Jadon Sancho | £72.9M fee agreed

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Sancho has obviously made it clear he wants United. Nobody else is sniffing about as we have a free run at him.

Chelsea backed off once they realised this was the case, if it was truly about money then why aren't they after him again now?

He wants to be a red :drool:
 
crossy1686 said:
Rio Ferdinand - United
Diouf - Liverpool
Kanchelskis - United
Gyan - Sunderland
Rodriguez - Madrid

Just a few I can think of off the top of my head, there's probably a couple more who've moved post tournament after playing well.
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Judas said:
You see players come out of sort of nowhere at a tournament and suddenly clubs are after them, Arshavin for example after 2008, but Sancho is more than known at this point.
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And an initial(pretty close to what they want)bid has been made.There's only one outcome here and that's Sancho in a United shirt
 
crossy1686 said:
The floor has been set on what Dortmund want for him. If he has a blistering Euro's you can bet other clubs will be heavily interested and start throwing money around.
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I doubt he'll be starting to have such an impact anyway.
 
Deery said:
He has one year left on his contract and started playing more games last season, there’s no doubt he’s a top class player when fully fit and on form.

By the same token Pep thought Sancho’s attitude stunk and there were also reports about him at Dortmund.
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I think it's largely subjective media bias that creates this false narrative around player attitudes. We have seen the same happen for Sancho / Greenwood but Grealish with drink driving offences and leaked private images gets no headlines. The problem is not the players it's the media / journalists.
 
95m.. feck me, we should have saved the money spent on vDB to buy a CB this window.
 
royboy16 said:
Will he be our 3rd Dortmund signing?
Hope he is better than the last two players we got from them.I found Kagawa a bit of a mixed bag signing. Hard to say if he would have got better if Fergie was still in charge.
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Ultimatively only time will tell, but the requriements for a successful United stay are better in Sanchos case.

For one, he has simply a higher performance ceiling than both Kagawa and Mkhitaryan, but even more importantly he covers the weaknesses of the other two. He is far more versatile than Kagawa (a system player, that only really flourished in his comfort position and failed to adept) and a good deal mentally stronger than the raw egg Mkhitaryan.

There are two kinds of well performing players at Dortmund who departed the club. Players who profited a lot from the system and comfort (Sahin, Kagawa, Mkhitaryan, Götze to an extend) and top level players who used the stage Dortmund set to show their strong individual quality (Lewandowski, Gündogan, Aubameyang, Hummels). Sancho fits firmly in the latter category IMO.
 
crossy1686 said:
Rio Ferdinand - United
Diouf - Liverpool
Kanchelskis - United
Gyan - Sunderland
Rodriguez - Madrid

Just a few I can think of off the top of my head, there's probably a couple more who've moved post tournament after playing well.
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Do you mean the transfer fees escalated because multiple clubs were after them, I thought that's what we were talking about?
 
Pound for pound, this will be one of the biggest flops in the PL.

No way is he worth 90m
 
crossy1686 said:
Both, those players that moved after the tournaments weren't cheap. Rio was a world record fee at the time.
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Tbf I don't think the tournament effected Rio's price tag that much, he broke the transfer record and was already the most expensive defender just 2 years prior. Leeds where in a bad way but he would been at best 25m pre that tournament.
 
Lastwolf said:
Tbf I don't think the tournament effected Rio's price tag that much, he brok the transfer record and was already the most expensive defender just 2 years prior.
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Maybe not, I just remember him being brilliant in that WC and moving to United afterwards. The deal was probably already in place for him to leave Leeds.
 
passing-wind said:
I think it's largely subjective media bias that creates this false narrative around player attitudes. We have seen the same happen for Sancho / Greenwood but Grealish with drink driving offences and leaked private images gets no headlines. The problem is not the players it's the media / journalists.
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Aye the media will stir up any old shit I don’t particularly care what a 21 year old gets up to he has a long road ahead of him to improve.
 
We've had a BBC article that we've had a bid rejected and are putting together a second bid... Several other sources saying there's progress being made... And still no thread title change?
 
Flop, bloody hell. Which of our big money British (or Irish) transfers has been a flop? Some foreign big transfers yes.
Keane, Cole, Rio, Rooney all top players. Maguire has also worked out so far.

We are considering signing one of the best (young) players in the world who also happens to be English and people are moaning about 5 or 10 mil more or less or labeling him a flop.
We probably even valued him last summer around 100 mil but just didn’t have the money, especially to pay most of it upfront.
This summer (maybe partly due to Covid) the situation and fee structure is a little different. So it seems we are now more ready to invest in him.
Absolute worst case (but very unlikely) he disappoints and we sell him in 2-3 years.
He will then still only be 24.
Most obvious signing we could make apart from Grealish who would cost more and will cause a bidding war if he moves.
 
united_99 said:
Flop, bloody hell. Which of our big money British (or Irish) transfers has been a flop? Some foreign big transfers yes.
Keane, Cole, Rio, Rooney all top players. Maguire has also worked out so far.

We are considering signing one of the best (young) players in the world who also happens to be English and people are moaning about 5 or 10 mil more or less or labeling him a flop.
We probably even valued him last summer around 100 mil but just didn’t have the money, especially to pay most of it upfront.
This summer (maybe partly due to Covid) the situation and fee structure is a little different. So it seems we are now more ready to invest in him.
Absolute worst case (but very unlikely) he disappoints and we sell him in 2-3 years.
He will then still only be 24.
Most obvious signing we could make apart from Grealish who would cost more and will cause a bidding war if he moves.
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No point in trying to reason with such negativity. We could be signing Mbappe and some people would still moan.
 
united_99 said:
Flop, bloody hell. Which of our big money British (or Irish) transfers has been a flop? Some foreign big transfers yes.
Keane, Cole, Rio, Rooney all top players. Maguire has also worked out so far.

We are considering signing one of the best (young) players in the world who also happens to be English and people are moaning about 5 or 10 mil more or less or labeling him a flop.
We probably even valued him last summer around 100 mil but just didn’t have the money, especially to pay most of it upfront.
This summer (maybe partly due to Covid) the situation and fee structure is a little different. So it seems we are now more ready to invest in him.
Absolute worst case (but very unlikely) he disappoints and we sell him in 2-3 years.
He will then still only be 24.
Most obvious signing we could make apart from Grealish who would cost more and will cause a bidding war if he moves.
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One major difference though is all of those signings were from the premier League.

Our record with Bundesliga signings over the last decade hasn't been very good.
 
marktan said:
One major difference though is all of those signings were from the premier League.

Our record with Bundesliga signings over the last decade hasn't been very good.
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We're talking about a player who was born and raised in England and came through the youth ranks in English football and not abroad though
 
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