Hes been linked as a Sancho alternative
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I hope not. Won't mind us spending 50-60 m for Upamecano though.
Miguel Delaney linked us and he wasn't in the squad at the weekend. Could be nothing. Could be everything...
He wasn’t in the squad for their opener I don’t think either. He might be injured.
BBC chap gives it legitimacy?
I do think that this notion may have prevented the deal already. It’s been widely reported/suggested that we try to haggle and then end up paying it.. There is no win for Woodward and the board in this now. Even if they get it done, they’ll rightly be questioned on why it wasn’t done sooner. If they don’t, they’ll rightly be questioned on why we’ve passed up the opportunity to sign a generational home grown talent
It is our standard operating procedure
He never attends any press conferences so won't matter who asks questions
Yeah you're right, though Liverpool we're definitely interested, so might have just been protecting him for that.
I wouldn't complain if it happened but can't see it.
Phil McSalty
I thought that there could have been something else besides Delaney's report. Why are several fans taking his word on this when no one else with a bit of reliability has reported this (not even Jason Burt, Mike McGrath, or Jamie Jackson)?
James to Leeds and Saar to United? Net deficit 25 Million. Could work!
Cnut or not, i hope he’s right
McNulty doesn’t know anything. He’s just taking the piss.
This.
Yep just speculating as we all are at this point.
McNulty is a twat, but I don't think he's wrong. Feels like we'll continue the trend of overpriced star we'll struggle to offload in 2 seasons.
Yes i’m not convinced on Sarr. To United that is, not the player’s potential as i know next to nothing about him
Who do you think it would be though? Bale was the obvious one we could all potentially see coming.
If we somehow miraculously land Sancho then we will not be looking to offload him in two seasons.
Perhaps, but surely there would be more of an uproar across our fanbase and the media if we didn't sign Sancho at all?
No doubt! After being so confident Sancho would happen, I'm not really anymore, though.
Hard to say, really. Maybe Sorloth, maybe Sarr, maybe some other right wing or striker option out there. Neither of them are necessarily bad options, per se, I just think like the tone of McNulty's first tweet - we could/might end up paying over the odds and the player not living up to that [understandable] price-tag and the media scrutiny being too much.
I like Sorloth. Rimes with Warlock. We could use some magic.
Sorloth. Sorloth. He comes from Mordor, he'll fecking murder you.
Sign him up!
Sorloth. Sorloth. He comes from Mordor, he'll fecking murder you.
Sign him up!
I'm not so sure, he had a good spell in Turkey and showed signs of promise, so I think there is some potential there.
I think it's the eerily quiet nature about his future, we loaned Garner to Watford, so people are trying to connect dots. For what it's worth, I'm not sure we're in for him, but ive been shocked in the past.
If it's based on the quietness behind his future, then it's because there hasn't been much activity for him. His agent denied any and all activity a while back, and journalists who are aware of the situation have mentioned that Dortmund have yet to connect with any club on Sarr.
Who is that ‘star’ though? Not sure one is available.
That also depends on whether Ole would want an alternative. So far, all signs point to him wanting Sancho and Sancho only. If he was open to someone else, the club would surely have been more active in the transfer market. We've been offered players like Perisic and Douglas Costa, but I guess Ole isn't keen on them.
If he does only want Sancho he better hope he is still in the job and if he is that we actually get him. Dortmund think they will get the same money, but who knows what the future holds for football. If the price does drop there will be a few more takers.
fans need to stop reading things in the media as gospel.
At no point this summer have we ever known where the negotiations are up bar what the media say.
If it is completed, we will never know the true figures, whether that is the transfer fee or the wages.
We know nothing and the media report what they want because they know that it’ll get lapped up
Where is this Sarr talk coming from? He hardly lit up the league last year. He’d be decent backup at best.
We ‘know’ how much Dortmund want and will get for Sancho if sold. We ‘know’ we have been interested for months. So its pretty obvious if we buy him we have paid the full asking price.
Miguel Delaney reported this, and a bunch of people just seemingly lapped it up.
If we have 120 million but don't want to pay that for one player and that amount is available to us then why not go for Telles 20 million, Sarr 40 million and Upemcampo for 60 million. That would make a huge improvement and improve squad depth.
Dare I say it but Liverpool didn't go for the finished article when they started building their team Winaldum, Robertson and Mane were all developed.
Dare I say it but Liverpool didn't go for the finished article when they started building their team Winaldum, Robertson and Mane were all developed.
Goodness knows why. Does he ever get anything right. People are desperate so just want to believe anything.
No idea. He’s also not very good.
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