PietroRico:
I once defended Evans after that mk dons game where he was horrible and I was nearly killed. Small thing remain, he for dey part and parcel of this city juggernaut and is almost certain to make the move to city or even Arsenal in the coming windows.

We had no business selling Evans when someone like smalling was still earning salary here.

SIRcumalot:
we won't have martial for today's game according to jose.

PietroRico:
for real?

elrony:

elampiro:


Nobody thought City would win almost all matches. Remember just before the transfer window ended, having seen United were winning 4-0, Guardiola rushed to buy more players to strengthen his team. He is mostly lucky the players perfectly fit in.

elampiro:


You could only mention defenders. While Jone Stone had been gathering experience in the past few years, Jones, Young and Smalling have been going to sick bed. Valencia is the only stable guy. Jones is having his first season as a real centre back defender. Stop adding Shaw abeg. Someone who has been out for two years.

Mata, Herrera and Fellaini are average players. None is up to Silva. Another quality player Pep inherited.

It means Pep inherited :

Silva
Aguero
De Bruyne
Sterling
Fernadinho
Kompany

They are still the bedrock of the team. Today we talk about Pogba as the bedrock of our team. A player brought in by Mourinho. Only two players I can say have quality+experience as the six City players above, DDG and Valencia.

PietroRico:
Valencia is part of why that right flank is so dead. For all his defensive solidity, he still doesn't know how to cross.
Doesn't know when to hit an early cross or even how.
Doesn't know when to hit it first time, I have lost count of the number of times he delays first time crosses till the opening is closed and ends up just passing back after dallying or just runs down the bye line to smack the defender.

Smalling is too limited and would not make the 1st team of a serious club in Europe or any top 6 in England for that matter except maybe arsenal. I have always thought Evans to be better.

Young, lol. That he is playing ahead of Shaw is enough reason for that man to take a long hard look in the mirror and reevaluate his life to see where it is going wrong.
His competition is blind, darmian and young and he is struggling for gametime. Says a lot really.

The only person I truly rate there is Jones but he has his fitness demons

Adisaowalla:


Those players they spent money on - how many of them are still at the club, let alone contributing to their currrent success as we speak?

ctuagent007:
Abeg tell me the players cos if I remember correctly he got all his players before the season started but wanted Evans & Sanchez which he didn't get.



Elampiro, do u know that 89m + 75m will get utd at least 4-5 good solid players & not the 2 players Mou went for It's just like me praising Kloop for spending 75m on Van Dijk when that amount will get him 2 better defenders for the price of one

patrickmuf:
I'm only trying to disprove the fact that Pep met more quality thus it is easier for him so if you're doing any comparison, it's what Pep met vs what Mou met...
Smalling is not world class but over a season, I will take him over Kompany.
I'll still have Young over Delph
Valencia is a RB remember, not RW, he'd be doing much better if he had a proper RW in front of him and to be honest he is among the best in the division.
De Gea is world class.
Mata though not as good as Silva can do at least 80% of what Silva does under the right system (His numbers at Chelsea are a pointer).

Leyqute:


Not sorry to butt in here. 89+75m quids won't get Utd 4-5 "good solid" players as you said, especially in the current transfer window. At most we'll get 3 good players if Ed has a PhD in haggling. If you disagree list the 4-5 good players that amount will fetch. "Solid good" players don't come easy, and they are expensive.

