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  1. Ne Moe Imya
    This. There's going to be enough change in our back 4 as it is, without changing the goalkeeper as well. I really am not looking forward to yet another poor start to a season with everyone blaming the "settling in" period for 3 new players in our starting back 5. Reina is very good. He may not be worth 5 million/year, but unless we can somehow convince Chelsea to sell us Courtois (or find someone on that level) to replace him, it's a downgrade, and that's just what we don't need right now.
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    No, he did not. Might have been Ibe you were saw?
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    I agree that your numbers are probably about right, though you may be underselling a couple of them slightly. My guess would be £5 million for Coates, £10 million for Skrtel, £6 million for Downing, £2 million for Spearing and £13 million for Carroll. I don't think people really realise how much money we're going to have this summer, because that's actually quite a bit. £36 million from those sales (and you could substitute Shelvey for Downing for roughly the same price if you think Downing will stay). Add to that what you would expect will be at least £20 million, and probably more like £30 million with the new TV deal and we will actually have a LOT of money to spend this summer. We have a lot of places to fill with it, but there's no reason we can't target a CB and an AM from the very top drawer for the first XI and a number of very solid options for depth (another CB, a wide forward, and a DM. Maybe even a fullback?).
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    I actually think a young attacking midfielder WHO SCORES GOALS is exactly what we need. Like it or not, Gerrard is going to start to decline soon, probably as soon as next season. He's so good that even at 80% of his best he's better than almost anyone else, but eventually we're going to have to replace him. I can see him being played off the bench more and rested over the next couple of seasons, and right now we don't have anyone who can offer what he does if we move to a 4-3-3. I also think that as Gerrard loses a bit of the burst that has always made him extra special he can and will be moved deeper and thus we still benefit from his vision even as we do lose some of his goals. Coutinho might be the answer, but I'd rather see him up front with Sturridge and Suarez and some flexibility. Bring in Mkhitaryan/Eriksen or whomever, play him with two of Lucas/Allen/Henderson/Gerrard and we look very strong all the way around our front 6. That would leave just the defense to attend to.
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    I'm betting in real life this looks very nice, but on the scanned copy here he looks like a scouse werewolf.
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    I read this online somewhere, and I can't remember where so I don't vouch for the truth of it, but supposedly this would make Brendan Rodgers, less than a year on the job, the 7th-longest serving manager in the Premier League. 6th when Martinez moves/is relegated.
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    It's a fair point, but Bony is really nothing like those two. Balance, skill, a bit of pace (not electric but still quick), but mostly power and a cool head in the box. His legs are absolute tree trunks, a la Maradona (obviously not saying he's at that level, but just the build of him), and always seems shorter than the 6'0" Wiki lists him at. I don't know if he'd score 30 a season in England but he would be ahead of Sturridge in our first team for me.
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    Not enough players from the Eredivisie on these lists. Tadic (according to my mate who watches them all the time) and Bony and we're set for the next 3-4 years up front. Suarez, Bony, Coutinho, Tadic, Sturridge, Sterling - that's a top 4 set of strikers/wide forwards, and all of them will still be reasonably young in 3 years. Add to those two a good young CB (no idea on who, really - could we afford that Papadopolous kid from Schalke?) and a backup DM, maybe another backup CB if Coates leaves and we're most of the way to fixing our squad problems.
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    I think it will be Martinez, but I'm hoping for Warnock or even better, Hughes.
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    He will "succeed," eh? What does that word mean to you? Because even if he finishes second next year and goes out of the CL in the quarterfinals, that's not "success" as United have defined it over the past decade or two. I have no doubt that the media will crown him a big success as long as they're in the top 4 come next May. But the fact of the matter is that he is a much, much weaker manager than Ferguson, so even if he does well the fact that he's not doing brilliantly will mean they've gone backwards. Moyes is a good manager, it's true. He'll do OK there. The problem is that United are used to having a great manager, and "OK" won't be good enough.
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    Spot on. Allen struggled when Brendan started to compromise on the pressing possession side he was trying to create. I think as we see more of the players who are not as suited for that style of play moved on we will see Allen grow into a better player. Credit to Henderson for making it close, though. At the end of last season I wanted rid of him as I couldn't see how he contributed anything to the team at all. I think both of them will ultimately be squad players if we do achieve the level we're trying to reach, but for me Allen shades it as I think he has more potential than he showed this season, especially in the second half when he was carrying an injury.
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    Where is Valdes going to end up? I wouldn't be too dissatisfied if we just swapped Reina for Valdes plus a bit of cash (or a young, talented player like Tello or Cuenca).
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    Thank goodness for that. Then again,
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    Sums it up. By the same token, United's current manager >>>....>>> Moyes > Whoever Everton could get to replace Moyes. So that might be even better.
