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I agree that our starting 11 is maybe not far behind United but as a squad United is way above us even last season. Plus it is United, Pogba should have gotten a red card but nope nothing.

For me last season, they have the best squad yet they spend over 100 m again this season without selling anybody. So they are good.

Nah they are good. This team is loaded from top to bottom.

Yup, I am pretty sure if it were us, it is going to be red card. I thought there is a trend of giving red card this season, it looka like it is only for chelsea.

Two obvious yellow tackles by pogba, no red card. I think we need to start paying the referee

If we need a winger I'l take him, really good backup option. But we have boga and musonda so no thanks

This, They are the richest club in epl everyone know that, but if you start talking about how big you are it actually undermine your greatness, let people talk about it

Drinkwater is 27 and isn't close to his level. I don't know about drinkwater wether it is true or not but signing a 30 years old cm player mean we will have the same problem next season. He will have less problem in Italy since the pace is slower there.

I love team with philosophy and i really respect cruyff opinion but there are tons of politic involve in barca hierarchy so i cannot say wether he said it sincerely or to attack barca president. For me I agree and disagree. Your player dictate your philosophy not the other way aorund. If you want to focus on ball retention and technical ability sign technical player, you can't force team to play certain way if their personnel does not fit the model. MSN imo is not really the biggest problem, those three are deadly because they actually combine very well and very unselfish. The key is the midfield trio. Gomes - Rakitic Busquet Not sure how gomes fit that mid, unless the left winger is iniesta. If they really can sign both coutinho and dembele it wil help them big time. Play coutinho on iniesta role and dembele on neymar role. Problem solved. I am not a barca fan, but I watch some of their game from time to time because I just love the way Messi play. By far the best player I have ever seen.

I am still hoping for 2 more signings cm and wb but it looks it is going to be difficult. We don't need a brilliant player for CM because he is going to be just rotation player, not sure why we haven't signed any. Matuidi is not a option because he is 30. If we sign a 30 years old cm, we will have the same problem again next year. On wb side I understand that we need upgrade for wb, that is difficult at this point, good fb are very rare. Not sure who, we lose 3 players to city. I understand that walker and mendy are too expensive but we also lose Danilo which is is a shame. I thought he was dreadful last season defensively for real but he should be ok for wb position. People say ox, 1st ox need to say that he want to leave but I haven't heard any rumor so I don't expect any movement at all.

Funny I watched Barca last season once last season at 1st El clasico and I felt the same way. This team felt very2 imbalance, and have 0 clue how to build up an attack. It is like there is MSN for attack + everybody for defence. They only played well once Iniesta came in and link the "others" with MSN and suddenly they looks like a Barcelona team but if your key player is a 33 years old, you are screwed. He will not be able to perform at high level every game, you need the other midfield to help him.

Barcelona shows how not to rebuild a great team. They need to find replacement for xavi N Iniesta. So far they haven't replaced either. Instead they have Andre gomes and now Paulinho. I don't understand why play with physical midfield where your philosophy is on ball retention. Valverde lineup vs madrid also did not make sense, it is literally the same as Argentina where messi has to be creator, goalscorer, ball bringer, he is 30, there is no way he can do that. Compare this Barca team to RM who has Kroos modric plus Isco. These 3 + casemiro are the one that make this team so special. I will play Isco over any of the bbc

He is 30

It is a going to be a long night. Just pray nobody in our team make any late tackle, I have no clue what is red, what is yellow anymore

I agree bar the two manchester clubs who can splash cash without any repercussions, we have done better compare to pool N spurs. Not sure what kind of antics are you talking about. If you are talking about conte complaining about lack of players, you should have listened how many time he was asked that questions in every interview

I agree that by going back to back 5 we looks confused but at the same time, you can see the red card affect the mentality big time. People say player should be more composed, but when you get red card 3 consecutive games, it is hard to be compose

Don't get me wrong it is different to Arsenal time but you can see that spurs haven't brought in a single player. They will bring Sanchez after selling walker for more. They pretty much does not spend any money this transfer windows. Building stadium does impact your ability in transfer window. Btw talking about RM and Barcelona. They haven't spent much either this season. Yes I know they have a good squad already but there is no expensive signing from both eventhough both have received considerable amount of money from Morata and Neymar sale. Maybe it does have an impact even in the planning stage. OK now back to us. I don't like selling to rivals. But if this is how teams operate then we may not like it but maybe we are trying to be sustainable on within which what ffp is which what if I am not wrong Mou complained about when he was here. FFP may sound nice but it simply means that the big traditional team like united, real, barca and bayern will always have much bigger transfer budget compare to the smaller team. Under Mou united have spent over 200 million in nett spend over 2 seasons, city should be around 300 million nett under pep. I'll be surprised if we can do that.

Spurs have just sold walker to city for 50 m. I think they accept it because they are building new stadium similar to what Arsenal did while they were building emirates. For us, I don't know, are we building a new stadium hence we need to save money or this is how the team is going to operate from now on.

This is the problem not the sale. Where is the cm that we need or a wb. This is what happen when the two teams that had the best squad last season also spent the most nett spend this season. The Manchester clubs have spent over 100m each nett this season. It is true that there is a big 6 in epl but not in term of spending

They had everyting. Wc targetman ibra, fast striker rashford, fast winger lingard+martial, creative am mata+mhyky, wc mid - pogba, all around mid - herrera. Mous has so many option and none of them were bad. 6 th was not acceptable, last year united team should have been least a contender.

This, people thought matic is scrap. He is a starting midfielder for 2 title winning squad. He is a good dm, nobody deny that. Conte wanted him to stay but he wanted to leave, he is 29 with only juve as rumored suitor and juve will never offer 40 m, only team like united can offer such amount for 29 years old player.

The criticism came because of his price tag but Pogba was excellent. This united teams has brilliant squad, I even rated them as the best squad last season yet they spend over 100m nettt this season. Last year this united team underachieved big time, if Mourinho name is not mou but moyes or bob, he will be gone by the end of last season.

Not sure why people are complaining about matic. He was great for us last season but this is a player that want to leave the club not sure why, n there is only one team that is willing to shell out 40 m for a 29 years old player

Nah, pogba was good even last season. He just have tendency to do too much

I have no idea joe hart is palying for west ham