10 Sep 2024 09:06:27
Ed002, if you don't mind please.
Do you know if Utd have a buy back clause for Angel Gomes?
{Ed002's Note - No, but hw is out of contract in the summer.}
10 Sep 2024 09:33:42
Hi Ed002, is he of interest to United by any chance?
{Ed002's Note - Not that I am aware.}
10 Sep 2024 18:28:04
Should be of interest as he is a very talented player and seemingly matured a lot playing abroad.
11 Sep 2024 04:13:32
Him, Ugarte, Mainoo, great depth for MF.
11 Sep 2024 09:24:17
Home grown aswell.
11 Sep 2024 13:35:23
Despite some on here claiming he isn't built for the EPL. I think he would be ideal for us. Would be a great replacement for Eriksen. Another academy graduate too, but that's just a plus. He has to be good enough, which I believe he clearly is.
11 Sep 2024 13:55:37
Depends on if he's willing to play the eriksen role, i.e cover/ the bench.
11 Sep 2024 20:16:47
One saw Gomes as am attacking midfielder. Nicky Butt, head of the academy saw him in the pivot, Butt left because he didn't feel he fitted in with the people running the show.
Games left United went to Lille who used him in the role Butt saw for him. Meanwhile United haven't been able to properly solve that position at all in the intervening years.
I haven't seen enough of Gomes to comment with any great authority on how good he eally is but he looks like he is good enough in that position to have been better than some of the players we have had playing their over the last 2 years at least.
Hindsight may well decide United made a mess of this.
12 Sep 2024 08:14:11
Oakbark, he wasn't ready at the time for any particular role. Going out and playing in a different league, playing himself into the English side was the right thing for him to do at the time.
But now he will be a free transfer. So I think it would make sense to try and re sign him.
12 Sep 2024 09:29:22
While not on the same level he has grown into a similar player to Luka Modric. Very slight, but uses that to his advantage to make space for himself in tight and congested areas in midfield. Modric needed a little time playing wide in the EPL before he moved back into the heart of midfield as he got into his mid-twenties. Gomes looks like he's needed to take a similar pathway.
He has great technical ability, vision and passing range.
Lots of hype around him atm due to his England call up and performances. Yet as a homegrown player who knows the club, plays in a position we need more depth, and has skills we need, there is a lot to like, especially available on a free transfer.
Definitely one to keep an eye on and I hope he's being scouted. On paper his skills and ability would pair really well with Ugarte in a double pivot. With the Uruguayan adding the steel to Gomes's silk.
It would also free Mainoo to roam higher up the pitch, where he can influence the game in an attacking sense. Which to me looks like the best use of Kobbie's skills. Roaming link player who can defend from the front, play those little bounce passes to release a forward, or skip past a tackle and open up space himself either for a shot or to play the killer ball.
Angel is certainly a player I'll be trying to watch a bit more over this season for Lille.
12 Sep 2024 11:19:05
He'd be a brilliant free signing, but one imagines there'll be a very long queue of the top sides in England. We might be among the more appealing with the likes of Eriksen/ Cas likely to depart sooner rather than later.
12 Sep 2024 11:56:02
We seriously lack a player that can hold onto the ball in that no 6 position. If we can get him on a free, fantastic.
12 Sep 2024 15:26:41
Shappy,
Great post mate.
12 Sep 2024 16:31:44
Very good post Shappy, agree with everything you said.
He has said, when asked about returning a while back, OT was his home, mind you, they all say thing's like that.
He is Nani's godson so maybe he will give him some good advice!
12 Sep 2024 18:24:45
He's actually cousins with or a nephew to Nani I think.
12 Sep 2024 22:39:07
I agree Angel Red. I think Carrick was the last player utd had of that type and his last game was 6 years ago.
Utd are lacking any control in Midfield so a player who can retain possession, progress the ball and dictate play is desperately needed.
If this allows Mainoo to play further forward and displace Fernandez then Utd will have even more possession and control as a result.
13 Sep 2024 00:06:09
Unruly, afraid you are wrong, Angel Gomes is the godson of Nani.
13 Sep 2024 14:59:06
You are right IWOTB. Just saw an article about it.
16 Sep 2024 13:23:51
Fair one Shappy, I actually read that post ??.
18 Sep 2024 20:19:03
I like Gomes but the PL is a different proposition than French and international football. I’m not sure he is the answer to the high press and high paced midfields dominating the league right now. I think to be successful now you need a good engine, physically, mobility and technique- Gomes has some of these traits but not all of them. I think he’s this will make replacing Casimero and Eriksen a headache for the United recruitment team.
Does anyone know the people we are targeting for next summer?