They let us take Pogba when they believed the price went too high.
I personally can’t see them being so arsed they will spend 50m.
They’ll make the kid sacrifice to show how much he wants it, or they’ll move on.
why?
If the lad tells Lille he absolutely aint joining us and only wants Madrid now or next Summer for free, our bid then means ziltch.
All that would matter is how much Lille believe that one extra year is worth for them to hold on.
That’d all depend right? If they can convince the lad to wait it out and hope Lille feel desperate not to lose him next year for free then maybe 25-30m right at the end of the window.
Would be extremely risky for him though on so many levels.
Aye, the idea we prioritise an 18 yr old from Ligue 1 carries zero logic for me. This all stems from Ornstein thinking De Ligt should be easy to wrap up and wondering why we must be “stalling”, those thoughts he actually confirms himself in the...
it’s exactly the same. “The expectation is”.
I mean, “it seems” and “the expectation” screams that it’s an opinion of those at the Athletic.
If there was any actual confirmation of that being the case they’d word it much stronger, even “though...
It’d be more mental if we fecked up the De Ligt deal cause we were waiting on someone who didn’t ever really fancy the move, forcing us to spend 60m on Braithwaite to start the season with Martinez, Braithwaite, Maguire and Evans :lol:
I’m not...
I keep saying it but I’d be absolutely blown away considering Martinez availability if we decided to buy just one CB, especially a really young one just starting his career.
We’ve bid for 3 CB’s, 2 of them at the start of their careers.
Logic...
Every report says we’ve bid for De Ligt too and are in negotiations with Bayern.
Looks clear to me we want two CB’s and De Ligt is priority, then it’ll be a younger CB from France or Everton. Makes sense too.
Actually it wouldn’t strengthen anything, Everton aren’t selling Jarrad cheaper just because we bought and 18 yr old, and same goes for De Ligt. Bayern could easily recoup the money quoted for him, but right now he’s apparently so daft, he’s...
De Ligt and his agent aren’t daft either, as this suggests. If United were genuinely stalling, on this faint hope for Yoro, his agent would 100% know it and as De Ligt still has high stock at Bayern, he’d likely tell us to get fecked.
But sure...