Rasmus Højlund | Signed for United

[sunama]

He hasn’t even kicked a ball in the prem yet. It’s unfair to compare anyone to haaland, he’s a freak. The lad needs to be given a chance and time to even be mentioned in the same breath it’s totally unfair. The fee is the reason they get compared. If he cost 20mil no one would be doing it. And I think he’ll be great for us.

Agreed on all points.
I believe he is 20 yrs old and has very little experience.
I would not have paid more than £35M, but hey ho.
Personally, I think he should be loaned out for his first season and then gradually brought into the first team, in 2025.
I think some of you are expecting far too much from him.

 

[croadyman]

Agreed on all points.
I believe he is 20 yrs old and has very little experience.
I would not have paid more than £35M, but hey ho.
Personally, I think he should be loaned out for his first season and then gradually brought into the first team, in 2025.
I think some of you are expecting far too much from him.

I definitely am not expecting too much,in fact I want the club to get a cheap striker too so the pressure would be off a bit

 

[Wednesday at Stoke]

Agreed on all points.
I believe he is 20 yrs old and has very little experience.
I would not have paid more than £35M, but hey ho.
Personally, I think he should be loaned out for his first season and then gradually brought into the first team, in 2025.
I think some of you are expecting far too much from him.

He's older than Garnacho and while he shouldn't be expected to start week in week out, any talk of a loan is absurd as well. He needs to play and start at least 30 out of 65+ games they probably play across all competitions.

 

[goatmeister]

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.

A little bit of perspective here.
The financial outlay for Haaland is absolutely massive.
And his performance bonus was even more eye-watering.
Given that he was smashing them in last season, I wouldn't be surprised if he frequently hit his salary ceiling of 800+kpw.
Only oil-state club with clever accounting can afford this kind of monstrous number.

 

[croadyman]

A little bit of perspective here.
The financial outlay for Haaland is absolutely massive.
And his performance bonus was even more eye-watering.
Given that he was smashing them in last season, I wouldn't be surprised if he frequently hit his salary ceiling of 800+kpw.
Only oil-state club with clever accounting can afford this kind of monstrous number.

Exactly but the media won't disclose it

 

[Trigg]

Agreed on all points.
I believe he is 20 yrs old and has very little experience.
I would not have paid more than £35M, but hey ho.
Personally, I think he should be loaned out for his first season and then gradually brought into the first team, in 2025.
I think some of you are expecting far too much from him.

Loaned out?! Oh Jesus

 

[Erik the Red]

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

Usually your posts are sensible and balanced, but this is just silly. Whatever your view of the Glazers, spurs were not selling us Kane, unless maybe we make a stupid offer of £200m. I expected better of you.

We want to move away from being the dumb money, and I think we are making progress, but we are in a difficult position that we are a very rich club, but not in a position of strength. Madrid know they can attract almost any target, and usually get the target to play along with any games to help reduce the fee. It looks like they will get Mbappe on a "free" because they have agreed a deal despite Mbappe officially being under contract to PSG. We go after a target, and the selling club know that they can add an extra "tax" because we want to get the manager his targets, and we can't afford to wait as we are buying players for the here and now, not 16 year old Endricks for the future. Now we have a pretty decent team, we are less desperate, and selling clubs will find it harder to hold us to ransom.

 

[Alemar]

I think some of you are expecting far too much from him.

We just expect him to be able to finish a certain percentage of chances. With the amount of chances we create, even half-decent finishing from a striker will result in 20 goals a season in all competitions. Good finishing will yield 30.

 

[Rhyme Animal]

I definitely am not expecting too much,in fact I want the club to get a cheap striker too so the pressure would be off a bit

wHo!? nAMe tHeM!

 

[croadyman]

Usually your posts are sensible and balanced, but this is just silly. Whatever your view of the Glazers, spurs were not selling us Kane, unless maybe we make a stupid offer of £200m. I expected better of you.

We want to move away from being the dumb money, and I think we are making progress, but we are in a difficult position that we are a very rich club, but not in a position of strength. Madrid know they can attract almost any target, and usually get the target to play along with any games to help reduce the fee. It looks like they will get Mbappe on a "free" because they have agreed a deal despite Mbappe officially being under contract to PSG. We go after a target, and the selling club know that they can add an extra "tax" because we want to get the manager his targets, and we can't afford to wait as we are buying players for the here and now, not 16 year old Endricks for the future. Now we have a pretty decent team, we are less desperate, and selling clubs will find it harder to hold us to ransom.

I genuinely believed it was possible to sign both with the ownership sorted. Yes you are right Levy would have ripped us off but anyway it's irrelevant now as he's moving to Bayern

 

[croadyman]

wHo!? nAMe tHeM!

Someone like this Taremi fella,heck even a Vardy could give us something off the bench but don't see either happening

 

[Ali Dia]

A little bit of perspective here.
The financial outlay for Haaland is absolutely massive.
And his performance bonus was even more eye-watering.
Given that he was smashing them in last season, I wouldn't be surprised if he frequently hit his salary ceiling of 800+kpw.
Only oil-state club with clever accounting can afford this kind of monstrous number.

