I guess a positive of spending way over the odds on players like Lukaku, players who despite the fee will still massively improve us, is that we up all future transfer fees of rival clubs, particularly when they look to buy from other EPL clubs. Chelsea and City probably wouldn't be overly affected by this but Liverpool, Arsenal and Spurs may.
Transfer Tweets - Summer 2017 | Keep it on topic
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Agents of Chelo Díaz (Celta) were in Mestalla
Valencia negociate for the croatian midfielder from Fiorentina
Absolutely. There's no way we only focus on one transfer at a time. That would be a colossal waste of precious time in the short space of 2 months you have to sign players.
I reckon negotiations are on going for 3 or 4 players, with maybe 1 or 2 already having a deal agreed. Griezmann and Fabinho are 90% there I'd guess.
I hope you're right, we need both. Add someone like Morata,Keane and Mendy and we are pretty much set.
They better get a move on then, because if we are going back for Griezmann, we are leaving Atletico less and less time to find a replacement, even if they cannot be registered until January. They might need the money to buy that player. The longer it goes our options might lessen and same for Atletico. Other clubs will not stand back and wait for us to make our move.
Say what you will about Duncan but he is spot on about anything remotely to do with Mendes/Gestifute.
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So they have been working on this transfer since Feb. Reminds of another they had a few years ago, forget the player, where a number of United fans went bonkers over how "quickly" City go their deals done. But then in his first interview the player mentioned that negotiations had actually begun in January.
Zlatan will never be paired with Lukaku and that's the point. Lukaku, if he comes in will be a Zlatan replacement/alternative as without Zlatan, we don't really have a physical presence up front. If Griezmann came in, he would play alongside either of those 2. It's difficult to say atm which of the 2 we need more, as we're lacking goals and both Lukaku and Griezmann would score goals, but we're also lacking that physical presence up front to hold up the ball. Lukaku is more 1 dimensional in a sense and Griezmann is far superior technically, so I would argue we need both. But then again, I'd also argue that we need some pacy wingers in this team (especially on the right wing) that can take on a man at ease and deliver quality crosses. But if we were to get all of that, it'd cost around £200m on 3 forward positions and that isn't exactly realistic imo and this could be why we find ourselves in this situation, where we may be prioritising a target man rather than a technically superior secondary striker.
By January, you have a fairly solid idea of where youre at in terms of personnel and what you need, so it makes sense.
Will always remember the summer of 2007. Signed Nani, Anderson and Hargreaves before June 1st, followed by the Tevez transfer saga. Best window ever.
Hopefully United have a few "Bailly-Style" deals lined up this summer. Remember when that was announced on a random Saturday last summer? Looks like we'll need several of these to compete with City. Fear is that Woodward and Co. haven't planned very well.
Nobody said its only going to be Perisic and Lukaku
He had a radio show and had United players and a lot of journos like Ogden on
It is tough...like getting on the property ladder
Oh no, he suggested City might have a better attack on paper. Lets question his support.
Nah he paired hypotheticals with more hypotheticals
Indeed, but if we're not going for a Griezmann type then it can be assumed that we're not going to spend a huge amount on an attacker other than our new #9.
I doubt the AG saga is anywhere near its conclusion
The doubt I had with Pogba was if he would do well in a two man midfield. The jury is still out on that one. Fitting Griezmann into the team will be tricky just like how it was for Pogba. He would have been a good foil for Zlatan or a more developed Rashford, but without a physical striker, he will struggle in his role unless we bring in a top quality striker (or play Martial there. I still think he would do well there).
Keane, Dier, Perisic, James Rodriguez and Lukaku. My prediction
If the #9 is going to be Mbappe, then yes, we'll have to see how that goes before Griezmann. Due to the sheer costs involved.
I don't even want Lukaku. Not even a little bit.
If it was Sir Alex buying a player from Moyes he would have just told him he's taking him.
Who would you want instead?
Oh I agree, clubs do not go into the transfer window having sat on their hands the previous months, years. They will have already scouted many, many players. Looked at their needs both now and in the future. Who is likely to leave them for whatever reason. When possible they will already have begun the ground work well before the window opens. That of course does not mean everything gets done right away. Especially if a club has to switch to an option further down their list. Of course there can be cases where a player previously thought to not be for sale or interested in moving, suddenly that situation changes and a club needs to quickly take a look at their options, but overall those cases are not the norm.
Griezmann, Belotti, Mbappe, Lacazette, PEA, Falcao, or even just stick Fellaini up front, I mean they do almost the same things
I feel the same, I don't rate Perisic and I can take or leave whatever happens with Griezmann, but getting Lukaku would kill my interest in the coming season, we should not be building our attack on a striker like him.
They're best ignored. Portuguese papers repeatedly said we had signed Gaitan and Garay.
Its hilarious watching journos stumble over one another for twitter relevance.
And even if/when they're eventually right, they're doing it to help Portugese clubs increase their value, not actually reporting on truths.
Can anyone shed light on this transfer for me please?
I don't get why anyone but Stoke went for it?
I don't get why West Brom didn't keep him. I know his contract ends, but I wonder why they couldn't work out a new one.
Could be any player. Just insert name and you wouldn't know any different.
Good signing for Stoke. Pullis will miss him
Probably wants to play with Rooney again
Maybe Stoke is closer to home for him, good signing for Stoke as he was very good for West Brom.
Edit: West Brom were also linked with William Carvalho, maybe it'd mean less minutes for Fletcher if they brought someone in.