A lot of people around here have recently criticsed Madrid for being heartless and not looking out for a players best interests. Isn't this pretty much the definition of a dick move from United?
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A lot of people around here have recently criticsed Madrid for being heartless and not looking out for a players best interests. Isn't this pretty much the definition of a dick move from United?
About as clickbait as it can possibly get. They know feck all. I hate articles like this.
No. We have gone as far as possible bidding +70m for him and Madrid still refuse. It's a dick move from Madrid forcing us out of the deal by asking over 90m and keep Morata by force even though he wanted to leave.
We did what we could.
Yeah dick move for not paying 90 million
How can he eat well when he brought cardboard?
That journalist has absolutely no idea what Morata is thinking and is making up a story out of thin air. Morata may have decided to stay at Madrid a couple of days ago, or we were never in advanced talks at all, or whatever else it's possible to dream up.
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Sorry if this is a banned source but
This is the equivalent of leaving the house to buy a Ferrari, but driving back home in a Nissan Micra.
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a close second.In all honesty, Armstrong is actually pretty decent, but that gossip is mental.
Always stuns me how people believe all these tweets.
Not really, we bid a lot more than we should have for a teams third or fourth choice striker, them edpecting us to pay so much screwed this up, not us. I feel sorry for him but he has only one club to blame and that is Real Madrid.
No mate it is not a dick move by us at all. Madrid pricing him out of a move was a dick move.
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In fairness to Liverpool, £70m for a 22 year old central midfielder with a single season of decent level football under his belt, is utter madness. They're right to explore alternatives.
I thought AM's ban was related to breaking transfer rules for young players, like what Barca was punished for. Hence nothing to do with FFP? Don't really know much about the status of FFP atm though...
Guy must be gutted. Doesn't look good on us.
The fact that Morata wants to move to play, that he will know that Perez for all he says he wants him to stay, wanted the money to buy Mbappe, so then overprices him which actually stops him moving to a club he wanted to come to. Morata must be seething.
And rightly so, I'd let my contract run down and push even harder to move if I were him.
Do you believe this has all been done intentionally?
No way, they massively over priced Morata so we found a different player. Dick move by Perez.
He will be. Him and his new wife would like to know where they will be living for a start. This is all down to Perez, Morata will know he has been overpriced. That could be why his father and agent went to see Perez or maybe they had heard about United and Lukaku. They will be angry as well.
He should blame Madrid
Of course it wasn't But the reports are that we had stopped trying to sign he for over a week now. I hope we were the first to inform him.
Agreed, they assumed we had no other viable option so tried to drive a hard bargain, backfired spectacularly.
That is the bit that bothers me. If we have just ignored him and not told him what we were going to do. That would not be good at all. Classless.
If he stays they won't get Mbappe. This has most probably messed up their transfer plans.
Sorry. I wasn't challenging you or having a go at you or anything of that nature. I was just interested given all this talk of smoke screens.
Could be possible that we informed Morata and his agent that we were going to sign Lukaku because we couldn't see eye to eye with Madrid on a fee? Maybe that is why his agent and dad both had that much publicised, albeit short, meeting with Perez and Madrid?
Why would it look bad on us exactly? RM were looking for close to €100 million for a player that spent the majority of last season polishing the subs bench with his bottom.
They over valued him and we walked away.
That has gone through my mind as well. Perez is a despicable little weasel.
They are trying to keep morata, But he and every one knows he will not get the first team spot and they want mbappe, now they cant keep 3 strikers in this or next window. Who would be willing to match 90 m euros, apart from chelsea who also have more options in bellotti and abamyang who are more proven as of now than morata.
Poor Morata though, Madrid have over the years treated him like a proverbial side-chick.
Again, I don't believe this for a second. If Mbappe was available for Real to buy, they'd move heaven and earth to get him. It's simply the case that he's indifferent at the moment and there is no urgency to move this window.
It's also possible Morata was well aware a move to united would only happen if Lukaku decided to go to Chelsea.
I'm sure players are often aware they are a second or third option and accept this is how it works.
I'm sure players are often aware they are a second or third option and accept this is how it works.