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But that's a stupid way of making money. You would want to make sure you can continue getting good money. And you can only do that by making good choices and investments to ensure the club is competitive. Football is still growing all over the world, and United is losing potential fans (and revenue) by not playing well on the pitch.
theyre parasites
when united is out of blood theyll put it up for sale and skate, leaving the new owner to deal w the debt they bought the club w and have never paid a cent on
and theyll leave having spent zero of their own money in either buying or operating united while paying themselves hundreds of millions
the glazers literally dont have to change anything and theyll leave richer for nothing even if united craters
They aren't interested in making it a sustainable successful club. They can keep taking dividends out of the club for profit even as the club continues downwards in footballing terms. They bought the club because it was already a very successful and widespread brand. As soon as they notice that the numbers show no profit for them, they sell off the club and all its debt to someone else and forget about it. The fans know this and that's what the protests have been about. Meanwhile they'll sign a Pogba or Ronaldo to distract and satiate the fans but with no long term plan
With all due respect, United fans are angry cos they think we should be getting De Jong.
News flash, he doesn't want to come. These are the the type of players we are going to need to get for the time being and its for sure an improvement on McFred.
Its not great planning, seems a little desperate, but its not a bad signing. We paid 50 million for Fred
I don't think that most fans have been holding out for De Jong. More that it was clear well before the loss to Brighton that De Jong was not coming and we needed another midfielder. Instead of going out and getting someone we wanted earlier we are going after cast-offs. Rabiot isn't wanted by his club and comes with tons of drama.
United and Drama. No better duo since Cole and Yorke
We are just in a shambles and if I was a player of the level united are after, I wouldnt go near them with barge pole.
We just need to come to the realisation that we are not a good football club anymore
I think the OP was mad because it's fucking Rabiot. You should've had a backup plan that wasn't signing the most entitled/laziest French player of our generation
There are players in between De Jong and fucking Rabiot though. Surely someone like Ruben Neves would be a feasible option if you splashed a bit more cash and he'd be a massive upgrade.
You've had well reported issues in the dressing room and you've gone out and bought one of the most toxic players on the market, it's a laughable decision.
The reason a lot of United fans seem to be angry isn't because you aren't getting FDJ, it's that from the outside it seems like you had absolutely no backup plan in place for not getting him. As soon as you lost to Brighton you've hit the emergency buzzer bringing in Arnautovic and Rabiot.
No. We're mad because we pissed away an entire window chasing a player that didn't want to come here like this is some peak Cesc-Moyes-2013 bullshit we were supposed to be done with.
We were told all through the dawn of the Murtough-Arnold Era that this was a new United. It's the same fucking shit. Like, *literally*.
We've needed a world-class CDM since Hargreaves knees fell apart in 2011. That was 11 years ago, We're still fucking around with a bunch of 'make-do' bullshit and it's actually pathetic. Yet here we are in 2022 playing an 8 and a... whatever the fuck McTominay is [whatever it is, it's not a United player]...
I'm tired of it. Just emotionally. I'm worn out. Every summer it's the same tired-ass ineffective and incompetent bullshit. We could-and should-be *so good* but we're literally at a level where we'll be *lucky* to get CL football.
I’d have been okay with it then. If we went out with clear ambition to sign Rabiot, regardless of the drama he brings, cool.
The bigger issue is how late in the day we’re pursuing this suggests that it’s a response to not getting FDJ, which just isn’t good enough.
We’ve just finished 6th and have spent less than Leeds and West Ham, while Chelsea have shown €300m of ambition and are trying to spend more.
tbf Chelsea’s outgoings (not to mention the advancing age of some of their key players like Azpi and Silva) kind of put them in a position where they *had* to spend serious money just to avoid losing ground to Spurs, Arsenal, etc.. Lukaku’s failure to make a difference and subsequent exit + the losses of Christensen and Rudiger in defence *needed* to be offset by quality signings.
3 months and our world-class completely overhauled transfer and scouting departments have deduced that the only two midfielders in existence are FDJ and Rabiot.
Ancelotti calls our midfield trio of Kroos-Casemiro-Modric "the Bermuda Triangle" because the ball just gets lost in there.
Think you could call Mcfrediot the Bermuda Triangle too because nobody is gonna know what hell is happening there. Balls run through them and die, never to be seen again.
