Who is that?
Erling Haaland / signs for Dortmund
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Who is that?
my take in this transfer - if Ole is as close to him and his father as we read about, then I suspect he knows where he wants to play. If that’s United, brilliant, but if not then I expect Ole is already looking at his next attacking target.
His close links to the player will ensure that the club is spending no more time than necessary on this move.
Let’s not spend all our time speculating on this transfer as it’s pretty unique situation. Trust the process the club has now adopted and trust Ole.
His close links to the player will ensure that the club is spending no more time than necessary on this move.
Let’s not spend all our time speculating on this transfer as it’s pretty unique situation. Trust the process the club has now adopted and trust Ole.
wait, we'd have to pay 76M for him? That would buy us a world class midfielder so I hope it's not true
Don't know if it's legal. But that's what I read somewhere. Since Leipzig and Salzburg are sister clubs, maybe a transfer involving Haland could be structured in such a way. Leipzig might need a new striker, especially if Werner moves in the summer.
Can’t remember where, but I’d read recently that such clauses would be broken if legally contested. The report mentioned that if Salzburg were to accept a lower bid from Leipzig and rejected the same from other clubs due to the relationship between the two, it could be legally challenged.
Interesting one that.
Can a club reject a higher fee if the player wants to go to the aforementioned club at a lower fee? If there is no prior business relationship then I don’t see an issue.
However as they’re both owned by the same multi national I’m sure they would breach financial regulations. Neither has been set up as a feeder for the other
Mandzukic on a medical in Qatar. There goes one half of the "I'd rather sign an experienced goal scorer" muppet dream some posters had at the beginning of this thread (the other being Giroud).
Mintzlaff (RB Leipzig) just confirmed on german TV that he does have a relatively low release clause.
As if the whole football world didn’t know that
But let's be clear, those two clubs are absolutely separate entities.
No, that is not allowed. If there is a clause, it's for all clubs.
I think it's specifically the issue of rejecting a higher bid because of a linkage to a club you've accepted a lower bid from. I think if, for example, Barcelona had a 50m bid accepted and we had one of 75m there'd be no issue.
The nature of the linkage between the clubs has anti-competition issues.
Tell that to the english media who bring up ridiculous prices when linking us to him.
According to Salzburg's director this isn't true.
Thats not entirely true either. When Rakitic played in Sevilla he had a 25m clause for a move to Real Madrid or Barcelone, in this case however I suspect that the clause is the same for every team since the Redbull connection would make it shady as feck.
That’s what I thought. There are rules governing 3rd party sales so I don’t see why the same doesn’t apply with two clubs under the same umbrella
To be fair to Bratseth he was certainly 'absolutely good' and probably had a decent case for being 'world class' in his prime. Obviously depends how you define the term - as he wasn't in that top tier of Baresi and Kohler during his era - but Kicker ranked him 'world class' in 1988, 1992 and 1993 and the number one libero in the Bundesliga in each of those three seasons. I rate him highly because he stood out both as an athletic man-marker but equally as the spare man and it's not often, especially in those times, that defenders excelled in both aspects.
Yes its true.
He has a point though. Although I tend to agree with Berbatov. Seems strange that we are going for a very young striker when we already have James, Martial and Rashford only a few years older. An experienced striker happy to sit on the bench makes more sense. Someone like Giroud for example. If we do sign him it’s only a matter of time until Haaland or Martial are kicking up a fuss with a lack of game time.
Or maybe they can both get in the team?
Huh?
Not you. Which is why I replied to your response and not the person you quoted
What point does he have? He's sick of ex-professionals making comments when on TV being asked to make comments as it's their living now? No he does not have a point. Don't listen to them, problem solved.
How exactly? Modern football does not use 4-4-2. We end up having to fit players into a system that doesn’t work, like shoving Martial on the RW. We tried that one when we signed Sanchez.
He looks a top player but you have to ask does he fit into the way we play? I tend to agree with Berbatov. The irony with Berbatov’s comment is he was the exact player that ruined our fluid attack in 2008.
Well we could play 4-4-2, teams do play it.
Also, we could play with split strikers.
We’re Manchester United and if we can sign one of the best young strikers in the world then do it. Worst case scenario, one of them does really well and the other one leaves for game time.
We play over 50 games a season anyway, they would both play for sure.
As long as one of them becomes the top striker we need then who cares? At any rate Martial has shown very little for all his implied ability and potential, so avoiding a big prospect like Haland for his sake would be idiotic and signing a washed striker like a Mandzukic to sit on the bench would not be worth our time.
This! Competition internally is nothing but a good thing.
Haaland has been playing in a deadly counter attacking team and scoring for fun so I don’t buy the theory he’d ruin our fluidity! He has the pace to play in a counter attacking side but crucially provides a physical presence against ‘a bus parking eleven ‘
Wonder if he knows how to stay onside.
He would be getting so interested in joining us seeing this display surely. He would be thinking "hey I can play in any of the 11 positions in this team and if Lingard can start a game still I need never worry about form or my contribution to the team"
Can't believe anyone who watches us regularly saying with a straight face that we don't need a proper centre forward up top.
We need more players. It’s obvious we need Haaland.
Today was an absolute reminder to Woodward that, no matter who is manager, we can’t rely on Martial for goals.
This lad, or any forward worth his salt, would have scored a hat full this last two games. We are losIng games because the team are running out of ideas.
Pay this lad, or whatever transfer target we are watching, whatever they want and get them in quick.
This lad, or any forward worth his salt, would have scored a hat full this last two games. We are losIng games because the team are running out of ideas.
Pay this lad, or whatever transfer target we are watching, whatever they want and get them in quick.
It's interesting that Kicker also rated Boateng as "world class" in 2014, 2015, and 2016, and "International Class" in 2013 and 2018. He's no Baresi and Kohler, but also not Rio.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangliste_des_deutschen_Fußballs/2010er
Agreed. We are desperate for one.
He would do nicely with those ping crosses from Pogba, neither Martial or Rashford know what to do with a high ball
Aye, it’s largely due to Martial being an exciting footballer I’m sure. Problem is, he just isn’t looking like a centre forward who can lead the line for United and score at the rate a top team requires. And if he is, we certainly need a number 10 and RW who score plenty, right now we have neither.
i don’t buy into the argument that we avoid buying Haaland because we have martial. It’s clear as day we need a proper number 9 (amongst other things)
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