What a statement this will send out if we did sign him. Of course there’s the huge wages we pay but he’s hardly been offered a paupers wage by Barcelona and it would go some considerable way to reaffirming that us and Real are still the biggest pulls in football.
Matthijs de Ligt / signs for Juventus, lowering their average age to 56
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Imagine if United sign De Ligt and City pay even more for Maguire who also happens to be 6 years older.
You're right.
and so Muppet watch begins.. hide ropes etc.
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He would be off again in 2 years but it would still be worth it.
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History is written by the winners my friend.
I drove past Ed Woodward’s house this morning, and the curtains were open. I can only assume he’s up finalising important transfer business.
Every transfer window. Bookies know nothing, they change the odds based on where punters are putting all the money. If loads of money has gone on Barca they will decrease the odds and improve ours to entice more to put money on us and if lots of money goes on us they’ll just swap it around again.
Of course he is, he'll never let us down.
All it takes is one massive bet on De Ligt to United and those odds change drastically.
Well a few days ago we were 8/1 and now we’re 5/2 so money is coming in.
Doesn’t work like that though. 6 years older is mid-twenties and proven over time. He should be a surer bet in theory.
English media and Dutch media would report this deal every single day if that Spoof guy speaking true.
Nah bookies know feck all.
Neither does Spoof, but bookies are just responding to who is putting money on what.
Wow, what the hell happened last night to have that thread title?
I wouldn't dispute that, but I'd bet that City fans would be quite upset if we signed de Light and they Maguire, specially if the latter went for a higher transfer fee.
Some fake twitter account said he was joining. Some guy from reddit who claims to be a ITK also said the same thing. Some Barca fans on a forum started to talk smack about De Ligt. So of course that means we’re signing him
Nah, once wages come out they'll be all like "smart not to break our wage bill for a 19 year old" and "maguire's cheaper and better" and "they're paying 400k a week to a 19 year old lololol"
My brother got it at 13/1 with paddy power 2 days ago
Di Marizio 
I'll wait for confirmation by Dr Jon Mac before getting hyped.
Fans will spin their narrative on it of course but there's little point in getting smug about such things before a football has been kicked. How buzzing was redcafe after the signings of Mkhitaryan, Pogba and Sanchez!
Are We trusting an itk guy from reddit named spoofex?
I'd be buzzing if my club got de ligt. And i'd be incredibly pissed off if we were in for a CB and didn't go balls to the wall for him
But then again i wasn't two years ago when we missed out on Mbappé
Hindsight is a beautiful and terrible thing
Thanks for that! I do know how bookies work! The point being if there was genuine insider info about a United bid being accepted then a swathe of money would have been put on him coming to United by now!
The old phrase the bookies rarely get it wrong still holds true no matter how much you like to think otherwise!
Anyone that mentions money and price tags in their info is clearly full of shit. Money is very complex in football transfers so the amounts wouldn't be disclosed its all crap.
Those saying 48 hours or expect a big announcement soon are most certainly frauds. This will drag out for a month or two, provided that Barca don't give in and pay what it takes.
The odds have gone in from 1/25 to 4/6 for him to go to Barca. United are now 11/4. People are putting massive amounts of him to United, based on those odds changing that much over just 2 days.
Agree. We had the same thing with Pogba
What's the latest. Are we unzipped or just considering unzipping?
He’s still a teenager, let’s keep it zipped up for now.
This thread is absolutely hilarious, realistically I don't see the signing happening but I know nothing more than the average fan.
However the key obstacle is the financial aspect for Barcelona, so pending they are able to offload Umtiti that will be the equaliser to fund the purchase ? So the longer it takes the less likely it is to happen.
However the key obstacle is the financial aspect for Barcelona, so pending they are able to offload Umtiti that will be the equaliser to fund the purchase ? So the longer it takes the less likely it is to happen.
This is where it all quiets down, nothing happens for a week and then all of a sudden the news will break he’s signed for Barca
Pretty much yes.
Like a bunch of people have decided to smoke weed and landed in this thread.
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