viv_andersons_nana
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Ferguson used to keep a strong spine in place and just add quality here and there. He did pay massive money for Rooney and Ferdinand et al but he also picked up players like Vidic, Heinze, Schmeichel, Park, Solskjaer et al - and loads of others - for very modest fees.Not sure if this will work, I mean Varane and Ronaldo have they worked out? I'd be half tempted to say Casemiro will come into this bracket.
Whatever happened to Man Utd buying from the PL? Fergie used to do it all the time and it worked like a charm, buying the cream of the crop for teams in the division, the examples would make a very long list.
One of many things about that club I just do not understand.
Manchester United are just a very expensive version of the Sunderland team that spent years escaping relegation before buckling and slipping into the third tier. No real plan, a variety of managers, coaches and playing styles and a mess of a squad not fit for purpose.
They do have some good quality in theory but strip it back to basics. It’s a fact that they need a new ‘keeper if they want to play how Ten Hag wants them to play. That’s a fundamental component of his system. Are they going to sell and replace De Gea in the next fortnight? I wouldn’t have thought so. So the plan falls down before they get out of their own box(like at Brentford, ba dum dum shhh).
It’s absolutely mental they went into a league campaign with a goalkeeper who can’t play out from the back. It’s a complete lack of planning and joined up thinking. It’s almost a dereliction of duty TBH.
They need a right back, at least one more centre back, left back, about three midfielders, at least two strikers. They still have Jones, Lindelof, Martial, Bailly, Dalot and Wan Bissaka hanging around. They’re nowhere near it. Varane has been a disaster, they’ve ruined Maguire, Ronaldo is a massive pain in the arsé and nigh-on impossible to manage, Rashford and Sancho haven’t played well for around a year, Fernandes has disappeared… he doesn’t even score penalties now.
Casemiro might be brave on the ball and get stuck into tackles but they need way, way more than him. And, much like Varane, you *think* you’re signing a top-class player but in reality he’s probably on his way down now. How many players at the top of their game does Madrid sell? Exactly.
It’s an absolute mess at Old Trafford. I can’t get enough of it.
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