What are you expecting ? Will Madrid sell him to Chelsea for a less price than 90m and won't try to feck it up again like they did with us or they will try to milk Chelsea again asking for the same ridiculous price ?!
Álvaro Morata | Chelsea player
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You argue that Lukaku is the best replacement for Ibra but then want other players to provide what we are missing with Zlatan's departure?
Even with Zlatan last season, we were far from competing for the title, and thus we need more than just existing player covering up for Lukaku's short comings and might be better to sign morata who is as good as a goal scorer but also contributes more to build up like Zlatan did.
I would love Morata too, but there is no guarantee he will score the amount of goals required. I don't think that getting that one player to replace Zlatan is the solution - we shouls not be reliant on one single player to provide us goals.
A Morata-Lukaku strikeforce will potentially be the best in the league,and I hope it will happen as I don't see many defences coping with them both and the others like Pogba or Mkhi buzzing around.
http://www.mundodeportivo.com/futbol/real-madrid/20170708/423958205750/morata-harto.html
"The striker is very upset with Real Madrid and sick of the attitude of the white club. Since May, Real Madrid officials know they want to go and asked them to make it easy for them to leave."
Hope we are still in for him though.
"The striker is very upset with Real Madrid and sick of the attitude of the white club. Since May, Real Madrid officials know they want to go and asked them to make it easy for them to leave."
Hope we are still in for him though.
If he stays, expect a Verratti style declaration of his happiness in the best club in the world.
Morata has been scoring in the CL finals and has been our clubs 2nd. goal scorer helping the team win the league with his performances while if you take out all Lukaku goals from last season, Everon would still finish the season in seventh place.
The only ridiculous thing is someone actually questioning the prices quoted for our players, specially after seeing money thrown at the likes of Lukaku.
Yes, thus the price we offered, which was 70m Euors and more. Was that not high enough? Ask yourself if before the transfer window opened,would you have accepted a bid over 70m Euros for him?
Lukaku's was always going to be subject to the "english clubs" tax and the 100m pounds pricetag that Everton set for him earlier in the year.
Nonetheless, I am still hoping for the Morata deal to go through.
I'd say it was high enough but that's only because I hope we sell Morata. I'm not naive, there's absolutely no way we can get a better player for our bench then he is, so unless we get Mbappe, all else is a step backwards, but I don't believe in keeping players in the club against their will. If he want's first team football, just let him go and be done with that.
Morata didn't want to come back last year but the club made him come back. After a season like we had, he deserves to pick his next club.
They are the best club in the world so he wouldn't be lying like Veratti and he is guaranteed medals.
Perez is clearly placing "Real Madrid player" tax on his outgoing players and considering this team won 3 CL's in last 4 years, he has all the right to do so. He actually has something to hold on to be doing that, while the "english club" tax is is not really related to anything, is it? Whatever the "english clubs" tax is, "Real Madrid player" tax should by all accounts be higher.
Yes but we don't know if he is actually happy or not. He has already won bunch of trophies and it was evident he wanted to move.
Sad day for Morata, but i expect Chelsea to go for him over Belotti, unless Real play them with a high fee
Then they should have let him go to Juve. I tell you something. They would have had more of a chance in the CL final with him than fatty Higuain and I am serious there.
Yeah Morata was a bit of a clutch cl player the previous year when Juve were in the final. And Piggy is just a big game bottler so I don't disagree.
Feel a bit sorry for the guy, but if he really want the move then he should have turned in a transfer request.
You are not going from benchwarmer at Madrid to lead striker at the biggest English club without an effort.
You are not going from benchwarmer at Madrid to lead striker at the biggest English club without an effort.
"English clubs" tax is how Real got Modric - spurs would never have sold Modric to us for the price that Real got him for. Everton are selling to direct league rivals who could cost them points, and Lukaku is their first team striker and top scorer.
You also mentioned that Morata WANTS to leave - holding him back even when the deal is more than fair is just not the nicest thing to do. The price we offered was more than enough to offset the "Real tax" you mentioned. We reportedly sealed the Lukaku deal at 75m, not the 100m Everton were looking for, which shows that both clubs have to reach a compromise. Perez seemed to not want to do that though.
