Real Madrid is a huge club, but we are the world's most famous club and also the richest club. Even with our poor performances over the last year's(last season was very good though). So I will argue we are the biggest club in the world.
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I have to admit that I thought Yorke for £12m (was it) was completely mental at the time.
Urgh, lets not do the "we're a bigger club" thing. It's cringey as feck. We're not, and pretending we are on a technicality because he have a ton of fans in Asia is a little bit sad.
I wonder what was the reaction to us buying Saha? I was not around at that time but would be interesting to know.
How do you quantify that we are the most famous club? If we are more famous than Madrid, that implies there are people who have heard of Man United who havent heard of Real Madrid. Or who know something about United, but know nothing about Madrid. Do you think such people exist?
Id say there is an elite group of famous clubs that anyone who knows there is such a thing as football has heard of, they are all as famous as each other.
But anyway, Im not going to get into a debate about this, as I said I think its a thing where you can argue it either way depending on your inclination.
If you say so, actually it sounds nothing like Ruud, especially his first few (Motivated) years here where he was approaching the complete all round frontman but carry on.
Asia is the heart of footballPlayed you like a fiddle mate. Wouldnt be surprised if Perez is begging Woody to take Morata for a knock down price towards the end of the window, greedy cnuts thought we'd fund your Mbappe bid and pay anything you ask.
Morata is already unsettled and he's just going to get worse with it being a World Cup year, he won't be consent sitting on the bench, besides you need his funds too put towards other targets, Madrid fecked up big time imo.
Yes. Travel around Asia, Africa or even the States and you'll be surprised. Utd is the most famous club in the world. Real has the biggest history and trophy cabinet.
Definitely agree with this. I care more about trophies than shirts sold or whatever and no one can measure up with Real in that regard, neither recently or historically. It's just a fact we have to live with.
People in Asia, Africa and the US haven't heard of Madrid? Seriously?
Parts of West Africa I'm familiar with you see more Madrid shirts than United ones. Tho there are a lot of both.
Also travelled a lot around SE Asia (17 years ago admittedly) and as far as I could see people knew who Madrid were.
There's semi-delusional, delusional...... then people like you. Fair play, you did well to get so much shite in one post and I assumed there'd be white text but apparently not?
Any comment that tries to use Marca as proof of something makes me smile... you do realise that Marca/its readers are laughed at by pretty much everyone else? Why not make your own mind up and have your own opinion?
Enjoy your two-horse league. Enjoy cheering Ronaldo when he drives you to another La Liga or CL then booing him if he goes two games without a goal. Enjoy your hilarious white hankies which I guess for Real fans are dual-purpose?
Enjoy having a fax machine from the 80's. Meanwhile, United fans will be thankful for what Madrid did post-Munich and sigh at what their modern "fans" have become.
We are about to sign the second best scorer in PL since 2012/2013 after Aguero. All this playing for West Brom and Everton.
Some people still have doubts about it?
Some people still have doubts about it?
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Why does at least one Madrid fan on this forum every season have to go into a one man crusade against United?
Its 3am in LA give the guy a break
More fans worldwide to start with. People who don't care about football will always recognise Manchester United first and foremost. I have family in USA and they know nothing about football, but they went to watch United because they knew something about that name. And no, I can't generalize this, it's based on what I know, heard and read over the years. It's almost impossible to find evidence to generalize my opinion.
You sounds really bitter that you didn't get the United money to fund your next galactico.
I'm not a United fan but they've bought a consistantly proven young goalscorer, something that Morata couldn't prove to be at Juventus.
Out of 100 football shirts in South and East Africa, where I've been numerous times, 90% are Man Utd, Chelsea or Arsenal, Utd the most by a distance. In Asia it was about the same I think.
You also said: Or who know something about United, but know nothing about Madrid. Do you think such people exist?
They probably know Madrid, but are far more familiar with Utd. Including the States.
He's quick, powerful and a very good finisher with his head and both feet, but he's also lazy and gives the ball away too much. He'll score plenty of goals for us, but the concerns about his all-round play are justified.
