Duppy Conqueror

At LB can see shades of Ashley, can see him having similar trajectory if he were to focus on that position moving forward, even tho for me he has the skills to be good at upto 4 positions. I like how different he plays between LB and CB.he doesnt look like a LB being shoehorned into a position he's not comfortable in.he adapts his game to look very natural there.(he started out as a CB and continues to play there when required) I don't really want us to sign a CB* this window it's just nice to have the added option when a much more needed LB can do both. * Scalvini if he didnt have those recent injuries i'd be all over..wouldnt be against Guehi rejoining but otherwise think we should work with what we got.

Hope the priority behind the scenes is Hato.other positions have multiple good options.someone that can play LB let alone both LB and CB at a high level is much rarer.

Unless he's got Lupus he shouldnt need 3 weeks to complete a read & sign.

I thought the only football fans that were worried about Man U were their own...

Guy is a beautiful machine but machines breakdown at some point.gonna be tricky to find a good deputy for him but for me is the number 1 priority. Would love Hato,we could try to convince him that switching between LB and LCB would give him a regular flow of games.Veiga would have been good too but seems he's not prepared to roll up his sleeves and get stuck in.

First 2 have cost me in the hundreds of thousands to watch ,the latter i've watched free on DAZN. Different priorities..

For straight sell this summer anything over 40m for NJ would be a brucie bonus. failing that,a loan to a german club where he would basically play against similar defenses than he did against Spurs the last 2 seasons for 90% of the games. Killing it and raising his transfer fee whilst not really improving.

Good old Arse.not quite the mentally checked out Gallas and 10m for Ash King Cole style robbery but i'll take it.

I'm not too worried as it's not like a European cup finsl or a Premier league decider. But main hope we probsbly have is the french eat a few too many dodgy snails and bullfrogs..

Cheap Kuntz still probably haven't spent the money we gave them for Matic let alone Luiz or Enzo. Should be a player added for that fee.

Madueke and Petrovic money would pay for Hato and a quality starting keeper. Then we at most might need a quality starting RCB (although we do have plenty of options there already) Then just outgoings for me. We need 3 options at every position but no way we'll keep 36 players in squad so good that we go for players that can play multiple positions and always have cobham for a crisis.

Tournament with the heat giving me some Mexico '86 flashbacks,especially with Palmer having the Lineker wrist bandage..

Team i'd pick though wouldnt expect would be Sanchez Acheampong Tosin Chalobah Cucurella Caicedo Enzo Santos Palmer Pedro Neto If 4-3-3 or George for Santos if 4-2-3-1/3-3-3-1

With them being abit evasive in what the injury issues are with Lavia can't really tell if he's permafooked like Wesley. I wonder if he's diabetic or got long covid though because his healing time is slow as fook from whatever he gets. where as JT would get semi-decapitated and just sit out the morning training session.

Hope there's a decent sell on clause but either way better to sell players Maresca don't want because the lady is not for turning...

Hope we turn them down and they take Gusto instead.Gusto is a lost cause for me with way Maresca uses the fullbacks.but is a quality traditional RB and there he can shine again then either comes back to us if Maresca era ends or can be sold for better fee than he would by another season playing in the role he badly struggles. One which Acheampong is already better at.

Why is George being discounted as a W/AM option? If he went on loan i'd fully expect him to produce as much or more than most of the players we linked with now. But if we loan him out then he comes back into an even more flooded position group,plus in most cases loan outs end up being put up for sale when they return regardless of how they performed on loan. Just keep him with us.

Whilst there's probably alot of clubs that would like to have Noni.i see only a few that he would accept a transfer to due to him breaking through with the national side and a world cup fast approaching...i'd accept a reasonable offer and reinvest it in defensive/keeper positions. With the sanctions we need to move away from the luxury/overkill additions like yet more W/AM's.Neto,Estevao,Gittens and George with others able to fill in is enough.LB depth is the most critical need. then Keeper and then CB.

Only LB we been linked with was Hato.but all links gone cold lately.maybe heat up after CWC. It should be priority really.all other positions have multiple options.

With his "wayward" pops criminal history too... If he delivers on the field tho like most i'd let slide what he does with his finger and thumb.

Really sad news..Spanish roads like most in the med,i wouldnt drive on.first time i was in Spain was during the '82 World cup.went on a coach trip between games, going up a winding mountain road,traumatized for life.

What troubles Gusto would trouble him. We got Acheampong who can play the specific role better than both and arguably even James.

Jackson had Anelka vibes when he arrived but in two years never became more than a Kalou. Then last few months being sent off more times than he scores.

The Geordie Mafia thought they got their own "Roman era" when they had the takeover,3 or 4 years later,they celebrated 1 Milk Cup like the Greeks celebrated winning the euros.

I'd be fine with us keeping Noni for another year but also i only ever considered him a short term 2-3 year signing so for a decent profit i'd be ok with that too..we would still have Neto,Gittens,George,Estevao with Quenda coming next year and other players in our current squad that can do a good shift out wide if required. Likes of Jackson,Noni and a few others are more experienced than some we have brought in but do they really use that experience?