I'm always up for signing an experienced player to supplement an area where there is a young talent as it provides 1) an experienced head, 2) a mentor for the young player, but Perisic is as frustrating in that he can be very inconsistent. I'd hate for us to be dealing with two inconsistent players. So yeah, I hope José does not dump Martial and he picks his game up asap. If we do sign Perisic, I hope it's only a stop gap for a year.
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Don't read him when he's writing about Hajduk tho.
He's pretty subjective. But on other themes he's great and works with foreign papers a lot.
Probably because Perisic is the better footballer. It's not even close either
Not sure about that tbh
You've got to laugh at Liverpool. They've signed dross like Salah and we're gonna get this guy. I'm so buzzed. GGMU.
See I thought someone in the crowd pissed him off.
Good one.You are mistaking richest with best. We are not even in the top ten of Europe football-wise. At our current footballing level, Perisic is a par signing who will be a welcome addition.
If anything, signings like Perisic need to be encouraged. At this stage of rebuilding, we can't have mercenaries looking for a payday even if they are more talented than Perisic. Plus it's not like Perisic is awful, he was one of the better wingers in Serie A last season.
That's my thinking as well.
Agree. Expecting more from Mkhitaryan and Martial next season. Having spent a lot on them we are not going to shelve them just after a season. So having Perisic would be ideal to rotate. 7/10 player each game and constant threat all game long ala Valencia was for us at RW all those years ago. Besides his goals+assists stats is pretty good playing for a struggling team.
Is it true that Inter need to raise £30m before end of June to meet FFP, so they literally have a few days to seal a sale?
yep. However they are confident to do so by selling Banega and Brozovic
We seem to be pretty confident that we can do a deal with them at around 25-27m pounds. I think at that price, it'd be a pretty good signing.
Judging by the fact that they'd rather sell two players, they really seem to value Perisic. Maybe we should make a final bid of a cool 35 million pounds? Surely that would be too hard to refuse!
Of course we'll doing that only if he's high priority.
I dont mind us signing Perisic. The guy offers something different to what we currently have which is important in a league which is becoming more and more defensive minded.
Perisic was one of Inter's best players for the past two years. However I can't help thinking that the real issue here is not his worth as a player (Perisic is more of a Herrera type of player for them rather then a Ronaldo + he clearly said that he wants out) but more of Inter seeing us as a cash cow. They saw us throwing money at Juventus for Pogba and they expect us to do the same at them. I repeat Perisic is good but Inter shouldn't expect us to foot the bill of their FFP AND the bill to replace him with a better player. We're not a charity institution.
In my opinion, we should consider other options. Bernadeschi and Inaki Williams are the two players Inter want to replace Perisic with. It would be interesting to see Inter's reaction once they notice that United are thinking of other options and that they will probably end up with a 28 year old with no resale value and who doesn't want to play for them anymore
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I think we are playing hard ball as you suggest, hence the lack of progression on this deal.
I think so too and Im quite happy with it. The last thing we want is for the Serie A clubs to think we're suckers.
Wait for one+ more week at least for any more progress and official confirmation.
Manchester United target Ivan Perisic will play in a pro beach volleyball tournament
The Croatian winger has no time for transfer talk... he's got another sport entirely to think about.
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21 June 2017
The 28-year-old is reportedly set to join Manchester United from Inter Milan, but while that's going on in the background, Perisic's attention turns to beach volleyball.
Perisic and his professional playing partner Niksa Dell'Orco have been handed a wildcard to play in a World Tour event, which starts on Tuesday at the resort town of Porec.
“I want to go as far as possible," he told Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport.
"The prize will be given to the Croatian beach volleyball association to promote the development of the sport.”
Read more at https://www.fourfourtwo.com/news/ma...ach-volleyball-tournament#VrO1bpOFmJxDmBFl.99
Pragmatism and reality are the first to die during transfer windows.
How people don't see the value Perisic will bring to United beats me silly.
How people don't see the value Perisic will bring to United beats me silly.