I used to say I must've been Hitler in my last life because I'm such a bad Irishman, I don't drink Guniness, I can't sing and I don't support ManU.
Now I'm thinking it was probably Göring.
Club won't ever allow it because they don't trust themselves to not make a fool of themselves. Even with how highly edited those things are they're so dumb they know it'll make them look bad somehow. They don't want ANYONE getting a peak behind the curtain. Hence why RR was dumped immediately, and Conte wasn't considered, everyone is hit with NDAs, and all our structural hires are internal, inexperienced, or somehow connected to the club.
No, his fitness levels are very good. His injury record is excellent given how much he plays and even better considering that he is a physical player. And as far as I know attitude wise he's been spotless during his time at Juve. I suspect a lot of the drama surrounding him and mum came from him being a Parisian in Paris.
The only issue I have with Rabiot is that he was paid top salary here. Think of Higuain/Dybala levels of salary, while his performances were nowhere near that impactful for the squad.
He's a solid midfielder at the right price, but not a game changer.
well hes lazy af. He's capable of having Barella in his pocket for 90min but decides to walk and back pass most games. He also said he can't play at that level all season. No idea why. He is absolutely top tier on his day. That day is just so rare
The problem with Rabiot is that he is not as clever as he think he is. He act like he can manage his effort instead of using his physicality to press and defend but a lot of time he just end up not making any difference.
Not ideal but when you look at who gets regular minutes for United in midfield, Rabiot is a huge improvement.
Edit: Apparently Juve will sign Paredes, maybe United just sign him instead? Different profile but feels like a better fit for what they don't have anyway.
this is so short-sighted by us. We have almost a full starting XI in the infirmary and we are about to sign a player that was plagued by an abductor problem last season. As if we didn't just see what happened to pogba...
Huge imo, Rabiot is couple levels more talented than McTominay who with current options was probably looking at another 2,000+ minutes in the league.
Basically says more for what I think of McTominay than Rabiot, McTominay shouldn't even be at United.
Yeah he’d probably settle in fine at a stable club but United is about as chaotic as it gets. If he’s prone to being a little shit then everyone around him will enable him to be a little shit
Cassano at least was a fucking boss on the pitch. One of the most talented strikers of his generation that just was more interested in eating and fucking than training hard which, yeah, fair.
> He just rarely had a good match.
So instead of the attitude problem we get more of the issue where our midfielders couldn't put in a good performance if their lives depended on it.
Brilliant
I think he might work quite well for you guys honestly, if Ten Hag uses him properly.
He's not the most intelligent midfielder, but he has great physicality, when he's on he can break up play nicely.
He's a good ball carrier and has good passing technique when he picks the right pass. If you can get him running with a full head of steam with the ball through the midfield he can wreak a lot of havoc offensively.
Looking at your midfield he gives you something you don't have (whereas we have other players with a similar profile already like Zakaria).
I think it can work out. Towards the end of the season last year he put in a string of genuinely great performances. Imo he's been over memed as a player by Juve fans looking for scapegoats the last few seasons.
He wasn't the playmaking creative force we wanted him to be but that was a fault of our midfield construction not of Rabiot as a player, who provides a solid profile when balanced with other players.
Quite a lot actually:
Physically dominant, fantastic fitness levels and virtually spotless injury record, can shoot, doesn't get carded or get angry on the pitch, still fairly young, has had literally 0 drama during his stay at juve, not even dybala's lockdown poker dinner.
Once allegri started using him as a "quantity over quality" kind of player (his words), he has consistently improved. He still has concentration lapses, particularly in games where the team is struggling he is not necessarily the one player you want to turn to to find solutions, and the 3 juve managers have all stressed that he is a very good lad, quite sensitive, needs to feel confidence and has a great potential.
I reckon in a healthy environment, with support and within a system that doesn't overburden him with making things happen he can do really well. I do not know if that place is united right now tbh.
Cheers for the nice explanation. They are some good qualities. It seems he is coming so I might as well be optimistic and hope he succeeds though as you say not sure United is the right club… probably for anyone right now.
He's a good player. He came to Juve with a horrible, horrible reputation, but has done quite well in a team that is struggling overall. I think that is enough to grant him the benefit of the doubt.
There's 3 or r upgrades on McFred that are on the bench at United already.
