Big money or big rep signings rarely work out for us, certainly recently anyway.
Jarrad Branthwaite
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I haven’t seen anyone here encourage spending 70m
Earlier on there were a few.
Move on, no where near good enough and definitely not for that price. There’s no shortage of CB’s we could get who are already better than him and cheaper.
Sign him up
Along with Mainoo, Garnacho, Hojlund he can be part of a talented young core to our team
All of the successful United teams have been built on youth and it's been abandoned a bit in recent years
Along with Mainoo, Garnacho, Hojlund he can be part of a talented young core to our team
All of the successful United teams have been built on youth and it's been abandoned a bit in recent years
Not that I rate Southgate but what was the reason he wasn’t taken to the Euros?
Because he's a Brexit baller and clearly Southgate is more of a 70s Brazil man.
Not really what I was getting at. Was only that's someone had gone into a full 90 of a friendly to get that clip, but couldn't find one video of his successful dribbles. Seemed overkill.
So much misinformation in this thread, it's just sad
Which?
Soo, whats the truth?
-About Branthwaite's ability
-About United's attractiveness in the market
-About how other clubs' interest was "made up" because the player ultimately signed for us
-About how Pep and City fake an interest in some players to manipulate us into overpaying for them
Just utter tripe these last 5 pages
Well what arguments are his ability do you dispute? What specifically?-About Branthwaite's ability
-About United's attractiveness in the market
-About how other clubs' interest was "made up" because the player ultimately signed for us
-About how Pep and City fake an interest in some players to manipulate us into overpaying for them
Just utter tripe these last 5 pages
What examples of us being attractive do you have?
Loads of people had doubts about signing Mount, it was definitely far from unanimous enthusiasm.
I'm sick of English clubs riding utd. We get peanuts for players and have to pay over the odds for potential. Feck off Everton. Keep him and let's move on.
When you go to Car Dealership and like the look of the sexy car, you ask how much it is. The car is a lot more than you are prepared to pay.
Don't stand there trying to get them to bring it down, walk away and buy the Ford KA instead. Don't waste your time and don't waste their time.
Don't stand there trying to get them to bring it down, walk away and buy the Ford KA instead. Don't waste your time and don't waste their time.
Probably no point in going into this, but just regarding what was discussed in the last few pages:
Hojlund was very much preferred to Kolo Muani and Ramos by PSG. Only when it was clear the Dane would join United did they start pursuing the other two.
The interest from City in Maguire, Sánchez and Fred was confirmed by reliable sources at the time.
Martínez rejected Arsenal for United.
Gakpo wanted to join, but we couldn't go for him due to financial issues.
Liverpool and Arsenal were both interested in Mount.
Timber stayed at Ajax in 2022 because LvG scared him into staying. Then, 1 year later we weren't interested anymore.
These things have been known for months and years, if you actually read Athletic articles and info from reliable outlets. @saik and @iamdpef are completely right and dispelled these myths very well.
But certain posters will believe what they want to believe, and comfortably leave out stuff that doesn't suit their agenda, so like I said, probably no point in going into this.
Regarding Branthwaite, people saying things like "he's nowhere near good enough" or "even 35m is too much" is just so wide off the mark, but everyone is entitled to their opinion, of course
Good post. Will probably be completely ignored.
Yeah but that's all he is, decent. Who knows Kwambala might have a similar ceiling for all we know.
For me, he's one of the best possible options from the players that are available this summer. I don't know what he's worth. If it was up to me, 50-55m would be my limit, maybe 60 but that's pushing it a bit. Would like to see some relatively easily achievable add-ons to be included in the deal if we are willing to go above 50m.
He is far better than Kwambala
Yea there's this thing going on in people's heads that when a signing doesn't work out they automatically think that there's no chance other big clubs would have signed him and so confirm to themselves that those clubs were never seriously interested in those players.
If anyone wants further proof regarding City's interest in Sanchez, their Owner/Chairman literally says himself they went for him twice. Once in the summer and once in winter when we eventually signed him. It's in their All or Nothing documentary .
He is already very good for his age and still has a very high potential ceiling. For 50M tops, we should make him a Man United player. He reminds me of an old school Stuart Pearce, aggression and tackling wise who took no shite from opposing strikers
I'd be OK with the signing if we could get him for an 'acceptable fee'. Which, while subjective is, for me, no higher than £50m - unless anything that takes it higher are (sadly) unlikely add ons like us winning the PL/CL anytime soon.
Anything higher than that and I'd rather us look elsewhere. What I don't want us to do is to continue our tendency of overspending on signings and pretty much giving away players when we sell them. So I don't want us to in effect give away Maguire and Lindelof (though I don't expect a lot for him) and then overpay out of desperation for replacements. I'd rather keep Maguire for next season than flog him cheaply and hugely overpay on Branthwaite.
Anything higher than that and I'd rather us look elsewhere. What I don't want us to do is to continue our tendency of overspending on signings and pretty much giving away players when we sell them. So I don't want us to in effect give away Maguire and Lindelof (though I don't expect a lot for him) and then overpay out of desperation for replacements. I'd rather keep Maguire for next season than flog him cheaply and hugely overpay on Branthwaite.
Sky reporting Newcastle have pulled out of the DCL deal.... a flicker of life in this deal yet perhaps?
For now maybe.
Nah. Everton seemingly don't need the money as much as some people (including United, perhaps) thought they did and we don't have £65m+ to spend on a CB. I very much doubt this transfer will happen. Not the end of the world - we took a bit of a punt going in with a lowball offer and at least now United gets to publicly show that they will walk away from a deal they perceive to be overpriced (which is not something we've done enough of in recent years and might help us strike deals later in the window).
Martinez joined because he was another one of Eric's long list of ex players joining us. Everything else you mentioned can't be proved and doesn't mean anything anyway.
After DCL scoring 16 league goals in 3 seasons....I would be shocked if they didnt
If they weren’t desperate for money they wouldn’t be resorting to cheating the system.
Is there no young French centre back who is better and not playing for PSG?
Yeah I highly doubt this is happening - but there might be a whiff of life for now at least...
We need to make a 2nd bid and if that is rejected then just move on. We can't keep repeating a trend of chasing a player through summer and then overpaying at the end.
This is an issue that should be top of our agenda; avoiding sagas. Either get it done quickly, or move it along as we can't waste summer after summer chasing rainbows.
Yet another nothing update. These journalists have just been repeating the same old line for the last week. If there’s no new info then keep quiet until there is, but no, they can’t resist the clicks.
So reports from the most reliable journalists in the world are irrelevant and can't be proven, but uninformed doom-and-gloom whining posters claiming Pep and City manipulate United into overpaying for bad players is a real thing. That's Redcafe for you.
This is going to be an all summer long saga, isnt it?
4th bid, of £60 mil will get this done at the end of August is my prediction.
Less than they want, more than you want to pay. Both sides annoyed in a perfect compromise.
4th bid, of £60 mil will get this done at the end of August is my prediction.
Less than they want, more than you want to pay. Both sides annoyed in a perfect compromise.