Dream on lads. There will be multiple clubs at the table in the summer, Liverpool and City have been scouting him heavily in recent weeks from what I’ve heard, PSG have been mooted with the French connection as well.
Dream on lads. There will be multiple clubs at the table in the summer, Liverpool and City have been scouting him heavily in recent weeks from what I’ve heard, PSG have been mooted with the French connection as well.
Yeah, but past that we also had Fellaini, Mata, Schneiderlin, Sanchez, Lukaku, Maguire, etc...This is what we need to get back to doing, signing players we know will work in this league, because they're actively succeeding in it. The majority of failures over the fast few years had been signings from abroad.
Rumoured £60m but a huge upgrade on Antony, if this is true this suggests that Paul Mitchell is already working in the background and he’s done a full appraisal of everything that’s wrong with the current United Squad. If we sold Antony for £25m and F Pellistri for £20m the net spend would be £15m add Raphina for Sancho cost and the right wing is fixed for a few years, especially if Amad starts to shine.Yes please.
How much is the release clause?
Bruno's been the only one fit for the majority of the season though. If we had a few that could compete, it would be far better. Ironically Shaw is probably our best set piece takerWe have signed Bruno, Eriksen and Mount who all came with a great reputation when it comes to set-pieces, yet neither manages to beat the wall/first man after they joined us. We could sign the lovechild of Beckham and Juninho and still end up with Lindelöf on set-pieces within a couple of months.
You do realise Ten Hag wasn't responsible for negotiating the transfer fee and wages for our signings? That responsibility falls with John Murtough (hopefully not for much longer with Ratcliffe coming in).I personally don't want ETH anywhere near any transfers. His record isn't good, he overpays for players (both cost and salary) and he doesn't seem to get the best out of them.
Didn't he reject you?Nah, we don't want him back.
You guys should go for him though, signing Ex-Chelsea players always ends well for you.
Didn't he reject you?
Not what I've heard.Nobody rejects me.
Didn't he reject you?
Hey - it's a two way street after you went for Veron and Falcao.Nah, we don't want him back.
You guys should go for him though, signing Ex-Chelsea players always ends well for you.
You’ve let go of players that have become decent. KDB and Salah being a couple.Nah, we don't want him back.
You guys should go for him though, signing Ex-Chelsea players always ends well for you.
Didn't he have release clause then how can it be considered tapping up .He wanted the transfer. CP threatened to say we were tapping him up, which we were. Chelsea backed off.
No brainer of a signing. He’s top quality, British, PL proven, available at a decent fee, and plays in a position we desperately need to strengthen. I was advocating for this as far back as before the Antony signing.
We could’ve invested reasonably minimal money in Olise, Ward-Prowse, Gibbs-White and a big signing in Rice and had a much better squad than we have now, younger, hungrier on much lower wages and still have 100m+ in the bank if we’d signed those four instead of Casemiro, Sancho, Mount and Antony.
And the thing is, so many people said it over various times. There’s just no strategy at this club.
I'm just jealous it wasn't my joke.Sorry, mate. I couldn't help myself - poor jokes is my specialty, after all.
This is true but he qualifies for Algeria, France, England and Nigeria so it’s down to Southgate to convince him he would be perfect for England, needs a big move City or United and he’ll be in the French or England squad week in week out, this boy has what a Manchester United player needsWhilst born in this country, he has represented France at international youth level.
£60m amortized for 5 years is £12m per year plus wages will start at £6m-7m per year not like Antony combined cost of £17m transfer fee and £10m wages or Casemiro £14m transfer and £17m wages.Sounds like a smart signing, but not if he costs 80m like our usual signings. The new board will hopefully bring a new transfer strategy and I hope we can avoid making the same mistakes again. For around max. 40m I'd love to see him here, but I doubt Palace would give him us for cheap. His rumored release clause of 60m sounds too much to me imo.
This would actually in theory be a really good signing. We need a fast, dribbling RW probably more than any other position. He's young as well.
I haven't watched him regularly but from the bits I've seen, he fits that mould. Would bode well for the Radcliffe area if this is the first signing they make. The Glazers made transfers unnecessarily difficult for no reason, when really building a first XI and scouting players isn't really that difficult - just follow what SAF used to do for the profile of each position or what Real Madrid do.
I think we will do nothing this winter, Sir Jim has written this season off, it’s not as if he’s never had a team that he owns finish mid table!Watch our midfield get neglected for a right winger, for the 4th summer in a row.
This. We're also adding physicality in our attack that we severely lack. And he's at a very good age to develop.No brainer of a signing. He’s top quality, British, PL proven, available at a decent fee, and plays in a position we desperately need to strengthen. I was advocating for this as far back as before the Antony signing.
We could’ve invested reasonably minimal money in Olise, Ward-Prowse, Gibbs-White and a big signing in Rice and had a much better squad than we have now, younger, hungrier on much lower wages and still have 100m+ in the bank if we’d signed those four instead of Casemiro, Sancho, Mount and Antony.
And the thing is, so many people said it over various times. There’s just no strategy at this club.
Yeah I trust the process too, it’s why I deleted my original comment. Plenty of opportunity to address both positions if the squad management is up to it. As long as we get the midfield right as a priority, then the likes of Olise will go down a treat. I just hope it doesn’t end up like the previous summers, blowing a chunk of the budget on a right winger when we have bigger holes to fill.I think we will do nothing this winter, Sir Jim has written this season off, it’s not as if he’s never had a team that he owns finish mid table!
He will put the right people in, sell most of what we can this winter like ; Martial, Varane, DVB, Sancho, Greenwood or initiate loan to sell deals then he will let Mitchell and Ashworth if he comes make decision in the summer where you can see him and the club forcing out Antony £20m, Greenwood £40m, DVB £10m, J Sancho £40m, S Mctominay £30m, T Malacia, F Pellistri £15m and sending back Players like Amrabat.
This review is 100% the right way and starting now means that the club can use two windows to jettison at least 10-11 players, I wouldn’t be surprised if Alvaro Fernandez is coming back asap which is why we sent Reguilon back so quickly.
Paul Mitchell, if he is to be appointed head of recruitment would have already made extensive notes, Ashworth if he joins will be the conduit between Sir David Brailsford, Sir Jim and the new CEO.
I like what I’m hearing already “Premier League Proven” which means less players recruited from inferior leagues, I posted the other day that if United took the best player from every PL team historically positioned from 11th to 20th like R Berkeley, M Olise, A Onana(Everton), P Estupinan, J Trafford, D Solanke etc the squad would be vastly superior to its current iteration.
Whilst born in this country, he has represented France at international youth level.
Regarding this - the only thing that matters from a United standpoint is whether he qualifies as homegrown, which he already does.This is true but he qualifies for Algeria, France, England and Nigeria so it’s down to Southgate to convince him he would be perfect for England, needs a big move City or United and he’ll be in the French or England squad week in week out, this boy has what a Manchester United player needs
I think he's getting massively overhyped if you think he's going to be a mainstay for France or England anytime soon.This is true but he qualifies for Algeria, France, England and Nigeria so it’s down to Southgate to convince him he would be perfect for England, needs a big move City or United and he’ll be in the French or England squad week in week out, this boy has what a Manchester United player needs