I’d rather be paying Haaland whatever he is currently on while he reaches his peak and becomes the best 9 in the world than spreading out and wasting huge wages on the likes of Sanchez and Ronaldo.

 

[croadyman]

I’d rather be paying Haaland whatever he is currently on while he reaches his peak and becomes the best 9 in the world than spreading out and wasting huge wages on the likes of Sanchez and Ronaldo.

We had our chance when at Molde

 

[Pass and Move]

Comparing Højlund to Haaland is just lazy racism.

Mwahahaha

 

[croadyman]

Comparing Højlund to Haaland is just lazy racism.

Mwahahaha

Rest assured if they are in squads for respective first league games it will ramp up

 

[RedRonaldo]

Agreed on all points.
I believe he is 20 yrs old and has very little experience.
I would not have paid more than £35M, but hey ho.
Personally, I think he should be loaned out for his first season and then gradually brought into the first team, in 2025.
I think some of you are expecting far too much from him.

Well Real Madrid spend 40m on Vinicius Junior, when he has 0 experience (0 game 0 goals) at professional football.

As for Hojlund, at age 19-20, he has actually scored total 22 goals last seasons for his clubs and country. Here's the detail breakdown:

Season 22-23

Clubs (Atalanta + Sturm Graz)
- 16 goals in 2551 mins

Country (Denmark)
- 6 goals in 341 mins

Total: 22 goals 7 assists in 2892 mins (equivalent to 32 games)

Average 1 g+a per 99.7mins.

I don't think its wrong to expecting something out of him this season, and I also think its rather crazy to suggest he should be loan out immediately after we've spend over £62m on him.

 

[goatmeister]

I’d rather be paying Haaland whatever he is currently on while he reaches his peak and becomes the best 9 in the world than spreading out and wasting huge wages on the likes of Sanchez and Ronaldo.

In reality, your options are not limited to either Haaland or Alexis/Cristiano, right.
There are many to be had in between.
And this kind of budgeting has implications on fund available to improve and refresh other positions.
I know United is the most financially successful club in the world and has been getting away with reckless spending for years.
But that doesn't mean it shouldn't be rectified.

 

[mu4c_20le]

Comparing Højlund to Haaland is just lazy racism.

Mwahahaha

I'd be delighted if he could be better than Nunez

 

[croadyman]

I'd be delighted if he could be better than Nunez

Yeah that's a start

 

[Idxomer]

Agreed on all points.
I believe he is 20 yrs old and has very little experience.
I would not have paid more than £35M, but hey ho.
Personally, I think he should be loaned out for his first season and then gradually brought into the first team, in 2025.
I think some of you are expecting far too much from him.

He needs to spend a year with the u-21 first to get a feeling of the club and then go on loan next year. In 2027, he'll be finally ready to be the main striker at a club like United after spending a couple of years as a squad player.

 

[Zehner]

Wow, just read €75m for a striker with only one season and 9 goals in a top 4 league to his belt? Even the 200 minutes per goal are a bit underwhelming. I haven't seen anything of him, is he that good in other areas like link up play etc?

 

[Judas]

Wow, just read €75m for a striker with only one season and 9 goals in a top 4 league to his belt? Even the 200 minutes per goal are a bit underwhelming. I haven't seen anything of him, is he that good in other areas like link up play etc?

He’s got a wicked sense of humor and a great smile.

 

[croadyman]

Wow, just read €75m for a striker with only one season and 9 goals in a top 4 league to his belt? Even the 200 minutes per goal are a bit underwhelming. I haven't seen anything of him, is he that good in other areas like link up play etc?

There is no doubt he's still very raw but feel he has the ingredients with Erik's coaching to succeed

 

[zaafi]

Wow, just read €75m for a striker with only one season and 9 goals in a top 4 league to his belt? Even the 200 minutes per goal are a bit underwhelming. I haven't seen anything of him, is he that good in other areas like link up play etc?

Not often I see a striker at 20 who is that good in most traits, which is why I think he'll go all the way to the top. There is no reason he won't become a great striker.
He really has to improve his aerial ability, though. It's pretty poor. Thankfully this can be coached and improved with a lot of practice.

 

[Carl]

If he's a hold up type of central figure centre forward I'm even more pleased . I was assuming he is a run in behind solo figure, rather than bulld an attack through me type.

That's even more positive

He seems to be more of a runs the channels and never stops moving, type of forward.

 

[golden_blunder]

Agreed on all points.
I believe he is 20 yrs old and has very little experience.
I would not have paid more than £35M, but hey ho.
Personally, I think he should be loaned out for his first season and then gradually brought into the first team, in 2025.
I think some of you are expecting far too muc

Good luck getting him for 35m. 35m barely buys you a championship striker these days.

 

[croadyman]

Good luck getting him for 35m. 35m barely buys you a championship striker these days.

