Who is this pleb and why does he know anything?
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Who is this pleb and why does he know anything?
He is the Jon Snow of Twitter. He knows nothing.
Time for the annual De Brun discussion. He's far more likely to know things than half the journos who get posted in this thread, but because he mixes in opinions with his tweets and is quite outspoken, he gets a lot of stick. Yeah he's pretty hit and miss, but I don't get the people who protest so hard against him? He obviously has links to the club.
This.
De Bruin knows feck all. All he ever does is summarise that week's gossip columns. And even then, he hedges his bets because he knows he's bullshitting.
I've never read one of his posts and thought 'that was insightful into the inner-workings of our transfer policy'. I only ever think 'I could have come up with that'.
I've never read one of his posts and thought 'that was insightful into the inner-workings of our transfer policy'. I only ever think 'I could have come up with that'.
He doesn't.
The market has inflated true but Juve would not be buying the player United bought in 2015. As an asset Darmian's value has depreciated, he's 3 years older, just had 3 horrible years of football and is obviously not in his managers plans. So recouping our money would have been a good deal in my opinion.
And it is in my opinion a significant financial outlay if he does stay. When you factor in losing a potential £12m fee and his £3m+ wages thats £15m. Almost twice the £8m the club reportedly deemed significant enough to hold out for in negotiations with Juve.
Just because he knows a few staff workers who are his drinking mates and can get him the odd interview with fringe players like Andreas Pereira doesn't mean he has inside info. Transfers are so closely guarded that you need an excellent team with years worth of contacts like di Marzio has to get such information.
This guy simply reads the rumors and gives his opinions on whether they will happen or not. Then shifts tune when they don't. If you remember, the Pogba saga was initially optimistic, went cold in the middle and then suddenly we signed him. Pilib said we would sign him in the initial period and when it got quiet started blaming the Glazers saying they weren't paying up.
He is a bullshitter, would be better if he actually admits he simply reads newspapers and offers his opinions. Because if you look at him as a fan and not ITK, his opinions aren't bad.
He spouts crap from time to time. And it has always been misses more than hits. Wonder why people can agree with him.
Well that's approximately 180k per week
He knows feck all.
No one can prove either he does or doesn't know anything. I find the venom towards him hilarious.
It's funny how we always defend wage claims from dubious sources and our own players, but when it's Liverpool the same sources are quoted like it's gospel.
So do Tommy Doherty and James Corden.
Didn’t he get the exclusive Interview with Lukaku and was one of the original “ITK” people for that transfer. Think I remember him getting slated for saying we were in For Lukaku and not Morata?
"But he does not see central defence as a priority position to strengthen - and may wait until he has conducted the rest of his business before making a final call."
We might also be negotiating with Juve for Sandro. It's important we don't just buckle at the first sign of difficulty.
I doubt it's about the money for United. All are largely insignificant to a club like us. But like we showed with Perisic last year we will not be taken for a ride.
And again. Napoli have offered a fee just 2 mil short of our valuation. So there is no need to accept the scraps Juve are offering. Having more than one suitor helps us in that regard. Italy aren't going to the world cup so we have time to negotiate at our own pace.
There is no need to worry.
Agree with mourinho here. Central defence isnt a priority area to strengthen.
Injuries are main issue there for us but whoever we sign becomes a crock anyway so whats the point? Unless we. Get a readymade. Top tier leader.
Much rather get Lenglet and have more money for other more pressing areas.
I hope it all works out in the end and we get rid of him for a decent fee. But there's always a chance you can price a player out of a move.
I'm not convinced Napoli really did make an offer, wasn't that just one source?
And if we were negotiating for Sandro you would imagine both he and Darmian would have been part of the same deal.
I still hope we will bring in another 3 players. LB, CB, and a RW.
Seems like a sensible approach
Yeah, we don't have unlimited funds, so I don't get why people want Fellaini to leave so bad. It's gonna cost us to bloody replace him.
Not necessarily.
The Rooney and Lukaku moves were two seperate deals.
All I am saying is trust Woody. There is still time. Juventus aren't exactly blessed with many options themselves. They have been linked with Cancelo for example. Valencia would take them to the cleaners with that one. At least double what we want with probably even higher wages.
We did the same with Schneiderlin. Everton wanted to haggle but I remember Jose around that time saying that United pay a premium and we needed to start recieved fair compensation for our players too.
Not really. I'd be quite happy with Andreas Pereira taking his place on the bench this coming season.
What do you think management is going to do though? They said if Fellaini leaves we need to replace him. Not that Pereira will just come in and sit on the bench.
But you feel Fellaini should accept this in his peak years? I can't believe you don't think a player coming back from loan wouldn't take a place in the first team squad on the bench and starting some cup games?
Can't help but feel that Bale is a smokescreen that allows us to do other business elsewhere without the media jumping all over it. Bale won't come cheap in any capacity and we need multiple recruitment's this summer. Bale alone won't win us the league.
No, I am saying the management are not just going to replace Fellaini with Pereira. They have already said they would buy someone to replace him.
In Euro's it's 175,000 a week in Pounds it's just short of £155,000 a week. Not all that much for a player of his standard I would have thought.
It is out of our hands. You made out with your post that keeping Fellaini is something we should be doing, so we don't have to go out and replace him. Well we have offered him a contract, he has refused and seeks to play elsewhere. Your comment of "I don't get why people want Fellaini to leave so bad" means nothing really because it is him that wants to leave so bad. If all the fans on here wanted him to stay, we would still have to replace him because he wants to leave. Get me?
People don't seem to take into account that Fellaini leaving is not good for our squad building. That's the point I am trying to make. If he leaves and we have to replace him, and then we cant sign a CB is it really a good thing that he left?
But what has that got to do with anything? If Fellaini leaves it is because he wants to, not because some fans want him to. You posting reasons why we should want him to stay means nothing, because it is him that wants to leave. Who are you going to hold responsible for the reason you give above when he leaves? The fans, or Fellaini?
Fans shouldn't be crying themselves to sleep wanting Fellaini to leave. That's my point. It's not actually good for us if he leaves right now.
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