Kylian Mbappé joins PSG on one year loan with option to buy

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Best for him to stay where he is for few more years. He's in a young and perspective team that's in SF of CL and 3 wins away from winning the title in France.


He's getting minutes, scoring goals and gaining experience. Why would he risk all that so young?

Besides those numbers that go along with his name are crazy, 100, 110, 120 million…don't think anyone would pay that much.
 
Varun said:
Work on your comprehension skills or atleast read a post multiple times before replying to make sure you understand what's written.
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I understand exactly what you've written. Real Madrid only have 2 players currently paid more than our top player. Bale and Ronaldo. And bale didn't move to Madrid because of salary. He moved because he a wanted to go there. As did Ronaldo. Do honestly believe we couldn't afford to pay a player like Ronaldo 600,000 pounds per week if we wanted to? Of course we could. Our payroll is higher than Madrid's, and the last superstar we brought in we made the 4th highest paid player in Europe, a salary higher than Neymar, only surpassed by Bale, Ronaldo and Messi. It's just a shame we don't currently have a player of Ronaldo's calibre that we have the opportunity to pay 600k£/week. But if we wanted to, we definitely could.

My point is, wage will not be an issue if we want to land Mbappe, like some on here have implied.
 
I would love him here. I'm never one of those people who is always negative and says United won't get x player, he'll go to madrid/barcelona, but in this case, he seems like a nailed on signing for Madrid.

I know people thought the same about Pogba, but he never struck me as that. The only club he ever spoke about was United. Mbappe on the other hand seems to be openly a Madrid (Ronaldo?) fan, which I know doesn't mean much in football, but he would have his pick of any club in the world, and with Madrid needing to reinforce their attack in the near future, together with Zidane as the coach, I can see him going to them.
 
Fridge chutney said:
You're wrong, United have the highest payroll in professional football. But don't let facts get in the way of your opinion.
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Barca and Madrid have highest wage bills than ManUtd.

Madrid pays huge money to their players, players like Kroos are on huge contracts.
 
roonster09 said:
Barca and Madrid have highest wage bills than ManUtd.

Madrid pays huge money to their players, players like Kroos are on huge contracts.
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Yes, it seems as if they do according to some sources. I read this one from a few months ago: https://www.google.ca/amp/s/amp.the...ster-united-barcelona-football-best-paid-team

More recent ones from January have Barcelona as the highest and Madrid ahead of us.

Kroos must have renewed because recently he was on 150£k/ week, which is not that high for a player of his calibre.
 
Fridge chutney said:
Yes, it seems as if they do according to some sources. I read this one from a few months ago: https://www.google.ca/amp/s/amp.the...ster-united-barcelona-football-best-paid-team

More recent ones from January have Barcelona as the highest and Madrid ahead of us.

Kroos must have renewed because recently he was on 150£k/ week, which is not that high for a player of his calibre.
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According to Madrid fan @giorno Kroos is on more than 300K per week.

Also the link you have provided doesn't tell much. Not sure who can they calculate average when they don't know how many staff are included in the wage bill. They have just taken the wage bill and divided by some random number, IIRC it was started by some crap site.
 
Fridge chutney said:
I understand exactly what you've written. Real Madrid only have 2 players currently paid more than our top player. Bale and Ronaldo. And bale didn't move to Madrid because of salary. He moved because he a wanted to go there. As did Ronaldo. Do honestly believe we couldn't afford to pay a player like Ronaldo 600,000 pounds per week if we wanted to? Of course we could. Our payroll is higher than Madrid's, and the last superstar we brought in we made the 4th highest paid player in Europe, a salary higher than Neymar, only surpassed by Bale, Ronaldo and Messi. It's just a shame we don't currently have a player of Ronaldo's calibre that we have the opportunity to pay 600k£/week. But if we wanted to, we definitely could.

