You watch Grealish go to someone else for £55m this window. It's a typical case of UTD tax. Us getting fleeced as per usual.
Their coach admitted as such. Ajax players have never been as naive to say they're a 'one club player' then hand in a transfer request. The fans and players have always been realistic that they can earn shed loads away from the Netherlands and the club benefits from such transfers and invests back into their youth system
I agree Grealish is better but I thought the fee for VDB would be around £30m where as Villa are looking for £80m. Value wise, VDB seems a better option even at £40m I think.
It's just their way of tacitly announcing a clubs interest in a player without being held accountable if a deal breaks down instead of full on claiming it's on. They leave that to the foreign journo's who usually break this sort of thing much earlier and the UK journo's wait for the club in question to officially confirm things first before sticking their necks out.
Depends how much faith you put into him. He's well respected but even he is only as reliable as his contacts in football. He's never professed to be the Oracle, nd he has reported accurately on a lot of deals
He's not a Manchester United specific journalist. He breaks news all the time for different clubs around Europe. Just because he doesn't have the first information for this doesn't mean he knows feck all
There's been reports of our interest in signing him since the January window tbf so it's not like it's out of the blue or he's never been on our radar, he just probably didn't think that there was anything concrete to it until recently.
Ah yes Fred the player who performed very well for us this season.
Personally I think Grealish is overrated in terms of ability and price. If he goes for 55m then good luck to him. I'm not sure Liverpool,City need him which leaves the next group of Chelsea,Spurs,Arsenal,Leicester. Who out of that lot will spend 50m+?
Style-wise, he's similar to Davy Klaassen, but in terms of performances, he's much better. He's as energetic as Klaassen is, but he's a better dribbler, more comfortable under pressure, and also has an eye for goal like Klaassen.
It will be exactly this. It's fairly well known we've had some interest in him for some time, but it's never been anything more than that.
and physically stronger
️I don't know how many 'bargains' there are where Utd are concerned. He could be better than Herrera..you know that guy who people thought bossed the UCL final
From memory Klaasen is quite slow isn’t he? I never thought he was going to suit the Prem. VDB has a great engine and is very good at pressing. The key thing for me is the tempo he plays at, very one touch, flicks around the corner, much like Bruno.
Yeah, he plays at a faster tempo than Klaassen does because of his technique. Klaassen isn't super slow, but his lesser ability on the ball slows him down and limits his productivity.
Obviously he (and other journos), seeing the speculation, reached out to club sources, and this is the brief they got.
Or Madrid...
You can rule out Barcelona. They haven't inquired about him recently. It's either us or Real Madrid (who've also monitored the situation for the past several months).
That's just it. Even when we were close to shgning Harry the man was still starting pre season games. Bruno played the weekend before. For them to pull him out the squad and say Yeh it looks like someone wants to sign him... Clearly the deal is very close with whoever he's going to
Stone never breaks news because everything he gets is straight from the club.
