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Weve lost 5 squad players and 2 first teamers. Weve bought 2 first team players and promoted 3 players to the squad.

We have about ten less games to play so dont need a squad as big as last season. We will bring in 2 or 3 more before the window shuts. Rojo (who i dont know muvh about) should be one. The rest? Vidal, di maria, blind??? **** knows.

 

Vidal is the only good one, and would let Van Gaal play his preferred back-6

 

Lol, di maria is brilliant.

Tge other two? No idea. Much like most of your signings.

100million amd i dont think any other big club would have touched any of them.

 

You've basically swapped Lovren for Agger (when he finally goes this window), brought in a young full back on loan and now Moreno. A massive improvement? We'll see.....

 

I'm not keen on Di Maria and didn't want him linked with us

Not consistent enough, goes missing, 1 goal in 5 games

He's not what we need and not what I think you need either

 

In non-#bitter speak, we've improved our quality and options in CB, LB and RB

We've also improved defensively in midfield with Can (and imo Lallana helps too by adding to our pressing style)

 

I guess at the end of the day Rodgers gets the players he wants and that's all that matters. Many on here would have rolled their eyes when we signed Couthino and Sturridge!!!
Rodgers knows what he wants and he knows more than we do ( yes even more than UIR and Tobes unbelievable as that might be) and we have faith in the guy who nearly took us to the title last season.

 

By Garbage hope you mean the last 3, and cant replace a winger for a CM

 

We've potentially replaced 3 out of 4 of our starting back line. Lovren will probably start most games. Moreno and Man-Quill will probably be regular starters by Xmas (depends on how the settle... especially Man Quill- Moreno will probably be a regular within a month).

 

It should also be remembered that we are starting from a long way back in terms of squad depth.
If we had gone and added 2 £40-50 million to our squad and nothing else we wouldn't be any better off because of the number of games we must now play. We would still have had the likes of Aspas and Alberto on the bench.
Despite what's being said most prem teams would take lovren,lallana,markovic and Moreno. Origi too. Next season if we add 2 big name players to this squad then that will make a big difference.
And who's to say we might not get one of them this summer even though time is moving on. (Ozil was last hour signing)

 

United are welcome to Rojo! We were linked with him at the start of the window, but wanted Moreno as our first choice. Rodriguez was one of the stand out LBs at the world cup for me, miles ahead of Rojo. Not sure he's any better than Shaw tbh...unless they plan on playing him as LCB, but surely they need an experienced, top drawer CB rather than another kid in there?

I get the Vidal links, he'd strengthen their midfield massively and easily displace any other midfielder in their squad, but I don't understand the Di Maria links. Where would he play? They'd have Rooney, RVP, Mata, Januzajizijiz, Hernandez and Di Maria vying for 3 quite central forward positions - never mind the likes of Welbeck or Zaha (which United poster was it who claimed he'd be the next Ronaldo?).

Can't remember where it was, but someone was talking about Hererra as a 'ticker'. He gets it and gives it and keeps the play ticking, that's his role in the midfield. He's another Allen

No doubt they'll do better this season than last, but I don't think they'll be top 4, never mind challenging as some 'respected' pundits and journos seem to think.

 

Watched Rojo and Rodriquez quite closely in the WC because they had both been linked with us. Rodriquez looked very good in an average Swiss side , Rojo looked average in an average argy side. Got caught out of postion a lot and produced very little top end. Don't know if he's any better at CB . All I can say is glad we got Moreno ( although would have been happy with Rodriquez)

I think that united are finding it hard to attract the type of players they need because of lack of CL. Like us they think players will come because of the name but that's not true in most cases...if it was Sanchez wouldn't have gone to arsenal

 

Barkley out for up to 6 weeks after injuring his leg in training.

Not good for the Blues.

 

I'm just off to change my FF team

 

Yes.

When was the last time Giggs was a winger?

 

Very inconvenient that Rojo was selected for the World Cup XI! Who knew at the time he'd be linked with United!

 

He's one of the best players in the league because of his potential anyway. Actually playing games and making a difference is overrated.

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In other Everton news, from the PL website

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