I'd say his hold up play and general play from deep is very good. He also has a lot more mobility than Ibra for example.
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The speed at which Morata is becoming the answer to all our problems, Jose's ideal No9 and not RM's back up striker is astounding.
A few weeks ago we were preferring Lukaku, a few weeks before Griezmann was already done...
A few weeks ago we were preferring Lukaku, a few weeks before Griezmann was already done...
I have never preferred Lukaku.
lukaku??,speak for yourself..
Speak for yourself. I never wanted to pay more for a lesser player.
Defoe is the contingency should the Morata deal fall through.
How do you feel about it?
Nah. Morata has genuine quality and allows Mourinho to play the way he wants to play. Rashford really hasn't been that bad as an outside forward and I think he'll link up well with Morata.
And I said morata isn't better than Rashford so if you were not winning the league with Rashford you're surely not winning with Morata in his stead.
Morata is older than Rashford by 5 years and have much more experience playing with big clubs than him.
And sure investing in a 24 years old striker that still has his prime years coming is better than depending on a kid in his 19 and a sub striker who's entering his 30. It's no brainer really.
Getting Morata and Auba would make this one of the best transfer window for ages.
A lot of players can look really good playing second string games for Madrid with James and isco creating chances for fun against paltry defenses. He hasn't really been in a situation at Madrid where he was banked on to produce the goals required to win titles.
For the record there is an argument to buy a better striker than Rashford to win the league. Betting on Morata to be that striker is a massive gamble and you don't gamble at 80m price point.
You're talking about terrible defenses in the La Liga as if we're playing against Rio and Vidic each week in the EPL. You're either overrating EPL defenses or downrating La Liga. City and Liverpool have won many games by 4 to 6 goals easily each season and we didn't see that great defense. The bottom half in any leagues are the same and any striker is supposed to score most of his goals against the bottom half so using this to downplay his goals are ridiculous. Anyway I won't repeat the argument about him scoring in Madrid and Barca for the 10000 times and he was clinical for Juve in most of their big games because you'll see what you want.
You keep saying we should buy striker than Rashford, any striker in the market is better than leading the line with a kid at his 19 even if he has potential. Morata is entering his prime carrier and definitely better gamble than Rashford who still has years to start entering his prime.
This deal needs to go through. Iv started to imagine the team with him in.
If we can get him for 60m in this market, I wouldn't complain and I think that's where woodward and even Jose value him. That's also the hang up between our evaluation of him and what real want to extort out of us.
He is good enough to start until Rashford is ready and then be his back up. Excepting any more out of him and paying for those expectations is setting yourself up for disappointment.
Judging by your ridiculous overrating of Rashford, it's you who is going to end up disappointed.
We can only talk about his price when we see it being paid, currently the rumored price doesn't mean the deal will end like that.
Honestly, the way this going it's like we are signing one of the top 5 players in the world. Whilst I question the Griezmann signing was never about his qualities but more how he'd fit in our system, this signing is a massive gamble. I'm not doubting his qualities but the idea that he's clearly now our number 1 target is quite scary. I don't want to be knee jerk but I'm expecting another Pogba type signing and not someone Real are clearly trying to sell to fund a player that we should be linked with.
Time will tell but we have some business to do if we want to be competing for that top 4, and if this is our number one target, we are gonna have big problems in doing that as even if he score the same as Ibra, there is still a shortage of quality and goals....
Time will tell but we have some business to do if we want to be competing for that top 4, and if this is our number one target, we are gonna have big problems in doing that as even if he score the same as Ibra, there is still a shortage of quality and goals....
Yeah but if we were willing to pay that for an unproven Martial then Morata would be worth it.
Judging by how hard you are selling yourselves on him.i can only imagine what you'd do to yourselves if Rashford was playing back up at real and we were linked with him.
Imagine just a little harder and it will happen later this week.
My friend supporting Real thinks that Morata as an individual player is stronger than Benzema. And much younger btw and he'd prefer Morata to be their number 9.
id take the little pea back at this rate! I hope we haven't put all our eggs in the Morata basket
I agree with your friend. He's better than Benz, as shown by his superior goals to minutes ratio. Fortunately for us, Zidane continues to prefer Benzema, which may in the end result in selling Morata and gradually replacing Benzema with Mbappe.
