I’d love Welbeck back.
What ‘affordable striker’ will we buy in January?
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Jonatan Davids?
Hopefully no one from Seria A again!!
@Annihilate Now! you were right that we should have got Gyokeres from Coventry, so I full buy in to you Jonathan David shout.
My guess is no one major, to leave space and money for Gyokeres in the summer. I'd take an "old pro" on loan if we can find a reliable one
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The only two strikers that make any sense are Oshimen in January or wait until the summer and sign Gyokeres.
I'd imagine we will do the latter. Paying money for a short term fix in Jan makes zero sense unless we sell Zirkzee (which we wont).
I'd imagine we will do the latter. Paying money for a short term fix in Jan makes zero sense unless we sell Zirkzee (which we wont).
This. We don't need an affordable striker, we need one that can regularly smash in the goals.
We've spent £70m on a striker just last year (one who we knew was a massive WIP and needed gametime to develop) and another £40m on one this summer. We only play 1 striker.
It would be incredibly short sighted to buy another one now. I'd give Hojlund a good run until the end of the season to see if he's the right number 9 for us.
This has been one of the stupider things we have done repeatedly with young players.
Sign Dalot in 2018 knowing he needs gametime to develop but then immediately abandon the develop him the season after. Sign Sancho in the 2022 and then give up and sign another RW the summer after.
Either properly give young players the game time to develop or just stop signing the feckers. We waste money on potential, and they waste valuable years of development on us.
It would be incredibly short sighted to buy another one now. I'd give Hojlund a good run until the end of the season to see if he's the right number 9 for us.
This has been one of the stupider things we have done repeatedly with young players.
Sign Dalot in 2018 knowing he needs gametime to develop but then immediately abandon the develop him the season after. Sign Sancho in the 2022 and then give up and sign another RW the summer after.
Either properly give young players the game time to develop or just stop signing the feckers. We waste money on potential, and they waste valuable years of development on us.
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Gettable and has been amongst the goals in Turkey and probably still settling in
Why are people saying Welbeck? Did I wake up in a parallel universe where he isn't shite? He's spent most of his career scoring less than 10 goals a season.
As much as I agree with this - getting close to 10 goals a season is good in our current United-team
But yeah - I generally agree with you....the days of getting 34-35 year olds should be overYeah this. I don't see it, unless we sell one of the ones we already have
Ben Yedder is still without a club and had a decent return last season in the French league right?
Then surely Gyokeres is the better option.
Go all out for Tel, or just see what Amorim can do with Hojlund/Zirkzee.
Why would / should United go in for a striker in the next window / summer?
If we are going to play a 343 system, surely there are bigger priorities. We will have a limited budget.
With a 343 system, we will be in need of a LCB, CM, LWB. Those would need to be actioned well before we need a striker.
If we are going to play a 343 system, surely there are bigger priorities. We will have a limited budget.
With a 343 system, we will be in need of a LCB, CM, LWB. Those would need to be actioned well before we need a striker.
I guess there's no point of this discussion if you firmly believe we need a new first choice striker. We don't.
If the pair we have don’t cut it, then we do. Till then, there’s no need to add imo. There’s also no need to assume Hojlund and Zirkzee will be good enough, or otherwise, yet but we have to be prepared for either outcome. Sitting with three sub par / okay strikers will result in a mess.
Because we can't hit a barn door in the games that actually matter
You can put Haaland in this team and the results will be the same.
We dont if we want to stay where we are, we do if we want to play with the boys.. Højlund and Zirkzee wont be scoring 20+ anytime soon (not even combined)
Signed himself twice.
He might be going to jail for sexual assualt.
So why would Welbeck not be a good signing in January then? We obviously won't sign an expensive striker in the winter, and our current strikers should be given at least this full season to prove themselves anyways.
Hojlund alone will be scoring that, maybe even this season. How exactly would a new striker score 20+ if Hojlund hasn't been able to in ETH's shit system? It's likely that only an all-timer striker would be able to score 20+ in such a team, like a Kane or a Haaland.
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In talks to make his move permanent, think he'll be unobtainable come January.
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David makes no sense in an Amorim set up.
Mike Phelan reckons we are Manchester United and we should have gone in for Harry kane AND Ivan toney last summer. It would of been better to buy 2 top, main players rather than a load of average players was his reasoning.
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I suppose the counter argument is that whenever there are inevitable injuries our level doesn’t fall off a cliff as much if we have good options.
But he’s absolutely correct we don’t have any great ones.
We did same mistake with Zirkzee and we will do it again? I doubt it.
We don't need backup striker. We need proven, top class, long term first chouce striker like Osimhen.
If we can't afford him (or someone like him) then no need to waste money.
We don't need backup striker. We need proven, top class, long term first chouce striker like Osimhen.
If we can't afford him (or someone like him) then no need to waste money.
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I don’t think Zirkzee is a mistake. We saw the impact of having no fit striker with Martial.
If Ten Hag wanted Welbeck in the summer, but was told no, it’s a bit weird that we’re suddenly ok with it in January.
God knows who we’ll get. Struggling to get all that excited given that some of us have been banging this drum for about 3 summers now, and all we got was a lanky Dutch forward with an allergy to goals - twice!
God knows who we’ll get. Struggling to get all that excited given that some of us have been banging this drum for about 3 summers now, and all we got was a lanky Dutch forward with an allergy to goals - twice!
Unlike many fans here, i like Zirkzee. My point is that we have depth but we don't have highest quality for that no9 position. So, no need to add more depth. Either buy a nailed starter or play with what we have now.
Really fishing for news eh?
none. make amorim work with what we’ve got. if they aren’t cut out for his football, then i’d buy a prem proven player for big money over some rando smashing goals in an easier league.
He’d come here in a heartbeat though if we got onto his agent. Different profile to either of the lads we currently have. For the record I can see him only doing ok here but being a different option to Rasmus for a season or two who will eventually pass him by once he hits his stride again may be enough. At least he’s a good age
He is not wrong. Having a good goal scoring striker with good hold-up and link-up is paramount. Everyone thought that we needed a midfielder back in 2012 but SAF got RVP and we won the league with games to spare.
And knowing our luck he'll be injured the day after he signs for 19 months.
What is the point in bringing in a new striker when the rest of our team effectively refuse to pass to whoever is there