He's on £120k per week net, which is more or less £250k per week pre-tax.
Willian - worth a punt?
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He's on £120k per week net, which is more or less £250k per week pre-tax.
Quality player and excellent work rate
Age is the only concern but if the price and wages are right, a definite asset for the squad.
Age is the only concern but if the price and wages are right, a definite asset for the squad.
It's just a minor policy disagreement. Has years left of his prime. United should be all over this guy.
Chelsea have literally replaced him buy adding Ziyech and Werner to Pulisic. Yet they still have Hudson-Odoi and Mount on the books. He is a very good player but losing him is not really a loss any longer for them
...you may have a point there...
Thing is though coming into this season you'd of expected CHO to have kicked on and replaced Willian, that hasn't happened (not at all) and so right now Willian is a better option to have in your squad. Pulisic is looking a bit injury prone and will no doubt miss games next season as well. Any time you loose one of your better players it's a blow even if you think you have the replacements lined up
I'm so confused with how this forum assess players.
- We currently have no RW and it's the biggest hole we have had in the team for years. Whilst we are trying to bring Sancho in, why would you not want to at least talk to a free agent who is PL proven.
- If we do sign Sancho then you have an excellent backup RW and someone who can play across the front three
- If we don't sign Sancho you have a good RW option for the coming season whilst we keep negotiating for Sancho/try for another big name signing.
Seems like a Herrera type situation. He'd obviously be a valuable squad option but with his reported salary and 3 year contract demands I don't think it'd be worth it.
It'd be worth it just for the song: "Willian , it was really nothing!"
If you have sancho. Plus you have greenwood on the books. why on earth would you need a Willian? Don't conflate not needing him with him being useless
fair enough. Id' even agree with you in terms of the experience inevitably lost
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The ship has sailed. He would've been useful to us this season, but now he'll just be a super expensive squad option taking minutes away from Mason.
We have Greenwood to fill in at RW too. His minutes will be after Greenwood gets his fill. He is staying until he's 34 years old. Even if he does well this next season, he can be awful the last 2 years on those wages. Potentially those last 2 years will be more important for our team as that is when we should be competing for titles. Next year won't quite have the same expectations, though I'll be hopeful.
He wants a 3 year deal, we shouldn't be going near it. Not on the wages he is after.
He wouldn't have been a good signing on a shorter term deal
All things considered Id say no, of course he's a good player and on a free sound like a no brainer but the thing is that he wants a 3 year contract.
He's a week away of turning 32 and while he has not declined massively he probably will and we would be stuck with him of high wages. Anything beyond 2 years its a high risk.
He's a week away of turning 32 and while he has not declined massively he probably will and we would be stuck with him of high wages. Anything beyond 2 years its a high risk.
2 Right Wingers with Sancho and Greenwood.
Do we need more?
Do we need an old RW given a long expensive contract for a back-up who will only play cup games at most?
Exactly. If Chelsea don't want to offer him a three-year contract, there's no reason why United should. We are no dumping place for declining Chelsea players.
I'm sure that if we were to get Willian we could get him some game time without it hindering too much on the progress of Mason, especially with the option of being able to use 5 subs. There will be tons of games to go around in all competitions, so there is some sense in this transfer. Could be a handy player to have. If there's the possibility of a short term (a year or so) deal that wouldn't be too expensive with wage demands, then it might be worth looking at. If he's after a long-term deal with us, or if the wage demands are too high, then he's one we can skip out on.
I wholeheartedly disagree. He'd be an immense pro for United. Well worth a 3 year contract and a fat signing fee. Do it now.
No no no.
We dodged a bullet years back, albeit with a big fee. But let's not start bringing in pay check players now, we've only just started getting our transfer house in order.
We dodged a bullet years back, albeit with a big fee. But let's not start bringing in pay check players now, we've only just started getting our transfer house in order.
Seems he's going to Arsenal on free. I think he'll be a decent signing for them all things considered.
It's weird, while I think it would be a blow to Chelsea to loose him I think he'd be a horrific signing for Arsenal 
Arsenal's fullbacks are shocking, he'd be a solid improvement.It's weird, while I think it would be a blow to Chelsea to loose him I think he'd be a horrific signing for Arsenal
Underwhelming, albeit safe signing. After blowing that money on Pepe it's understandable going down this route.It's weird, while I think it would be a blow to Chelsea to loose him I think he'd be a horrific signing for Arsenal
Would rather have him than mata in our squad
Chelsea aren't losing much as they signed great attacking players and Willian would have probably been dropped to the bench. It's a win-win for everyone, Chelsea, Arsenal and William himself I guess.
It's a good move for him and arsenal tbf
Would do well and improved Arsenal massively.
Arsenal then!
He also get to remain in london, a city he's fond of according to many sources.
Arsenal then!
He also get to remain in london, a city he's fond of according to many sources.
Yh I guessed as much. Only reason we aren’t in for him because we lack so much squad depth in attack. It’s so bad Ole had to play Bruno and rashford 3 games in 7 days. Madness.
Also weird how many are quick to dismiss him especially after such a great season. Id rather have him off the bench than lingard or James.
Could he be an option at #10 when Fernandes needs a rest?
Don’t know whats funny? We could have a quality player on a free and it’s provides great depth that we are lacking.
Rashford, Sancho and Greenwood is not enough for the amount of games next season. James and lingard is a massive drop from what we want as backup.
Watch Troopz make up an obnoxious nickname for him to get trending for AFTV.
No.
Then he's not worth it.
Don’t know why you are surprised. This Is the same forum that thinks martial and rashford are not good enough.
Willian is good enough for another 2 years. We should be all over him. great set piece taker and is actually a winger. Also good at moving with the ball to evade pressure which he did so many times for Chelsea this season. Yet we will sign just Sancho and god forbid injuries occur we are back to lingard.
He'll be good as a squad player. Only problem is we're probably getting him to be a starter. Also reeks of Kia Joorabchian getting his smelly nose deeper into our affairs.
There are always times during rebuild to fill tactical gap by cheap short term fix while waiting for a long term solution. Willian can be a good tactical fix for our midfield depth issue, like Ighalo for striking department. Not every signee should be seen as 'strategic' or 'long term'. A good team always has good mix of both.
If Sancho is coming, then no to Willian. But if not, and for whatever reason we need to wait another season for Sancho, then a punt on Sancho wouldn't have been such a bad idea at all.
There's a sense out there that we're also bringing in Grealish. I'm on board with bringing in Grealish as a super sub, so long as we don't have to spend a super transfer fee to make it happen.
There's a sense out there that we're also bringing in Grealish. I'm on board with bringing in Grealish as a super sub, so long as we don't have to spend a super transfer fee to make it happen.
Sancho injured, we play Greenwood.