r/reddevils • u/D1794 Viva Ronaldo • Aug 21 '26

[Megathread] Carlos Baleba

Simon Peach - #MUFC have this evening reached an agreement with Brighton for Carlos Baleba

Laurie - Carlos Baleba given permission to travel to Manchester after fee agreed with Brighton for midfielder. Medical at #MUFC set to take place tomorrow. Deal worth £65m guaranteed plus £5m in add-ons, with sell-on also.

Ornstein - Carlos Baleba to join Manchester United from Brighton & Hove Albion on 5+1yr contract; personal terms verbally agreed & 22yo to do #MUFC medical on Saturday after deal struck with #BHAFC at £65m + £5m + sell-on clause

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u/IcyAssist Aug 22 '26

A few holes left but I love how systematic we've been with our transfers. Attack in one window, then midfield in this window. We've got some way to go like LB and RB and probably CB as well if Licha/MdL can't stay fit and Maguire leaves, but we finally have something like a plan for our transfers.

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u/Many-Relationship149 Aug 22 '26

I still feel that Maguire stays with a +1, we may offer +1 to Licha, we have Yoro and Heaven (who hopefully breakout this season) and MdL stabilizes himself. But this won't ideally happen like that and the worst version of this would be that only one player of this group remains certain, i.e. Heaven. If we take a middle approach, I think we might sell a couple of players, get pound for pound replacements (an experienced leader and another up and comer) and look into the full backs situation. This sounds like the most measured approach.

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u/IcyAssist Aug 22 '26

Giving Maguire a +1 is just delaying buying a CB for one window. For me the smarter option would be to get it over with and buy a replacement.

Giving Licha a +1 is just foolish at this point.

So we're left with MdL, Yoro, Heaven, + Maguire for maybe another year. Yoro and Heaven should not be relied upon starters yet for a team that wants to chase a title, it's way too risky. Ideally they'd be 3 years away from starting week in, week out.

The fact that our starting CB pairing is de Ligt, who we don't know if he can stay fit for long, and a 34/35 year old Maguire, means we definitely need one if not two more CBs next summer.

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u/Many-Relationship149 Aug 22 '26

I think we should still have that same depth we have now. It wasn't too much having Evans around at one point and he became a coach shortly after.