It's unfortunate but at this point it's more likely than Martial/Rashford is going to be the stopgap for this season, i think we bin off Martial next season and bring in an older more experienced forward
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I doubt he cares at all. I don’t think players are bothered about the drivel that the media comes out with these days because they’ve overdone it to the point it’s like the boy who cried wolf.
Very excited with him, brings so much that we have lacked for a very long time. A mobile, strong and energetic attacker with good penetrative runs that can also hold up play. Hoping Bruno and Mount will pick up on his runs, given his pace and timing, he's bound to get loads of clear-cut chances.
Gakpo isn't a CF, at least he isn't better than Rashford in that position.
Gakpo isn't better than Rashford in any position.
He seems be to quite a good complementary player to Rashford:
- has good physical strength and ability to shield the ball which Rashford doesn't have
- plays good flicks so can bring in Rashford (similar to how Martial does it so well)
- has stronger left foot so potentially can go towards the outside of Rashford when the latter makes darting diaganol runs inside or alternatively Hojlund himself can start on the right hand side channel and make diaganol runs inside from Onana's long balls
- has pace so can combine with Rashford and co for counter attacks
- his movement in the box can fully utilise Rashford's world class abilities to pick a pass in the box
- has good energy to press opponents which Rashford sometimes lacks
I hope both of them create a world class modern partnership.
- has good physical strength and ability to shield the ball which Rashford doesn't have
- plays good flicks so can bring in Rashford (similar to how Martial does it so well)
- has stronger left foot so potentially can go towards the outside of Rashford when the latter makes darting diaganol runs inside or alternatively Hojlund himself can start on the right hand side channel and make diaganol runs inside from Onana's long balls
- has pace so can combine with Rashford and co for counter attacks
- his movement in the box can fully utilise Rashford's world class abilities to pick a pass in the box
- has good energy to press opponents which Rashford sometimes lacks
I hope both of them create a world class modern partnership.
Um, what?
Such a poor and lazy comparison. Also, there's more to the Haaland deal than meets the eye, he'll effectively cost at least 5x what Hojlund does.
Considering it's supposed to be a done deal I hope to see some movement today...
No reason for this to drag on anymore
No reason for this to drag on anymore
Gakpo isn't a CF and in my opinion, which admittedly is worth very little, isn't a particularly strong player.
Isak looks good, but cost near enough the same as the figures being touted for Hojlund.
Isak was signed for a similar fee to what we're about to pay for Højlund. It's arguable whether he's better, at least at the point when he signed for Newcastle, as he's had a pretty up and down career so far. He's also a few years older than Højlund, so there's a bigger body of work to judge him on. In my opinion he'd have been just as big a risk to sign at that point, if not a bigger one, for that fee. He's done well in the EPL so far though.
Gakpo isn't a CF, although he can certainly do a job there. You could argue that Isak isn't a CF either, as he's played LW a lot for Newcastle. Even when he starts in a two up top with Wilson, he often drifts left and occupies that space whenever I watched them.
The reason we didn't sign a striker last summer was Ronaldo. He couldn't get a UCL level club to sign him and then had to jump ship to Saudi Arabia in the winter anyway.
There's no doubt in my mind that if he'd just taken their offer in the summer and left we'd have signed Gakpo. It was widely reported that EtH wanted him and he wanted to come here. It didn't happen though, and even if it had we'd probably still be looking to sign somebody like Højlund this summer.
We had other priorities last summer, considering we had Ronaldo, Rashford, Martial. Besides you look at Gapko and Isak season before they moved, both scored less goals with more on pitch minutes than Hojlund.
Holjund - 9 goals, AVG 56 mins per game
Isak - 6 goals AVG 67 mins per game
Gapko - 12 goals AVG 70 mins per game.
Isak cost roughly the same as well and it was well advertised we had 0 money in Jan, hence the Weghourst loan.
Who are these other strikers who are good enough?
Some of you guys are old, old. Damn.
Probably the most misleading way of presenting stats I’ve seen for some time!
Lukaku was decent in his first season, in fact he was good for the first half of it. It was the second season where it all fell apart and he was absolutely dreadful for most of it, bar a couple of months around February or so when he was ok again.
