17 Jul 2024 17:06:22
If we were to sign Yoro who will be under huge media scrutiny from day one then who do we play him with as we don't have an injury free CB partner we can confidently pair the young kid with .
17 Jul 2024 17:32:25
Got to be licha and him as 1st choice. He was unlucky last year with the injuries, I think he rushed himself back to try and help as we had a lot of cb injuries last year. Still think we will get de ligt aswell.
17 Jul 2024 18:24:53
Would de ligt leave Bayern or Tar leave champions Bl to sit on the bench at United? Would 70 mill Branthwaite leave Everton if the plan was for him to start off as a squad player? That only leaves the option of 3 at the back or Martinez and Shaw sharing left back - an opinion that got me something like 11 thumbs down last month for even suggesting it.
17 Jul 2024 20:24:50
Even if de Ligt for example also came in I'd expect all 3 of him/ Martinez/ Yoro to have a comparable amount of Prem starts once injuries/ susp/ rotations are factored in. Yoro is going to have bad games like any teenager, de Ligt is captain material so all swings and roundabouts in my view.
Here's last season's Utd CB starts in the Prem. So our old back-up guy played most, perceived best option least, and interestingly the injury-plagued player we keep hearing about Varane was a game of playing joint most.
Evans (23)
Varane (22)
Maguire (19)
Lindelof (19)
Martinez (11)
17 Jul 2024 21:13:48
Yep Spenno and no team wins a league or challenges for top 2-3 with those sort of stats- we need 2 CBS each doing 35+ games and the others spread out with the rest - we are no where near a challenge of course but if we don't move towards these stats then we will be hovering around the top 6 with lots of goals goals conceded each game and being inconsistent again.
17 Jul 2024 22:04:24
Spenno you say MDL, Yoro and Licha would all get similar starts as the stats you listed but actually the lack of consistency at the back was a part of the poor season. Arsenal had the best defence last season and Saliba played 38 PL and Gabriel 36. If Utd want to be up there challenging or in the top 4 then that’s the sort of consistency required. If Licha is past his injury woes, and given MDL is on €300k/ w atm at Bayern and wouldn’t join for much less if not more, then you’d expect both to play 90% of games no?
17 Jul 2024 23:18:05
Of the 3 defs i would suggest Martinez and de Ligt would be my gut feeling as the strongest pairing but that Yoro would still be starting a lot, certainly enough to be considered more than a back up.
I’d be chuffed with Zirkzee / Yoro / De Ligt / Ugarte / Frimpong. But probably greedy ?.
18 Jul 2024 07:16:08
I suspect Frimpobg wouldn’t want to start at back up to Dalot though, so if we are selling AWB, I think we’d see a younger Malacia style signing to compete with Dalot.