I'd rather give James Wilson a chance.
Danny Ings | Signs for Liverpool (lol)
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Now that's maximizing your budget, good thinking, maybe it can be turned inside out with another number and name on the other side for true frugal efficiency!.
You've just got to have some faith in our scouts. With all the other clubs sniffing round it's now or never and we're obviously not the only club who thinks he'll get much more than 9 goals in a better team next season.
Ings is far from just a poacher like Austin or players of that ilk. He is a very effective player in the build-up.
What a fantastic idea. I could get Vardy #10 on the reverse side for when Rooney leaves and we sign Vardy to lead our charge to the title.
Just like the season when Van Persie signed.
So lets say Rooney got injured around February for a month or two? You think Danny Ings will be good as a lone striker for a team challenging for the PL and CL? Seems a bit far fetched.
I never said he was, in fact I never mentioned Austin. Ings hold up play is probably his best asset, he's not a very good finisher IMO.
Brings a tear to a glass eye, may all your Christmases be Red mate!
It's kinda hard to have faith in them after some of the blunders we've seen these past few years!
But who could we get?
If we buy a bona fide world class striker that player is not going to be happy being Rooney's back up.
The only alternative to an up and coming forward would be a striker at the end of their career who is still capable of big moment, like what Chelsea have with Drogba. Still, I can't think of anyone on the market who fits the bill.
I think Berahino, despite his relatively small size, better occupies defenders with his running. However, Ings is bigger and puts himself about better. I can see why Van Gaal would think he'd be a decent deputy for Rooney.
Well put it this way:
Olivier Giroud scored 11 goals in his first PL season in 34 games for Arsenal (not too far from Ings record at Burnley). He also was a Ligue 2 player only 3 or so seasons ago.
Ings scored a good number of goals in the Championship last year. Plus he is a forward not an out and out striker.
I think unanimously now Giroud is regarded as a good top 4 striker. Ings could make that level on his current trajactory.
At the very least he's a fairly quick striker who has a fantastic engine, with hold-up play at a decent-ish standard.
So according to that article we will be competing with Liverpool, Spurs and Real Sociedad for him 
Is this the calibre of striker we are going to bring in
Is this the calibre of striker we are going to bring in
Am I doing this right?
Dunno mate, i make it up as i go along
Just thinking, and I know some people don't like hearing this, the fact we're reportedly after Ings makes me question the Welbeck sale. All seemed so exciting when we thought we were going to play 4-4-2 with two world class players up top. Now though...?
I wonder, if Danny had been offered a dozen or more games up front in rotation with Rooney would he have taken it? Think he would have. His finishing remains dodgy but everything else would have been perfect for the lone striker system: Hassling defenders, running the channels, pressing high. Ah well history's history.
I wonder, if Danny had been offered a dozen or more games up front in rotation with Rooney would he have taken it? Think he would have. His finishing remains dodgy but everything else would have been perfect for the lone striker system: Hassling defenders, running the channels, pressing high. Ah well history's history.
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Please, God no. He's comfortably the worst player we've been linked to in this transfer window. Really hope this isn't true. He's a decent player but he's the sort of player Liverpool or Spurs should be looking at, not United. I'd much rather have Wilson take up the fourth choice striker rather than Ings.
His contract expires this June, so the team that buys him will have to pay compensation to Burnley.
He's free, decent, young and English which means re-sale value if he doesn't cut it.
Lets not become a Chelsea or City and ruin young English players career by signing them and never playing them. He's only ever going to be a poor backup here so not a good move for us or him
Giroud is one example of a success, however there are a lot more Ings type players that have proven to be exactly what they look, mid table players at best. I've took a lot more notice of him since we were first linked with him and I cannot see what we'd want with him, unless it was as a 3rd choice player who'd mostly be on the bench.
Premier league rule U8 which is used in the story is
In addition to the forms and documents specifically required by these Rules, a Club shall
submit to the Secretary:
U.8.1.
any contract it proposes to enter into which gives the Club or any other party to the
proposed contract any rights relating to the transfer of the registration of a player at
a date in the future from or to the Club or any rights relating to the employment of
the player by the Club; or
U.8.2.
any contract it proposes to enter into, save for a Representation Contract or an
Image Contract, which gives the Club or any other party to the proposed contract
the right to receive payments in respect of a Player.
Any such proposed contract shall be subject to the approval of the Board. In deciding
whether to give such approval the Board shall have regard to (without limitation) Rules I.4
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http://m.premierleague.com/content/...r-league-handbook-2014-15.pdf?hc_location=ufi
In addition to the forms and documents specifically required by these Rules, a Club shall
submit to the Secretary:
U.8.1.
any contract it proposes to enter into which gives the Club or any other party to the
proposed contract any rights relating to the transfer of the registration of a player at
a date in the future from or to the Club or any rights relating to the employment of
the player by the Club; or
U.8.2.
any contract it proposes to enter into, save for a Representation Contract or an
Image Contract, which gives the Club or any other party to the proposed contract
the right to receive payments in respect of a Player.
