Debatra Chatterjee

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Seen this take a lot among Newcastle fans. From the little I've watched, Tonali and Bruno both have looked amazing in the Newcastle midfield. And Tonali is much younger than Bruno. Why are Newcastle fans ok with Tonali leaving?

The only right answer for this is Manuel Neuer right? His technical ability would be good enough to score against 11 Messis/Ronaldos, and his GK skill is good enough to not concede against Maldini/Ramos like STs. Am I getting something wrong here?

@paulenglish1961 Your posts reach my feed and they add so much to my knowledge of the club I support from far.

Can’t be arsed to do individual posts today as virtually no one is getting to see them, so I’ll do it all in one post. So these are the birthdays, Matches played and debuts made on this day 18th March, in Manchester United’s history. Birthdays: 1887 Haydn Green 1939 Ron Atkinson 1976 Jovan Kirovski 1995 Pierluigi Gollini 1999 Diogo Dalot Matches played 1896 Burton Wanderers (A) lost 5-1 1899 New Brighton Tower (H) lost 2-1 1905 Grimsby Town (H) won 2-1 1911 Notts County (A) lost 1-0 1922 Blackburn Rovers (H) lost 1-0 1933 Notts County (A) lost 1-0 1939 Wolves (A) lost 3-0 1950 Blackpool (H) lost 2-1 1961 Arsenal (H) Drew 1-1 1963 West Ham United (A) lost 3-1 1964 Sporting Lisbon (A) lost 5-0 1967 Leicester City (H) won 5-2 1972 Stoke City (H) Drew 1-1 1978 WBA (H) Drew 1-1 1981 Nottingham Forest (H) Drew 1-1 1989 Nottingham Forest (H) lost 1-0 1990 Liverpool (H) lost 2-1 1992 Nottingham Forest (H) lost 1-0 1998 Monaco (H) Drew 1-1 2000 Leicester City (A) won 2-0 2003 Deportivo La Corunna (A) lost 2-0 2006 WBA (A) won 2-1 2012 Wolves (A) won 5-0 2021 AC Milan (A) won 1-0 Debuts 1899 James Hopkins 1905 Dick Wombwell 1933 Andrew Mitchell 2003 Mark Lynch #MUFC #UTFR #GGMU #ManUnited #ManchesterUnited #ManUtd

@JamesNUFC92 More limited than Bruno, yes. But not very limited. In my opinion he's a very good all-round player. In-possession he has a good switch pass, great shooting from distance and good set-piece taking ability. That's valuable when added with his OOP work.

@DbChatterjee Tonali is fast and strong. He looks good because of Howe’s poor tactical set up, leaving him needed to do ridiculous recovery runs and cover large amounts of space. Tonali is very limited in possession. Sack Howe. Ensure technical quality is present in any summer signings.

The Guimaraes news coming out is nice, and is a lot more realistic for current United than Anderson/Tonali, who City Arsenal will be in for and will be 100m+ Bruno will be more affordable, and is an upgrade on Mainoo. Pair with a ball-winner (Baleba?) and that's a good MF.

@JamesNUFC92 I meant Bruno cost 30-40m when Newcastle signed him from Lyon. I think you're severely underestimating Tonali btw. He will be super difficult for you folks to replace if he indeed leaves this summer.

@DbChatterjee This is absolute nonsense. Bruno is Newcastle’s best and most important player. Tonali is Newcastle’s 4th best midfielder. Bruno would cost 100 million pound and is extremely unlikely to leave.

If I had no idea about United's academy and watched this FA Youth Cup game, I would have come out of the first half thinking only Noah Ajayi is a player with any chance of making a senior United team.

@totalf0otball Yeah, plus Safonov being older has probably helped him manage the expectations of a PSG role quicker as well I guess.

@DbChatterjee To be honest, Safonov was just as impressive but in lesser minutes. I guess one didn't need the time to adapt and one still needs time. 🚶‍♂️

This is so interesting. Chevalier was one of the best GKs in Ligue 1 while at Lille. Really goes to show performances at one club, esp. by a young player, doesn't always translate to a different club (with different contexts) United gets too much hate for the Sancho signing imo.

@RedMarrow_ That's for sure, a very positive surprise for us!

@DbChatterjee Also makes Lammens' seamless integration so much more significant.

"Mountains are there to be climbed" would like to have a word with you.

During the 2022 WC I was very confused why the rest of Africa did not like Morocco too much. I can see why now. 😂

Our previous manager was holding us back. We have a very strong starting 11 and a good +3/4 , then shocking depth after that. We are playing only Premier League which is good for a small squad. The PL is shockingly bad this season. Crazy yes, but not unexpected.

If Dalot is so good at making runs behind the defence and constantly go one-on-one, just put him on some shooting drills in training please.

Can't lie, gen alpha cooked with the 6-7 meme. 😂 Feels even better seeing Casemiro pull it off again and again in our shirt.

There is no guarantee we make CL next season. We don't know who the manager is, whether they will be any good. It will be difficult to convince Tonali level of players. We have to scout great players who haven't burst out yet.

United midfield thoughts - I think at best we are at the stage Arsenal were 5 seasons ago. The stage of scouting players like Saliba, but for our midfield. Yes we would like Tonali/Anderson, but they would want regular CL. If we qualify, this will be the first in 4 seasons.

Max Dowman. I have witnessed the start of something special. I'm sure.