Pragmatism and reality are the first to die during transfer windows.
How people don't see the value Perisic will bring to United beats me silly.
How people don't see the value Perisic will bring to United beats me silly.
I don't think its the case. What people are complaining about is his fee not his talent. Considering how United have acted till now then these people might have a valid point
I am not sure it is about the fee for many people. After all, United has refused to pay silly money for him so far. It's all the comments that make it look like we are about to sign a bang average player who will only worsen our current situation.
He's a decent player but that's it, just decent. We just finished 6th and our season was saved by the Europa league, we need a match winner and game changer. He'll probably come in and do a job, but he isn't going to elevate us.
Most of the people here were reacting to Inter's demands which, lets face, are crazy. Perisic is a decent player but he simply lack the world class talent and the resale value for Inter to demand 50m for him. Its unfair on United to be expected to pay for Inter's FFP + the bill for an upgrade on Perisic.
He's going to be a Ji Sung Park type of player. He won't be pleasing to watch but he brings to the table characteristics which are different to what we currently have.
If it is about his fee, then I concur.
I liken his signing to the signing of Valencia, that worked out well enough. Not individually spectacular, but ideal enough for the system and enough of a team player to become a vital cog.
That version of Valencia was a lot more than just workrate though; he was a fantastic player who was arguably the best winger in the league. Perisic is nowhere near what he was then.
We don't need a Ji Sung Park though, we have Lingard for that. We need an x-factor in the final third, especially with Ibra gone. Our Rivals have Hazard, Aguero, Mane, Alli, Sanchez, KDB, Coutinho. Unless Martial plays out of his skin or Mkhi reaches the level he did in his final season at Dortmund then Perisic isn't going to solve that. Griez would've been perfect but that ship has sailed.
Lingard is less talent version of park - his work rate. Its like comparing butt with savage
Comparing Lingard to Ji Sung Park is an insult to the later imo.
Also tell us what player of this type you mentioned that we can get this season.
Lingard is shite, he's not fit to lace Ji Sung's boots.
I trust Mourinho knows what he's doing and what type of player he wants and if it's this guy then so be it. I never felt confident moyes or van gaal had any clue who to sign.
James Rodriguez.
Love the bickering and comparisons between Salah & Perisic. Let's be honest most of us keyboard warriors have no idea how well either will do.
I am always quite wary of players from Serie A because of all the leagues I feel it is most dissimilar to the PL. When you look at Pogba, Veron, Shevchenko, Cuadrado, Lamela, Balotelli, Jovetic how many of them have been a success?
I'm a Man Utd fan so hopefully Pogba bucks the trend
I am always quite wary of players from Serie A because of all the leagues I feel it is most dissimilar to the PL. When you look at Pogba, Veron, Shevchenko, Cuadrado, Lamela, Balotelli, Jovetic how many of them have been a success?
I'm a Man Utd fan so hopefully Pogba bucks the trend
Wingers and fullbacks seem the most likely to fail when making the transition (lack of width and relatively gentle pace in Italy = lots of time on the ball and space out wide).
PPL forget we need better than what we have got in the starting 11, and perisic is not going to improve our starting 11 greatly. We are in CL football our hand has never been stronger and the best mourinho can come up with, is a 28 year old winger who will do a job. Jose may is well just give guys like mkhi and martial a proper run out, we already have the garbage in the scrapheap young, lingard, fellaini, rooney, we given carrick a new contract when we should be seeing a fresh DM take his place. How do we move forward? improve the wide positions, the DM, the CM and the striker situation, what we have seen so far from possible targets is not saying yeah this club is looking to really put a marker down. Even entertaining the idea we having a transfer saga over ivan perisic really does shake your head, you do get a sense its more of the same regressive football we saw last season under mourinho, does a job without looking that threatening. When Mourinho won the league in 2014 with chelsea, look at the signings he made, positions strengthened considerably
There's me thinking I'm the only one that thinks Lingard is shite, well said and I agree.
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