Liam Delap | £30m release clause?
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For what it’s worth, a lot of our defeats this season have been games where we’ve played well and just looked clueless up front. By adding Cunha, Delap alongside Diallo (presumably) I think our attack will be much more fluid next season and the team will be better for it. I like that they appear to be trying to build the sum of all parts rather than just individuals.
Strangely positive post. To the delousing sector, please.
Highly doubtful unless we dont improve our chance creation abilities
I choose a positive prediction
Personally, I'd say we have very little chance of signing Delap considering he is wanted by Chelsea, Newcastle & Villa (?) amongst others.
Being brutally honest, I really don't see why he'd choose United as the best option for the next step in his career.
Because we need a striker and he’d get plenty of game time
Watkins can’t get in at villa
Newcastle could keep Isaak
The allure of United is still real. If you backed yourself the reward is there to take Utd back up the table
Tbf striker is one position they don't have much depth in and well, they'll be playing Champions League football next season. Not a very tough decision to make.
Wilcox and McKenna will play a big part i feel
I know what you're getting at - but the lure of tying to get us back is a big lure. Plus money (but hope that's not just it).
He isn’t going to a club to play second fiddle. I’d agree Chelsea is the main competition for us.
Yeah they definitely are, really hope we aren't putting all the eggs in one basket on this
Many reasons. He can be a starting striker, we will have the prestige and are a bigger club, he will be presented with an attractive project, he knows Manchester.
I dont know why we get posts like this, the finish to this season is an anomaly.
I don't really know much about this gentleman, but I agree that if we get a somewhat clinical CF, which hopefully he turns out to be should we sign him, I can see him/whoever scoring that amount.
We are actually capable of creating chances and getting ourselves into great attacking positions only for us to either mess up the final ball or have whoever our CF not be alert enough in the box.
Some better technical players that don't panic in the final 3rd and a CF who's always alert and we could very well be onto something.
Reckon us getting Delap would indicate Hojlund staying.
Yeah certainly looks that way, we clearly are not in any financial position to take a hit on him
Im not convinced they will be, but I do see Chelsea as the biggest rival to delap. He could make himself the main striker there as much as he could here, London appeals to some players and obviously they're in a better place. If they get CL and we don't, I think Chelsea will get him over everybody else, but if they don't get CL Id still see United as the most attractive option even though we've had an awful season.
Yeah the Champions League thing will be the deciding factor for him hence why he's waiting
Not a bad plan. I have a feeling this thread will reach gadzillions of posts
We could well do David or even Vardy on a free and sell Hojlund
There’s a good chance he will choose to go elsewhere, especially if he is prioritising playing in Europe.
Be interesting to see who our backup options are if that does happen, Gyokeres and Osimhen have been ruled out and I can’t see us paying the 60-70m it would take to buy Sesko or Ekitike. Maybe Mateta will be the alternative.
We can’t have another season of Hojlund.
Be interesting to see who our backup options are if that does happen, Gyokeres and Osimhen have been ruled out and I can’t see us paying the 60-70m it would take to buy Sesko or Ekitike. Maybe Mateta will be the alternative.
We can’t have another season of Hojlund.
I was just about to post this, David and Delap makes perfect sense. Offset Hojlund and the NET spend would be good but PSR could take a hit if Hojlund doesn't reach that optimal fee to cover that aspect.
I also think J. David can play across the front three in one of the wider 10 positions (if necessary). Those are good options in the summer, if it materialised that's two windows INEOS have spent well relative to transfer fees and player qualities.
How much would it take to get Mateta?
Sorry sir, won't happen again sir.
David might not be a good fit for the league and is certainly not overly keen on a PL move but if that is the option then we have no choice but to win the Europa League. He is not going to move to a club that is not in Europe as that is one of his stipulations for his next club.
Looks impressive
All of those metrics will improve away from Ipswich.Looks impressive
Our swashbuckling style will surely improve them
Then INEOS need to sell the team if they can't afford to buy world class players. It should be simple as that. Take away the Glazer debt UTD will have no problem buying players even without UCL. The goal should be getting back to the Madrid, Barca, City, Liverpool level.
I don't think you do with that, with Delap
have we activated the release clause or is it just rumours ?
Who exactly is gonna buy the club off INEOS?
What is hurting us is the fact that we have gone for nearly 10 consecutive summers going into the transfer window needing a minimum of four players just to stay competitive and sometimes it was also to replace players we would have spent hundreds of millions on.
To stabilize this situation there are no shortcuts, we tried gambling our way out of the trouble but Arnold and Murtough utterly wet the bed. To get out of it we have to spend eliminate the weakness in the first eleven but also do it at the least cost possible. So Delap may not be a potential best striker in the league but if he comes in and matches his Ipswich output, he'd be worth it.
It's incremental and continuous improvement that will get us out of this hole. Solve what we can solve now but do it in a way that the impact of the signings is enough to make us competitive. If we get 20 to 25 league goals from them, that should be enough to put us into the top 4 or 5 dogfight.
Yeah we can't do it all in one summer
Fair points…up to a point.
Top strikers not only score goals. They also create goal scoring chances. There’s a stat called “goal involvement” or something very close to that terminology that counts goals and assists. This hypothetical top striker we would bring in would presumably not be limited to being a goal scorer but also an assist machine.
I don’t have Hojlund’s actual numbers handy but I would bet it’s something like 3 goals and 2 assists so far this season, which is almost over. That’s woeful. What we need is someone who can score 15-20 goals and provide 10+ assists. If such a striker were to have been a member of our squad this year I’m pretty confident we’d be in the top five rather than breathing a sigh of relief that we won’t be relegated.
Thats right, suppose Delap comes in and averages circa 12 league goals a season for three seasons. That ought to be enough to build us up into a side where we are back in the conversation for the top end players ie where we were in 2021 after two consecutive top 3 finishes under Ole.
But you are overlooking the importance of the first goal, for a goal shy team like United conceding the opening goal has been fatal in matches. I don't think we would have lost to Wolves and Bournemouth, in December, if we had the ability to either score first or equalize and we did miss chances in those games. Goals change the dynamics of games, if you score first you get more opportunities for breaks.
Generally we need an upgrade at both ends of he pitch, remove calamity Onana and improve on Hoijlund.
Waiting? Transfer window doesn’t open until June?
Ineos (Jim) could buy United a couple of times over, but until the Glazers stop being majority shareholders, they’re not going to keep chucking money in? I wouldn’t as minority shareholder.
And there’s still financial/spending rules to keep to.
Feels like you’re fighting a one man battle in here?
Oh well, I think it’s the right way to approach the summerFeels like you’re fighting a one man battle in here?