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Sofyan Amrabat | signs for United on loan
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So we should move forward with players who aren't good enough. At some point you need to cut your losses if they are blocking others coming in. West Hams offer for Maguire was fair, it's very common for selling clubs to give the departing paying a settlement to go, not unique to united.
Mctominay, is a bang average player, Mount has proven over a number of seasons he isn't. That's why there prices are different. I don't get your point with that one.
If Mctominay easily has a value of £40m, why has nobody offered that?
He has done nothing to be worth that much, he is an absolute myth and isn't young either.
We need to move players on. It's not accepting low-ball offers if that is the only offer coming in. People don't want our players because many of them are average or below, prices should be realistic and reflect that.
The standard of the league keeps going up, and we don't move at the same pace. Barring Luton, I think ever PL club has a midfielder better than Mctominay.
Doesn't sound that clued up if price was 35m eur all summer but they accept 19m eur from Forrest.
Tick tock 30 hrs to go..
Amrabat is the player we really need. A DM/CM to play alongside Casemiro. So far we have been run over in the midfield area.
No worries, we have £2M to burn in the window
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Get a fecking move on. It’s not like we’re in desperate need for a midfielder or anything.
I’d go with Mc’Rabat (As in macrobat like acrobat, geddit??!)
I’m going to get that get yer coat emoji again aren’t I?
The hindrance with Maguire wasn't actual cash, it was the FFP budget. You're 100% correct if we are just talking about cash. He's a sunk cost and he's hardly going to be used so cutting our losses and getting a more useful player in makes sense.
The problem is that our FFP transfer budget would have actually been reduced by dumping Maguire in this way, because the remaining amortization of his transfer fee is immediately counted in full as a loss. Selling him for a low enough fee actually reduced the amount of money we could spend on transfers wrt FFP accounting.
If I was Amrabat, I'd be so disappointed that it's come to this. Not only would I not prefer United, I'd actively want to go somewhere else so that I wasn't always reminded of how badly run they are and how little they wanted me. Imagine coming to United as a loan player after waiting the whole transfer window and saying no to perfectly good clubs and Liverpool
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If he goes to Fulham how embarrassing
He would not. Its united or burst.
I'd be shocked if this gets done
They can blow us out of the water financially
Fairly confident/hopeful we'll get this done, even though its been a shambolic mess of a window.
So much competition for him. Must be great.
Well he's been rejecting all the competition for United reportedly.
How ridiculous that statement sounds. Never thought to see this day. Bloody hell
Maybe this is what we need to compete again. If he comes, it'll be because he wants to be here, rather than just because we offered the highest salary.How ridiculous that statement sounds. Never thought to see this day. Bloody hell
Not sure about that. If we get to the dying embers of the window and we've still not come close to wrapping this up, he would well within his rights to go elsewhere, get paid a lot more and experience a new league. I'm referring to the PL in saying the above; going to a club like Fulham is a lot more rewarding than staying where he is, unless of course he has a blinding season and has bigger names after him in 2024.
Given his age and current profile, it mightn't be a risk he's willing to take.
So basically we don’t have funds and we let cucurella deal go so that we can sign Amrabat with some extra pennies. Couldn’t also afford Gravenberch due to the same reason. Now to see Gravenberch going to Liverpool. The only thing remaining now is Fulham sign Amrabat too which also means they wouldn’t sign Mctominay from us and we would be left with nothing.
Nah we'll probably still offer the highest salary, I meant from Fiorentina's point of view
We are not playing with two dm’s.
Sounds gory
Not nothing, we’d still have McTominay. And Maguire. And Donny.So basically we don’t have funds and we let cucurella deal go so that we can sign Amrabat with some extra pennies. Couldn’t also afford Gravenberch due to the same reason. Now to see Gravenberch going to Liverpool. The only thing remaining now is Fulham sign Amrabat too which also means they wouldn’t sign Mctominay from us and we would be left with nothing.
summed it upSo basically we don’t have funds and we let cucurella deal go so that we can sign Amrabat with some extra pennies. Couldn’t also afford Gravenberch due to the same reason. Now to see Gravenberch going to Liverpool. The only thing remaining now is Fulham sign Amrabat too which also means they wouldn’t sign Mctominay from us and we would be left with nothing.
Did Fulham miss the memo that he just wants utd?
With Gravenberch there are questions about his attitude. With Amrabat there are no such concerns, he’s a monster.
Yes we will especially when Mount is out injured.
The three players I thought would be out of the door when the season ended yet they are still here.
We signed 3 first 11 players by August for 170m . It hasn’t been a shambolic mess of a window at all.
Yes, last thing we need is more martial wannabes with attitude issues.
He's been turning clubs down left and right this summer in view of whatever ETH promised him, what made Fulham think he'd join?
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