This is so true. Higuain is a choker while Morata is a fighter. Dybala was shitting brick in the tunnel already and after Ramos and Casemiro went into him hard early on he was done for the night and that was it from Juventus front line. Morata has character and fire in him. Sometimes he channels it wrong but he never goes into hiding.
It turned down that he was second choice for us too. Poor lad
Yeah it's wrong to question a demand of nearly £80m for a bench player. Morata is a good player but unproven in the premier league. Real Madrid's demands were a joke, hence the transfer not happening. So obvious they were milking the fee, to pay for most of the Mbappe fee. Horrible club
Maybe Mbappe is happening at 120 mil €+ and there are other interested parties for Morata signature so Perez is confident he'll get more then what you offered, irrelevant of how fair your offer was.
There are a lot of comments here about clubs valuation of our bench player so I just want to point out that things look differently from non EPL fan's perspective.
What I see is a striker who plays for the 7th. best team in EPL, that finished 7th. and (mathematically) would have finished 7th. without him scoring a single goal being sold for 75 mil. Morata is worth more in my book.
He might have been second choice but are we going for just one signing or more? That is the question. Jose might want them both. Zlatan is out, looks like Rooney is too. Unless Rashford/Martial/Lukaku compete for 1 starting place, we just might sign one more striker.
This is exactly what will happen imo. We wont sign another striker.
Quite possibly and I won't mind that. We have talented forwards and next year we will likely be on the Griez train again
As United can't put a cross in to save their lives at the moment. Yes.You think he'd have problems handling a "premier league cross"?
Considering Chelsea matched our bid of 75 million pounds, Madrid will expect the same.
Chelsea fecked themselves over by overestimating Lukaku's desire to join them.
I think Chelsea will do whatever they can to sign Morata now. This will also test whether or not Perez actually does want to keep him or he'll lower his asking price so they can get the Mbappe fund started, not that they actually need more money but it wouldnt hurt.
Look, I've always rated Lukaku but actually really believe Morata is the better forward. There's no need to throw comments like 'horrible club' because we stuck to our price for him. I don't see him going to Chelsea as they'll have a cheaper option in Llorente who will probably do pretty good for them aswell but it would be nice to see him play in the Epl so that he can prove my point.
There you have it, a state of average EPL fan, laughing at facts because he doesn't like how they sound.
Think they might have been looking at Llorente as a backup. Not sure of him as the main striker for a club like Chelsea. I like Llorente, was fabulous against United for Bilbao.
This should be closed now,Unless there is a surprise twist.
Yeah, not sure either but the price might play a big role here. Don't think he'd cost half as much as the other available strikers right now.
Well said.
@Sport_Witness: Mundo Deportivo, a Catalan newspaper, says Morata is 'very upset' Real Madrid didn't help his transfer to Man United. #MUFC
I rate Morata higher too but then I believe Lukaku is more suited to Mourinho's setup and is more of a sure thing when it comes to racking up the numbers in the PL.
He'd make a better flat track bully (for the lack of a better phrase of explain myself) and that's what gets you titles.
I do think Chelsea will go all in for Morata though, Conte must be pissed as feck and Llorente just doesn't cut it if they have any ambitions of retaining the PL, let alone competing in the CL.
I am quite pessimistic about Mbappé. Apparently the economic offer to the player is too high. A problem of the salary level that Madrid already had last summer with Pogba, and then the price of the player and PSG's will to match any offer.
Considering that and seeing that there is nothing better in the market, I hope they keep the price of 75/80 million.
Considering that and seeing that there is nothing better in the market, I hope they keep the price of 75/80 million.
Maybe some should fly out there and give him a hug
would not mind morata at all, even after signing lukaku. we desperately need goalscorers.
martial is not consistent enough, still to early to expect rashford to bang in 20 goals or lead the line throughout the whole season.
if micki can be consistent maybe we can expect 10-15 goals from him which is fantastic, and of all the midfielders only pogba is the only one capable of getting 10 plus.
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