Cody Gakpo | OFFICIAL: Liverpool player
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That sounds like he's not fussed eitherway.
These were Gakpo's comments, I think you are talking about Van de Kraan
What can he say when he's under contract though? "I look forward to leaving my current employer"?
So another player using United to get a better deal?
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More like he knows he has a World Cup this year and moving to United he’s not guaranteed starting minutes.
Put yourself in his shoes would you rather stay in Eredivise till January score goals and get lots of game time before a WC or move to a new league to a new style of a recently dysfunctional club and not be guaranteed regular minutes?
I mean this in all seriousness if I were Gakpo I would be waiting too because he may end up being a champions league player who can showcase his talents on a bigger stage and at worst I think at PSV he’s guaranteed a WC squad pick.
Neither, really. Timber you could argue snubbed us I suppose, but Antony wanted to join but was priced out. Gakpo we're just looking at, haven't approached as far as I see in the tweets so far. Timber wanted to join us but LVG forced his hand.
Timber snubbed us, I doubt the LvG comments factored. If he believed in himself and his ability he would have known he's good enough to start for Netherlands regardless if he was at United or Ajax.
It 100% factored, we had agreed terms with the player before he went to those nations league games.
He probably thinks he can do better and used it as an excuse, surely he fancied his chances of getting in our team..
So still no one answered my question.
Isn't Madueke meant to be PSV's best winger?
Aren't we trying to sign a player that isn't even PSV's best winger?
Isn't Madueke meant to be PSV's best winger?
Aren't we trying to sign a player that isn't even PSV's best winger?
Last season...
Gakpo: 1911 minutes, 12 goals, 10 assists, 7.79 WhoScored rating, 9 MotM
Madueke: 828 minutes, 3 goals, 3 assists, 6.97 WhoScored rating, 1 MotM
He's younger so he may develop but right now Madueke is definitely not better than Gakpo.
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Absolutely not.His competition is VVD, De Ligt, De Vrij and Ake. Not Maguire, Lindelof and 3 sick notes.
Yeah, looks that way.That video been flipped to make it seem as if he's good with his left foot?? Look at the shirt numbers and advertising boards.
Gakpo was voted as the best player in the league, how can he not be the best winger/player for the club.
Not pretending to know much about him, but his decision making and final touches were terrible yesterday against Monaco.
Yesterday was his worst ever performance for PSV, that's been quite universally agreed on by the PSV fanbase. Usually in the big matches (against Ajax or last year against Benfica, Monaco and Leicester) he delivers, but he was dreadful last night. Maybe his head's already in Manchester, maybe it's coincidence, but this is not his usual level.
Trimming our deadwood first ? Well sign these players in 2026 then
Not as if we haven’t had all summer to be concentrate on ins and outs. Incompetence at its very worst.
The 2 fat lads been swanning off all summer to Barcelona eating paella swigging sangria.
Whilst I agree entirely, it also depends on how the team has decided to play.
Heard on the beeb, that he has played only 4 games as a CF (but on whoscored, it's 3 as a left-sided forward, contributing 1 goal and 1 assist).
If PSV start him mostly in left-midfield, and instruct him to provide width he is simply less likely to post-up for headers than an out-and-out CF.
So that leaves just set-plays to judge him in the box over a significant sample size, and that's assuming he is not the one taking the set-plays.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. We have a manager with potential and current squad that has downed tools one time too many. Go for both!
£30m seems a fair price, for a player we certainly should be able to entice.
These are the kind of signings we should be making, the kind of risks we should be taking.
These are the kind of signings we should be making, the kind of risks we should be taking.
With all the money being saved from the FDJ chase, might as well go for both
£49m for the pair and EtH gets a player he's familiar with in Gakpo and the target man tactical option he craves in the 2m tall Kalajdžić. Both players are relatively young with the chance to improve. Wouldn't be a bad deal that.
Exactlty, f*ck *renkie, we have too much to improve, and it's going to take long enough even with tier-1 signings. Also, I can respect ETH wanting to assess the squad, provide 3rd/4th chances, but I have now seen enough.
On the other hand, be it imports or current regulars, if they don't work, put in the youth, and crucially sell, sell, sell if you have any doubts (on and off the pitch, because let's be honest generational talents, are just that generational and there is little to no doubt when they blossom).
I would 100% agreed at the beginning of the transfer window. We should have never gone after one big money signing, we should have went after multiple cheaper signings and replaced as much of the squad as possible. Instead of Frenkie you could have bought Laimer and Teliemans, and still had enough to cover the Malacia signing.
Problem is now clubs have done their business, so you have two options, pay big or sign the players no one else wants... we've chosen the latter,
I am with you, but what do you mean by the bolded part. What would you do now that we are 20 days off the end of the market?
In fairness, I expected this (delaying the inevitable selling of players we once thought good enough) when I accepted we needed a new manager.
Fair enough. I seldom watch PSV matches so I can't tell about his usual standard, I'm just worried after seeing his performance yesterday.
Exactly, he's not gonna start centrally anyway is he? He might start eight back though and he'd have nailed that position for us comfortably.
Anyway, feck him if he doesn't want to join.
Hi, not seen what you have posted previously on Gakpo, but overall what do you make of the player as a PSV fan?
Yes Gakpo's comments weren't posted when I (as a newbie) originally posted.
It read as if Van de Kraan had said it.
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Well he might, because the Dutch play a back 3 now, and De Ligt might be used as a back up LCB (to Ake). He'll never start RWB ahead of Dumfries.
I've posted before I don't buy the stories that he snubbed United because LVG's "advice". It's speculative stuff and he said before the summer he wanted to stay and everything indicates that is true (otherwise he'd have been linked with many other clubs by now).
Exactly, the LvG stuff is just bullshit. I'm sure Chelsea would have been interested for example.
We've just got rid of Cavani, Mata, Lingard, Pogba, Pereira, Matic, and Grant, the biggest clearout we've had in years, whilst signing just 3 players, two of them that will barely register on the accounts, so not sure they can use that line right now.
Even though that looks like a big clear out…we still have Telles, Henderson, Amad, Pellistri, Bailly, AWB, Jones, Chong, Williams and Tuanzebe. That’s 10 players who will not benefit in any way from u23 football and yet will not make the first team squad. We are only halfway through the clearout.
Yeah I forgot that they've gone too! That's 9 players out, and three players in. And we're still using the 'deadwood' line, it's nonsense.
Hopefully he´s better than what he showed last night. Not very impressive.
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