My point is, wage will not be an issue if we want to land Mbappe, like some on here have implied.
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IIRC We have a higher wage bill than you. Cristiano is on more than £600k a week iirc(he's on €55M a year roughly), and when we signed him, we doubled his salary. Not sure you could match that in 2009. Pogba became the 3rd highest paid player in europe when you signed him, but that was before Bale, Neymar and Suarez signed their new contracts(they're all on higher wages now)

That said, i see no reason why you couldn't give Mbappé £600/700k a week now. Question is whether you would, and whether you should...

EDIT: Kroos is on €21M a year, more or less, €10M after tax. According to literally every spanish source...
 
giorno said:
IIRC We have a higher wage bill than you. Cristiano is on more than £600k a week iirc(he's on €55M a year roughly), and when we signed him, we doubled his salary. Not sure you could match that in 2009. Pogba became the 3rd highest paid player in europe when you signed him, but that was before Bale, Neymar and Suarez signed their new contracts(they're all on higher wages now)

That said, i see no reason why you couldn't give Mbappé £600/700k a week now. Question is whether you would, and whether you should...

EDIT: Kroos is on €21M a year, more or less, €10M after tax. According to literally every spanish source...
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Not sure what iirc means, but yes, I've done subsequent nosing about and this appears to be accurate.

Apologies @Varun, a few months changes a lot.

Still think we can afford Mbappe. And we could have afforded Ronaldo.

At the very least looks as if we have room for our wage bill to expand significantly this summer, especially if we offload Rooney.
 
I don't want Mbappe, I don't believe the links in the first place as the second tweet said it was probably just an attempt to unsettle him the day before a big game, Fabinho and Naiggolan though would be absolutely perfect.
 
Fridge chutney said:
Not sure what iirc means, but yes, I've done subsequent nosing about and this appears to be accurate.

Apologies @Varun, a few months changes a lot.

Still think we can afford Mbappe. And we could have afforded Ronaldo.

At the very least looks as if we have room for our wage bill to expand significantly this summer, especially if we offload Rooney.
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No worries. My point wasn't about us not being able to afford Mbappe anyways, I was just saying Real and Barca pay crazy money to their top guys as illustrated by @giorno above. In any case, as I said in a post earlier, regardless of the huge transfer fee Mbappe goes for, his wages won't be anywhere close to these guys so there's no reason any of us, city, chelsea etc would be priced out on the wages front. It's just about what Mbappe wants and which clubs agree to pay the amount Monaco will ask for.
 
giorno said:
IIRC We have a higher wage bill than you. Cristiano is on more than £600k a week iirc(he's on €55M a year roughly), and when we signed him, we doubled his salary. Not sure you could match that in 2009. Pogba became the 3rd highest paid player in europe when you signed him, but that was before Bale, Neymar and Suarez signed their new contracts(they're all on higher wages now)

That said, i see no reason why you couldn't give Mbappé £600/700k a week now. Question is whether you would, and whether you should...

EDIT: Kroos is on €21M a year, more or less, €10M after tax. According to literally every spanish source...
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For starters you can't and won't be paying mbappe 600/700k, frankly unless the chinese get involved he isn't even going to get half that wherever he goes. Also you kind of answered your own question, madrid have a higher wage bill than utd, but even it has limits, why do you think barcelona are skimping on signing big name players since the MSN came along, it is quite easy to pay 1 guy 400-500k like they did messi, but when you get suarez and neymar also in similar positions it is a whole another issue, madrid pay ronaldo 600k, i am sure bale and ramos aren't far behind, but then others have to be paid too and like it or not there are budgets.

A question which no one seems to ask is, why would perez who did not think pogba who was a worldclass player and more importantly for madrid a big name who was addidas's top guy and huge revenue generator wasn't worth 100mn will pay similar figures for mbappe, who while playing phenomenal right now will not be going on like this forever, he will need time adjusting and i really don't expect him perform at similar levels early on at wherever he plays, add to that he isn't really a big shirt seller or a big name from commercial point of view. Especially when nearly half of mbappe's expected transfer could get you someone like aubameyang.
 
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Donovan_red7 said:
I would love him here. I'm never one of those people who is always negative and says United won't get x player, he'll go to madrid/barcelona, but in this case, he seems like a nailed on signing for Madrid.

