When they made it to the final in 2014 they had a lower wage bill than QPR (who were relegated that season).
Antoine Griezmann | Signs new contract until 2021
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Not even, I think he'll end up signing a new contract very soon, probably before the Euros.
I accept that Spurs pay more for their squad player's, but a club with a much higher turnover and wage structure being able to offer merely half the salary to their top earners doesn't equate, even if they have slightly different models in the same field. If top quality squad players for Atletico were earning the peanuts required to facilitate those few crazy salaries, they'd move clubs in an instance. It isn't as though we're talking about a closed market, they will all be paid within the ball park of market value.
If someone comes in at €250k a week and meets the release cause my view is it'll be sure a large payrise as to entice him from such a great club (rather than the slight payrise suggested where he'd stay put).
I think he would be our top priority this season and i don't see there would be much resistance from Atletico Madrid if the price they are looking is met.
You mean aside from the fact they'd be selling their best player at a crucial time in their development as a club? They're one of the European elites now and they're moving into a new stadium, negotiations will not go very far at all. Fortunately if we could convince him, there exists a reasonable buy out clause for a player of his quality.
Still doesn't change the fact that they will be drooling at what they can do with all that money we are prepared to pay. But yeah, it's not as if we can just walk in and wave some money - they will fecking skin us alive for him if we show that we are serious about getting him.
They will sell for the right price, question is just if their price is high enough for us to find better value elsewhere.
Sorry I think a fair few people are struggling to understand he has a buy out clause of roughly £60m.. They won't skin us alive nor will they accept a deal for less than that given he's genuinely world class and at a great age. Basically the task is convincing him to join then its just a simple matter of triggering that clause.
Yeah, I didn't know about the clause, thanks. Well, we paid around that for di Maria didn't we, so why not...
I wonder if the CL final will influence his decision.
It's so simple. If Atletico paid Spurs wages to all their squad players they wouldn't have the money to keep their big names. Spanish teams also don't hand out 40ks to youngsters starting out or players who barely play. For me it's not hard to believe at all. Infact its very believable. I have checked out multiple sources in spanish and they all seem to point to similar amounts except they talk about net figures. Koke's salary is consistently reported to be around €6 million net. They can't all be wrong.
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This.
My only worry is whether we are/have shown strong interest in signing him.
If we do, we pay the release clause and offer him a package similar to what we did with Rooney/Falcao/Di Maria and the deal will be done.
Unless of course Atletico offer him anot offer that is competitive with ours.
Good chance it could. If they win, there is only down from there at Atletico As he would have reached the linnacle with them. He hasn't won the title yet but winning the CL is ahead of that so he might see it as a perfect ending and time for a new challenge.
Plus with Mourinho and Ibrahimovic here... it could be enough of a draw for him wanting to join us even with no CL football.
Been thinking that since Mou and Ibra were linked and Griezmann allegedly being open to offers.
Don't want to get ahead of myself and think it possible, though..
It would be mental to go from a team with 49 goals in it over a season to one of the best attacks in Europe just like that.
It's Manchester United though with one of the greatest managers in world football.
It's like if Steve Jobs was still with us and he took over Microsoft who would say no to their income, with his ideas its crazy to think about it.
A player like Griezmann still young wonderfully gifted, working with Martial another frenchman for the same club team, plus learning from Ibra at the same time? world at his feet literally just has to say yes.
So you also know Griezmann's mentality
And what if he's more a Google type of person???
I'm saying he's sampled Spanish football for Sociedad and Atletico, maybe he's at a point in his career where he can grow more as a player.
I personally think Pep would want him at City he likes his wingers, I think United need a winger but it depends on what the plans are for Rashford.
Or indeed Bayern, City, Real, Chelsea, Barca, PSG, Arsenal.
More of a number 10.
Both really, his strongest position is off the striker playing on the shoulder I think but he can play as a winger.
