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🗞 There is a meeting scheduled between Alejandro Garnacho’s agent and #mufc in the coming weeks, once they solve the Ronaldo situation. [@FabrizioRomano, @caughtoffside]

Haha

chong makes me want to cry

update, half time still 0-0

Raphael Varane captain ©

#mufc starting XI vs Rayo Vallecano: Heaton, Laird, Varane, Martínez, Telles, Garner, Van de Beek, Eriksen, Chong, Garnacho, Cristiano Ronaldo #mulive

Official: Benni McCarthy joins #mufc as a first-team coach. He will specialise in coaching attacking plays and positioning #mulive

Erik ten Hag on Cristiano Ronaldo: “Tomorrow he will be in the squad. We’ll see how long he can play." #mulive [mu]

thank god its over

full time

joao felix score athletico 1-0 man utd

only good players have been malacia and eriksen, and the latter has only been on for 4 minutes bore fest

update: still 0-0 eriksen comes on! 20 minutes to play.

Okay

sancho is sick*

sancho is injured. martinez and eriksen are on the bench

#mufc starting XI vs Atletico Madrid: De Gea, Dalot, Maguire, Lindelöf, Malacia, Fred, McTominay, Elanga, Bruno Fernandes, Rashford, Martial #mulive

to be clear, ten hag has expressed that if he cannot sign a suitable player like de jong, he won't sign another midfield player but will probably try to accomodate the current midfield options we have. so don't expect us to pursue another midfielder if we don't get de jong

im still fairly confident that de jong will join us by the start of the season. from the news that is out, barcelona need to move on players to register their new signings (kounde 60m, lewandowski 50m, raphinha 65m, christensen and kessie). they are also heavily linked with bernardo silva and may still make more signings. in order to balance the books, they might do whatever it takes to get de jong off the books due to FFP. next season, he will be on a €425k/week contract at barcelona, and also owed a loyalty bonus worth €20 million and €5 million annual bonus. even if he does not come, he will not have a good season at barcelona. at barca, he is not played in his favoured midfield role and is always out of position. now that kessie has signed, their main midfield will be busquets-pedri-kessie. they also have pjanic and gavi as rotational players. in pre season so far, xavi has played de jong at center back, which is a pretty clear sign that de jong is not part of their midfield plans. hopefully in january/next season this means we can pick him up for a much reduced price from a barcelona eager to move him on