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My thoughts exactly.
Wants a shiny new toy every 3 years... Thats one way of interpreting that post
Would have preferred Morata. I hope I'm proven wrong.
As others have said, Lukaku just feels like a Man United player. I can't wait to see him bang the goals in for us. I've been a huge fan of his for years and always wanted us to sign him, but I felt he was destined to return to Chelsea. Despite some of the rubbish on here, his all-round game has actually improved a-lot over the past 3/4 years and it's nowhere near as bad as the drama queens make out.
I actually rate Morata but I just couldn't get excited for the transfer. It all felt like he would join us alright, but I didn't get the impression he really wanted the move. With Lukaku it feels like he's delighted to be here, much like it feels with Pogba. As soon as the news broke we were in for him I was absolutely ecstatic although I feared, maybe just maybe, Chelsea would somehow get him. In the end they acted like utter embarrassments, but they're a cringy as feck club so I expected no better.
I was dreading the prospect of him returning to Chelsea as I feared he would massively improve them. He's a huge upgrade on Costa and I felt he would have been a fantastic addition for them. I'm sure their fans will say they never wanted him anyway.
Can't wait to see him get going. Fantastic signing, I can't emphasise that enough. He'll prove the doubters wrong pretty quick.
I actually rate Morata but I just couldn't get excited for the transfer. It all felt like he would join us alright, but I didn't get the impression he really wanted the move. With Lukaku it feels like he's delighted to be here, much like it feels with Pogba. As soon as the news broke we were in for him I was absolutely ecstatic although I feared, maybe just maybe, Chelsea would somehow get him. In the end they acted like utter embarrassments, but they're a cringy as feck club so I expected no better.
I was dreading the prospect of him returning to Chelsea as I feared he would massively improve them. He's a huge upgrade on Costa and I felt he would have been a fantastic addition for them. I'm sure their fans will say they never wanted him anyway.
Can't wait to see him get going. Fantastic signing, I can't emphasise that enough. He'll prove the doubters wrong pretty quick.
Has 75m been confirmed as the fee by the club?
It never will be. The club never confirm the transfer fees or the salaries.
Thought they had to release them as a rule but ok, thanks.
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Nah. I think they made an exception with Pogba because it was a world record. We haven't released transfer fees since the PLC days.
We also confirmed the fee for Mata(club record fee at the time), Di Maria(British record fee at the time) and Rojo(random). There might have been more.
Didn't Sporting confirm Rojo? Or maybe we did because they confirmed it?
It's on our club website. But, like you said, could very well be because Sporting confirmed it anyway. So if we assume we only announce records, it might indicate that we didn't break Pogba fee with Lukaku transfer.
I would go with that.
Diagnosed or undiagnosed PTSD?
Read it again. Or it just lacks any sense, that's also one way of interpreting.
Ok, big guy, pack your bags after 3 remarkable seasons and off to Chelsea you go.
He's getting in on the bants already! Love it #agentP
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I'm interested to see if Lukaku and Pogba can strike up the same relationship on the pitch as they do off the pitch, could be like another Yorke and Cole with each knowing where the other is going to be or what to do.
BaillyHe's getting in on the bants already! Love it
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That lookIt looks like a SAF type of transfer if I ever saw one.PL established striker who gets the job done and will probably love playing for the club.
Also maybe I'm old school but I like a proper CF. Not a striker, a CF,a guy who bangs in the goals. I don't care how, I don't care if it's pretty, just score.
That's why I loved Cole, Yorke,Rvp, Rvn or as for players from other clubs pippo inzaghi
Also maybe I'm old school but I like a proper CF. Not a striker, a CF,a guy who bangs in the goals. I don't care how, I don't care if it's pretty, just score.
That's why I loved Cole, Yorke,Rvp, Rvn or as for players from other clubs pippo inzaghi
Even if he develops into a world class, 40 goal a season striker, and in doing so contradicts every reason you stated for him not being up to the job, you still want him sold because he isn't good enough?
What?
Exactly. In many ways it's the signing that makes the most sense, especially so given the lack of centre forwards available.
He's arguably the second best striker in the league right now, he's proven himself in the division time and time again, he already lives in Manchester and is settled here, speaks perfect English and is homegrown. All these factors will allow him to settle in immeasurably better than if we'd signed Belotti or Morata, say. Not only that but there is the added bonus, in true Fergie style, of taking Everton's best player from them and weakening a competitor. He ticks every box.
