We can probably forget about this if he excels tonight against Spain.
Kylian Mbappé joins PSG on one year loan with option to buy
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That's exactly what I've been trying to make people on this forum understand. It's not about being scared of Madrid poaching our players but I want there to be some sort of loyalty towards the club especially since we don't have many senior players left at the club. And why wouldn't Mbappe want to go to Madrid, his idol plays there at the moment. The weather is much much better than Manchester. And Madrid are taking interest in him for sure. He's not the finished article yet. Once he's been firing 30-40 goals a season, that's when they'll start poaching.
I dunno how true it is but Fabinho said that Mbappe would want to leave Monaco for clubs like Barcelona and Real Madrid
On a side note, I would prefer Dembele as well but we already have Martial and Rashford who play on the wings.
I support that as long as he brings Ronald back home. Mordic will do as well and bale while we're at it
So I see Sergio Ramos has said Real would welcome Mbappe with "open arms" if he was to consider moving there.
There's just a sense of inevitability about him going to Real tbh, just like there was when they were linked with Benzema. Would be great if we could pull it off though.
There's just a sense of inevitability about him going to Real tbh, just like there was when they were linked with Benzema. Would be great if we could pull it off though.
I remember James Rodriguez said his dream was Real after he scored a few goals in WC2014 and took a picture with Ronnie and all. RM bought him just for that I think.
Mbappe could be just like that
Mbappe could be just like that
There's just this irrational fear of Madrid that's frankly based on ptetty much a myth. The only player Real have taken from us that we've wanted to keep was Ronaldo, and we've never really lost out to Real in a direct fight for a player since our financial power increased to current standards. In fact, we won the last battle in Pogba, especially when everyone was petrified he'd go to Real based on nothing but for the stupid fear "it's Real Madrid!!".
It's honestly such a small-time and tiring mentality.
It's honestly such a small-time and tiring mentality.
And i mean, it's not like you lost Cristiano because of some nebulous attractive force. Iirc Cristiano pretty much doubled his salary when he left you for us. His first contract with us was worth €40M a year
Thing Is, even if they do come for our players we won't sell cheap especially if it's a prodigy such as Mbappe, if he has his mind set on Madrid a la Ronaldo then we will surely get much use out of him before we sell him for a super fee if he lives up to his potential, it's not like Ronaldo did nothing here, he was dominant for seasons and scored us 42 in a season, talents will also come around all the time so it's on to the next one as they say.
We've sold more cast offs to Madrid than players we've been forced to sell. Baffling why so many players want to play for them anyway. Shithouse of a club with terrible fans.
James was a different story - he was a great marketing tool for the South Americans and a big poster boy. He was bought more to contribute towards the brand, and if he could better Di Maria's efforts then even better.
You find it baffling that players will want to play for arguably the best/most prestigious club there is? The glatico era brought them a lot of fans too and now those fans want to emulate their idols and play for madrid too.
But that was in times where we showed financial restraint and riled against agent fees. Now-a-days, extra fees just get Woody hard. If we want him, we'll out spend Madrid if we have to.
Our prestige and spending power, we shouldn't be cowed by anyone in the transfer market. Our only barrier is CL football. If Mourinho can secure that, then we will have a preposterous summer.
Starting tonight against Spain with De Gea, Carvajal, Pique, Ramos, Alba, wonder how Dembele and Mpabbe will do, (who are starting).
I don't get where this notion that dribbling is not very good. It looks very impressive to me.
Ousmane is not starting.
Wrong Dembele probably, from me. Moussa?
No. Front 3 are Griezmann, Gameiro and Mbappé.
It's on ITV4 for those who don't know
It's a good game, they are actually playing this seriously. Mbappe is very very closely marked, almost man-marked by Ramos it seems, and he has already drawn a good save from De Gea. This is worth a watch for those interested.
Just seen it, my news.outlet had Dembele starting strangely.
Cheers!
Feck he's good
Not a fan of Isco but he's started well here.
But are you a fan of this Mbappe lad?
Pique is trying to switch shirts with him, I doubt he'll come back out for the second half.
Elegant and explosive at the same time. He's going to be amazing.
I think his dribbling is good. Just not as good as Dembele's.
He's back! Hopefully France see more of the ball!
France's midfield were outclassed by Spain's but when the ball did reach the frontline Mbappe was the most dangerous of the 3, direct and dynamic.
Commentators were yapping on about how Kante is probably the world's best midfielder now, whilst I was watching a game where he couldn't get to close to any Spanish midfielder, none of the French players could, was quite funny TBF.
Agree about Mbappe though, his runs off the last man's shoulder are tasty.
The whole Kante worship in England is a microscosm of the overrating of the PL, it also showed why he's not the holder for Chelsea and why those wishing he was here are missing that he's not what we need.
Mbappe has all the attributes to be the most devastating striker of his generation.
Is having Martial gonna be an asset or a hindrance for us? They must be pretty good mates, right? But will Martial's struggles this year gonna be a turn off for Mbappe?
Griezmann first and if we can then Mbappe alongside Matial and Pogba we would have the 2017 version of the holy trinity step forward the 4 French connections (ok pish name but who cares ).
DDG
Valencia Smalling Bailley Shaw
Herrera Pogba
Mykytarin Griezmann Martial
Mbappe
Rotate Rashford and Mata in there and by God what a forward line. Yep short in midfield but we'd have Blind, Fellaini, Jones, Pieria, TFM and Carrick as cover. Left back situation could prove still a bit ropey but I'm still hoping for Shaw to get back to his best.
DDG
Valencia Smalling Bailley Shaw
Herrera Pogba
Mykytarin Griezmann Martial
Mbappe
Rotate Rashford and Mata in there and by God what a forward line. Yep short in midfield but we'd have Blind, Fellaini, Jones, Pieria, TFM and Carrick as cover. Left back situation could prove still a bit ropey but I'm still hoping for Shaw to get back to his best.
There's no way we sign both Griezmann and Mbappe. It's one or the other for the simple facts that such transfer would stretch even United's finances and you can't really shoehorn both into an effective side. The team you listed would be far too open imo, as Herrera would effectively be playing as a one midfield at times due to Pogba's attacking tendencies.
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