I would say that about journalists like Delaney, James Robson, or even Odgen, but regarding Peach specifically, I'd go with what Lash said.
Guess Romero can go now
FFP, better known as Feck Fair Play250m
I understand, and that's fine. Maybe this might be more meaningful:Aye that’s fine. Again I’m just saying ‘monitoring’ is a meaningless expression and doesn’t tell us anything.
I understand, and that's fine. Maybe this might be more meaningful:
I understand, and that's fine. Maybe this might be more meaningful:
We love to monitor situations don’t we? Monitor what exactly, wait till another club makes a move for him first then bid and make it harder for ourselves? Woody logic.
After agreeing with Manchester City until 2024, Yangel Herrera agrees his loan to Granada for the 2020/21 season.
The club will have a purchase option of 20 million Euros.
He was Valencia's primary option [to replace Ferran Torres, I'm guessing?].
I understand, and that's fine. Maybe this might be more meaningful:
Yeah, it wouldn't surprise me if we are.Yeah, I get where you’re coming from. I think we’re actually saying the same thing really. I just get a bit tired journalist trotting out the ‘monitoring’ and ‘preparing’ bids guff.
No offence to you.
Monitoring him yes, feeling out the situation
Clubs don’t just bid and hope for the best, most clubs talk and monitor the situation and don’t actually bid unless it’s going to be accepted
Hence why United haven’t actually lodged a bid yet in the Sancho debacle, the 80-20-20 was suggested to Dortmund but a bid hasn’t officially been submitted yet
So monitoring doesn’t literally mean sitting there and watching from a far.
They’re feeling out the situation and seeing if he actually wants to come here before lodging a bid
We can see if he's keen on joining us or has his heart set elsewhere. The other thing is that, if we make a formal offer, it could make other clubs act and put us in a potential bidding war.I know what it means, my comment came with a hint of sarcasm. I mean we’re well aware of Van de Beek we were linked with him last summer and would’ve had scouts watching him last season. we know what Sort of player he is and surely would’ve sounded out roughly how much Ajax valued him at so at this point how much monitoring do we have left to do? We should be either making a formal bid or not. The only thing would be if we were still considering Grealish as first choice as a midfield option but seeing how reluctant we are spending the money on Sancho our main target I can’t see us forking out potentially £70m on him.
We can see if he's keen on joining us or has his heart set elsewhere. The other thing is that, if we make a formal offer, it could make other clubs act and put us in a potential bidding war.
Interesting point. What would the signs be if a player was interested in joining United or any other club?True. But it doesn’t take a lot to see if a player is interested in joining Man Utd or not.
That's why you try to stay one step ahead by going through the player's agents to determine what a club would accept as a good offer. The fact that we're in touch with van de Beek's agents means that we've probably approached Ajax already by now.Also it works both ways, yes making a formal bid could potentially cause other teams to make a move but sitting back and monitoring the situation will eventually result in other teams bidding anyway. You can’t sign a player unless to formally make an offer, if other teams get involved you can’t help that you can only offer a better deal and hope for the best.
I'd be fairly sure I'd taken some strong hallucinogens
We are champions in monitoring
Weird transfer. Good athlete, bad footballer. I reckon even Schalke fans aren't too fussed about this.
Plus Gattuso never warmed up to him, so he was always bound to leave.that’s a great deal - Allan is a very good DM. I guess playing again for Carletto sealed the deal
Plus Gattuso never warmed up to him, so he was always bound to leave.
I think they're waiting on Wijnaldum before signing up Thiago. If Wijnaldum wants to leave, they'll go all in on Thiago. If not, then they might try and negotiate a lower fee for him.Pool won't make another signings after Thiago, right? So a bit crazy they didn't immediately pay 30M for a player of his qualities.
We can't just be 'monitoring' the situation if Van de Beek was left out of the team because of transfer developments. I reckon there is something going on already (contract talks etc.) and we will close this one soon.
that’s a great deal - Allan is a very good DM. I guess playing again for Carletto sealed the deal
If he is available at 30m and we are looking at Grealish and VDB no way are we not looking at Thiago. The question really is will Liverpool pay up.Probably a ploy to make Liverpool pay up?