Landon Donovan

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According to Sky - $11 million is too much for the LA Galaxy striker...

Good player - good attitude - decent price



United should place a bid in for him. He has more than proved himself at Everton this past year. This would provide ample cover for those times that Berbatov can't find the net - not that this has ever happened - or when Rooney is injured or on an off-month.

Chelsea is looking to offload players, so maybe they wouldn't try to inflate the price on Donovan.
 
He has been less of a twat over the past couple years. It would be foolishness if he didn't get a game. People like yourself would get over the 'He is a twat' thing, once he provide proper service to Rooney and scored a few - as he did with Everton.
 
We dont really need him. There is already discussions about probably having to loan out 2 of the younger strikers, and that'd still leave us with 5 strikers. We'd never fit him into the team, he's no better than the options we currently have in the positions he can play.
 
EvilChuck said:
We dont really need him. There is already discussions about probably having to loan out 2 of the younger strikers, and that'd still leave us with 5 strikers. We'd never fit him into the team, he's no better than the options we currently have in the positions he can play.
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This makes no sense - apart from loaning out the young strikers - United needs a consistent player in the 3rd end of the pitch. Rooney is the only player that fits in that category. Hernandez will probably add to that... but the rest of the striking unit are either in development or mostly unreliable.


Maybe the fact that Donovan isn't prone to injury makes him unqualified for United?



Additional note: Rooney has been a twat for years... that hasn't prevented him from performing. :p
 
ooeat0meoo said:
This makes no sense - apart from loaning out the young strikers - United needs a consistent player in the 3rd end of the pitch. Rooney is the only player that fits in that category. Hernandez will probably add to that... but the rest of the striking unit are either in development or mostly unreliable.


Maybe the fact that Donovan isn't prone to injury makes him unqualified for United?



Additional note: Rooney has been a twat for years... that hasn't prevented him from performing. :p
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Consistency is all relative. Berbatov might be underperforming/inconsistent relative to our expectations and his own ability, but I've no doubt that even if he doesn't improve on last year's form he'd still be a better performer for us than Donovan.

Donovan's not a bad player, but I fail to see how he'd possibly improve us.
 
Pat_Mustard said:
Consistency is all relative. Berbatov might be underperforming/inconsistent relative to our expectations and his own ability, but I've no doubt that even if he doesn't improve on last year's form he'd still be a better performer for us than Donovan.

Donovan's not a bad player, but I fail to see how he'd possibly improve us.
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My urgency is this... for $11 it would be worth the look to see how he might improve the squad. He might even increase in value if he did flourish... Imagine United making money on a player, if he were sold after doing well with United. :eek:


*If United sign him... you can all blame me
 
ooeat0meoo said:
My urgency is this... for $11 it would be worth the look to see how he might improve the squad. He might even increase in value if he did flourish... Imagine United making money on a player, if he were sold after doing well with United. :eek:


*If United sign him... you can all blame me
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For $11 I would agree but for the more likely $11m I say feck no.
 
ooeat0meoo said:
My urgency is this... for $11 it would be worth the look to see how he might improve the squad. He might even increase in value if he did flourish... Imagine United making money on a player, if he were sold after doing well with United. :eek:


*If United sign him... you can all blame me
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So you think we should sign a 28 year old partly on the basis that he might have resale value, despite the very strong posibility that he wouldn't be a regular starter for us? Seems a flimsy argument mate!
 
Excal said:
Did Sky say $11M or £11M? Cuz if it's the former, if you think Donovan isn't a good signing for £7M, you're simply mental.
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Can you list what makes him a good player, and what he'd add to this united squad please?

Because i really, really cant see what the hype is about, and you seem like if you watched him play a good few times.
 
Pat_Mustard said:
So you think we should sign a 28 year old partly on the basis that he might have resale value, despite the very strong posibility that he wouldn't be a regular starter for us? Seems a flimsy argument mate!
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You're missing my stance completely... (almost, completely)


Donovan is well good enough to start before Berbatov - Hernandez, I don't know... If Rooney or Hernandez were out, I'd say Donovan would be a great fill-in.

For someone that is of Donovan's quality on corner kicks and has a great eye for play in the box - yes, he is worth the money as a regular sub.


There ya have it...



*If this prick gets signed - his agent needs to share some of the signing bonus with me, goddamnit!


...and because of Donovan's age, the younger squad members need to suck it up and swallow any anti-american sentiment. Donovan will not be around for more than 2-3 years.


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Tonight's match vs Chicago: Donovan with 2 more goals and excellent on the corner kicks. (Giggs-like precision)
 
ooeat0meoo said:
Donovan is well good enough to start before Berbatov - Hernandez, I don't know... If Rooney or Hernandez were out, I'd say Donovan would be a great fill-in.
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:confused: Donovan > Berbatov?

I'm American and that is just ridiculous. Donovan wouldn't be effective at all playing through the middle in Europe. He played out wide for Everton and to be fair to him, I thought he did very well. I don't think he's close at all to United quality (whatever that may be). He is very small, average pace, and average footskills. We have four wingers better then Donovan and a load of strikers younger and far more talented.

