Mateta, Eze / Mbuemo - if they can't get a hatful of goals between them, we really are rubbish. Bring on the Lion King chants
We need to both score goals but spread amongst the team also, and have less reliance on one player.
Greater consistency and team performances, we have relied on moments of individual brilliance and nothing else for too long.
I would go for Matz Sels as GK also.
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"A front 3 of Cunha, Mateta, Eze / Mbuemo - if they can't get a hatful of goals between them, we really are rubbish."
From a midfield of Ugarte and Casemiro? Mainoo and Ugarte? Who would be feeding these players from midfield?
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But where has Bruno played most of his games this season? As a CM or as one of the no.10s?
The CMs really need to get the ball to the no.10s/wide players and let them do the creating. Mainoo and Cas are more than capable of getting the ball to the forwards line.
posted on 30/5/25
comment by Tyranny of the majority (SE85) (U21241)
posted 4 minutes ago
It's impossible to answer unless we know what we will do with the money.
If you told me now that we'd sell Bruno and Garnacho for 150m combined and use that money for:
Cunha (25) Mbuemo (25) and Osimhen (26) then I think it's probably a fair deal.
However if we spend that money on more players like Hojlund, Mount and Zirkzee then it's far less attractive and probably pushes us closer to the drop.
I love Bruno and would be sad to see him go but if we do get £100m offer for a player who is soon to be 31 and realistically now is never going to win the PL or CL with us........I think it might be time to cash in whilst we still can.
These transfers simply all have to land for us though. No gambles. Go get proven quality players
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Yeh, I think that it is really important that we try to do our shopping from the PL if possible. We really need to get most if not all of our transfers right.
posted on 30/5/25
comment by Elvis (U7425)
posted 21 minutes ago
Reports this morning that ETH wants to sign Antony. I don' think that we will have any problems getting rid of Nacho. And I am hopeful on Rashford. Sancho is the problem for me. Just can't see anyone wanting to buy him.
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Seems like 50-50 to me whether Chelsea go for it. He's not massively impactful, but he has been playing regularly in a team that has made the CL, and the transfer fee is low even for a player of his limitations. Wages is a different matter.
posted on 30/5/25
Agree with Rosso that we'll need serious upgrading in midfield. Need that anyway, but if we're losing Bruno, it places a lot of emphasis on upgrading the quality and athleticism.
posted on 30/5/25
And obviously the issue with Mbuemo and Osimhen is AFCON.
We could be without Amad, Mazraoui, Onana, Mbeumo and Osimhen for up to 6 PL games, 1 FA Cup game and possibly Carabao cup game too.
AFCON is 21st December to 18th Jan this coming season. The busy Christmas period in the PL.
Far from ideal.
posted on 30/5/25
comment by Elvis (U7425)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by EVERYTHING’S POTE! (U17054)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by kinsang (U3346)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by Elvis (U7425)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by kinsang (U3346)
posted 20 minutes ago
I feel I am going to go a bit 'Championship manager game' here, but I guess we can all be guilty of that.
With Bruno, my ideal scenario would have been to keep him for a further year, to allow to bed in new signings and just have a bit of continuity with our best player from last season.
But sometimes circumstances can dictate that you have to bite the bullet and make a decision that you will get pillared for if it doesn't work out.
So.............we sell Bruno, Onana, Sancho, Rashford, Antony, Nacho..............maybe we get about £200 - £250 million all in
I assume the Cunha funds were available already.......
Bring in another Cunha / Mbuemo type player to play off the CF. Bring in a GK, another CM (should we go back for Frankie De J??!!)
But most importantly, a CF. I see the likes of Delap, Oshimen, David, Kean etc being mentioned, none of them really float my boat - i would rather we tried to bring in as proven a player as possible for that position. Honestly, I don't even know who that is, but I appreciate the financial restrictions, but we seem to be linked to players based more on price rather than quality.
Of course no guarantees with any transfer, but even Mateta i would consider, or Evanilson, who has been unfortunate with injuries this season and I would expect to improve. At least they know what the EPL is all about.
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I like the idea of Mateta. How much do you think he costs?
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I would think he would be similar to Cunha price wise, maybe a little less. In a dream world I would take Eze also, but could see him being more in the 70-80 million range.
But if we sold Bruno, Nacho and Rashford, it would be more than covered.
A front 3 of Cunha, Mateta, Eze / Mbuemo - if they can't get a hatful of goals between them, we really are rubbish. Bring on the Lion King chants
We need to both score goals but spread amongst the team also, and have less reliance on one player.
Greater consistency and team performances, we have relied on moments of individual brilliance and nothing else for too long.
I would go for Matz Sels as GK also.
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"A front 3 of Cunha, Mateta, Eze / Mbuemo - if they can't get a hatful of goals between them, we really are rubbish."
From a midfield of Ugarte and Casemiro? Mainoo and Ugarte? Who would be feeding these players from midfield?
