Rasmus Højlund | Signed for United
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Yeah, hope this was a joke, much as (presumably) the 2027 one surely was...
You would not have signed Hojlund, nor Kane.
Hojlund is ready to make minutes for us. He’ll be involved in 20-30 games easily.
Undoubtedly.
But then again, I don't see him as the sort of player who should be sent out on loan either.
He seems pretty mature as a player to me, based on the admittedly little I've seen of him.
(I don't really see what we have to gain from loaning him out rather than easing him in, as it were.)
Think the most likely outcome is he comes off bench against Wolves IF he has had a few days training with the team
Loads in here will be writing him off after 10 minutes of his first pre-season game. That's probably covered by the sensible comment to be fair.
This a training session. He has fitness from the Atalanta pre season so he should start really.
Hope you are right but it's just a gut feeling
I think Martial will be our first choice forward but that obviously means Hojlund will get plenty of games. I can see him being first choice come the end of the season.
Can’t help but think that greenwood will come back into the fold now too, though I think it might have been different if we’d signed Kane
Can’t help but think that greenwood will come back into the fold now too, though I think it might have been different if we’d signed Kane
I see quite a few posts saying we shouldn’t expect too much, fair enough. Also quite a few not expecting him to start that many games, which surprised me.
He looks good and we don’t have many options. My prediction is:
PL: 25 starts, plus 7 sub appearances, 13 goals
Cups / Europe: 7 starts, plus 3 sub apps, 5 goals
Total fecking guesswork but 18 goals seems a decent return without asking too much.
He looks good and we don’t have many options. My prediction is:
PL: 25 starts, plus 7 sub appearances, 13 goals
Cups / Europe: 7 starts, plus 3 sub apps, 5 goals
Total fecking guesswork but 18 goals seems a decent return without asking too much.
I'd snap your hand off for that right now.
Your prices are a few decades behind. 35m isn’t going to get you a good player from the championship.
What? How our standards have fallen.
I am judging him at the tunnel before he jogs onto the OT pitch on his debut. You can tell always how a career will evolve just by his body language in the tunnel.
That's better
Pfft. I'm already judging the players we'll sign next summer.
24?
Why would we loan out our main ST signing this season? We don’t have a proper ST so let’s loan out a 72m signing shall we and start the season without a ST.
Yeah, it would definitely be a successful first season. A little less wouldn’t be a crisis but I think he can do it and is already a bit better than some people in here think.
Yes, D's are often silent in Danish when a word ends on D :-)
You pronounce the ø as o, or are you just trying to be nice to the Brits?
In Norway ø isn't even close to an o sound.
Ø vil sometimes be pronounced different. Ø in Øl and Ø in Højlund has a very different sound :-)
Tbh imo that's pretty much his level atm. Maybe slightly better.
I think you’re wrong but you’re entitled to your wrong opinion
Same here.
I'd put it closer to 21 (14 goals, then 7 cup.euro, bearing in mind League cup/FA cup/ at least 3 goals in the CL) but agree that it'll probably be somewhere between 18-23 if he's starting close to 40 games and coming off the bench a few times...
For his first season i will already find it acceptable if he does better than Martial and Weghorst combined.
Fit and available for most games. Make runs, press and work for the team and score somewhere between 10-15 goals all season.
Fit and available for most games. Make runs, press and work for the team and score somewhere between 10-15 goals all season.
this thread is just open air Arkham asylum at this point
Firstly, where the feck is he?
Secondly, I will absolutely have expectations on him. If Manchester United put a 5 year old up front, I’d have expectations of him too. If we were not allowed/expected to have expectations of a player, they shouldn’t be playing at all. This is Manchester United. This is before we even get to the fact that he cost us £65m.
Secondly, I will absolutely have expectations on him. If Manchester United put a 5 year old up front, I’d have expectations of him too. If we were not allowed/expected to have expectations of a player, they shouldn’t be playing at all. This is Manchester United. This is before we even get to the fact that he cost us £65m.
He'll be our starting CF so I expect him to be at worst our 2nd highest goalscorer after rashford
Fabinho who is no longer capable of playing at a high level is worth €40m.
Malcom, who has been playing for Zenit for the past 5 years goes for €60m.
Somehow, you think Højlund, a highly rated young striker with massive potential think he's worth £35m. Okay then.
I fear what this place will look like if he does a Forlan and not score for his first 26 or so games.
As you should, because let us not pretend that would be perfectly normal. It would be a huge disappointment (to almost everyone, except the inevitable group of cooler posters who will tell us that we are overreacting and he is ‘contributing in other ways’).
The more I see 65m the less expensive it looks and I wonder why people are crying so much? The cost of players this summer is woefully obscene.
Will be a good start, won’t it?
He doesn’t quite have the look of a 30-league-goals man. He is young but already quite an all-round striker, coming deeper and getting involved in the play and those guys are often less individually prolific. But he does have aggressive movement, as in he runs directly and determinedly into goal scoring areas. I think he’ll get good numbers for us every year whilst still managing to do all the other things that EtH demands of his no9.
I’d say, over a long period, he’ll score at Cantona / Hughes levels and, although different in style, will make similar contributions to the whole team. Our wingers will need to score a lot of goals!
I don't think its possible to assess his future numbers, he is only 20!
And he has actually scored 22 goals last season in all compeittions for clubs and country, as a 19-20 year old kid. Its really hard to put a limit range on him, too soon!
Why hasn’t the club announced the deal yet?
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Per 90 comparisons with Gabriel Jesus look promising, albeit very different leagues.
Both scored around 0.5 goals per 90 minutes last season. Hojlund has a slightly better conversion rate (20.45% : 19.3%) and shot accuracy (63.64% : 56.14%). Jesus has more assists (0.3 : 0.1) and chances created (1.4 : 1.2)
If Hojlund has a similar season for us, playing with better players, there’s no reason to think he can’t hit double figures.
Both scored around 0.5 goals per 90 minutes last season. Hojlund has a slightly better conversion rate (20.45% : 19.3%) and shot accuracy (63.64% : 56.14%). Jesus has more assists (0.3 : 0.1) and chances created (1.4 : 1.2)
If Hojlund has a similar season for us, playing with better players, there’s no reason to think he can’t hit double figures.
Yes but once you manually transfer him to Utd you can’t activate life form
Yeah! I’m just spitballing.
The main thing is what happens to the total number of goals that the team is able to score with him in it. And, looking at his attributes more than his stats, I’m optimistic he’ll work out great for us. In the future. (Which we can’t be sure about!!)
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