So let me guess, if we pay the quoted 70m we are mugs but if we don't and he goes to Bayern, we are mugs?
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Correct.
He’s not going to come to play in our reserves, he clearly needs to be playing men’s football every week. He’s over 21 so would take up a spot in the main squad.
I don’t even think he gets in Celtic’s first team.
Yeah, I turned it on at halftime and he's doing a good job not being static in the buildup and then looking to finish off attacks by getting into 6 yard box. Moves the ball quickly when he gets it. Getting manhandled by the CBs with no help from the ref with his back to goal.
Brilliant. Great to know we’ve sorted the striker situation for the next 10 years. Pay €80m.
Very very close...only thing you forgot to mention is how much the club is an 'embarrassment' can't forget that!
Loan him out then? The point is him being worth a £3 million punt, if he'd be our best striker 21 and under then it suggests yes.
Also add something about how come our scouts are shit, why can’t we find player like team x, and then we do scout out unknowns complain about how we are going backwards
And bring Caicedo up as an example even though we were linked before Brighton but couldn't get a deal done due to complications with more than one agent.
Our best player today.
You punt on the next Sesko for £3 million. Not someone who is never going to be good enough for us.
It's funny because he's just partnered Sesko up front for Slovenia.
No surprise Ras did perform much better than Sesko. But that has also been the case here in the Austrian Bundesliga last year.
Dont get me wrong Sesko is a top player for the Austrian Bundesliga and will perform good in the German Bundesliga but Ras is a better striker by far.
If you can't see the potential at this point then i'm not sure what to say to you, he looks more ready for the top level over Sesko who was the striker we were looking to get last summer
...was Pierre Emil Højbjerg.
There is a argument for Højbjerg, but it was Højlund who created the opening and space for Højbjerg before getting in to the space and finishing.
Both where leagues above the rest.
What’s funny? The player he came on for in the last five minutes was playing in the championship last season.
Shall we sign Vidosek (goalkeeper) too? He was the Prva Liga keeper of the year.
You realise I watch the Prva Liga every weekend?
Where have the Sesko links gone? He looks an incredible talent and should still be on our radar.
He signed for RB Leipzig but has stayed at Salzburg for the season, so technically he's already been "sold" and would take some absurd negotiating and fee to even get him out of Leipzig before he's even played for them, I think all links have died because all clubs have just decided well he's transferred from Salzburg to Leipzig this coming summer, there is no chance
He signed for RBL last summer.
It's funny because he's the second youngest scorer ever for Slovenia, behind Sesko, starting to get his chance internationally. I'd say that's the closest you can get to a bargain Sesko for £3 millionWhat’s funny? The player he came on for in the last five minutes was playing in the championship last season.
Shall we sign Vidosek (goalkeeper) too? He was the Prva Liga keeper of the year.
You realise I watch the Prva Liga every weekend?
If you watched him every week you'd know he's got good potential, he's statistically strong from a chance conversion, pass completion, dribbling completion and goal scoring perspective.It's funny because he's the second youngest scorer ever for Slovenia, behind Sesko, starting to get his chance internationally. I'd say that's the closest you can get to a bargain Sesko for £3 million
But you understand that there are different levels to potential. He does have all those things that you’ve said in the Prva Liga. And he did come on and score a winner against Kazakstan - which was great. But he’s got a completely different ceiling to the likes of Sesko and Hojlund.
Sesko was known about in Slovenia playing under 15 football with the likes of City and the Italian clubs wanting him. He had a great season and I hope he kicks on, but there’s a reason that teams like Celtic and Dinamo are after him.
Just an absurd figure pulled from the sky. The guy has one average Serie A season under him - Vlahovic wouldn't even cost that and he's only 23 with 5 full Serie A seasons and 21 international caps.
40m plus a diallo loan seems just about palatable. Sesko cost 24m.
It’s what we need. This is like 80% of Haaland’s goals this season.
We need our wingers to start supplying and not always look to shoot on goal
Well there's about £20m between the transfer fees Romano and Ducker are reporting.
Lewandowksi was playing for Znicz Pruszkow at 20 years old, Lech Poznan at 21, just because he wasn't scouted by elite teams from an early age doesn't mean he can't do well later on his career. We're talking in purely potential terms and he's showing it, at £3 million it's great value, worst case you sell him for the same price, mid case he ends up being worth £10-20 million, best case £20+ million.
He's only only scored 9 goals in 32 matches in Serie A. That's 1800+ minutes of football.
I'm not trying to dampen the excitement around him joining us but he isn't the 30+ goal striker we need.
Sure, he has potential but lets not allow the club to convince us he's a solid alternative to Kane or Osimhen.
I'm not trying to dampen the excitement around him joining us but he isn't the 30+ goal striker we need.
Sure, he has potential but lets not allow the club to convince us he's a solid alternative to Kane or Osimhen.
We can't afford either
What is the most likely scenario: he goes to Bayern for considerably less than £70m.
Saw a poster break that down earlier. It's a lot less than 1800 minutes if I recall.
I watched. I liked. Let’s sign him
Transfermarkt has him at 1832 minutes played in Serie A. 9 goals and 4 assists.
You can’t just use Lewandowski and say look we need to take punts on cheap 21 year olds. for every Lewandowski there’s 100 £3 million strikers that won’t ever get close to being United quality. Even Lewandowski had to go to a tier of clubs below United to get his chance.
If you’re specifically sold on Vipotnik that’s great, and I hope he does well. I personally think it’s a massive jump coming out of the Prva Liga, so let’s see how he handles it. If you want to chat about Slovenian football any time then let me know. Better stop clogging up this thread though.
Could thrive from Bruno’s service and also looks effective pressing from the front. The fee is too big but I’m coming round to us paying a bit extra to get him.
I think most of us probably had him earmarked as an understudy but at the prices mentioned we would struggle to sign a more senior striker this window.
I think most of us probably had him earmarked as an understudy but at the prices mentioned we would struggle to sign a more senior striker this window.
I hear what you’re saying, however he has scored 16 goals in total this season in 2551 minutes. That’s a goal every 160 minutes. That’s not too bad for a young 20 year old striker. Better than a goal every other game.
We played a big chunk of the season with a striker who scored 0 goals every 90 minutes. I think with the service he would get at Utd he could do well.
However, I do think it’s a huge gamble to go into the season with him as our primary striker. Ideally we should have an experience striker along with him.
Agree, if he played regularly and scored a goal a game at his age, I'd be very happy, and expect him to improve this ratio as he gains experience.
Also would love an experienced striker to come in, but realistically, I can't see us signing either of the two most spoken about, i.e. Kane or Osimhen, so looks like we will have to rely on Martial to be the experienced striker for one season, with Rashford and MG in support.
In a year's time, we can bring in both Mbappe and Kane on free transfers!!!!
Still find it hard to believe either will actually leave PSG & Spurs on free transfers
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