Rasmus Højlund | Signed for United

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croadyman said:
Might be that Erik is still not sure who he wants to fulfill that role after De Jong rejected us. Getting it back on topic I like Hojlund but still feel we might revisit Kane in August
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I agree with this, I have a feeling you're actually playing quite a clever game with Kane and rather than going full FdJ or Sancho on him for the window, you're happy to sit back, shut up and wait for Levy and Kane to begin to get a bit desperate.

For all his big talk, I'm don't think Spurs can afford not to cash in. It was easy for Levy to say no prem transfer for him while Real were sniffing around, but now that's gone and Munich can't ever afford the same sort of fee as you can, I think you'll get him in August for between 70-80 million.

This is based on nothing but a hunch!
 
The Boy said:
I agree with this, I have a feeling you're actually playing quite a clever game with Kane and rather than going full FdJ or Sancho on him for the window, you're happy to sit back, shut up and wait for Levy and Kane to begin to get a bit desperate.

For all his big talk, I'm don't think Spurs can afford not to cash in. It was easy for Levy to say no prem transfer for him while Real were sniffing around, but now that's gone and Munich can't ever afford the same sort of fee as you can, I think you'll get him in August for between 70-80 million.

This is based on nothing but a hunch!
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Hope you are right but has also been suggested Levy won't let him leave until after Utd game
 
Last year our manager at Sturm Graz quoted in spring : "We all can see that Ras is made for the big stage." So we too were soon fully convinced that he will get a "special player" (as Fabrizio now tells us). And the big stage, the Theatre, is the Old Trafford, no doubt on that.
 
Adnan said:
You really shouldn't take what the media say seriously about the 'board'. What the words in the tweet are insinuating are that the likes of Richard Arnold and Cliff Baty etc are convinced about the players potential. But in reality what Romano meant was the heads of recruitment are convinced about the players potential.
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I don’t. Just not a fan of misleading statements or insinuations.
 
KikiDaKats said:
What is our board doing scouting players or identifying their potential on the pitch? Do we not have the scouts and Manager for that?
They really need to leave the football with the football people. I won’t question how knowledgeable they are but boundaries and job description et..
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Hop skip and jump here. A very much doubt the "board" did any scouting, they're just convinced by the scout reports which is literally what they're there for no?
 
Ted Lasso said:
What did the Martial deal wind up costing us in the end? £30M?

Amad Diallo was something like £30m more recently and he's doing great, but at the championship level with several gears to go.

You then have the likes of Vinicius costing almost £50m. And it's taken him a couple seasons to seem worthy of that fee.

As much as I hate it, maybe that's just the going rate now. Makes not signing Haaland for £4m from Molde when Ole managed there and tried to send him our way all the more wild.
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Amad wasn't £30 though, just like you've rightly stated that Martial wasn't £58 - or something odd like that
 
SalfordRed18 said:
Hop skip and jump here. A very much doubt the "board" did any scouting, they're just convinced by the scout reports which is literally what they're there for no?
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Even if this is what’s being insinuated, it’s wrong.
 
KikiDaKats said:
What is our board doing scouting players or identifying their potential on the pitch? Do we not have the scouts and Manager for that?
They really need to leave the football with the football people. I won’t question how knowledgeable they are but boundaries and job description et..
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Sir Alex Ferguson has a position on the board at Old Trafford, and he probably knows a bit more about football than you do. I doubt the FD is scouting players.
 


Nothing we haven't really heard before but Romano again saying that our concrete interest is in Hojlund but that the price is a stumbling block. We are definitely checking on the requirements to get Kolo Muani too
 
L1nk said:


Nothing we haven't really heard before but Romano again saying that our concrete interest is in Hojlund but that the price is a stumbling block. We are definitely checking on the requirements to get Kolo Muani too
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I would be happy with either,however you do still wonder if we will explore Kane in August
 
Ted Lasso said:
What did the Martial deal wind up costing us in the end? £30M?

Amad Diallo was something like £30m more recently and he's doing great, but at the championship level with several gears to go.

You then have the likes of Vinicius costing almost £50m. And it's taken him a couple seasons to seem worthy of that fee.