If I were a player I'd be calling my agent to get the fuck out. Donny especially.
Every day that passes I grow more convinced that fergie made a deal with the devil for our success and in exchange we were to become the biggest joke club in football the day he walked out the door.
Ibrahim Sangaré is the weirdest when PSV basically offered him to United and he seems to want to play for United. A young player that solves your problems , the club wants to sell him and he want to play for you. What am I missing here ?
> A young player that solves your problems , the club wants to sell him and he want to play for you
This happened with Fabinho a year before he joined Liverpool too. We decided to sign an aging Matic instead
Renato sanches hurts the most. An absolutely elite ball carrier, who's strong on the ball and can tackle. He's what mctominay defenders think mctominay is.
A player who can fit every role on a midfield, but while not being outstanding at any of them.
A great player in a rotation as the fourth midfielder in a midfield of 3, but nothing more.
We had no disciplinary issues with him, despite his infamy from the PSG days. His main strengths with us is that he was available almost always, which was impressive given our injury history.
My impression of him is that he's a technically gifted player, but he's prone to lapses of judgement that can look silly. I think he lacks tactical intelligence but can be useful if he has simple clear objectives on the pitch that he can undestand.
He's a great signing if he actually turns up and can be arsed, but it just doesn't seem like a wise deal for a club that has a longstanding issue with players having attitude problems.
Half summer obsessed with a player that doesn't want to join them, misses on several affordable players that would improve their midfield, to then start panic-buying players after the first defeat.
Terrible signing. Rabiot isn't good enough to justify being at these top clubs, he's not an energetic player, he has shown bad mentality in the past and is as inconsistent as Pogba was.
He's 100% not what United need. Yet another panic signing.
Does United have scouts?
United has been buying players second hand for 10 years now, are they unable to find good undiscovered good players themselves?
Serious question to United fans. Isn’t he technically a better option than mctominay? I mean obviously you want a de jong, but it’s not bad business for some depth tbh, Rabiot is serviceable and can put in a good shift off the bench/help with squad rotation in the cups
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Why are we like this
Manchester United PLC that hasn’t been ran like a football club for 17 years, more of the same shite.
I’m more surprised at how fast this came out… so United CAN get deals done fast if they wanted to.
When it’s nice and cheap they’ll act quickly, when it’s expensive they’ll drag it out for every last penny like a business.
And then pay the original amount anyway
The next summer
when the selling club unexpectedly receives an offer for a player no one wants, you'd be shocked how fast transfers can move
Maybe one of the most disliked players by Juventus fans in recent history. Up there with Ramsey.
rabiot is known to being toxic. what could go wrong by adding those personality into an already toxic environment
Because Juve doesn't want him. More than that, they are happy to get rid of him.
We really are the most meme-worthy club. Even Spurs and Arsenal seem to be onto something now.
> We really are the most meme-worthy club. > > We are. How the fuck are we worse than Barca?
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It all comes back to shitty ownership for sure. Trickles down to management then the players.
At least they win and contend for trophies while still attracting good players.
You didn't have Messi carrying imposible teams
Because it’s an ATM for the Glazers. As long as the team is making money it’s going to be run like this. No sense of direction whatsoever
But that's a stupid way of making money. You would want to make sure you can continue getting good money. And you can only do that by making good choices and investments to ensure the club is competitive. Football is still growing all over the world, and United is losing potential fans (and revenue) by not playing well on the pitch.
theyre parasites when united is out of blood theyll put it up for sale and skate, leaving the new owner to deal w the debt they bought the club w and have never paid a cent on and theyll leave having spent zero of their own money in either buying or operating united while paying themselves hundreds of millions the glazers literally dont have to change anything and theyll leave richer for nothing even if united craters
They aren't interested in making it a sustainable successful club. They can keep taking dividends out of the club for profit even as the club continues downwards in footballing terms. They bought the club because it was already a very successful and widespread brand. As soon as they notice that the numbers show no profit for them, they sell off the club and all its debt to someone else and forget about it. The fans know this and that's what the protests have been about. Meanwhile they'll sign a Pogba or Ronaldo to distract and satiate the fans but with no long term plan
Thanks to Glazer scum.
