it's time for L. Damiao to finally come to EPL. it shouldn't be hard to get him from Japan and their league ends in november.
Is there an "Igalho" we can sign? (no we're not signing Igalho and your opinion on him is irrelevant)
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Danny Ings?
Depay would be an ok option but he has been a bit injury prone in the last year.
Why would anyone use Ighalo as a good example hahaha. He barely played and obviously didn't had the quality to make it here.
When I say he was a contributor to us getting top 4 I don’t mean his performances in the league which were rare. It was the fact he gave us an option to play him in the Europa league and rest the likes of Martial for the league. He played nearly all of the Europa league games which was key in our team being rotated and fresh for the league. Without him, our players would have been screwed playing every game when we were so reliant on Rashford, Martial and Greenwood.
Yes. Odion Ighalo.
Yes, dont think there was any goals or assists from him in the PL
This
He played 5 games and scored 2 goals, hardly a massive contribution.
Yeah he might start and get a lot of games for 6 months. Then what? Are we not going to get anyone better? At some point he will be a bench player and he will be moody and disruptive - again
City:
Bony
Santa Cruz
Chelsea:
Demba Ba
Victor Moses
Loic Remy
Chelsea more than City. To be fair I named City because I remember Bony clearly.
That austrian lad seems to be doing pretty ok for himself in Serie A, although we won't get him cheap this time.
If there was it'd probably be someone in the Dutch league Erik's known for years but few outwith have heard of. Scored quite a few over the years yet not quite good enough to be signed by one of the really big boys. Joining United would be all his Christmases coming at once so he'd jump at the chance even if it was just for 6 months.
Can't see it happening though. Erik would be pushing for a real signing rather than a stop gap I'd imagine.
Can't see it happening though. Erik would be pushing for a real signing rather than a stop gap I'd imagine.
Bit harsh to judge him on that though - lad played a whopping 90 minutes of PL football across 11 games...
His longest PL appearance was 18 minutes.
Fair point.
Is Dembele still running out his contract or has he re-upped? That's a good shout for a cheap and effective option.
Yeah whats up with tha Dembele guy, heard a lot of good things about him during the summer.
Felix? He needs game time, Atletico need him back in form but can’t afford to play him. Could be a win win loan.
Wouldn't be mad at Thuram or Dembele. We'd be unlikely to lose loads of money on them so long as we don't offer them silly wages and a long contract. Go with silly wages, short contract or sensible wages, long contract. There's definitely a possibility with them that they'd do well and stay for quite a long time.
Yeah. If we want to keep working off that Spurs shopping list from about 10 years ago.
Eriksen
Damiao
Where's Soldado these days?
Indeed, he ll be free this summer. Think he can be a good backup option but not the one leading your line. To be honest, if we buy a center forward and Martial leaves, I d take him as second striker.
But if you have him and Martial as 9 in your team, I don t think it will be enough as Dembele will play far more matches than crying Martial
Super Paul Mullin. I just don’t think you understand.
Ighalo must be one of our worst value for money signings ever. Around £15m by reports, for next to nothing on the pitch.
For me there's not much point in that profile of signing. By profile I mean somebody shite just to fill a pair of boots.
Martial's fitness probably cannot be worse in the second half of the season. We still ultimately have Ronaldo, he's not worse than most you're going to get on a short term loan, unless something unexpected comes up. Rashford.
Martial's fitness probably cannot be worse in the second half of the season. We still ultimately have Ronaldo, he's not worse than most you're going to get on a short term loan, unless something unexpected comes up. Rashford.
Do we not have any promising strikers or forwards in our youth teams? Either that or a potential prospect for a cheap price (i.e. players clubs like Dortmund buy) would be fine. Cheap enough so that it's not a huge burden if they fail, and someone who can be sold off as they are young. Similar to Dan James.
Not at all - scored several in cups when he first arrived but Ole barely gave him a chance in the league
He was a good squad player from when he first joined up until the Covid lockdown. So only about two months, but at that point it looked like a good loan.
Struggled badly after the lockdown though and never got going again. I choose to remember him fondly for his early performances.
If only there was some option like the Henrik Larsson signing..wasnt that in 2006?
Scored a quite brilliant goal at LASK to be fair.
It's crazy to me what some of you, and football fans in general, think a striker does.
Some of the low quality names thrown here like Deeny and Chicharito would make Ronaldo look like prime Ronaldo of 96.
Having someone with some technical ability and someone that can run around is not enough. If that's all there was to it Rashford would be a good striker. What we truly need is a high quality elite player else you just have another Igahlo like situation.
Some of the low quality names thrown here like Deeny and Chicharito would make Ronaldo look like prime Ronaldo of 96.
Having someone with some technical ability and someone that can run around is not enough. If that's all there was to it Rashford would be a good striker. What we truly need is a high quality elite player else you just have another Igahlo like situation.
Yeah I think people are being super harsh on Ighalo, we didn’t expect much and got him for free but he popped up with a few goals and offered some rest for our main men
Ighalo wasn't even that good.
He was paid $300k and did nothing an academy grad probably couldn't do.
Just gonna say it again: it can’t be overstated how much that cnut Greenwood screwed us. Just having a 120m top striking prospect taken out of the squad with no compensation will always cripple that position
Going to have to be Depay or a move for Gakpo.
There probably is, yeah. Ighalo wasn't anywhere near the best available Ighalo style option at the time.
Is it really necessary, though?
Is it really necessary, though?
Ollie Palmer
I'm sure Serie A has a pensioner available, somewhere.
Get Kieffer Moore from Bournemouth
Tell all our other players to get out wide and put crosses into the box
Win the quadruple
Tell all our other players to get out wide and put crosses into the box
Win the quadruple