Of course not. The paperwork isn't even done yet. Also, he will need a few weeks to get up to match fitness. Maybe a month?
Edinson Cavani - SIGNED for United
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I do think £120m in today’s climate is a lot, I am not opposed to bringing someone else in for less money if they are good enough quality, names like Ocampos, Sarr and Bale were mentioned I think they would be okay but ultimately Sancho would be the obvious solution.
I think that the deadline for registering a player in time for a weekend game, is midday Friday. Plus he probably won't be match fit for three or four weeks.
Building a team for the future and not short term success.
We can't afford wages for both Sancho AND Cavani.
It is either/or. Not both.
I'd love to be wrong, but I will be proved right in 36 hours.
The positives
Free agent--no transfer fee
we need a striker
He is or was a world class striker
The others can learn from him
He can play in the wings too
The negatives
he will be 34 soon
He is a spent force
He might be here just for the money
He maynot have the desire or hunger
He has history of injuries
If true - 2 years with 200 k maybe too much
No other big club wanted him
He hasnot played much last season
So in general he is kind of a high risk buy.
Free agent--no transfer fee
we need a striker
He is or was a world class striker
The others can learn from him
He can play in the wings too
The negatives
he will be 34 soon
He is a spent force
He might be here just for the money
He maynot have the desire or hunger
He has history of injuries
If true - 2 years with 200 k maybe too much
No other big club wanted him
He hasnot played much last season
So in general he is kind of a high risk buy.
It seems do know better as I've been through it all!
If Cavani flops it'll be a Pizarro equivalent, not a Torres or Sheva equivalent. Nobody will really give a shit because he cost nothing, is not on crazy wages and won't be stinking up the place for years.
Why that so hard to understand when we already have a back up striker available? You are treating the signing as a first team player that should have been signed at the start of the window.
Has the big fella landed yet?
I think we both agree he’d be a great signing but not the be all and end all. I’d love nothing More than Greenwood making that wing his own for a good few years and having cover for him. Rather than him being cover for a winger/striker
On the plane now, arriving at 2.30pm signing at 3pm, quickly get into the gear, and playing at 4.30pm, no problem at all.
The disapointment here is that this is the opposite from what Ole wants and how he said he looked for reinforcements.
Glazers out!
Glazers out!
We also have 27 players to squeeze into a 25 man squad. Offloading players is getting to be a real problem.
I don’t think getting Cavani affects Sanches wages, everything reported (believe it or not) suggests it’s the fee that’s the issue.
Huigiun rings a bell
You must be naive then. Managers and clubs want short term success as well. Ole wont get 5 years lumbering around between CL and Europa league. Next time he is out of the CL places at the end of the season is when he will get the boot.
If we're not getting Sancho we should use the money to buy a cannon and fecking stick Rojo in there.
You having a stroke?
I think we bought a GK during Jose's reign. The club made a big song and dance about it.
I think his surname was Grant. I have never seen this guy play for us.
For me, that was probably the most underwhelming signing in the last few years.
Ighalo was the next worst signing. Absolute panic buy that no MUFC fan could ever have predicted we'd buy.
Then there was Dalot. He'd played 6 Portuguese league games, 17 years old - so I knew he was a youth player who may or may not make it. Not excited.
Cavani comes in as the 4th least exciting signing.
It’s great when oppo fans can be more pragmatic than our own fans.
These stats are from 2017 but I think subsequent season follow the pattern too....
Of the 22 PL champions at that point 14 had had the best attack that season while 9 had the best defence. An average rank of 1.45 out of 20 teams for their goals scored, compared to an average rank of 2.41 for goals conceded.
And SAF in particular was a master at winning the league with a weaker defence. We had only the 7th best defence in 1996/1997, the fourth best defence in 1998/99, the sixth best in 1999/00 and fifth best in 2012/13. But in all those season we had the best attack.
In other words the old truism about defence winning titles is wrong. Both are important but attack is more so and having the best attack is the better predictor of winning the league.
He'd get injured trying to get in mate.
After the successful launch of Rojo, we should also pop Jones in there.
Oppo fans want us to fail.
In the run-up to sacking Moyes, oppo fans were all saying that we should keep Moyes around for as long as posible. "He needs more time".
Feck me, Pizarro was on £150k a week? Cool, I stand corrected.
The perfect parallel.
I'm honestly not certain that Cavani will be seen as a pure bench player, like Ighalo was. I'm already reading what kind of a beast Cavani was and how he can lead the attack for the club.
Remember when literally everyone though we were getting Sanchez to play as a RW, alongside Martial/Rashford and Lukaku? What if Cavani benches someone and it again creates tension within the squad? I hope his potential role is explained to him in detail so he doesn't come with the expectations of being a starter.
Remember when literally everyone though we were getting Sanchez to play as a RW, alongside Martial/Rashford and Lukaku? What if Cavani benches someone and it again creates tension within the squad? I hope his potential role is explained to him in detail so he doesn't come with the expectations of being a starter.
But it would be quite a statement from him
On the plane now, arriving at 2.30pm signing at 3pm, quickly get into the gear, and playing at 4.30pm, no problem at all.
Come on. Let's be fair to the players. It's not like they are running about kicking up a stink about the club. As long as they are our player and they give their best for us, even if it is not good enough for us, I'd at least afford them a bit of kindness and respect.
But for sure. We have too many players and we are staring at the prospect of letting players go on a free unless Ed/Matt do something about it.
No probs. Happy to educate.
I'm glad you're getting onboard instead of being a big moappet
You having a stroke?
Didn’t bother looking up how to spell itThere will be more than enough games for both Martial and Cavani to feature a lot. Especially given how tightly packed the schedule is this year.
When does Rojo do that? He doesn't fecking play anymore.
Yeah, both Martial and Cavani have to be satisfied with being rotated. Otherwise it becomes an internal problem for the club.
Good thing he will need time to get back in shape, so won't bench anyone for now. If he impresses and someone doesn't, then yeah, if deserved he will start. It isn't rocket science. Everyone will have enough games, i would be shocked if someone of the first 16 players will complain about lack of game time this season.
He's out of the first team. That is the coach's decision, isn't it?
They're both professionals, it's not a spaghettini western. Both will get their fair share.
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