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Angel Di Maria | £59.7M fee agreed I Maybe tomorrow...or the day after...
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Every time I watched Madrid last season he was the best player on the pitch.
Don't care what the fee is, this is fantastic news.
Don't care what the fee is, this is fantastic news.
Goals are all well and good, but do you really have confidence in the likes of Jones, Smalling and Evans to keep clean sheets? the jury is still out on Rojo too. Then on to the midfield, which is a shambles to put it lightly. Herrera's injury proves that with the panic that's been going around. Cleverly and Fletcher in midfield on Sunday? Christ.
They don't have any other prospective buyers do they either ?
Oh good lord. My heart can't take it. He is everything we've missed.
Graham Hunter did a phone in interview a few weeks ago where he just raved about Di Maria. Made him sound like the second coming. I know I'm already on my second cumming.
As good as he is 60 million for an attacking player who doesn't score goals? Truth be told we have grossly over paid for all of our players in this transfer window. Shaw, Herrera and Rojo are worth half of what we paid for them, mabe even less. Seems like Woodward has said "feck negotiations, here's the clubs credit card, take what you want and just drop the player outside carrington this morning"
With our injury record you can bet on him playing a fair bit. Also, Rooney is captain now so he's not getting left behind by a long shot.
Drive the price down, not up. Good lord man. I'd take Vidal at £50m.
I'm not saying we shouldn't spend more, i think we should as our squad as not as good a City's or Chlesea's by a distance, and arguably Arsenal's. Our squad has had some underinvestment followed by buying that has left us unbalanced as a squad.
Top 4 was people's minimum last season, now with the money we've spent we should be aiming to challenge for the title.
would be great to have exciting action back at OT again
50M, 60M. Who gives a shit? No one here is going to turn around in a month and say, "I'm glad we didn't sign Di Maria for 60m. It was just too much. We have Young."
Just get it done.
Just get it done.
That's exactly what people having been calling for... The man can't win
I'd really like to mix things up a bit and see some peoples original line ups including Di Maria followed by 
. that would be really nice.
. that would be really nice.Is the press already at the airport waiting on him and reporting exactly when flights from Madrid to Manchester fly in...
(The Munich press camped at the airport for the Martinez transfer - they even had a ticker... )
(The Munich press camped at the airport for the Martinez transfer - they even had a ticker... )
A win tomorrow and it will have been a brilliant weekend
Jorge Mendes needs to fly back from Singapore first to hopefully wrap this up.
This is incredibly good news.
He's easily a £50m player.
He's easily a £50m player.
Omg I nearly wet myself!According to Balague he already is.
That's what we heard last year, before he went on to be our most effective attacking player bar Rooney. Also before our last match, when he was comfortably our best attacking player again. There's a pattern here.
Januzaj gets into these lineups because with Di Maria we'd go back to playing wingers, and Januzaj would be our second best winger. Better to leave Rooney out/let him compete for places with RVP and Mata than play him on the wing.
We ran away with the title last to last season. Finished 2nd on goal difference the season before. One bad season terribly underachieving and Moyes convinced some people that our squad was shit for some reason even after adding a top player in Mata.
If our squad was so bad and 7th or 6th was accurate representation then we shouldn't have sacked Moyes anyway. Top 4 was considered minimum by most last season even accounting for the massive change factor and was included in Moyes' contract too IIRC.
Now after spending 125 million and more potentially which is almost 2nd or third highest for any club ever in one window if he can't even get 4th then it's his fault for not spending the money properly. That's what i meant by the first line.
Going to have to do some serious rearranging to squeeze him into my fantasy team.
A player like him doesn't become available often, spend whatever it takes to get him. Chelsea sold us one of their best players and now Madrid are, let's not question things like the price just get it done, we seriously need players of that calibre.
Must. Find. Way. To. Moan.
I'm torn into shreds about this. On one hand, a brilliant signing that will make our attack twice as lethal. On another, it brings down our chances of signing a good centre mid from 1% down to 0.1%. And without one, we're as good as fecked even if we have Messi, Neymar and Ronaldo up front.
Sums up the Caf's reaction perfectly. *Naaa Sabanyaaaaa we've signed Di Mariaaaaaa*
People are also so willing to put Rooney in midfield but not on the wing? Like I said before he was effective when he played when Ronaldo was here. Mata was also effective on the wing he played for Chelsea. With LVG's 4-3-3 maybe the four of them will click together. Who knows?
It will be interesting if we do sign him what happens after, it may make financial sense to spend more simply because of that clause in the Adidas contract that significantly drops the sponsership money every year we don't get into the champions league.
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----Herrera-----------Di Maria
-------Mata-------Januzaj
---------Rooney/RVP
Players will get injured, so pointless even thinking about our strongest 11
----Herrera-----------Di Maria
-------Mata-------Januzaj
---------Rooney/RVP
Players will get injured, so pointless even thinking about our strongest 11
He's just been made captain...... He's not going to be dropped.
Leaving Rooney out would be absolute nuts. With our midfield problems he's more than able capable of filling in CM until we get more stable there
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That's exactly what I thought reading that drivel.Are there any English-speaking Real Madrid forums floating about? Would like to see their opinions on di Maria.
Herrera plays #8. Where does Rooney fit ?
Yeah, I imagine the video would be a bit strange to someone who has no idea about the Caf
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