Manchester United Thread 25/26 - Teamtalk/Transfers/Gossip Mod Note in OP 26.09.24

I'd look to sell someone else. Someone that isn't first choice at the moment.

I'm not arguing amad can't be improved upon. I just dint understand how you can look at how we attack without him, and think yeah let's get rid completely so when we rotate we're right back the rubbish we see now.

Improve the squad by turning first choices into squad players.

As opposed to your plan of only having 11 players and sticking with the already not good enough squad players to rotate in.

And, imo, amad is the best wb we have. So getting rid of the best player in a 4 man rotation and not looking at the other 3 first World be bizarre.

I'd be aiming for a lwb buy before rwb.

Bloody hell, all is not well in the Spurs camp.

You could argue that it wasn't as it seemed based on the players, but the death stare Frank gave them afterwards was something else.

I get the sentiment. But is RWB (Amad) not fairly far down the list of positions that need addressing in the starting XI? Positions that are more immediately problematic.

LWB

CBx2 (at least)

CDM (possibly x2 assuming Bruno leaves soon)

ST

Whatever dalot is sold for is pure psr money at this stage, so you could start there given we also have mazraoui who can play both sides and also in back 3. You would certainly be looking to sell there first given he doesn't need to be replaced

Zirzkee is another who can bring in some money probably get money back on him

even going by what you are saying why wouldn't you be selling mainoo before you sell Amad he isn't even playing.

Even if money in is your only motivation there are better places to go in the squad and that not even mentioning potentially selling Bruno to Saudi

How much do you think we are getting for Amad? I think he can be fantastic for us but I don't see clubs queuing up to pay huge money for him.

The fee we get would basically be spent on getting his replacement, because we absolutely would need to replace him. So why do that?

I'm less concerned about the money anyway, we were supposed to be broke last season but then spent 250m in the summer. My bet is that they can afford a few wing backs without selling the fine china.

The lad got caught out defensively today because the back 3 were out of position. He shouldn't have had to cover GW.

He got us the draw scoring goal with a beauty of a strike and hand the intelligence to follow up at the end only for it off the line

I'd much rather a goal scoring/craleating chances wb than a pure more defensive minded.

Especially when it's a 3 cb system.

Hes done nothing wrong

For myself, I would have been happy enough to pass up on Cunha and just play Amad up front, I think there is goals and workrate galore in him if they just give him the jersey and play him up the field. Then there would have been 60m+ for midfielders/wing backs.

Playing him in a deeper defensive role like the new Antonio Valencia is a waste in my opinion.

What have I woken up to. Amad isn't good enough? Cunha and M'Buemo shouldn't have been bought? These ideas are so batshit I cant even comprehend making an argument against them

The improvement imo is largely down to much fewer games. Only need to concentrate on PL games which is a luxury few sides in the top half of the league get.

We don’t even have the distraction of the Carabao cup.

Mbeumo of course is an excellent signing. And he gives us so much more in attack. But we continue to leak sloppy goals which is a worry. And our away form is not good

When you have two players that are not good enough for their position, you sell the worst one for a new XI starter and keep the other as back up.

Yes there are other considerations, value of player being sold, versatility etc, but unless you replace both at the same time (not the best strategy) you upgrade the lesser player. You can move on the second player the following year if he doesn't work out as a back-up.

Somewhat like we did with Onana/Bayindir.