King Woody doesn't get involved with small-fry team players like Pedro. It's clearly a Neymar-Messi double swoop.
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Could be a watching brief over Ayermic Laporte as well who we've been linked to in the past.
Mentions Laporte here as well. Is he worth £36m? He any better than what we have?
Interesting that the Ian ladyman piece says that we are also interested in Laporte and Woodward would be watching the Bilbao Barca game tonight
Why would Woodward be watching Laporte?
Why not?
Woodward isn't a fecking scout!
New chief scout.
Performed excellently against Suárez and Messi last week. He might not be better now, but he will be for sure if he keeps developing at this rate.
Maybe he's there to conclude a deal after the game, who knows, maybe it's just media bollocks.
As if Woody cant go to a game and watch some player..
Put him on a plane, bring him back from Spain Woody.
He doesn't even like football, he just likes money and numbers and that.
If Ed brings Pedro and Laporte back from Spain to Manchester, he certainly deserves a statue alongside the holy trinity
Sounds good. Might be worth a punt then!
suppose we're after experience though so maybe one for the future (by which time everyone else will be interested) I think that Laporte clause is 50m€.It would be a very good option,besides much younger than Otamendi
Laporte too
Maybe Woodward is going to Barca with one of our scouts or more likely its just Ladyman speculating.
I don't buy this notion that we'll only buy the best. LVG seems to value system over personnel and under him we've bought several good players but bar Di Maria (and we know how that went), none of them can claim to be 'the best' in the prime of their careers.
There's a pool of thousands of players around the world, we have a vast scouting network and we are allegedly armed with a 'war chest', so I cannot believe that we couldn't buy a better CB than Blind. I like him but far better defenders have been embarrssed by the likes of Aguerro...at some point soon we'll lose points because of our CB pairing and it seems so obvious that our CB core is weak but LVG watches the players and will know more than I.
Yet to see a youtube compilation of Laporte, so I'm just going to assume he's shite.
Yes. With that being said I'm not sure whether he'd be better than Jones, Rojo or Blind next to Smalling.Laporte would be a great acquisition, he just signed a new contract with an expensive £35m release clause.
Is it on!?
I hope so!
If we meet the clause, we would have to pay taxes too, right?
Is it? Not like its a whole lot of difference, but I heard it was £30 million.
He just signed for Adidas as well, which is interesting if you believe that sort of stuff makes a difference.
Nobody is saying that, the article and posts above seem to suggest he's going to watch Laporte specifically, which I highly doubt.
It's €50m, which is about £35m. Still pretty expensive in my eyes, but hey it's probably better to spend £35m on a player who could (potentially) be at the club for many years rather than the same amount on someone who's already at their peak.
Though you could argue that we need an experienced CB in his peak instead of another promising young player.
Agreed. I just wish we could find a defender who could make the difference.
Evans told he can go.
Dont think so. Didn't happen with Herrera
Groundbreaking from Mitten.
Will Laporte also push for a move to Madrid or Barcelona in 3 or 4 years
To be honest, if I had already concluded all my transfer dealings for the summer i'd probably pop out to watch a Barca game in my spare time.
Woody getting on a plane to sign a Barcelona player?
He's my best defender on FM.. Nuff said
Maybe. But he isn't Spanish so it's not quite as predictable that he will.
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