I think that's a very common opinion among Real Madrid fans.
Rashford wouldn't be a backup striker at Real because he's incredibly limited and he's not particularly good at scoring goals, so your hypothetical scenario is irrelevant.
As much as some are overrating him, a lot seem to underate him. (Offers less than 19 year old Rashford? huh?).
As a lead the line, no.9 he's the all round best option for us on the market, i've said this umpteen times in this thread already but his build up play, technical ability on the ball and hard running will benefit our attack as a unit and he's at an age where he can step up from "good player" to very good with us.
I've said this a lot before as well, but with his smooth technical ability and running a lot of posters in this thread who're skeptical will instantly start to take a liking to him as soon as they see him play for us.
If nothing else, it's telling both Real and Juve fans really like the guy on and off the pitch and dont/didn't want him to leave.
Again, he's not going to come in and solve all our attacking issues by himself, but he'll replace Zlatan's contribution, its down to other players like Mhiki, Rashford, Marital and Pogba to contribute more to the attack consistently than they did last year. (As well as other new signings this summer.)
As a lead the line, no.9 he's the all round best option for us on the market, i've said this umpteen times in this thread already but his build up play, technical ability on the ball and hard running will benefit our attack as a unit and he's at an age where he can step up from "good player" to very good with us.
I've said this a lot before as well, but with his smooth technical ability and running a lot of posters in this thread who're skeptical will instantly start to take a liking to him as soon as they see him play for us.
If nothing else, it's telling both Real and Juve fans really like the guy on and off the pitch and dont/didn't want him to leave.
Again, he's not going to come in and solve all our attacking issues by himself, but he'll replace Zlatan's contribution, its down to other players like Mhiki, Rashford, Marital and Pogba to contribute more to the attack consistently than they did last year. (As well as other new signings this summer.)
If you think Rashford is limited I seriously can't wait to see you watch Morata play and the moment realization hits.
Yeah, I'd pay the €80m this week if they're not willing to budge.
The feck? What has Rashford done? Absolute codswallop.
As our first choice striker? He's nowhere near good enough.
If you think Rashford is limited I seriously can't wait to see you watch Morata play and the moment realization hits.
Morata is a far better all around player than Rashford ffs. It's not even a debate ffs!
Expect few leaks about him signing tonight or tomorrow now. Maybe we will complete the transfer. I think he will be here very very soon.
Rashford should up play needs to improve to lead the line. He tried to take men on on the turn when he is furthest forward causing attacks to break down because he is so isolated.
Morata seems to have the ability to brin. Others into play with his back to goal. With speedy wingers either side that creates so much space to attack
Morata seems to have the ability to brin. Others into play with his back to goal. With speedy wingers either side that creates so much space to attack
I just have to say, for the 10 years I've been on this site I've never witnessed such a grey attitude towards a high prolific signing. We've had guys coming in like Nani, Tevez, Ronaldo, Rooney, Ferdinand, Van Persie, Di Maria, Ibra, Pogba etc etc etc !!!!! (yes I know many were signed more than 10 years ago, but still). All discussions were mainly about whether the target would come or not. Every day you'd check the thread. This high profilic signing just lack all that magic. I can only think of Michael Carrick, Valencia or maybe Ashley Young could be somewhere close to this feeling - on the other hand they never claimed to be magic players and didn't break any world records. I'm sorry but this is just not "it". Our PR people will have a lot of work to do if we eventually sign him.
Rashford is 19.Morata is a far better all around player than Rashford ffs. It's not even a debate ffs!
At his age Morata was playing in Segunda B and had 2 senior caps.
AH sure lets go the 100mill to be sure.
Why? They want 80.
Rashford is 19.
At his age Morata was playing in Segunda B and had 2 senior caps.
And what? We're talking who is a better player now aren't we?
I'll hope Morata adds to our overall game. Him becoming a goalscoring machine may not happen right away.
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