Would we be getting a slighter younger Ibra?
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
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I think it would signal the fact that they are a bigger pull than us, as long as they have Pep and money. It is also incredibly rich of certain people to mention money as the reason for choosing United over City. It’s City! They are only what they are because of money. Some years ago they were relegation candidates with Joey Barton as their best player.
You say that like it's continually filtering around and shared about and it's doing the world good.
You pay a player £100m over his English career, and he disappears to another country, that's most of that taken OUT of our economy.
It's money that mostly stays in their account doing nothing as well, or lands in the hands of another wealthy member.
One player swap is rare enough to see. A double player swap lol
That Instagram account is fake. His real one is private.
We're evens and City are 15/8. You might not agree with it, but we are favourites.
Sanchez would come in as our top player, and it'd be for Pogba to live up to it. I think he'd be delighted we're bringing in that level of class. He certainly seemed to embrace Ibra being around, albeit the very late on career version.
De Gea is obviously top class, but you always rate your attackers higher.
I look at it like this: Our team is lacking a world class attacker. It has a lot of young players, nobody in their prime, nobody who is a world class talent who can do everything on his own, and reliable to produce week in week out. Arsenal have Sanchez (and Ozil). Chelsea have Hazard. City have Aguero, De Bruyne and Silva (and then Sterling and Sane performing brilliantly this season). Liverpool have Mane and Salah, and had Coutinho. United have Pogba, then young players who haven't quite made that step up yet. They need that world class player to elevate them.
So then if you look around the world in who we could sign to be that attacker for us... There isn't anyone. They'll cost 100m at least. Rumors that Dybala/Griezmann might be on the move, so they'd be potential world class attacker who are moving. Griezmann is probably going to Barca, Dybala will probably stay for the time being. But it doesn't come along too often. Sanchez is one of the very few around who are available that we really should do whatever we can to sign. Him being 29 is of course a negative, but he just turned 29, and is in terrific shape and has a Ronaldo type obsession to being physically a beast. So I think he's got another 3 full seasons after this half season of still being quality. The alternative to not getting him is hope in the slight chance that we manage to bring in Dybala (unlikely), or just hope Martial takes the step up and turns into a world class player without having someone else there with him to help him reach that level, and the others all improve. Obviously not the worst scenario, but we are definitely lacking that one star in attack and without that, we'll be hoping for gradual improvement.
So in that case, yeah I think we should do all we can to sign him.
In terms of bad deals, £400k a week for Sanchez pales compared to £250,000k a week for Rooney and what we are currently paying Ibrahimovic.
There's no way we'd be naïve enough to do that now money is increasing so ridiculously.
What are you talking about? So I guess the media and reliable journalists who are saying United are favourites to sign Sanchez are just RAWK worthy?
So what exactly has changed since the morning?
Favorites at the bookies.
Amazing that people are having fake accounts of fecking agents
true, but that is a low bar
Mourinho commented on it in his presser. Or did his "not talking about it" but then talked about it. Plus other reports saying City don't want to budge on their price despite United being interested now.
1) It’s going from one rich man/business account to another. At least there will be tax along the way.
2) You’ve made the mistake of assuming I view England or Britain as the limit of any interest. Could’t give a feck if he’s not buying in the Harry Ramsden’s outside Old Trafford.
I remember at this time too some Chelsea reporters were saying Lukaku wanted the move to Chelsea but money and Raiola forced him to move to us. Same shite over and over and over again.
Mourinho's quotes in press conference. Similar to what he said in a press conference not too long before we signed Matic.
I dont give a toss, its not coming oout of my bank account.
They are the original muppets. They got to a whole new level of crazy.Amazing that people are having fake accounts of fecking agents
Ahhh I see. Thanks guys.
Love how you pulled 400k a week out of your arse
What's your take on this? You think we have a chance?
It was a hat but close.
He’ll take Zlatan’s pay. Im sure some of what would be offered includes bonuses.
Yeah, or Mourinho would have just dismissed it right away in the press conference. I still expect him to end up at City though, with hold up being over Arsenal trying to sign Malcom now but Bordeaux want him on loan for the rest of the season (that was the story when we were linked with Malcom anyway).
Well, that's his loss, cos that stuff is tasty as can be
I wish I could.
I agree with your sentiment, the money these guys get is obscene.
We've got so many average players earning big money, at least with Sanchez the signs are that he'd improve us.
I'd guess if you add Mata and Mkhitaryan's wages together you'd come close to paying Sanchez, I'd swap those 2 with their 4 PL goals for Sanchez any day of the week.
Spare a thought for Arsenal fans who will inevitably add the prefix "Dirty," to his surname when he plays for us
Only according to mostly clueless punters who move the odds with their bets. Whether or not we are actually favorites is known only by Alexis and Arsenal.
What we can definitely take onboard with this signing if we get Sanchez is that with Mourinho in charge we will not be far away from title number 21 sooner rather than later,especially if we significantly strengthen over the summer in the other key areas we know about already. The potential signing of Sanchez could turn out be a serious catalyst for us,next season players like Martial,Pogba,Rashford,Lingard will be even better throw in Sanchez and possibly Ozil then thats going to be a pretty formidable team!!
Speaking of OGs welcome back... Any news in your front
It's what true Muppetry is made of.
An arse hat?
ThanksSpeaking of OGs welcome back... Any news in your front
Nah I am just a fellow muppet.I can see them now deriding him joining us as only after money, yet if he joins City, it'll all be about "ambition"
We've seen this before with Van Persie!
I think it's a good move. He's a short term signing that I hope will have a similar impact as RVP. He has lost a bit of his pace though and his best goalscoring seasons have come playing on the left or central. So I'm not sure where he fits in yet. He also hasn't been great this season (decline vs can't be arsed or both).
After a couple of seasons I have no doubt that many on here (probably including me) will be calling for his head saying that he is a slow overpaid over-the-hill footballer that is not fit to wear the #7 and should therefore be offloaded as soon as possible.
After a couple of seasons I have no doubt that many on here (probably including me) will be calling for his head saying that he is a slow overpaid over-the-hill footballer that is not fit to wear the #7 and should therefore be offloaded as soon as possible.
Probably that too
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