We are a football club for christ sake. Not a business.
Alex Telles - SIGNED for United
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Agreed, we have every incentive to take it to the wire and even if we don't get much discount - it's already cheap.
That’s true. Clearly corners have a poor hit rate, perhaps someone can give some figures? But we are so bad, it’s astonishing, even through we have players who are more than capable of putting in a half decent delivery without hitting the first man.
Is there a difference ?
excuse me? Every football club is a business.
You sure?
Makes more and more sense to get him if we're bringing in Cavani. We don't have anyone out wide who can whip in a ball to be attacked.
Did he cry and wave goodbye at FT?
Yeah, watching Ben Chilwell’s whip to Zouma tonight, we don’t have the leg or head to score such a goal.
Well if it means missing out on a good player wich adds creativity from the fullback wich the team lacks,when the team clearly lacks depth.
Yeah clearly BS logic!
And Shaw can play LCB wich can help the defence if Telles comes.
talkSPORT exclusive. Alright then.
Saying he played his last game for them tonight.
Fully agreed.
All the optimism and positivity from those last few months have been drained during this transfer window. Absolutely fecking deplorable conduct, but conduct which will likely go unpunished.
What’s bizarre is we signed arguably the most dangerous player in the premier league on corners in Harry Maguire. He literally won everything in the air when attacking for Leciester and England. He was our major threat from corners in the World Cup. At Utd his heading has been so erratic when attacking!
That's definitely over reporting of the fees. Let's wait for the story to play out in full before we jump to conclusions on the pricing.
Some reports say that it's a year + option. He has taken a significant pay cut from his PSG wages. Could be that he preferred coming to United given all the various options, and therefore agreed to a reasonable financial package. 175-200K a week for someone of his quality without transfer fees could be good.
It's a punt for sure, but gives us some back up in the striker position.
On Telles - it's surprising that we haven't got this over the line. If we don't do it on deadline day then we were probably never serious about him. We have thrown more money on youth recruitment than we are planning to pay for him.
Quite a lot of Twitter noise that this has been agreed, I’m almost positive he will sign for you in the next 48 hours and within a month you’ll be glad he did, he’s class, trust me
Well nothing makes sense about what the club is doing right now.
It just irritates me when people think its right that the club is haggling over 5 million or so for a 18 million pound left back. Just pay the fecking fee.
10 million in agent fees for a has-been striker that has been on the couch for 2x months or more and we actually bid 9m for Telles and are creating a shitstorm over another 5 million?
We deserve to be laughed at by rivals.
We deserve to be laughed at by rivals.
Are you Portuguese?
Get him and a winger, and I'm happy. Just.
18m is really nothing, even if he is only a backup!
Let's wait for more credible report, but if this turns out to be real, very damning.
feckING SHAMBLES!!
Why? That is perfectly reasonable approach. He will be up for pre contract in 3 months and might even get him for less than 10m in January as Porto won't risk losing him for free. Thiago went for 25m for context.
We complain about overpaying. If we want to correct that, then be prepared to miss out on few targets.
I think there is happy medium between MUFC's low ball offer and porto's stupid demands, yet seemingly its just two clubs staring at each other seeing who'll crack first as the hours tick down. Personally i'd like to get telles now instead of hoping he'll join us if we back off. never know what may happen in the future.
Jury is out on that from a sober point of view.
I hope we hold out.
Thiago went for peanuts for a player of his calibre. We're getting ripped a new one.
Thiago went for peanuts for a player of his calibre. We're getting ripped a new one.
Yep sadly I agree. It should be the other way round. But I seriously don't get that we don't wanna pay an extra 5 million for Telles when we are willing to pay Cavanis agent 10 million euros. Quite baffling and don't get it even from a business point of view
Well hopefully Luke Shaw stays injury free then. Otherwise what then?
Because it’s likely it’s not true we’re paying 10mill in agent fees...
Ooh look, a funny, no I’m not but we’ve been linked with him since last season so I’ve been watching him since then, he’s fantastic
Wouldn't be surprised if it is true though. The board can be that stupid
Romano has already tweeted that we’ve got it for a bit less than the 10m they were demanding earlier in the window.
It's no more damning that waiting two days before deadline day to bring in a striker that was available since 1st July, and flouted around Europe with no takers. Management of the club is rotten to the core.
so dramatic.
reports suggest that he’s significantly lowered his demands. If we had brought him in earlier, we would be paying a significantly higher wage for him. Is that rotten to the core?
And you think football clubs aren't businesses?
There are ways to settle the deal even if we don't agree with 25m euro price tag but our negotiator is not very good to make every transfer business efficient enough. If VDS wasn't at Ajax, Donny saga would be dragged until the last day too.
Maybe, I have no clue about the details of the deal. Media are notoriously unreliable.
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