Memphis Depay | PSV confirm deal with Man Utd is agreed!

[SonnyTheHaloPro]

The people calling Manchester shit have probably never even been there. Paris is obviously better considering it is the Capital of France but even then it isn't that good other than the tourist area. The weather is pretty much the same for both cities. However in terms of "International" cities go, London makes Paris look like a joke.

Either way the players all live in massive countryside mansions anyway.

 

[NL Max]

Thijs Slegers (100% reliable - his own thoughts via audio interview) on Memphis:

He is deciding on his future. There are many clubs (mainly from England) interested who have informed about him, currently these 3 are 'in the lead' to sign him: Manchester United, PSG and Liverpool. (He didn't want to name the other clubs)

He likes the PL. MUFC have got a trainer who likes him, they'll probably play CL and they can offer him good wages. They have the most plus-points to sign him.

PSG (Thijs is close friends with Zlatan since his Ajax days so knows a bit about PSG) have left a good impression on him, Thijs has been told by his sources. Laurent Blanc left a good impression on him and is a nice man, the owners are nice people too. They have less plus-points but they do have alot of money - Memphis could choose for financial stability if he wants. They've got a good team and are serious contenders for the CL.

Liverpool. They play in the PL and he might fancy a lesser contract with more gametime. If he decides that this is the most important thing so he might choose them as his first step. He doesn't think he will choose for them since they don't have CL, Rodgers hasn't won anything in 3 years now so he might have doubts about his long term future there - a new trainer might not fancy him.


Off-topic: do people seriously think Paris is a nice city? I've never been to Manchester but I thought Paris was horrible. Old scruffy city and outside of the tourist area it looked like a 3rd world country to me

 

[GledTheRed]

Fcuk Paris!

 

[RDCR07]

Honestly we can match any wage that PSG are offering. He should know that. We can offer him game time as well. Just get that 3rd place and we can offer UCL as well.

 

[Earthquake]

What we need to do is cut out the middleman, and sign the next Memphis Depay.

 

[PlayerOne]

Cheers for the translation @NL Max. Seems like this is closer than I first thought, still confident though.

 

[Mockney]

However in terms of "International" cities go, London makes Paris look like a joke.

Yeah but London, New York and possibly Hong Kong aren't really comparable with Paris. They're megacities. Paris is vying with places like Milan, Madrid or Munich, which are still a notch or two above Manchester tbf.

The Global city index, for example, still ranks Paris as an Alpha+ City, and Manchester as a Beta one.

 

[Massive Spanner]

Yeah but London, New York and possibly Hong Kong aren't really comparable with Paris. They're megacities. Paris is vying with places like Milan, Madrid or Munich, which are still a notch or two above Manchester tbf.

The Global city index, for example, still ranks Paris as an Alpha + City, and Manchester as a Beta one.

Don't Paris and London have pretty much the same population, though? I think London 'city' is quite a bit larger but Paris is overall the largest urban area in Europe.

 

[Ayush_reddevil]

I think even beyond the city part people kind of put down PSG a bit too easily. The league isn't that bad and if he feels that he will have a starting spot at a club which will pay him well and will be competing for the big titles then PSG won't be a bad choice for him. The big positive at United is LVG while the big negative is CL (Still to be confirmed) & more importantly no real guarantee of a starting place

 

[Mockney]

Don't Paris and London have pretty much the same population, though? I think London 'city' is quite a bit larger but Paris is overall the largest urban area in Europe.

Depends what you catogarise, as there are a lot of different perameters. But generally no. You're right that it's closer than the others I mentioned though, if you're using the latter stats. It seems hard to work out what Paris actually is tbf. (@Rooney in Dublin?)

The population of Paris in its administrative city limits was 2,273,305 in January 2013.[2] This makes Paris the fifth largest municipality in the European Union, following London, Berlin, Madrid and Rome. Comparing cities in the European Union, Eurostat, the statistical agency of the EU, places Paris (6.5 million people) second behind London (8 million) and ahead of Berlin (3.5 million), based on the 2012 populations of what Eurostat calls "urban audit core cities".[123]

The Paris Urban Area, or ‘’unité urbaine’', is a statistical area created by the French statistical agency INSEE to measure the population of built-up areas around the city. It is slightly smaller than the Paris Region. According to INSEE, the Paris Urban Area has an estimated population of 10,843,285 inhabitants as of 2015, making it the most populous in the European Union, and third most populous in Europe, behind Moscow and Istanbul.[124] The Paris metropolitan area is the second most populous in the European Union after London with a population of 12,161,542

There's also a lot of unique economic factors which make London and NY megacities, beyond just population (NY has about the same as London)..Though again, that sort of depends what you catogarise as a megacity. I'm sort of going for a vaguer "prime destination" angle. There isn't much in Paris beyond the 2.3m municipality area that'd be considered hugely desirable, from what little I know at any rate (though that area is great)

 

[Sarni]

Krakow's the best of them all anyway, by a distance.

