Marcus

I love football and I articulate my own opinions

[Marcus @MarcusTBara]

@dannyelsom @MartienBall Thats not how it works. Paying 250k/w for so many players and not getting CL 2 or 3 years in a row will implode because they will want to offload those players and no one will ever take them because of wages nor will they want to leave for lower wages.

[Marcus @MarcusTBara]

@Lionhearted70 @V2_Romario His errors are always so glaring and many times lead to big chances for the opposition. Attrocious defender indeed. Villa upgraded big time with Ruggeri

[Marcus @MarcusTBara]

@VillaDecoded @V2_Romario He is surely much better than Digne defensively and OOP, otherwise he wouldve never played under Simeone. He is also quite tall for a fullback and has a big tank.

[Lionel Lingard 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Lionel_Lingard]

In a world where average players like Elliot Anderson, Sandro Tonali, Bruno Guimarães, Morgan Rodgers, Alexander Isak, Florian Wirtz, Hugo Ekitike, Enzo Fernández, Moises Caicedo, etc cost over £100M,

INEOS acquired a world-class midfielder and an elite midfielder, Youri Tielemans and Andrey Santos, for a combined fee of £87M.

Most of our fans won't realize the masterstroke business INEOS has done until the season starts.

INEOS deserves some applause.

[Marcus @MarcusTBara]

@TheBionicDam No, thats woeful. Depressing stuff imo. But I just love my food with taste.

[Marcus @MarcusTBara]

@UTDTOMMY7 I'm not at all against such a signing, I just don't want another LW when we have already commited 4 first team spots to LWs already. Would rather get a ST or CB before another LW. I would only get a LW if Rashford leaves, but of a higher calibre, like Mbaye (50+m tho)

[Marcus @MarcusTBara]

@SwedishRumble My fucking lord, no more Tchouameni, If this guy would be under 40m, then let's get him and use the rest for Hall.

[Marcus @MarcusTBara]

My fucking lord, no more Tchouameni, If this guy would be under 40m, then let's get him and use the rest for Hall.

[The Swedish Rumble 🔰 @SwedishRumble]

If Lucas Beraldo can be had from PSG, United must pursue it.

22 y/o Brazilian 6’1 🇧🇷 , mainly a CB, but very versatile and can play both as a CDM and LB. Very press resistant, great ball progressor, strong overall.

Sure, he plays a fair amount for PSG, 20-25 games last season. But never any big games and the path way for him into big games seems very tough.

[Marcus @MarcusTBara]

@UTDTOMMY7 But I LOVE those transfer, don't get me wrong. It's the nicest feeling. We just need to have a nice balance between the Cunha,Mbeumo (PL proven), Sesko (super promising for 3-4 years scouted) and the Lammens (moneyball, sudden exponential growth stats) type transfers.

[Marcus @MarcusTBara]

@UTDTOMMY7 That's my point, you can't just hope to get it right with such transfers, we were blessed with Lammens. We'd be bottom half if he flopped. But the idea is that 2 maybe 3 in 10 players of 5-30mil actually pop to PL quality. Even when scouted by the most elite data team at Brighton

[Marcus @MarcusTBara]

@UTDTOMMY7 But that just goes to show what an exciting, electric, super promising looking winger costs these days.

[Marcus @MarcusTBara]

@UTDTOMMY7 I agree Thompson is super raw, but that's what you get for that amount. Now that I mentioned Yohanna from Brighton, they paid 28m for him after he played 13 matches!! in the Swedish league and 5 in the cup as his entire football experience. If it was us, price would be 35m.

[Marcus @MarcusTBara]

@UTDlegendary Risky business that one, very unlike Simeone to have such a fullback. But will be exciting to watch.

[Marcus @MarcusTBara]

@V2_Romario PSG can afford an OOP liability for his offensive contribution because they are walking Ligue 1 and need to rest Mendes. They just needed a left footed winger basically, good at crossing and set pieces for cheap.

[Marcus @MarcusTBara]

@V2_Romario There's some players who I think are absolute frauds and have somehow bamboozled their way to this level, Digne being one. Another is Francisco Conceicao, who is at most a 5-10mil championship/mid table portuguese league player. And there's a few more that don't spring to mind rn

[Marcus @MarcusTBara]

@V2_Romario Not at all, every time I've seen Villa, France or Everton, he was the worst player on the pitch. Even my wife noticed it at some point lol, asking if he's some newly promoted kid who's not quite up to pro level yet.

[Marcus @MarcusTBara]

Spurs will enter their worst decade ever if in the next 2-3 years they don't get EL/UCL. It's a super high risk reward what they are doing, gambling their entire next decade on these big hits paying off SOON.

[Martien 🇳🇱 @MartienBall]

- Spurs finished 17th, United finished 3rd.
- Spurs have no UCL money, United do.
- Spurs generate £500m+ in annual revenue, United generate £600m+.
- Spurs’ debt is £831m, United’s debt is £1bn.
- Both clubs have a similar wage bill, with Spurs expected to pay more than United after adding Tonali and Fernandes.

Spurs have a debt almost as big as United’s, no UCL money, lower revenue, higher wage bill and they’re coming off an awful season, yet they’re still more active and more ambitious in the transfer market.

When you have ambition, you find ways to spend money. When you prioritise saving money, you find a thousand excuses not to spend.

I genuinely feel sorry for people who have been brainwashed by INEOS into believing that United can’t spend money.

[Marcus @MarcusTBara]

@UTDTOMMY7 At most try them out for a season in our first team squad like this year will be the case for Thompson and Lacey probably and see how they cope with the level. And if they can't, they'll be out on loan next year like 18/20 of them.

[Marcus @MarcusTBara]

@UTDTOMMY7 Even Brighton pay 30-50mil on those players for a while now, and they develop them for 2 years at least before they pop. In those 2 years they sacrifice performance to develop them, we can't do that. Only logic for the 5-20m player in our case is to loan them out