Midfield Crisis
With our 20th league title, our Ginger Prince retired, along with Sir Alex. This time, it is for good. He wont come back this time.
Anyway, that leaves us with even fewer options in the centre of the park. As we all know, our Fletch has been down with Ulcerative Colitis. And as a Medico, trust me, he wont ever be the same athlete he ever was. Fletch relied a lot on running and energy. A patient suffering from an inflammatory bowel disease will find it very difficult to gain his lost weight back. There’s gonna be severe muscle wasting too. I’m not saying he wont come back. He sure will, but don’t expect him to be the same old Fletch. Now added to that, we have our chubby Samba boy Anderson. 6 years at United and he’s had a rough time. Injuries and lack of fitness. He has got good bursts of speed over short spaces and has adapted his game well, but he starts panting just after 60 minutes roughly. Not something which will get him into Moyes’s squad (who usually plays an extremely energetic MF).
Going off topic, If he does stay however, hope he gets to play the role he use at Grémio and Porto more often (as Shinji wont play all matches in the season). So, that leaves us On Thin Ice in the CM department.
Surely, we’d think Boss will spend on CMF’s this time. Let’s look at all the players linked to our club this time:
Anyway, that leaves us with even fewer options in the centre of the park. As we all know, our Fletch has been down with Ulcerative Colitis. And as a Medico, trust me, he wont ever be the same athlete he ever was. Fletch relied a lot on running and energy. A patient suffering from an inflammatory bowel disease will find it very difficult to gain his lost weight back. There’s gonna be severe muscle wasting too. I’m not saying he wont come back. He sure will, but don’t expect him to be the same old Fletch. Now added to that, we have our chubby Samba boy Anderson. 6 years at United and he’s had a rough time. Injuries and lack of fitness. He has got good bursts of speed over short spaces and has adapted his game well, but he starts panting just after 60 minutes roughly. Not something which will get him into Moyes’s squad (who usually plays an extremely energetic MF).
Going off topic, If he does stay however, hope he gets to play the role he use at Grémio and Porto more often (as Shinji wont play all matches in the season). So, that leaves us On Thin Ice in the CM department.
Surely, we’d think Boss will spend on CMF’s this time. Let’s look at all the players linked to our club this time:
Ilkay Gündogan (prolly wont leave Dortmund. He’s a key player for them).
Bender brothers.
Bender brothers.
Ceśc Fabregas (£40m is way too much and has reiterated his desire to stay at Barça
PS: I don’t really want us to sign him as he’d want to play higher up and will compete with Shinji. Also, it’ll spell an end to the career of young lads at United and i don’t like the sound of it. But who am I to say no to extra class anyway?).
Luka Modric is another midfielder we have been linked with.
Nampalys Mendy ( touted as the next Makelele by Ranieri and will be available for free but it’s being reported that he wants to stay in France.)
Kevin Strootman (looks likely that he’ll move to EPL and United and it was being reported that Jim Lawlor was scouting him in the U21 Euros. He is a hard tackling and energetic MF who is tidy with his passing too. He got around 11 assists and 5 goals in the league. If I’m not wrong, he won around 140 tackles. Might exactly be the one who United need right now.)
Marco Van Ginkel (Vitesse lad, rated at around £15m, but is very similar to Powell.)
Claudio Marchisio (seems Juve want Nani and United will make a part ex. move for Claudio. He loves Juve way too much and I doubt if there’s any truth in the rumours that he will leave. But if he does join us, it’d be a FANTASTIC signing for us. )
Thiago Alcântara (Barça made a big mistake including THAT clause and now his release clause stands at €18m instead of €90m. He can easily play 2-3 positions in the MF. He’s just the kind of genius we are looking for and he also wants more 1st team action. If we sign him, it’ll be a win-win. Seems he’ll announce/decide his future after U21 finals, so let’s wait and watch).
Then there is Marouanne Fellaini. Seems he has a release clause around £24-25m. Proven in EPL but I’m not so sure Boss will take his ex-club’s best player away from them.
Now look at our U21s. We have Ryan Tunnicliffe, Charni, Davidé Petrucci, Jesse Lingard, Nick Powell. Ryan, Charni and Jesse need loan spells where they’ll get 20-25 first team matches to grow(just like Clevz at Leicester and Wigan.)
If we can sign One of the CMs i listed previously and give Davidé and Nick a run, and get good loans for Ryan,Charni and Jesse, our future will be secured. At least ONE new CM is a must IMO. Anything more is a bonus.
Anyway, interesting times lay ahead of us. Can’t wait to see what boss will do. Would love boss to sign 1-2 CMs and give the young lads a run.
Not mentioned/lined to us, but if we want to sign someone young, very talented and cheap, then Asier Illarramendi is our answer (but then again, we have Charni and Ryan waiting in the fold for a chance.)
Boss knows the best.
