I’d be delighted if all the feckers croaked it.
Edinson Cavani - SIGNED for United
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I’d be delighted if all the feckers croaked it.
Cavani scoring the winner at the Parc de Princes sounds like a good idea though
It's only football...
I wonder why we didn’t sign him earlier then? Or why no team in Europe seems to want him? Just all reeks of absolute panic again.
Being better than Ighalo really shouldn’t be a measuring stick on signing a player.
We missed out on Sancho, but maybe we will get Cavani. If we miss out on him too, we can always go for Bendtner. He is free too...
Ridiculous wage demands that’s why
Deciding if a player you want is better than what you currently have is a basic premise of recruitment no?
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To be fair €10m in wages is about £9m which is about 173k a week pre tax.
High for a back up striker. If he were content with about £6/7m a year it wouldn’t be the worst idea. But that combined with a long term deal and high agents fees. No thank you I’d rather we wait till January and move for a younger striker.
And if it's not a long term deal?
Exactly. Then people wonder why we can't find the money for Sancho
Good on the club IMO. Stop getting fleeced.
All correct.
Ending up stuck with Cavani for multiple seasons doesn’t sound appealing at all. If we want to press higher up the pitch he doesn’t suit us anyway, better to get someone at a good age so they can compete with the three up top we have right now.
Yeah but its blatantly hurting other options. We don't buy a CB because we are loaded with numbers. Need to sell to buy. Only we can't sell because nobody will pay their wages. We have one of the very highest wage bills in Europe already, and get nowhere near that return in performances. We need to normalize that.
Which conditions would you agree with there?
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State of that.
Everything we’re trying to do in clearing the squad of deadwood will be undone with this deal.
Is he better than Ighalo? Yes. Doesn’t mean it’s a good deal for the club.
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If this is what they meant by 'stay calm' to the fans they can honestly get fecked. Woodward is going to need the army to protect him.
Can't believe I'm even saying this but I hope someone absolutely lamps the twat.
Can't believe I'm even saying this but I hope someone absolutely lamps the twat.
Thought we learned our lesson from Falcao.
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Then you’re faced with the same problem next season of bringing in another striker.
Of course he’s better than Ighalo but I can’t think of many clubs that need two world class strikers on rotation.
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Would be a similar gamble.
A club competing in 4 competitions maybe.
As far as I'm concerned I'd be happy for us to get him if the club can agree a deal they are happy with. If not then whatever.
We shouldn't accept the length, but I don't think the wages are THAT crazy are some are pointing out... he would be on level with Martial and Rash, wouldn't he? He has a tone of experience at top level, including lots of CL and with the national team. You have to pay for that kind of thing.
He is super profesional and hard working, and yeah, he surely plays for money, is his job, he is a fan of a club in Uruguay, so?
He wouldn't be just a backup, he would provide competition, something Ighalo can't do.
We shouldn't pay a lot on fees though, of course, that and contract length is why I don't think it will happen and rightly so in that context.
By the way, I have had him in football manager for a while, works well with Sancho on the right... that means it is happening isn't it? (no Telles though...)
He is super profesional and hard working, and yeah, he surely plays for money, is his job, he is a fan of a club in Uruguay, so?
He wouldn't be just a backup, he would provide competition, something Ighalo can't do.
We shouldn't pay a lot on fees though, of course, that and contract length is why I don't think it will happen and rightly so in that context.
By the way, I have had him in football manager for a while, works well with Sancho on the right... that means it is happening isn't it? (no Telles though...)
Watch us now sign this lad to a 2 year 300k a week deal and feck up our chances of getting haaland next year.
Let me jump in here
“If he stays fit...”
“It’s not my money”
“Giggs played until he was 40”
“It’s only football”
Hopefully one of these arguments will mitigate the fact we have botched our summer transfer window completely
Actually Barca are as bad as us. Remember Braithwaite?
*450k
This is potentially a worse deal.
Imagine spunking all that on Cavani and walking away from the Sancho deal, I would weep.
Falcao did his ACL and rushed back for the World Cup. He was never quite the same.
If Cavani was still motivated he'd be jumping at the chance to play in Premier League with United.
All he and his agent see is a chance to fleece Edward Cockwart. Avoid him like the plague. Let him piss off to China.
All he and his agent see is a chance to fleece Edward Cockwart. Avoid him like the plague. Let him piss off to China.
I have no faith in us getting anyone in at this late stage. Unless they pay the money dortmund want we will go into the season with what we have. Do not want Cavani for 2 seasons on stupid money, if its a pay as you play deal and for one season then, yes I'm all for it. Goals related bonus as well and give him 200k a week, even that is a bit much.
Two very different things.
I thought we were staying away from this type of signings. Clearly Cavani is in it for just the money. And we have to question how good he is at the moment. He's in decline, he's had multiple muscle injuries in the past two seasons and none of the top teams want him. There's a good chance he ends up being another washed player on high wages and we can't get rid off.
Getting him for one season is ok but anything over that is unacceptable risk. We've seen this before and recently with Sanchez, who we had to pay off. It wasn't just the poor performance. He had a negative effect because he was earning a lot more than other players who were performing a lot better than him. We need to avoid making the same mistakes again.
Whether you are Ole in or Ole out, we can agree he's fixed the dressing room. Why threaten that.
Getting him for one season is ok but anything over that is unacceptable risk. We've seen this before and recently with Sanchez, who we had to pay off. It wasn't just the poor performance. He had a negative effect because he was earning a lot more than other players who were performing a lot better than him. We need to avoid making the same mistakes again.
Whether you are Ole in or Ole out, we can agree he's fixed the dressing room. Why threaten that.
Yeah a great signing and a very questionable one.
Ye but Barca also had Messi, Suarez, Greaseman, Fati, Dembele
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