I'd be happy with that. Think Sabitzer good to have as a squad player in terms of allowing for rotation etc.. rather than being "the" midfielder signed this summer.
Thinness of the squad has been laid bare over the last month or so in particular
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I'd be happy with that. Think Sabitzer good to have as a squad player in terms of allowing for rotation etc.. rather than being "the" midfielder signed this summer.
Thinness of the squad has been laid bare over the last month or so in particular
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- Paredes will return to PSG.
- Juventus won't acquire him permanently.
- PSG will make Paredes's summer departure favourable.
- Juve are negotiating another season-long loan for Di Maria.
- His high salary may become an obstacle.
- Umtiti will return to Barcelona from Lecce.
- Barcelona will look to sell him on favourable terms.
- Nico Williams' buyout clause amount: €50m
- Clubs have submitted offers (informal, I'm guessing) for Wolves centre back Max Kilman.
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Surely we're not waiting for the sale to go through before commencing transfer activity? We have an ongoing budget and a department dedicated to transfers and recruitment, which have to already be factored into the sale price and the bids that were made.
You would hope so, otherwise we are a big trouble with these two clowns holding everything up.
There's still a ton of uncertainty about what the Glazers themselves want. Until that gets sorted out, United will not necessarily be able to get their work done early enough given that plans will change if new ownership comes in.
If that's the case, then our summer is in big trouble, even if the sale were to go through today. Most important transfers are close to being done at this point. If we're just getting started now, we're months behind everyone else.
Never heard of him. He's an attacking midfieder apparently. South Korean.
Yes, this the reality. We can move for a striker, but everything else is sales dependent and therefore won't be resolved until the takeover is complete.
I think ETH told Murtough "get Kane in" and Murtough misheard him
Exactly. Fortunately for us, we seem to have a few clear targets in the striker department, so we should be there for the most part. It's everywhere else where the uncertainty lies. If we wanted to, we could have been risk averse and decided that a new quality midfielder would depend on the sales, but that includes an opportunity cost with the new ownership. If we decided to get risky and aim higher, then the Glazers may not necessarily sanction that activity.
It's a real tough spot for United, so let's see how they proceed from here.
He was a promising attacking midfielder at Valencia a few years back before being sold to Mallorca.
I’m not really sure what we would do with him. Maybe cheap cover for Bruno and wide areas? Maybe a cynical marketing signing.
Watched 1 video of him, he seems to have quick feet can play across 3 positions but he seems more like a squad player than anything. Kinda reminds me of Pellistri if he continued to improve, but seems to have more burst and can evade well.
There is an existing thread on the football forum: Kang-In Lee - Valencia Prodigy
Can play CM, LM, LW, CAM Mallorca has been using him on the left-sided midfield/winger primarily this season.
Very good at dribbling, ball retention, passing. He's the talisman on a mid-table Mallorca side which would be at the bottom of the La Liga table without him.
Fbref stats - Kang-in Lee
I think he'd do well in deputizing for Eriksen or Bruno. Very much compared to David Silva in terms of technical ability.
Would be a welcome signing and quite reasonable as his buyout is listed at €20M.
I believe it would be better for his growth if he went to a mid-tier PL team like Wolves or Villa,
but then again if you're looking to buy cheap and develop - now would be the time to buy.
According to Matteo Moretto, we had someone make 1st contact directly with his agent - to gauge interest from the player in coming to play for us.
This is pure speculation on my part, but Kang-in grew up idolizing PJS so if United came knocking, he'd probably be receptive.
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Worrying if we are again reactive at the end of the window. It would borh limit the options we can choose, and shopping late often means overpaying in football.
Yeah we learnt that with Antony deal
Very press resistent, has very good forward pass and dribbling, and good free kick taker. Can play any position of 10, 7 and 8. It was often said that this kid's weakness was physicality, laziness and too much dwelling on the ball, but after world cup the kid seems like reinvented himself physically. (his thighs bulked up twice than before). Genuinely exciting prospect now and I think Utd should sign him with such a low price.
Hope Pellistri's loan goes as well as Amad's. Think he already did enough to get more game time tbh, but I guess he wasn't as impressive in training (though I do feel like ETH generally doesn't trust young players as much if they haven't already performed for another top team, even Garnacho hasn't started as many games as he probably should have).
Garnacho is competing with Rashford key difference. If Garnacho could play as well in other positions he'd probably play more but he can't play as well so he doesn't get more minutes
There were times when Rashford was playing up front or when he was injured when Garnacho still wasn't getting starts, including just our last game against Bournemouth
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Why? His current contract expires in 2025 with an additional one-year option the club can trigger. No reason to give him another contract now.
Expecting to see quite a big striker merry-go-round this summer.
Bit baffled by the Pellistri contract renewal at this moment in time.
Hasn’t he just come back from injury?
Always so negative
Great contribution. Has the club been run in a way that's given you much to be positive about?
Interesting, another young, ball carrying midfielder. That's Kone, Kang In-Lee and him now linked - certainly feels like we're targeting more than one midfielder, which is encouraging for me.
Could be an attempt to flush out FDJ and Barcelona. Last year, we put all our eggs in the FDJ basket, and nothing happened. They need to know we will buy a ball carrying midfielder this year - either they deal with us, or we will move on and they are stuck with each other for the rest of FDJ's contract.
I would like Vlahovic but not for 80m.
United do these scouting regularly, its not special
It's more the profile appears to be the same, which encourages me to think we will be targeting 2 midfielders this summer.
Why would anyone buy Vlahovic for that sort of money after the season he's just had? I'd have expected him to cost about half that (or maybe €50m more realistically)
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Looks like a new centre back is high on United's priorities according to Plettenberg.
Looks like a new centre back is high on United's priorities according to Plettenberg.
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