Joao Mario confirmed
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42815705
Gimme a minute and I'll move over the relevant comments from the transfer speculation thread.
Gimme a minute and I'll move over the relevant comments from the transfer speculation thread.
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It seems like he will give us options which is great..
We need it at the moment
It is also good that we have not had to commit the funds unless all happy at the end of the season. I imagine he would like a champions league club so will be using us to promote himself but we also have the opportunity to impress him and sign him up, whilst if he turns out a complete Zsa Zsa we can return him and go shopping again.
Credit where it's due, the board have been getting a right bashing for no business so far but it has come (well nearly) and is of the right calibre, it wasn't someone from Turkey or Rotherham as we may have feared, I think we may need another signing even if only on loan to compensate for the Carroll long term and Arnie short term injury up front.
http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/42815705
;bowdown
Overall though, happy and excited. Albeit defensive midfield is a position I thought we were looking to strengthen in!
Central midfield and right-sided players are among those Moyes is expected to target when the window opens next week,
But Moyes actual quote is.........
"I think we’re short in some areas and overloaded in others. For example, we’ve got lots of forwards, we’re really short of midfield players. We’ve got quite a few who are comfortable playing on the left, but not so many who can play on the right, so we’ve got a little bit of an imbalanced squad which we’ve got to straighten out in January if we can."
https://www.whufc.com/news/articles/2017/december/27-december/moyes-we-need-add-more-quality-balance-squad
No actual quote from him about a central (or defensive) midfielder.....
Lets hope he is indeed super!
"I don’t want to say too much until it is done but I was at the Euro 2016 Final when Portugal played France, so I had an opportunity to watch Joao there. He can play in a number of roles. There’s a little bit of Manuel Lanzini about his play. He could play off the left or right and even as a No10 if needed.
I hope he will be a player who will create and score a few goals for us. Even before Manu’s injury we were looking to add some creativity but now the need for that type of player is even more acute. At the start of the window the move didn’t look like it would happen but as the days have gone on it became more likely."
I hope no one has turned he head before his put pen to paper.
;lol
Like Sanchez was captured the night before in a United shirt with a camera doing the "video" but it wasn't announced until much later in the day when they released it all together
Maybe it will be a double signing, wouldn't mind Sideshow bob...