Give it a week and we'll be preparing a bid.
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Don't get ahead of ourselves. We'll be considering preparing a bid.
We could've gone for Ziyech and put him on the right. VDS would love to deal with us but we just didn't take advantage of that connection. How would VDB fit into the team? We need a wide player who's going to start.
Hopefully. There's always a fool out there.
He's a versatile player who can play in various roles. He'll basically be a better version of Andreas Pereira. He may start on the right as a wide midfield option, or he can play in the midfield in place of one of Pogba or Bruno.
Weston McKennie's a bianconero.
If he’s been left out for these reasons we’ll know tomorrow or Monday at the latest.
Whilst VDB clearly doesn’t solve all of our issues, if you don’t think he improves our squad, you’re clearly deluded.
Miles better than Pereira, Lingard and Mata and covers every position between the back 4 and the front 2/3.
Depending on price, he’s a good signing and allows us to move a player on, which Ole probably won’t do until he has reinforcements.
€40m is the going rate for a proven CL Squad player IMO.
If it’s true and we do sign him, it’s a good start to the transfer window
Miles better than Pereira, Lingard and Mata and covers every position between the back 4 and the front 2/3.
Depending on price, he’s a good signing and allows us to move a player on, which Ole probably won’t do until he has reinforcements.
€40m is the going rate for a proven CL Squad player IMO.
If it’s true and we do sign him, it’s a good start to the transfer window
Weird transfer. Good athlete, bad footballer. I reckon even Schalke fans aren't too fussed about this.
One American Schalke fan that I know is annoyed at the low amount of money that Juve are paying for him. He expected McKennie to go for more than 21 million Euros over two years.
Exactly. We only need to look at our last match in the Europa League. Both Pogba and Bruno looked spent, but the options to reinforce the midfield were severely lacking in any decent positive/forward thinking ability. VDB would be a good addition to the squad.
Neither is FFP when it comes to City.
I agree, we're highly unlikely to sign both Sancho and VDB. At this stage though I'm quite happy to move on from Sancho
Sure, given that they are circling the drain financially fans aren't happy with just a loan, but if it wasn't for the commercial value that comes with his nationality I don't think anyone would even pay €20m. Given that reports suggested they would have to sell at least one of their remaining "stars" I think they'll be quite happy that it's McKennie and not Harit or Kabak.
Yeah, I agree. Serdar had a better season than McKennie did, and in terms of McKennie's best role, Serdar's a better player from what I've seen.
Anything in the Fred to Galatasaray on loan rumors?
Nothing at all
Yes, Serdar seems to be the player who adds some edge to their midfield and their season went off the rails around the time he started picking up injuries. Since his contract expires in 2022 he will probably have to be sold next summer.
Let's not jump the gun, we'll be sending scouts to keep tabs on the player, before we consider preparing a bid....in installments, with add-ons
It doesn’t mean anything mate it’s just one of these silly made up expressions like ‘preparing a bid’.
Basically everyone is starting to talk about this transfer, nobody knows what’s going on, so we have to say some football sounding stuff so if it happens it looks like we knew about it.
Except this looks like a brief from the club given that neither Peach nor Stone report just any United-related news.
Does it?
Either way ‘monitoring’ means absolutely nothing and your explanation does nothing to change that.
Simon Peach very rarely reports on United-related transfer news unless there's something confirmed or he gets a brief. He's not your typical armchair ITK. If you want to be stubborn about it, then whatever.
Not being stubborn you just seem a bit naive when it comes to the media, and your attempted explanation of what ‘monitoring’ means also shows inexperience.
These are just guys desperately trying not to be left behind by rumoured developments.
If you want to one-up me by calling me naive, then so be it, but I'd like to know what the basis is for this "naivety". So far, your stance is "trust no journalist", and I'd like to know what that's based on.
Reckon we've been waiting for Villa to lower their valuation on Grealish, and are now moving on?
I don’t see why we couldn’t get both. If we can move our fringe players for £30-40m then we cover the VDB transfer and then our transfer budget covers Sancho. Roughly a net spend of £100m.
Even good news is met with ridicule or pessimism on this forum.
Lord give me strength.
RedCafe: GIVE US NEWS OF A TRANSFER! Chelsea are doing bits and we’re doing nothing!
Also Redcafe literally 2 days later: Sounds like a brief, don’t believe it, we’ll just twiddle our thumbs like we always do, it’s just a bargaining chip! United’s name getting thrown in again.
Lord give me strength.
RedCafe: GIVE US NEWS OF A TRANSFER! Chelsea are doing bits and we’re doing nothing!
Also Redcafe literally 2 days later: Sounds like a brief, don’t believe it, we’ll just twiddle our thumbs like we always do, it’s just a bargaining chip! United’s name getting thrown in again.
In fairness to peach, he's probably asked his contact at the club and been asked to play it down or told it's not done - which is just factually true. We're likely in negotiations/discussions and dont want to pre empt an outcome and risk more bad press on this stuff.
Guess Romero can go now
Could be the case or we're now expecting Grealish to put pressure on Villa for a transfer away.
All I’m saying is ‘monitoring’ the situation doesn’t have any practical meaning in reality. It’s just what journalists say if they’ve heard a club might be interested in a player.
As someone said earlier, if VdB has been pulled out of a game then a deal has been agreed with another club. If that is us then we’re well beyond monitoring. We’ve basically signed him.
I would say that about journalists like Delaney, James Robson, or even Odgen, but regarding Peach specifically, I'd go with what Lash said.
True. I honestly think we've been waiting on one thing, and everything will move pretty quickly after that.
Peach is a bit like Stoney -He tries to play it down until deal it s 100% done.
Regarding van de Beek, our interest in him is nothing new. We've "monitored" him for a while, and van der Sar even name-dropped us when asked about van de Beek in June.
In terms of which club it could be, there were only 2 clubs that were linked with him for a while: Real Madrid and us. Barcelona's came up after Koeman took over, but both Overmars and Barcelona-linked journalists have broken that link. If van de Beek has been pulled out because of a potential transfer, then either we or Real Madrid are making a move, or another club has suddenly come in for him. (Coming back full circle) The Tweet's brought out to downplay the news until there's something official. He and Stone are way safer than Fabrizio Romano or Mohamed Bouhafsi, who tend to report transfer news when there's any bit of action going on.
Yeah, exactly. You'd rarely see transfer news coming from them until the club's gotten something done.
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