Like who?In a heartbeat. He's an alright footballer none of you had even heard of 12 months ago. He might become good, but I'll tell you who will be good; a proper 100 million pound midfielder who already knows what it takes.
He's shown glimpses so far, much like many failures of our past. Unless it's a 16 year old Rooney, you take the money and buy the finished product with it. What big club says "nah, we don't want to win immediately, we want to let the talent develop"??!? Bonkers.
Rice?Like who?
In a heartbeat. He's an alright footballer none of you had even heard of 12 months ago.
In a heartbeat. He's an alright footballer none of you had even heard of 12 months ago. He might become good, but I'll tell you who will be good; a proper 100 million pound midfielder who already knows what it takes.
He's shown glimpses so far, much like many failures of our past. Unless it's a 16 year old Rooney, you take the money and buy the finished product with it. What big club says "nah, we don't want to win immediately, we want to let the talent develop"??!? Bonkers.
Unfortunately for the romantics the only answer is yes
Rice?
I think Rice hasI would sell anyone for £100m.
No one who's been sold for over that has proved their worth, have they.
Probably not. £100m these days gets your an Antony and a Zirkzee.
'The state of this fecking forum' then proceeds to explain how any 'well run club' would turn down £100m pure profit.The state of this fecking forum
All of you saying yes are either trying too hard to have some distinct opinion on this or just incapable of guessing a players ceiling (the ones comparing him to Januzaj and Garnacho, two clearly inferior talents)
No, I wouldn't sell him for 100m and I don't think any well-run club would even contemplate the idea.
I'm not saying Mainoo has a ceiling as high as them (because I think his peak potential is just a level below most of the examples I'm gonna list, although not all of them, and he's still an absolutely elite level talent), but ask yourself if their clubs would sell the likes of Camavinga, Pedri, Gavi, Caicedo, Saliba, Gvardiol, Olise, J. Neves, Zaire-Emery etc. for 100 million.
The absolute best U23 talents in the world are the most expensive players to attain and even if you beat out other clubs for their signatures, which is very difficult even for the biggest clubs in the world, you still take on the responsibility of their development for those 3-5 years before they enter their peak years. So many things can go wrong even if you have the money.
We have one of these guys in our team already, with a seemingly excellent mental profile and character, a very unique profile that most clubs could do with but they're hard to find: Arsenal and City for example don't have an LCM like Mainoo despite both having spent the majority of the last 24 months in the top 5 club sides in the world, and both clubs have been looking for a player of a similar profile to him.
And I haven't even mentioned that he's from our own academy. Only classless clubs like Chelsea, Villa, Newcastle or City abuse the selling of their homegrown talents for PSR reasons.
I said the exact same thing almost 1 year ago when the same question was asked, but if I recall correctly the hypothetical figure was 80m.
Mainoo's level and talent was clear before he even made his debut against Everton, and a whole year later people are still entertaining this idea of well he could fall off like xyz in the past before...yes, but that will mean the club failed the player, not vice versa. We need to get better at making sure our best talents fulfill their potentials, not sell them for PSR reasons and because we're afraid we might ruin them.
His corners alone are worth £100m heh?I think Rice has
Well our youth certainly has been something to hang your hat on for the last twenty years....This is the same type of answer I was given 12 months ago when I claimed he's one of the best midfielders in the league and could start for both City and Arsenal as both clubs are badly missing the type of player he is.
"You could go to most top 6 clubs and most of the midfielders would be better than him"
FIFA logic. People are not willing to say what their eyes see because it's supposedly too early or something. Or social media told them otherwise in the case of de Ligt vs Maguire for example.
The state of this fecking forum
All of you saying yes are either trying too hard to have some distinct opinion on this or just incapable of guessing a players ceiling (the ones comparing him to Januzaj and Garnacho, two clearly inferior talents)
No, I wouldn't sell him for 100m and I don't think any well-run club would even contemplate the idea.
I'm not saying Mainoo has a ceiling as high as them (because I think his peak potential is just a level below most of the examples I'm gonna list, although not all of them, and he's still an absolutely elite level talent), but ask yourself if their clubs would sell the likes of Camavinga, Pedri, Gavi, Caicedo, Saliba, Gvardiol, Olise, J. Neves, Zaire-Emery etc. for 100 million.
The absolute best U23 talents in the world are the most expensive players to attain and even if you beat out other clubs for their signatures, which is very difficult even for the biggest clubs in the world, you still take on the responsibility of their development for those 3-5 years before they enter their peak years. So many things can go wrong even if you have the money.
We have one of these guys in our team already, with a seemingly excellent mental profile and character, a very unique profile that most clubs could do with but they're hard to find: Arsenal and City for example don't have an LCM like Mainoo despite both having spent the majority of the last 24 months in the top 5 club sides in the world, and both clubs have been looking for a player of a similar profile to him.
And I haven't even mentioned that he's from our own academy. Only classless clubs like Chelsea, Villa, Newcastle or City abuse the selling of their homegrown talents for PSR reasons.
I said the exact same thing almost 1 year ago when the same question was asked, but if I recall correctly the hypothetical figure was 80m.
Mainoo's level and talent was clear before he even made his debut against Everton, and a whole year later people are still entertaining this idea of well he could fall off like xyz in the past before...yes, but that will mean the club failed the player, not vice versa. We need to get better at making sure our best talents fulfill their potentials, not sell them for PSR reasons and because we're afraid we might ruin them.
none of you had even heard of 12 months ago.
City spend about £9.7m per point a year or two ago and since Rice has assisted from 8 corners, if we assume that the subsequent goals led to points, his corners are probably worth a decent chunk of his fee.His corners alone are worth £100m heh?