He tends to play wherever there is space from Atletico he isn't afraid to run off the channel, I find him quite often playing off the striker which is why it's hard to say he's a winger, a CF.
It's really hard to say he's a striker, or he's this I see him as an inverted forward a little bit the way he plays.
I went to see Atletico play Barcelona last year and despite Torres scoring the only goal for Atleti there was something about Griezmann.
I remember an interview with Rene speaking about the qualities of Griezmann it was in 2013, maybe 2014 but I think that's one of the biggest downsides to letting Rene go.
The best answer is probably that he is an attacking midfielder, he is almost never stuck in a single area. He plays where the space is.
Ive wanted Griezmann for years, I just dont think MUFC shares my sentiments enough to release clause him. Maybe that will change with Jose but something tells me that we are about one year away from signing players like Griezmann and Pogba.
Its not a real long shot. Bale is far more of a long shot than AG.
Id say at this juncture, Bale is a no shot.
However in Madrid, one bad season changes everything, I dont think Bale is particularly liked over there anyways.
I agree. He is best as a roaming support striker, or a wandering attacking midfielder that plays very high up the pitch.
Mourinho has not often set up his teams in a way that is conducive to that position, with Ozil at Real perhaps the closest analogue. He obviously has much more end product and is less of a creator/ball player, but he has some similarities to Ozil as a player with elite-level intuitive understanding of movement and space. I think you get the most out of these players when you give them license to roam, to find space and to create space for others with their movement. But Griezmann is the kind of player you just buy if you can and then worry about the details of his integration later. I still think he stays at Atleti for another year or two though.
We should have had Bale when he was at Southampton. One of Fergies few missteps
I have seen Griezmann since he was in Real Sociedad, I remeber he used to be good on the wings. Now, he reinvent himself in Atletico as second striker. My question is, do you think Griezmann can play as a winger but in a 4231?
Sure, but it's a waste. He's went up a few levels since moving centrally.
I asked it becuase I know 4231 is Mourinho's preferred formation. And it seems that Rooney, Mata, Herrera, Fellaini, Januzaj and Pereira are our options behind the striker. However, we don't have a lot of options on the right wing. But I agree that in the remote case that we sign him, he should play where he is at his best.
Fair enough. In that case, yeah he'd be a huge upgrade on the right wing but for what he'd cost you'd surely be better off spending it on a natural winger who'd likely be better there than Griezmann?
I think he's the kind of player you sign and then fit in regardless. He may actually be the best right winger available this summer, even though he's better centrally.
As an example would a team function better with Martial Mata Griezmann, behind Ibrahimovich or better switching Mata and Griezmann?
That wasn't entirely Fergies fault. We made a bid and it was rejected. Then Southampton sold him to Spurs a few weeks later.
Fergie said if they told him that Spurs bid then he would have made another bid.
Has there even been any reliable sources confirming our interest? Regardless, no chance this will happen imo.
He has so much class.
Pay the effing buyout clause. £250k/week. Done.
Pay the effing buyout clause. £250k/week. Done.
Weird time to bump this
The whole world is in love with him. Will be interesting, if he stays at Atletico.
I'm hoping he'll get tired of playing this style of football and look to move though Mourinho might not seem like much of an improvement to him.
My only fear is we may not be interested.
If we are, he will not turn us down. He will earn so much more money as a United player than an Atletico one (wages, endorsements).
The rest pales.
If we are, he will not turn us down. He will earn so much more money as a United player than an Atletico one (wages, endorsements).
The rest pales.
Swap for Mata 
Looks a little frustrated to me.
Love him though, want him here. Can't see it happening.
Ibra
Martial - mata - greizmann
That would be amazing.
No idea why ibrahimovic would be playing wide left rather than through the middle though.
Love him though, want him here. Can't see it happening.
Ibra
Martial - mata - greizmann
That would be amazing.
No idea why ibrahimovic would be playing wide left rather than through the middle though.
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