Possibly, but at the same time, he's playing far better than most of our players, and I think he'd be a great upgrade over J 'His runs give other people space' Lingz.
True, but I think we're in the market now where everyone is going to be expensive and overpriced
I don’t even think it’ll be that high, in relative terms. I reckon £30million would do.
Not sure, they bought him for 11.5m
Which British talent existed outside of Manchester United from say 2000-2010 ? He signed Bruce, Ince, Pallister, Cole, Carrick, Ferdinand, Rooney and tried to sign Gazza, Joe Cole and Shearer to mention some - all players who were established but not the finished article. But apart from these players and mainly 7-8 players at our rivals and other topclubs, who were good enough to play for United ?
As @Sandikan mentioned it was public knowledge during the previous summer window that Liverpool had tapped him up well before the window opened; I think I remember it being reported that Klopp himself had been talking to him and telling him how important he would be to Liverpool if he joined. Another club would likely have faced some sort of sanction for doing that, but Liverpool just had to wait until the January window and pay a bit more to satisfy Southampton, while VVD spent his last few months as a Southampton player either missing games or walking around with a face like a slapped arse for not getting his summer move. If he genuinely turned-down City for Liverpool then there's little doubt he wasn't going anywhere other than the warm embrace of Klopp.
Who are you including in the current crop?
What is this so called "superstar strategy era" supposedly
? Where are those superstars? Pogba, yes. I don't recall others. Well, I hope we get good players.Di mariaWhat is this so called "superstar strategy era" supposedly
Falcao, Di Maria, Ibra, Pogba, Sanchez and Ed’s obsessions with Thomas Muller / Bale / Neymar / Ronaldo.What is this so called "superstar strategy era" supposedly
Yeah it always amuses me when people refer to Woodward’s ‘Galactico obsession ‘.What is this so called "superstar strategy era" supposedly
Okay, I see. Maybe I just see the superstar word a little bit differently. Ibra and Falcao were past it already. We can probably include Sveinsteiger here as well then, he was past it. Sanchez is past it, however we all thought he would be a superstar for us. Di Maria, hmmh i guess he was a superstar, didn't work out. Muller, Bale, Neymar and Ronaldo never even got here. It truly is/was a bad strategy
.Woodward did say that we can do things in transfer market that others cant. I am still laughing at that. I hope he proves me wrong!
Exactly, we already have a bunch of British kids in the academy, why buy more of them when what we need is some proven quality that can lead the kids we already have, it just doesn't make any sense to me, hopefully it's just paper nonsense.
Fergie was always in for the best British players though, but that was when there was some exceptional talents like Rio and Rooney, or top talent like Carrick, but even other than that he still went for the likes of Neil Webb, Smalling, Jones and Young. I think he felt having a British nucleus was important.
Youth teams yes, but if you look at the 3 best youth players, 2 of them (Foden and Hudson-Odoi) ar ealready at rivals and the other is Sancho. However we don't need yet more kids, we start two young, inconsistent forwards every week, we have Greenwood, Gomes and Garner from our own youth that cover the Britishness needed, we need some proven quality to help the youth we have, not Crystal Palace and West Ham's kids, and if we want proven quality we will have to look outside of the British isles.
Fergie was about 50-50 with players from the English League and those from abroad over his time wasn't he? Ignoring academy graduates anyway. I imagine with academy graduates you would be looking 50-25-25.
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Similar revenues. Very different mindsets.
They're a FC and we're a PLC.
Wouldn’t be surprising to see one of those attackers leave. Won’t be to United unfortunately. Madrid or Bayern or PSG will have him.
You believe Dortmund will sell Sancho for 60m?
Ouch, that tattoo will be very awkward to explain in the showers.
Saul for £50m and Jones for £40m
Those prices and thinking half of those players would even come to us. I don’t know what planet some people on here are on.Here we go again with these ridiculous prices. You even acknowledged Saul’s massive release clause the other day and are still saying 50 million.
Maguire is not bang average he’s won more than Sancho and AWB combined.
Jones for £40million
Chutney perhaps?
That chutneys stayed in the fridge for too long pal. Jones is worth around 20m. Woodward isnt an expert negotiator. Also some of the pricing is absurd. Rodris release clause is 60million, why would he go for 35? Sancho for 60m is a joke when Dortmund sold Pulisic for the same amount.
Yea that's true about the release clause but no way Saul will only go for 50 when you listed Phil Jones for 40. Saul in this transfer climate will fetch a bit more than that.
The reason we get pennies for our players is because they are on insane wages and performance bonuses. Everton will not pay £30-40 million for an injury ravaged defender on massive wages, regardless of him being English.