 

[SirAF]

He can live there or anywhere else for that matter after he's done playing, a footballer's career is short.

 

[Cnaiür urs Skiötha]

Krakow's the best of them all anyway, by a distance.

Krakow is awesome mate. Paris is quite overrated.

 

[Sarni]

Krakow is awesome mate. Paris is quite overrated.

Krakow is very cool. It's small enough that you don't really feel overwhelmed by it but also large enough to have everything you need plus landscape and architecture are fantastic.

 

[Mockney]

I quite liked Krakow when I was there. I liked Kiev slightly better though.....Probably wouldn't now.

 

[Welsh Wonder]

What we need to do is cut out the middleman, and sign the next Memphis Depay.

 

[Scorpy]

He can come live in Sofia if he wants a mega city. He can join one of the local clubs and win important titles until he retires. I've noticed on that photo with his agent that he looks like a hipster so I'd be happy to show him around the city and recommend a couple of clubs where he can play board games and listen to shit music.

He'll also enjoy the racism on the stadiums. It'll make him a better and more determined player and will ''feed'' on the hate just like Ronaldo does. I'll tweet him later.

 

[Snow]

Paris is great. Manchester shouldn't be comparing itself to Paris. Won't do it any favors.

Krakow must be the best. Otherwise all the Polish people wouldn't be moving there instead of to all the other countries of Europe.

 

[Massive Spanner]

Depends what you catogarise, as there are a lot of different perameters. But generally no. You're right that it's closer than the others I mentioned though, if you're using the latter stats. It seems hard to work out what Paris actually is tbf. (@Rooney in Dublin?)



There's also a lot of unique economic factors which make London and NY megacities, beyond just population (NY has about the same as London)..Though again, that sort of depends what you catogarise as a megacity. I'm sort of going for a vaguer "prime destination" angle. There isn't much in Paris beyond the 2.3m municipality area that'd be considered hugely desirable, from what little I know at any rate.

Weird. I knew London was a more 'important' city than Paris worldwide, but I always assumed they were of a similar size overall.

 

[Dr. Funkenstein]

Ha! Manchester is shit, let's be honest. Bereft of any culture, too. Manchester's nightlife is horrendous - full of bald, tight-T-shirted wankers looking for a fight. As for restaurants, you can pick between formulaic Italian restaurant #1, #2 or #3.

I heard there is a good Chinese restaurant. Anyway, it can't be worse than Eindhoven.

There is literally no contest between Manchester and Paris - Paris wins in just about every aspect of what you'd measure a city on.

True, it's not even worth a comparison. It's Paris, there are not many cities who dare to be compared with Paris.

Nice stadium to, but that's only every two weeks. The league isn't very glorious, football isn't even the biggest sport there. I don't know if it's such a good thing if a young player is tempted by the night life. As a player Depay is quite immature, but maybe not as a person. He's certainly ambitious though, and not only interested in the most money the soonest. He knows Van Gaal will make him a better player, he probably knows he needs to be made better, and I think he knows there is more to be won here. So I don't think United is competing with PSG, it's his choice between the football and the live outside football, if he chooses football Paris doesn't stand a chance, if his priorities are with the city and the nightlife Manchester doesn't stand a chance.

 

[Mockney]

Weird. I knew London was a more 'important' city than Paris worldwide, but I always assumed they were of a similar size overall.

The discrepancy between the 2m, 6m and 10m versions of Paris is an odd one to try and fathom without knowing a lot about Paris tbf. The cool parts of it are still incredibly cool though.

 

[Scarecrow]

I've been to both and I'd rather live in Manchester, in all honesty. Paris is fantastic if you're there for a week. After that you'd realize that it's full of people you can't speak with, the weather is shit, everything is ridiculously expensive and all the pretty buildings are not so interesting after you've seen them 10 times.
Manchester is hardly shit. Not worse than your average european city. And people speak in English (sort of).

 

[arthurka]

Paris is shit.

