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Leroy Sane | confirmed to City
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Don't agree with this, if we chuck enough cash within reason we'll get most players we want, especially the younger ones, but if you offered me Mane as our buy for the right wing then I'd take it with both hands, massive upgrade on what we've got now.
It will be alright, Mourinho likes to shop at Waitrose.
I actually agree here. With a young player like this increasing his profile all the time, other clubs will be taking note. Since we signed Martial there seems to be more buzz around younger players with clubs willing to pay more for them, and clubs like City, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal, Madrid, Bayern, Barca, Juventus and probably a few others will be looking like better prospects for players next season. I mean, would you really want to play in this United side under Van Gaal if you could play under Klopp, Pep, etc instead? We're allowing ourselves to become a bit of a comedy, highlighted by the fact that we were after Sanches for months and yet, nothing happened until the second Bayern entered the race and he was immediately off there.
We could save ourselves a lot of pointless chasing of players if we just go for someone like Mane instead, a decent player to help steady us for Van Gaal's final, agonising year.
Never seen him play but someone has said "right sided Martial" so on that basis we have to go all in. 
Would love to see him here but it's never going to happen, incompetent manager and board will never get this deal done in time before another big club hijacks it.
Please jinx work, please work, just this once.
Please jinx work, please work, just this once.
Never seen him play but someone has said "right sided Martial" so on that basis we have to go all in.
That is not far from the truth but unfortunately incompetent board will mess this one up!
Whenever I saw him he has been class, although a bit inconsistent but it's something to be expected from a young lad. Would be great signing imo. If Mahrez doesn't want to come or he's too expensive, we should go for him for that right wing.
One of the few positives to come from finishing outside of the CL places is that we'll have time to build a young squad without the pressure to match Europe's big sides. Seeing as we're only going for the PL next season, an inexperienced player like Sane will be more than enough. If we were competing with the likes of Barca/Real/Bayern, we'd probably waste the whole Summer chasing after someone like Griezman. It's always better to build a squad from the ground up. Hopefully we'll be able to do that now.
Like summer 2014?
We bought Shaw and Herrera that Summer. More of the same is what we need. Di Maria and Falcao were huge mistakes, precisely because they weren't suited to the squad/league.
I was more thinking about the players we were chasing. Bale Muller Etc
More of the same but Ducker's on it...
Would be great, yeah. Hope we can sign him. Him and Martial on either flank would be pretty damn exciting.
Hope this is true.
Could be an outsider for the Germany squad?
Could be an outsider for the Germany squad?
Would be a very good signing, though I reckon City will step up their interest.
I'm not feeling optimistic about signing anyone at the moment but he's the obvious one to target now Dembélé has gone. Let's get it done.
Let's face it, our scouting department just love a good trip out. They don't actually watch any players, they just go for the craic.
Doesn't matter how many times someone tweets that we've been watching them, someone else will swoop in having seen them once and buy them.
Doesn't matter how many times someone tweets that we've been watching them, someone else will swoop in having seen them once and buy them.
Another Martial? Yes please.
Not sure we should be expecting him to be as good as Martial. At least not from the get-go. But he's a seriously talented youngster. And one who, to me, appears to have a skillset very well suited to the Premier League.
Martial on the left, Sane on the right, Zlatan up top and James behind
Tbh i'm saying that based on stats, but stats don't tell everything i guess.
How is his attitude/work ethic?
Yeah, agree. Tough for a kid to come into a dysfunctional attack and hit the ground running. Martial was an exception.
I reckon he should stay another year but having him, Martial and Rashford led by Ibra in our attack has an almost Cantona '96 feel to it
I think we'd need to add one more, maybe a more experienced attacking midfielder/winger, to the team, as well. Just Sane would again see us pinning a lot of our hopes on a big potential young signing as we did with Memphis. These players usually deserve a bit of time. Plus, only Martial is performing from wide areas, so IMO two attacking midfielders are required.Yeah, agree. Tough for a kid to come into a dysfunctional attack and hit the ground running. Martial was an exception.
I reckon he should stay another year but having him, Martial and Rashford led by Ibra in our attack has an almost Cantona '96 feel to it
These are the kind of players who might want to join United and we can hope they'll pull a "Martial"
Well, there was an instance in march 2015 (Sané already debuted for the main squad by then) when he really dissapointed in Schalke´s U19 (was subbed off after half an hour) and Schalke´s youth development guru Norbert Elgert got pretty furious with him and another talent describing his talents as "brutally overhyped and overrated".
That being said, the German magazine "11 Freunde" ran a big story on him one year later and there he was described by every person as humble and down to earth so the before mentioned action and statement by Elgert was more about taking him down a notch (something he likes to do) that seemed to work in the long run.
His work ethic is decent, although he tends to still disappear a lot of times.
Scouts dont decide or make signings, Are you saying our scouts dont send a report back?
Might as well not do for the amount of times they see a player versus our rivals scouts. They clearly just fancy a holiday.
Thanks. The right attitude and work ethic are very important in a young top class talent, and a key factor in Martial adapting so quickly here. On the other hand, we have Memphis who said a lot of right things before the move but it turned out to be a bunch of BS. His attitude and body language on the field have been very poor. Good to know that Sane is humble and has stayed out of trouble. Being inconsistent at his age is natural.
Strange to think before the season we were hearing about how Memphis has a very good attitude in trying to become the best and that Martial could be lazy....just goes to show...
Just out of interest, is he sponsored by Adidas too? Almost every pic is in Adidas gear.
True, I remember all the talk about Memphis being "hungry" to become the best and all that crap. I don't think there was anything on Martial's work ethic but he obviously appears to have a lackadaisical attitude on the surface although his effort level and performances prove to the contrary.
Definitely remember reading a quote questioning Martials work ethic when he signed. Any one else remember or did I imagine it?
No, it was reported in January that he signed a personal sponsorship with Nike until 2020. He certainly at least wears Nike shoes on the pitch.
had a good season, quick and loads of room for improvement. would be a good buy
I remember it too. Saying he turns up last to training and stuff.
I noticed on Fifa that he was out of form and on the bench recently. Did he go through a bit of a bad patch recently? This thread had died off for a couple of months.
Selected in the provisional Germany squad.
Please. Pls. Plz. Plez. Plis. Sign
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