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Tomorrow's game is important in determining if De Gea gets the Golden Gloves trophy!
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#4977 |
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Tomorrow's game is important in determining if De Gea gets the Golden Gloves trophy!
This is hugely important to me as I'm neck and neck at the top of our work's fantasy football league and I've got 3 Man Utd players in it who were all scheduled to play yesterday! The other guy doesn't have any so if at least Martial plays I've won (as long as he doesn't get sent off or score an own goal!). Also got De Gea and Smalling, so again if they play and they don't concede a hatful I'm OK. |
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Get real.
If he wants to go (and who could blame him?), and Madrid still want him, then he'll go for £30-40m. No way that it'll come close to Bale's fee. But De Gea is one of the two top players in his position, so why couldn't, or shouldn't we ask for a big fee? How much would Bayern sell Neuer for (not that they would though)?? Why should we get shafted on the transfer fee (if we do sell him, which I don't think and hope that we don't), as he still has a fair few years left to run on his contract. |
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"important" is stretching it.
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I'm looking forward to see how many players City have left after Pep has had a clear out.
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Nah, he is going no where, anytime soon, unless we got a seriously huge mega offer for him, which breaks Buffon's record for a keeper transfer, and somewhere near what Bale went for.
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#4982 |
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We have a good 3 months of this! I hope that this is sorted pronto, and that he stays put! |
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Lol @ delph, Townsend and even rashford being in the England squad.
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No defoe and Rashford in!
Delph?! Stones?! |
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Amazed Defoe is not going, he has 15 league goals while playing for Sunderland ffs.
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He hasn't yet, still a handful to be chopped after the friendlies. I'd guess at Rashford and two of Henderson/Wilshere/Delph based on how they are physically.
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The three that I would drop to make 23 from that list would be Delph, Wilshire, and Lallana.
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We would be very light on strikers if we cut Rashford from that list, especially as you can't really predict how Sturridge's body will hold up.
I assume Rashford is there to experience the England squad during the friendlies and/or a just in case if Sturridge falls apart during that time. |
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I'd keep Alli, Barkley and Milner and dump any other three midfielders
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We only tend to use one out and out forward so taking five is excessive when there are also only three dedicated centre backs in the provisional squad.
I assume Rashford is there to experience the England squad during the friendlies and/or a just in case if Sturridge falls apart during that time. |
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Defoe would be scraping the barrel.
If Rashford played for West Brom and scored the same amount of goals he wouldn't be in. Delph lol England's biggest issue is CB. Smalling, Cahill and Stones are not good enough. |
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We only tend to use one out and out forward so taking five is excessive when there are also only three dedicated centre backs in the provisional squad.
I assume Rashford is there to experience the England squad during the friendlies and/or a just in case if Sturridge falls apart during that time. We should be looking to minimise as much risk as possible, so really neither should be going to the Euro's in that sense. Rashford has at least proven that he is not injury prone, so he is ahead of Sturridge in that key area. |
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Defoe would be scraping the barrel.
If Rashford played for West Brom and scored the same amount of goals he wouldn't be in. Delph lol England's biggest issue is CB. Smalling, Cahill and Stones are not good enough. |
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You can't put any or much faith in people like Wilshire or Sturridge, as you just cannot predict for how long that they will be fit for, so it is a huge risk if both were to be taken.
We should be looking to minimise as much risk as possible, so really neither should be going to the Euro's in that sense. Rashford has at least proven that he is not injury prone, so he is ahead of Sturridge in that key area. If Sturridge is fit, he goes. He's light years ahead of Rashford. You don't drop players from the squad because they might get injured during the tournament. Same goes for Wilshere. If he's demonstrably fit, he should go, and probably start. |
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You can't put any or much faith in people like Wilshire or Sturridge, as you just cannot predict for how long that they will be fit for, so it is a huge risk if both were to be taken.
We should be looking to minimise as much risk as possible, so really neither should be going to the Euro's in that sense. Rashford has at least proven that he is not injury prone, so he is ahead of Sturridge in that key area. Squads are very rarely fully used so it's not a giant risk to take two players with sketchy records. Unless they rule themselves out, they should both go. |
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Surely the point of the 23 man squad is that you have bodies to cover injuries? Nothing wrong with taking a couple of injury prone players.
Put it this way, hypothetically, if Sturridge misses all the group games through injury as well as the Quarter Final, but then scores the winner in Semi Final, is he worth his place? Undoubtedly. |
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For God's sake, will you listen to yourself?
If Sturridge is fit, he goes. He's light years ahead of Rashford. You don't drop players from the squad because they might get injured during the tournament. Same goes for Wilshere. If he's demonstrably fit, he should go, and probably start. But since he is now included in the 26, then we have to deal with the situation as it is, and he has done well this season, and shown that he can keep himself fit, and managers can rely on him in that sense. You have to be able to have faith as a manager that whomever you pick will be able to play, with Wilshire and Sturridge there are questions about their fitness record. I would not take Wilshire as he has just not (a) done anything since he returned to the Arsenal side road warrant his inclusion ahead of other players, and (b) I am not sure where you would play him with the other players in the squad. Is he a defensive player like Dier, or an attack minded one who is likely to get us a goal like Ali? I think the answer is no to both of them, so really I don't see where he fits in. From that squad of players, my starting eleven would be something like this :- Hart Clyne Smalling Cahill Rose Dier Henderson Ali Rooney Kane Vardy |
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#5000 |
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You really don't need to reiterate your vendetta against Wilshere or that you have no idea what he actually does.
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