They won't necessarily go with the highest bidder if it's not what the player wants. I don't see him wanting to go to Liverpool, Arsenal or Spurs over us
Memphis Depay | PSV confirm deal with Man Utd is agreed!
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Has any player from the Eredivisie gone for more than 30m euro? I doubt he'll go for much more.
Do bidding wars even really happen either? If they are willing to accept 30m then it wouldn't make sense for anyone to offer more. At the end of the day, Memphis has the decision of who he wants to go to and PSV aren't going to refuse him a move to try and get a couple extra million.
Do bidding wars even really happen either? If they are willing to accept 30m then it wouldn't make sense for anyone to offer more. At the end of the day, Memphis has the decision of who he wants to go to and PSV aren't going to refuse him a move to try and get a couple extra million.
Clubs like Bayern, Real and Barcelona usually don't buy players from the eredivisie anymore. They sooner go for players who are more proven in a top competition. Exceptions could be some free or cheap transfer to add some depth. Which is why someone like Afellay ended up at Barcelona, but he was 25 at that point and really not that great for that age, Depay is just 21 and has more room to improve still, a much higher ceiling I think.
That's not the starting price, that's the price where they will say, 'yes'. If the club Depay wants to play with, offer 30m and another club offer more they will still let him go for 30m, like Lyon did with Benzema, that's already insane money for them.
If no one bids except us, he will go for slightly less.
Phillip Cocu on Depay: "I think he's ready for the next step, and I think he'll leave. That's what we're anticipating."
This thread will no doubt be bumped daily until the Summer 
This thread will no doubt be bumped daily until the Summer
Daily? More like hourly!
Quick fire double for Memphis, two very calm finishes
Our boy doing the business 
Had a calm evening. Should've gotten an assist (de Jong missed 1v1) and blasted 1 good chance over. Wasn't involved much otherwise till he popped up with the 0-4 and 0-5.
Overall his play has been OK tonight, Twente was playing with a B team by the way. They've got the Dutch cup final coming up and have injuries.
Substituted off after 80 minutes, no need to risk him after he played twice for the Netherlands too.
Overall his play has been OK tonight, Twente was playing with a B team by the way. They've got the Dutch cup final coming up and have injuries.
Substituted off after 80 minutes, no need to risk him after he played twice for the Netherlands too.
Been watching PSV on SS5, the Co commentator hasn't shut up about Depay and United.
Not his best game but still created 2 big chances and scored 2 goals
Wasnt very special today. Also i think he's a bit overrated at this forum. He's good but he still has a lot to learn. Currently i dont think he would be an improvement over Young.
He has potential but he isnt Ronaldo.
He has potential but he isnt Ronaldo.
Are you high?His bad form continues eh? Hopefully he'll get up to speed when he gets here. Only 2 goals... very disappointing.
What the hell??
Young is currently our starting left winger/attacker since he's in great form. Even di Maria is at the bench because of this. Memphis is not a final product, he should become a better player than Young but i doubt he is better at this moment. You have to remember he is playing in the Eredivisie, i watch a decent amount of Eredivisie games but compared to the premier league it is really really REALLY bad. Defenders cant defend and almost every defensive player lacks the strenght to stop Memphis while almost all right backs in the prenier league are quite strong.
Depay was great at the beginning of the season and played well againt Spain but he isnt that great in the Eredivisie lately. Today he scored 2 goals and should have had an assist against a hopeless FC Twente but those goals didnt matter much. He scored the 4-0 and the 5-0 which isnt very important.
Depay needs space to be effective. He isnt very good in thight spaces and uses his speed to pass his opponents. PSV uses a counter tactic but LVG wants to play a possesion game, i dont know if Mephis will be the best option for that type of game. Against Spain he got some space because Spain wants to attack (he played well because of that) but i dont think a lot of Premier League teams will play that attacking against us.
Edit : his first touch before his first goal was nice though.
Watching Young today, yes he created a lot of opportunities against Hutton, but he didn't convert those into chances on goal because his final ball was poor.
I would back Depay to make more out those opportunities than Young managed.
Young's most effective end products were 5 yard passes to Blind. Anyone can do that.
I would back Depay to make more out those opportunities than Young managed.
Young's most effective end products were 5 yard passes to Blind. Anyone can do that.
Depay got 2 goals and MOTM, how is that 'poor form' ?
Doesn't do it for me. Since it looks like Mata will be playing on the wings for us, I'd rather we have he and Di Maria as starters, with Young, Januzaj and Lingard as back ups.
