Not much of an alternative then?
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Not much of an alternative then?
We’ll probably buy Trippier whilst Spurs spend the money on Wan-Bissaka who will no doubt end up being one of the best full backs in the league.
No problem though a bid in 3-4 years time for triple his current value will probably be on the cards.
No problem though a bid in 3-4 years time for triple his current value will probably be on the cards.
Why would we buy either when we have many positions that need improving and Meunier is available cheaper?
Maybe our 50 scouts only watch the Premier League.
Imagine someone being sent abroad to watch someone and he is sat in a bar watching a PL game.
Looking at the above release clauses, we could realistically sign 6 players under 150m and all our spending could be recouped just by selling Pogba. Infact, we will be in negative net spend.
Incoming
Muenier 25M
Brandt 25m
Alderweirald 25m
Tellas 30m
Bruno 30m
Rabiot free
So for 135m, we can realistically sign 6 great players who are at good age. We can even go nuts on Sancho and Felix for combined 180m, that will take our spending to 315m, from which we can recoup easily 200m with our outgoings and have a net spend of 115n only. I hope and wish Ole does a rebuilding like LVG albeit with better recruitment.
Outs
Pogba 150m
Bailly 20m
Rojo 5m
Darmian 5m
Jones 10m
Perriera 10m
Lineup next season
DDG
Muenier Alderweirald Smalling Shaw/Tellas
Sancho Rabiot Bruno Brandt Martial
Felix
Incoming
Muenier 25M
Brandt 25m
Alderweirald 25m
Tellas 30m
Bruno 30m
Rabiot free
So for 135m, we can realistically sign 6 great players who are at good age. We can even go nuts on Sancho and Felix for combined 180m, that will take our spending to 315m, from which we can recoup easily 200m with our outgoings and have a net spend of 115n only. I hope and wish Ole does a rebuilding like LVG albeit with better recruitment.
Outs
Pogba 150m
Bailly 20m
Rojo 5m
Darmian 5m
Jones 10m
Perriera 10m
Lineup next season
DDG
Muenier Alderweirald Smalling Shaw/Tellas
Sancho Rabiot Bruno Brandt Martial
Felix
Could see several of those players going to Spurs.
Sensible business is not in Woodwards playbook.
In the summer Tripper would have looked a really good signing. Truly no idea what has happened to him this year.
But Tottenham being willing to see should be massive alarm bells.
Could you imagine for a second that we were sharp enough to pick up those INs for those prices? Not with our lack of expertise!
Given the state of the club, i don't see how that's far from reality
The only thing those other 2 have over Meunier is Premier league experience.
Ultimately, it depends on who Woodward prefers.
I can't click on the link right now, is the journalists name Amadou Haidara and the article about Werner? Or is Amadou Haidara some unheard of kid that wants to play for us?
He's a player who moved to Leipzig in December from Salzburg.
Had a cruciate ligament injury and returned last month.
Good to see you’ve taken on board Ole’s wish to have a strong English core to the team
Seriously lads wake up with all this fantasy stuff. United have always had 4/5 English/Scottish/Irish guys in the team. That won’t change.
Sounds about right.
Thanks Damien. Here you go :
Cheers mate, not one to get excited about then.
Sounds about right.
Cheers mate, not one to get excited about then.
He’s a big talent.
Nice to still hear this, tbh!
He can be a good player. Was a massive success at RB Salzburg and given his age, he can become a very good player. After seeing him play 2 or 3 games, I was sure that he will be taken by RB Leipzig like the other talents beforeSounds about right.
Cheers mate, not one to get excited about then.
Bruno, Ziyech, Rodri and Brandt combined would cost less than the fee we should expect for Pogba if all the reports are to be believed.
He's a kid coming off a bad injury who has barely played any football in a top 5 league, not what we need right now, we have those kinds of players.
So we are now going for a spurs reject? I can do a better job than these scouts. Seriously?
Is it so tough identify a FB from other leagues ?
Is it so tough identify a FB from other leagues ?
Nobody is saying we should sign him. All of that doesn’t change the fact that he’s a highly rated young player.
My point still stands that for us right now he's nothing to be excited about, highly rated potential who has never played in a good league is neither here nor there, we have players like Gomes and Garner we could say that about.
Woodward reportedly likes Trippier and wants to get him in.
Solskjaer apparently prefers AWB, but Woodward usually gets his way (see Mourinho last summer).
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport...woodward-transfer-window-latest-a8881806.html
Generally, Irish and Scottish players are crap though. Wouldn't see Manchester City or Liverpool having half their team full of Irish, Scottish and English players. Times have changed and we need to move on. So we should basically sign Irish, Scottish or English players as they used to be half of Man United team even though they are generally crap and won't win you a title. Living in the past is all I say. The only English/Irish/Scottish players I would have would be Jadon Sancho and Aaron Wan Bissika.
This would be a continuation of the feckwittery that is our transfer "strategy." Hopefully it's neither and the Meunier stories are true.
Agreed, we need to let go of the Fergie era and move with the times.
I mean why on earth would he prefer trippier if he's bothered about image? He's 29 and not very good. AWB is by far and away the better option if it was between the two, it's painfully obvious to see. I don't believe that for a second.
Please be a smokescreen for a decent right back.
Woodward would reportedly buy half the England World Cup squad from last summer, if he could.
As for not believing it, surely in the last 6 years Woodward has done more than enough to prove his utter incompetence regarding football matters. I don't know why anyone would be surprised by anything he (or the club) does in this area.
he probably saw us paying owen, falcao,hargreaves, saha and rojo and thought yay ! free money, they take my type.
Didn't realise Leipzig took him. He was very impressive for Salzburg in the Europa League.
I'm not denying they've been shocking, just when has he ever overruled a manager because he "prefers" them. At least not sanctioning the Alderweireld deal, if that's to be believed, had logic.
Reportedly overruled Mourinho on numerous football matters, including the sales of Shaw, Martial & Pogba and purchases of Alderweireld/Maguire (Woodward thought they'd be our 5th best CBs and instead personally offered Madrid £100m over breakfast for Varane, which was of course laughed off) and, of course, Willian/Perisic.
And that was Mourinho, who isn't exactly known as a pushover. I very much doubt that Woodward will have any sense of compunction about telling poor Ole what's what.
I try not to put much stock in paper rumours but Solskjaer not being able to sign Wan-Bissaka because Woodward prefers Trippier does sound horribly plausible.
We'll probably sign nobody and have Young as first choice right back again. Then once the window closes Woodward will put out a story that United could have spent £100m on Kimmich if we had wanted to.
We'll probably sign nobody and have Young as first choice right back again. Then once the window closes Woodward will put out a story that United could have spent £100m on Kimmich if we had wanted to.
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