The Skipper

I like HMS, but I've never seen him as the type to be the spearhead of a team? I know he can play up front but isn't he like Schurrle in the fact that he operates better from the flanks where he can start his runs from deep and utilise that cracking long shot he has?Firmino would be an interesting buy too actually, even though he is more of a 10 than a 9, but he's impressed me when he had to fill in up front. His link up play is obviously very good because of his number 10 background. Would be an interesting project. Destro, haven't seen much of tbh...

I asked the same thing... You don't want to know the answer.

False alarm everyone!

City's group is ridiculous again btw... Good for us.

Couldn't have asked for a nicer group.

Not injury prone doesn't mean injury free...

He isn't injury prone. It's just unfortunate.

Would you completely revise that if we brought in a quality 2nd choice? What striker would you sign if given the choice?

Cut him some slack... He won that corner in 2012 remember?!

Fuck it. Streaking down my street if this happens.

£18.2m - £10m = £8.2m on transfer fee left. Wages = £10m -> £6m of that being discarded as compensation so we save £4m there. So subtracting that £4m from £8.2m it seems like neither is the case and we're rather just losing £4.2m for this year. I'm very sleepy so this might be completely wrong .

£40m though? I'll take a Falcao loan definitely (feel like he needs to prove himself after that injury) but I don't think I'd spend £40m on him. £20m loan fee is bloody excessive as well.

https://twitter.com/carlolaudisa/status/504771424633241600 Vaguely translated it says they're looking at Mitroglou as a back up if Torres deal doesn't go through I guess.

Not necessarily. It could also mean that we'll be looking to sell Torres with more haste, which is more of the case IMO.

Eh?

£10m apparently, with a £6m pay off to Torres... I'll take it.

Definitely top 3.

We need a new striker.

Old tweet.

Overrated? He's underrated. He's not rated by that many tbh.

Neville really likes Chelsea in general. It's odd.

Van Gaal is being very naive atm, you can't play this type of open football with players like Evans and Anderson still about. You can see the philosophy he's trying to develop but the players aren't there for it at all. United need at least 3 more top players in my book. 1 CM, 2 defenders.

I disagree. I think he's technically superior to Cavani and Costa (even though both are technically good and have good technique, Benzema is better), and when Higuain was at Madrid Benzema was clearly the better striker and more favoured, even though Gonzalo was very good there, so that speaks for itself. But then again, I've been watching Benzema quite closely for like 4/5 years, and I really like his playing style so I guess it just depends on the type of striker you like to watch.

Haha wow, that truly is incredible Barbs