Should Man Utd Sign Manuel Ugarte or Joao Neves?

Neves will also cost around 30-40 million more at least

I love Neves as a player but Ugarte would be more suitable in the United DM

I love neves but for now is Ugarte for me

Sometimes it is not about the cost or stats. If Utd try to go in for Neves, a player they have scouted for more than half a season, they risk not getting Neves AND upsetting PSG, and not getting Ugarte.

i question the stature of the midfield if it's a neves/mainoo or mount setup with bruno further upfront. so conventionally ugarte will seem like a better mix with him being the defensive specialist, mainoo being the water carrier and bruno being the playmaking wildcard. but this seems to be the era of the deep lying playmaker, and all the big clubs around europe have them. in the epl, manchester city has the best in rodri, and stones and akanji can also step up and do the job. arsenal has partey/jorghino and even odegaard dropping deeper to facilitate and now calafiori can step up. newcastle has guimares, liverpool's szoboszlai and macallister are taking turns to do it. even postecoglu has created a brilliant blueprint forcefeeding bissouma the ball and letting him use the interplay with sarr to progress the ball. so maybe neves is the one they should sign and build around (maybe in future windows replace bruno or even mainoo). these deep lying maestro types are rare and also dying out.

Sign both

Atlantis on the Joao Neves train let's gooo!! but yh he's 100% to PSG unfortunately unless we hijack the deal which seems unlikely atp.

thank God i finally heard someone else say Ugarte isn’t just a ball winning midfielder even tho that’s his main attribute he’s quite decent in other areas as well.

as of right now i’ll take Ugarte if PSG are willing to accept below €60 million.

for this transfer window i only see use getting de ligt, ugarte, and a LB deal done. unless we have a lot more out goings i don’t see us doing more than that.

Utd can easily sign both Fofana & Amrabat combined for 40-50 m, rather than spending 60-70 m on Ugarte. Ugarte is quite a risky player, too much hard tackler, gets carded too many times, not a great passer. If you wanna spend that much money on a single player sign Zubimendi. Fofana, Zubimendi are far better on the ball than Ugarte.

Why not both? At this point INEOS can do no wrong. I dream of the day to see United back in the Champions every year

Nevas is a new fred

In an ideal world, both should be signed. We need that rugged defensive midfielder in Ugarte and the deep lying regista in João Neves

As a portuguese and someone who saw both play dozens of times i can tell that they´re very different players, Ugarte is a pure 6 while Neves can do the role but is more of an 8, last season he got better when Florentino returned to the team to play the 6 role.

I think you're insane for even thinking that United can go for both.

A video on Colombian DM Ricardo Rios

dude. Neves isnt evena natural 6 what are you talking. we need a real DM who can protect the back 4 and unlock more freedom for mainoo lol

I think Benfica are inviting us to bid just to raise the Neves price by another 10-20mln. So £70m is likely only a deal PSG can do with no other competition.
It’s possible we might be then able to get Ugarte for 42 and maybe sell Sancho for similar. We’re also maybe in for Xavi Simons for loan plus say 50/60 obligation in 2025.
The Sancho sale could unlock funds for say a Nico Williams whose buyout is 50 plus taxes and Barca are struggling to make it work.
Finally if PSG came in for Bruno between it all you have upgraded your wings, replaced Bruno with someone much younger and got your DM all for maybe 20-30m and two players gone.

Neves is a no.8 and we already have Mainoo for that.

Make one of mazraoui and Frimpong

Neither, as one isn’t good enough and the other one is too expensive. Neves is a far more complete player and there’s obviously a reason why they’re looking to upgrade.

wow, Casemiro was not good last season but not as bad, he defensively good, 1% blocks, 2% clearance, 8% tackle, 5% aerial, not to mention he play as CB couple of time, and CB behind him was Maguire and Evans most of the time. yes he slow down alot and make couple late judgement, and both of this guys are young and faster but i dont think they better than Casemiro as CDM. the main problem with Casemiro is his wages, and actually last season i feel like he's feel unmotivated than finished physically.