Word to your mother
wow those stats are disgraceful.
Striker has been a priority since we sold Lukaku. Cavani and Ronaldo were obviously placeholders.
I didn't know who Hojlund was last summer, like most of this forum. There are always lot of players like this around. I'm not a scout, though if you'd like I can boot up FM and pick some names out for you
I really doubt that. If he gets 20 across all comps then I think we can consider that to be a cracking first season.
Did he cost £20m more??
He seems to have the ability to do both which is great. The question is whether he can do both consistently in the PL, but I'm hopeful.
And Twitter kiddies that do nothing but banter rather than discuss like adults. It goes without saying you shouldn’t pay notice to people with account names along the lines of ErlingSzn, TonyMartialArts, AFCInvinbl49 or Trentistics if you want a grounded discussion.
With the initial fee being almost identical (64m vs 65m), will people's attitude and expectations towards Højlund be similar to Darwin?
Both comes in from lower league in comparison to EPL.
Both posted good number on their last season.
And more importantly both seems to be projected as leading striker in their respective new club.
Both comes in from lower league in comparison to EPL.
Both posted good number on their last season.
And more importantly both seems to be projected as leading striker in their respective new club.
Not going to lie, ive not seen him play ever. Ill take it from the hype hes a decent player. Since hes going to be pretty much our only striker, theres going to be alot of pressure on him. Personally I'd love us to make an offer for Ivan Toney aswell, get him a bit cheaper due to the ban. The in the second half of the season we have that extra option up front (whos already proven in PL), and take some of the pressure off young Hojlund
Excited for this one. When does he finally sign
United fans should only compare him with what we currently have or had last season.
If he can bring some hold up play into the team, and add that natural goal scorer type movement in the box...then I will be very happy.
If he can bring some hold up play into the team, and add that natural goal scorer type movement in the box...then I will be very happy.
He's signing for Manchester United. The expectations will be the same as any other player United sign. If he hasn't demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that he's world class within 45 minutes of his first game he'll face vitriol from the club's online fans.
Delusional, Ronaldo was our highest GS the year before ETH came in.
You said such conviction, that there is plenty of players that are good enough, that have moved to smaller clubs. You said it? so who are these players? Ah yes FM... remember when Bojan was a world beater on that game.
yes. Haaland had a release clause which was a absolute steal
You mixed up minutes with seconds there mate. He'll be given about 45 seconds before a large number of our 'fans' decide he was a waste of money and that we should have bought Kane instead.
Well I assume there was also large extra portion of fee being paid to his agent, his dad and as part of his signing on fee. I think that’s the whole plan from Riaola when they made the deal with Dortmund at first place.
It's a nonsense to suggest that Haaland was cheaper. His transfer fee was but the total deal including wages and agents fees for Haaland was close to 400 million Euro's! The total value of the Højlund deal won't be anywhere near that.
At least he is playing for the real manchester team, not the fake one.
No, not for the whole package including wages, which is the relevant cost. Haaland had a buy-out clause, which means he could negotiate a much higher wage as a result.
Comparing the two by now seems incredibly shallow, lazy, bad poetry analysis and frankly slightly racist. Their only simliarity as footballers are being fast and quite big, which you could say about half of all strikers.
Yeah the media will hype this up to the max every week but gonna reach ridiculous levels in the buildup to first derby you can be certain of that
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Because no one will be interested our neighbour
And media knew this fact and they knew who is the real attention grabber..
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Haaland got the fee paid to him rather than Dortmund through agent fees etc.
His father and agency got 80m between them for the move!
They are being compared because they will be the starting CFs for the two Manchester clubs. Yes, it’s unfair on Hojlund but it’s primarily on the club for failing to remedy the striker position with a world class option over the past few years. He should be coming in as a top prospect to back up an existing world class player, not as a £65m+ answer to Haaland.
Look at end of the day we probably get him & Kane this summer IF those pair of leeches sold up and fecked off couple of months back
I think that would still have been difficult but yeah we can all agree that the sooner they are gone the sooner the better.
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