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Álvaro Morata | Chelsea player
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Agreed. Also look at Lukaku and Belotii, who are basically 40-50m type players going for 80-100m this year.
A message sent from the footballing gods
anyway i hope we get this guy, his youtube compilation is pretty good, his conversion rate is great too!
All these drones who keep using the phrase "reserve" and "backup" are super irritating.
It's like they can't understand that Real Madrid are a superstar team right now, so not getting into their 11 every week isn't exactly a disgrace.
He's a squad player rather than a "reserve" anyway.
You'd think we were trying to bid sky high money for a player who couldn't get near Southampton's team in an injury crisis or something.
It's like they can't understand that Real Madrid are a superstar team right now, so not getting into their 11 every week isn't exactly a disgrace.
He's a squad player rather than a "reserve" anyway.
You'd think we were trying to bid sky high money for a player who couldn't get near Southampton's team in an injury crisis or something.
Even as a "reserve" player he scored more goals than anyone else in that team bar Ronaldo.
These people are probably the same ones who clamoured for Robben and Sneijder one year after they left Madrid.
Good post.
Do you guys really think this will go this smoothly? That Monday will arrive and we will see him doing a medical and he signs? Where is the drama in that? Where are the tears and it's on and it's off moments? At least we might have a flight tracker. 
It's some FFP dodging bollocks whereby the "option to buy" in two years has already been exercised and the cash starts flowing in instalments but, for accounting (and FFP tallying) purposes, the transaction only gets booked in 2019.
It's essentially a work around for a new rich owner to come in, buy an entire new team, and defer it into the future for compliance. So long as it doesn't catch up with them it's all good. Looking at the fees these days, it is bound to snowball.
This is a good post. Some people shouldo do bascic microeconomy lessons before they open their mouths about prices.
Do you guys really think this will go this smoothly? That Monday will arrive and we will see him doing a medical and he signs? Where is the drama in that? Where are the tears and it's on and it's off moments? At least we might have a flight tracker.
To the Griezman thread?
Where did you find his conversion rate?
Ah clever. Thats why i love accounting.
It's actually €70m as it looks now, but nevermind. You certainly seem to like numbers 483972.
According to some Real Madrid fans, Morata's father works for Cadena Ser and Cope, and they are saying that the deal is done for €70m. They are also saying that James is heading to PSG for €70m.
This is valid for a player that is key to a team we're buying it from. In Morata's case there doesn't seem to be many other options for him(someone who is willing to pay 70m EUR besides us) and with WC coming up he needs game time. With being unlikely to get that at Real, dragging the transfer and negotiating the price down seems logic as if he doesn't move Real could have unsettled player sitting on their books.
We even got di Maria for less, although he was key player to Real's CL run in 2014 and it was just 3 years ago.
Imagine this, is anyone willing to pay even 50m EUR for an attacker who is our second option at the moment?
All in all think we're rushing this up as we most likely can get a better deal if we flirt with other options (Bellotti/Lacazette) just to drive his price down.
Real are in no rush to sell but Morata will want first team football and can drive the price down without being promised that.
for the cash id rather lukaku. scores for fun in a meh everton side, would bag for mourinho's style of play.
isnt Aubameyang touted for same price?
its because the club have made it so obvious a striker is desperately needed, clubs want to fleece. rookie mistake
Ah and yet so many grammatical errors. Ah well, I'm drunk.
Those last 3 words looked suspicious... Very good post, indeed.He doesn't deserve the propaganda tbh.Do you guys really think this will go this smoothly? That Monday will arrive and we will see him doing a medical and he signs? Where is the drama in that? Where are the tears and it's on and it's off moments? At least we might have a flight tracker.
Just shit logic to look at 15 current players and use that as a foundation for Bayerns transfer history.
Since 10/11:
58 players brought into Bayerns first team. 10 of those are players brought up from their reserve teams. Out of the remaining 48 signings, 28 of them are from germany. Which means roughly 60% of their signings are from other german clubs.
Good luck finding similar numbers for any of the top clubs in England.
The longer one look back, the more it increases.