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    I want to argue with this just because it's Kenny ... but I can't, really. One thing that is actually encouraging with Rodgers is that signings like Coutinho and Sturridge (however much you think they're down to the manager instead of the scouts) have put us in a position to be better in years to come, where signings like Downing and Adam definitely did not.
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    'Twould be nice. Perhaps then they couldn't afford to give United 15 million for one-goal wonder Danny Welbeck. Edit: Dammit, I've just remembered Steve Bruce is coming back up with Hull. I'm sure he'll convince them to spend their entire transfer budget on that waste of space in exchange for an opportunity to sip Burgundy with Ferguson.
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    Phil Neville: Darren Ferguson (as pointed out by Brigant Moloch): Any other faces out there just begging for a fist? And just to clarify, this is not the thread just for people you hate. This is the thread for people whose facial structure and general aura seems to cry out for a punch, to virtually demand anyone who encounters them to beat them senseless.
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    Does anyone know what position we'd be in if you just took results from, say, the end of the January transfer window? Or maybe Jan. 1 - the present or something? I know there is some site that will calculate that sort of thing for you but I can't remember what it is. Edit: never mind, found it on statto.com. Apparently since January we'd be 6th with 1.73 pts/game. Ahead of Everton but other than that still behind the usual suspects. Interestingly, Arsenal top that particular table with 2.42 pts/game!
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    It's true that Sterling is right-footed, but he plays much better from the left. Or at least he did for the reserves; haven't seen much of him on the right for the first team yet. I don't remember Ince playing much on the right, but he is left-footed. Perhaps he could come in and provide another option besides Downing on the right, hopefully one with a better goal return. Anyone know which side Ince has been scoring all these goals for Blackpool from? I would think if we do go back in for Ince then we must be concentrating our funds on improving our defensive line. Which is fine with me; I think we were second in the league in goals scored a week or two ago, but far from the top of the defensive standings. Coutinho, Sturridge and Suarez backed up by Ince, Borini, Sterling and Downing (with occasional play from Suso and maybe Yesil or Ibe) is good enough up front. Especially if it means having 4 centre backs who are capable of coming in and defending set pieces consistently.
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    I don't see why we'd particularly want Sinclair OR Ince, myself. Aren't both of them pretty much left-sided players? Coutinho looks ace coming in off that left side, and Sterling is a very good player in his own right playing in that position. I know we'll want a bit more depth there, but I'd rather have a player who primarily lines up on the right who is capable of moving over to the left, rather than the other way around. Downing will (hopefully, assuming we get an offer that is halfway reasonable) be off, and that leaves a hole on the right side. I don't think that Ince or Sinclair would be the answer.
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    This is spot on. I don't understand all the apologists for Downing - what is the motivation? It can't be his negligible impact on the pitch. Is it because Kenny signed him? No Liverpool supporter should need any kind of extra reason to support Kenny Dalglish; the man is a proper legend in every sense of the word. That doesn't mean that Downing isn't mediocre and a terrible buy for Liverpool Football Club. I actually think a 6/10 grade for this season is generous. If we get a reasonable offer (and we probably won't, at his age and wages) this summer we should definitely be looking to get rid.
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    Can't stand Chelsea but you're right about that. Ticket allocation of 9800? In a stadium that seats 52,000? Ridiculous. I guess they'll have plenty left over for the sponsors.
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    Having just spent a half hour on a Reading forum reading about him (two things: I have absolutely no life, and Reading fans must be the most dour group of people on planet earth), I've come away a bit less than excited. I'm sure we're thinking of him for our fourth centre back, but the general attitude among Reading fans is that he's slow, "decent in the air, but nothing special," and generally they're not that miffed. He's been out of the side since McDermott decided to freeze him out when he wouldn't sign a new contract, and most speculation is that he wanted somewhere in the area of 25-30k/week. I much prefer the idea of the young Sporting CB (Ilori?), myself, having watched a grand total of 0 games of either of them. The fact that one has broken the Sporting youth sprint record (formerly held by CRonaldo and Nani) and the other is described by Reading fans as "certainly not pacy" is what sways it for me.
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    Beardsley is a good comparison; Aimar might be an even better one. I can see the Iniesta/Mata comparisons as well. It's early, and I don't want to get carried away, but he really looks the part, doesn't he? It's easy to forget he's only 20; what a footballing brain!
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    But none of them would have come (except Rafa, and we all know the owners were never going to go down that path). I'm going to stick my neck out a bit and say that in 5 years the argument that Lambert is a better manager than Rodgers will look ridiculous. I'm not saying Rodgers is the second coming of Shankly, but in my opinion he's absolutely miles better than Lambert.
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