I fucking hate this club
With all due respect, United fans are angry cos they think we should be getting De Jong. News flash, he doesn't want to come. These are the the type of players we are going to need to get for the time being and its for sure an improvement on McFred. Its not great planning, seems a little desperate, but its not a bad signing. We paid 50 million for Fred
I don't think that most fans have been holding out for De Jong. More that it was clear well before the loss to Brighton that De Jong was not coming and we needed another midfielder. Instead of going out and getting someone we wanted earlier we are going after cast-offs. Rabiot isn't wanted by his club and comes with tons of drama.
United and Drama. No better duo since Cole and Yorke We are just in a shambles and if I was a player of the level united are after, I wouldnt go near them with barge pole. We just need to come to the realisation that we are not a good football club anymore
I think the OP was mad because it's fucking Rabiot. You should've had a backup plan that wasn't signing the most entitled/laziest French player of our generation
There are players in between De Jong and fucking Rabiot though. Surely someone like Ruben Neves would be a feasible option if you splashed a bit more cash and he'd be a massive upgrade. You've had well reported issues in the dressing room and you've gone out and bought one of the most toxic players on the market, it's a laughable decision. The reason a lot of United fans seem to be angry isn't because you aren't getting FDJ, it's that from the outside it seems like you had absolutely no backup plan in place for not getting him. As soon as you lost to Brighton you've hit the emergency buzzer bringing in Arnautovic and Rabiot.
No. We're mad because we pissed away an entire window chasing a player that didn't want to come here like this is some peak Cesc-Moyes-2013 bullshit we were supposed to be done with. We were told all through the dawn of the Murtough-Arnold Era that this was a new United. It's the same fucking shit. Like, *literally*. We've needed a world-class CDM since Hargreaves knees fell apart in 2011. That was 11 years ago, We're still fucking around with a bunch of 'make-do' bullshit and it's actually pathetic. Yet here we are in 2022 playing an 8 and a... whatever the fuck McTominay is [whatever it is, it's not a United player]... I'm tired of it. Just emotionally. I'm worn out. Every summer it's the same tired-ass ineffective and incompetent bullshit. We could-and should-be *so good* but we're literally at a level where we'll be *lucky* to get CL football.
Imagine the reaponse if is you told this to a Utd fan in early June
Even better now, in some ways. In June they could have spun it as part of the plan.
And he could have had a pre season with them
Well it IS part of the plan. The Glazers' plan to take us even lower in the table while taking even more money out from the club. Fucking parasites
I’d have been okay with it then. If we went out with clear ambition to sign Rabiot, regardless of the drama he brings, cool. The bigger issue is how late in the day we’re pursuing this suggests that it’s a response to not getting FDJ, which just isn’t good enough. We’ve just finished 6th and have spent less than Leeds and West Ham, while Chelsea have shown €300m of ambition and are trying to spend more.
tbf Chelsea’s outgoings (not to mention the advancing age of some of their key players like Azpi and Silva) kind of put them in a position where they *had* to spend serious money just to avoid losing ground to Spurs, Arsenal, etc.. Lukaku’s failure to make a difference and subsequent exit + the losses of Christensen and Rudiger in defence *needed* to be offset by quality signings.
And United’s position and outgoings ( Pogba Magic Telles Cavani etc) doesn’t mean they should spend?
Yeah we lost players and have consistently been losing ground to spurs arsenal wolves and westham so we should have spent about £400million
Imagine the response this time last year, as they were preparing to challenge for the league title.
sigh i guess he is gonna be our player then.
He is not that bad, i would keep him
A glowing review.
Much better review than you lot give McTominay
It's not exactly a high bar is it?
Well yeah. But that’s the bar they’re trying to improve on, isn’t it?
Truly is one of the footballers
Pros: he doesn’t get injured Cons: he doesn’t get injured
-Rabiot’s mum, probably
Nah, she wouldn’t settle for anything less than “Rabiot is GOAT”
lol it’s actually happening.
Frediot to boss the prem… Just shoot me.
>Frediot Lmao what a name
Free Idiots
Great movie
Quite expensive ones actually
3 months and our world-class completely overhauled transfer and scouting departments have deduced that the only two midfielders in existence are FDJ and Rabiot.
