Danny Ings / signs for Villa

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Gary_Walsh_Nou_Camp_Hell said:
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There's no reason United need to limit themselves to £20m strikers. Or players only in England.

If this is the level of funds being made available to Ole then we've never any hope of being a top club again
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We come back to that expectations thing again

we NEED a RW, CB, CM/DM, CF and a backup RB.

I repeat what I said earlier. We ain’t an oil club and our net spend per summer is usually around €80m and this year for obvious reasons we lost money so who knows what our budget is going to be? So I’m possibly being pessimistic but also realistic I think

oh and possibly a keeper too if DDG goes
 
Judas said:
I don't think it's remotely far fetched we'd look to swap an underperforming and all things considered disappointing striker for Kane, it's not like Martial would want to stick around if we signed Kane anyway, he's not a fan of competition.
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Maybe, maybe not, but @golden_blunder asserted that Marial’s been offered around in a swap deal, I was just interested to see where that’s reported, and a swap deal with West Ham for Rice is far fetched at best, if not impossible.
Swap deals in general rarely happen as it requires cooperation from all parties which is why it seems unlikely. Hardly controversial.

Stating he’s not a fan of competition is your opinion but I don’t think evidence really supports that, there seems to be a misconception that he downs tools when he’s not an automatic starter but I remember he and Rashford being in direct competition and he didn’t seem to take much issue then.
 
Gary_Walsh_Nou_Camp_Hell said:
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There's no reason United need to limit themselves to £20m strikers. Or players only in England.

If this is the level of funds being made available to Ole then we've never any hope of being a top club again
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It's only worthwhile if we're moving Martial on, and have big plans to properly upgrade 2 of centre back, centre mid and right wing.

If we had a summer of an Ings and some young squaddie, it'd make last season's window look superb in comparison!
And would immediate limit us to 2nd at absolute massive glass ceiling, but probably much more likely to be trying tom scrape 4th.
 
TheReligion said:
What's up with Ings or is he just not expensive enough
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We're trying to overhaul a fantastic team in City, and hold off Liverpool who without doubt will be back, and high spending Chelsea who have really got their act together.

An Ings is a "solid" sort of squad signing, but I can't imagine anyone thinks that's anywhere to start with signings to try and improve things.
 
Judas said:
I don't think it's remotely far fetched we'd look to swap an underperforming and all things considered disappointing striker for Kane, it's not like Martial would want to stick around if we signed Kane anyway, he's not a fan of competition.
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How much would we be willing to put up cash wise plus Martial is the question, know that Jesse has been touted as well but when did you last see a two players plus cash deal for one
 
golden_blunder said:
We come back to that expectations thing again

we NEED a RW, CB, CM/DM, CF and a backup RB.

I repeat what I said earlier. We ain’t an oil club and our net spend per summer is usually around €80m and this year for obvious reasons we lost money so who knows what our budget is going to be? So I’m possibly being pessimistic but also realistic I think

oh and possibly a keeper too if DDG goes
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What we need is a matter of opinion though.

A Striker is the ultimate priority for this team imo. Yes there's issues in other positions but we've ultimately failed to win the league because we have drawn so many games we could and should have won.

Despite the issues around other positions we have only lost 6 games this season and the defence has been ok. You're right we're not oil rich - so we're not going to have 4 £50m full backs etc. Or 4 top wingers

But United can afford to make a marque signing of a top striker. The midfield issue can be dependent on whethet Pogba is still at the club or not.
 
My god, I can't think of a worse signing. Even as a distraction story its a bad idea.

The legendary Dany Ings leading Fernandes, Rashford and Sancho. :wenger:

And that's before you consider he is a LFC reject. No Thanks!
 
I can see us get Ings. He's the cheap signing Glazer's United will want to do. Ings-Cavani cumbo would give Greenwood that extra year to transition from RW to STK. Lingard and Martial would probably be sold, Sancho would be bought with James, Diallo and Elanga acting as cover.
 
Sandikan said:
We're trying to overhaul a fantastic team in City, and hold off Liverpool who without doubt will be back, and high spending Chelsea who have really got their act together.

An Ings is a "solid" sort of squad signing, but I can't imagine anyone thinks that's anywhere to start with signings to try and improve things.
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Cavani has played himself to number 1 spot. But his age means he won’t play every game. Will martial want to play backup? I could be wrong but I doubt it. I also suspect Ole has already judged him on this season, being a former striker himself
 
Gary_Walsh_Nou_Camp_Hell said:
What we need is a matter of opinion though.

