If he's already for sale, then it must be something about his attitude or profile is making JM unhappy.

Uninformed guess: his work-rate on defensive aspects not good enough, or he isn't showing enough intensity.

Good profile in terms of goals and assists, makes sense since it's not like we have been blowing away teams with our goal rushes over the last 3 years.

Guessing we need to sort out our back-line and base of midfield first, once those are more solid then JM might be more adventurous about giving someone like him a chance.

Yea, sounds about right on all 3 counts.

One of those days zzzz by the end I was concerned it would be one of those shit days where we can't break through and then they get 1 on the counter to make us vomit blood.

Luke Shaw's tackle was fantastic.

Martial had a foot injury, maybe it was a choice to give him a few more days of training first to avoid risking a setback.

He basically doesn't want to overplay Carrick and risk injuring him. In any case, our midfield did okay in terms of controlling the game and making chances.. it was our finishing that let us down more than anything.

Heaton had a good game, but we also could have given him a harder time.

Wow.. 2 quick goals, nice!

Agreed. Between the post, misses, and some of the ref decisions........ add in the Boro sucker punch goal, it looked like it might be "one of those days"

Really good outcome, all things considered... happy start to the new year!

Same deal as Keane and Scholes, quite unlikely to be a like-for-like replacement because the obvious ones are not available.

Verratti seems great on paper but based on what I've read, it would be a shock if PSG agreed to sell him - it seems they rate him quite highly, as they should. Modric would be great, but surely Real will not sell him. Same goes for Kroos.

We've been linked to Babayoko, not sure how true it is or how good he is.

Yep, agreed. And they both are pretty happy there anyway. Rakitic also being linked with an exit from Barca, but that would be unexpected.

Hmmmmm :

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2017/0...bid-fortiemoue/