Just imagine Youri Tielemans playing this fluid style of football under Carrick next season. We'd be adding a footballer who's capable of contributing seamlessly in every phase of play. 🔥
Nah, we're good bro. What we need is a younger version of Casemiro with the legs to partner Kobbie from the start of the new campaign. Our season didn't really begin until Carrick arrived in February, and before then Kobbie hadn't started a single Premier League game under Amorim.
🔘 Rodri
🔘 Elliot Anderson
🔘 Declan Rice
🔘 Carlos Baleba
🔘 Moisés Caicedo
🔘 Bruno Guimarães
🔘 Sandro Tonali
🔘 Adam Wharton
🔘 Alex Scott
🔘 Anton Stach
None of the players above won more tackles per game in the Premier League last season than Youri Tielemans. ☕️🍋
Carrick struggled to win a game when Mainoo wasn't available, yet people think Andrey Santos and Tielemans are going to bench him regularly? Almost all the match he's won last season featured Kobbie in the starting XI. I'm not worried about Kobbie one bit.
Ten Hag once said, "If we can't sign Frenkie de Jong, we'll create him."
Then Kobbie Mainoo burst onto the scene.
He's our version of Frenkie—calm under pressure, progressive in possession, but with greater physicality and stronger ball-carrying ability. I'm not worried at all about the healthy competition from Santos and Tielemans. If anything, it'll only make him better.
Manchester United remain firmly focused on signing Newcastle United defender Lewis Hall this summer, with @TEAMtalk understanding the England international wants to move to Old Trafford.
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Football fans (on here) don't care who you sign these days, they just want to see massive fees spent so they can say they "won the transfer window" before a ball is even kicked. Mental.
Liverpool "won the transfer window" last summer. Look how that worked out.
Defending transitions isn't just about pace—it's about structure and positioning when you're in possession.
That's why some managers invert a full-back into midfield as an extra pivot, while others ask the No. 6 to drop into the back line and form a back three.
I'm not worried about a Tielemans–Mainoo or Tielemans–Andrey Santos midfield.
Carrick has already shown he knows how to build a balanced midfield and protect its weaknesses, just like he did with Mainoo and Casemiro last season.
If McGinn and Tielemans worked so well together and outperformed Fernandes and Tonali last season, why do people think Tielemans and Andrey Santos would be worse than a midfield that cost nearly £200M? And don't forget—we still haven't signed the marquee midfielder INEOS promised. We'll have the last laugh.