Vardy/Kane to replace Rooney in the summer?

Neither. We already have a guy who is going to be the best striker in the world in a year or two, and we also have young Wilson on our books. Don't think we need another striker. What we need is a player who is capable of scoring goals from either wing/number 10 and has the ability to substitute as a striker when needed.

A Muller or a Griezmann or a Bale or someone similar.
 
Maybe Kane but Vardy will turn shite as soon as he leaves Leicester.
 
Lewis.no.9 said:
to play devils advocate a little, at people saying Vardy is too old at 28. We have seen countless posts saying to buy Zlatan and he is older?.....
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic is one of the best strikers in the world over the last 5-10 years and has played for Ajax, Juve, Inter, AC AND Barca. Vardy was playing in the Conference 4 years ago at the age of 24 and only made his top flight debut last year at 27 so theres a bit of difference in quality levels there.

Zlatan at 34 is still a much better player than Vardy. Vardy is a limited player who happens to be in a run of good form which won't last.
 
Insanity said:
Neither. We already have a guy who is going to be the best striker in the world in a year or two, and we also have young Wilson on our books. Don't think we need another striker. What we need is a player who is capable of scoring goals from either wing/number 10 and has the ability to substitute as a striker when needed.

A Muller or a Griezmann or a Bale or someone similar.
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100% on that suggestion
 
Vardy?

Is it possible to move an entire thread into the Mental Football Posts one?

Griezmann, Bale, Muller, Kane. I can understand them all but Vardy....
 
3rdCarter said:
Kane is a really good no.10 imo

he'd be the second striker LVG has been looking for.
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I'd rather we play a proper 10 there that doubles up as third midfielder, which allows us to control games.

Not convinced in a 2 striker system, and we have been rather poor with it .and in a 1 striker system, id rather have Martial than Kane any day of the week.
 
Have people actually looked at Vardy's goal record before this season? 21 in 70 in the Championship and then 5 in 36 in the PL last season. He's in the form of his life right now and the only thing that goes for him in terms of past goal records is 34 in 40 in the Conference Premier.

He has 10 in 10 this year and Rooney has 6 in 14. Rooney might be playing shite and has the privelege of playing in Europe which gives him 3 of his goals but to suggest bringing in Vardy for him who's not as good a player and has nowhere near the prowess and goal scoring consistency which Rooney possesses is ludicrous.

Think of that. Vardy has 10 goals in 10 and is playing out of his skin at a level which he'll never be able to emulate, and Rooney has 6 in 14 playing arguably the worst season he's ever had.
 
Bwuk said:
Vardy is the typical Liverpool signing. See Ings.
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This - I'm almost certain Liverpool will go for the little cnut at some point because he is so obviously such a Liverpool signing.
 
Vardy is on a run of form. A great one, certainly, but that's all it is.

I think Kane is the dogs. I wanted him in the summer and I still want him now. If he replaced Rooney I'd be more than happy with that.
 
Vardy ffs.

Even Kane needs to show more, 3 goals yesterday were great, but his season overall hasn't impressed me.
We should go all out on Griezmann, perfect signing for us imo (after Müller who isn't available).
 
Kane can be a top striker. Vardy will be lucky to be a top 8 striker after this run of form ends.
 
Insanity said:
Neither. We already have a guy who is going to be the best striker in the world in a year or two, and we also have young Wilson on our books. Don't think we need another striker. What we need is a player who is capable of scoring goals from either wing/number 10 and has the ability to substitute as a striker when needed.

A Muller or a Griezmann or a Bale or someone similar.
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My thoughts on this. We arent that far away imo from having a good young squad to challenge on all fronts.
 
No come on give the OP a break, we've got history here, we are still kicking ourselves for not buying Kevin Philips and James Beattie.
 
Vardy will be playing in the Championship for a club like Sheffield Wednesday in 2 or 3 years and we'll all be saying "remember that guy that thought we should replace Rooney with him?"
 