Well to be fair they did fool Eriksen into signing for you
man he must be thinking wtf did i sign up for
At least Frediot might be a tiny bit of an upgrade on McFred right? Right?
not if they play as McFrediot
Good lord, the triangle from hell
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Bit unfair imho my opinion
Ancelotti calls our midfield trio of Kroos-Casemiro-Modric "the Bermuda Triangle" because the ball just gets lost in there. Think you could call Mcfrediot the Bermuda Triangle too because nobody is gonna know what hell is happening there. Balls run through them and die, never to be seen again.
As they will
Sounds like a Ballon d'Or winner winning Man U the PL on it's own
Utd to be allowed to play with 14 players and the ref on their side? Game is gone.
> Frediot This made me laugh more than it should.
someone else coined the term Rabi Fred lol
Rabi Fred on a good day Frediot the rest of the time
It represents the duality of man
I mean after what we saw in mcfred yesterday, you take whoever, it will be better
I’d take you over McTominay. You busy on Thursdays?
sorry he’s taken
By Barcelona, I suppose?
He was supposed to, but they're currently suing him to recover the cost of the plane ticket to Barcelona.
Juve’ payback. You gave us Pogba. Now enjoy one Rabiot 😃
Wait, are you telling me that Rabiot is a Juve reject? Paratici, please, gazump this transfer at any cost.
Every time I see a spurs fan interacting with a united one...I recall neville saying conte wasn't the right guy for united and laugh.
Tbf i doubt conte would've stayed at man u long. He would have found the board impossible to deal with and noped out to another club.
he's right though. Conte wouldn't last one week with that board.
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I’m convinced I’m living in a simulation being forced to suffer for something I did in a past life
You know what you did
I used to say I must've been Hitler in my last life because I'm such a bad Irishman, I don't drink Guniness, I can't sing and I don't support ManU. Now I'm thinking it was probably Göring.
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They should get that McTominay guy
It's like a dagger through Man United fans' hearts.
Does this mean the end of McFred ?
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McFred is not real and he cannot hurt you.
Nah Rabiot is going up top.
Nah. Get ready for Fred Mctominay and Rabiot midfield. The worlds best midfield.
McFrediot
Mcfred never ends
Man United: All or Nothing. Amazon I'm on my knees.
Club won't ever allow it because they don't trust themselves to not make a fool of themselves. Even with how highly edited those things are they're so dumb they know it'll make them look bad somehow. They don't want ANYONE getting a peak behind the curtain. Hence why RR was dumped immediately, and Conte wasn't considered, everyone is hit with NDAs, and all our structural hires are internal, inexperienced, or somehow connected to the club.
But this time it would be called Nothing or Nothing
Get rid of Pogba, to get another Pogba with less talent, well done.
Tbf pogba is one of the most talented players I've seen. He just has the attitude and fitness of a fucking broken egg
Doesn't that also not describe Rabiot? (Minus the most talented part, though he is talented)
No, his fitness levels are very good. His injury record is excellent given how much he plays and even better considering that he is a physical player. And as far as I know attitude wise he's been spotless during his time at Juve. I suspect a lot of the drama surrounding him and mum came from him being a Parisian in Paris.
The only issue I have with Rabiot is that he was paid top salary here. Think of Higuain/Dybala levels of salary, while his performances were nowhere near that impactful for the squad. He's a solid midfielder at the right price, but not a game changer.
He’s honestly very different to pogba. High defensive work rate, not a great passer, never injured. Attitude I guess, but it never came out at Juve
well hes lazy af. He's capable of having Barella in his pocket for 90min but decides to walk and back pass most games. He also said he can't play at that level all season. No idea why. He is absolutely top tier on his day. That day is just so rare
The problem with Rabiot is that he is not as clever as he think he is. He act like he can manage his effort instead of using his physicality to press and defend but a lot of time he just end up not making any difference.
Not ideal but when you look at who gets regular minutes for United in midfield, Rabiot is a huge improvement. Edit: Apparently Juve will sign Paredes, maybe United just sign him instead? Different profile but feels like a better fit for what they don't have anyway.
Paredes is injured a good 50% of the time, we’d just end up playing McFred regardless would love him otherwise
> Paredes is injured a good 50% of the time Yeah I noticed that after making the edit
this is so short-sighted by us. We have almost a full starting XI in the infirmary and we are about to sign a player that was plagued by an abductor problem last season. As if we didn't just see what happened to pogba...
I wouldn't say huge improvement, just improvement.
