It's been fairly widely reported now we have pretty much agreed a deal.If Barca want the £60m and we’re only prepared to offer them £40-45m, then perhaps we could throw in Rashford too?
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Great deals for them but I guess it depends how he performs in the coming seasons.
If Barca want the £60m and we’re only prepared to offer them £40-45m, then perhaps we could throw in Rashford too?
Rashford's transfermarket value is £60M
Meet in the middle £50m plus addons?
Me too!Yes thanks, ( showing our age here, well me anyway )
That would be a reasonable price. We’ll negotiate by going up 2 mil a week to drag it out
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Has to be a done deal now, the 'many things' are the sale and the new signings they will annonce after.
Laliga got you pushing to many pencils ?Bayern and United
I desperately want him to stay but is he a No.9 like RvP or RvN? A big fat no, I'm afraid. In fact, I think we'd have done better last season with Cavani up top with Ronnie either wide of just behind him, where he would have found a bit more freedom and been harder to mark. We kept hearing about how Ole knew the DNA of the club but having a top top marksman is the absolute DNA of United for me
but think what we'd have with Ronaldo either wide or behind a top goal scorer...
my point is, imagine him playing with a top centre forward as in the good old days
We’d have a winger not tracking his man and frankly, not beating his man either. Centre forward is where he belongs.
We waited all June to sign a player and I’ve got a feeling we’re going to sign 2 at once in de Jong and eriksen. Like waiting for a bus that’s late then 2 turn up
This one is in the bag.
£68 million is fantastic business.
No one knows what the totals are yet.
True, I've seen that figure multiple times over the last week or so. Will have to see.
But Ronaldo is a centre forward. Gone are the days of him beating his man, or playmaking behind someone else. He's the man that's going to get on the end of things as his remaining strengths now are his positioning to sniff out chances, his aerial ability and his finishing. Not sure your idea makes much sense in view of that. It's goals around him that we need, i.e. Sancho stepping up and somebody on the right.
Its pretty much the price Barcelona paid for him to Ajax and what they've wanted for him from us since day 1 so what is so "fantastic" about it ?
How much should he cost?
14 minutes without an update? No chance we're getting him.
They say that he's open to accepting Uniteds proposal and that both clubs are on the verge of sealing the agreement
My body is ready for the unsheathing of penis.
Nobody around him has scored goals for at least five years. Maybe there’s a pattern emerging.
I would love to see the tap-in merchant say the famous today sometime today so I can crack a few cold ones in celebration.
Chance creation vacuum upfront. Individual talent isn’t at in question, but like you say the goals seem to dry up elsewhere. I see a similar pattern with Ibra.
Im genuinely astonished that Traore is 3rd on that list. For all his obvious strengths you could hardly claim that the ball sticks to his feet.
He beats his man an awful lot to be fair. It’s just that eventually he’ll just run it off the pitch with no defender in sight.
Not true. Morata and Chiesa scored 20 and 14 goals respectively in 2020-21, and Dybala scored 17 in 2019-20. 2018-19 was a bit of a dry season for Juventus in general, albeit they still won Serie A. I’m not even going to bring up the stats for Real Madrid in 2017-18 - we all know how many goals they scored. It’s not Ronaldo’s problem that so many of our attackers either lost it (Bruno, Rashford, Martial), were still adjusting to the league (Sancho, Elanga) or ruined his and his girlfriend’s lives (Greenwood) last season.
There must actually be massive improvements shown by all our attackers this season bar Ronaldo in terms of scoring goals.
Knowing Utd . This signing will be done one the same day we reveal the new shirt for the season. New signing new shirt . Everyone feels good
That’s true. I’d love it if running the ball out of play somehow counted as a successful dribble!
As far as I’m aware dribbling stats are worked on beating your man, so running it out of play a few kick and hopes afterwards wouldn’t knock the score (I’m definitely not an expert on this though)
really? he dribbled past people for fun, he just can’t do a lot more than that.
Should have been an NFL running back
Because deep lying playmakers of his quality are incredibly hard to buy, we're lucky enough that Barca have a wealth of options in that area to give up a player like him. It's great value for us even at £68 million, given how good he is and how desperate we are/have been for that type of player since Carrick and Scholes.
They initially wanted 100m and then recently, more realistically, said they wouldn't take a penny less than a guaranteed €86m (not including add-ons). We've yet to see the actual structure of the offer they'll accept but we have reduced the price from what they initially wanted and it's still a good price for him regardless.
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