Transfer Tweets - Summer 2015 | Stop Spamming - Discussion Should Relate to Tweets
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I remember Balague reporting it was 59.7m + 4m in addons if he won the ballon d'or.
Depay favorites an LFC fan ends up United
Lacazette favorites an arsenal fan ends up staying (yet)
Ramos favorites and follows a united fan, he stays at Madrid
Benteke favorites a United fan and he moves to LFC.
These things now starting to mean the opposite nowadays
Lacazette favorites an arsenal fan ends up staying (yet)
Ramos favorites and follows a united fan, he stays at Madrid
Benteke favorites a United fan and he moves to LFC.
These things now starting to mean the opposite nowadays
Or more accurately, nothing at all.
They will make a valuation of the player in their own currency and make the offer in pounds. So my point is they wont say we value him at 55 million but because that 55 million was worth more last year we're gonna pay you 60 million instead.
It's still weird he hasn't been spotted yet when the Real Madrid squad landed in Shanghai a little while ago.
Yes it rarely means the obvious.
You think they won't ask for the rest because we sold him? I must be missing something in you post.
Assuming the 45m number is correct, why would Madrid ask for the remainder if the player himself hasn't met the conditions of the remaining 15m. I'm assuming we are amenable to selling him because this is the last year we can cash in on him before he turns 28 and his valuation begins to quickly erode.
Terrific news IMO.
Have you seen something reported that this is the case though? A lot of the fee would have had to be addons for that to be the case, I don't remember seeing anything about that.
Wisdom is a RB while Digne is a LB
Agreed, I don't want to panic buy.. If we can't purchase from our list, we don't.
Based on the limited number of times I've seen Digne on BT, I think he'll be a really good signing. Moreno was really expensive, though, wasn't he?
Nope, haven't seen anything
Pretty crazy to assume 25% of the deal is variable based on performance, very unlikely, in most cases it's 10-15% tops, and some of them may have simply been assist quotas, appearance quotas etc, I'd imagine we have paid the majority of the money.
Bit weird that PSG are so eager to get rid as he did quite well in preseason
Nope, haven't seen anything
In which case I remain confused by your post.
Hope this isnt true - it cant be surely!
We've done so well to sort out CM & RB; yet we all believed we'd buy a CB too - it's painfully obvious we need a top-class CB.
LvG is delusional if he thinks our present CB squad is capable of winning us the title & making a run at the Champions League..
I thought we were supposed to have three targets for each area
He is currently injured, could be going back to Madrid, could be an old photo, or could just be a cryptic messages to one of his ladiiieeees.
United are proud they had the fourth-best defensive record? Okaaaay.
Though if we had only one signing left to make this summer, I'd choose an attacker over a defender. Don't think our defense is that bad with Smalling showing great signs and Jones and Rojo competing for the other spot. I could see one of them step up. If we keep DDG we should be okay.
I'd say that's bollocks but LVG did seem pretty proud of it last year. Ridiculous really. Our defence was a shambles for a significant part of the season.
Either way, if he thinks being fourth-best is anything to be proud of he's a bit of a tool.
Stones has to be a target for us now. If not - Ed & Giggsy need to give LvG a kick up the arse & then get busy signing this lad..
No it wasn't. In the first part of the season, we did not control games through pressing and possession which is what we were working towards. By doing that we left our defence exposed as we were trying to press high which made our defence look shaky when the plan did not work which was more often than not. Toward the end of the season, we started controlling games much better and if you look at our games back then, we rarely conceded chances let even against the best sides. We never went conceded less chances against Liverpool, City, Spurs or Chelsea in recent years.
But the narrative from the first part of the season has been written, established and certified. Especially when it was combined with the trauma of the year before. It is unfortunately hard to change a narrative once it is set in stone like that. The only legitimate complain about our defence is its ability to bring the ball out and start attacks. In that sense, it should be either Ramos, Hummels or Piqué or nothing as those would be the only ones who would provide a clear upgrade in that department. If we can't get them, we might as well work with what we have to develop that part of their game. After all, they only had this emphasised on them for one season in their entire careers.
Laporte is basically Stones in steroids and is a left footer. His release clause is around as much as Stones will cost. It seems that despite some rumors we aren't interested in either of them. I think is the right approach, we need someone who immediately would be far better than our CB, not someone who has high potential but currently won't be that much improvement on what we have.
You honestly think Louis van Gaal would be proud to be fourth-best? I think it's clear he wants to win something, there isn't even any doubting his desire.
He clearly thinks the team will improve and perform better next season. Without the ridiculous defensive injury crisis and also with more experience in that defence and then Darmian at right back then the defence will do much better.
Also Shaw will play more than 16 games, Schneiderlin will provide protection to the defence and we will be better at keeping the ball.
The defence is more than just the two centre backs, our defence is already much stronger. It's a team effort, if the attack don't struggle as much then that takes pressure off the defence.
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I suppose in context it really wasnt that bad, we would have had a significantly better defensive record if you discount that ridiculous injury period.
Laporte would be a great signing for us, just not now. He needs to develop his game a bit more. We need the finished article now. If that player isn't out there we might have to see how Jones/Smalling combine. If they don't then go back into the market next season.
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