£40m Bid Made For Sigurdsson

[Moomin]

Sigurdsson and Giroud to this squad and we're easily as good, on paper, as United, Arsenal, Spurs and Liverpool. If our team gels quickly, we could be in for an exciting season. Let's have a bit of positivity in the replies!

Take them blue tinted glasses off please.

 

[MACCA75]

Sigurdsson and Giroud to this squad and we're easily as good, on paper, as United, Arsenal, Spurs and Liverpool. If our team gels quickly, we could be in for an exciting season. Let's have a bit of positivity in the replies!

Woooooaahhh. Not true.

 

[welshtoffee]

Sigurdsson and Giroud to this squad and we're easily as good, on paper, as United, Arsenal, Spurs and Liverpool. If our team gels quickly, we could be in for an exciting season. Let's have a bit of positivity in the replies!

If you feel that is correct mate that's no problem, myself NO

 

[Connor]

Sigurdsson and Giroud to this squad and we're easily as good, on paper, as United, Arsenal, Spurs and Liverpool. If our team gels quickly, we could be in for an exciting season. Let's have a bit of positivity in the replies!

We are going to win the league regardless.

We will do the double with Giroud.

 

[Abraders]

Would they accept a loan for Connolly though? Based on how highly rated he is I'd be a bit gutted if it was permanent.

 

[bluekangaroo]

Personally fear the worst this year. Lack of pace could see us in a dogfight!! Let's get to 40 points.

Take them blue tinted glasses off please.

Woooooaahhh. Not true.

If you feel that is correct mate that's no problem, myself NO

Thanks lads

 

[ijjysmith]

Bad is a pretender. He's an ex club puppet.

I don't usually agree with a lot of what you say Bally mate but think you're spot on with them two.

Ped is worse though. They used to be alright and I liked that they spent their spare time doing stuff for fans but talk about letting it get to their heads.

Baz is a good guy though as far as I know. Just this has all seemingly gone a bit overboard.

Would they accept a loan for Connolly though? Based on how highly rated he is I'd be a bit gutted if it was permanent.

I find this difficult. The percentage of players who actually make it from academy to first team is tiny. Even some of the highest thought of youngsters don't make it.

A loan here would be ideal but would imagine Unsworth would be advising Koeman on how good he really is.

If this is even true. Which it probably isn't.

 

[rochdaleblue]

Would they accept a loan for Connolly though? Based on how highly rated he is I'd be a bit gutted if it was permanent.

If llorente leaves for Chelsea, can please throw niasse in as part of the deal as well. However I only want Connolly on to go out on loan.

 

[blueblue]

It is difficult to predict how the season will turn out because of the number of new players signed.

We more or less know what to expect from Keane but not from Klaassen, Sandro and strangely enough Rooney.
These may struggle or be very successful and as yet we don't know how they will settle or perform.

We need to see some competitive games before making a judgement.

 

[CRIMHEAD]

If Sigurdsson signs for us, then it's him, if he doesn't, it's Matic all day long.

I'm not sure how Matic makes sense for Man U. He's a box to box, maybe a number 6. He's better than Pogba IMO, but if they think this pushes Pogba up the field and that's a GOOD thing, they are crazy. That team needs a number 10 in the worst way. Mata is about it. Imagine spending all that money without having a true playmaker.

And still playing Martial at outside mid. Mind boggling.

 

[TheFinnFan]

Expecting swift movements into direction or another in near future.

 

[Brisan123]

..funny enough I asked a similar question, Roydo. I keep mentioning 'blend' and the Manager needs to discover where to put talented footballers.

For me, Sigurdsson will play 10 but where does that leave Rooney? Rooney is still a talent but he's not the furthest forward player that Koeman suggested he could be. Time will tell if Rooney needs games to get up to speed or whether he can't see 90 mins out. I hope Koeman hasn't backed himself in a corner with Rooney. Perhaps Rooney will be used sparingly, if Sigurdsson signs I can see Rooney starting out wide.

If we sign a conventional CF, Sigurdsson plays no 10. Rooney and Sandro play 'inverted winger' positions. Sandro has been a bit like that anyway. The challenge has to be Rooney and whether the Manager will bench him at times.

The other consideration is CM. Koeman clearly likes Schneiderlin in that DM position but he also wants more from his midfielders. Schneiderlin will play but I think he'll be encouraged to also get forward more. Schneiderlin said as much himself last season. Gueye is brilliant at picking pockets but he doesn't provide the same dimension as Klaassen or Davies going forward. Koeman loves b2b midfielders, depending on the opposition I can see a CM axis of Schneiderlin/Klaassen, Schneiderlin/Gueye or Scneiderlin/Davies.

Mirallas might struggle for starts, Bolasie coming into the equation will add further options. Lookman needs to make himself undroppable. It's the competition for places we wanted.

Apologies, but you asked.

An educated and non FIFA explanation eggs
What I was thinking

 

[a woods]

Sigurdsson and Giroud to this squad and we're easily as good, on paper, as United, Arsenal, Spurs and Liverpool. If our team gels quickly, we could be in for an exciting season. Let's have a bit of positivity in the replies!

We won't be doing anything special with our full backs , we also need a centre back and if we buy a stop gap instead of going out an spending on a new potential starter will be very dissapointed , i think this will tell us if we are actually going to have a decent net spend for once or pretty much zero once barkley,mccarthy and niasse have gone.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

1st August as their financial year end is the end of July.

 

[ijjysmith]

Expecting swift movements into direction or another in near future.

Thanks Finland.