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Henrikh Mkhitaryan - Do you want him for the reported €38m?


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I never cease to be amazed by people seemingly thinking buying players is like grocery shopping.

"How much for your creative midfielder?"
"erm, €40m?"
"OK, you take credit cards?"

Exactly you will use a B.I.C.
 
I mean this is a match made in heaven, our best player ever playing at one of the top clubs in the world. This is our Messi/Ronaldo/Pele, there is no pressure from our end because he can literally do no wrong outside of doing something insane like denying the genocide. Even then that has nothing to do with football. He is just sheltered from abuse both from Dortmund and from the home media. The English media however....

If there was any form of wealth in the country, I'd comfortably say he'd make United a ton of cash in jersey sales. He'd sell 25,000 shirts in Glendale alone.

Ok thanks, good to hear that. I knew obviously that he is a god there, but good to read a confirmation.

Loving the vibes, so we have a price. This one is so happening.
 
:lol: at Dortmund if they replace him with Schürrle.
 
When the Mouuuuu is in the dugout,
And Ibra lines up with Martial,
And Shwein will guide the passes,
And De Goat will save the shots,
This is the dawning of the age of Mkhitaryan.

Let the man sign,
Let the man sign,
The man sign, Ed.
 


Some of those counter-attacks! :drool:
 
What makes you think that Mourinho understands transfers but Sir Alex and Wenger don't?

My point was , Mourinho is closer with agents than many of the managers out there. Ferguson hated the agents involvements in transfers , we lost hazard to chelsea because of that. Arsene rarely goes for players with super agents , cause he hates them. They both fail to see that the world has changed and having a agent as an ally is really important for a top tier clubs. Can't blame SAF or Arsene as they have spent majority of their time managing before these agents started ruling the footballing world. In today's world you could not get around top players without paying agent fees of few million and SAF would have frowned upon that.
 
My point was , Mourinho is closer with agents than many of the managers out there. Ferguson hated the agents involvements in transfers , we lost hazard to chelsea because of that. Arsene rarely goes for players with super agents , cause he hates them. They both fail to see that the world has changed and having a agent as an ally is really important for a top tier clubs. Can't blame SAF or Arsene as they have spent majority of their time managing before these agents started ruling the footballing world. In today's world you could not get around top players without paying agent fees of few million and SAF would have frowned upon that.

Have to agree with this. How many times did Fergie moan about agents in his books. Hopefully with Jose we'll manage to get deals done quicker and more efficiently.
 
Have to agree with this. How many times did Fergie moan about agents in his books. Hopefully with Jose we'll manage to get deals done quicker and more efficiently.

Fergie also praised Mendes a lot and Mendes was super agent.
 
IF we are interested and have made an initial bid, then I can see this rumbling on for a while.

We won't want to pay over the odds because he's only got 1 year left on his contract.

On the other hand, Dortmund (behind closed doors) won't be too keen on keeping a player who has his heart set on a move to the Premier League where he will be able to earn more and challenge for trophies (let's be honest, Bayern will probably mop up most trophies in Bundesliga for the foreseeable future - if I was an established Dortmund player, I would also be looking for a transfer.)

I think we will eventually land him - Dortmund are currently puffing out their chest and refusing to sell but everyone knows it's just an old trick to get us to bid a lot more.
 
Smells like one of those where we dick around with incrementally improved offers, trying to get him on the cheap, it lasts for ages and then Bayern, Chelsea or the like come in, offer the money and buy him in a day or two.
 
Smells like one of those where we dick around with incrementally improved offers, trying to get him on the cheap, it lasts for ages and then Bayern, Chelsea or the like come in, offer the money and buy him in a day or two.

He's got a year left. Would you rather we went in with £30m straight off?
 
The way Raiola has gone on the offensive, I think Dortmund might eventually cave in. Or probably they already have and are looking for his replacement behind the scenes while playing to the crowd by putting on a brave face on this ongoing saga. Of course, this is all guesswork on my part with a biased view. So I could very well be wrong.

Having said that, I'd not want us to be in Dortmund's situation. Raiola is a ***k and this time him being a ***k is working in our favor but the next time the shoe could be on the other foot!
 
