I really didn't know that, that's quite incredible.
Goals is what we need and I'm hoping Pedro/Depay/Mata can get 10 each this season at least.
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I really didn't know that, that's quite incredible.
Goals is what we need and I'm hoping Pedro/Depay/Mata can get 10 each this season at least.
For the rumoured price, we'd be crazy not to want to add Pedro. It would be quite easy to come up with a lengthy list of players who were sold for more, but who aren't nearly as talented or accomplished. To suggest that he isn't good enough for United because he is behind Messi, Neymar and Suarez at Barcelona is ridiculous. He would immediately improve our first eleven, and wouldn't financially impair our ability to pursue other targets. I think this would be a very shrewd piece of business.
Do Not Want. Please Woody, dont sign him. Go for the best (Bale) or just dont buy anyone. We got Pereira and Lingard.
This seems all but wrapped up, hopefully soon. Fantastic price for a fantastic player.
Do you realize how spoilt you are? Getting Pedro for £22M is incredible piece of business. He may not be as flashy as Bale but he sure as hell is a quality attacking player. Integral part of two of the best teams ever witnessed, Barca and Spain. He just turned 28, which means we can get four good years out of him.
Just ridiculous isn't it? He's a very, very good player and people are still throwing the toys out of the pram.
It worked in the Ramos thread, where some said Ramos or no one.Bale doesnt want to come, Pereira and Lingard are no where near the level of Pedro yet.
I would ideally want a world class winger to replace Di Maria but there's not really any available. Pedro would still be a very good signing & would give us much needed pace. Hopefully we get this done before the Spurs game even though I don't think he would play in that game.
Agreed.
If we sign pedro then for once i agree with roy keane & believe we have lost our way. Not forever though because van gaal will build for the future.
Pedro is a fantastic player; it's just i'd like to think that we could do things differently to the way the likes of chelsea & city do things.
Even signing bale for 100 mil means more to united as a club than signing pedro.
The Di maria saga proves it.
Pedro is a fantastic player; it's just i'd like to think that we could do things differently to the way the likes of chelsea & city do things.
Even signing bale for 100 mil means more to united as a club than signing pedro.
The Di maria saga proves it.
Not sure how signing Pedro for less than 25m is comparable to di Maria's signing for more than twice as much. Pedro would be a typical United signing like Schneiderlin. Someone who isn't necessarily enough appreciated, yet still a very good player in his position.
Honestly have no idea what you mean. How does signing Bale for 100 mil mean more to United as a club? Are you going along the stupid Barca reject line? Because so were Fabregas and Sanchez, and so were Robben and Sneijder at Madrid. Those ended badly for their clubs didn't it?
The reality is that Pedro has 3 of the best 4 players in the world ahead of him. Bale wouldn't get a look in at barca and would be worse then Pedro because he isn't as good technically or as good of a team player as Pedro is. So there you go.
Theres winning no matter what & then theres winning with a purpose.
You look at arsenal these days & yes, they do have players like sanchez & ozil but they have players like chamberlain, walcott, chambers, wilshere, ramsey and our very own welbeck.
Pedro is a fine player; i admitted it first but signing him is only a quick step to glory.
Not only would we block the entrance for players like januzaj, peireira & wilson, it's just against alot of the ethics of our club to sign players as soon as someone starts struggling at barcelona or madrid.
Do you not see how that makes 'the biggest club in the world' look?
We needed it last season with us dropping out the CL; IMO thats why we are open to selling di maria almost instantly. However, what we need now is to find back what made us, us.
Players like Stones or Bale shouldn't really be moving to the likes of Chelsea or Madrid over us.
Who else would it be?
Pedro's been in the side the whole time whilst Ibra, Villa, Neymar, Henry, etc have all been there for much shorter periods.
The theory sounds good but today the elite teams can not afford the academy players in a prominent role , even Barcelona is being more cautious now. With that age Januzaj and Pereira should go on loan.
He'll be good in the system. Admittedly not my 1st choice but we do need a winger and he seems to be the best one available. Will contribute much more than Di Maria.
I don't know. I'm still not convinced. Hope I'm proved wrong..
A pacey, skilful, good finisher, hungry for first team football, works very hard for the team, experienced and performed at the highest level.... as well as that it seems he is eager to come
What is not to like? Will be a great signing if we pull it off - Sanchez was in the same boat last Summer
What is not to like? Will be a great signing if we pull it off - Sanchez was in the same boat last Summer
I`ll not be one to judge quickly if Pedro will be a good signing or not. He is a quality player but he has played with the best players in the world for years. Will he be able to adapt to our team and the league is a whole another universe by itself.
While Pedro is not Messi/Bale/Ronaldo/Neymar level, we saw last year that signing a "galactico" player is not a guaranteed recipe for success. We signed Di Maria who instead of becoming our star player turned out to be an intergalactic pussy that never wanted to play here or was too afraid to fight for his place in a new team or league or both.
Pedro will certainly bring quality. For the fee that is reported we should sign him.
While Pedro is not Messi/Bale/Ronaldo/Neymar level, we saw last year that signing a "galactico" player is not a guaranteed recipe for success. We signed Di Maria who instead of becoming our star player turned out to be an intergalactic pussy that never wanted to play here or was too afraid to fight for his place in a new team or league or both.
