Btw, it starts to look quite likely that team goes to US without any additions. So three matches where Moyes will basically give lots of minutes to players who will never be first team players.
What's this? Talking sense to lads who think a youngster with zero first-team experience will be better than someone who has played in three of the five top European leagues?
They did.
They weren't great players but they were physically capable of playing in the premier league and knew the basics of what positions to be in, touch, where not to lose the ball, tracking back etc.
The young lads would be headless...
Players who have left played in a total of almost 200 matches. Wank or not, who plays those games now? Young played tons at both flanks. Who plays LB if Mykolenko gets injured again? Who plays RW? And who is the sub for that position?
Just a thought but maybe, just maybe most of the Luiz talk came from his agent? We may have made an inquiry but it never went further because Luiz isn't interested. But his agent tried to use that to drum up interest from elsewhere and that...
We hear this nonsense every single pre-season that it doesn’t matter, we then proceed to lose our opening 3 games while looking miles off the pace of our opponents. It’s a tiring cycle.
Why would I say that? Of course someone like Branthwaite is worth the risk, but we are not talking about players who might come good several years down the line. Unless of course you think our right wing situation is so good we don't actually...