He's a former player in England and Germany. Norwegian so he spoke a lot on Haaland and Ole.
Works for ESPN as a pundit and on German TV.
Wouldn't call him a journalist. Pundit/presenter more applicable.
Transfer Tweets - Manchester United - 2023/24
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik and Imran are here to talk about a frustrating 2 points dropped at Crystal Palace. They then discuss the regeneration of Old Trafford. Finally, Nik is joined by special guest Michael Statham from the Football Oranje podcast - who gives us a more in depth look at our EL opposition FC Twente, and then runs through the (many) Dutch connections currently at United.
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Works for ESPN as a pundit and on German TV.
Wouldn't call him a journalist. Pundit/presenter more applicable.
That's not too bad, I would had rather went for Diogo Costa but Onana is clearly amongst the best available.
Norwegian Rio Ferdinand.
He has tons of contacts across Europe - played 4 seasons in Austria, 5 seasons in England and 3-4 seasons in Germany and has worked in television for the last 15 years. So people may not always like him - but when it comes to inside information from especially Germany, Austria and Norway - he is one of the best.
I wonder who the other two are. Maybe that Turkish goalkeeper we were linked to a couple of weeks ago and one other.
He doesn't post exclusives. Do you seriously think he is as connected as he portrays himself to be? Contacts all over the world. The most connected man in all of world journalism. Agents from every club in every major county in the world run this by him. Do you think there was a moment where the world football elite got together in 2021 and decided no major transfer would happen in global football without randomly running it by a relatively little known Italian based journalist for....reasons?
He wouldn't have time to shit.
He's extremely successful at the 'game' of leveraging fan's insatiable desire for transfer rumours and turning that into social media followers. But the knowledge he claims to have on every single transfer of any note is laughable. And you can't blame people for pointing that out.
fecking hell, every year people moan about Romano with so many clueless takes.
If Romano had any real inside knowledge he'd say who the '3' are.
That Feyenoord keeper is probably in scope still.
53-55 million euros is a good deal for us. Around 100 million to improve 2 positions in first team, not bad.
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Yeah this could easily be Min-Jae all over again because yet again we can't move Maguire
Not really like Min-Jae. He literally went unopposed and Bayern had the in against all teams from a while because it was clear the player has his preferences. A player of that talent from a title winning club doesn't go so easily unless it was clear from the player side, whom had a release clause to be leveraged, where their preferred destination is shared upfront to any possible suitors.
In addition, it was not a priority for the club. Maguire can choose to stay if the club cannot offload him this window and it's not the worst thing in terms of correctly and gradually turning over the first team. He's 2nd choice at best and he may have to live with it for another year and figure out how to adapt and accept his role or eventually leave.
Disasi nor a CB has been a real priority for United. It's 4th or 5th at best, with GK, CF, RB, CM making all the noise since the winter. Now it's GK, CF, CM (considering Fred and/or McTominay could leave).
Thought both might leave at one point this summer but starting to feel it's one or the other
Yep I highly doubt we are in for a CB this summer and moving Maguire is as high on the agenda as people believe.
Unfortunately I suspect you are right
Now that Rice is done we may well see the Maguire to West Ham talk pick up.
Agree....just think his contract is too difficult to move with 2 years remaining instead of 1. And he's totally fine as a 3rd choice....except for the fact his wages are not in line with his talent level compared to Varane and Lindelof, who probably makes significantly less than Maguire yet has clearly established himself as 2nd choice for both CB positions.
Probably.
If Fabinho is going for approx £40m, as has been reported, shouldn’t we be expecting similar for Fred? Or is Fred’s contract situation drastically different (no idea what’s on Fabinho’s)
C'mon Moysie! 50 mil and he's all yours.
Hope this starts a domino effect:
Rice > Arsenal 105m
Maguire > West Ham 105m
Kane > Man Utd 105m
Everyone wins.
… one can dream
They can have him for 30/35. Just use that money on Amrabat and then work on the striker..
If we can offload Maguire, McT, Henderson, Fred plus VDB then it's terrific stuff. A potential 80 odd mil from sales and that gets you Hojlund plus Amrabat with some ease.
If we can offload Maguire, McT, Henderson, Fred plus VDB then it's terrific stuff. A potential 80 odd mil from sales and that gets you Hojlund plus Amrabat with some ease.
Maguire £30-35
McT £30-35
Henderson £25
Fred £15
VDB £10
Surely those players fetch over £100m?
I'm adding in a failure to sell well tax to keep it conservative
How the feck does WH win in that scenario?
Test away moysie, test away
Mind boggling how so many posters think we are going to sell both Fred and McTominay
Hush. They do.
he really can't see the writing on the wall? He's about to be stripped of the captaincy, is probably 5th choice as CB and is the face and embodiment of everything wrong at the club these past few years. Pick up and leave Harry, it'll be good for everybody. Even for West Ham, probably.
How is it? If we get Amrabat and Mount already here, it means 2 for 2.
In a way Gareth Southgate is the problem, while he still picks Harry for England even though he isn't playing, why would he move. Just hope either Harry has some pride or Gareth picks one of the up and coming CB's for England.
Yes please
I know he's a bit shit but surely we can get more than a tenner for VDB?
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