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Angel Di Maria | £59.7M fee agreed I Maybe tomorrow...or the day after...
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) and Jamie (@Vault Dweller) are here to talk about United's dreadful home defeat at the hands of Big Ange's Tottenham Hotspur. Should this have been the end of Ten Hag? How long does he actually have left? And does Nik finally want ETH out?!
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Jon Cross: Angel di Maria won't join Reds as he wants Champions League
Top agent Jorge Mendes has sounded out several top European sides, but Di
Maria has made it clear he wants to go to a club in the Champions League.
To me, that would just mean "a club who isn't at Champions League level..."
I think it's fairly evident that United are a Champions League size club - the mission is to convince the player that this is the only season we'll not be in it, which I'm sure is something a man with LVG's pedigree can easily do.
They weren't far away last season. And anyway, I guess it means Champions League football generally.
And we are?
Not this season at least. I know who my money would be on over a 5 year period though, assuming that's the contract he'd sign.
Cross has peddled that bollocks before, he's made it up. In typical Arsenal fan fashion he loves winding up fans of other clubs in the rare moments Arsenal have something to brag about.
Mine would be firmly on PSG.
How much can PSG afford to offer him a week and remain compliant with FFP?
5 year period??? ADM will be looking at the MLS in 5 years!
I see them as an even French-ier Arsenal, they don't worry me.
Jon Cross: Angel di Maria won't join Reds as he wants Champions League
Top agent Jorge Mendes has sounded out several top European sides, but Di
Maria has made it clear he wants to go to a club in the Champions League.
I think he is that Arsenal fan, though what he says is pretty obvious - he will take some persuading.
Just out of interest where did he say that?
Jon Cross: Angel di Maria won't join Reds as he wants Champions League
Top agent Jorge Mendes has sounded out several top European sides, but Di
Maria has made it clear he wants to go to a club in the Champions League.
Who is Jon Cross?
It is their spending power that concerns me. They can afford to throw away £50 million on Sideshow Bob.
I'm not sure what you mean.
Still no guarantee of success, mind. Real have been throwing good money after bad and it took them 12 years to follow up that win in Glasgow. Who knows, FFP might actually hold some water going forward.
I think its pretty straight forward what he said.
Jon Cross is a Mirror journalist, albeit one of the better ones, although he tends to be better on Arsenal. This was an article in the Mirror recently:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/manchester-united-transfers-angel-di-3845155
Same opinion on this as me.... I don't care how good he is if he is only coming here for a bumper payday I'm not interested. I would rather split the wages over 5-10 young players who want to play for the shirt. More than a few forumites are getting carried away...
He'll be 31 by then, hardly too old to still play at the top.
I didn't say I agreed with him just that I understood what he was saying.
Calling Di Maria "ADM" should be a bannable offense.
Like RVP?
He's referring to Di Maria aged 31 going off to the MLS, which had no relevance to anything.
With that attitude you'd be stuck with a team of players who are United fans and will give their all, but are really just mid table players (sort of like we have now bar a few). Obviously you don't want all players who want high wages, but it's important to have a mix. Di Maria is a world class player, not a 'mercenary', and he'd walk into any team in the world these days. Of course the wages are going to play a huge part as is future probably success.
Thank the Heavens you are not in charge of the club then. Most of our current roster probably came here for a bumper pay day, you sound completely deluded.
It was relevant to the point being made that Di Maria would be prepared to look at whether we could win the Champions League as a 5 year "project". I was just pointing out that in 5 years time, as an attacker based on pace and stamina, he would be reaching the twilight of his career.
If he comes to United everyone will be calling him ADM within a week!Di Maria's name is 7 letters long ffs
Cant we just buy him and loan him to Real til we get back to the Champions League ?Jon Cross: Angel di Maria won't join Reds as he wants Champions League
Top agent Jorge Mendes has sounded out several top European sides, but Di
Maria has made it clear he wants to go to a club in the Champions League.
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Mercenary? lol
Top players should be payed top money. He is now on the same wages as Ashley Young, surely you can see the problem...
The Mirror Article from July 11th is being posted on here.
You never know, I look at their squad and think on the day it could compete with any team. With Di Maria they'd be a real force to be reckoned with.
Thought there would have been some development on this by now.
how many of the worlds top players play for their boyhood club? Not even Rooney dreamed of United.
Ok, apologies for being a cock.
PSG winning the champions league is also a project though. They might be nearer at this current moment in time, but i still think he stands a better chance of doing so with us than with them. Especially if him and others like him join us.
Blanc being their manager is a hindrance. Also Zlatan is great, but Zlatan isn't getting any younger. They have a lot of very good talent, but not much world class level talent there. I'd rather have their overall squad over ours, but I also think they will have trouble offloading many players as they'd had to overpay them to bring them to Paris in the first place. It's fine to overpay for a few players, especially if they are part of the long-term vision of your team, but if you then overpay other players to play the same position it becomes a problem.
I mean what kind of money do we think David Luiz is making there? Must be quite a bit.
I cant think of many top players who have moved in recent years for "only" a bumper payday.
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It's a recurring scenario with sides with only money and weather/location to offer, Madrid excluded on that last one obviously. City, Chelsea and Real have all seen how hard it can be to progress in this tournament with a squad featuring more than the odd mercenary. Ironic i know since we're having to offer well over the odds to sign the best it would seem.
We've made a problem for ourselves here, if we're willing to bow down to Rooney's demands for £300,000 a week then what happens when we negotiate with a genuinely world class player? They should get that at least? Then they get called a mercenary.
It's like when they let Sneidjer and VDV leave (bigger sums now mind) we should be in for Di Maria and Sami Khedira.
And Vidal.
And Vidal.
Di Maria is quality and would obviously stroll into our first team, but...
I worry about the lack of balance in our team. Anywhere or way we'd play Di Maria would either a) see another potentially excellent player shifted out of position or B) see us continue with an unbalanced looking team.
We need defenders and/or proper CMs far more than Di Maria I think.
I worry about the lack of balance in our team. Anywhere or way we'd play Di Maria would either a) see another potentially excellent player shifted out of position or B) see us continue with an unbalanced looking team.
We need defenders and/or proper CMs far more than Di Maria I think.
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