That’d be some club statement.
Assuming! I mean everything could happen. Let's just hope he can actually make an impact. From his profile he seems perfectly suited for Amorim's football.
Nouri is currently earning 10k week. Why would United give him 100 unless he was being offered this by another big club? Also Lindelof is on 120k week and he's finished in the summer.
I rarely follow football other than Premier League but known about Dorgu for last year or so surely. He’s been mentioned from time to time.
I think unless we know details of the transfer it’s difficult to compare. Lecce might be willing to spread the cost of £30m over 5 years whereas an alternative that might cost £25m might need to be paid up front.
Nuno Mendes is set to sign a new contract extension + would cost us a bomb
Presumably Dorgu's contract will be more reasonable than some of the alternatives. Some of those big contracts have killed us in recent times.
Sounds like early days in the negotiations yet so who knows what the fee will be. Surely you trust our recruitment team to negotiate a good deal!
More than happy to acknowledge my lack of expertise in this particular transfer. Dorgu may well be a fantastic signing and end up holding down our left side for the next decade.
However, where I think concern is more than fair is around the quoted fee and the severe restrictions we know we're operating under.
Given Dorgu's profile, age and experience you're likely looking at a player who could end up performing similarly to Kerkez, Ait-Nouri, Robinson or Munoz in the EPL. I think everyone here would consider that outcome a pretty decent success and return.
The differences? Kerkez cost Bournemouth 6.6m initially, Nouri cost under 10m, Robinson cost 2m and Munoz 6.9m. All the clubs in question are currently above us in the league.
I don't understand why would agree to a fee that's 4 times that of the players above, especially when he cost Lecce 400k not too long ago.
This would be a really poor use of funds regardless of Dorgu's talent/potential, especially as he's currently being linked to absolutely no-one else.
We've found our next Ji Sung Park
You can disagree with me without insulting me.
I understand, but they were still cheap
Pay Antony price, still get Antony level player, we paid top dollar for dross, so paying top dollar doesn't guarantee you much, we got Malacia on lowish fee, he didn't work out, not many are fussed about him, Antony cost the club 80m, and he is regarded by the fans on here as the worst transfer ever.
Maybe it should tell you we are here discussing, none of us, including your majesty, know anything about football valuations, we here discussing mate, say your piece without the beating around the bush.
You too don't know, none of us know much, we aint privy, but we talk from what we have seen, too many times we paid too much for players that weren't worth it, that got us to where we are now, broke and skint, we have to be smarter and find bargains one way or another
to me, I am not that knowledgable though.
I heard about Yoro long before we got linked with him, when I had my subscription with the Athletic he came up several times, and they wrote articles about young talents all the time, Pau and Lamine play for Barca, so everyone knows them, Huijsen cost 17m only, and Acheampong never heard of him but I see he is a Chelsea academy player, I do read about young talents from the internet, not regularly though, however, it doesn't mean we pay top dollar because they are highly thought of, look at Amad, we paid initially 20m and 20m in addons and everyone was shocked and he was either not ready or mismanaged since we got him, my point is, we should stop paying too much, even the money paid for Yoro is still hefty for an 18yo but he had a full season under his belt in France's top league and alot of clubs were looking at him, he is the exception, not the rule, we can't pay Yoro money for everyone.
I hear you but this fee, though not ideal and I pray it gets negotiated downwards, is not terminal be it cashflow or for PSR. What is important are the player attributes, those we must get spot on and I wouldn't mind a 6 month settling period.
More than happy to acknowledge my lack of expertise in this particular transfer. Dorgu may well be a fantastic signing and end up holding down our left side for the next decade.
However, where I think concern is more than fair is around the quoted fee and the severe restrictions we know we're operating under.
Given Dorgu's profile, age and experience you're likely looking at a player who could end up performing similarly to Kerkez, Ait-Nouri, Robinson or Munoz in the EPL. I think everyone here would consider that outcome a pretty decent success and return.
The differences? Kerkez cost Bournemouth 6.6m initially, Nouri cost under 10m, Robinson cost 2m and Munoz 6.9m. All the clubs in question are currently above us in the league.
I don't understand why would agree to a fee that's 4 times that of the players above, especially when he cost Lecce 400k not too long ago.
This would be a really poor use of funds regardless of Dorgu's talent/potential, especially as he's currently being linked to absolutely no-one else.
Classic meaningless response, we discussing here mate.
The Ornacle
Great Post.
More than happy to acknowledge my lack of expertise in this particular transfer. Dorgu may well be a fantastic signing and end up holding down our left side for the next decade.
However, where I think concern is more than fair is around the quoted fee and the severe restrictions we know we're operating under.
Given Dorgu's profile, age and experience you're likely looking at a player who could end up performing similarly to Kerkez, Ait-Nouri, Robinson or Munoz in the EPL. I think everyone here would consider that outcome a pretty decent success and return.
The differences? Kerkez cost Bournemouth 6.6m initially, Nouri cost under 10m, Robinson cost 2m and Munoz 6.9m. All the clubs in question are currently above us in the league.
I don't understand why would agree to a fee that's 4 times that of the players above, especially when he cost Lecce 400k not too long ago.
This would be a really poor use of funds regardless of Dorgu's talent/potential, especially as he's currently being linked to absolutely no-one else.
Logic says you’re right but there’s also the fact that we’re also awful in identifying and in recruiting players that are who we actually need at a great price then watching them go elsewhere to thrive then us panic buying as we’re reactive instead of proactive.
I wasn’t insulting you, I was criticising the line of thinking, don’t be so sensitive.
I used to read a lot about young talents but I stopped in the last 2 years or so, I do not follow much of football aside from United games, so I admit my knowledge is lacking, but I also think 35m (rumored fee, not sure if it's true) it too much for this relatively unknown fella, think about this, we are 13th, Palace, Brentford and Fulham are above us, would they pay 35m for this fella? as a club we are obviously bigger than most of EPL clubs, but as of now, our team is 13th and in a financial restrictions due to years or overspending, we can't afford to be quoted top dollar for these types of players.