He took the second goal really well.
------------------Strootman------------------
------------Herrera------J Mata-------------
----Depay-------Rooney-----Di Maria--
------------Herrera------J Mata-------------
----Depay-------Rooney-----Di Maria--
No Mata in midfield and no crock Strootman, switch Memphis and Di Maria's wings though and the front 3 could work.
This could definitely work.
How? Why would we replace Carrick or Blind with a crock, remove Fellaini from midfield and ruin the balance with a player who is not physically capable of playing there, and play Memphis on the wrong wing?
Assuming this is 6 months off at least, he would be healthy by then and be a proper box to box midfielder in the Roy Keane mold. Herrera and Fellaini will be interchangeable behind Rooney.
So we are going to play a proper box to box midfielder at the base? How does that work, what happens when he gets up the field? Are we just not going to bother with defending?
If we buy Strootman he would surely play alongside Carrick next year.
What about the rest? Mata in midfield is a complete disaster, he is too weak to play there, and how is Strootman gonna be a box to box player when that line-up had him as a #6 and we will be playing 4-3-3? Plus Strootman shouldn't even be an option for us at all as he's a crocked mess who had half a season of good form at Roma, and what about Memphis on the wrong wing? To buy a player who has created a name for himself playing on the left and scoring nearly 20 goals this season from there plus 2 at last years WC, and sticking him on a side @NL Max says he's no good on would be crazy and stifle his potential right off the bat.
For next season I'd say this is a logical line-up
-----------------Carrick/Blind-----------------
------------Herrera/???------Pogba/Fellaini-------------
--Di Maria/Mata----Rooney-----Memphis/Young
That could work as well, althogugh ideally we will need to find a way to get all our players into the lineup, and that includes Di Maria, Mata, Herrera, Fellaini, and Depay (if he comes).
At big clubs top players have to wait their turn as well, this season we sacrificed the team for the individual and it cost us, as soon as RvP and Falcao were out of the way we improved enormously. At Real Madrid Isco did his time on the bench, today Bayern were without Ribery and Robben yet Gotze was still on the bench. To me Rooney is the only undroppable simply because we don't have another top #9. All the players who are wide options in the front 3 should compete for a starting spot and we should not compromise our well balanced and cohesive midfield to shoehorn them in IMO.
I suggest people stop posting these 2-men-each-position line up.That's not the way it works with LVG.
How does it work? Most top teams build around the Ark principle, two good options in each position.
LVG loves multi-functional player and changing formation based on which players are available.He also prefer a small squad.You are going to sign 3 new non-defenders for that formation which won't and shouldn't happen.If anything Pogba can rotate between the two 8 positions and/or Mata might move centrally (he's number 10 at the end of the day).I don't think Mata will stay on the ring wing long-term.
Needless to say about the existence of some other dude called Adnan Januzaj.
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When the waters go down, they have to breed to repopulate the earth?
He doesn't like changing formations though, he is a 4-3-3 man through and through, he only plays other systems if there is absolutely no choice and he needn't have that concern with our ability to buy him a proper squad to cover his bases. Hang on, where did I post we'd buy 3 non defenders? I put Pogba in midfield and Memphis in the attack, we are almost certainly buying a CM and a forward so I don't see how that is such a strange thing. As for the "???" next to Herrera, they were to indicate that we could shift one of Blind or Fellaini there, but at no point do I expect Mata to play centrally as he is too slow and weak, it's why it's taken this false winger role for him to get in the team again.
what about Januzaj? I didn't list him as he's yet to make any inroads in the team at all and if anything I imagine he might go on loan next season to try and progress as 4-3-3 requires wide players with goals and he offers no goal threat.
That's where Giggsy comes in as assistant coach.
Basically we have to agree to disagree about all of these things.Januzaj won't go on loan and Mata still better centrally than out wide.A few games and people forgot what happened from the start of the season up until recently.
Januzaj is never going to progress if he doesn't go on loan IMO, the competition is too strong in our squad. As for Mata, it's not about where you or I like him to play, it's that he is simply too weak to play centrally in the PL, same reason Silva starts out wide for City most of the time, he's adapted well to the false winger role and simply doesn't have the attributes for LvG's 4-3-3, to even think of playing him centrally we'd need to move to 4-2-3-1 and play with 2 DM's to accommodate him, which is not needed as he has shown he can play well from the right.
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