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Do you see Pogba happening? I'd have thought Eriksen would make more sense for Real than Pogba. Last year of contract, stalling on a new deal and with Levy needing to make back some money for Poch to spend, you'd have a more willing seller to deal with than a belligerent Ed Woodward (who as we've seen in the De Gea and Martial episodes, has proven that when he wants to dig in and have a war of attrition, he will do so).

Personally, I don't know where this supposed war chest is coming from. Yes, you haven't spent a lot in the last few years, but the market is radically different to the one you last really participated in, and with the renovation of Bernabeau; I ask again, where is the money coming from for the renovation to continue AND for 500m(E) to be committed to the squad in one summer?
From what I understand the financing of the stadium will be paid with a credit and its not related to the available cash.
The club increased revenues and is signing people on the financial structure(including to Chelsea Chewchuk,who worked at United?), so I think they have money, because of the few signings last years , hypothetical sales (Marcelo, Isco, Varane, Bale, Mariano, etc). They have also released a lot of money from the salary of Cristiano.

it can happen because he is a player who has been problematic in the past, with a problematic agent and with a short contract.
They speak of Pogba but also of Eriksen, Pjanic, Rabiot, Ndombele and surely many more will arise.
I do not know to what point Zidane is the boss to sign, and we do not know if he considers Pogba so important as Hazard or if he would be happy with another option.
I guess we'll see it in the next few months.
 
From what I understand the financing of the stadium will be paid with a credit and its not related to the available cash.
The club increased revenues and is signing people on the financial structure(including to Chelsea Chewchuk,who worked at United?), so I think they have money, because of the few signings last years , hypothetical sales (Marcelo, Isco, Varane, Bale, Mariano, etc). They have also released a lot of money from the salary of Cristiano.

it can happen because he is a player who has been problematic in the past, with a problematic agent and with a short contract.
They speak of Pogba but also of Eriksen, Pjanic, Rabiot, Ndombele and surely many more will arise.
I do not know to what point Zidane is the boss to sign, and we do not know if he considers Pogba so important as Hazard or if he would be happy with another option.
I guess we'll see it in the next few months.
Ah didn't realise it was on credit, that would make more sense. I assumed it was from Real's own finances.
 
I think Alex Shaw is talking about Declan Rice. Would tick all the boxes :

1. Plays as a ball winning midfielder with maturity.
2. Can play as CB a position we need some quality reinforcements with Rojo+1 going out.
3. Fits Ole's bill as a young, hungry player who also happens to be English.

If we can sign him around the 60m mark I'll be very happy. If he wasn't for sale I doubt Pellegrini would've said what he did in that presser, driving up the price.
 
That would be a decent window.
Still missing leaders throughout the squad unless Herrera stays and lindel steps up too.

We would have two World Cup winners in our XI to be fair. They should be leading that team.
 
I’d like Rice but not at the prices banded about. I don’t think he offers much besides being good at tackling/intercepting and being a solid, if unspectacular, passer. For all the criticism Matic gets sometimes I think people underestimate his ability to hold on to the ball. He actually does (under Ole) push forward a bit and is very reliable in possession.

Bruno Fernandes I do want. Think he’s coming in to the purple patch of his career.

All out for Sancho and/or Felix for the forward positions though IMO. They are special.

From the little I have seen of Felix, i really like the combination of technique and workrate he displays. Could combine well with Rashford?
 
The issue with that, for me, is we would be a team of 20 year olds, with an inexperienced manager too, and the team won’t deliver for a few years, if it ever does.

Top talents though.

Yeah you cant win anything with kids ;)
 
Declan Rice is one of the best young players in Europe currently and a good Fenian too. But it is too soon for a big move for him I feel.

Possibly a little soon, but he is British hand he has premiership experience too. Work colleague is a West Ham fan and was raving about him for ages, while he was playing at centre back too, he has that added bonus as a signing.

See a few people saying he is being over rated now he has played for England which I get, when I was first watching him from my mates tip I thought yeah he is ok, doesnt look special, just does the simple things well. And that is why he is so good, Pelligrini said he is like an old player already which I understand. Positioning, weight of pass, timing of the tackle, decision making......for his age its all superb. I do think there quite a few really good options and he could possibly be the most expensive and I definately dont think the best....at the moment anyway, but he is definately long term a far better option than what we do have and would be a really good signing
 
I am a bit worried about this Pogba stuff. We need to show some real ambition in the transfer market to help convince him to stay.

DOnt get me wrong, I dont want Pogba to leave either. But if we have to convince him to stay, ow we have a new manager....then the thought I have at the back of my mind of him not actually being loyal to the club, loving its and not just fullfilling his own prophecy......he can go
 
We had great experience laced throughout that squad though.
De Gea, Smalling, Young, Matic, Herrera and Mata have all got experience. We've also go Solskjaer and Carrick who have won it all as players and Phelan who worked under and helped win everything under one of the greatest managers the game has seen, I think we've got experience.

We also have to give the younger players chance to create their own experience, this will happen under Ole.
 
De Gea, Smalling, Young, Matic, Herrera and Mata have all got experience. We've also go Solskjaer and Carrick who have won it all as players and Phelan who worked under and helped win everything under one of the greatest managers the game has seen, I think we've got experience.

We also have to give the younger players chance to create their own experience, this will happen under Ole.
Nothing would please me more than to see most of our team made up from academy players. But we need to spend big this summer on first 11 players.
 
Respect your opinion, but dont agree.

I’m not expecting him to be Paul Scholes, but players like Carrick and Keane (hugely underrated in this area) had great passing ability. That helped us move the ball quickly forward. When you look back our buildup from defence into final third was so much better under Ferguson. Even in his worst years. And the passing ability of the defenders and midfielders were crucial, in my opinion.