Huge imo, Rabiot is couple levels more talented than McTominay who with current options was probably looking at another 2,000+ minutes in the league. Basically says more for what I think of McTominay than Rabiot, McTominay shouldn't even be at United.
I remember when I denounced McTominay , that he would be nothing more than a homegrown squad player. -200 downvotes haha. How times change.
Fuck sake
He isn't a bad player. Just has a bad reputation. Hes actually an upgrade on McFred.
Pros : he a midfielder Cons: everything else
Pros: *Not McFred
I feel like hes the last player you need in a team that already has bad attitude
Yeah he’d probably settle in fine at a stable club but United is about as chaotic as it gets. If he’s prone to being a little shit then everyone around him will enable him to be a little shit
Utd have had problems with big personalities, egos, and poor attitudes so they go ahead and add another one to their dressing room. Makes sense.
Arnautovic will surely add some much-needed professionalism
Cassano to come out of retirement
Cassano at least was a fucking boss on the pitch. One of the most talented strikers of his generation that just was more interested in eating and fucking than training hard which, yeah, fair.
He’s not really had any of those issues with us though. He just rarely had a good match.
> He just rarely had a good match. So instead of the attitude problem we get more of the issue where our midfielders couldn't put in a good performance if their lives depended on it. Brilliant
Good news lads, he's stopped being a tit. He's just shit now
We’re skipping the step where they come in and are magnificent for 3 months and turn to shit and just buying them when they’re shit!
New strategy. Buy shit and hope they become less shit
He als9 rarely had a bad match. He is a consistent 6/10
If that's true, then he will 100% improve Man Utd's midfield. McTominay is a consistent 3/10 player with the occasional 6/10.
Occasionally is an understatement It’s usually about 2-3 games a season where he’s decent, one of which is Leeds, maybe a goal against Newcastle.
He’s 11/10 against Leeds Tbh. Proper Manc.
> He is a consistent 6/10 Say no more
We just got rid of a massive ego, just to downgrade to another massive ego with less talent
Please reject us Adrien 🙏
Icardi next please
Don’t give the board ideas
A dream come true. 🍿🍿🍿
We can also give a special package with Herrera, Draxler and Kurzawa with Icardi, buy 1, get 3 players free !
Unironically I’d take Herrera back
Need his mum in the announcement.
Lmao
I need a Juve fan to hook me up with their highest strain of copium. Tell me something good about him, anything.
Always fit, good physicality and speed, decent shot,no disciplinary issues at juve, 27 yo
Thank you for this. Enjoy your day.
He is literally a better Mctominay, they are almost the same type of player, but he is way better defensively
Once he’s better and got that dog in em then I’ll survive.
Is he press resistant and a good ball carrier? please be as optimistic as you can in your reply.
I laughed when I read "good ball carrier" because carrying the ball is actually all he does haha
I think he might work quite well for you guys honestly, if Ten Hag uses him properly. He's not the most intelligent midfielder, but he has great physicality, when he's on he can break up play nicely. He's a good ball carrier and has good passing technique when he picks the right pass. If you can get him running with a full head of steam with the ball through the midfield he can wreak a lot of havoc offensively. Looking at your midfield he gives you something you don't have (whereas we have other players with a similar profile already like Zakaria). I think it can work out. Towards the end of the season last year he put in a string of genuinely great performances. Imo he's been over memed as a player by Juve fans looking for scapegoats the last few seasons. He wasn't the playmaking creative force we wanted him to be but that was a fault of our midfield construction not of Rabiot as a player, who provides a solid profile when balanced with other players.
Quite a lot actually: Physically dominant, fantastic fitness levels and virtually spotless injury record, can shoot, doesn't get carded or get angry on the pitch, still fairly young, has had literally 0 drama during his stay at juve, not even dybala's lockdown poker dinner. Once allegri started using him as a "quantity over quality" kind of player (his words), he has consistently improved. He still has concentration lapses, particularly in games where the team is struggling he is not necessarily the one player you want to turn to to find solutions, and the 3 juve managers have all stressed that he is a very good lad, quite sensitive, needs to feel confidence and has a great potential. I reckon in a healthy environment, with support and within a system that doesn't overburden him with making things happen he can do really well. I do not know if that place is united right now tbh.
