We got fleeced, simple as. But it’s becoming the norm. Arsenal got fleeced for Rice, Liverpool got fleeced for Nunez, Brighton trying to fleece Chelsea for Caicedo and we would probably get fleeced again next year.
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Good for you. Continue with your nonsense. Cheers.
Yeah, I'll choose to go with Romano on this one being 70m euros with addons. Which comes down to 60m pounds which is a very fair offer. Not sure why we would go from 42m pounds initial verbal offer to then bidding 70m pounds. Just doesn't make any sense.
A team that blatantly needs an established CF going out and buying one.
Laughing so hard at this. Needed this after reading the endless amount of vomit on here after signing him.This 100%. Our team is basically complete now and an overall good age. Future transfer now will only be for complete superstars that will walk into the first 11 which we haven't seen at United for a long long time. One superstar every transfer window is all that's really needed now. To think back of the days of McFred in midfield makes shudder. Ten Hag is building something special and havn't been this impressed with any manager since Fergie.
Is it a fleecing, or simply the fecked nature of football transfers now.
If he doesn't work we'll look stupid. If he works out and we get a talisman for 12 years for £72m it'll be an incredible deal.
I'm not too worried by the fee. It's definitely on the high side but we've already brought in Onana, Mount and Amrabat seems more dependent on freeing up a squad space by selling Fred, McTominay or both.
It may backfire of course but whether we spend 50 million, 55 million or 60 million on him won't really have a major bearing in the long run. He will hopefully be a success then the fee will seem a bargain or he will flop and the fee is pretty irrelevant.
It may backfire of course but whether we spend 50 million, 55 million or 60 million on him won't really have a major bearing in the long run. He will hopefully be a success then the fee will seem a bargain or he will flop and the fee is pretty irrelevant.
Now this is nailing.
It's a lot of money but we hope for the best 
It literally says that at the start of the article. £64m + £8m in add ons.
Orstein says 85m euros including add ons.
Agreed with all of this. Happy with Onana.
Think we should've just used the Mount + Hojlund money on Osimhen or Kane really. Ideally Osimhen.
That’s why I said it’s becoming the norm.
There are some players that have that desire and fight to get onto balls that many would have given up on and then score, this guy looks like one of those. Feels like a signing that fits some of what ETH is asking for, absolute hunger and determination mixed with quality.
Hope he become a massive success.
Hope he become a massive success.
I think he'll be a good starting striker for Denmark for years. I haven't yet seen anything that gives me confidence that he has it in him to become one of the best strikers of his generation. Most facets of his game are very raw, he doesn't really stand out in any particular area, and despite scoring a lot of goals in those games, he actually missed quite a few big chances too. I'm excited to see a Danish striker at United and I hope for the sake of both my club and country that I'm wrong but I simply don't see him as someone who has it in him to nail down a starting spot at a club like United – and I think it's also somewhat worrying that the coaches at FC Copenhagen didn't really rate him that highly just 18 months ago.
damn, some people I born to be negative. even Atlanta paid a lot of money for him for his obvious qualities. he just turned 20. paying 100 million and prime salary for Kane who will have zero sell on value in four years doesn't make business sense. It is a long vision. build a team for three years that might dominate for many years. getting Kane now doesn't guarantee winning a league this season considering the quality of Man City. it best to build now and close the gap in quality. This guy is an exciting prospect that that I personably prefer over players almost at the end of their career.
All due respect but this is everything that makes the cafe such a downer these days. People forming concrete opinions on players before we've even seen them sign a contract with the club, let alone actually play. It affects anybodys ability to view something impartially.
I think we've got a very talented manager here who knows exactly what type of squad he's trying to build, and is backed up by people that seem capable of improving a lot of our players. They seem to believe that Hojlund is worth the investment so us 'laymen' should take some confidence from that.
We had a very promising first season under Ten Hag, and the squad already looks better than it was. Get excited. Why not?
I shall, my friend. With this:
At the time I wrote my post, I thought we'd pay like 60m euros plus bonuses. Turns out it's even worse!
It's all relative, isn't it. I say it's money wasted, others say it's not. The last decade and a billion+ wasted and another billion in debt, the club is sure run by fine people. The future is bright.
Fun thread.
Can’t help but feel dubious about the fees reported…but that is me being cynical of the media reporting around everything United do.
Over to you Hojlund! He must be feel amazing tonight.
Over to you Hojlund! He must be feel amazing tonight.
A Shergar worth
This whole forum is fun, isn't it?
Delighted we got him. Couldn't care less about the fee. Glazers can stick their dividends up their arse
Or in 12 months time when it transpires that a kid with 9 goals for a mid-table team in Serie A isn’t actually good enough to lead the line for United? At the fee we are apparently paying, this is one of the most high risk transfers I can ever remember and I really really hope we’ve got it right.
He looks more like a classic centre forward poacher, looking forward to the poaching.
Thing is you said we got skinned for all 3 deals which is simply untrue.
And it's not as if we're buying some nobodies.
This. A million times this. This whole football thing is entertainment, I just feel pity at so much searching for the miserable in everything that happens.
Nah, it's fleecing
Like drinking poison fun.
It's an underestimated quality. Garnacho has it too, he's not a world leading talent but he has a drive in him that makes him just as dangerous. I hope Hojlund is the same.
Depends on who you choose to believe. Romano says 70m euros with addons, which is closer to what you thought. I won't believe we would bid 72m pounds after the initial verbal bid was around 42m pounds.
I'm already drinking a bourbon, does that count?
All of whom miles more established than Hojlund.
Great signing. Good fee too. Hopefully we can get a back up for Casemiro and that'll be that for incomings.
64£m is an f’ing joke!! But atleast the striker is out the way.
Depends which one.
Doubt he'll be a starter for a while.
Crazy, every time the OP gets answered he is worse. He started at about the same level as Martial, now he is dreadful and I expect soon he will be labeled the worst header of a ball in the history of the game.
He is ok in the air but as with much of his game he has room for improvement. It is not beyond the realms of possibility that a 20 year old working with a World Class coach might get better as a player regardless of what the moaning feckers in here think.
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