The College Dropout

Aye and Pep likes a small squad so most get a fair amount of games. The only outfield players that didn't get much game time are Nathan Ake & Fernandinho tbf. You wouldn't want to replace him.

He rarely played CM. He first played as an AM, a literal 10.. I got pelters for saying he wasn't good enough technically to play 10 but people claimed he was Pardewed. Anyway that didn't work so moved him to RM. That was okayish. Reflects poorly on our management that Wijnaldum nor Sissoko rarely played CM for us.

Sissoko went from over rated to under rated by people on here. He tried his best and never hid so I always respect him for that.

Largely not true of City. Their fullbacks spend a lot of time in CM positions. And they have the wide forwards super wide a lot of the team to stretch play. Liverpool are different. The fullbacks are forward and wide. We seem to be going the Liverpool route.

Lampard is fortunate that he’s well liked over there. They’ll back him and give him time. His managerial career needs a good season next year imo. Anything too half would be good for them.

But that's a core part of shit football leadership. Make sure you hire yes men in senior positions who won't challenge or rock the boat too much. Nobody at Man U has been fired for a decade of underperformance. I think one dude is finally stepping down but that's it. Charnley wasn't qualfiied for his job but he got it and kept it.

The comparison is awful ownership. - Negligble investment in infrastructure - Leadership mismanagement at every level of the club (CEO all the way down to the football managers). Keeping poor performing leadership staff on the payroll - Using the club for own financial gain - at the detriment of the club (Ashley free sponsorship, SD deals. Glazers all that debt) - Owners minimum sporting targets are well below the minimum targets of the fans. And the owners manage to miss their own targets often enough. The details are different. Sure Man U have spent in the transfer market (and they only did this post-Fergie) but they did nothing to ensure those transfers would equate to good sustained performance on the pitch. I've heard journalists say "Ashley spent £140m in his last 2 seasons at the club. Something like a £90m net spend. What else do we want?" Leadership that tries to ensure money spent is equated to success on the pitch. We overspent on Joelinton and with Bruce in charge it any decent transfer investment would't have shown on the pitch. It's a strawman argument. There are are also worse owners than both in the football pyramid. At least those 2 owners sometimes hit their minimum targets.

Weird argument. If we were in Europe every year under Ashley, we would've been happy with him too.

You can. They've spent money the club has generated. You can argue they've sourced good commercial deals but they've also saddled that club with crazy debt. Their stadium is decrepid too.

Glazers are comparable tbh. The minimum requirements at Man U are different to us.

Joelinton's physicality is massive for us. I'd love us to sign a physical player that can really play. Those are £50m+ though.

I expect us to spend 150m-200m. It's going to be on a player-by-player basis.

All 3 were clearly talented players being utilised wrong. All 3 should have been CMs but played different roles for us. It’s rare fans are wrong about a striker or a CB

Would rather Everton get a slap on the wrist for breaking FFP. We can use it as a precedent.

Fair. Not seen much of him, just looking at his GS record.

We've done the same during this run largely.

Aye Jesus' salary is reportedly very affordable. Around 90-100k.

David Beckham was a world class player like.

The others will cost similar amounts. This is my opinion of him. Has the sniff in front of goal of finding his way on to the end of good opportunities and a solid finisher. Obviously good physicality in terms of pace and size. But never been impressed with his all round game. It’s the big reason I think Tuchel didn’t fancy him at all.

Might as well get Tammy. Hes the lowest risk imo.

I’ve defended his right to stay with PSG. But I’ll be disappointed as a Real fan and just for football that he’s stayed. How can a club make such an astronomical offer?

At 24 - Aguero had scored over 150 professional goals. Including 4 seasons scoring 17+ goals in La Liga and PL. By way of comparison - Nkuku has 62 professional goals. I use Aguero as a proxy for a legitimate wonderkid who has delivered to some degree already. I agree with the lad that says there's a dearth of top attacking talent at young ages. At 24/25 only Tammy, & Rashford spring to mind as players that have multiple seasons in a topflight club scoring 15+ goals in a season and are close to scoring 100+ goals as a pro. Schick is 26 and just scored more than 11 league goals for the first time in his career. Not to say they can't improve or whatever. But we are talking a lot of money. Obviously Vlahović, Mbappe & Haaland are out on their own and have already secured massive transfers.

Nah he's in with a good shout of being the best player in the world rn. Obviously playing in Ligue 1 for a club that got knocked out the CL in the 1st KO round doesn't help his argument. I'd love to see him at Liverpool. He'd score 50 goals. I do think being at PSG is bad for his development. The pressure at Real would be good for him.

I would really like an Aguero type signing. I don't know any that fit that bill though. APart from maybe Nunez.. David & Isak perhaps

Strong rumours of a Henderson loan. Like it as a loan if we have a decent option to buy.