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[LUCKMCFLY]

Michael Carrick would have done better this season if he had signed in some quality players to the team may be he thought he could perform well as he did last season.

You're right, but there's something we don't know. I think Carrick would want good players, but if the club doesn't have the money or didn't want to sign them, then Carrick has nothing to do with it. Until now, Manchester United thought they were going to be the best team in the Premier League, but that's not the case. Things are going badly for them. Sometimes I think it's just bad luck, and that's something that can also play a role. It's incredible, but it does matter.

Carrick has to recognize that he needs to make urgent changes, and those changes have to produce results; otherwise, they're going to keep losing. That's not the goal, and they're going to end up doing without Carrick's services which isn't the real solution.

[bitLeap]

Michael Carrick would have done better this season if he had signed in some quality players to the team may be he thought he could perform well as he did last season.

You're right, but there's something we don't know. I think Carrick would want good players, but if the club doesn't have the money or didn't want to sign them, then Carrick has nothing to do with it. Until now, Manchester United thought they were going to be the best team in the Premier League, but that's not the case. Things are going badly for them. Sometimes I think it's just bad luck, and that's something that can also play a role. It's incredible, but it does matter.

Carrick has to recognize that he needs to make urgent changes, and those changes have to produce results; otherwise, they're going to keep losing. That's not the goal, and they're going to end up doing without Carrick's services which isn't the real solution.

At Man United still with the same problem, players now have to be replaced with new and fresh ones. Carrick actually only needs to get support from the club's top brass but because Man United current finances are not so serious about overhauling the squad that Carrick position is awry. On the other hand he got demands from various parties, and that was very annoying. United's squad is now very monotonous, there is not much they can show to live this season perfectly.

[Oluwa-btc]

At Man United still with the same problem, players now have to be replaced with new and fresh ones. Carrick actually only needs to get support from the club's top brass but because Man United current finances are not so serious about overhauling the squad that Carrick position is awry. On the other hand he got demands from various parties, and that was very annoying. United's squad is now very monotonous, there is not much they can show to live this season perfectly.

The whole discussion about Michael Carrick buzzkill but then, what in God's name are you writing?

This same squad was used to to qualify for the Champions League competition,  the backing he needs is only two to three players Nd most especially the left fullback which wasn't brought in. And there's nothing wrong with Manchester United finances, they have just decided not to splurge outrageously, although my believes are you have to spend quality sums to get a quality player. Nobody is overhauling the squad. They could swith up to a more intense football like they did last season under him, pure chaotic football, but he doesn't wants that and it will lead or take Manchester no further and forward. There's this speculations linking with a move to Eddie Howe, I wouldn't want him as a Manchester united coach.

[HajiBagi]

Michael Carrick would have done better this season if he had signed in some quality players to the team may be he thought he could perform well as he did last season.

You're right, but there's something we don't know. I think Carrick would want good players, but if the club doesn't have the money or didn't want to sign them, then Carrick has nothing to do with it. Until now, Manchester United thought they were going to be the best team in the Premier League, but that's not the case. Things are going badly for them. Sometimes I think it's just bad luck, and that's something that can also play a role. It's incredible, but it does matter.

Carrick has to recognize that he needs to make urgent changes, and those changes have to produce results; otherwise, they're going to keep losing. That's not the goal, and they're going to end up doing without Carrick's services which isn't the real solution.

Manchester United owners are not serious when it comes to signing players, if we look at the way the team has been signing players from the last two seasons we will see that they are not active the way the other clubs are doing, Manchester United signed omly three players this season and they are all midfielders, they did not remember to sign a good right back and left back that will replace Dalot and Luke shaw, these two players are not good to win trophies for Manchester United.

Although Dalot is not too old but his performance has been very poor since last three seasons, and Luke Shaw is old, he can still play but he can not run and perform in big matches, if he play against young wingers he struggle a lot, he is also an injury prone player, Manchester United need to change many things to be able to win a trophy, so for me I don’t blame the coach when the club owners are not serious.