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But where has Bruno played most of his games this season? As a CM or as one of the no.10s?
The CMs really need to get the ball to the no.10s/wide players and let them do the creating. Mainoo and Cas are more than capable of getting the ball to the forwards line.
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I'm bringing in Frankie De J
posted on 30/5/25
comment by Tyranny of the majority (SE85) (U21241)
posted 2 minutes ago
And obviously the issue with Mbuemo and Osimhen is AFCON.
We could be without Amad, Mazraoui, Onana, Mbeumo and Osimhen for up to 6 PL games, 1 FA Cup game and possibly Carabao cup game too.
AFCON is 21st December to 18th Jan this coming season. The busy Christmas period in the PL.
Far from ideal.
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Good point.
FIFA really need to look at trying to bring in a more workable calendar, but I guess its difficult with the different climates/seasons.
posted on 30/5/25
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 4 minutes ago
Agree with Rosso that we'll need serious upgrading in midfield. Need that anyway, but if we're losing Bruno, it places a lot of emphasis on upgrading the quality and athleticism.
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Carlos Baleba...
Brighton will probably demand Caceido money for him, which we'll only be able to afford by letting go of Bruno. But he'll be one of the best midfielders around in a couple of years.
On Bruno, if an offer of 100m+ comes in I would very, very reluctantly have to say that it would be too good to turn down for a player of his age.
posted on 30/5/25
comment by -bloodred- (U1222)
posted 0 seconds ago
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 4 minutes ago
Agree with Rosso that we'll need serious upgrading in midfield. Need that anyway, but if we're losing Bruno, it places a lot of emphasis on upgrading the quality and athleticism.
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Carlos Baleba...
Brighton will probably demand Caceido money for him, which we'll only be able to afford by letting go of Bruno. But he'll be one of the best midfielders around in a couple of years.
On Bruno, if an offer of 100m+ comes in I would very, very reluctantly have to say that it would be too good to turn down for a player of his age.
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I'm a Baleba!
posted on 30/5/25
Of course Bruno would be a big miss, but we need to accept that the others would simply need to step up. No-one was anywhere near the level that Bruno was producing, even on his bad days.
But that's up to Amorim to get that out of the players, and really get the players playing as a team. Of course players can have wow moments, but the players still look like strangers to each other under ETH hasn't really improved much under Amorim so far - that's where the pre-season improvement really has to come for me.
posted on 30/5/25
Another reason it would be really convenient if this were happening a year or two later is that it would buy us time to buy and ease in a player or two who aren't quite there yet but have the talent and physical tools to be really good (like Caicedo when he was in Ecuador rather than at Brighton). And to buy time for some of our academy talents to come through. Sekou Kone might be one of the midfielders we need, but he's obviously not been quite ready for senior football this season.
posted on 30/5/25
comment by Elvis (U7425)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by Tyranny of the majority (SE85) (U21241)
posted 2 minutes ago
And obviously the issue with Mbuemo and Osimhen is AFCON.
We could be without Amad, Mazraoui, Onana, Mbeumo and Osimhen for up to 6 PL games, 1 FA Cup game and possibly Carabao cup game too.
AFCON is 21st December to 18th Jan this coming season. The busy Christmas period in the PL.
Far from ideal.
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Good point.
FIFA really need to look at trying to bring in a more workable calendar, but I guess its difficult with the different climates/seasons.
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Massively puts me off players from there to be honest.
Our players all play for the bigger nations too who tend to go quite far in it. Not sure we're in a position as a team right now that we can be without 5/6 of the first team for 15% of the season.
Be nice to solve that problem by signing Gyokeres instead of Osimhen however I don't think he's going to entertain us with no European football sadly.
Having Zirkzee, Mount and say Kobbie as as makeshift front 3 whilst players were at the AFCON would be a bit crap I have to say.
posted on 30/5/25
Looks like this could happen, and it would be completely mad.
The guy was arguably one of the best midfielders in Europe last season, and is showing no signs of letting up.
How on earth people expect the club to replace him adequately, with little money, and our transfer record, is beyond me.
All this will do, is make us worse at football, which is why we all watch United.
I know how this is going to go now, but it’s still just sad really what our club is becoming.
posted on 30/5/25
comment by Elvis (U7425)
posted 59 minutes ago
comment by Diafol Coch 77 🏴 JA606 Class Act (U2462)
posted 10 minutes ago
£100m would be a lot and I could see how it could be very tempting. However, if we are trying to get players in over the Summer I wonder what kind of look selling our best player would be? For example if I were Gyokeres would I want to see my most probably source of supply leave?
Bruno still has plenty in the tank and he can go to Saudi in the future. Perhaps next Summer once we've sorted ourselves out even if it's for only £50m?
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Well that is up to the manager to explain to any new striker how we are going to play and where the chances are going to be coming from. So it might be the case that any new striker is the last signing after we have got a few signings through the door and an idea of how the team will look.
