Jokes aside. Wan Bissaka could have been so much better with a much better coaching structure.
He was always a limited player. It was nuts that Utd thought they were getting a player who could help them play front foot attacking football.
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When they first signed him there was a bunch fo talk about ābeing a winger in the youth teamā at Palace. This also totally ignored that Palace were the team who moved him back to RB and that anyone who saw him play U18 football at Palace as a winger did not see a Premier League calibre player.
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Exactly. My United backing mate here is hailing this signing and the Zirkzee signing as proof that United is now being run by real football people, and have a proper structure in place. Also, because theyāre selling off deadwood.
Iām trying to decide if I chide him now for buying another young striker that hasnāt shown anything in a big 5 league, and dropping ā¬60M on an 18 year old CB, or wait for the inevitable fail, then ask him about those football guys in charge. He also reckons Mainoo has become world class, even though he looked shit in the semi.
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They are just a Luke Shaw injury from another total implosion.
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Not to worry. Malacia is back in training
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Seems a lot like ETHās last chance. Buy him players that are supposedly highly rated so that he doesnāt have the excuse if heās sacked. They even might have inserted a severance clause or so too.
He might be semi-right though. World class shit. 
Even more important, buy Utd players that arent linked to EtHās specific preferences so that it eases the transition to the next guy.
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Mainoo is fascinating to me. If you watch highlights there are lots of moments of him you see and they are clearly praise worthy. For someone who plays the role he does though a LOT of the game just passes him by. It is a lot to ask of a player of his age playing at this level, but a player in his role needs to have a LOT more touches of the ball and be far more consistently involved than he was in any game I have ever seen of him. Heās got a bit of the Aquillani about him in that regard.
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I wouldnāt blame Mainoo if the opponents find it too easy to play through Unitedās midfield. None of the others really back him up.
Casemiroās showing his age. Eriksen has his limitations. McTominay is limited. Bruno is , well Bruno.
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Surely this cant be true now Moyes has gone, can it?
What the heck is that ā¦that heās eating
Not that hungry, he isnāt even back in training.
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Tomahawk steak
they not wasting time putting together another mid table squadā¦
āSame agent as Leny Yoro: Jorge Mendes.ā
Ogden is such a hack
For the first time in longer than anyone cares to remember ā potentially as far back as 2008 and the pre-Abu Dhabi ownership days at Manchester City ā United have beaten a major rival to the signing of a player regarded as one of the brightest young talents in the game.
He explicitly disregards Sancho because no one else was interested in Sancho. No, everyone was interested in him, but walked away after seeing what Utd were willing to pay him and not wanting to match it.
He then goes to say about Yoroā¦
Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain had both made efforts this summer to sign the France under-21 international from Lille, but neither were prepared to match Unitedās eventual offer for a player who had just 12 months remaining on his contract at the Ligue 1 team. Yoro had even expressed a preference to move to Madrid, potentially running down his contract and leaving for the Santiago BernabĆ©u at the end of his contract for little more than the compensation fee due to clubs when players under the age of 24 leave the team that developed them. But Unitedās persistence and readiness to pay a fee now for the player convinced Lille to do a deal, with Yoro persuaded that Old Trafford and the Premier League would be the perfect destination for the next stage of his career.
What he leaves unsaid is that Lille āconvincedā him by telling him if he didnāt agree to join Utd he would spend the final year of his contract in the reserves.
So, Utd have turned a corner by doing what they have long done, enticing players whoād prefer to play somewhere else by simply paying more for them than anyone else was willing to.
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