[Son Of Blockchain (SOB)]

At Man United still with the same problem, players now have to be replaced with new and fresh ones. Carrick actually only needs to get support from the club's top brass but because Man United current finances are not so serious about overhauling the squad that Carrick position is awry. On the other hand he got demands from various parties, and that was very annoying. United's squad is now very monotonous, there is not much they can show to live this season perfectly.

The whole discussion about Michael Carrick buzzkill but then, what in God's name are you writing?

This same squad was used to to qualify for the Champions League competition,  the backing he needs is only two to three players Nd most especially the left fullback which wasn't brought in. And there's nothing wrong with Manchester United finances, they have just decided not to splurge outrageously, although my believes are you have to spend quality sums to get a quality player. Nobody is overhauling the squad. They could swith up to a more intense football like they did last season under him, pure chaotic football, but he doesn't wants that and it will lead or take Manchester no further and forward. There's this speculations linking with a move to Eddie Howe, I wouldn't want him as a Manchester united coach.

Are you really sure they needed just 2 to 3 players? A club playing multiple competitions and has many players that are injury proned hope you're seeing that some players are getting injured in the Euro Nations League so who'll be their replacement, inexperienced youth players? Manchester United messed up in the transfer window.
 They needed about 3 more players added to the ones they signed, the leftback you talked about, a central back, striker and maybe a winger. I've seen rumours of a move for Eddie Howe but i don't believe that, anyone who approves such deal should be sacked cause Howe would be setback to the team.

[Rruchi man]

Manchester United owners are not serious when it comes to signing players, if we look at the way the team has been signing players from the last two seasons we will see that they are not active the way the other clubs are doing, Manchester United signed omly three players this season and they are all midfielders, they did not remember to sign a good right back and left back that will replace Dalot and Luke shaw, these two players are not good to win trophies for Manchester United.

Where football supporters like you and I see our favorite club and have it most important for our club to win trophies, the owners of the club see a business, and although they are interested in winning trophies, they are also very interested in making profit, most importantly because it is a business to them.

Manchester United is a club that is currently heavily indebted and under a lot of financial pressure from losses; they have to be wise with managing their expenses so they do not go broke. They have been doing a lot to try to raise money, which includes the most recent one, which many fans have criticized, that is, selling pieces of the Old Trafford pitch for £125 each.

[Ale88]

Juventus is trying to bring Neto back after they parted ways with him. This decision sounds weird because he's not even better than DiGregorio, and i also watched how he played at Botafogo, and he's one of worst goal keeper. Do i miss something from him? I believe i don't.

I think Radu deserves more chance instead of bring him back. It's beyond my imagination to see Juve brings someone who became the worst goalie in his previous club.

If neto becomes their goalie, i'm gonna have top 4 as the best target that can be achieve by Juve this season. Can't they bring a world class goalie? What the hell this club is doing now.

I don't think you have a clue about what is going on with Neto because your message makes no sense. Juventus' second goalkeeper, Grabara, recently injured himself and he is going to be out pretty much for the whole season, so the only other goalkeeper (besides Vicario of course) was Pinsoglio, who probably played 5 matches in the last 3 years.

And if you're talking about Ionuț Radu, he is under contract with Celta Vigo, and the transfer window is closed, so clubs are only allowed to sign free-agent players now.

I meant Riccardo Radu who played for Juventus NexGent. Spalletti called him to the first squad, and they can promote him as a temporary replacement for Grabara.

Beside that although signing a new goalie is necessity for Juventus due to the injury happen to their 2nd goalie, but it should not be Neto. This guy get his contract terminated by Botafogo which is showing how terrible he is.

Juventus's decision to sign Neto is like they have no option of good free transfer goalie available while the fact they have a name like Sergio Rico who had better experience.

I guess that they probably decided that promoting Radu to the first time just to sit on the bench 99% of the time was pointless, he better stay with the Juventus NextGen so at least he can actually improve. Otherwise they would have promoted him since the beginning of the season instead of getting Grabara, don't you think? Grabara, Neto, it doesn't really matter, they were looking for a second goalkeeper and Radu wasn't a choice since the beginning.

