Thiago Alcantara

[Neville Kneville]

Would hate for a player like him to end up at Pool, worse even at United. We should be all over this and offering Gündogan in exchange

I'd prefer neither.

 

[Dax777]

I'd prefer neither.

Neither United or Liverpool? Or Neither Gundo or Thiago here?

 

[Neville Kneville]

Neither United or Liverpool? Or Neither Gundo or Thiago here?

Both

 

[ctid1894]

Would hate for a player like him to end up at Pool, worse even at United. We should be all over this and offering Gündogan in exchange

Yeah, Bayern would bite our fucking arm off, I'm sure.

 

[Maldeika]

Thiago is clearly an excellent player but he didn’t put up much resistance when Liverpool won 3-1 in Munich last season and I don’t think he alone would fix everything for us either.

In that game he was alongside the glacial Javi Martinez and playing behind Gnabry, James Rodriguez and Ribery. Compare that lot’s pressing ability to Goretzka, Gnabry, Müller and Coman and you’ll see what the difference is.

No player alone can make it - especially when system and players do not match (together). As we have seen not even a Messi can do that. Bayern are no team that can play defending deep - that is what Kovac tried in that match.

Kovac and Bayern were a total mismatch. Asked in October last season in a press conference if the Bayern team could press like Liverpool he answered that you cannot go 200 km/h with a car that has a top velocity of 100 km/h... - Bayern's pressing data after him was better than Liverpools... We do not need to talk how he treated Müller who being put in place again and trusted was the one that figuratively shouted this team to 3 titles.

Thiago is a world class player when he can play out his strengths. And he combines passing, individual moves and defensive contribution in a way I do not find any other player in the world can right now. In an ideal system he can play a good 6 - but needs a partner with defensive qualities. He can play very offensive - but needs a partner that is more offensive and can go into the box.

He wants to do something different - or maybe it is that his wife wants to move because a lot of her friends live in the Greater Manchester Area now (A return to Barcelona does not seem to be an option).

That is why Bayern let's him go - in difference to Alaba who just seems to want to get a better deal - but for sure wants to have an acceptable fee for him.

 

[nellyonthewing]

This guy should be our number 1 target.

 

[RayCTID]

Aouar is the better bet

 

[blueparrot]

Don’t think we are looking for a midfielder so doesn’t matter how good he is. If we were though would prefer Aouar myself.

 

[JoshH7611]

We need to be in for this guy. He's so good.

 

[McfcBibby]

Absolute baller