Not sure I would put Yorke in gang bracket.
Looks just a fantastic signing hope it all comes into fruition. A couple of early goals and we have lift off. Love the type of players Jose has mostly signed so far. We have a few physical beasts in our team nowadays. Bailley Lindelof Valencia Pogba Lukaku Smalling Jones Rojo Fellaini all capable of the physical stuff. Now we just need the magic sprinkles like Griezmann or Mbappe.
All of you shouldn't be so harsh on him. It's a stress induced trauma directly related to United's strikers/star players. Rooney, Van Persie, Ibrahimovic, Cristiano, Falcao etc., the collection is big enough for some to get disturbed.
If he gets too good, I'll definitely want to sell him asap. Until then, he'll do.
MUTV have said that it was £75m in one of their tour shows last night called 'What Goes on Tour.'
David Stowell asked Dennis Irwin if there would be added pressure due to the £75m price tag. I'm not sure how official that makes it.
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...manchester-united-jose-mourinho-didier-drogba
Bit of a mixed article, especially as the author takes a couple of digs at our playing style and transfer policy:
"They are very different players and the hop from one to the other reinforces the idea United’s transfer policy is based on buying individuals and then fitting them together rather than setting out with a coherent strategy."
Personally I feel like that isn't the case under Mourinho but perhaps was in the Moyes/LvG days.
I was more interested in the headline. Do people really think he was Plan B? I know it all happened suddenly in the end, but if both Lukaku and Morata had been available to sign at the same time for similar prices, who do you think Jose would have gone for?
Bit of a mixed article, especially as the author takes a couple of digs at our playing style and transfer policy:
"They are very different players and the hop from one to the other reinforces the idea United’s transfer policy is based on buying individuals and then fitting them together rather than setting out with a coherent strategy."
Personally I feel like that isn't the case under Mourinho but perhaps was in the Moyes/LvG days.
I was more interested in the headline. Do people really think he was Plan B? I know it all happened suddenly in the end, but if both Lukaku and Morata had been available to sign at the same time for similar prices, who do you think Jose would have gone for?
The author is Jonathan Wilson who has his head firmly in Klopp's ass and somedays in Pep's. So I wouldn't take anything he says seriously.
Imagine Lukaku coming up against Bailly in training. Truly the clash of titansHe's getting in on the bants already! Love it
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I wasn't aware of that, but explains the bitter undertone.
Will steer clear from now on.
I am one of those who are not very ecstatic about this transfer.
He's young, strong, fast and clinical, and will probably get us at least 20 goals a season, great. But he's not someone around whom you could build an attack, not someone with whom the likes of Mkhi, Pogba and Mata could try one touch pass and turn plays, or even the kind who will hold up the ball while Rashford and Martial run past. He's not prime Rooney or Zlatan who can score worldies, he's not RVP who can create goals out of nowhere.
He's a great forward, don't get me wrong, but he's got no magic around him, and I don't think he ever will. And that ends up being the difference between the best teams and the very good ones.
Here's hoping I'm proved wrong in the months to come.
He's young, strong, fast and clinical, and will probably get us at least 20 goals a season, great. But he's not someone around whom you could build an attack, not someone with whom the likes of Mkhi, Pogba and Mata could try one touch pass and turn plays, or even the kind who will hold up the ball while Rashford and Martial run past. He's not prime Rooney or Zlatan who can score worldies, he's not RVP who can create goals out of nowhere.
He's a great forward, don't get me wrong, but he's got no magic around him, and I don't think he ever will. And that ends up being the difference between the best teams and the very good ones.
Here's hoping I'm proved wrong in the months to come.
Think its pretty clear that Lukaku was the preferred choice. Wasn't Madrid's asking price for Morata €90m? Not too different from what we paid for Lukaku in the end, and it's possible Madrid would eventually have agreed to a price a bit short of that. Also Mourinho gave Woodward his list of targets in March and the April transfer rumor was us being linked to Lukaku and Koeman responding with that rant.
I juggled with the Lukaku/Morata option (if there was an option), and admittably lent towards Morata, but the more I see of Lukaku around the squad, the more it feels 'right', time will tell how the deal turns out, but I honestly can't see how it can wrong, fingers crossed in 8-10 years time we are talking about the career of the legend Lukaku.
I'm in the same boat.