I don't think we were snubbed or that he chose Barca over us so saying our best chance was last summer doesn't make much sense.Even by December the links had died down and after we signed Alexis and gave him the #7 shirt, there was no chance of us buying Griezmann.You can even say we snubbed him for Alexis.
People are complaining we spend too much when City, who had Kun, Silva, KDB, Fernando, Sterling, Kompany spend nearly 500 million since the arrival of Pep.
Pretty sure it's to replace Suarez, he's 31, getting more inconsistent and was quite bad for the first few months of the season. Improved loads of course, but probably griezmann start over dembele next season while he adapts more then dembele takes over and griezmann starts ahead of Suarez.
Oh he's good enough and a bargain at 90 million
Unless they plan to get rid of Suarez, or did his form recover?
La Masia is fantastic you know.
Think they plan to phase out suarez now. Greizmann's versatility is an added bonus to deal with inconsistencies that come with young guns like Dembele
Can see Dembele getting moved a few years down the line. Fancy dribbler but isn't ready for Barcelona and quite frankly may never be.
Agreed. The game has moved on and passed us by, if we think the likes of Darmian Schneiderlin Blind out of sell by date Schweinsteiger etc type of buys are going to propel us right back to the top. Thankfully we seem to be slowly moving away from this with Pogba Matic Sanchez buys for example. We can invest in youth but maybe 1, 2 max a season. We also need to hold onto De Gea.
You say that we lost Neymar as if he just left for free. We got 222 mil for Neymar. How about you base your sensationalist statements on facts with context next time? Spending 270 mil and not selling anyone is a lot, but having 222 mil after a sale, it's not. Man city part is true however.
Barca has always bought big players for big money. It just happened that we got lucky with a generation of many talents at once. Also the above comment applies here too. One number never tells the full story.La Masia is fantastic you know.
Too early to say result wise, however he has definitely shown that he can organize and balance out our defense. In regards to bolded statement, while it may be true that the sum is close to Mourinho's overall spending, you have to take into the consideration the amount of money we got from Neymar, will get from Rakuten and Nike. I believe if we do actually buy Griezmann, we should be settled for the next 5 years in regards to world class attacking talent (which is the most expensive).
Me too. The way he lit up the Euro's made he look like he was made for United. You'd think that being a lifelong United and Beckham fan, along with the prospect of playing with Pogba would have been enough. Guess he wants to stay in Spain and thinks he's more likely to win major silverware at Barcelona.
Of course he is. Anyway we've moved on and with his love for Spain maybe it's for the best.