A Striker is the ultimate priority for this team imo. Yes there's issues in other positions but we've ultimately failed to win the league because we have drawn so many games we could and should have won.

Despite the issues around other positions we have only lost 6 games this season and the defence has been ok. You're right we're not oil rich - so we're not going to have 4 £50m full backs etc. Or 4 top wingers

But United can afford to make a marque signing of a top striker. The midfield issue can be dependent on whethet Pogba is still at the club or not.
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Well that’s your opinion. Many other think that Sancho should be our marquee signing. Others think it should be a CB.
 
Gary_Walsh_Nou_Camp_Hell said:
What we need is a matter of opinion though.

A Striker is the ultimate priority for this team imo. Yes there's issues in other positions but we've ultimately failed to win the league because we have drawn so many games we could and should have won.

Despite the issues around other positions we have only lost 6 games this season and the defence has been ok. You're right we're not oil rich - so we're not going to have 4 £50m full backs etc. Or 4 top wingers

But United can afford to make a marque signing of a top striker. The midfield issue can be dependent on whethet Pogba is still at the club or not.
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And in my opinion we drawn so many games because our right side of the pitch is completely dead. Having a proper RW would improve our attacking flow massively, probably more than a striker.
 
Honestly i think this would be a great signing for the right price. I know some people on here might think he's not 'United quality' but picking up a striker who can get an additional 15-20 goals a season and back up Cavani is good business in a summer where we have multiple key positions to fill. Getting Ings in also means we can move on Martial for a decent fee and that helps us with other transfers.
 
I thought he was 30 something for some reason. I guess if we can’t afford kane/haaland, he’s not the worst option I guess:nervous:
 
macheda14 said:
I would take. It would definitely mean the end of Martial at United and having Cavani and Ings as our striking options wouldn't be bad at all if we're putting all of our money into other positions. However, if City get Kane and we get Ings I would cry.
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Cavani has a tendency to get niggles I don’t see why we need to lose a striker. Martial is the same and Ings isn’t injury free either.
 
Red00012 said:
Cavani has a tendency to get niggles I don’t see why we need to lose a striker. Martial is the same and Ings isn’t injury free either.
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Greenwood would probably play there if both Cavani and Ings were unavailable. You couldn’t keep Martial after bringing in yet another striker AND forward in Sancho. He wouldn’t be best pleased to be a bit part squad player and he plays terribly when he feels unloved.
 
Good striker with good technique but we need world class players to compete with city, have him as a squad option maybe but 12 goals in 28 games for a main striker is not the quality expected to challenge City/Liverpool/Chelsea next season..
 
golden_blunder said:
I think what is going to happen is Martial is going to be used as a potential swap option, maybe with Rice or for Sancho?

Ya think? I’m not against Martial be sold or swapped. Think we need to sell some players that still have some value to help fund transfers in other areas.
What do ya think he’s worth in today’s market? His wages are prob going to be a bit of an issue.
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Ings will be far more useful for us as an option than Martial it's not even a contest for me.

I will cash on Martial while he still has any value and replace him with Ings easily.

Ings will probably be not that as expensive of a business and we will have enough money for Sancho and a midfielder.
 
el3mel said:
Ings will be far more useful for us as an option than Martial it's not even a contest for me.

I will cash on Martial while he still has any value and replace him with Ings easily.

Ings will probably be not that as expensive of a business and we will have enough money for Sancho and a midfielder.
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Martial will be very hard to move on. He's on huge money. Think we'll give him another year to get his form back
 
Bondi77 said:
I think for some his name is not sexy enough and he has not racked up big stats in a foreign league.
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Has he stacked up big stats in the Pl though? I don't think he's scored that much this year? Plus his time at the one big club he's been at is a turn off for many
 
34 goals in 64 matches for Southampton - how many strikers in the P.L have been close to those stats in the last 2 seasons - only Salah and Kane better ?
 
SamVimes said:
Fair enough. So do you think Ings is a better option than Martial?
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As a striker, yes. I don’t rate Martial as a striker. Cavani has shown us what a striker should do at the very basics (off the ball movement, hold up play, work hard, anticipate goal scoring opportunities). Martial does none of that. He’s good at linkup play though but we already have Bruno for that.
 
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