Ed finally pulled the finger out and pays the prices, half a week to go. Come on Ed, Lukaku, Fabinho, Morata and Perisic, one signing per day will do.
Duncan Castles : Jose Mourinho on collision course with Ed Woodward over Manchester United transfers
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I'm just glad that United are not linked with a Juventus player this summer.
phew.
phew.
You shouldn't be glad, with the prices we are quoted this summer we'd probably fork up £150m for Dybala.
When Barca comes calling it won't be for those sums
Think that the Pogba deal last year along with new TV deals has led to our problems. Real being unrealistic and intransigent as are Inter due to this. And they don't really want to sell. Expect Morata to go on tour with us. Think we might bail on Perisic due to crazy price. Matic probably after Bakayoko so soonish.
I think it's unfair to pin the issue now on Pogba's fee. If anything, it's the Higuain fee that triggered this crazy quoting price. An 29 y/o forward, that is known as big bottler go near record fee within Serie A where teams have been struggling financially left & right. Clubs would start wonder when teams from a better financial league (PL).
Sure, if you choose to believe it against all evidence including an investigation against Juve on this very issue just so that you can hate Woodward, then carry on...
The investigation never stated United didn't pay Raiola, it said they were only investigating Juventus in the deal.
You really believe that Juventus sold him for £90 and paid Raiola £40m of this? Then pay 90m Euros for Higuain. It doesn't add up.
Something is going to happen today. Something significant. Today's the day our transfer juggernaut starts moving.
We always try to get deal through before the tour. So no surprise rumours are going into overdrive.
A few in here are gonna look silly before Sunday
Nostradamus is that you?
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Hi, its me. Yes I know I was wrong about the world ending in 1999 but Im back on form now.
Oops, looks like the collision course has been postponed for Dec/Jan now. Poor Duncan
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I wonder whether it wasnt all part of an elaborate smokescreen, play up this illusion that we werent doing anything while finalising the Lukaku deal.
I'd say this was a ploy by Mourinho AND Woodward to make United seem desperate about Morata, when the deal for Lukaku was getting close. Real can keep him on the bench, or sell him for cheaper..
Investigation is for TPO. Raiola owned a significant % of the transfer fee. United paid the (super)commission for brokering the deal. Two separate things
I think we'd have taken Morata if it was as simple as it first appeared and still could I suppose, from a less desperate position but as frustration increased and Everton wanting Rooney but not wanting to pay anything for him. It became a path of least resistance and more importantly a win-win for all parties, selling Lukaku for 100m to Chelsea sounds acceptable to us, but not replacing him with anything looks shite for Everton.
Hey brothers don't work yourself into a shoot!
We might all have been conned by ed, Jose, and castles.
We might all have been conned by ed, Jose, and castles.
Or maybe the source all along was that Phillip de Brun article in which he decided Jose might leave based on nothing, and other journos ran with the story for click bait value, just repeating the same scenario but with no firm links to anyone actually involved.
And a load of posters look like the usual dramatic idiots.
Phillip De Brun knows as much as you and I. He's a joke
True. Sadly though, he also yaps more than you and me
I agree.
Yeah, not disagreeing with that. However, there are lots of people in great, well paid positions who use the media to draw attention to certain issues simply for their own benefit. Bottom liine, the media is the most convenient and effective tool for generating awareness and formulating opinions. The people who use it for such purposes do so simply because it works, and because they can. The uncertainty over whether mourinho is actually directly responsible, indirectly responsible, or not even at all, also provides a convenient route to avoid any serious accountability.
Have to say if this was Jose's intention, then it certainly worked. ED is back and developments are unfolding far quicker now than they were before this article was made public. Said it before, Jose will do whatever it takes to get what he feels he needs. He won't be arsed one bit if the Glazers and Woodward know if he is responsible, or suspect at the very least. He will be judged for what he achieves at the end of the season, irrespective if he aggravates a few folk along the way. If he wins the title and does well enough in the CL, his job will be safe. Yet if things don't go well, he will be sacked irrespective of whether he has been a nob in pre-season or an angel. That's how he will look at it, everything rests on achieving the targets at the end of the day. If he does that, everyone will hail his genius, if not, he will be out.
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"I burned your list"
Well the press go now start writing about Conte being ready to quit Chelsea (as they did a couple of weeks ago) or maybe they can focus on Rafa quitting at Newcastle (which they reported he was ready to do over transfers). Barca has not signed Verratti yet so maybe they can make up that some fireworks are going to happen there.
"they ordered a new fax machine aswell!"