El brooko79 wrote: ↑Tue May 03, 2022 5:45 pm
Think he keeps the ball well and gets us passing.
But he is not a 10 anymore.
Would be ideal as a sub last 20 if we are winning to keep the ball. As apposed to bringing on a CB and dropping into the 6 yard box
Manu has played some great games for us over the years, but right now does he get into top 6 squads ( the question that needs asking of all of them if that’s our ambition) if not and his old Argy club will offer £6-7m I’d sell and wish him well.
We have limited core “ untouchables”… Coufal Johnson Zouma Dawson Rice Soucek Fornals and Bowen for me, with Antonio Oggy and Cresswell having injury and age concerns suggesting they are one year back up options. Jury is out on Diop Benny and Vlasic. So I’d suggest we need at least 4 or 5 more in that top bracket and hope one or two of the “ jury out” trio improve. We also need to sort the keeper position, for me it’s buy Areola with Fab as no 2 for a year, and then ideally a couple of the u23 boys come through, likely that’s Perkins and Ashby next season with Baptiste and Mubama chasing them.
All the unnamed players can go to raise cash or reduce wages, hopefully that’s £20m raised and £3-400k off weekly wages to be spent on newbies, but if we get decent bids for Benny, Vlasic or Diop I think they’d look at those too with proviso replacements come in, £15m for Diop and Tarkowski on a Bosman is good business.
I think Moyes will want 15/16 quality outfield players competing for 10 shirts, with 3/4 still useful vets and youngsters as back up. 5 subs next year, we need a bench capable of changing games, and allowing rotation, with no drop in quality. Watching the Mancs bring on those 3 strikers at Old Trafford and us responding with Fredericks has to be a thing of the past.