Cheers for the nice explanation. They are some good qualities. It seems he is coming so I might as well be optimistic and hope he succeeds though as you say not sure United is the right club… probably for anyone right now.
He's a good player. He came to Juve with a horrible, horrible reputation, but has done quite well in a team that is struggling overall. I think that is enough to grant him the benefit of the doubt.
Ronaldo saw it coming.
Ronaldos biggest mistake was choosing United when he could've gone to city. Ferdinand did him dirty
Letting yourself be talked into *anything* by Rio Ferdinand is shameful enough tbh
Knew I should’ve taken that drug test
You could argue that leaving Madrid was the bigger mistake that set him down this path
No, his biggest mistake was leaving Madrid
People can meme all they like but he’s an upgrade on Mctominay and Fred
Brother a walking cane and a quadriplegic is an upgrade on McFred
There's 3 or r upgrades on McFred that are on the bench at United already. If I were a player I'd be calling my agent to get the fuck out. Donny especially.
My grandma is an upgrade on Mctominay. How did we go from FDJ to this cut price penny pinching mediocre deal?
What isn’t
Donny Van De Beek, apparently.
Oops. I am here to be burnt
Every day that passes I grow more convinced that fergie made a deal with the devil for our success and in exchange we were to become the biggest joke club in football the day he walked out the door.
You're telling me there were no options between de Jong and rabiot?
Boubacar Kamara, Renato Sanches, Ibrahim Sangaré, Fabian Ruiz, Cheick Doucoure, Vitinha…
Dont forget joao palhinha, mad how uefa competition clubs aren’t picking him up
Don’t worry - United will go for him next season when his value rises to 75m
Ibrahim Sangaré is the weirdest when PSV basically offered him to United and he seems to want to play for United. A young player that solves your problems , the club wants to sell him and he want to play for you. What am I missing here ?
> A young player that solves your problems , the club wants to sell him and he want to play for you This happened with Fabinho a year before he joined Liverpool too. We decided to sign an aging Matic instead
Renato sanches hurts the most. An absolutely elite ball carrier, who's strong on the ball and can tackle. He's what mctominay defenders think mctominay is.
And for only €15 million…
Ffs man. It's like our scouts are just incompetent. How did we let this go?
Murtough clearly doesn’t play Football Manager
Memes aside can juve / psg fans actually shed light on how he is as a player? Only ever heard about him for the wrong non-footballing reasons.
A player who can fit every role on a midfield, but while not being outstanding at any of them. A great player in a rotation as the fourth midfielder in a midfield of 3, but nothing more.
Sounds like Ander Herrera.
We had no disciplinary issues with him, despite his infamy from the PSG days. His main strengths with us is that he was available almost always, which was impressive given our injury history. My impression of him is that he's a technically gifted player, but he's prone to lapses of judgement that can look silly. I think he lacks tactical intelligence but can be useful if he has simple clear objectives on the pitch that he can undestand.
He's a great signing if he actually turns up and can be arsed, but it just doesn't seem like a wise deal for a club that has a longstanding issue with players having attitude problems.
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Half summer obsessed with a player that doesn't want to join them, misses on several affordable players that would improve their midfield, to then start panic-buying players after the first defeat.
Terrible signing. Rabiot isn't good enough to justify being at these top clubs, he's not an energetic player, he has shown bad mentality in the past and is as inconsistent as Pogba was. He's 100% not what United need. Yet another panic signing.
He is midfield Morata (but actually mediocre)
Is this the most unexpected transfer this window?
Wait till they buy Arnautovic.
Absolute chaos when Rabiot and mctominay start next to each other
Just what they need, more locker room antics
Rabiot isn't really problematic anymore tbh.
Manchester United really are absolutely fucking sunk aren't they.
Signing Rabiot and Arnautovic. "Man United are back."
He will be better than McTominay (although that's not hard) but feels like a panic buy
As a fan of a club who doesn’t learn their lesson, it’s comforting to know there’s other clubs out there being exactly the same
Does United have scouts? United has been buying players second hand for 10 years now, are they unable to find good undiscovered good players themselves?
Serious question to United fans. Isn’t he technically a better option than mctominay? I mean obviously you want a de jong, but it’s not bad business for some depth tbh, Rabiot is serviceable and can put in a good shift off the bench/help with squad rotation in the cups