15 Jan 2024 21:21:50
Hi Ed 002, any truth to the Benzema to Utd rumours?

{Ed002's Note - Benzema is being offered around obut he is 36 and the wages are huge. His club may block any move.}

1.) 16 Jan 2024
16 Jan 2024 10:43:43
Its an absolute Crazy rumour in my opinion. He is on some crazy wage and imo would massively struggle in the pl and way past playing in this league. No way we would do anything as stupid as this. I can see a loan for a striker but not Benzema.

2.) 16 Jan 2024
16 Jan 2024 12:38:24
Thanks Ed002.

Ahmad, I admire your optimism but Utd have lots of form for doing plenty of things just as stupid; Schweinsteiger, Falcao to name two.

Hopefully Sir Jim's arrival will change that going forward.

3.) 16 Jan 2024
16 Jan 2024 14:55:01
Mancman

Here is to hoping we have learnt from the past. Its exactly that stuff and why we are where we are. We should be buying the exceptional 20 to 23 year old and not after they have played for real or Barcelona or Bayern not their late 20's early thirties and bringing them over and giving them a retirement contract.

4.) 16 Jan 2024
16 Jan 2024 20:13:29
There are worse options to be honest. I'm not advocating for the move, but if any sort of short term loan where we don't pay all his wages would give us a proven elite striker who is also very capable of bringing others into play and being a creative focal point not just a tap in merchant.

Personally I wouldn't look to do this deal. I think the problem is that we don't create enough chances for our forwards, bringing in better finishers is at best half an attempt at putting a plaster over a gaping wound.

We'd likely just have a bigger name player on massive wages feeding on scarps and having 1 or 2 half chances a game.

Personally the area we need to fix is the midfield. We don't have any control or ball progression in the heart of the team. Fix the midfield and suddenly our defence isn't as exposed and over worked, almost certainly leading to a better defensive record. While we might also be able to get a foothold in games and actually start creating some chances. Or at least have enough of the ball in the middle and final thirds to start working on some better patterns of play.

Currently our total inability to control the game is leaving us exposed defensively and blunt in attack.

Someone posted further down the page that the 18 year old Kobbie Mainoo is statistically our best midfielder. When that is the case you don't have to look any further than that to know what is wrong with our team right now.

5.) 17 Jan 2024
17 Jan 2024 19:04:29
If we sign Benzema, even on loan……we’ve learned absolutely nothing from the last 5-10 years.

6.) 18 Jan 2024
18 Jan 2024 15:49:15
I don't think you can tar every player of this ilk (ie just past their prime, mid-thirties), or all of our experiences, with the same brush. Zlatan was ok, wasn't he? Yes, it would be expensive, probably (ok, definitely) money we don't have. But even though I love Hojland, we need more up front, even on loan for a few months while he settles in. Two prem goals since May for our main striker, come on.
If Benzema was available for a few months I'd love to see it.