No. We had to pay a higher loan fee to remove the obligation to buy. The deal is fine and gets round our immediate cash problems.
Sofyan Amrabat | signs for United on loan
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No. We had to pay a higher loan fee to remove the obligation to buy. The deal is fine and gets round our immediate cash problems.
What did you expect us to pay?
We got the loan to buy option that works for FFP.
Fiorentina would have much preferred the cash upfront, im sure.
Ten Hag promising him reminds me of Fergie waiting on Van Nistlerooy after the ACL. Hope the lad comes in and does a great job.
Delighted with this!!
How's that 35 total?
Finally!
Good signing. Keeps our options open for next season if it didnt work out
Correct. Most people here don’t even have a savings account the way they talk about money.
Luckhurst is an armchair transfer journo. No point listening to him.
Really hope he improves our midfield and makes us more solid.
Yep, we shouldn't get hurt if he proves to be a bit rubbish - we just won't take up the option. In the meantime, he fills a sizable midfield hole, which is very welcome.
Vidal no?
Good passer who sometimes cant manage a 5 yard pass.
All right.
I swear Fred becomes better every day since he left. In a month he'll be treated like Xavi or Modrić.
Definitely improves the midfield.
Casemiro, Amrabat, Bruno, Mount, Eriksen, Mainoo is a good collection of midfielders. Hopefully Mainoo is back in the mix soon.
McTominay and Hannibal as back-up / depth.
Casemiro, Amrabat, Bruno, Mount, Eriksen, Mainoo is a good collection of midfielders. Hopefully Mainoo is back in the mix soon.
McTominay and Hannibal as back-up / depth.
But you understand whilst McT and Fred have physically been put in those roles, that’s not where they are best? I am extremely dubious of your eye for a player given the player I envisage Amrabat being but, as said I haven’t watched him in serie a and you may be right, we shall see over the coming games I guess.
I would rather he was put on the banned list. He’s supposed to be Tier 2 but we’ve seen again that Romano is more than one tier above this idiot.
Luckhurst in the mud! You love to see it. 
€10m for initial loan, €20m for initial signing fee and €5m for when we win CL.
The planes been cancelled! 
I wouldn't put him on the ban list as he has had some good exclusives in the past like the Varane transfer for example but yeah I would drop him down a tier.
35 is just the loan fee.
We're also covering twice his Fiorentina wage for the duration of the loan and paying for the refurbishment of the Fiorentina board members' collective houses!
What an embarrassment!
Was effectively running a campaign to instil him as our number 1 for about a year.
and the fiorentina president is allowed to invoke prima nocta on any manchester united fan, for the duration of the deal.
Vidal has a little bit of hair
Title update, please!
So is he actually any good then?
I for one can't wait to see our midfield actually fighting and bruising people again ala the Phil Neville, Alan Smith days at least
Flight has been cancelled, but this could just mean the flightplan has expired and they need to file another one.
He's rubbish mate.
So United 'get the deal' done on transfer deadline day, with some financial chicanery to make up for our overspending everywhere else. We've known he was £30m for 3 months, it took us this long to get the deal in place instead of giving him a preseason with us.
I think he's a good signing though. Just with United, my whelms feel so undered when it comes to transfers.
I think he's a good signing though. Just with United, my whelms feel so undered when it comes to transfers.
Nunes and Paulinha were highly rated players who went for £30-40 million on permanent transfers. Amrabat is a player who has been desperate to leave all summer and available for about £17 million who we have signed on a deadline day loan due to having a midfield crisis and being skint. They aren't really comparable deals. I think the reaction would have been a bit more positive had Amrabat been United's first choice and we'd signed him permanently in June when it became clear he was available.
I think the frustration of a lot of United fans is that once again, the deal shows a lack of forward planning. It was obvious for months that we would need a midfielder since Ten Haag clearly doesn't trust/want Fred or McTominay and Casemiro can't play every week. We've sat out as the likes of Caicedo, Rice, Lavia, Baleba, Kovacic, MacAllister, Tonali, Prowse, Endo, Nunes, Gravenberch, Palhinha etc join other clubs. That's fine if we have another plan, but the fact that we've ended up paying 10 million euros on deadline day to take Amrabat on loan for a year has the same tones of desperation and panic that have been too common to post-Ferguson United recruitment.
Glad we managed to get this one over the line, a welcome addition, especially considering Casemiro's age / proneness to suspension.
One injury away from Maguire probably playing yeah, if we can’t shift him it’s realistic that he’d be 4th choice.
Chances are we aren’t going to have enough players out at any given time for him or Evans to play significant minutes, so adding another centre back doesn’t make a lot of sense without letting at least one or two go.
Very happy with this. Sure he's not absolutely sensational, at minimum he's at least an upgrade over McT or Fred. He's got a skillset we need right now and he's a warrior.
It could also mean he's not good enough. Despite Sangare being touted as a great option that all the big teams should go for, none did and now he's joining Nottingham Forest.
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