I know people thought the same about Pogba, but he never struck me as that. The only club he ever spoke about was United. Mbappe on the other hand seems to be openly a Madrid (Ronaldo?) fan, which I know doesn't mean much in football, but he would have his pick of any club in the world, and with Madrid needing to reinforce their attack in the near future, together with Zidane as the coach, I can see him going to them.
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I have lost hope of him joining United as well. I think either Real Madrid or City will sign him. I just cannot see Moureen signing a young player like him when he has other experienced options. He will be too good an option for Real Madrid or City to turn down even though they have great attacking talent already.
 
Madrid seems completely realistic. City not so much as they already have Jesus and aren't exactly a hollywood destination for players being chased by the likes of Madrid and Barca.
 
ivaldo said:
And how many points were the league leaders off first place last season?
How many teams in the history of the league have gone 25 games unbeaten?

I said the league, not the Champions League. There's a massive difference.
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Neither suggest we are close. Unbeaten runs don't get you anything. winning as many points as you can each game does get you something. We can draw 38 games and get relegated by setting up to be "hard to beat." Arsenal used to play good attacking football but defensive mistakes use to cost them games. They were still far off from winning titles as something deeper was wrong with them

I cannot be bothered to look at how far we were off last season because we are 16 points behind Chelsea and have been out of the race for as long as I can remember. Many Liverpool fans would suggest they aren't far off whilst hanging onto 5th place
 
Hugh Jass said:
We are not far off. If we were to play the top teams they might beat us but they wouldnt hammer us. Football is a strange game. If it were any other team sport, then there would be a gulf between the good teams and the bad teams. But not in football because it is very hard to score a goal.

Remember against Bayern Munich under Moyes. People were saying we would be hammered. We ended up drawing with them in Old Trafford. If we were to play Bayern Munich tomorrow with our best team, I think we would win. Now it would be a different kettle of fish in Bayern. But we would do a better job than what arsenal did.

I saw the same thing when we played Chelsea last month. People looked at where Chelsea are and where we are in the table and immediately said Chelsea would hammer us.

I dont mean to sound pretentious but people who say we will be hammered by such and such team, dont understand football. Because if you sit with ten men behind the ball it becomes very hard to score.
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I never suggested anything about hammering. I responded to the gentleman who said that we would walk the league with Mbappe and Fabinho as we aren't far off, all whilst not providing any sort of challenge for the top prizes this season
 
Stacks said:
Neither suggest we are close. Unbeaten runs don't get you anything. winning as many points as you can each game does get you something. We can draw 38 games and get relegated by setting up to be "hard to beat." Arsenal used to play good attacking football but defensive mistakes use to cost them games. They were still far off from winning titles as something deeper was wrong with them

I cannot be bothered to look at how far we were off last season because we are 16 points behind Chelsea and have been out of the race for as long as I can remember. Many Liverpool fans would suggest they aren't far off whilst hanging onto 5th place
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There is nothing between the top six. Nothing. And you will see it next year. Chelsea will not win it next year.
 
Stacks said:
Neither suggest we are close. Unbeaten runs don't get you anything. winning as many points as you can each game does get you something. We can draw 38 games and get relegated by setting up to be "hard to beat." Arsenal used to play good attacking football but defensive mistakes use to cost them games. They were still far off from winning titles as something deeper was wrong with them

I cannot be bothered to look at how far we were off last season because we are 16 points behind Chelsea and have been out of the race for as long as I can remember. Many Liverpool fans would suggest they aren't far off whilst hanging onto 5th place
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Being completely dominant in the vast majority of games and coming away with a draw when we should win tells you something, at least I would hope it would, it's pretty obvious. We needed the odd goal in so many games and didn't capitalise because of a level of wastefulness we've not seen before. It doesnt take much to tip that balance. We've drawn an insane amount of games so far this season (14!) we had ample opportunity to win.

