Transfer: 2019 Summer Transfers News, Rumors, and Discussion; Part 9

[S E P H]

They sold Lukaku just to sign an older version of Lukaku, wat?

 

[hatterson]

They sold Lukaku just to sign an older version of Lukaku, wat?

Mandzukic is a stop gap to make it to the summer where Woodward can again make a mess of a transfer window.

Selling Lukaku made sense if they were going to bring in another attacker (a top quality one, not a project like James). Selling him and having zero replacement was clearly a mistake even if they got a really good price for him.

 

[Corto]

Mandzukic is a stop gap to make it to the summer where Woodward can again make a mess of a transfer window.

Selling Lukaku made sense if they were going to bring in another attacker (a top quality one, not a project like James). Selling him and having zero replacement was clearly a mistake even if they got a really good price for him.

Mandzukic's also a leader and he leads by example. A couple of weeks into his stint at Utd, I fully expect that he'll be comfortable enough to chew through anyone on the team who's not running his lungs out, or making pointless step overs when another player is making a run etc.

 

[hatterson]

Mandzukic's also a leader and he leads by example. A couple of weeks into his stint at Utd, I fully expect that he'll be comfortable enough to chew through anyone on the team who's not running his lungs out, or making pointless step overs when another player is making a run etc.

United already have "leaders by example" (from an effort standpoint) in the squad. The issue right now isn't effort, it's talent.

Obviously getting guys back from injury can help that, as can adding Mandzukic to a position where they're woefully thin, but it's not going to be properly fixed without a few transfer windows of good decisions.

 

[Burner Account]

Go for the Norwegian kid while he's available

Haaland? People expect him to be passed up the Red Bull ladder to Leipzig, no? Especially if Werner goes, I would think.

 

[Vasilevskiy]

Haaland? People expect him to be passed up the Red Bull ladder to Leipzig, no? Especially if Werner goes, I would think.

That's what will most likely happen, I would try if I were FCB anyways.

 

[YNWA14]

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/15117/11835776/jurgen-klopp-how-liverpool-manager-has-transformed-the-club-in-four-years

Interesting as it relates to the Fekir non-transfer a lot of people got up in arms about:

"They nearly signed Nabil Fekir from Lyon last summer and in the end the reason they didn't sign him was not because of the injury - and he did have an injury, which was a problem but they could have done the deal. There were other problems: he got his brother involved, began demanding more money, wouldn't speak to the Liverpool people. Klopp was like, 'we can't have that personality in our squad'.

 

[Corto]

United already have "leaders by example" (from an effort standpoint) in the squad. The issue right now isn't effort, it's talent.

Obviously getting guys back from injury can help that, as can adding Mandzukic to a position where they're woefully thin, but it's not going to be properly fixed without a few transfer windows of good decisions.

I agree it's a lack of talent. But who are these leaders?