[Solodoski]

Extevao Williams is an experience player that should not be underrated by his team, because I Know they have other players that are as good as him, I believe benching him will only reduce is talent and making him lease valued compare to where he is coming from.
Xabier is an experienced coach and should know what is uptainable at a time like and not leave Extevao like that for too long as this can affect his career badly. The more his is given opportunity to play is how well and he will become.

Estevao is a good player with a lot of potential,  but the way Alonso has been handling him this season might definitely affecting him, because he is not getting enough playtime and at thus point of his career he needs to be playing more for his development.  I also think that what is really affecting him is the kind of system or formation that Alonso is playing. He already has his 3 attackers which includes Palmer, Roger's and Jao Pedro,  so it's very hard to fit him into the system. I think Alonso needs to adapt another system that can accommodate him, because he really needs to be playing esle Chelsea might lose him very soon for lack of playing time.

[TastyChillySauce00]

Van Dijk will be leaving from Liverpool as free agent, and he aims to play in La Liga as his next destination. He's now linked to the several clubs such as Barcelona and Madrid. Those clubs are still lacking of proper CB, and i think it's good addition to have him in the squad.
But i prefer to see him goes to the Madrid because you know how prone Madrid's full backs at this moment. Signing him is also adding more depth to the Madrid's backline, and they can sign him for free, why not?

Madrid is conceding 8 goals from 7 matches, which is 1+ goal averagely in any game. So they have to put their defense as the main concern. I saw how good he is in aerial duel, and often saved Liverpool from unexpected moment in the past.
Signing him for free must become a lethal addition to the squad.

Anyone may be concerning his age, but he's always stay healthy and quite rarely injured. Jose must not be dumb enough to miss this opportunity after he missed a move for Rodri.

[Antotena]

You're right, but there's something we don't know. I think Carrick would want good players, but if the club doesn't have the money or didn't want to sign them, then Carrick has nothing to do with it. Until now, Manchester United thought they were going to be the best team in the Premier League, but that's not the case. Things are going badly for them. Sometimes I think it's just bad luck, and that's something that can also play a role. It's incredible, but it does matter.

Carrick has to recognize that he needs to make urgent changes, and those changes have to produce results; otherwise, they're going to keep losing. That's not the goal, and they're going to end up doing without Carrick's services which isn't the real solution.

I like the angle you look into but we also need to address how Carrick use the worse players to finish the at the top 5 and now will be playing in the Champions League. If they could do it and not stress with the whole thing, how come the same strategy stop working or the players are doing this on purpose. If the motivation was to keep his job last season and he was able to do that to the level where Fernandez won Premier League player of the year, then they can don it again.

If the club is to address anything in Manchester united, they need defense. Look at Luke shaw, that guy is 31 years, he is prone to injury. They shouldn't rely on such kind of left back. Look at Dalot too, I'm not seeing their engagement in the team. The team also need more wingers, I don't think Rashford is a kind of player anyone would depend on for now, he is not playing to the club expectations.

[AYOBA]

Manchester United owners are not serious when it comes to signing players, if we look at the way the team has been signing players from the last two seasons we will see that they are not active the way the other clubs are doing, Manchester United signed omly three players this season and they are all midfielders, they did not remember to sign a good right back and left back that will replace Dalot and Luke shaw, these two players are not good to win trophies for Manchester United.

I think the aim of the Manchester United is just to play only midfielders without fight for goals which is why they only signed three players and all are midfielders. Manchester United manager need to be responsible for all this, because he knows how Manchester United suffer last season without any trophies after their performance went very poorly this time around the team deserves more players not only midfielders.

Although Dalot is not too old but his performance has been very poor since last three seasons, and Luke Shaw is old, he can still play but he can not run and perform in big matches, if he play against young wingers he struggle a lot, he is also an injury prone player, Manchester United need to change many things to be able to win a trophy, so for me I don’t blame the coach when the club owners are not serious.

