If not being happy with a player who has never given the club value for money, is never fully fit and then complains that he doesn’t get enough game time, is being obsessed, then so be it.
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Yet they’ve managed to leave out the biggest most entertaining 1 of them all…FDJ
Has he? I mean truly, definitively, has he?
That’s not when it started though, is it?
You’ve been whining about him since at least the pre-season games.
I get it, they are still one of the biggest clubs in the world, a brand and full of money - but I still can’t understand how they are able, at this moment, to sign of the best defensive midfielders ever, who’s still at the top of his game. I wish we played Real Madrid without him in both CL finals…
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The frustration with Keita is legitimate. I share it, based on expectations. He was brilliant in the Bundesliga, and we were all looking forward to his arrival, and we assumed he would cement a spot in the midfield as a main man.
It hasn’t quite worked out that way. When he plays and starts to find some rhythm he looks good, no doubt about it, but he just hasn’t been available enough.
At that point, in relation to cost and expectation, it’s reasonable to have expected more. But then on the other hand if it is mostly his body letting him down, and he just can’t string it together in the Prem, what are you gonna do?
The latest report, it may have been a Reddy tweet, suggested he isn’t so happy and might be looking elsewhere. None of us knows the inner workings on that side, so there’s not too much point taking any of that stuff as gospel.
What we do know is he hasn’t signed an extension, is just a few months away from being able to sign a deal with another team if a Bosman is the plan, and after four (?) years with us, it barely feels as though he has got going here.
Real Madrid do not sell good players. United are making the same mistake they did with Di maria and Varane, thinking that they’re buying a world class talent from Real, when in reality, Real are selling them limited players who work in their system but that they’re more than willing to move on from.
Casemiro is world class, no doubt, but I have a feeling that Real know something United don’t here, and are perfectly happy for this deal to go through. He’s 30, and not particularly fast, definitely not suited to a high pressing game like Ten Hag wants. This just smacks of desperation to get a big name through the door and appease the idiot fanbase.
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Why are people treating Utd floating interest in a player as being an indication that he’s moving? It might be a genuine interest (albeit it an example of having no coherent plan), but it’s just as likely its just a familiar transparent PR move. But even if it’s real interest, he is still important to Real, even if only to hold the hands of the two young french kids for another season (neither of whom were good in their first game last week).
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It seems you have a problem with me then.
Most of the journos are saying Casemiro is open to the move. Reports are United would pay 60M for him, and put him on 400k per week. It’s a typical bad united deal that will hang around their necks like an albatross in one or two years’ time. @Nikola worries entirely too much about these fucking melts.
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This is what Real do, they sign a younger model, let the older one go and lose their legs elsewhere… Alonso for Kroos, Casemiro for Tchouameni etc.
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What is their obsession with midfielders lol,
Casemiro isn’t going to solve their goalscoring problems…he’s not even going to sort their defensive problems playing next to Fred and in front of Maguire,. He’s going there for a paycheck.
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Nailed it. Real are an actual competent football organization. United are fucking Marks. Real must not be able to believe their luck, getting to unload their surplus onto a fish like United for stupid money.
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Their midfield is bottom-half quality at best, tbh. McFruno are easily the worst midfield 3 in the top half of the PL, so they definitely need investment there, but I agree that Casemiro on massive wages is not going to solve much of anything for them.
I don’t believe it for a second. I know that twitter comment was a joke (that Varane and Ronaldo told him not to come), but you dont think that would come into play? I do not buy at all that he’d be open to it or that Real would. they may have bought some younger players, but as it stands he is still a key cog.
I do hope the interest is real though and not just a PR exercise, because it would indicate they operating in exactly the same way. He is an excellent player and would be an upgrade on Fred and McTominay in that role, but the issue with those guys is they are being asked to do too much with the ball given the lack of other ball players in their midfield. De Jong addressed that. Rabiot might have with a bit of cajoling. Casamiro does not remotely.
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It’s like championship manager and Real have added Man Utd as an extra manager.
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Not really, just have a problem with you mentioning Keïta every damn where.
if they manage to sign everyone they have made a move for this window then they will at the very least be able to fill the gound when their ‘supporters’ start wearing city shirts.
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Casemiro would move to Utd because he already has 5 CL medals and then some, so a overinflated salary suits him fine even though he understands that he won’t win anything else.
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Yup, the equivalent of moving to the MLS or China
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