Matic and even Herrera is not at their level, and in my opinion it hurts our football a bit. And Rice is not as good as these two either, in terms of passing.

Totally agree about Keane, his weight of pass was really good. I remember when I was arguing about not signing Fellaini, somebody was saying why am I slating his passing its just as good as Keanes.....what?
However, I disagree about your rating of Rice and his passing, as ironically his weight of short pass judgement and simple decision making is actually similar to Keanes I think and his positioning defensively and reading the game similar to Carricks. I think passing wise Matic is actually very poor, shielding the ball and positioning are his strengths. I also think Herrera, as likable as he is has bar purple patches been really average for us. Not saying Rice is better than them, but potentially he is certainly
 
That would be a decent window.
Still missing leaders throughout the squad unless Herrera stays and lindel steps up too.

Very good point about us missing leaders in our side and those signings possibly not being leaders either. Lindelof to me doesnt seem like captain material personality wise at all though regardless what I think of him as a player, nor Herrera really. It is another very good legitimate reason for going for DeLigt, Romagnoli for example
 
I seem to hear there was a briefing? What was it?
 
Huge money. World record fee and then some.
To be perfectly honest though my response would be to him you are going no where.

Playing devils advocate. Say £160m is offered, we all know the raw ability Pogba has, but performance wise consistently, the agent, the social media stuff, the potential of other young players about that can be bought and the other money that could be invested in other areas of the side.....would it be that bad of a deal if the money was spent wisely on top quality targets that were secured?

Personally, I would have said sell him in the summer, I wouldnt want him to leave now....but we are not talking about a player who has consitently excelled and shown great love for the club like Beckham.....and look how well he was replaced, and we are certainly not talking about an irreplacable player in my opinion like Ronaldo.

I still couldnt be certain either way if for example making two big sales like Pogba/Lukaku and investing the extra revenue added to the summer budget would leave us worse or better off. If you could get top targets £200-250m from those two + a £150-200m budget....that gets you 6/7 top targets.

Not a Lukaku fan at all, I think Pogba has attributes and ability as good as anybody out there but Im still not convinced throughout his career performance wise he justifies worthyness of such fees in terms of consistency
 
Playing devils advocate. Say £160m is offered, we all know the raw ability Pogba has, but performance wise consistently, the agent, the social media stuff, the potential of other young players about that can be bought and the other money that could be invested in other areas of the side.....would it be that bad of a deal if the money was spent wisely on top quality targets that were secured?

Personally, I would have said sell him in the summer, I wouldnt want him to leave now....but we are not talking about a player who has consitently excelled and shown great love for the club like Beckham.....and look how well he was replaced, and we are certainly not talking about an irreplacable player in my opinion like Ronaldo.

I still couldnt be certain either way if for example making two big sales like Pogba/Lukaku and investing the extra revenue added to the summer budget would leave us worse or better off. If you could get top targets £200-250m from those two + a £150-200m budget....that gets you 6/7 top targets.

Not a Lukaku fan at all, I think Pogba has attributes and ability as good as anybody out there but Im still not convinced throughout his career performance wise he justifies worthyness of such fees in terms of consistency
We'll find it difficult to blend in 7 new players so all bets would effectively be off for trophies next season.
Remember spurs tried that when they sold Bale?
 
"Pogba fits them" "the french offers himself and Madrid see it with good eyes/like the idea". "the improvement of the relationship with Raiola, key, and United need to get funds"
 
Pogba will be away to Real come the summer if they stump up the cash — no point in denying it. I just hope we spend it wisely. I’d take Varane plus cash to be fair.
 
The Varane posts by journalist are nonsense, he just said the other day with the French squad that the reports are unture.
 
Playing devils advocate. Say £160m is offered, we all know the raw ability Pogba has, but performance wise consistently, the agent, the social media stuff, the potential of other young players about that can be bought and the other money that could be invested in other areas of the side.....would it be that bad of a deal if the money was spent wisely on top quality targets that were secured?

Personally, I would have said sell him in the summer, I wouldnt want him to leave now....but we are not talking about a player who has consitently excelled and shown great love for the club like Beckham.....and look how well he was replaced, and we are certainly not talking about an irreplacable player in my opinion like Ronaldo.

I still couldnt be certain either way if for example making two big sales like Pogba/Lukaku and investing the extra revenue added to the summer budget would leave us worse or better off. If you could get top targets £200-250m from those two + a £150-200m budget....that gets you 6/7 top targets.

Not a Lukaku fan at all, I think Pogba has attributes and ability as good as anybody out there but Im still not convinced throughout his career performance wise he justifies worthyness of such fees in terms of consistency

160m isn't enough
 
Verrati or Kante I hope. Or dream.

Definitely in dream DM and CM territory but they are unobtainable due to Chelsea's potential transfer ban and Verratti just not looking like he has any plans to leave PSG at all
 
We seem to be the only top club who lose their best players to Madrid. Hate them.
 
Pogba will be away to Real come the summer if they stump up the cash — no point in denying it. I just hope we spend it wisely. I’d take Varane plus cash to be fair.

It's impossible with 3 years left on his contract unless they offer a truly ridiculous sum (world record). I think the worst case scenario from a United point of view is we agree to let him go Summer 2020 for big money and agree a deal for either Eriksen/Coutinho which would hugely soften the blow.
 
"Pogba fits them" "the french offers himself and Madrid see it with good eyes/like the idea". "the improvement of the relationship with Raiola, key, and United need to get funds"

100m+Varane and I'd wouldn't blink an eye for Pogba leaving. That way we bring in the needed quality CB, and we can focus on strengthening the midfield, RB and RW. Full Arry Redknapp mode, but it would be the ideal scenario if we are to lose Pogba.
 
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