News: Woody’s Roundup - The Summer 2019 Transfer Thread

Excellent title @Sofabloke

 

Didnt intent to imply greater than in previous thread, meant we went from the Robbo era to the Keane era followed by the Carrick era.

Damn well dont want this to be the Matic era - so desperately want a new starter #6 out of this window.

Along with FB, LCB, RWF

 

Say it with me now... Herrera-era.

 

The question was asked recently of which holding mids/6 we should be looking at. Not as many obvious candidates as in other positions, but there are still a few options open to us nonetheless. The names I have come up so far:
Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester City), Ruben Neves (Wolverhampton), Declan Rice (West Ham), Amadou Diawara (Napoli), Lucas Tousart (Lyon), Weston McKennie (Schalke 04)
Lots of projects/younger players which speaks to the limited number of options on the market.Partially why I believe we should look to what we have and develop Timmy in the role, even if it would be just as an alternative or squad option to begin with.
Would have liked to include Julien Weigl on that list, who may be available since Witsel dislodged him, but I'm not sure what his game is like these days.

 

Oh god, burn this thread to the ground.

 

United still dreaming of bringing Varane in...

https://www.football365.com/news/man-utd-dream-of-real-madrid-man-to-partner-lindelof

That's all it will remain as Real will never sell him and he doesn't seem eager to leave himself. Still quite a few decent options available to United, starting with Koulibaly. Another position where there is no shortage of viable, quality options.

 

So much depends on the DoF and managerial appointments. I'm tired of waiting. We need to announce a DoF soon so they can start planning for the window.

 

I'm not saying we need to rush, I'm saying I can't wait. Obviously I did actually say we need to announce soon but that's down to my impatience. I think we shouldn't wait until the end of the season but ultimately we could stand to wait 2 or 3 months and be fine. It is a long term appointment.

 

Would it be shitty to buy Joao Felix and play him on the right?

Anyone watched him?

 

Joao Felix appears to be a very exciting and legitimate prospect. And would have absolutely no problem at all bringing that type of talent in and see what comes of it. However, bringing him in with the goal he will the answer to our right side problem is a massive gamble.
He seems to be a player who is more comfortable in a central role. And that's even before the fact that there are genuine wingers/wide players potentially available on the market right now.

Edit: A lot of top clubs, us included apparently, are currently looking at him. He looks like he's going to be very much in demand.

http://www.espn.com/soccer/soccer-t...cking-new-cristiano-ronaldo-joao-felix-source

 

Another top, top performance from Sancho today. I'd sign him in the summer for 70m, no question. It'd soon be looked at as a bargain.

 

That kids has bags and bags of potential. So many intangibles to his game that are difficult to coach. A natural player.

Personally, I feel he has the highest ceiling to any attacking 18 year old in the game today. Easily worth 70m or more in this market.

 

Agreed. I'm looking forward to watching him and Vinicius Jr. develop over the next few years. The sky is the limit, barring any injuries.

 

For 70m im all in but Vincius Jr ceilings are bit higher.

 

Dortmund won't be selling this summer. It would take an almighty offer and for him to push to leave.

 

He needs to play there for at least one more season and if by that time Sanchez been shipped out then we should go all over him but lets see how he does next season.

 

Jacksin 5 sounds about right..

 

One criteria we should consider with all signings even defensive ones is assists and goals.

We have woeful assists / goals output from full-backs (especially), centre-backs (eg at set-pieces), defensive mids etc

The hall-marks from our teams of the past were that everybody contributed in attack with assists and the odd few goals.

We used to be dangerous always at set-pieces, but look insipid and toothless at set-pieces these days. Which probably explains in part why we cant defend them.

Our width is horrible with the full-backs we have too.

If we dont improve these areas gonna loose my s@&t (again) this summer

 

Once we have a bit of stability at CB then we should look to improve Fbs either by coaching or getting new ones.

 

Our FB situation is as dire as CB if not more so.

 

I've been preaching about needing better fullbacks and all I hear is that Shaw and Dalot are good enough and we're all set.

I swear Shaw is a ********ing magician because he's tricked everyone into thinking that he's actually good at football.