As much as I hate it, maybe that's just the going rate now. Makes not signing Haaland for £4m from Molde when Ole managed there and tried to send him our way all the more wild.
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Martial cost us 43

36 up front and hit once clause (25 goals in four years)
 
as if Romano knows what our board think

our own fecking board don't even know that half the time
 
If you take the stories of United working with a 100 million budget this summer as true.

Then United will need to sell a bunch of players before going in for a CF.

As the GK and CM will eat up that budget...time to get McFred and Henderson out the door fast!
 
RuudTom83 said:
If you take the stories of United working with a 100 million budget this summer as true.

Then United will need to sell a bunch of players before going in for a CF.

As the GK and CM will eat up that budget...time to get McFred and Henderson out the door fast!
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Maguire and Sancho would also bring in another 80m.
 
RuudTom83 said:
If you take the stories of United working with a 100 million budget this summer as true.

Then United will need to sell a bunch of players before going in for a CF.

As the GK and CM will eat up that budget...time to get McFred and Henderson out the door fast!
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I bought it last summer then we spent way over it so this time I am more skeptical about that figure
 
Red in STL said:
Keep on dreaming, the only way that would happen is if Saudi came in
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Not necessarily. Maguire is the England vice captain, plenty of midtable clubs in the PL would buy him. Sancho is an English talent, still young enough. Dortmund would also take him back for half the price we paid.
 
izec said:
Not necessarily. Maguire is the England vice captain, plenty of midtable clubs in the PL would buy him. Sancho is an English talent, still young enough. Dortmund would also take him back for half the price we paid.
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There is zero chance that Sancho goes back to Dortmund - they couldn't pay his wages

As for Maguire, everyone knows that he's available but there isn't exactly a queue at the door for him, there's a reason for that - 10 million quid a year, there's only 1 way a midtable PL club would take him is if he was a free transfer and even then it's a stretch
 
izec said:
Not necessarily. Maguire is the England vice captain, plenty of midtable clubs in the PL would buy him. Sancho is an English talent, still young enough. Dortmund would also take him back for half the price we paid.
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Which "mid table clubs" are gonna pay £190k pw on top of Maguire's transfer fee?

Who in the world is gonna pay Sancho's £300k pw salary?
 
KikiDaKats said:
If the board make such calls, the manager can’t be held accountable for bad decisions.
I prefer the manager, scouts and technical director to make the call on identifying players.
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Why would the manager be held accountable for shit scouting?

The board hasn't identified any player, they've agreed with the scout report, what's the issue?
 
The wages of Maguire and Sancho are such that they are going nowhere unless we heavily subsidize their wages or buy out their contract, neither of which are going to happen.

With Sancho, there is hope of better things to come. It's Maguire, as everyone here knows, he's hit his top gear and it ain't pretty. That said, if we can improve our attack to the point where we've pinned opponents back with possession and scoring for fun, we can afford to carry Maguire and have him come on as a fourth CB. It's still embarrassing for everyone involved but we could make it work. Still, if there's a buyer out there even for 25m then we should do that deal.
 
make this kid a priority signing and get the deal done....then sell Martial and go after Kane
 
KikiDaKats said:
If the board make such calls, the manager can’t be held accountable for bad decisions.
I prefer the manager, scouts and technical director to make the call on identifying players.
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I don't think that the article hints at that at all. Seems to me more like an Italian's terminology more than a precise delineation of who is deciding what. Board might simply mean "main decision makers around transfers" rather than all the directors, Joel, Avram and Arnold etc. Or it might not. Who really knows, it's so vague and unsubstituted the article virtually means nothing and it certainly doesn't ever go as far as stating who makes a "call", it only states in imprecise terms who has an opinion. Everyone has an opinion but not everyone makes a decision.
 
bosskeano said:
make this kid a priority signing and get the deal done....then sell Martial and go after Kane
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Like many are already saying in that thread we need him to actually tell Levy he is only interested in joining Utd and wants it to happen. I cannot see us being able to sell Martial as he is injury prone and on daft wages
 
croadyman said:
Like many are already saying in that thread we need him to actually tell Levy he is only interested in joining Utd and wants it to happen. I cannot see us being able to sell Martial as he is injury prone and on daft wages
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will never happen
 
lex talionis said:
The wages of Maguire and Sancho are such that they are going nowhere unless we heavily subsidize their wages or buy out their contract, neither of which are going to happen.