Standby for someone to mention Jackson

 

[golden_blunder]

Standby for someone to mention Jackson

Release clause

 

[croadyman]

Release clause

Ah didn't realise that was the case

 

[JoeyJoJoJrShabadoo]

We can't be far away from release clauses being the norm across the board

 

[L1nk]

We can't be far away from release clauses being the norm across the board

Before long it will be, as "lesser clubs" become richer and less likely to have to sell cheaper than normal, players are not going to sign contracts without a release clause because they know they'll just be priced out of going to "bigger teams." Look at Caicedo now for example, guy was desperate to join Arsenal and now Chelsea and Brighton want 100mill for him, it's unlikely he goes now. Brighton have every right to ask for what they want and stick to their guns, because they don't need to sell. But Caicedo is going to be kicking himself he doesn't have a release clause because unless Chelsea stump up the fee now it's unlikely he leaves unless he runs his contract down to nothing

 

[doomy20]

He is 73 rated on Fifa.

 

[Grande]

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

Hopefully most of them will know that Rasmus isn’t a 23 yo goal machine. Haaland scored 30 goals for the various underage national teams for Norway. Højlund scored 3 goals for the Danish youth set up. They are entirely different type of players to begin with.

Winther’s (that’s his middle name!) task is to grow into a striker role at a club where his striker predecessors scored 12 goals in 71 games combined last season (Martial and Wwghorst), and the preseason main striker has scored one goal so far (Sancho). No one in their right mind will expect him to suddenly become a goalgetter at 20 in tht set up in the wirlds toughest league.

 

[DWelbz19]

He is 73 rated on Fifa.

80 rated in form mate

 

[Sarni]

Agreed on all points.
I believe he is 20 yrs old and has very little experience.
I would not have paid more than £35M, but hey ho.
Personally, I think he should be loaned out for his first season and then gradually brought into the first team, in 2025.
I think some of you are expecting far too much from him.

I'd say let's loan him out to Ajax now for a year but already strike a deal with Wolfsburg to take him in 2024-25 before he can have a year of experience in Premier League in 2025-26, preferably with a newly promoted side. We will re-assess him ahead of 2026-27. If he's ready then he should start playing 10-15 minutes off the bench around January 2027.

 

[Grande]

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.

Se my previous post, but the only ones thinking he is an answer to Haaland, are daft people who think every striker living in the same European city must be the same kind of player. Might as well wonder who are Lazio’s answer to Haaland, seeing as they’ve both got light blue shirts.

Martial and Weghorst have 12 goals in 71 games combined in the role where Højlund is going to compete for in time. That’s what he is going to answer to.

 

[tomaldinho1]

Agreed on all points.
I believe he is 20 yrs old and has very little experience.
I would not have paid more than £35M, but hey ho.
Personally, I think he should be loaned out for his first season and then gradually brought into the first team, in 2025.
I think some of you are expecting far too much from him.

Why? The club clearly think he's good enough so let's see. He's coming in at a good time, when you ignore the ridiculous Haaland comparisons, he basically competing against Wout (0 goals in 17 PL games and injured Tony).

Any fan who is sensible is probably aware he's not going to be smashing in 25 goals a season and immediately hit the ground running but he looks to have a lot of raw ability, my hope is we've found a striker who will be 'good' for a couple of seasons and then really explode into a top player who is a mainstay of the team for a long period. I reckon he'll score 12 goals if he stays fit, we created a good amount for Wout he was just crap.

 

[croadyman]

Before long it will be, as "lesser clubs" become richer and less likely to have to sell cheaper than normal, players are not going to sign contracts without a release clause because they know they'll just be priced out of going to "bigger teams." Look at Caicedo now for example, guy was desperate to join Arsenal and now Chelsea and Brighton want 100mill for him, it's unlikely he goes now. Brighton have every right to ask for what they want and stick to their guns, because they don't need to sell. But Caicedo is going to be kicking himself he doesn't have a release clause because unless Chelsea stump up the fee now it's unlikely he leaves unless he runs his contract down to nothing

Would be buzzing IF he's still on the market at end of this window as ideal Case replacement, but unfortunately suspect Chelsea will pay up

 

[croadyman]

Why? The club clearly think he's good enough so let's see. He's coming in at a good time, when you ignore the ridiculous Haaland comparisons, he basically competing against Wout (0 goals in 17 PL games and injured Tony).

Any fan who is sensible is probably aware he's not going to be smashing in 25 goals a season and immediately hit the ground running but he looks to have a lot of raw ability, my hope is we've found a striker who will be 'good' for a couple of seasons and then really explode into a top player who is a mainstay of the team for a long period. I reckon he'll score 12 goals if he stays fit, we created a good amount for Wout he was just crap.

Yeah that's sensible thinking on him long term and very reasonable in terms of what he will be able to offer this season as well

 

[JPRouve]

I'd say let's loan him out to Ajax now for a year but already strike a deal with Wolfsburg to take him in 2024-25 before he can have a year of experience in Premier League in 2025-26, preferably with a newly promoted side. We will re-assess him ahead of 2026-27. If he's ready then he should start playing 10-15 minutes off the bench around January 2027.

Sarni for DOF! He knows how to draw plans.