Any such proposed contract shall be subject to the approval of the Board. In deciding
whether to give such approval the Board shall have regard to (without limitation) Rules I.4
a n d I . 7
http://m.premierleague.com/content/...r-league-handbook-2014-15.pdf?hc_location=ufi
Might as well save the money and have Hernandez back in the squad next season
He scored 9 goals for a team that only has 26 PL goals, so I don't think it's as bad as people make it out to be.
I'd be happy it if we signed Ings.. Young, English and would be happy to play second fiddle to Rooney..
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I agree with this.
I don't think we need a striker anyway when we have Rooney, Van Persie and Wilson for one spot. If we were going to sign a striker they should be a hell of a lot better than Danny Ings though.
Depends on what's your opinion about RVP.IMO RVP will regress furthermore next season and need to be sold/replaced asap to avoid Evra-esque situation.
We need a striker, we cant afford to remain like this next season.
We'd like to sell IMO as he will have only a year left in his contract.
RvP is still much better than Danny Ings and I don't see him progressing much further than he already has. I don't think he'll be anything other than a fairly good backup at United. There's literally no point in signing him. It's not like we're lacking in young English/HG players.
We do need a striker but Danny Ings is not that man. Might as well have kept Welbeck.
We've essentially got two back-ups for one position; one of them experienced and one of them a talented youth. That seems like the right mix to me.
I don't think Van Persie is done though and think he would look a hell of a lot better in this system than he did earlier on. Better than Ings would anyway (imo).
Then we can say "United's RoonIng (insert Team) life"
That has to be one of the most underwhelming "high-lights and skills" videos i've ever seen. Do not want.
Hernandez will be sold. I don't think we will want to retain him and he wants first team football so I can't see him staying. If rumours are true van Persie will be sold and Falcao will not be bought. So we will probably need to bring in 1 or 2 strikers in the summer.
As for Ings I think he is a good young English striker. Not an out and out striker though but I like strikers like him. A technically decent footballer and his a bit more to his game than the average poacher. Not sure he will ever reach the level required to start for us but he will only improve in my eyes. I like him as a player and I like his attitude.
I would have him as 3rd choice and not 2nd though. I'm not convinced he will be of enough quality next season to start for us over an extended period if Rooney is out injured.
But I think it could be a risk worth taking. We will pay £4m - £5m for him and if it doesn't work out we won't be making a loss that's for sure. I honestly think he would be higher rated if he wasn't English. Because English players are frequently overrated by pundits I think this notion is in people's minds comparing it with the Downing to Liverpool transfer for example. I would rather judge him on his own merits.
As for Ings I think he is a good young English striker. Not an out and out striker though but I like strikers like him. A technically decent footballer and his a bit more to his game than the average poacher. Not sure he will ever reach the level required to start for us but he will only improve in my eyes. I like him as a player and I like his attitude.
I would have him as 3rd choice and not 2nd though. I'm not convinced he will be of enough quality next season to start for us over an extended period if Rooney is out injured.
But I think it could be a risk worth taking. We will pay £4m - £5m for him and if it doesn't work out we won't be making a loss that's for sure. I honestly think he would be higher rated if he wasn't English. Because English players are frequently overrated by pundits I think this notion is in people's minds comparing it with the Downing to Liverpool transfer for example. I would rather judge him on his own merits.
not interested. We should let Liverpool sign him. 
Ings seems to me like a solid all-around striker who's not quite good enough for United, but if we are selling Hernandez and want to loan Wilson out and let him get 30 starts next year, then there's some logic in it due to his being close to free.
Rooney-RVP-Ings as the striker options next year, then RVP goes and Wilson comes back in the summer of 2016.
If Wilson doesn't seem good enough yet or is hurt and Ings hasn't lit the world on fire, we will need a starter anyways as Rooney will be turning 31 at the start of the season and more importantly, have played a staggering amount of football since he started so young. That's when we spend a huge chunk on someone like Lacazette (who might not leave Lyon this summer, they're back in the CL) or whoever we like to be our Rooney replacement and lead the line for 5-10 years.
So, even if Ings is just a 15 in 35, upper mid-table type, there is some logic to the move.
Rooney-RVP-Ings as the striker options next year, then RVP goes and Wilson comes back in the summer of 2016.
If Wilson doesn't seem good enough yet or is hurt and Ings hasn't lit the world on fire, we will need a starter anyways as Rooney will be turning 31 at the start of the season and more importantly, have played a staggering amount of football since he started so young. That's when we spend a huge chunk on someone like Lacazette (who might not leave Lyon this summer, they're back in the CL) or whoever we like to be our Rooney replacement and lead the line for 5-10 years.
So, even if Ings is just a 15 in 35, upper mid-table type, there is some logic to the move.
Thought he was as good a forward as we've faced this season at Old Trafford. Would be a Ferguson-esque signing this.
RVP is injury prone and old, Wilson is not ready.
This feels like LvG's English Olić.
That's a solid game of football, that. It's easy to see why he would be of interest to us.
Hernandez will be sold. Wilson needs to be playing regular football and should go out on loan. If we are to persist with Rooney and Van Persie then Ings is a sensible signing as any. It could be inspired, in fact.
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