Who I would imagine will cost a darn sight more.
Transfer Tweets - Manchester United - 2023/24
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Anymore updates on Amrabat links? Didn't the Moroccan manager let him leave early last week to arrange transfer to new club.
Wonder if its us. Different type of player to Mount but adds bit of steal to midfield when needed.
Wonder if its us. Different type of player to Mount but adds bit of steal to midfield when needed.
Would be a good choice though especially if we can't get Rabiot. He can play as an 8 and also as a 6 in the absence of Casemiro.
Moving from FDJ to Casemiro was also a completely different profile of player. I would assume that ETH is flexible in how he would set the team up, depending on the players we sign. Not sure whether switching transfer targets should determine the direction of our team/tactics though.
Chelsea can feck off. They can go on and lose him on a free next year, the absolute cnuts. Hope we walk away.
He's certainly a different profile, but if we go by last season, we chased De Jong for a long time and then when it didn't work out, we moved on and signed Casemiro instead who has a completely different profile.It shows EtH is flexible.
Caicedo himself is a flexible player as well considering he played in multiple positions as well.
Would be nice if we join the race for Rice, however we are broke and unless West Ham are willing to listen to Cash+Swap deals we have no chance.
We can bid less than half of it in January and probably end up signing him.
Targets deemed as acceptable. What on earths that supposed to mean? I’d imagine it’s going to be a very good international player, not a plate of home basic food.
Surely we can just move on to other targets and come back later in the window. If we sell Scott, Fred and DVB, we obviously will be buying more.than one midfielder.
He's not good enough.
Forget about Mount this season then and let's go all in for Chelsea's number 1 target.. Caicedo. 
Well, based on the rumours that have been spread - Chelsea originally wanted £70 million - and we offered £40 million - now we probably will settle for £60 million. He is a player worth £60 million in todays market - the only reason we are overpaying is because of his contract - but that doesn't change what we are getting. Mount is a £60 million player - the alternative is not to sign and hope he will sit out 12 months and still sign for us. But in todays football, signing Mount could be the difference between success and failure - or getting fired or not.
I would rather we spend £10 million too much on a player ETH really wants, than spending £10 million too little on ETH's 4th choice.
You also risk the manager then not playing that player so it is money wasted. It's also the way the M.E.N. articles say they have alternative targets who are 'acceptable', now love how there are no names. Are they the same level, but better financially, or is it 'Oh he will do'? The media have no idea who the targets are, but acceptable just can cause a lot of misinterpretation.
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Really are you serious? Mount is maximum a 50m odd player but considering his contract situation we would be stupid to pay more than 30m for him. Kovacic is twice the player and he is going for 30m to City.
plus this stupid policy of always backing the manager regardless of the price has resulted in us paying stupid money for Maguire, AWB, Antony, Fellani and now possibly him all extremely overpriced.
Furthermore, whatever the price Chelsea wanted we should have started from 25m instead of 40m so our maximum should have been 40m. We are already 15m above that figure.
Lastly if it was a genuine world class talent like Mbappe, Bellingham etc I would have understood the thought process of paying 10m above to get this target.
Whereas we are paying for a player which made England look toothless in the World Cup and everybody wanted him dropped, he was pretty shit for the last year in Chelsea so there is literally nothing going for him except him being homegrown.
I'd like us to start offloading soon.
Even if it's a 1 million £ deals like Zidane.
Just get the cul started.
Bailly, Fred, Scott, Telles, Martial, David, Henderson....
Even if it's a 1 million £ deals like Zidane.
Just get the cul started.
Bailly, Fred, Scott, Telles, Martial, David, Henderson....
Yeah starting the narrative early so that people are less concerned when Maguire and Martial are part of the squad next season.
I mean ETH really wants a lot of players. And thats not a criticism, i do too obviously. But were not getting his first choice in all the positions he wants to address. Paying 10m too much for mount means being 10 million short for Kane. Or the keeper, 2nd midfielder or centre backs he wants. Getting good deal's on transfers is probably going to decide how many of them get put off for another year.
How is Bailly even still here 
Martial will be here next season for sure. Maguire will leave though. I'm almost certain West Ham will spend some of that Rice money on him.
Yeah his flexibility to play both positions would be useful,however my gut feeling is we won't walk away from Mount deal
Yeah they are clearly deaf to our players plus cash deals which I don't blame them for
I understand the logic of that argument but overspending on Antony probably cost us a back up striker last season for £25-30m
Ok hypothetically let’s agree, he wants to use him as roaming and pressing 8
Mount at 24 has 129 PL matches played with 27 goals and 22 assists so his stats are pretty good, especially with l l say year shit show. That’s 1 in 2.63 goal involvements per PL match. Basically he gets you 12/15 assists per season taking out of last year. That’s an upgrade on Eriksen and Fred but only marginally. We need another Bruno who gets you 20 goals and assists from this position, I think Mounts done it twice in 4 seasons so I can see the logic but surely Maddison at £15m less is a better pick?
I hope that "doubts" is just a polite way of saying 'there's a whole bunch of others who need to be fecked off too'.
Probably effecting our transfer budget this year as well
Well it definitely did in January
Why ? Maddison is a different kind of player - and is probably the player in the P.L that is most similar to Bruno. What I dont like about Maddison is that he isn't a really quick player - and we have too many of those in our side (Casemiro, Eriksen, Bruno) - Mount is rapid and really good at driving the ball forward with pace. That is the kind of players we need, because we haven't got it.
If you remove the stats from last season - his numbers are 105 matches - 24 goals and 20 assists. And then we are (as you say) at 15 goals and assists pr season in his first 3 seasons at Chelsea. And he does that without set-pieces
Bruno Fernandes has 44 goals and 33 assists in 124 matches - and I haven't bothered to look it up but I assume close to half of those goals have been penalties. So maybe Bruno has something like 25 goals and 33 assists in 124 matches not counting penalties - so he really isn't that far behind Bruno. And Bruno is by far our most efficient player behind Rashford.
Marginally upgrade from Fred ? Marginally ? Fred has 15 goals and assists in his entire United-career. As for Eriksen, he was a point-player in his early Spurs-days - but in his last 3 seasons in the P.L (last season with Spurs, Brentford at United) - he has scored 5 goals in 70 matches. These days Eriksen is a playmaker - he will not score or assist a lot apart from the odd set-piece.
Oh yeah Mount fits us better than Maddison
Is mount the only player we have officially made a move for so far this summer?
Realised the spelling issue….thought about googling it….though, “can't be fecked”
Feck mount and spend the extra 20 on Caicedo. Feck Chelsea, we are practically funding them to him. Might aswel take him oursleves.
you do realise the expectations is at least a challenge next season, we are also in the CL. If the above happens, we ain't scoring nothingThis....offer Brighton 80 mil for the kid since Chelsea want to be difficult.........
Just watched a YT vid on Caicedo, I'm sold, buy him.
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That too we only spent £217m because we sold Andrews Pereira and James Garner for £25m combined which Fred up another £125m to the budget. United need to get players out and soon !
We only sell Scott of Mount comes in HG for HG
Mount could be a smokescreen for Caicedo.
Looks like the mount muppet train is being derailed by the passengers. Where are we all hopping onto next?
Never, in the history of ever. Has the concept of a "smoke screen" ever actually been a thing in football transfers.
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