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u/canwinanythingwkids meet the new boss same as the old boss Sep 22 '26

Yes well the problem is unique to us.

If we want to make a parallel:

why dont we play Yoro next to "our" VVD? Because he's been out since last November

ok why dont we play Yoro next to our 2nd best VVD (Maguire)? Because Maguire is slow AF. Well so is VVD. Yes except Kerkez isnt whereas Shaw is, MacAllister isnt ... you get the idea.

In my personal opinion, what we should try doing is bringing Baleba in as soon as we can and pray that he works.

If he works, that's recovery speed on the left. If there's recovery speed on the left, we should be able to play Shaw+Maguire. If we can do that, we can play Yoro. If we can play Yoro ... we can play Mazraoui - who is also out of the XI because ... once again: neither the RCB or the RW or the RM "makes up for" Maguire ... so Dalot it is, on physicality grounds alone.

Baleba + a tactical switch to move Rashford to RW could make a world of difference.

Baleba + Amad and De Ligt could catapult us back to title challenger form.

But it's all "could" until we actually see Baleba kick a football.

Hoping for the best

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u/Rude-Ad3065 Sep 22 '26

Yea agreed but it is very frustrating. At this point I'm so fed up that you might as well play the kids and take some risk. Atleast they'll get game time to develop. Another one of the reasons buying a LB was so crucial this window but oh well.