It will never happen.
 
I'm not missing your point - so far as I can tell you clearly mentioned resale value as a reason for trying to sign him.

ooeat0meoo said:
He might even increase in value if he did flourish... Imagine United making money on a player, if he were sold after doing well with United. :eek:
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Like everyone else, I've already said that I don't think he'd improve the squad. We have little room for another attacker and he's not better than what we've got. I'd take Berbatov on last season's form over any version of Donovan I've seen. And why would our younger strikers have any Anti-American sentiment?
 
13 appearances, not 13 starts, and if we're just going to go by goal ratio, Berbatov had 12 goals in 43 appearances, and Donovan was playing on the wing, not as a striker. I am NOT saying he's better than Berbatov, but I can find that he had 2 goals and 3 assists in his seven league games, and he played against most of the class of the Premier League in those games (United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham, Shitty and Pool, as well as Sunderland.)

Edit: On a side note totally separate from Donovan, I really don't get why people think goal totals or ratios are a particularly useful way of judging a player's quality, especially players who aren't strikers. Valencia only had 7 goals in 49 appearances for us last year.
 
Excal said:
13 appearances, not 13 starts, and if we're just going to go by goal ratio, Berbatov had 12 goals in 43 appearances, and Donovan was playing on the wing, not as a striker. I am NOT saying he's better than Berbatov, but I can find that he had 2 goals and 3 assists in his seven league games, and he played against most of the class of the Premier League in those games (United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham, Shitty and Pool, as well as Sunderland.)

Edit: On a side note totally separate from Donovan, I really don't get why people think goal totals or ratios are a particularly useful way of judging a player's quality, especially players who aren't strikers. Valencia only had 7 goals in 49 appearances for us last year.
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My response was that 13 starts/appearances and 3 goals is hardly 'proving' himself at Everton.

If we arent looking at him being a striker, why are people suggesting he would replace Berbatov or an injured Rooney?
 
He'd be a good squad player for any of the top clubs in England. He'd be a regular starter for the rest. 7m is a good a price. Even 10m. Anything above that is getting out of hand. But his commercial value would probably make up some of that fee within a year or two.
 
MrBurns said:
My response was that 13 starts/appearances and 3 goals is hardly 'proving' himself at Everton.

If we arent looking at him being a striker, why are people suggesting he would replace Berbatov or an injured Rooney?
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One person has suggested that. I think he'd be better as an AM or on the wings, and I think you can make an argument that, barring Nani and Valencia, he might be better than what we have at the moment there.

MrMarcello said:
He'd be a good squad player for any of the top clubs in England. He'd be a regular starter for the rest. 7m is a good a price. Even 10m. Anything above that is getting out of hand. But his commercial value would probably make up some of that fee within a year or two.
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Agree with this, though to play devil's advocate, it could be argued that United, having likely the largest penetration into the American market of any of the English clubs, would benefit a bit less than the others in that area.
 
Another unproven striker, I think we should sign Caleb Folan because he wouldn't cost more than $11m. I assume the OP is American.
 
Dorothy ?

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We'll be in Kansas another year if we sign that cnut !
 
Good man :
Landon Donovan
Interestingly enough, all the Liverpool fans that tweeted yesterday are realllllly quiet today. Weird

and

Galaxy are top of the league, thanks for asking RT @sean_ynwa: @landondonovan how did the galaxy do this week Landon? Hahahahahhahaha

:lol:
 
Ringo 07 said:
He would be a good buy at £1.5 Million. Thats his value. 11 Million is comical
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First off, that's 11m US, around 7m GBP, which is certainly a fair value. He's worth far more than 1.5m GBP. That's a comical price tag.

Lescott at 22m and Milner at 20m plus Ireland is comical. Donovan at 6-8m GBP is fair value. He'd actually be a good player for Liverpool if played out wide. Certainly would add more creativity to the current dross.

Donovan-Gerrard-Cole
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Would be a quality attacking quartet. But the midfield two and that back four would need serious strengthening as well.
 
For Donovan to be signed by United 5 things need to happen:

1: He must sue any body who calls him landycakes

2: He must convince the world that his teary bitchfest interview at the world cup was in fact meant ironically and in fact was really funny.

3: Have the words FOOTBALL NOT SOCCER tatooed on his back

4: Admit that baseball is a girls sport called rounders

5: Admit that what he knows as football is actually rugby for the gays.

Then and only then can the signing commence.
 
Sparky_Hughes said:
For Donovan to be signed by United 5 things need to happen:

1: He must sue any body who calls him landycakes

2: He must convince the world that his teary bitchfest interview at the world cup was in fact meant ironically and in fact was really funny.

3: Have the words FOOTBALL NOT SOCCER tatooed on his back

4: Admit that baseball is a girls sport called rounders

5: Admit that what he knows as football is actually rugby for the gays.

Then and only then can the signing commence.
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6: Admit Mexico is better than the US, apologise for pissing on Estadio Jalisco, and promise never to talk badly about our country again.

You know? not even if he does that. feck the cnut.
 
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