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I accept that. It's just that to some players they may look at it like United are selling their best player.
If the Saudis are really serious about Bruno I'd just ask for silly money. At least make him worth selling.
posted on 30/5/25
comment by Elvis (U7425)
posted 25 minutes ago
comment by EVERYTHING’S POTE! (U17054)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by kinsang (U3346)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by Elvis (U7425)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by kinsang (U3346)
posted 20 minutes ago
I feel I am going to go a bit 'Championship manager game' here, but I guess we can all be guilty of that.
With Bruno, my ideal scenario would have been to keep him for a further year, to allow to bed in new signings and just have a bit of continuity with our best player from last season.
But sometimes circumstances can dictate that you have to bite the bullet and make a decision that you will get pillared for if it doesn't work out.
So.............we sell Bruno, Onana, Sancho, Rashford, Antony, Nacho..............maybe we get about £200 - £250 million all in
I assume the Cunha funds were available already.......
Bring in another Cunha / Mbuemo type player to play off the CF. Bring in a GK, another CM (should we go back for Frankie De J??!!)
But most importantly, a CF. I see the likes of Delap, Oshimen, David, Kean etc being mentioned, none of them really float my boat - i would rather we tried to bring in as proven a player as possible for that position. Honestly, I don't even know who that is, but I appreciate the financial restrictions, but we seem to be linked to players based more on price rather than quality.
Of course no guarantees with any transfer, but even Mateta i would consider, or Evanilson, who has been unfortunate with injuries this season and I would expect to improve. At least they know what the EPL is all about.
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I like the idea of Mateta. How much do you think he costs?
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I would think he would be similar to Cunha price wise, maybe a little less. In a dream world I would take Eze also, but could see him being more in the 70-80 million range.
But if we sold Bruno, Nacho and Rashford, it would be more than covered.
A front 3 of Cunha, Mateta, Eze / Mbuemo - if they can't get a hatful of goals between them, we really are rubbish. Bring on the Lion King chants
We need to both score goals but spread amongst the team also, and have less reliance on one player.
Greater consistency and team performances, we have relied on moments of individual brilliance and nothing else for too long.
I would go for Matz Sels as GK also.
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"A front 3 of Cunha, Mateta, Eze / Mbuemo - if they can't get a hatful of goals between them, we really are rubbish."
From a midfield of Ugarte and Casemiro? Mainoo and Ugarte? Who would be feeding these players from midfield?
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But where has Bruno played most of his games this season? As a CM or as one of the no.10s?
The CMs really need to get the ball to the no.10s/wide players and let them do the creating. Mainoo and Cas are more than capable of getting the ball to the forwards line.
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He’s delivered 15 G+A in games he’s *started* at CM.
I don’t know how many more he’s delivered from CM in games he’s started at ten and then dropped back in, but it must be a handful as Amorim has done that repeatedly when we’ve been chasing games.
I see no evidence that Bruno couldn’t give us three more seasons playing in both positions (probably moreso in CM now with Cunha coming in), and that, to me, would be worth more than the £100m we’d reportedly bring in from letting him go.
posted on 30/5/25
comment by Diafol Coch 77 🏴 JA606 Class Act (U2462)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Elvis (U7425)
posted 59 minutes ago
comment by Diafol Coch 77 🏴 JA606 Class Act (U2462)
posted 10 minutes ago
£100m would be a lot and I could see how it could be very tempting. However, if we are trying to get players in over the Summer I wonder what kind of look selling our best player would be? For example if I were Gyokeres would I want to see my most probably source of supply leave?
Bruno still has plenty in the tank and he can go to Saudi in the future. Perhaps next Summer once we've sorted ourselves out even if it's for only £50m?
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Well that is up to the manager to explain to any new striker how we are going to play and where the chances are going to be coming from. So it might be the case that any new striker is the last signing after we have got a few signings through the door and an idea of how the team will look.
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I accept that. It's just that to some players they may look at it like United are selling their best player.
If the Saudis are really serious about Bruno I'd just ask for silly money. At least make him worth selling.
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I think that if we are at the point where there are meetings taking place, we have likely already agreed the fee with them.
And we are selling our best player. We just have to hope that we invest the money in players that can make us better as a team.
posted on 30/5/25
It feels a year too soon, but sometimes you need to bite the bullet and take that risk.
It's not about replacing one individual player, but addressing the needs of the squad as a whole - some players you can't replace, and you just need to cope with it in another way.
It puts pressure on other players to perform, but that is part and parcel with being a player at Utd and both the manager and players would need to just get on with it.
And as good a Bruno was last season, we just don't know what will happen over the next few seasons.
Of course he will be missed, but the squad has to move on if he goes.
However, no doubt there will be umpteen 'why did we sell Bruno' articles if we make a poor start to next season
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