It´s full of it at least ....
http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/oh-poo/

 

[RedorDead21]

I've been to both and I'd rather live in Manchester, in all honesty. Paris is fantastic if you're there for a week. After that you'd realize that it's full of people you can't speak with, the weather is shit, everything is ridiculously expensive and all the pretty buildings are not so interesting after you've seen them 10 times.
Manchester is hardly shit. Not worse than your average european city. And people speak in English (sort of).

Not worse than your average Northern city.

 

[bucky]

I've been to both and I'd rather live in Manchester, in all honesty. Paris is fantastic if you're there for a week. After that you'd realize that it's full of people you can't speak with, the weather is shit, everything is ridiculously expensive and all the pretty buildings are not so interesting after you've seen them 10 times.
Manchester is hardly shit. Not worse than your average european city. And people speak in English (sort of).

Genuinely, how's the weather worse in Paris than in Manchester?

 

[LitterBug]

Paris is shit.

Spoiler

 

[RedMachine03]

 

[bosnian_red]

I've been to both and I'd rather live in Manchester, in all honesty. Paris is fantastic if you're there for a week. After that you'd realize that it's full of people you can't speak with, the weather is shit, everything is ridiculously expensive and all the pretty buildings are not so interesting after you've seen them 10 times.
Manchester is hardly shit. Not worse than your average european city. And people speak in English (sort of).

You know the language isn't an issue if you speak French? And doesn't it rain for the majority of the year in Manchester? Can't really compare weather there. Everything being expensive is perfectly fine when you get £100000 a week so while it might be better for your average person to live in Manchester, none of those reasons would influence a footballers decision really. And even if the cool infrastructure would get less interesting after a while, they're still nicer to see everyday then the others.

 

[Scarecrow]

Genuinely, how's the weather worse in Paris than in Manchester?

I didn't say it is. It's not that much better though.

 

[Massive Spanner]

The only logical step here is to relocate Old Trafford to Prague or Amsterdam.

 

[Classical Mechanic]

A flight from Eindhoven is only 1hr from London.

My point is that a 'mega' city is only a stones throw away.

Incidentally the actual City of London has a tiny population, less than 7500, which is where the core of London's financial might comes from. London has absorbed a lot of surrounding areas over the years, Greater London to be more precise. I mean Wembley still carries the remnants of its Middlesex postal code.

 

[Scarecrow]

You know the language isn't an issue if you speak French? And doesn't it rain for the majority of the year in Manchester? Can't really compare weather there. Everything being expensive is perfectly fine when you get £100000 a week so while it might be better for your average person to live in Manchester, none of those reasons would influence a footballers decision really. And even if the cool infrastructure would get less interesting after a while, they're still nicer to see everyday then the others.

Does Memphis speak French?

 

[SammyUnited_83]

Hmm.

Not sure I like the 2nd part of that tweet.

 

[Gambit]

It's off then.....

 

[J-Stander]

Hmm.

Not sure I like the 2nd part of that tweet.

They asked him specifically whether it helps that he's managed a certain player before. It was the only conservative answer he could give really.

 

[SirAF]

Hmm.

Not sure I like the 2nd part of that tweet.

That's nothing to worry about, LvG never comments on anything with regards to transfers anyway. He doesn't give the media an inch which I quite like.

 

[SammyUnited_83]

They asked him specifically whether it helps that he's managed a certain player before. It was the only conservative answer he could give really.

Fair enough. Just didn't seem to positive, but he can be a tough one to read.

 

[Ole's_toe_poke]

Stop taking the thread off topic.

All this Depay talk is getting in the way of discussing the merits of various cities.

 

[RedMachine03]

How is Manchester anyway?

 

[Pyroblazer]

Januzaj will have to get in line behind Mata and Di Maria first.

Of course, but Di Maria can play in 3 positions and let's see how his career at United will continue. While Mata is doing fine right now, we also have to wait and see how LvG plans with him, I am not sure he is his Nr.1 choice as the right winger in the long-term plan. Januzaj is a great talent, he can be something special, so I expect him to improve further and show what he can do and if he does that he will get his chance and can compete with any player. If he performs like this season, yeah then it will be difficult. Right now a Ioan is probably the best, but it's still not that clear for me. If you want to get a place in LvGs system you have to be part of it and adapt imo, van Gaal will give you a chance if you are good enough, with more games and a 4-3-3 from the start with our typical injuries he could get more gametime here too. If we Ioan him out, then hopefully to a team who plays proper football and at best in the PL too (but there aren't really good options in the PL to be honest).

Still optimistic that Memphis will be a United player soon