From whatever I have seen of him from he would fit in perfectly as a RW/RM or as a AM/CAM in 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-3 setup.
He has an excellent vision to find a teammate in space and technique to deliver the right pass selflessly. Last season on multiple occasions he had assisted Auba in penalty box for a tap in without going for glory himself which shows he is good and happy with being the creator force.
The aspect on which he will be an huge upgrade on Lingard and Mata is his finishing abilities. He can finish well with both feet and he is willing to shoot outside the box. Last season on numerous occasions, Mata/Lingard's finishing abilities let us down. He will be a constant goal threat from CAM / RW position which will lighten the burden on Martial/Zlatan/Rashford.
 
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Smells like one of those where we dick around with incrementally improved offers, trying to get him on the cheap, it lasts for ages and then Bayern, Chelsea or the like come in, offer the money and buy him in a day or two.
Yeah this has a mild whiff of Pedro about it but that didn't turn out so bad. Won't be devastated to lose out on this one.
 
Yeah this has a mild whiff of Pedro about it but that didn't turn out so bad. Won't be devastated to lose out on this one.

I didnt care much for Pedro, but this time i would be devastated. We are crying out for a player like him. I dont want us to overpay for an average winger.
 
He has one year left on his contract.

EUR 25m for a player of his level in the last year of his contract isn't a bad offer to start with tbh.

He only has a year on his contract.

Its about what he is worth given the circumstances. If he just signed a new contract and we wanted him we'd probably offer double.
Okay, I don't entirely disagree with all these sentiments, but let me offer another perspective for consideration. It wasn't very long ago, less than a year in fact, when Real Madrid offered us what we thought was a ridiculously low sum for our goalkeeper, whom we considered the best in the world. Madrid's reason for the low-ball offer? You guessed it - De Gea had only 1 year left on his contract. Were we pleased about it? The hell we were! I can remember the insults we rained on Madrid and on Florentino Perez for 'disrespecting' us. We were very happy and were cheering on Woodward for refusing to bend over unless we got Sergio Ramos in return...

Now that the shoe is on the other foot, let us at least understand the Dortmund fans' frustration and why Watzke is playing hardball with our offer. If we truly want Micki, then we should come up with an offer that Dortmund will not consider insulting. Else, (and this would be my preferred strategy) go for Mahrez right away, and discuss with Micki the possibility of signing a pre-contract with us in January to join us for free in the summer.
 
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Okay, I don't entirely disagree with all these sentiments, but let me offer another perspective for consideration. It wasn't very long ago, less than a year in fact, when Real Madrid offered us what we thought was a ridiculously low sum for our goalkeeper, whom we considered the best in the world. Madrid's reason for the low-ball offer? You guessed it - De Gea had only 1 year left on his contract. Were we pleased about it? The hell we were! I can remember the insults we rained on Madrid and on Florentino Perez for 'disrespecting' us. We were very happy and were cheering on Woodward for refusing to bend over unless we got Sergio Ramos in return...

Now that the shoe is on the other foot, let us at least understand the Dortmund fans' frustration and why Watzke is playing hardball with our offer. If we truly want Micki, then we should come up with an offer that Dortmund will not consider insulting. Else, (and this would be my preferred strategy) go for Mahrez right away, and discuss with Micki the possibility of signing a pre-contract with us in January to join us for free in the summer.
I rate Mkhitaryan but De Gea is far more valuable to us than Mkhi is for Dortmund. Another point is that, we double double what Dortmund make as revenue in a year.
 
Okay, I don't entirely disagree with all these sentiments, but let me offer another perspective for consideration. It wasn't very long ago, less than a year in fact, when Real Madrid offered us what we thought was a ridiculously low sum for our goalkeeper, whom we considered the best in the world. Madrid's reason for the low-ball offer? You guessed it - De Gea had only 1 year left on his contract. Were we pleased about it? The hell we were! I can remember the insults we rained on Madrid and on Florentino Perez for 'disrespecting' us. We were very happy and were cheering on Woodward for refusing to bend over unless we got Sergio Ramos in return...

Now that the shoe is on the other foot, let us at least understand the Dortmund fans' frustration and why Watzke is playing hardball with our offer. If we truly want Micki, then we should come up with an offer that Dortmund will not consider insulting. Else, (and this would be my preferred strategy) go for Mahrez right away, and discuss with Micki the possibility of signing a pre-contract with us in January to join us for free in the summer.

We accepted the low offer from Real.
 
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