Neither. Martial should be our main number 9 and if we get someone else, it should be as back up option and not a starter. Kane will not be a bench player for us and Vardy is another Michu or Ings. The focus should be on attacking forwards; a Neymar or Bale. A number 9 is not a priority for next summer.
 
Been thinking about Kane for a while and wondering if he has a really poor season goal wise could we get him for 30m or something. I think having the england striker of the next few years is a typical sort of united thing to do, and if berahino goes to spurs in the end maybe that will happen.

I don't really understand the calls to sell rooney and not replace him, as we are already very short on strikers.

I wish we'd just play herrera at 10 with fellaini on the bench if we need to change tact for the foreseeable future, and januzaj/andreas options too. If herrera has a good season maybe we'll be okay there.

I think most important position to improve is right wing because we aren't getting much penetration with mata. Yes his stats have been good nd he is coming up with the goods fairly consistently, but that lack of pace really means we create everything down the left wing. Having a more rounded game plan would be better I think. We look better at the moment with valencia's pace complimenting mata's cleverness, perhaps if we had a winger with some pace we could play darmian more but at the moment I don't see darmian and mata linking up well enough
 
100% take Kane off Spurs hands, wouldn't see him leaving there any time soon though.
 
Crashoutcassius said:
Been thinking about Kane for a while and wondering if he has a really poor season goal wise could we get him for 30m or something. I think having the england striker of the next few years is a typical sort of united thing to do, and if berahino goes to spurs in the end maybe that will happen.

I don't really understand the calls to sell rooney and not replace him, as we are already very short on strikers.

I wish we'd just play herrera at 10 with fellaini on the bench if we need to change tact for the foreseeable future, and januzaj/andreas options too. If herrera has a good season maybe we'll be okay there.

I think most important position to improve is right wing because we aren't getting much penetration with mata. Yes his stats have been good nd he is coming up with the goods fairly consistently, but that lack of pace really means we create everything down the left wing. Having a more rounded game plan would be better I think. We look better at the moment with valencia's pace complimenting mata's cleverness, perhaps if we had a winger with some pace we could play darmian more but at the moment I don't see darmian and mata linking up well enough
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It's not that we don't need to replace him, it's that as is with all big teams, we need to have a clear number 9 and a lot of us happen to think that Martial should be that one. I don't think that Kane will come in and be happy to be second choice for us, not to mention it would be ridiculous to spend that amount on a non-automatic starter.

I agree that we need to improve elsewhere but I don't think it is necessary the right wing. In modern football, the attacking players being produced can cover all of those positions such as Sterling, De Bruyne, Bale, Neymar, Reus and so on. I think we need 5 or 6 options for the 3 berths behind the striker, we already have Mata, Memphis, Herrera and Young and if we bank on 1 or 2 of Lingard, Pereira and Januzaj to make the step up, we are okey numbers wise but none of those is an undisputed game changer, not yet at least. That is why I feel what we need is an attacking midfielder that is in the bracket of game changers and not just another decent option on the wings.
 
I'm still not convinced on Kane, we'll have to see how the rest of this season goes. There's no way Vardy should be the man we bring in though, I'd much rather give Wilson more chances.

As others have said as well, Martial seems to be Rooney's replacement so we'll need wingers or wide forwards rather than out and out strikers.
 
You have no idea how much I love watching Vardy play, he is what you classify as a classic nuisance centre forward. As a defender I'm sure it's probably a nightmare playing against him because he's ALWAYS moving and is also quick. I think one of the reasons he scores so many is mainly because he tires defenders out.
 
Theonas said:
It's not that we don't need to replace him, it's that as is with all big teams, we need to have a clear number 9 and a lot of us happen to think that Martial should be that one. I don't think that Kane will come in and be happy to be second choice for us, not to mention it would be ridiculous to spend that amount on a non-automatic starter.
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City spent 30m on bony. All the top teams are spending that kind of money on a non-automatic starter.
 
