Seriously doubting this.Someone on here before said he reckoned Mou would like Young on the right. I'm starting to worry it might be true.
Eric Bailly | BBC say signing is imminent
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Not a chanceSomeone on here before said he reckoned Mou would like Young on the right. I'm starting to worry it might be true.
Or United cna refuse to buy. Simple.
Tell that to Phil Jones, whay would you rather have a player that's available for six games but injured for the rest or a player who is guaranteed to miss six games every other year?
Yes let's refuse to buy players like Toure, Drogba, Aubameyang, Essien, Eto'o etc
And miss out on potentially great players because they'll choose to represent their country for a maximum of 6 games every 2 years.
If all things being equal i think i'd still take Bailly over Jones, injuries or no and ACON or no. I really think he has something about him.
Raw yes, but dose a striker want to be on the end of one of thoes challenges. I think not. Bout time we got a bit of fear back.
Someone had to play devils advocate and there is no getting away from the situation is not idealYes let's refuse to buy players like Toure, Drogba, Aubameyang, Essien, Eto'o etc
And miss out on potentially great players because they'll choose to represent their country for a maximum of 6 games every 2 years.
.... so can we take this as Bailly and Zlatan done? ISH?
Ish
Hopefully, we can rely on him as a very good cb. And not a rojo type.
To be fair Rojo isn't the Rojo type. We were promised a rough tough no nonsense defender. And we got a lightweight for his size.
So im kinda hoping he is more of the Rojo type we were promised and not the one we got.
I'd not been paying any attention to this as I assumed Eric Bailey was just some youngster from Crewe or something, the type of signing no one really gives a shit about.
Hazard, Renato Sanches, Benzema, Thiago Alcantra, Pedro, Mehdi Benatia, Kroos, Otamendi.
To be fair, the only one of those who had a straight choice between United and somewhere else was Benzema. Then there's also Lucas Moura.
Fergie pulled the plug on Hazard because of his agent. Moyes pulled the plug on Thiago because he's David Moyes. LVG was never interested in Benatia, Kroos or Otamendi, and supposedly was never keen on Pedro (and he was right not to be).
As for Renato, who knows? Maybe Mourinho thought he was too raw or wanted to focus the cash on other areas.
Id say Renato was LVGs call too, LVG thought he had a job up until the day after FA cup the poor old git.
Lucas Moura too yes.
Mehdi Benatia virtually signed for us in the papers.
The point was, last few years, we were linked heavily with players till the end - and missed out on so many targets.
I can't remember Benatia being linked to us at all apart from one tweet from Jim White.
Already mentioned some of those players and we dodged bullets with some of them.
Thiago was always gonna follow Pep to Bayern. Otamendi and Pedro worked out good for us. Renato Sanches was possibly lost because LVG was still here and not Mourinho.
Ill give you Benatia and Hazard though but with Hazard we stuck to principles of not being held to ransom for agent fees.
Eh? Half of €40m isn't €15m..
Seems like a typical Mourinho player and also the type of player we lack defensively, so I'm all for getting him. Him and Smalling could be our CB tandem for many years.
Your clearly the reason the papers are still in business if you believe everything you read.
The Michael Owen of transfer tweets.
I didn't mention missing out on Messi. If you don't believe we were interested in the players I mentioned - your deluded.
To price out rival clubs that do have Champion's League football obviously. Villarreal will want to sell to us if we offer more and even if he wants to join a Champion's League club he might change his mind if it's between a big sign on fee and wage increase to come here or stay at Villarreal.
No one said €40m...?
I doubt Renato Sanches was anything to do with LVG. He just wanted to go to Bayern.
Half of €30m is, half of €35m is €17.5m. Neither is true regarding Hummels fee.
I thought Bayern and Dortmund agreed to keep the Hummels fee secret?
The only actual reports I can find where the fee is mentioned they are talking about 30m quid for a guy with just a year left on his contract, for example:
"Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has defended the club's decision to spend big in order to lure Mats Hummels away from Borussia Dortmund.
Bundesliga champions Bayern have reportedly paid in excess of €35 million to sign Dortmund captain Hummels, even though he only had one year left on his deal at Signal Iduna Park.
However, Rummenigge believes the state of the transfer market meant Bayern had no choice but to shell out for the Germany centre-back, who will move in July."
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Dont see it myself. I wouldnt be at all surprised if both Blind and Rojo were sold which would just leave Smalling, an injury prone Jones and a very promising youngster in Mensah (I see him becoming a central midfielder though for some reason).
That would leve us a bit bare at the back if happened I could see Smalling, Bailly, Jones and ? battling it out for the two spots and Mensah battling it out with Schneiderlin as the player groomed to take over from Carrick longer term with Fellaini and Schweinsteiger moved on too.
Still not sure on Darmian, he looked like being a really good signing early on in the season then had a few injury problems and generally looked pretty average the rest of the season, but I would think him and Valencia is sufficient for another season at least.
Not happening this one, just no chance. He's here for at least another season, I'd guess another two.
Also in reality was only going one place.
Virtually signed for us in the papers?????
This doesn't compare to the Hummels transfer at all, don't really see the point in comparing them
Well I hope you are wrong. On super high wages and he is the midfield version of Falcao. One of the best players in his position in the last 10 years, hardly ever fit enough to play and a shadow of what he was before when he does. Considering I believe he is on similar wages to Rooney and those Falcao was on, regardless of the small fee has to go down as one of the most dissapointing signings if not worst we have made. I wasnt expecting the Schweisteiger of 5 years ago when he signed, but I did think his experience, leadership and quality would be invaluable for a year or two, on the pitch at least none of those things have been evident bar literally the first game he played. He reminds me of Edgar Davids at Spurs, one of my favourite players of all time, was almost sad to see him coming to the premiership the injury plagued player he was by then. Fact he is never fit, not the same player and on such high wages would make him one of those first out of the door Id much rather keep Herrera, Schneiderlin, Carrick and Mensah and also of course Rooney in midfield which when surely we must be signing at least one big cm is plenty numbers wise. My opinion is we have a big squad, we just have half a team. If we make 4-5 big signings there are definately 4-5 expendable players in the first team squad forgetting those on the fringes, for me Schweinsteiger is one of them....saying all that I almost agree with you, think its 60/40 at worst he stays for one more year
interested isnt the same thing as failing to buyI didn't mention missing out on Messi. If you don't believe we were interested in the players I mentioned - your deluded.
We wouldn't have won the Cup without him though, his rugby tackle on the West Ham keeper to let Martial score was vital.
I don't recall much African footballers at United in the last 15 years... do you recall anyone?Yes let's refuse to buy players like Toure, Drogba, Aubameyang, Essien, Eto'o etc
And miss out on potentially great players because they'll choose to represent their country for a maximum of 6 games every 2 years.
Djemba Djemba and Quinton Fortune
I think he'll get games at CB but Jose likes a big athletic fullback as well, and Bailly is very right sided like Smallling. I think Smalling and the experienced CB will be our main partnership with Bailly occupying the RB spot a lot of the time.
Good posts.
If only he didn't play in buy out clause Spain. In addition to why would anyone up their own bid, whe there's no rival? So maybe not as obvious as you seem to think.
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