Maximilian Beier

[The holy trinity 68]

Please sign him just for the name Maximilian. Always been a fan of the name since I was a kid watching Yugi kick Maximilian Pegasus' arse.

 

[Brightonian]

Bundesliga watchers, who would be a better signing to share game time with and provide competition for Hojlund?

Beier for £25m, or Guirassy for £15m?

 

[VP89]

Maybe, but we already didn’t have enough players last season and are getting rid of a few / wages freed up and then we need some better rotation options, guys that can actually play for us. Would be a hard sell but excellent business.

Def don't have the money for both if we also want a CB CM and LB. Let's see though. The way our summers go I'd be surprised if we got one.

 

[stefan92]

Bundesliga watchers, who would be a better signing to share game time with and provide competition for Hojlund?

Beier for £25m, or Guirassy for £15m?

Depends a bit. Guirassy right now likely gives you more bang for the buck and is a more experienced and proven player. But he is only useful as competition for Hojlund.

Beier is still more of a talent, he would surely have the higher resale value even if it doesn't work out well at United. And he can play a second striker role around Hojlund when needed, you can easily sub him on if you are chasing a goal.

Besides that both have the most important experience for a player coming to United: They know how a chaotic shitshow of an underperforming former big club looks like (Stuttgart and Hannover).

Both would be good signings, but I feel like Guirassy really likes being the main man at a club, I'm not sure he would agree to a "bench contract".

 

[Brightonian]

Depends a bit. Guirassy right now likely gives you more bang for the buck and is a more experienced and proven player. But he is only useful as competition for Hojlund.

Beier is still more of a talent, he would surely have the higher resale value even if it doesn't work out well at United. And he can play a second striker role around Hojlund when needed, you can easily sub him on if you are chasing a goal.

Besides that both have the most important experience for a player coming to United: They know how a chaotic shitshow of an underperforming former big club looks like (Stuttgart and Hannover).

Both would be good signings, but I feel like Guirassy really likes being the main man at a club, I'm not sure he would agree to a "bench contract".

Thanks, this is interesting!

I don't think we should worry about resale value until we see some evidence of ever being capable of selling a player we don't want for a significant sum regardless of his actual quality.

As for Guirassy accepting a 'bench contract', I think he played 30 games this season and slightly fewer last. That includes sub appearances as well as starts. He'd easily be able to exceed that for United if fit and in form enough to do so without significantly hurting Hojlund's game time. We played 60 games this season, 70 the season before. We can't just have one 'first choice' striker, we need two.

Nice to hear the good things about Beier though. Hard to tell anything from a handful of highlight videos, especially when it comes to strikers.

If they're actually both on release clauses as cheap as the media suggests, maybe we should get both!