Final bid. Here’s £55m.
Rasmus Højlund | Signed for United
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We paid less but there were add-ons up to 68m. Martial was a super talent, Höjlund is not as talented imho. Can still be a very good player for us and Martial faded too soon.
I was being sarcastic on that post.
But if we do get Caicedo, he'd be partnering Case. Formation would be like last season Arsenal.
I’m excited by this. Looks like he has decent finishing, he can dribble and he looks like he takes good touches into space and draws a lot of fouls.
disclaimer: i watched a youtube highlights reel.
anyone have some in depth about him?
disclaimer: i watched a youtube highlights reel.
anyone have some in depth about him?
Probably get done for £44m + £6m add ons.
Add Ons are always 5m
Not this time, Johnny boy is gonna change it up.Add Ons are always 5m
I don't think he is it. Looks pretty slow in the highlights
We are going to need to do something. Rumours are that Martial is going to miss the first 6 weeks of the season with the hip injury.
Hopefully atleast a 5m loan fee for Greenwood? That brings it down to hash it out territory.
People go on about any striker as soon as we get linked. People who have probably never seen a game of that player make post after posts asking us to "sign him up" and come up with different reasons and sceneries why that player is the next best thing. The same way Hojlund has been hyped to the heavens since we were linked was the same way people posted about Jovic, Vlahovic, Sesko, Dolberg and any semi-decent center forward.
Nothing to say Hojlund will even reach Vlahovic's level, which isn't that high to begin with.
How did he get a hip injury?
The source was via Twitter so probably a load of bollocks.
We dont really have any forwards. So yes, I'm already thinking about who can 'save' our season if there's nobody to bang those goals in.
And I don't understand the logic of "are we that stupid to pursue him" argument. As if whichever player we have signed was super special and turned out to be world beaters. News flash: we have had more dogshit signings than good ones in the last decade.
The last time we bought a talent from Atalanta, he ended up playing in random leagues and the jury is still out on whether he is capable to play in the league.
I will definitely try to get Vlahovic, he had a bad season but has shown that he can score goals in previous seasons. Juve need money as they aren't in the CL. But as you say, I aint incharge so maybe whatever I say doesn't make sense.
Away with your common sense! This is muppet season!
Yeah I hated when we were scouting a very young Haaland and he scored 4 goals in 20 mins. Thankfully we didnt get suckered into buying him because of all the overhyping. That would of been disastrous.
I'd rather have the player with us and hope it works out , than to be watching him smash it next year and watch him join the superpowers that are City/Madrid/PSG.
He sat down awkwardly on his couch
He trained today
It's literally true. What the hell?
Fans literally as an actual fact treat big money signings different compared to youth players...
This will be known in the United history books as the summer of 55
Martial was a, appears to be, desperate end of the window signing.
Can't pull up his positions as transfermarkt is somehow not allowing me to scroll down recently. But I think he was played mainly on the wings at Monaco so he wasn't really viewed by fans as an out and out striker.
You're right, unfortunately. I just see Balogun as more ready right now.
I'm not going to derail the thread much further but I worked within domestic violence for 6 years and am a qualified idva. It makes no practical difference whether we lose out on 75m or we don't. The statement is that he does not get the privilege of playing for our club again. Whichever way we chose to go about that is semantics, I hope we do so in a way that doesn't benefit him quite as much and that doesn't see us giving a gift to another club with lesser morals.
I'm really unsure of what the point you are trying to make is but I'm going to leave it there.
That's the problem. We are Manchester United. They shouldn't be unrealistic targets.
Has there ever been a more bang average and injury prone striker ‘survive’ at a big club for as long as Martial? Should have been gone years ago. It took Sevilla about 2 weeks to realise he’s wank.
Even then there is a good chance it‘s true.
They shouldn't be unrealistic targets until we wasted nearly a billion over past 5-7 years or so.
He looks quite good with back to goal but how is his aerial prowess and ability to attack crosses?
Get him! Then we can think whether we can sell enough players to get an established elite level striker.
Man Utd wasn't the only club involved you know. Brighton had links to one of the people involved and that's why the deal got done for them. Every other club couldn't do the deal.
This kind of entitled attitude will get us nowhere, or worse, get us big name, big money signings that don’t fit. We are Manchester United, but we are also a team in the middle of rebuilding, with supposedly limited funds. We don’t have God given rights to sign whoever we want at whatever price we want. We never did, never will. Just have to be smart and realistic about who we go after.
There are problems with him, but being slow is not one of them. I saw him play in person about a month ago, and spent most of the match concentrating on him specifically. He has incredible acceleration, very good top speed, and fast "game speed". Being slow is not an issue.
Starting midfield of Case, Caisedo, Mount & Bruno? A bit narrow?
They're off limits to all of football right now, I don't even see the clubs with endless funds going for them either. They're both priced unrealistically for their situations.
People are idiots. They were against signing Kane after his breakthrough season at spurs. Said he needs to prove it for another year.
I find it hard to believe that the player, the agents preferred Brighton over other big clubs. Especially when one of Ecuadors best players used to play for us.
if true that we will go with 3-2-4-1, Rashford and Anthony would cut inside to their stronger feet. It would be even narrower with that "4".
I just think we will still get overrun in away games, with just using Mount to replace Eriksen.
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Why would he sign for us back then? We were a depressing mess. All the players we got have a link to Ten Hag.
Now we look like a team, with fight and spirit and CL football.
...and everyone is aligned behind the manager for the first time in a decade. All that's left is to offload the 10 or so legacy dead weights (Bailly, Telles, DVB, Maguire, McTominay, Sancho, Henderson, Martial, Williams, Elanga) and bring in 3-4 young players to fill some of their positions (now or eventually).
I look back at the 21-22 squad with the above + Pogba, Lingard, Cavani, Ronaldo, Mata, Matic, De Gea, Jones and I'm like wow, this was an actual United squad?
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