Good Day Friends and Football Lovers,
It's been a very long week for me and I still can't contain the stress, need more time to rest and reflect but there's still no way I could overlook what's going on in the world of soccer now, the marketing is really going crazier than I expected.
As a United fan, I am quite happy that we've at least secured a signing and not just anyone but one of the needed ones. Signing Malacia would really strengthen our attacking force from the defence line.
I have watched some clips on Malacia and considering the kind of strength he plays with, I am so confident that he's going to be fine in the EPL; I get the vibe of watching James of Chelsea while I was watching Malacia's performances.
He's a very strong and confident full back, he's definitely going to bring into the team something more important in the EPL for full backs, and that's good crosses; we haven't been experiencing much fine crosses from the likes of Shaw and Telles form the left hand side, even the right hand side isn't producing anything either.
Having him played under Ten Hag already makes me feel like he won't be having issue adapting on the field and for a second, I am thinking either Telles or Shaw, one of them should loaned out for the time being and it's really going to save the club and little be more for the season.
The whole news around Lisandro Martinez is another thing within United that has been cracking me up; this is player that is no doubt a great asset and a need for us (United), couple with the fact that he's willing to leave Ajax for EPL makes it even more easier.
Although there has been talks that even Arsenal is showing interesting in Martinez but we've got higher chance by having Ten Hag as the coach and also considering the fact that both Arsenal and United won't be playing the UCL, I think that makes the struggle even more favourable to United but, I don't know what the but is!
If we would have to spend up £50M to secure Martinez, I wouldn't call it a waste because he isn't coming into the club as a liability as it seems to be with Maguire and he's a great need, I pray we get a hold of him at last!
I've been watching some clips showing activities from United's playing ground and seeing Henderson still training with the team makes me feel like his loan contract isn't going to happen anytime soon expect if he insists not being a second to De Gea.
There's definitely so much going on in the training camp but something since keeps me wondering, and that's Cristiano Ronaldo, I haven't seen him in the recent training clips and with speculations that I have been reading online lately, he seems he isn't happy at United anymore which is understandable considering his status and the club's current state but we're still waiting to hear from the horse's mouth to know whether truly he wants to leave because it's certain that not only the club wants to keep him, even the fans!
For the past couple of weeks before Malacia's deal, I had been thinking about what Ten Hag's feelings would be towards United and them not signing him the players he's requested for; Malacia is a good signing but it doesn't make the club strong for next season yet.
As it is now, I personally do not think the De Jong deal is going to click anymore with Barcelona's President claiming that the club would love to keep him and De Jong himself saying he would love to stay at Barcelona.
I also think it's high time we've taken the pursuit for Erikson even more seriously because he's definitely one big option for us and he isn't new to the EPL nor Ten Hag's possible play pattern.
It's really going to be a very rough season but I am really hoping it doesn't end without United making the top four again, at least the top four would be fair start for Ten Hag's regime and after that, we could hope for more achievements!
All pictures are snapshots from YouTube videos.