I'm no fan of Mourinho for non football reasons. Perisic seems incredibly expensive but I do believe Mourinho knows his stuff. If this happens I'm pretty excited to see what comes out of it.
Ivan Perisic
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Strange that we are only linked with this one left winger rather than simultaneously negotiating with two or three like we did with Lukaku. Can't even think of an alternative. Plenty for the right or as a left sided forward but not as a left winger.
Everyone is worried about the price, if Jose thinks he is the missing link in attack who can help us to win & deliver his tactics on field and will play a big part in winning PL then i wont care about money.
As for overpaying for players I think we need to spend another season big. Once the team is sorted out and the way we are restructuring our academy and with help of new scouts especially the acquisition of J.ribalta who is very good at knowing contract of players we can sign players on cheap where as it will be other clubs who will be overpaying.
For this season we have to overpay for the players our manager wants, once we are back to winning titles I don't think we will be repeating it again
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As for overpaying for players I think we need to spend another season big. Once the team is sorted out and the way we are restructuring our academy and with help of new scouts especially the acquisition of J.ribalta who is very good at knowing contract of players we can sign players on cheap where as it will be other clubs who will be overpaying.
For this season we have to overpay for the players our manager wants, once we are back to winning titles I don't think we will be repeating it again
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This guy must be the best winger ever! Its crazy to think that out of all the players we've been linked to this guy was one of the earliest identified and I cant recall there being speculation about anyone else in his position.
I guess if Mourinho is that adamant about him then the price doesnt matter Ed should get him and get on with it.
I guess if Mourinho is that adamant about him then the price doesnt matter Ed should get him and get on with it.
Even if he doesn't fail, there would be people driven by their own agenda, & have him as failure somehow.Oh goody can't wait for the reality check when we buy him for more than 60mio€ and he fails miserably
This thread keeps growing. Any news, or just more panic?
Few pages back, SSN Kaveh said a deal is getting closer, £48m.
Both footed, can cross the ball pretty well and has pretty much every answer to any situation as a winger. Coupled with the fact that we've got Lukaku already, this transfer is beginning to look like a crucial one for us to complete.
Imagine the headers Lukaku could be at the end of next season. 50m, 70m, I don't even care. What's the point of saving money when we can win titles again?
Imagine the headers Lukaku could be at the end of next season. 50m, 70m, I don't even care. What's the point of saving money when we can win titles again?
Is he a good crosser? Genuinely feel at times we have some of the worst crossers of the ball in the league, and having a good delivery will be vital this season.
50M is the new 18M, it seems. The world's gone crazy.
At 28 I expect he's the experienced alternative that we want to Martial. Within the next two years i expect that Martial would have made the position his own. The other thing is that I think Perisic can play that RW position to where he will tuck in and be a goal threat with his left foot.
They compete. Something Martial would have to do at any top club.
I am convinced Martial has the quality to win that battle.
I think if he signs the fee will be somewhat offset by his comparatively modest wages.
Paying £48m and say £20m over 4 years (100k a week) in salary is no different to paying £33m and £35m (£175k a week).
The latter transfer I imagine people would be saying "he's a bargain at £33m".
Paying £48m and say £20m over 4 years (100k a week) in salary is no different to paying £33m and £35m (£175k a week).
The latter transfer I imagine people would be saying "he's a bargain at £33m".
Even before he signed, there's a already split opinion on him. It won't do him any good when he come here. With that price tag plus there's a good chance that he might get #7 as well. Oh boy he better hit the ground running from day one.
Yep. With that said, if he provides Lukaku with 15 assists and they both fire us to the title, it's money well spent.
I can't get behind this deal at all. He's a sqaud player at best. Surely for £50m you could buy any left winger in the world outside of Ronaldo, Neymsr and Hazard.
>Madrid try to fleece us: we move on to another target
>Inter try to fleece us: Bend over and take it
Dropping any more than 30 on him would be a waste. Joke of a signing.
>Inter try to fleece us: Bend over and take it
Dropping any more than 30 on him would be a waste. Joke of a signing.
Yes. Incidentally, Mou wanting griezmann and being interested in perisic makes me think he plans to play with two strikers. So Martial will probably compete with Rashford for the second striker role, unless someone else is brought in
There's a logical fallacy there. You didn't move on to another target because we tried to fleece, you moved to another target because it was a higher priority target in the first place
If you don't have anyone else lined up as an alternative to perisic, or if perisic is the first option, you'll probably pay what inter wants. Just as you would have paid what madrid wanted if you had no shot at lukaku
Morata was plan B. Perisic is a Plan A.