Crashoutcassius said:
City spent 30m on bony. All the top teams are spending that kind of money on a non-automatic starter.
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But do you think Kane will be happy in that role. Players are not these obedient employees who will just come in, fight for a place and be happy when it's not going well. If they have a high profile like Kane does, they will want to be starters which is why it doesn't make sense. And no, teams are not paying that much for non automatic starters, that is a wild exaggeration. Chelsea's are Remy and Falcao. Arsenal's is Welbeck. Real freaking Madrid's is what Jesé? and Bayern's don't really have one. None of those teams have a 30 millions player who would expect to sit on the bench for the big games like a second choice striker would.
 
Theonas said:
But do you think Kane will be happy in that role. Players are not these obedient employees who will just come in, fight for a place and be happy when it's not going well. If they have a high profile like Kane does, they will want to be starters which is why it doesn't make sense. And no, teams are not paying that much for non automatic starters, that is a wild exaggeration. Chelsea's are Remy and Falcao. Arsenal's is Welbeck. Real freaking Madrid's is what Jesé? and Bayern's don't really have one. None of those teams have a 30 millions player who would expect to sit on the bench for the big games like a second choice striker would.
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chelsea spent big money on cuadrado and he has expected to fight for his place. They haven't really done it with strikers in the last few years no.

I think you are thinking about it a bit too much like it's a football game on the computer. Kane doesn't sit down and they say 'you'll be sitting on the bench until martial is injured'. Players join squads and fight for their place, martial's spot isn't guaranteed and just because he's shown good form so far doesn't mean that he will be untouchable forever. Kane as a professional footballer probably knows that he wouldn't be signing for united and guaranteed to sit on the bench for years until martial gets an injury. We fight on all front, we try different things tactically
 
If Rooney goes we'll need somebody to relentlessly slate for crap performances, so Vardy kind of fits the bill
 
If Vardy continues to impress this season and that would be on the back of whats now his continues meteoric rise from the lower echelons of football well then he'd have done more than enough to be given a chance at Utd. Those that think he wouldn't could do with taking their heads down out of the clouds for a bit. 20m for a lad that would be at the very least decent option. I can't see how you could go wrong with that.
 
Crashoutcassius said:
chelsea spent big money on cuadrado and he has expected to fight for his place. They haven't really done it with strikers in the last few years no.

I think you are thinking about it a bit too much like it's a football game on the computer. Kane doesn't sit down and they say 'you'll be sitting on the bench until martial is injured'. Players join squads and fight for their place, martial's spot isn't guaranteed and just because he's shown good form so far doesn't mean that he will be untouchable forever. Kane as a professional footballer probably knows that he wouldn't be signing for united and guaranteed to sit on the bench for years until martial gets an injury. We fight on all front, we try different things tactically
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Funnily enough, I think it is your attitude that resembles video games where one expects players to just be professional and obedient employees. The number 9 in a club has become like the goalkeeper position or the full backs position to an extent. Specialized position where every club has a clear starter with Costa, Agüero, Suarez, Benzema and Lewandowski. Only Arsenal of the top clubs do not have a clear number 9. Don't you think there is a reason for that?
 
We really should go for Kane.

Rooney is absolutely done. He still is the only "star" player we have but Martial is quickly building a reputation.

United need stars for our profile. Kane can become this player for many years.

I think around £60m would be a reasonable fee to stretch to to get him. You have to bear in mind that if he realises his potentially that fee is absolute pennies over the coming years.

Kane and Griezmann are musts this summer. Perfect age profiles too.
 
Vardy's been linked to Real Madrid in today's paper by AS.
 
Vardy playing for Manchester United, just imagine that. :lol:

At first I thought this was in the FF and was going to be about places in the national team. Then I saw it was in the transfer forum... :wenger:
 
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