Y’all need to listen to the devils podcast from a week or so back. It is a damning indictment of where United are as a club that we would be happy to sign Dominic Solanke.
He isn’t United level.
Striker options?
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He isn’t United level.
Guirassy seems the most logical option for sure. Taremi is getting on a bit now and someone like Marcos Leonardo (who I really like the look of) is probably too inexperienced to really lift us and take the pressure off Rasmus.
How gettable is Martinez? He's on fire this season
He isn't suited to single striker ball.
We can agree to disagree.
Solanke is just starting to fulfil his potential. He has always been a very talented striker that never really kicked on from youth football. He seems to have filled out and is less gangly, but he always had great technique and was a good finisher.
I have to say I didn't think he'd ever reach it, but I think he'll be a fantastic buy for someone in the summer. I'd have him over Guirassay, for example.
Solanke isn't a bad player (and I think he'll probably have a decent 2nd half of his 20s and follow in the Callum Wilson mould), but he's the sort of starter on a lower-half Prem side who makes no sense to sign because they'd want 50M for him and it would be surprising if he's good enough to be a starter for us. Callum Wilson cost Newcastle 20M. The market has changed with the Prem becoming so dominant financially. Same reason we never brought in Mitrovic and Fulham eventually got 50M for him. Even with no Saudi offer and him demanding out, they probably would have gotten 40M from another Prem side.
Put it this way. Most folks in here rate Watkins. Solanke has always been a more natural 9 than him and of similar talent. Finally he has also come of age too. In my view of the buyable attacking players in the league right now Solanke is the most similar to Rasmus in style.
We are looking for competition for Rasmus though. Not his replacement/upgrade. I fully expect our next 9 to be a player quite happy to rotate Like Izak and Wilson do at Newcastle.
I don’t think so at all. ETH will want a proven scorer in the summer or who ever the manager will be will. With Hojlund the rotational option
If ETH leaves it will change that way.
Regardless. The fact we all know that ETH wanted an experienced striker this past summer
Any striker short of the absolute best of the best will look like a clown if we carry on with this shape. Neither of Hojlund or Rashford got a kick today, and it's not rare.
We will find out soon enough
Big Sam would get a tune out of the pair
Solanke not good enough eh?
find it hilarious when people belittle players like Solanke.A player who has scored goals at every level hea played at, runs the channels, presses from the front and can finish for sure.
He'd improve our front line no end.
He is great in the air as well, he will 100% be on the move in the summer. I think it's even more strange when he showed all of this when we played them the other day, so even if you just tuned in to our game, you should think he's great!
A player who has scored goals at every level hea played at, runs the channels, presses from the front and can finish for sure.
He'd improve our front line no end.
Well played
Classic. As if our entire history isn't based off youth and elevating players from smaller clubs. We're not a galacticos type club.
A player who has scored goals at every level hea played at, runs the channels, presses from the front and can finish for sure.
He'd improve our front line no end.
Yorke, Carrick, Bruce, Irwin, Solskjaer, Sheringham, Van Persie (hehe), Valencia, Ince, Sharp etc.
We have always bought strongly performing players who can step up.
Solanke is absolutely fine for us.
Stuttgart guy?
I don't think creating chances right now is the biggest issue. We do create chances and there are periods we dominate games.
Our attackers just can't score.
During January transfer window the club needs to either loan or sign an experienced striker with a decent goal scoring record. It's mental we rely on a young striker and a striker with an awful injury history.
Our first team only has one and a half strikers. Add one injury free striker and we'll have 2.5 strikers.
Our attackers just can't score.
During January transfer window the club needs to either loan or sign an experienced striker with a decent goal scoring record. It's mental we rely on a young striker and a striker with an awful injury history.
Our first team only has one and a half strikers. Add one injury free striker and we'll have 2.5 strikers.
He has contract till 2027 , Bournemouth won't let him leave for anything less than 60 m and that's a conservative estimate that more or less rule out United unfortunately .
I don't even mean for us, I don't have great hope in our recruiting at the moment, was speaking in general. Chelsea, Arsenal, Spurs, Liverpool, Newcastle and us would all do well to add him to their squads and he'd want to move to a top club while his stock is high.
Marcus Thuram would be much better than Lautaro Martinez imho for several aspects:
- He's faster and more powerful than Lauti, he'd be better suited for the Premier League.
- Inter would ask less money for him, given he joined Nerazzurri for free in the summer and his importance for the club is very different than captain Lautaro
- Lautaro will renew his contract in the next weeks, his wage would be £250k a-week, Thuram earn half of that sum.
Marcus Thuram: £70m fee; £150k a-week. Deal done.
- He's faster and more powerful than Lauti, he'd be better suited for the Premier League.
- Inter would ask less money for him, given he joined Nerazzurri for free in the summer and his importance for the club is very different than captain Lautaro
- Lautaro will renew his contract in the next weeks, his wage would be £250k a-week, Thuram earn half of that sum.
Marcus Thuram: £70m fee; £150k a-week. Deal done.
He was literally going for free in the summer. No one is paying £70m for him.
There's that word though, 'history'.
We've been mainly buying so called ready made products from top end teams since SAF retired.
There's no way we would be buying a player like Solanke under Woodward for example.
Feel like some people have an almost snobbish outlook to players like Solanke.
He's been like this for a few seasons now.
Although last season was a bit of a struggle in front of goal for him at times, mainly down to Bournemouth's struggles on the pitch.
He was absolutely tearing it up in the Championship before that.
We create crap half chances the vast majority of the time.
We don't create good chances, we just try and make whatever chance we can in the most direct way.
I don't think he's been as physically dominant with his technique remaining so high, until this season - that's my view anyway. Either way, he's constantly improved each season to this point, which also maybe makes me rethink my Guirassay opinion.
we could have bought Kudus and Gakpo for a much cheaper price....instead we end up with Antony and Mount for probably double the price
We would have quite obviously overpaid for them too
at least we would have overpaid for some fecking quality attacking talent.....not the two muppets we have currently
We could bring in Kane and not much would change. We don't create anything for the striker. Our wingers are selfish and horrible at finishing.
Gakpo is not quality attacking talent but carry on
We need someone that's for sure
he has 9 goals and 2 assists in 24 starts.....how many does Antony have??? 4 and 2 in 39 matches with ZERO this season
I didnt say he was not better than Antony I said he is not a quality attacking talent