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Renato Sanches
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Isn't that a bit of a moot point?
The Portuguese press have been insistent we're on the verge of signing Gaitan every window for the last 6 years to be fair. The club's there love using us to drive up interest.
We had already scouted him 20 times before that.
Anyway so Benfica used us as a bargaining chip with Bayern.
Nothing to see here sadly.
Nothing to see here sadly.
Oh FFS WTF
Can't make this up. Definitely scouting Gaitan all this time.
Too lazy to look up my own quoteNot with similar weight to this though, look at the length of the thread. Some of the biggest transfer saga's we've had in recent years are Thiago, Vidal and this kid and look where they all ended up! Fair play to you guys though.
Scouted for 20 odd games and we dont sign him
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Bayern don't know how to prepare a bid imo.
Preparation is the key, it's more important than signing anyone honestly.
Preparation is the key, it's more important than signing anyone honestly.
Bayern are amazing. What a well run club.
They leave United, Real and Barca in the shade . That's the kind of management I'd love here. Efficient. No dithering. It was the same with Van Gaal as their manager,they saw a problem and took a chance and acted on it.
They leave United, Real and Barca in the shade . That's the kind of management I'd love here. Efficient. No dithering. It was the same with Van Gaal as their manager,they saw a problem and took a chance and acted on it.
I struggle to believe the 80m or at least the criteria for it to happening have to be totally absurd, but I'm sure we'll find out in detail soon enough.
Midfield was easily our weakest position the last 2 seasons by the way. Only Vidal played to a for us acceptable level in 2016, Thiago has been really disappointing and often benched in key games by Pep. Alonso is way past it and Martinez hasn't played in midfield in quite a while now and is difficult to judge. We definitely needed to sign a midfielder more than anything else.
Can we claim travelling expenses back?
We didn't need him. And from what little I saw of him, didn't look like a must have. The upgrade we need in the midfield is a creative player ala Modric/Gundogan, and a Carrick replacement. This guy is neither.
Still incredible that an 18 year old with very little football can eventually cost Bayern 80m Euros. Though, I am sure that additional 45m Euros won't be as easily achievable as they were in Martial's transfer fee.
Still incredible that an 18 year old with very little football can eventually cost Bayern 80m Euros. Though, I am sure that additional 45m Euros won't be as easily achievable as they were in Martial's transfer fee.
I don't know why people take the media so seriously.
Indeed. It doesn't prevent people from believing the stuff time and time again.Absolutely gutted.
Just shows what a load of rubbish the press talk. As far as we knew it was nailed on, then Bayern sign him for about quarter of the reputed fee
I guess Woodward listened to the caf after all. Hope you're all happy
Don't forget how happily the media spreads this fiction.
As every year, they'll be more often wrong than right.What the hell, I thought this was a done dealio basically
Makes me wonder how wrong the media are about everything else that might be happening this summer.....
I barely know anything about this guy and I'm pissed off.
It must be awesome being a Bayern fan.
It's like a fecking Alcantara all over again
That's the problem of signing players when the question of who will be manager is lingering
So I guess we can look forward to seeing this thread at the top of the caf after every Bayern game for the next 2+ years?
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I didnt quote you when I was making the oriiginal point. I was talking about how everyone takes this news as a proof for something totally unrelated.
If we can happily bench Schneiderlin, I don't think we're that desperate for a tackling/box-to-box midfielder, to be honest...
No he isn't my friend. Expensive, yes.
So he's worth the 80m now?
If anything this shows how full of crap the media are.
People throwing their toys out of the pram we didn't sign a player most have never seen play.
I get your meaning. I just feel that if they are spending that much then the player should be expected to feature heavily in the first team from the off, and yet he won't really upgrade their midfield.
Wait till they get exclusive insider's news on how Utd fecked up the deal and run it for 2-3 days.
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People throwing their toys out of the pram we didn't sign a player most have never seen play.
Same shit every year.
Yeah, and you have a lot of natural width in your team to play a diamond - Costa, Coman, Robben & Ribery (if the latter 2 ever recaptures their best form). It is going to be interesting. I wanted to ask and now you've mentioned it - it seems you're confident Lewandowski will stay? I don't know of any rumors or interest, but thought Madrid might be looking to replace Benzema this summer.
Yeah man, like I said, I don't have the facts but it always feels that way. Whenever we're in for a player, we seem to pay quite a bit. It could obviously all be media driven bollocks as well. Like the intial Schweinsteiger fee - didn't most outlets in the UK say we paid 12-15m GBP, and in the end a German newspaper clarified that the fee was around 6?
Thats what people on caf have been doing for a season almost.People throwing their toys out of the pram we didn't sign a player most have never seen play.
Bayern said they had been scouting him for quite a while.
I doubt Bayern even care who United signs,unless its a top quality prospect that everyone is interested in .
Tbf, they probably have also and just waited for him to show what he's about against a big team and that big team just happened to be them.
Oh I know he isn't. It was the general opinion on here that he was.
Watch this thread do a 180 and he becomes this fantastic talent that Bayern have snapped up from under our incompetent noses.
Yeah, that's fair enough. We like to steal your midfield targets. Though we were interested in Vidal way before you guys were and already had agreed on a contract with him back in 2011 when he moved to Juve because Leverkusen denied him the move to us. And Thiago simply couldn't resist once Pep called him, so it's probably more likely that we work more quietly behind the scenes while United's transfer dramas are more public. Which is really odd, because usually keeping things quiet isn't our strength at all, but at least in terms of transfers we managed to do that really well in recent years.
On the contrary I think they're paying for the fact he could be a useful squad player for 6 years and then be worth double that when he's only 24 and has a decade of play left at the top.
I guess a lot of people on here are happy about this since he is such an average talent.
Lucky for us that we have the much better Ekangamene so no real loss aftet all.
Lucky for us that we have the much better Ekangamene so no real loss aftet all.
I'd let you have Alonso for free, but somehow I think he won't go to United because of his Liverpool past
Nah he need to be totally useless and we should pay good money for him. Someone like Hargreaves or Bastian
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