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TrebleChamp:
I hope he rest Fernandes, Rashford, Fred, McTominay, Wan Bissaka, Shaw, Bailey, Degea, Maguire, Cavani and Greenwood.....

If we chop 4-0 i hope you no go vex. We are playing defending league champions o, not league 1 team. Liverpool will field a very strong team.

Skimpledawgg:
elrony is a fowl, I go deal with am.

Bruno is too a fine player to turn ozwor, or wetin you think? Ozwor or injury for Bruno?

No let am backfire o. Na the last you do backfire go nab Harvetz. Elrony get back to sender.

Skimpledawgg:
As in.

Na to carry em name go elrony white garment prayer house for thorough exorcism

Good idea. You want the person who created the problem to solve it.

nihilistjnr:
Bruhhhhhhhh

I won't be surprised to learn that we paid for this guy in beetcoin.

The Kepa transfer just reeks of money laundering

There are many dubious deals in football but is unusual for them to be the big money deals.

TalabiAudu:


I follow you laugh.

Kepa is comical

Who scouted him?

What is his unique skill or strong point?

What is his redeeming feature?

How did he cost so much?

Na how much dem buy this Kepa again?

The guy is pants.

GloryIsaac:
I highly doubt the possibility of Sancho flopping at United, because the vacuum he’s too fill is very similar to the one Bruno filled, which was i clamored for Bruno’s signing back in the summer.

Can’t start going over my reasons again, anyone can dig and find it lol

Bruno was already here and had already filled his own space when we were trying to get Sancho.

Sorry read that had joining not flopping.

Anybody can flop o. But that should not stop the board from signing great talent.

Panther7:
Amad no dey squad

Oh ok. Was looking forward to seeing him. James or Mata then.

Expert17:
Spot on!!

You go sabi coach pass Lampard

Anybody wey no sabi coach pass Lampfraud should hide his face.

patrickmuf:
Perfect...

In left back, I hope Telles starts today or on Wednesday...

Shaw and AWB should definitely start today cos they are better defenders than the other alternatives, and we will be facing Salah and Mane.

Against Sheffield you can start Telles for his superior attacking ability.

patrickmuf:
Liverpool plays Spurs away on Thursday so, I don't expect Klopp to start his best legs...

We on the other hand play Sheffield Utd on Wednesday one of the weakest sides in the EPL...I expect this to play into our hands...

He needs to start McFred against Liverpool's energetic midfield and start MatPog against Sheffield's potentially bus-parking style.

Bruno on the bench against Liverpool. Start either Pogba or VDB in attacking midfield. The defense picks itself with the only question being Bailly or Lindelof.
Cavani CF, Martial LWF, Rashford RWF with Greenwood and Amad on the bench.

Nezzjnr:
It was funny seeing some of them getting turned on over a mere goal and an assist he got yesterday

If person no wear paynt e dey easy to turn am on. Na Madrid fans i pity. Some of those ones are still in denial.

Nezzjnr:
See you in 2022 lads

Come off it. That is a Chelshit legend you are dragging through the mud o.

handelex:
Virgil Van Dijk will travel with the Liverpool team to face Manchester United tomorrow. The centre back feels he's "built different" and can play some minutes at Old Trafford.

[@DaveOCKOP]


Hmmmm... Saw this on Twitter

Fake news. It is Virgil Van Dikj not Virgil Van Wolverine.

ChristineC:
I think Haaland has a release clause of around £50m-£60m, wasn't that the real reason Ole backed out of that deal?
we should still go in for him and see if we can do a favorable deal.
Mason's body language this season have been poor. let's hope Martial isn't his role model.
I made an earlier comment here about his poor commitment to pressing the opponent's defenders and I think someone countered that it's a team defect.
even the last goal Pogba scored, you could see he wasn't arsed in the slightest.
Cavani and Bruno carry on with their press anyway and whenever they're both on the pitch, it is fairly productive even when their colleagues are happy to just lazy about upfront.
hopefully Diallo and Pellistri offer more in the way of workrate because obviously these guys have very little competition and need a real kick up their backsides.

I believe Haaland's release clause can be activated in 2022. Haaland still has to develop his game a bit in terms of link up play and involvement with play but his finishing and box awareness/movement are already top notch and he has a killer/winning mentality.

olabode89:
@afrodoc2 and other guys

If you are watching the Assnal FA cup, look out for Ibrahima Diallo. He might be the next top player that Soton will blood.

He was super tidy and impressive against Loserpool, showed close control and very good press resistance for a young midfielder.

Yes he looks decent so far. I first noticed him cos he looks like his elder brother who is at PSG.

taiwoliu:
I find the bolded completely out of place. Nowhere in my statement did I attack or mock him. If you critique my choice of words properly, you'd see the mockery is actually aimed at Dortmund for their stubbornness during the last transfer window.
Every dig at Sancho on this board is indirectly aimed at Dortmund.

It's surprising how you misunderstood my message.

Apologies. Clearly i misunderstood your post.

patrickmuf:
Dortmund lost yesterday...If they fail to qualify for the UCL coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic, then they'll beg to have us come in with a bid for Sancho...$50m or less...