It's probably been said but Lukaku's on his jollies with our very own Pogba. Not sure when they're due back but obviously Pogba will be on the plane come Sunday. Hopefully we can push the medical through before then for Lukaku.
I thought this was the Lukaku thread.
I really dont want to have this conversation but I cant stop myself.
Are you saying that your family in the US, who knew something about the name Manchester United, knew nothing about the name Real Madrid? Like, if you said Real Madrid to them they would assume you meant as opposed to fake Madrid? Or maybe its some kind of sports club but they dont know what sport? I find that very hard to believe.
Please dont reply. Please be stronger than me and save us from this ludicrous conversation.
This is where Jose comes in. I completely understand where you're coming from but Jose demands the best from his players, and Lukaku won't get away with being lazy and sloppy.
Football is Global. Any continent does not own the Copyright.
Honest question: Have we bought Lukaku yet?
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Valencia Bailly Lindelof Shaw
Fabinho
Herrera Pogba
Mkhitaryan
Lukaku Martial
Would love to this team team at some point, if Fabinho doesnt come then we can get Matic in but i think this formation especially suits us since our wingers are not like typical wingers unless we get Perisic of course.
Lukaku would do wonders in that team compared to Everton and I think would bag 30 goals for us in the league.
Valencia Bailly Lindelof Shaw
Fabinho
Herrera Pogba
Mkhitaryan
Lukaku Martial
Would love to this team team at some point, if Fabinho doesnt come then we can get Matic in but i think this formation especially suits us since our wingers are not like typical wingers unless we get Perisic of course.
Lukaku would do wonders in that team compared to Everton and I think would bag 30 goals for us in the league.
Factually correct but we can't omit Kane from that statement.
Tbf we have binders full of Asians.
Depends on how into football they are obviously. But there are people who don't know Madrid and know about United, and vice versa also.
I wouldn't label that as a "technicality". I can only speak for myself but by "biggest club" I think of the club who are the most supported and those fans in Asia are a key reason why. Best/most accomplished team? No.
Beckham was probably the biggest sports star in the world in the late 90s - early 00s but it didn't mean he was the best. The Rock is probably the biggest actor in the world right now but it doesn't mean he's the best actor.
Recently barcelona has overtaken them since perez era began. Real madrid were a overblown propoganda till Zidane kicked some sense into Madrid team and their policy
€90 million for a backup striker.....do you think that's a reasonable price for a backup
So Lukaku's medical then. I bet he aced it. I bet he is the healthiest person since Donald Trump.
This is a good deal for us because we also still need to sign a creative wide player and a midfielder that lets pogba and ander work further forward as a minimum. That means Lukakus guile and eye for goal should be helped by these new players whereas Zlatan had an out of synch team behind him a lot of the time and he missed a lot of easy chances too. Add to that martial shaw miki and rashford improving and we look good. I was happy with morata and the other new signings as our team is still in transition anyway. I think he'll be a good signing for Chelsea if he goes there but he is definitely more of a gamble than Lukaku for next season and possibly longer.
That is a hard sell when both Madrid and Barcelona are more popular on social media
Also, we have only been top of the money list this last year, while Madrid has been top for 11 years prior (since 2005). Currency fluctuation and sponsorship renewals might see that change again soon.
We have been missing on the biggest stage in recent years while Madrid as won 3 of the last 4 CLs.
Madrid have a more star studded team with CR7 being one of the top 2 most popular players and winner of 3 of the last 4 Ballon d'Or.
Madrid have repeatedly signed top players from most other teams except maybe barcelona and atletico, and have enough pull that they rank top destination for most of the best players and talents e.g. current Mbappe saga.
If any club can claim to be the biggest in the world, Madrid have a better claim than us.
Why would we be concerned about his overall play if he scores plenty of goals for us?
He will definitely have to buck his ideas up about helping the team out. Jose had doubts about him before, but he is now giving him a big chance. It is up to Lukaku to take it with both hands.
There was a time when Yakubu was only second to Henry over a number of years.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.mi...yakubu-aiyegbeni-talks-up-evertons-724584.amp
Scoring goals at a smaller club and making the step up are two different things. I would say the concerns are legitimate. I hope to be wrong but I have my own doubts on him.
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