He is worth a shot, you never know he may get star struck by the size of our club qnd be more excited by the ten hag project.
Potential striker signings (who aren't named Højlund)
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Not stunning stats but Ekitike is only 19, has had injuries this season and has huge potential by all accounts. Developing behind Ronaldo for a season might be a smart move.
I'd be fine with Ekitike, Abraham or Scamacca as our striker target with Ronaldo staying. Abraham might be the most expensive out of those options.
From the little I have seen of him he has a lot of potential. Think its all about the fee as seems to be a fair bit of interest in him.
I have to say though if we have £200m, Nunez at £70m off or Richarlison at £50m+ both seem underwhelming to me. I really like Richarlison, but the consistency and again he is better on the left than right or up front, weird choice. I havent seen a huge amount of Nunez, seems to get goals, work hard, have strength and godo finishing, but Cavani comparisons seem wide of the mark for me bar being big, tall and Uruguayan. Cavani was an absolute beast at a similar age in Serie A, top sorer in the league, brilliant in the air, technically superb, already looked one of the best strikers in the world (think he has been so under rated his whole career), Im just nto sure I see it in Nunez, good promising player and suit the premiership but I dont know £70m seems massively excessive and just a hunch and gut feeling, I think he would flop here
hmm...i hope we can keep him in house. He is looking for starting role and playing time.
Lets have a punt on Pukki - he looks lethal! Cheap as chips as well - plenty of money left for the mythical DM we've been asking for since the dawn of DM's. Lets scrap all the pseudo football talk, high press, false nine, inverted christmas tree, compacted anal gland etc. Lets go back to the good old 442 - big man, little man striker combo. It worked for years til all these foreigners came over here with their big ideas about how to play football. False nine!! My wifes got one of those under the bed...............
he's also shite
Adam Hlozek, looks like a good young striker. He's tall, mobile, appears good in tight spaces and has a ferocious shot on him. Couldn't be that expensive either.
Did Madrid get some new Saudi backers? Seem to be splashing the cash recently.
Havent spent that much past couple of year and have reduced their wage bill significantly.
And they have been winning trophies. And selling duds.
Fair enough.
I guess Madrid haven't learned from Bale and Hazard
There is an underrated name which I was raving about before he went to Europe, Yuri Alberto. He was signed by Zenit recently and had a good start. I wonder if with the war situation he can be loaned.
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He's class.
He is, Serie A MVP this season and a big part of why they ended their 11 year title drought. His best performances were in the biggest matches/moments too.
Would've wanted us to be after him last summer when his fee could've been fair but this summer he's too valuable to Milan to let go for anything less than a massive fee. Even Pep was sniffing around him before he joined Milan.
He'd be the perfect second striker/forward to play off his Portugal teammate Ronaldo. He can more than make up for the latters lack of pace
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We’re being linked to nkunku quite a bit… is he more a striker or more like a scoring midfielder?
Yeah but he’s not worth that fee that is quoted.
If Grealish is.....
He came with the usual PL tax. He’s not worth £100m.
We should have gotten vlahovic,when we had the chance.All other options seems flawed in one or two aspect.
Nunez- link-up play.
nkunku- not a 9.( could end up like jovic or Werner)
David- doesn't score enough.
Osihmen- too expensive.
Martinez- isn't a nine,(plays better with a target man next to him).
Abraham- .
Lukaku- .
Like it or not there isn't much we can get from the strikers market.
If jovic is half as good as he was hyped to be,then he's worth a shot.
Nunez- link-up play.
nkunku- not a 9.( could end up like jovic or Werner)
David- doesn't score enough.
Osihmen- too expensive.
Martinez- isn't a nine,(plays better with a target man next to him).
Abraham- .
Lukaku- .
Like it or not there isn't much we can get from the strikers market.
If jovic is half as good as he was hyped to be,then he's worth a shot.
Haven't watched him in a while, but what's Dybala like these days? He'd certainly fall under the category of a versatile attacker, as he can play right wing, striker and attacking midfielder. Free transfer, too.
worse than when we were in for him. Expensive, high wages, wouldn’t want to be here.
Richarlison is often mentioned but I guess he would be quite expensive. Versatile but not very prolific.
I was wondering if Dortmund would be going for him
yeah,for all it's worth,I think we should go all out for Nunez,we need goals not playmaking
What's the plan with a striker being priority. So we spend 60m on Nunez only for him to be back up to Ronaldo?
Joao Pedro at Watford. I think he's a player with the potential to develop into a top class forward in the future, still only 20.
Somewhat similar to his predecessor at Watford, Richarlison, he's a versatile and hard working forward that contributes defensively.
As Ronaldo is probably staying for another season I think Pedro would be a fine option as backup and rotation for a season with the potential of being our long term solution in the striker role.
Transfermarkt values him at €10m but lets say £15-20m and he could be a bargain for the future with a role to play already next season.
Somewhat similar to his predecessor at Watford, Richarlison, he's a versatile and hard working forward that contributes defensively.
As Ronaldo is probably staying for another season I think Pedro would be a fine option as backup and rotation for a season with the potential of being our long term solution in the striker role.
Transfermarkt values him at €10m but lets say £15-20m and he could be a bargain for the future with a role to play already next season.
If we signed him he wouldn't be back-up.
With Rangnick having said that Ronaldo doesn't want to play as a CF in the first place, I would imagine we'd see some sort of set-up where both play together quite regularly. And then there will be an increased number of games where Ronaldo is rested on top of that.
Striker is a position we obviously need but have no obvious target IMO.
Id personally okay to skip it until January - see if Ronaldo stays, Greenwood is given bail and players like Shoretire maybe given chances.
Id personally okay to skip it until January - see if Ronaldo stays, Greenwood is given bail and players like Shoretire maybe given chances.
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Oh my.
Jesus, would you really be happy for Greenwood to play for the club again?
With at best 4 players in this summer, 1 of them will be a new striker.
Joao Pedro would definitely be an intriguing player to sign, especially if he comes cheap.
Thought Hlozek might have been another missed opportunity for a relatively cheap forward with oodles of potential.
I’m not sure if it’s true or not but I saw something saying all charges have been dropped against him. If that is true I guess it comes down to public perception of him and would United want someone who let’s face it may or may not be a rapist and abusive to his partner.
Sure sports teams before have stood by people under similar circumstances. I mean even Ronaldo has supposedly paid hush money to a supposed “victim” of sexual assault by himself has he not?
That frontline would be unstoppable