With Sancho, there is hope of better things to come. It's Maguire, as everyone here knows, he's hit his top gear and it ain't pretty. That said, if we can improve our attack to the point where we've pinned opponents back with possession and scoring for fun, we can afford to carry Maguire and have him come on as a fourth CB. It's still embarrassing for everyone involved but we could make it work. Still, if there's a buyer out there even for 25m then we should do that deal.
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It's not going to happen with only Mount and this newbie Hojlund to improve our midfield and attack.
 
Abraxas said:
I don't think that the article hints at that at all. Seems to me more like an Italian's terminology more than a precise delineation of who is deciding what. Board might simply mean "main decision makers around transfers" rather than all the directors, Joel, Avram and Arnold etc. Or it might not. Who really knows, it's so vague and unsubstituted the article virtually means nothing and it certainly doesn't ever go as far as stating who makes a "call", it only states in imprecise terms who has an opinion. Everyone has an opinion but not everyone makes a decision.
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You are really covering all basis here. I like my statements to be linear.
I don’t give benefit of the doubt when your words are respected by multitudes. So when you use the board which means the same in every language, I won’t try to figure out what it might.

I support the team and manager, if he is to get into some pickle let it be of his own doing. When transfers go wrong, those individuals won’t fall on their sword for him. On principle I’d prefer them to keep out of business that’s for ETH, scouts and Dof because they’ll be the guys justifying any signings made.
 
How do you pronounce his name? I'm going with Christmas Haaland until someone corrects me.
 
Ted Lasso said:
How do you pronounce his name? I'm going with Christmas Haaland until someone corrects me.
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Supposedly it's pronounced Hoy-lun.. I'm pretty sure I read about it somewhere back at the start of this thread. Hopefully someone that actually knows can correct me if I'm wrong.
 
KikiDaKats said:
You are really covering all basis here. I like my statements to be linear.
I don’t give benefit of the doubt when your words are respected by multitudes. So when you use the board which means the same in every language, I won’t try to figure out what it might.
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Not sure what 'linear statements' are, but I'm happy to meet a fellow linguist and polyglot. My Italian is rather basic, so could you let me know what the exact equivalence is in Italian and how it's used there, and by Romano specifically?

Or if he indeed means 'Board of Directors' (which is the common usage in English), are you suggesting that the group consisting of Avram Glazer, Joel Glazer, Richard Arnold, Cliff Baty, Patrick Stewart, Kevin Glazer, Bryan Glazer, Darcie Glazer Kassewitz, Edward Glazer, Robert Leitão, Man Utd Sawhney, and John Hooks got to review this player and expressed their opinion? Such a pity this isn't their function and none of them are football people; really a very weird state of affairs. But hey, we can only interpret Romano literally!

Yeah, no, I'm gonna suggest Romano is using some kind of equivalent to 'senior management' or 'decision makers', vague terms that mean someone, somewhere that's in charge. (And then the sensible next step is of course to think of the people in charge of football at United, in this particular context.)
 
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So if Kane really signals Bayern (as the german media here suggests) and PSG/Chelsea battle for Osimhen then we definately should finish one striker signing this week. Why wait any longer if we cant get both. With Ras and Kolo Muani talks are most advanced, Gonzalo Ramos the other option. But please do something these days. Perfect would be 2 out of those 3, depending on sales.

Damon1559 said:
Supposedly it's pronounced Hoy-lun..
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Thats correct, was told in Sky Sports Austria too ! But you can call him Hellhound if not sure :D
 
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Isotope said:
It's not going to happen with only Mount and this newbie Hojlund to improve our midfield and attack.
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Agreed. Antony and Sancho need to raise their game substantially and Garnacho needs to progres as we all expect he will. Rashford cannot backslide.
 
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