Pizy

Mourinho and Olé. Two defense first, slow, plodding football coaches. They both basically send out their teams to be solid defensively, counter attack, and hope their star man (Like Bruno or Hazard) produce some magic. Think he would have much more freedom to express his qualities in a more attacking, front foot side who like to dominate the ball.

I would take Pogba at Chelsea in less than a second. He was probably the best player I saw at the Euro’s playing alongside a certain N’golo Kante. He always looks much better for France than for United. He would be incredible under a proper coach with actual ideas and tactics unlike Solskjaer’s turgid setup.

United would be extremely dumb to sell Pogba. So hope that happens.

So our most likely team this season will be: Think that’s a team that will be extremely dominant with the ball as well as extremely athletic and pacey. But we’ll still have to worry about goals. Getting so few from all 3 CM’s will continue to be an issue.

And sadly played out of position at fullback so we didn’t get to judge him properly.

Between Konate, Upamecano, and Koundé I wonder how experts would rank these 3 French CB’s. All pretty much the same age, all about to step up to massive clubs. Upamecano had somewhat of a drop in performances this past season, didn’t he?

So Lukaku strongly and definitively ruled out. Likewise Lewandowski. Kane is impossible for obvious reasons. Griezmann’s wages are apparently so stratospheric that he’s a no-go. Plus he only wants to live in Spain. Ironically, Haaland is the only one that hasn’t been 100%, stone cold locked to stay. It’s always “well, we don’t expect him to leave.” Or “we’re planning with Erling.” As though if a massive enough bid comes in and Haaland indicates he’s willing to go they’ll at least listen. Still, not looking likely for any of the very top crop. Maybe there’s something creative the club have lined up as a contingency. Or perhaps we just try for Rice and wait til next summer for a striker.

Reading the replies to any of Romano’s tweets regarding Koundé today and they’re filled with angry Real Madrid supporters who are annoyed that they aren’t replacing Varane with him. They all want him in their team and they’re the ones watching La Liga every week and know how talented he is. If he’s good enough to be considered for Real Madrid he’s good enough for Chelsea.

If we had been hearing rumblings for weeks that we were in contact via back channels or something I’d still think there is a chance for Haaland. Like with Havertz last summer we heard simmering for weeks and weeks. Haaland has said himself that he hadn’t even been in contact much with his agent. That combined with multiple people like Romano and Fjortoft saying there’s been zero contact between us and BVB makes me think this is just a no-go. Too late in the window and surely too big of a transaction to just rush through. If we had attacked the situation shortly after the window opened and given BVB the entire summer to identify and sign replacements we perhaps could’ve done a deal. Doesn’t seem realistic to complete a 150m+ deal in a couple of days.

We might have the worst new kit in the league this season. Christ, that’s awful. 🤢🤢🤢

It really is abysmal. Hate it. The yellow along the sides kills it completely.

Obviously most people would prefer a monstrous Koulibaly or VVD sized monster at the back but I don’t think it’ll be a huge issue. In fact, I’d miss Zouma’s height more in attack than in defense if we sell him.

You know a player is highly rated when rival fans of ours are saying “that’s a great signing, tbf.” 😂 Usually everyone calls a rival signing shit no matter who they are.

As I said a little while ago, being great in the air isn’t all about height. Thiago Silva is on the short side for a CB and he has been fantastic in the air his whole career due to his superb positioning, his athleticism, and his great vertical leap. Koundé is shorter than Silva but he’s got all the other tools to overcome that.

Koundé + a midfielder sounds realistic if this rumor from Romano is accurate. Then address the striker issue either in Jan or a year from now. Risky as hell but that seems the most likely outcome now.

Short for a CB for sure, but as mentioned a week or two ago he’s built like a tank and is excellent on the ball. If we do buy him I’m not really sure where he plays this coming season, though. Unless Silva’s game time is much more limited to keep him fresh.

True, but it’s not like Zouma is some small time player. He’s a full fledged France international who has played well in some big games for us. And he’s still relatively young as well. The club really shouldn’t be thinking of selling him for less than like £35m. Some midtable PL club would probably pay that.

I know Ben White is 3 years younger, but if he’s worth £50m how is the price being thrown around for Zouma only €25m? Unless we’re just desperate to get rid of him which I doubt.

Why would a keeper that’s only 29 agree to join us and basically never see the pitch? Strange. Anyways, will be straight up trolling at this point if after a total lack of transfer movement the club announce a 3rd keeper as our first (and possibly only) signing. If I were them I’d wait to announce that one until later 😂

Yeah, lots of people on Twitter are acting as though Varane is VVD or prime John Terry which he isn’t close to.

Don’t think anyone’s worried about Varane on his own. People just wonder why United, who already finished above us somewhat comfortably, are plugging the few holes they had in their team whilst we haven’t yet. Is Varane as amazing as lots of people are hyping up? No. But he’s way better than Lindelof.

We’ll probably sign Danny Ings, Josh King, or Jermaine Defoe minutes before the deadline at this rate. 😄

Or the CL victory has genuinely convinced Roman and the transfer chiefs that Tuchel is a miracle worker and can challenge for the title without a single signing. The fact that there’s been ZERO advanced negotiation or news of bids for anyone with only 17 days until the start of the season kind of tells me this is what’s happening.

Yes. Something has to happen soon…….right?

Feeling good about this coming week. 🙃