still better than signing Obertan right? i remember someone (most probably you) saying that there was general disbelief that Obertan is going to such a big club
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Agreed.
That's literally what inflation means.
Better signing than Griezmann. Rawkish.
Wasn't Rooney 27m or 29m? Basically 30m. Don't remember if that was after add ons though. I'd assume with Martial it's the same, but who knows.
All I know is that United right now can afford to pay whatever they want with our sponsorship deals, so long as the other club has a price. We've scouted Martial for a while, so if we want him, it doesn't matter if his price is 10m or 40m or 60m. We can still get him if we really want him. Like we do with Martial. So the price is irrelevant when talking about United transfers I think, because of how much we can spend and be perfectly comfortable.
Do they think he's good enough?
Nailed it.
I saw it happen about 10 pages back when supporters from other clubs heard the news and wanted to poke fun at the fee.
You didn't understand my point. RvN was injured but SAF could not have seen that. He bought Rooney not for the immediate impact but for potential as he could count on Rud to deliver (his injury obviously affected that).
Right now we are in a bad mess in terms of our striking department and we need someone to step in and be able take the mantle from Rooney. Don't think this lad is going to do so this season. That would mean we are gambling big time on a player while leaving ourselves vulnerable for this season as well. Does not sound like a smart policy.
20+ page thread based on a tweet. Delusional.
Sounds like we have brought this forward before other clubs get their mitts on him.
Massive gamble but definitely an exciting one.
I can only think we've been scouting him for a long time with a view to signing him sometime down the line, and have decided to take the plunge earlier than expected.
I just can't believe we've decided in the last 24/48 hours to sign a relatively unknown player for £36m.
I just can't believe we've decided in the last 24/48 hours to sign a relatively unknown player for £36m.
Seeing how this came out of absolute nowhere, it will be interesting to see if there will be more surprises on deadline day. It seems like a crazy transfer but hopefully he's the real deal.
And we replaced Beckham with Ronaldo (though in fairness, people did complain about that for three years before he turned into Ronaldo).
It's not really about losing the money as it is about setting a weird precedent, sign a 19 year old relatively unproven striker for £36m and other European teams with equally (even better) talented young players take note.
Yep. Had we waited for him to develop another year and show he's a world class talent to everyone, then Barca, madrid, chelsea, city, psg, bayern would all be in for him and driving the price up even more. Look at Hazard or Aguero. We missed out on them because we weren't willing to bid the high price they were asking, and now they're the best players in the league. Martial is more unproven but in 2 years or so he can definitely be up there with them. You wouldn't hear 1 person complain if we signed Aguero for 40m from atletico a year or 2 before city did. Same with Hazard. But we didn't and we missed out.
Who?
Well yes, you're right about that. And with RvN not being able to deliver in 2004/05, we fell woefully short with Rooney (or Ronaldo) nowhere near ready to handle the burden of being the main man, we scored only 58 league goals.
So yeah, I'm basically agreeing with you right now while flaunting my historical knowledge.
Another poster said we've been scouting him since he was 13/14.
Two years ago we sort of did the same thing with Herrera. Not many honest united fans had really heard of him...
Just me who thinks its a bit worrying that we will be relying on him and Memphis heavily now then, both young and extremely talented, but a bit unproven?
It seems more a case of United and Monaco leaking different prices rather than what @TwoSheds suggestion
I can't say I was the only one who thought but for sure yes, Obertan's signing surprised me highly at the time. Martial is simply better than Obertan, more promising and ability on the ball. He'll no doubt be better than Obertan.
With the hope of being completely wrong and quoted numerous times in the future, I think he isn't. It's not our money so we shouldn't technically care but that's just impossible not to take into account.
Apparently, Lyon will get a big fee with this transfer too (around 20m euros).
You'll never win anything with kids.
Spurs were quite different 20m euros, surely not?
Panic buy and way overprice. But he seems like the type of striker we need. Not the finish article yet but bags of potential it seems.
Ofcourse. That won't stop some from terming this a panic buy though. This is completely ignoring the fact that there's unlikely to be a single self respecting scouting network in the world who aren't aware of martial.
No. Just No.
Griezmann is 24 and the brightest CF prospect in la liga right now, his ceiling is also unknown.
Thats got nothing to do with it. You're convincing yourself that this chap is a better deal than signing a class player like Griezmann simply because this is the player we're buying. Have you talked about him much prior to the link yesterday?
Your post just came across very rawkish. Desperate and delusional.
Pretty amazing how the context of this entire signing is based on a bad 5-10 min period away at Swansea, if it was done straight after the Brugge game the attitude towards this would have been different. I'm not really sure in the modern market what a good price is, I just hope the price doesn't impact on Martial's ability to produce.
If this is true it is shocking.. 36 mil on an unknown
Ok but why have you added things which haven't happened?
20 million is a great fee. lol
What makes you think that? Just curious. Everything I've seen from him suggests that he'll be a great player. Obviously not the solution short term, but he can definitely contribute to us.
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