Leny Yoro | 8pm announcement

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ThinkTank@Cafe said:
Because they never mentioned him before, and now suddenly everyone is a specialist. There is just a couple of blogs which never comment rumors, divisions among fans, and back their opinions with actual hard analytical work. The rest, including, the biggest ones provide opinions for those who can’t afford one.
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Which useless bloggers are you looking at, he's been the talk on most channels for a good while.
 
The club being able to point to both Garnacho and Mainoo making international tournament finals with their country this season must have helped in persuading him.
 
I hope the club remembers it's policy to confiscate all mobile phones for any visitors to make sure Real don't try and sneak in.
 
Adnan said:
He's a young CB that is still in the very early stages of his development as a CB, so patience will be required with him.

He's not at Martinez's level when it comes to progressing the ball and may never get to that level because Martinez is just elite in that regard. But what Yoro does have is the pace and athleticism along with fantastic poise and composure on the ball which allows him to remain calm when put under pressure. And his pace and athleticism allow him to defend on the front foot. He's a young player with a all-round skillset and even his aerial ability is strong for a young player and will improve further.

In the game today the back 3 is very common with alot of top teams where players invert to form a 3 man backline. And I think Yoro is someone who is perfectly suited to playing the backline commander role in the mid to long-term as the central CB. But he's still very young and I hope people don't have unrealistic expectations of him and I hope we sign another CB and a midfielder who is good at ball retention along with making forward passes. We lack that in this team and the more players we have who can retain the ball whilst progressing it at a good level, will make us a much stronger team in the build up phase which allows the team to dominate the game on the ball.

I think without Ratcliffe without we wouldn't have been able to sign him. There's been reports about us working on this deal since last year before INEOS even arrived. But I doubt we would've been able to sign him under the Glazer ownership because I'm not sure Joel Glazer would've sanctioned such a huge fee for a 18 year old CB. For me the credit for this goes to Ratcliffe and it does show that he's ambitious in wanting United to compete again. To sign him we had to spend big and it seems like Real Madrid were around €40m short of what we offered.

That's what we had to do hence the Lille president is said to have persuaded the player to join us because it helps Lille. The tweet below from a few days ago basically tells you the difference in ambition between the Glazer ownership and Ratcliffe.

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Thanks for your thorough reply, cheers.
 
Mcking said:
He looks unconvincing in the videos. Skewed clearances, misdirected headers, just about manages to not lose the majority of the duels.
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Yeah as YouTube videos go there are a lot to be desired.

I fear we are buying hype rather than quality.
 
BenitoSTARR said:
I see what you mean in terms of experience.

If you sign an attacking LB it leaves us vulnerable in the defensive transition if Dalot is our RB.

I think a LCB/LB is the sensible choice here.
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Agreed.

I hope we can tie up the Yoro deal soon and I do like the idea of Hancko as the LCB/LB. But I think a potential deal for Jorrel Hato would also be good and would set us up nicely in the mid to long-term.
 
60 million for a 18-year-old CB with only 1 year of professionnal football and 1 year left on his contract is madness. For that price tag he better be the next Varane.

French players are extremely overrated and way too expensive as a consequence. I was reading transfer news and saw that Diaby could go to Saudi Arabia. They said he cost Villa 55 million. Absurd. It reminded me of the best scams involving french players, like PSG paying 95 million for Muani or Barcelona buying Dembele for 130. And there are many more.
 
SSSSnake said:
Can't see Martinez being pushed out of position. He's a CB and a damn good one.
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I agree that he's a brilliant CB, but still I do wonder how you'd keep those 3 happy in the long term. Nice problem to have if so though ey!
Zed 101 said:
Could be 3 cbs, then Dalot and shaw WB, suspect it would be dependent on who we play.... if we had a manager able to adapt tactics!
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Sure, that's be a solid back 5.
 
Infestissumam said:
I thought he meant we're moving quickly in order to avoid somebody else hijacking this deal. That's how I read it anyway.
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Nah, you're right. He did say we want to avoid hijack. I read his tweet completely wrong. In my defense, I only just woke up and started reading this thread. :lol:
 
Marvin look out said:
60 million for a 18-year-old CB with only 1 year of professionnal football and 1 year left on his contract is madness. For that price tag he better be the next Varane.

French players are extremely overrated and way too expensive as a consequence. I was reading transfer news and saw that Diaby could go to Saudi Arabia. They said he cost Villa 55 million. Absurd. It reminded me of the best scams involving french players, like PSG paying 95 million for Muani or Barcelona buying Dembele for 130. And there are many more.
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I think Diaby is class.
 
As Arnie famously said: Never listen to the naysayers! Glad Ineos is competent and able to get things done that seemed impossible a year ago.
This could be a very exciting signing over time. So let's move to the next target!
 
Real Madrid want to get all the best talents for free. Disgusting organisation.
 
Never seen the kid kick a ball before, but the reactions on here are getting my muppet juices flowing nicely.
 
Another expensive prospect. I don't feel very excited tbh.
Well at least, club didn't give him mega contract. That's something
 
Great to see us signing a player like this. Not going to pretend I've watched him play but it's what we need to be doing.

How good is he on the ball compared to our other defenders (barring Martinez)?
 
saik said:
Holy shit. Fair fecks to INEOS. They are actually getting this done.

All of Berrada/Ashworth/Wilcox were in Norway just a day ago. Is this Vivell pushing the negotiations?
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Any clue as to why in Norway? Are we chasing a player from there?
 
If we manage to get this over the line, move one of Lindelof/Maguire, and land De Ligt as well…we will have overhauled our defense in one window and set ourselves up long term. Good bit of business.
 
Leftback99 said:
So not 14 quid? Aren't we at about £40m net so far and now looking like needing more sales?
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Not quite, we ammortize transfer fee's in don't forget so:

Guaranteed Fee's
Greenwood: £26.7m
Kambwala: £9.6m

(Source: Independant)

Guaranteed Cost's
Zirkzee: £35.8m (Over 3 years Bologna have agreed to receive the cash but accounting wise it will be over 5 years lenght of contract) --> £7.16m this year
Yoro: £52m (Over 5 years) --> £10.4m

Balance: £18.74m negative (i.e. More sales than cost due to the fact we had no balance sheet value for either Greenwood or Kambwala) so to get to a £50m net, we could effectively spend around £68m net this year still, which if we assume they are all over 5 years amounts to £340m.

None of this takes into account of course how much space we have based off previous transfers we are still accounting for in the ledger.
 
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