Raphael Varane | Signed for United!

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Is it me or have we just gone full pelt into this market where as all our Rivals are pretty much standing still.
 
El Zoido said:
Well the £44m was a typo, meant £42m. It’s reported as £34m with £8m as addons (which will surely be worthwhile, should we ever get to the point of triggering them).

But my point is, UK media will often report the Euro price as the GBP price, without converting. £42m is around €50m. Already some UK news outlets are reporting £50m. They’ve taken the Euro price and slapped the pound symbol in front of it.

Add ons shouldn’t even be mentioned in the transfer fee total, but with United they always are. Our transfer fees already end up being inflated by the media. These deals are just too complex to be broken down like this.
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Yeah, well what do expect from the media. They wouldn't know a good source even if they were in a condiments factory. (word play)
 
BBC have amended their article now.

It says £34m/£42m with add ins
 
Raphaël and Harry, the angel and the beast, will rule central defence :angel: :devil:

Okay, it's Jacob Harry Maguire, so thei're both biblical.
 
Ferguson’s Hairdryer said:
Amazing how on Twitter some are now saying he’s not even top 20 CB in the world… that’s how you know are rival fans are hating on us and wishing it was their club signing him.
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Yeah not worth taking note of those Ihni binni dimi diniwiny anitaime.

We could sign literally any player. Messi, Mbappe, Oblak.. and weirdos on Twitter would find some way to make it a bad signing. Or that they lack ambition for joining a club that doesn’t win trophies etc.

Let them talk
 


Agreement reached tonight between Manchester United and Real Madrid for a transfer of Raphael Varane of around 50M € ! As announced by The Atletic, contract 4 years + 1 year optional. The player must respect a quarantine to return to England. VM at the start of the week
 
Compton22 said:


Agreement reached tonight between Manchester United and Real Madrid for a transfer of Raphael Varane of around 50M € ! As announced by The Atletic, contract 4 years + 1 year optional. The player must respect a quarantine to return to England. VM at the start of the week
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Does VM stand for virtual medical? Surely not
 
This whole thing seems like too good a deal to be true. I'm panicking now that his knees will do a Ruud during the medical

The doubters can do one , Varane is world class and this is potentially a real game changer of a signing. £34m is a fee from the noughties!
 
sp_107 said:
Wondering what others think about this on cafe, Better we move on from Pogba?
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Can't help thinking that, if the club are splashing out on Sancho, Varane and Trippier (if that turns out to be correct), then they're pretty confident that Pogba is on his way and they can offset some of the outlay (plus some small change if a couple of other players move on).

I would be really happy for Pogba to stay if he really wants to stay, but if he's blowing hot and cold and we're going to see a continuing saga of how we use him, is he being played in the right position, should he or shouldn't he be better defensively, and so on, then I think it's time to draw a line and accept that he's a consequence of Mourinho's practice of throwing money at big name players then figuring out how they fit, and not taking account of the wider effect on the team.

As far as Varane is concerned, definitely a good signing and someone we've looked at since his early days at Real I think.
 
dalriada said:
Can't help thinking that, if the club are splashing out on Sancho, Varane and Trippier (if that turns out to be correct), then they're pretty confident that Pogba is on his way and they can offset some of the outlay (plus some small change if a couple of other players move on).

I would be really happy for Pogba to stay if he really wants to stay, but if he's blowing hot and cold and we're going to see a continuing saga of how we use him, is he being played in the right position, should he or shouldn't he be better defensively, and so on, then I think it's time to draw a line and accept that he's a consequence of Mourinho's practice of throwing money at big name players then figuring out how they fit, and not taking account of the wider effect on the team.

As far as Varane is concerned, definitely a good signing and someone we've looked at since his early days at Real I think.
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Remember these fees aren’t apparently upfront. It’s over the 5 years of their contracts for both Sancho and Varane. So we still have money to spend and we don’t need Pogba to leave to offset the finances.
 
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