And do you think that Manchester United can able to done that as soon as possible? All this changes was supposed to be done right before the season get started, but I don’t know why they refuse to sign right players when others clubs was busy signing better players.

[Amphenomenon]

Michael Carrick would have done better this season if he had signed in some quality players to the team may be he thought he could perform well as he did last season.

You're right, but there's something we don't know. I think Carrick would want good players, but if the club doesn't have the money or didn't want to sign them, then Carrick has nothing to do with it. Until now, Manchester United thought they were going to be the best team in the Premier League, but that's not the case. Things are going badly for them. Sometimes I think it's just bad luck, and that's something that can also play a role. It's incredible, but it does matter.

Carrick has to recognize that he needs to make urgent changes, and those changes have to produce results; otherwise, they're going to keep losing. That's not the goal, and they're going to end up doing without Carrick's services which isn't the real solution.

I don't think it was necessarily because of financial struggles else that would have been stated rather it might just be board decisions or Michael Carrick not pushing for my signings thinking things will continue in the same manner the league ended last season which us not the case currently.

Now he has to find ways to manage his team until January before he can get more signings to strengthen his squad.

[Zaguru12]

Van Dijk will be leaving from Liverpool as free agent, and he aims to play in La Liga as his next destination. He's now linked to the several clubs such as Barcelona and Madrid. Those clubs are still lacking of proper CB, and i think it's good addition to have him in the squad.
But i prefer to see him goes to the Madrid because you know how prone Madrid's full backs at this moment. Signing him is also adding more depth to the Madrid's backline, and they can sign him for free, why not?

Madrid is conceding 8 goals from 7 matches, which is 1+ goal averagely in any game. So they have to put their defense as the main concern. I saw how good he is in aerial duel, and often saved Liverpool from unexpected moment in the past.
Signing him for free must become a lethal addition to the squad.  

Van Dijk before renewing the current contract he has with Liverpool was actually offered by his agency to Real Madrid so technically he has been offering himself for a long to Real Madrid and the Laliga giants have been rejecting that offer. Personally I do not think this is a signing Real Madrid should be making come of it  Van Dijk is simply riding on a past glory at the moment and is not exceptional like he used to be in his prime.

Real Madrid definitely have defensive problem and that is already causing them points this season already, but Van Dijk shouldn’t be their choice because they need solution and not a quick fix with old players. They currently have older players like Rudiger and Konate so if Van Dijk signs for them then we could see a partnership of Konate and Van Dijk again who we saw at Liverpool and conceded lots of goals? I don’t think any of them is the solution at the moment

[Plutomanian]

I don't think it was necessarily because of financial struggles else that would have been stated rather it might just be board decisions or Michael Carrick not pushing for my signings thinking things will continue in the same manner the league ended last season which us not the case currently.

Now he has to find ways to manage his team until January before he can get more signings to strengthen his squad.

Michael Carrick just need time to make sure he's having one of the best timing in the club. He did better at being an interim headcoach for the Red Devils but recently, we've seen quite a lot of things change after been named the permanent manager for the club. There are stats that we're not impressed with and alot of changes have happen. This season, Manchester United didn't even go for proper signings, talking about remarkable sightings that will change the entire space, now we're watching alot of things happening.

[9ja Amaka]

OFFICIAL: Portugal statement.

“Cristiano Ronaldo has left the national team camp. Our preparations for the next games continue with our 24 players with maximum focus on the results”.

Cristiano Ronaldo: “In time, I will tell all the Portuguese the truth about the reasons that motivated me to leave the national team, to which I always devoted myself”.


https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/2105371297878339645

[Spaceman1000$]

Michael Carrick would have done better this season if he had signed in some quality players to the team may be he thought he could perform well as he did last season.

