The good news is we should get at least 50m for Smalling with the current prices. That might be enough to go for a world class player in defence or elsewhere.
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Skybet being inundated with price requests for Smalling to Wolves.
All aboard.
All aboard.
Smalling should stay. Rojo and jones on the other hand..
Is it worth having a sticky thread for Pre-match/post-match and media interviews with Mourinho, with threadmarks for every successive interview?
Would be very disappointed if Smalling is the centre back we're replacing.
Smalling's contract expires next summer so better off get rid now if we have no plans to extend it
50 mil is a good price to get off Smalling. I'd do it .
Remember, this is the same caf that was spitting of the prospect of signing Mane 3 years ago, Perisic last year and so on ... this is the same caf that wanted Pedro and had a meltdown when he went to Chelsea, the same caf that wanted Morata and was shitting on Lukaku last year.
So yeah, i think we can safely say that our scouts would have better judgment than the caf on a player that someone your regular Joe in here knew only during this world cup.
We'll see at the end of the year how this year's signings will perform, anything before that would be too early, especially before even signing them ...
Bigtime. I dont even rate the guy too highly but he's significantly better than Rojo, Jones and Lindelöf and probably Bailly. So what exactly would be improving? We need a CB to be our main man while Smalling / Bailly and 1 x other compete to be the first choice partner for the guy.
The problem with this is that Wolves probably won't want to spend that much on a player. It's fine when you've got Madrid and Barcelona sniffing around but you really have to squeeze every last drop out of the smaller clubs.
Agree. Getting rid of our best centre back to bring someone else in doesn't seem right to me.
Would be baffling to get rid of Smalling first out of all the CB dross.
£80m for Rojo and Smalling is hilarious.
It makes sense to me as he can leave for nothing next year.
Why would we sell Smalling?
It really is. That's what we sold Ronaldo for!
United to sign 2 or 3 more players! But maybe not. Read all about it here.
Agreed, but it makes sense that these are the prices given other values (Maguire 65m, Ricarlison 50m, etc)..
Why is everyone acting like £50M for Smalling is confirmed? It was never said, plus Smalling has one year left on his contract.
From where are we pulling the £50m figure for smalling?
With new of Smalling and Rojo on the way out fully expect Maguire or Toby to appear.
Nearly enough for Koulibally
Not unless the replacement is deamed as better and smalling wants to leave as he is not prepared to play second fiddle as opposed to those remaining.
Because it is?
Not when you read the article and Mourinho states he doesn't think he'll make more than 1 signing to BEIN, which we knew anyway. One signing will be disappointing.
Is Maguire better? Alderweireld is, but he would seem like a good partner to Smalling.
Do we have a CB about to sign with these Rojo/Smalling rumours leaving popping up?
Rather we sell Jones than Smalling tho.
Rather we sell Jones than Smalling tho.
I’ll take 3 bottles of your finest snake oil good sir!
Don’t do this to me
I doubt it’s McQueen. I am still praying one of the 2 is a RW
Out of our collective Muppet arseholes
That’s a tier 1 source pal.
Surely tier 2
Hard to believe we're going to sell Smalling when he was our most reliable defender last season and played 90% of the matches. It's not going to happen.
I don't know what is happening behind the scenes, but selling 2 of our top 4 CBs in one go is not a very intelligent move IMO, especially selling Smalling who, despite his defects is a very good PL defender, is reliable and mostly fit. Also he's our most experienced CB along with Rojo.
What we will have left is Lindelof, who imo is not good enough, yet ; Bailly and Jones - injury prone.If we are planning on buying Mina and Maguire, it wont a big improvement on Smalling and Rojo, not to mention, there will be a severe lack of experience among our CBs. Neither Maguire nor Mina has played in the CL. Our most experienced defender will be Jones, who can't stay fit
I don't think such a big change in CBs days before the start of the season is going to help us,especially if we are planning on playing one of the new CBs with a CB we have now. The lack of understanding between our CBs could be a problem
What we will have left is Lindelof, who imo is not good enough, yet ; Bailly and Jones - injury prone.If we are planning on buying Mina and Maguire, it wont a big improvement on Smalling and Rojo, not to mention, there will be a severe lack of experience among our CBs. Neither Maguire nor Mina has played in the CL. Our most experienced defender will be Jones, who can't stay fit
I don't think such a big change in CBs days before the start of the season is going to help us,especially if we are planning on playing one of the new CBs with a CB we have now. The lack of understanding between our CBs could be a problem
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