• thedudeabides-12@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    “Manchester United fans were deceived by the signing of Raphael Varane, according to Gabriel Agbonlahor”… If you say so…

  • Mr_Miscellaneous@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Strangely, it seems like “Having a plan and buying talented, ambitious players” might be a better idea than “throw more money than nearly every club in the world at high profile players/players that have won nearly everything”.

  • Brief_Ad_6929@alien.top
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    1 year ago

    These posts add no value but just generate clicks. How would Gabby who is not related to United in any way know what United is thinking. It’s not like United was sat sulking in a pub and he ran into it and asked. What a BS article.

  • finny94@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    This is not the opinion of anyone at the club, this is just ramblings of a fucking idiot. Gabby Agbonlahor of the shitrag that is TalkSport. And some quotes from Scholes as well.

    As for the actual premise, it is ridiculous to suggest that a buyer club can be “deceived” when it comes to a player that has played a shitload of games for the seller club. We didn’t buy Varane because someone told us he was good, we bought him because his quality was evident. No one was “deceived”, that’s just TalkSport being the shitrag that it’s always been.

    Now, I do agree that he isn’t exactly a leader, or a transformative player like van Dijk or Diaz, but he is damn good when he’s in form and in the right partnership, we saw it last season.

    There is a reason Maguire-Varane isn’t a pairing we see often: it doesn’t really work. This is why Maguire-Evans has been our go-to in the absence of Martinez.

  • MalcolmTucker88@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Should’ve put ‘according to Gabriel Agbonlahor’ in the title, so we all could’ve saved our time and ignored this article.

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      1 year ago

      well maybe you deserve it for clicking it despite it being from the clowns at talkshite my friend!

  • dracovich@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Honestly noone should be buying big names from Madrid, they seem like masters at getting rid of players at the right time.

  • AkilleezBomb@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Don’t remember all of this talk about Varane when United finished with the most clean sheets in the PL last season.

    Yeah making fun of United and their scouting is fun, but it’s a bit of an overreaction considering the entire team is underperforming right now.