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Orgut

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Dec 31, 2002
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Could Cancelo be utilised as an AMR?
Cancelo is a huge dilemma..
On one hand he is fast great technique can dribble very well and attack in a great way on the other hand his defensive work is... not exactly satisfying for his position..
The thing is Cancelo needs space to work and he works best when coming from behind to attack which means AMR is not exactly the best place for him.
The best position for him is a RWB in a 3 men defense formation - This will relieve some of the pressure that is on him when defending and will allow him to attack.
Also 3 CB means better coverage in defense (at least on paper)..

Unless we start playing 3-5-2 I dont think it would be wise to keep him when we can fetch 50M-60M for him...
 

tassard

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Jul 30, 2004
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Cancelo is a huge dilemma..
On one hand he is fast great technique can dribble very well and attack in a great way on the other hand his defensive work is... not exactly satisfying for his position..
The thing is Cancelo needs space to work and he works best when coming from behind to attack which means AMR is not exactly the best place for him.
The best position for him is a RWB in a 3 men defense formation - This will relieve some of the pressure that is on him when defending and will allow him to attack.
Also 3 CB means better coverage in defense (at least on paper)..

Unless we start playing 3-5-2 I dont think it would be wise to keep him when we can fetch 50M-60M for him...

Ιf i'm not mistaken he was Motm against Lazio playing in Amr position.But he never played so high on pitch again
 

Orgut

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Ιf i'm not mistaken he was Motm against Lazio playing in Amr position.But he never played so high on pitch again
Honestly I dont remember but he played in some games as AMR and wasnt that great. I really like his offensive game coming from an RB position but his defensive skills not to mention losing possession like he did vs Ajax is something we should not tolerate
 

Boksic

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May 11, 2005
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Honestly I dont remember but he played in some games as AMR and wasnt that great. I really like his offensive game coming from an RB position but his defensive skills not to mention losing possession like he did vs Ajax is something we should not tolerate
To be fair to him he is usually excellent at keeping possession under pressure at the back and it a big positive for the team. The Ajax mistake was terrible but I'm confident if you gave him the same pass 100 times he'd control it comfortably just about every time.

His head seemed to go towards the end of the season and looked like he had lost his usual confidence.

I think his defensive weakness is not nearly as bad as is made out and he has improved there. At 24, being probably the best RB in Serie A during his season at Inter and being superb for the first half of the season I'd be very disappointed to see us selling him.

I used to prefer more defensive RB/LB's but the game has changed and we now need them to be additional attackers. Although I'm confident that he can improve defensively.

I agree that he is better suited to RB with the game in front of him than AMR.
 

Gian

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Apr 12, 2009
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The thing is, we cannot improve on Cancelo. Name me 3 better RB's? Kimmich, Carvajal... I cant think of any and we wont get any of those two. There are simply no great RB's on the market.
 

juve123

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Icardi is considering to contact CONI's Arbitration panel over terminating his contract with Inter. If the judges were to rule that there was misconduct towards Icardi within Inter's environment, then he'd immediately become a free agent.(La Repubblica)
 

Orgut

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Dec 31, 2002
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The thing is, we cannot improve on Cancelo. Name me 3 better RB's? Kimmich, Carvajal... I cant think of any and we wont get any of those two. There are simply no great RB's on the market.
This might be true but
A. No one considered him great before he arrived
B. Great RB is relative as someone who is better defensively could be better for us despite not being better attacker than Cancelo

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Icardi is considering to contact CONI's Arbitration panel over terminating his contract with Inter. If the judges were to rule that there was misconduct towards Icardi within Inter's environment, then he'd immediately become a free agent.(La Repubblica)
Free Agent? I doubt it would happen..
 

DAiDEViL

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Feb 21, 2015
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Icardi is considering to contact CONI's Arbitration panel over terminating his contract with Inter. If the judges were to rule that there was misconduct towards Icardi within Inter's environment, then he'd immediately become a free agent.(La Repubblica)
If that's gonna be the case, sign him up and sell him to China midseason.
 

juve123

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Aug 10, 2017
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This might be true but
A. No one considered him great before he arrived
B. Great RB is relative as someone who is better defensively could be better for us despite not being better attacker than Cancelo

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Free Agent? I doubt it would happen..
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704905704574622033406203614 Read this article

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Is it true sources said that Pogba has handed in a transfer request to United?
Yes it is true but man utd want 150 million euros
 

maxi

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Aug 31, 2006
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New reports emerging that he's made up his mind and it's Real Madrid he wants, not us. But I cant see how they can pull off such a transfer after spending already €255m so far.
 
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