If Bayern had a similar situation as we do, they'd have to spend a lot more on transfers and wages.
Some people played too much Football Manager.
It's bizarre how fans worry about amounts of money that a multi-million corporation like United spends on players.
Well im just back from watching a few yt clips of his juve and rm days... Damn im just super excited, just got the muppet juices flowing heavy.
Hes tall, great technique, enough pace and strong enough for a wednesday evening at stoke (haha messi)... Hes just the front man that mourinho usually deploys. Im chuffed for this! Please ed, dont screw this one up
Hes tall, great technique, enough pace and strong enough for a wednesday evening at stoke (haha messi)... Hes just the front man that mourinho usually deploys. Im chuffed for this! Please ed, dont screw this one up
Real's second top scorer to Ronaldo and only plays a 'bit part'....got a conversion rate that only Messi betters in La Liga and Mourinho knows the guy (infact he gave him his debut at Madrid) yet people think he's shite.
He doesn't play because Benzema is a big part of ZZ' tactics, just like Mbappe doesn't start for France ahead of Giroud, a manager wants different things from different players.
He'll do well here. Get a good DM to free up Pogba and add a proper Mourinho winger to the side and our attack will already look 10 times better.
He doesn't play because Benzema is a big part of ZZ' tactics, just like Mbappe doesn't start for France ahead of Giroud, a manager wants different things from different players.
He'll do well here. Get a good DM to free up Pogba and add a proper Mourinho winger to the side and our attack will already look 10 times better.
It's good. He runs the channels, drags players to create space for others and he will be on the other end to head the cross that is coming into the box.
Morata will come good. The only questions is if he'll be good with 25 goals or best striker in the league. That I really can't tell.
Someone already mentioned two issues:
1. he works hard but get's tired becauase of that (in your team he'll have less defensive duties so it shouldn't be a problem)
2. his mentality - he get's frustrated too often on the pitch instead of keeping his cool and that surely affects his game (the way I see it that might be down to his role in both Madrid and Juve, always coming of the bench needing to make the absoulte best of every oportunity. He won't be under that kind of pressure at United because he's coming in as rhe new starting striker. That should make him more calm and a better, mire focused player overall).
he did do well at juve. thzts true
Aye, you know how it is.. Incoherent babble at the back of the pub stuff.
I think Real are making a mistake letting him go - good strikers don't grow on trees. Just rotate him with Benzema a bit more next season and keep him for the long term. Still, good news for us that they're up for selling him.
Yeah we've made it obvious, I'm sure none of the other clubs in Europe knew we needed a striker given we have one fit striker who is 19 years old. We should have kept it on the down low with some secret negotiations, maybe then we would be able to buy Morata for 30 mil
But Morata is key for Real Madrid. He was their second top scorer last season. Also, Morata being a Madridista would mean that it is highly unlikely for him to get unsettled. We are stuck between a rock and a hard place here unfortunately.
zlatan going....being injured was the give away.....Yeah we've made it obvious, I'm sure none of the other clubs in Europe knew we needed a striker given we have one fit striker who is 19 years old. We should have kept it on the down low with some secret negotiations, maybe then we would be able to buy Morata for 30 mil
Not fit until 2018... oh hello utd
Real don't need to wait for the rare world class striker branch to grow, they will just buy the branch elsewhere, in this case with Mbappe either this year or the next.
They'll spend €140m on Mbappe.
Fair point. It's not just the new ownerships pumping money but TV and, through a most generous revenue sharing scheme, we get a bit screwed relative to the top cñubs in the continent.
That said, if we shared it like La Liga does it wouldn't be a league which a club like Leicester can win and then the TV deals are unlikely to be the same.
Either way, I'm not too fussed. I'd rather be where we are than where Real, Barca, Bayern or Juve are. Not current quality or 6th, but the challenging environment. I find Real/Barca/Bayern pretty boring to be honest, also Juve these days (not in the 80s/90s).
How is it the club's fault that Zlatan got injured then? In your post you said "the club have made it so obvious a striker is desperately needed, clubs want to fleece. rookie mistake"
How is it a rookie mistake for our main striker to get a huge unforseeable injury?
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