Although he has not officially taken up the position, David Moyes has set about aggressively revamping Manchester United’s midfield.
United have been linked with a number of midfielders already, the pursuit of Spaniard Thiago Alcantara is up in the air but said to hinge the player green lighting the move, but will United add some much needed steel to their midfield?
There has been little to no talk of a move for Marouane Fellaini, whilst rumours of a move for Kevin Strootman have gone cold but this week news of a move for Sevilla’s Geoffrey Kondogbia has emerged.
The midfielder joined Sevilla from Lens last summer and has excelled in midfield leading to interest from Real Madrid, Man City and Chelsea, but local paper Diario de Sevilla claim that United held ‘positive’ talks with the Andelusian club and that a transfer is very much on the cards.
Some say that comparisons with Patrick Vieira are lazy given that both are tall, black, French midfielders but you can see similarities between the two as they mix strength and power with technical ability but if anything, I think Kondogbia can assume a Yaya Toure like role for United.
Tall and robust, Kondogbia is left footed, technically adept and uses the ball smartly with an 87% pass rate last season. Although he can be deployed in the center or left of defence, Kondogbia really shines when playing in the holding role (which would allow Thiago and Carrick to cause mayhem!). Aged just 20 there is still time for him to become an offensive force like Yaya Toure is as he is positionally disciplined thus tends not to make much of an impact in the opposition’s half.
Sevilla are currently suffering from financial problems and have already sold Jesus Navas to Man City in an attempt to alleviate this, so a transfer is very possible. It is believed that a fee in the region of £15m could drive a deal through although a figure much lower could be negotiated given that last summer he cost them around €3m.
United will need to move quickly if they are interested in bringing Kondogbia to Old Trafford though, an unnamed team had a €9m bid rejected this week and the Real Madrid are said to be looking to add him to Isco as new signings this summer.
Written By Yannick Tiamou
Moyes dont be like ferguson pls we need one african player, also standing 4.
Shaga you right, we need Africa player in Manu cos we Africans are also surporting the club.manu’ board is the problem ‘slugish policy’ on transfer
in united talking is more than performing when its come to transfer negociations , our best target always slip away to the hand of our fiest rivals ,our exco are lazy when you comper them with the rest. The need to change their tactics or otherwise……………
Thiago,strootman ,kondogbia n. Baine should be a must while one of either of d. Following attackers shd be added 2 d existing one- cR7,Bale,Cavani or Lowadoski
He looks the type of player our midfield craves. Kondogbia, along with a LB, LM/LW/LAM and a CM would complete our squad.
Just fadeup wiz alot of talking and nothing goes on. Ronaldo, Strootman, thiago, Fabregas, Garray.. Alot of talks, this management bores.
things will happen next few weeks mate moyes don’t start new job till Monday they wont announce new plays till after 1st july just chill out lol
Man united should think twice b4 signing any player…and another thing is…we must b serious in developing our midfielders very fast…fellani,thiago,strooman and fabregas should b consider first..they have the ability to change our problems of midfields..bale or cr7 ronaldo should be link to united if we dont want mouriho to disturb us next seasion and lastly…rooney and evra should not be allowed to go anywhere..up man u…up red devils…up david moyes….up glazer….we can do it if put hands together and resolve our problem
enof if all ds talk.man u is always slowbin d trabsfer mkt y?stop tlking nd do us som sreious buisness pllllss.
Moyes should go for thiago,stroothman,bale,kodobia and if possible ronaldo for the benefit of the club if not mourihno will destroy man u’s lifecycle.
forget mourinho no get mouth
we should firstly go for midfielders d likes of strootman, thiago, kondogbia, fellaini and all others we think can rescue us den we go 4 defender like garay and baines d replacement 4 evra and vidic, we can add more to attacker by signing two among these fantastic 4, ronaldo, bale, cavani and lewandoski…. Forget o mourinho no get mouth up moyes up glazer up united…
United should go 4 thiago,strootman,garay,kondogbia & lewy and see us retain our premier league title up unted,up moyes,up glazers.