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Really liked the idea of signing Longstaff, but that supposed price is beyond laughable given how little he's played and unproven he is. I like a gamble, but that would be madness.
I wasn't deliberately misconstruing his words I looked up the quote since and posted it. In any case I think it was deliberately inflammatory and given all the speculation,deliberately expressing a will to move. Fair enough if you want to give him benefit of doubt, but for me there's been a problem, and split opinions, under Ferguson, mourinho and now solskjaer and in all of those cases he's done not nearly enough to see how he's worth the hassle he causes.
So Leicester sign Perez from Newcastle, a first team regular who scored something like 15 goals for them for 30m, but they value Longstaff, a kid with 9 first team appearances at 50m? Guaranteed that if a small club came in for Longstaff they probably could have got him for 20m of less. Thanks but no thanks Newcastle. They are well within their right to value a player at what ever price they want, but if we paid that much for him I would hope Woodward would be fired the next day...
Don't get me wrong, I think there was a lot of misinformation out there as to what he said exactly. I'd recalled it as a "maybe", lots of media outlets reported it as "time for a new challenge". When Ole says there's an agenda out there about Pogba, he's not far off from the truth. Yes, he likes the attention and it seems like it takes up too much of his time but he was far and away our best player last year so I'm fine with keeping him. We'll either get what we've been getting, a great but fairly inconsistent player or he'll become better.
If only there was a way for Pogba to put an end to all the speculation...
If he signs a new contract with a pay rise he'll have never wanted to leave
That is good way to do it. You make a deal with lets say Palace. Buy me that player and then sell him to us plus few million for effort. Real did it in the past
Don't think Lukaku is on par with them. I expected a lot more goals out of him. At Everton in his his last season he scored 25 league goals, I expected him to score at least that many for us. Someone of his supposed ability for a top club should not go on a run of 2 and a half months without scoring a league goal, this is totally unacceptable. He dropped from scoring 43 League goals in two seasons at Everton to 28 in 2 seasons in League for us. Not a return I would expect from a so-called top class striker.
Don't know much about Longstaff but if this is true £50m seems crazy for a player who has only played 9 PL games. H e may be something ans should we sign sign him he could prove me wrong but this seems sheer madness.
Would take £60m today just to get him out quick to give us time to get a replacement in.
Yeah but the player has to be willing to feck over his current club and leave out the back. In the case of Longstaff, his boyhood club which he loves. Unlikely.
And then Ed Woodward ended up paying four times the amount, plus the effort bonus.
"Money is not an object".
I'm not sure about Maguire really, I don't see anything so special about him but at the same time He'll improve us.
Also what's with his face? one day He looks like Emo version of Harry Kane, the next, Susan Boyle.
He's more likely to dye his hair in Real Madrid colors.
Says more about our club than him. Literally every signing turns sht after they sign. Coincidence? I think not. If you had to bet your house on a player scoring 20 goals outside the top bracket players - Kane, Aguero, Ronaldo, Messie, Neymar etc then Lukaku would be up there as long as he was playing and the team played to his strengths. But that applies to all players. I bet Messie would be sht in our team, like he is for Argentina. If pushed came to shove 99 percent of United fans would bet their house on Lukaku scoring the most goals in our team. Not saying he shouldn't be sold. Just that he is not sht like everyone makes him out to be. But if we refuse to play a system that suits him then whats the point of him. He will be banging in goals for fun in Italy that you can guarantee.
You have a fair point and I would have definitely bet that he would have scored at least 20 league goals a season for us. I had very high hopes for him when he signed due to his consistently high scoring numbers and I thought if he was to stay with us for the rest of his career that he would be quite high up our list of top all time top scorers but sadly this hasn't happened. I wouldn't want Messi in our team as I feel as if any defender could get close to him the would clatter him and cause a serious injury, just to stop him getting past.
Bullshit as usual.
@Mainoldo he won’t respond to your question. He just scours the forum for any hint of perceived anti-British bias, comes in and does a psycho-analysis of the poster and leaves. Don’t hold your breath.
Hilarious that Newcastle are apparently a “rich club”.
I disagree we purchased Pogba at a rather high fee and since then the market has inflated, Pogba has won the world cup, along with the odd silverware with us and has just come off a very decent season scoring his highest amount of goals in the league yet. Our set price is not to scare clubs away it's a reflection of all the above and a fair reflection.
Newcastle on the other hand are doing exactly what you just said, settling a stupidly high fee knowing that nobody in there right mind would pay that for a young lad who's only just broke into a mid- lower table team.
Not really. How many PL games did Jadon Sancho play before City sold him for £8 million? In 1 season he's now worth £100 million.
Based on?
Well the stats show more.
Rom scored in total
25 Everton 2016 - 18 league goals
26 Everton 2017 - 25 league goals
27 United 2018 - 16 league goals
Rom had no cup run in his last season at Everton. Second to last season at Everton he did and the league goals drop a lot.
Rom Total
20 Everton 2015 - 10 league goals, Everton had a run in Europe which scored 8 in.
Extra games in cups seem to take a lot out of him.
He did score 27 times in his first season here which is very much like his 2016 season plus cup run at Everton and Jose's sabotage two fingers to the board season he scores 15.
United conceded just 28 two seasons ago and 54 last season. Arsenal conceded 51 for the last two seasons.
Our last season was very dysfunctional, I hate to use it to draw conclusions. Rom is a very good striker who would get his Everton numbers under a half decent coach not trying cause a mess.
Had no idea he was a City player.
I don't like the Idea (if true) of promising Pogba his transfer to Real next season. We could be in for more strolling around the pitch from him.
Commit or get out.
Commit or get out.
How can Villa get him if City had a problem getting a work permit due to him not having played the required percentage of games for the national team?
I don't think he's worth the astronomical fee but Sir Alex Seems to like me and once supposedly phoned him after we beat Sheffield Unnited in the Youth Cup in 2011 to tell 'If he kept his head down and worked hard and that he would play at the top level'.
How much would United sell Greenwood for?
I agree with the bolded bit, (That is from a Leicester fan), but who realistcally would be better/attainable in the current market?
You could pick a random name from the continent, but this is saddled with risk of course (A risk Leicester would have to take should Harry leave and replace him with Soyuncu or Benkovic who are currently on our books)
It is impossible to make a "no risk" argument for such players if people are being honest, as there are examples of such risks at many clubs in the Prem - Mangala, Bailly, (Pick an Arsenal defender of your choice), so its not so easy as people make out. Unless De Ligt somehow happens, options are few.
Ake seems the best fit, talks of 40m though I imagine are optimistic as don`t imagine the Cherries want to lose him anymore than Leicester want to lose Harry.
Agree with this. If that number is correct I hope we move on.
Newcastle are well within their right to demand whatever they want for their players.
They don't just have to roll over for you.
They don't just have to roll over for you.
They are, as fans are within their right to laugh at a clearly absurd price tag and say its time to move on. They're pricing a team out of a move by naming a deliberately inflated price, and people as a result are laughing at the price. Nobody is telling them to roll over, they're reacting exactly as Newcastle would expect them to.
It's their right indeed.
Its not about the misses. Literally all strikers miss sitters including Messie and Ronaldo. Top strikers dont give a fk and score the next one. At the end of the season if you score 20+ then job done although obviously they will still be annoyed by missing the sitters. But what can you do - they are humans not robots.
Isn’t there a rule around being registered to three clubs in the same window to stop this? I’m sure I’ve seen that somewhere...
You make a fair point and I particularly agree with part in bold but although we didn't play to the best of our ability last season I should have scored more than 12 in the league last season mate.
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