You're right, but there's something we don't know. I think Carrick would want good players, but if the club doesn't have the money or didn't want to sign them, then Carrick has nothing to do with it. Until now, Manchester United thought they were going to be the best team in the Premier League, but that's not the case. Things are going badly for them. Sometimes I think it's just bad luck, and that's something that can also play a role. It's incredible, but it does matter.

Carrick has to recognize that he needs to make urgent changes, and those changes have to produce results; otherwise, they're going to keep losing. That's not the goal, and they're going to end up doing without Carrick's services which isn't the real solution.

At this point in time, there is little changes Michael Carrick can only do, and those changes will be tactical approach, but if it's about getting new players, for now that window has closed, so he should work with what he has. Manchester United had every opportunity to sign exceptional players that will fit in their attack, because one of the major problem i see with Manchester United is their inability to score and to defend their goals.

Looking at the end of last season, I believe Michael Carrick felt he had every box ticked already so there was no need for new players, and he was forgetting that he was going for the Champions League that is even tedious and you need to as well be consistent in the premier League chase. The way things are with united, it's looking as though whenever things are about to get right, then suddenly they will start becoming unlucky all over again, looking more like a spiritual problem.😂

[KingsDen]

I know that Arsenal has been a club that we all know is used to buying players from Chelsea, especially the players who Chelsea no longer needs.

I believe that many Arsenal fans and supporters will be very interested and happy if Arsenal makes a move to get this young Estaveo from Chelsea, as he has become uncomfortable with the playing time he has in the club.

With rumors linking Madueke to Juventus, Estaveo is an upgrade, a player who will give Bukayo Saka proper competition for that position.

Common Bertha!

Estevao is a young talented player, but I don't think Arsenal is a good place for him to improve. Him moving to Arsenal is just the same as staying in Chelsea now. Remember Arsenal already has their own young talent (Max Dowman), so even if Madueke finally exits, do you think Arsenal will drop one of their own in place of Estevao?. That aside, I don't think he'll get enough playtime at Arsenal due to the same competition issue he is facing at Chelsea.

Liverpool is an option for him, they're currently is search of a proper RWF, atleast there's no much competition there he can get enough playing time.

OFFICIAL: Portugal statement.

“Cristiano Ronaldo has left the national team camp. Our preparations for the next games continue with our 24 players with maximum focus on the results”.

Cristiano Ronaldo: “In time, I will tell all the Portuguese the truth about the reasons that motivated me to leave the national team, to which I always devoted myself”.


https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/2105371297878339645

I would have loved Ronaldo to retire honourably from the National team and not in this manner. He is a hero, a legend and the greatest that played in Portugal. Just that he's too ambitious, even at old age.

[coinlary]

Manchester United is a club that is currently heavily indebted and under a lot of financial pressure from losses; they have to be wise with managing their expenses so they do not go broke. They have been doing a lot to try to raise money, which includes the most recent one, which many fans have criticized, that is, selling pieces of the Old Trafford pitch for £125 each.

That's crazy and as a fan that will be so sad to hear for real. I saw a news recently about them letting go of some workers again  which i still think is wasn't  really that bad because of the recent drops in standard which is also affecting their ability to retain these workers . I

 didn’t know it has gotten to the extent  selling such ( not sure i understand what you really mean by pieces yet), seems their is even worse than Barcelona status in the last 4 to 5 seasons

[Issa56]

Michael Carrick just need time to make sure he's having one of the best timing in the club.

Sure we will have to give carrick some time, and also Manchester United management will have to support Carrick, he will be needing more experienced players, with the squad Manchester United is having currently, I don’t really think carrick will be able to achieve much things with them, he will be needing more experienced players to support the average players which he is having. Carrick performance has not been so good this season, but we shouldn’t lose hope in him, let’s give him more time, and see what he will be able to achieve.

[xLays]

While checking the PL app to see the status of my squad for the Fantasy League, I came across this. Apparently, the EPL has already released an official statement regarding the current issue involving Manchester City. TLDR Not sure if this has already been posted in this thread.

Check out this article: https://www.premierleague.com/en/news/4727779/premier-league-statement-manchester-city-fc