I never claimed he's a bad player and so the manager wanting someone justifies whatever price?
It means whenever the manager wants a player, the selling club can and should just quote any unreasonable/ridiculous fee and we MUST pay that fee simply because the manager wants a player?
You know the fee is absurd when stupid arguments/logic like this is being used to defend or justify it.
People need to get with the times. 50m is the new 20m. Look at the prices being rejected for Van Dike and Siggurdson. Clubs know we're loaded and can demand what they want cause it's a seller's market.
With the money in the game clubs don't need to always sell players anymore.
With the money in the game clubs don't need to always sell players anymore.
He is Croatian.
Unfortunately I think we will part ways with Martial next transfer window. He doesn't strike me as someone who will fight for his spot, looks very fragile mentally. Needs nourishing, not competition. Hope we give him his number back, it might have some impact on him.
You doubters are gonna call him Ivan the terrible when he has a bad game aren't you?
Why wait for a bad game?
It's sad that we're so ready to give up on serious talent so quickly while the likes of Young and Fellaini have been stinking up the place for years now. Mediocre triers seem to be more welcome at Manchester United than actual talent.
Robben was signed by Ranieri, as was Cech. Robben was confirmed in March and Cech was agreed for a move in February 2004. Its strange that people think they were Jose signings
It's a sorry state of affairs when a mediocre player is our plan A
Can he play on the right? Don't want to see fecking Lingard start so many games.
You're pushing it a bit tbh. Ok, he's no Cristiano Ronaldo but he's an excellent player with the charasteristics we need. We don't need another inside forward and there's not many 'old fashioned' wingers around. Perisic is the best of the lot
How on Earth do you all know so much about Perisic to have a debate about his playing style this lengthy and detailed? I've seen him about 5 times that I can remember (mainly in the Euros where he looked good) which is not enough to form a meaningful opinion, never mind a deeply held and entrenched view. How do you find the time to watch this much football? Do you lunatics ever do anything else?
I think he will be an excellent signing, i'm not bothered about the price in the slightest.
A proper out and out winger, who tracks back and defends and can break with pace on the counter. A winger that will actually hug the line and stretch teams that try to sit compact and narrow to play for a point. (the exact problem we had for all the draws at Old Trafford last season)
We don't have any wingers to stretch the play with a good crossing ability which led to teams shutting us down at Old Trafford.
Counter attacking is another huge part of our game we were very unsuccessful with last season having a wide man with pace and now a fast forward should hugely help us break teams down when they come on to us chasing a goal, helping us kill off games another glaring problem from last season.
He is no "galatico" but it makes more then enough sense why he could be vital to a successful season.
A proper out and out winger, who tracks back and defends and can break with pace on the counter. A winger that will actually hug the line and stretch teams that try to sit compact and narrow to play for a point. (the exact problem we had for all the draws at Old Trafford last season)
We don't have any wingers to stretch the play with a good crossing ability which led to teams shutting us down at Old Trafford.
Counter attacking is another huge part of our game we were very unsuccessful with last season having a wide man with pace and now a fast forward should hugely help us break teams down when they come on to us chasing a goal, helping us kill off games another glaring problem from last season.
He is no "galatico" but it makes more then enough sense why he could be vital to a successful season.
Then we should select our targets with more care.
City got Sane, Silva, Jesus, Sterling and De bruyne for 37, 43, 27, 44 and 55 million pounds just these last few years years. Us going after Perisic for near 50 million pounds is lunacy and clubs will keep demanding these sums because we keep supplying them. Bayern and Juventus and even Tottenham are doing alot better than us while spending alot less money because they're alot smarter in the market than we seem to be.
Me too in the long run. And then we are left with a '£50 million flop benchwarmer' if that happens. Great foresight by the club here.
He's an excellent player who has failed to 'excel' virtually all his career. sounds legit. He's just one of the unlucky ones I guess.
So what do you suggest, just give up and stick with the squad we have? If inter refuse to sell for less what exactly can we do. Jose clearly wants him, Perisic wants to join.
Yes the price is higher than we would like but sod it, is it really worth worrying about?.
Ah, okay. I was quite young then so wouldn't really have remembered.
That's how it works around here, if he was headed to any of our rivals we'd be laughing but when we might sign him he's excellent...
Agreed.
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