You say all that matters are points but don't offer an explanation as to how Chelsea went from 10th to 1st with limited transfers but we couldn't possibly go from 5th to 1st. You can't have it both ways.
 
ivaldo said:
Being completely dominant in the vast majority of games and coming away with a draw when we should win tells you something, at least I would hope it would, it's pretty obvious. We needed the odd goal in so many games and didn't capitalise because of a level of wastefulness we've not seen before. It doesnt take much to tip that balance. We've drawn an insane amount of games so far this season (14!) we had ample opportunity to win.

You say all that matters are points but don't offer an explanation as to how Chelsea went from 10th to 1st with limited transfers but we couldn't possibly go from 5th to 1st. You can't have it both ways.
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They added more than 2 players to their starting line up and got a new coach.
 
Raoul said:


United offered 85m Euros for Mbappe. Monaco refused, holding out for 120-140m Euros.
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Raoul said:
Also, retweeted by Di Marzio.
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MMMBappe...bid dapa doo wop
Doo bi dapa doo bop
Bid dapa doo, yeah, yeah

MMMBappe...bid dapa doo wop
Doo bi dapa doo bop
Bid dapa doo, yeah, yeah

Said oh yeah, in an MMMBappe they're gone. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
 
Stacks said:
They added more than 2 players to their starting line up and got a new coach.
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And were significantly further down the table than we are now. 31 points to be exact.
 
We won't Griezmann or Mbappe, keep dreaming about signing these two. Griezmann won't be signed cause he would not fit Jose's system and he is a second striker. No one in their right mind will pay 120-140m for an 18 year old. But please continue muppeting or whatever it is called, no one is going to stop you.
 
SachinJ22 said:
We won't Griezmann or Mbappe, keep dreaming about signing these two. Griezmann won't be signed cause he would not fit Jose's system and he is a second striker. No one in their right mind will pay 120-140m for an 18 year old. But please continue muppeting or whatever it is called, no one is going to stop you.
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Please continue trying to keep it real for the muppets.
 
SachinJ22 said:
We won't Griezmann or Mbappe, keep dreaming about signing these two. Griezmann won't be signed cause he would not fit Jose's system and he is a second striker. No one in their right mind will pay 120-140m for an 18 year old. But please continue muppeting or whatever it is called, no one is going to stop you.
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Agree on Mbappe, that's madness. But i am pretty sure Griezmann will come, this transfer has been coming for years. And it's a lot more sensible to pay 100m for him, then for the likes of Belotti and Lukaku. He is the best player on the market. We'll find a system where he fits. If Mourinho doesn't, he is clearly not the right manager.
 
Peyroteo said:
He's a big Ronaldo fan apparently. In the 2016 U19 Euro he destroyed a very good Portugal team in the semis and did the Ronaldo celebration against us. Cheeky cnut :lol:

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With Benzema declining, him going to Madrid would make more sense. United have plenty of holes in their squad to spend this much on a single player and you already have Rashford who's a similar kind of player
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Jesus when was this taken, 2004? He looks like Gary Coleman or something.
 
My issue is his age. We struggle with goals and we've Rashford and Martial already on the books. Is a £70m+ investment in 'potential' really what we're crying out for right now?
 
Would pay 80m euros max for him but it isn't my money and I'm a Muppet so pay up Ed!
 
Have i missed something? Are we really in for him? I have mixed feelings with the money being touted. Seems a waste to blow all this money on a teenager.
 
Keeps It tidy said:
Best players to spend big money on you can get all the prime years.
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Or you can get a player that picks up a bad injury early, and gets susceptible to injuries afterwards...
Or you can get a player that stagnates or goes backwards even at young age..
Or you get a player that has (or gets!) some mentality problems..
Quite a lot of "ifs" for a lot of money
 
Celestiale said:
Or you can get a player that picks up a bad injury early, and gets susceptible to injuries afterwards...
Or you can get a player that stagnates or goes backwards even at young age..
Or you get a player that has (or gets!) some mentality problems..
Quite a lot of "ifs" for a lot of money
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There is always going to be a lot of ifs.
 
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