We take BOTH Sancho and Haaland for $120m, the same amount they wanted for Sancho alone.

eph12:
Dortmund were being unreasonable with their demands. It's different. I understand your point though

Dortmund that refused to sell Dembele even though Barca were offering 100m Euro. Dembele had to go on strike in order to force the move and that is not in every player's nature, and is even a red flag.
If a player goes on strike in order to come to your club what stops him from going on strike in order to leave your club in a couple of years.

Dortmund CEO Watzke is on record as saying Sancho's loss of form this season was because he had mentally left the club for Manchester United. This should end all this imaginary and concocted talk that he didn't want to come to United.
The more important debate is whether Sancho was worth all that trouble or not in the first place. Is he actually that good or was he just stat padding in the Bundesliga.

pharod:
Its like I know this club. Their color is blue and their name is synonymous with dry gin.

This is the 2,375th you have said this year and you have not lied yet.

Nezzjnr:
The club is still holding him back I guess

I heard they have told him he can leave. Rojo as well.

Dr Jones can’t leave cos he is injured again.

eph12:
Never heard that Pogba was putting pressure on the club to let him go. Complaints have always been about his attitude on the pitch and contribution to the team structure. Well maybe that happened, I didn't hear about it. Especially as there was no bid from any other club. Or did Juve or Madrid make a bid?

You have not read any of Pogba’s agents countless comments asking the club to let him go? Or you think the agent kept making those comments without Pogba’s approval and didn’t get sacked?

You also actually missed the main point. We would have crucified Pogba or any of our players if they had gone on strike or become rebellious in order to force a move so why would you want another club’s player to do the same.

A player does not have to become disgruntled and force a move in order to show he wants to move to a particular club.

In 2019 Bruno was anxious to move but when the deal collapsed he waited until 2020.

In 2008 Ronaldo wanted to move to Real his dream club but SAF convinced him to wait until 2009.

Neither of those guys forced a move to clubs they were desperate to go to so i don’t know why you expect a different approach from Sancho.

patrickmuf:
Afrodoc2, if we sign Sancho and he flops, men go find you reach Australia...

Anyone can flop. There is a club that went naked to negotiation table and still bought 3 flops.

My point is that people should stop conflating issues.
The argument over whether Sancho is really good enough to improve our 1st team should be different from the argument over whether he was to blame for the deal collapsing.

Finally i am a United fan first and foremost and i don’t Stan any player (apart from maybe Baresi, Keane, Zidane lol). Right now my hope is that Amad and/or Pellistri solve our RW problems and we don’t have to go back to Sancho.
Hopefully that ship has sailed.

Nezzjnr:
Yeah he has

Oh Poor Lingard

Lingard can go and join his mate Hazard in La Liga. Let him give space for our youth. Amad, Elanga and Pellistri are waiting to have an opportunity on the wings and Mejbri is also developing nicely in midfield.

eph12:
Doc sancho wasn't even keen on joining United according to reports. He could have put pressure on Dortmund after seeing the unreasonable amount Dortmund was quoting and unwilling to negotiate

You guys hate it when Pogba and his agent put pressure on the club to allow him to leave but want other clubs’ players to do the same thing so they can move to Man Utd.

And what good has Pogba’s pressure done in terms of forcing the move anyway?

We can as well say Bruno didn’t want to come when he didn’t force a move in the summer of 2019 after all the links.

A more reasonable debate to have is how good or bad Sancho really is as a player. That is a fair and logical debate to have.

However trying to pin the the collapse of the deal on him is all kinds of wrong.

eph12:
Doc sancho wasn't even keen on joining United according to reports. He could have put pressure on Dortmund after seeing the unreasonable amount Dortmund was quoting and unwilling to negotiate

Those reports are not corroborated by what he actually did and by what Tier 1 transfer journalists said.

He wanted to come and was hopeful a deal would be agreed on. He didn’t want to rock the boat or cause problems for his club which is exactly what many have criticized Pogba for doing with regards to his Madrid links.

The fact that Sancho looked disinterested and out of sorts for the first 2-3 months of the season is very good evidence that he was disappointed about not completing the deal. It is not until you attack your club in public before you show that you want to leave.

Panther7:
Hopefully he solves our problem in the long term but what happens to the short term?

He might solve it short term as well. I am hearing he has been very impressive in training.
We will just have to see how he does when he gets his opportunity.

By long term I only meant he would not be a short term fix like Zlatan and Cavani for example.

taiwoliu:
so they had to combine 2 seasons for it to look impressive abi? Tainkiu, but we no do

He has had a difficult season yet he is 2nd to Thomas Muller in assists in the league. Getting him would have been like getting a Bruno on the RW.

Some of you United fans are too emotional. How the anger that should have been directed at the Dortmund board for being unreasonable somehow got directed at Sancho is unbelievable.

He was not the one that placed the huge price tag on himself. The deal collapsed because of Dortmund not Sancho.

Luckily i am hearing rumors that Amad has been shining in training and would likely get his debut within the next week.
Hopefully he solves our RW problems long term.

hoopLA:
Let's pray it doesn't come to that,

But the trust he has in some players no be here sha.

Shaw over Telles is one example,though Shaw seems to have stepped up.

Overrelliance on people like Rashford and insisting on playing Martial who hasn't clicked so far.


What do you think of Traore? Do you think he can contribute meaningfully to the title chase?

X-factor. Nobody knows just how ready he is. This season might be too early for him physically. They insisted on him coming over this January to get a close look at him even if it is in training and then decide if Sancho in the summer would still be necessary.

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