Pedro will certainly bring quality. For the fee that is reported we should sign him.
Good point. At the risk of oversimplifying matters, it is worth noting that Barcelona seemingly preferred to sell Sanchez rather than Pedro. Further, I think it's clear that they don't want to lose Pedro now. There's a reason for that! Of course, it's not certain that Pedro will have the same impact in England that Sanchez has had, but he certainly has the potential to.
I think Pedro will be a much better success as he seems to be the player for Van Gaal's liking, working hard for the team on either flank which is HIS POSITION.
DiMaria was never consistent from the wing. If he was played in the middle more, could have been a different story but there was Mr. Fellaini who was preffered. Sad from diMaria he couldnt put in a bit of fight to bench Smashley who is after all not Neymar.
Di maria had pleanty of chances in the middle. For some reason, he thought he was able to be some superstar at old trafford and try tricks and dribbles that were far from necessary; especially in a formation like ours.
This probably had something to do with the freedrom that spanish teams allow when they face up against madrid & barca. Hopefully pedro wont be the same; if he does come.
I would hate it if we were in complete avoidance of bale though. A front 3 of memphis, rooney, bale is as close as you're going to get to an un- accomplished best, law, charlton.
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Bale doesn't to leave RM and Bale is the last player RM want to let go.
There is zero chance of it happening.
If we get him, there's no room for our youngsters. Couldnt he at least take Young's spot? Then again Young just reupped so I have no idea ehat to think. Feels like our club is playing football manager...
I like the tradition of our club promoting from within, but this is once again the opposite of it.
Does Pedro really give a shit about winning trophies with us? Did Di Maria or Falcao?
I like the tradition of our club promoting from within, but this is once again the opposite of it.
Does Pedro really give a shit about winning trophies with us? Did Di Maria or Falcao?
He seems to tick a lot of boxes for us but I'm still not so keen on him. Let's see. I would prefer playing Depay out wide or give Pereira or Januzaj more playing time
Not entirly playing FM, if we had we would never have signed Schweinsteiger as he would be heavily on the decline there now. We would in general have bought only 21-22 years old as they play just as well as experienced players and most of them are already in their prime and will be for 10 years
Depay and Pedro on the wings! Pace muther feckers, paceeeeee 
So is this deal done or what?
I think we're just waiting for the di Maria deal to go through officially before signing Pedro, I think everything's in place for a quick process.
Hopefully in time for the Spurs match, don't see why he wouldn't go straight into the match day squad as he's had a full pre-season.
Actually I have a feeling that he will play on the left. He is a right footed player and so far there has most of the times be a right footed player on the left wing and a left footed on the right wing so I guess it will stay that way as long as Memphis is going to play through the middle at least.
According to van Gaal Januzaj is going to be a striker now, so he might more or less have to fight with Rooney, Chicharito and Wilson for playing time and not with our wide players.
The part in bold is idealistic and romantic. As for the underlined: Pedro would love to win the premier league with United and play a leading role in that.
I'm expecting him to have signed by the end of the week. He's going to be a brilliant signing. Of course, it would be nice to promote Januzaj and Perreira but they're not quite ready for the first team just yet, whereas Pedro would be ready to slot in straight away.
Pedro hasn't played a leading role in anything. He is a very good player who could play and do well in a system. Never has been and never will be a player that takes you up a level.
Still good signing for a team that finished 4th last season. At a decent price, too.
Still good signing for a team that finished 4th last season. At a decent price, too.
He would improve us considerably, in my opinion. Not quite sure what the level is you speak of, but we would be better.
Seems as though some people are annoyed that he isn't Messi or Ronaldo.
Dividing players into those who "bring us up a level" and those who don't is dumb as feck tbf. I reckon Di Maria and Falcao would have both been lumped in the former category, right? That ended well.
This will be a good signing. A serious no-brainer given his pedigree and rumoured fee. Some of the arguments against are just bizarre. Jesse Lingard might not get playing time? Boo bloody hoo.
Yes, he would improve us. How much? I really do not know.
May be "next level" isn't right term. I think Man Utd should be in the top level of teams along with the Real, Barca and Bayern. Going from a player of di Maria's quality to Pedro doesn't excite me a lot. Yes, the Argentine didn't work out for as we wanted but no one can deny that we bought a quality player, who would again show it at PSG. A player who brings excitement, unpredictability, pace, dribbling; someone who puts the fear of god into the opposition. Pedro is a good player, who could serve as well. He just isn't the level of player that brings all those things.
Not annoyed, underwhelmed. If I was VG, I would say, "Pedro isn't Neymar, and that is the type of player we need to win titles.".
What some people seem to be missing is that Pedro is basically as tailor-made for our system as they come.
He'd be an upgrade on both our wingers. Young because he's simply the much better player and Mata because even though he isn't the better player, he's the better winger.
Any of Pedro-Memphis-Mata or Memphis-Mata-Pedro would be considerably better than what we currently put out.
Unfortunately, I think it will be Young-Memphis-Pedro which though an upgrade, won't be as good as the other 2 options.
Any of Pedro-Memphis-Mata or Memphis-Mata-Pedro would be considerably better than what we currently put out.
Unfortunately, I think it will be Young-Memphis-Pedro which though an upgrade, won't be as good as the other 2 options.
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