The onus lies on the coach to work with what he has presently and hope to fine tune his team in future transfer windows. No top EPL coach landed all their transfer targets this season.

patrickmuf:


Valencia is a RB remember, not RW, he'd be doing much better if he had a proper RW in front of him and to be honest he is among the best in the division.

funlord:



I hope you know that Valencia is originally a right winger? It was his lack of productivity from the flanks that saw him converted to a full back...as Patrice evra and Gary neville and Dennis irwin have proven in the past a good fullback should be able to create and confine in equal measure! Build attacks and prevent them! Valencia has regressed totally as regards to his attacking instincts and that is not the sort of limitation in a full back that Manchester united requires at this point in time...he has been here for over 10 years and still cant really dribble and crosses like a trainee! He is a good player but can and should do better

funlord:


Those your terminator and Roberto pictures drove me to do this. Now this is my homie jide bankole a former omo eko who now lives in your neck of the woods..we were in the same house in boarding school, dated the same group of honeys and our crew all had our beds next to each other in a section of the hostel we created known as the red corner. This dude used to do 100 press ups every morning before hitting the showers back then and he now does stuff like this for a living!

Can this physique be gotten au naturel or do you think there is some prof x sorcery at work here? Me and am don argue tire...

elrony:


If we no sign at least 2 new RB for Summer.. I go know say this club no serious.

elrony:


If we no sign at least 2 new RB for Summer.. I go know say this club no serious.

google1:
Mirror - Manchester United 'close to agreeing £31million deal' to bring Barcelona midfielder Andre Gomes to Old Trafford

afrodoc2:


Unless we are going to sign 7 new players no way should we devote all that money into signing just RBs. We need to sign at least 1 RW,1 forward, 2 midfielders, and 1 LB BEFORE we think of that RB position that Valencia, Young, TFM can play.
Not saying we can't upgrade there but there is more urgent need in other places.

P.S I can't believe i am saying this, but with the way we have struggled lately Young would be better at RB than Valencia and we can then play Shaw at LB. That full back tandem gives the team better balance.

Leyqute:


Not sorry to butt in here. 89+75m quids won't get Utd 4-5 "good solid" players as you said, especially in the current transfer window. At most we'll get 3 good players if Ed has a PhD in haggling. If you disagree list the 4-5 good players that amount will fetch. "Solid good" players don't come easy, and they are expensive.

The onus lies on the coach to work with what he has presently and hope to fine tune his team in future transfer windows. No top EPL coach landed all their transfer targets this season.

funlord:



All those feeder boys sef dey tire me? It's like some of them want to be reserves forever! Look at that small boy in liverpool doing things? At least threaten all these senior pros positions small! Unfortunately the only guy in the reserves that is threatening all man is angel gomes but his position is over loaded with number 10's and jose is looking at next season rather than now!

CapitalCee:


Dash Juventus miki and 70m, we need quality players not passengers that lacks fight and bottle. We need to rival any club for the signature of Sanchez and Ozil sharp sharp. Mata I think should stay, he has some quality. Also we need to trigger the release clause of Samuel umtiti, [/b]and sell smalling, if he can't bench a passenger like Cahill in the NT, he has no business in Man Utd, Rojo or Jones one will need to go. I prefer Jones though. Blind and Damian are useless, Blind should go to Groningen while Damian can go Chievo Verona.

OgbaEwon:
Another loss for this useless team today...

I will burn down this thread!!

With a useless striker like Lukululuku..

elrony:

elrony:
I've been itching to ask, can any of us here sanction a 75mil deal for a CB at United?


I for one won't !!!

patrickmuf:
Kompany? I'd take Smalling/Jones over him for that fact Smalling is guaranteed to play more.
Valencia for all his shortcomings is as good as any RB in the league especially as it has to do with defending, I'm sure if he played under Pep his attacking contribution will double.
De Gea is world class just as De Bruyne.
Mata though not as good as Silva isn't a slush on his own, he can do just as well in the right system.

Sterling isn't world class no matter how you look at it, he is not better than Martial.
Stones is a Pep signing so it doesn't really matter.

Aguero is very good but from Pep's body language he doesn't fancy him...

So if we want to talk genuine quality and experience, you'd be listing;
Aguero
KDB
Silva
Fernandinho

And for us, you have:
De Gea
Valencia
Mata

Kompany, Jones, Martial, Sterling etc are all good but are hampered in one way or another, injuries, in experience,