Who knows. He might get a career-ending injury a few months into his 2 year contract, in which case he'll wish he'd signed the 4 year contract. Or his performances might fall off a cliff during those two years, in which case his one-year extension won't materialise and his next contract with a new club - if he gets one - might well not compensate for the extra £10.4m he would have earned from a 4 year contract.
Toby Alderweireld
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Again, like Sanchez was. And instead we're paying him a lot not to start.
De Ligt and Toby together playing for us. 
Have United been linked with Alder recently?
What was he like last season for you lot? I haven't watched much football outside of United last season tbh, but was wondering if he's still the player everyone was raving about the year United wanted him?
You can be old but gold. RvP & Pirlo coming to mind.
It's not like I want Alderweireld, but I want someone ready to be a consistent performer. Their age is something I don't consider unless it's a very big positive (like with De Ligt).
Not yet but I've got a good feeling about it
You can, but you also have to when you're an older signing. Toby has weaknesses that could mean he didnt work out here straight away, not good
Alderweireld has at least a couple of more quality years left. And he would slot straight in. Don’t understand people turning their noses up at him and Meunier. Could potentially sort the defense for now for £50m.
He's not a 70 million pound defender, geebs. No fecking way.
We could debate market prices all day long but he’d be more suited to us than koubilay who’s at least 30m more expensive
Yeah to be fair, very solid defender, reads the game well, makes very few mistakes and has a lovely long ball on him. The only weakness he has is that he isnt that fast, but like I said his reading of the game makes up for this, will be sad to see him go. He is a top professional too like most Ajax products.
How so? Koulibaly is one of the most complete defenders out there who's actually attainable for United. Maguire is pretty good, but if you see them both playing, Maguire is yet to perform at the levels that Koulibaly has.
I don’t think TA would be worth the outlay in wages. He isn’t a leader and imho he’s not playing to the standards he used to. That being said I hope he has a stormer in the CL final
Sell Jones and rojo for 25 m plus and get toby and tuanzebe to replace them.
Heading isn’t as good as it could be for a guy with his build. He’s 28 and built like a brick wall. That lends to more injuries as he gets older. But the bottom line for me is his price, he’s not worth it and won’t get better at his age
Still pretty good, although not as good as the season before. Most Spurs fans would be very happy if he signed a new contract.
He’s still very good though and would be for a few years. I think it makes sense if we miss out on De Ligt although I’m cautiously optimistic we’ll get him.
He's not coming to united it's no chance for that period. If he go now it's 25 mill to to the club. If he wait one year all the money goes to him with a big sign on fee. And it will be he's last contract. So he will stay and wait.
Pros: He will be "cheap" and is probably one of the more attainable stoppers.
Cons: Is he actually better than our current ones, and while he might be, will he strengthen the squad significantly enough?
Cons: Is he actually better than our current ones, and while he might be, will he strengthen the squad significantly enough?
He's not really attainable though, is he?
First, he got a new contract in 2018 that lasts until 2023.
Ancelotti says he will stay.
The player himself is not in a rush to move.
Napoli to my knowledge aren't in desperate need of money either.
I can't see that working out that well for him tbf. He'll be a year older so less appealing to clubs and he'll be offered a shorter contract due to it. He'll end up in China or Qatar if he takes that route, if thats what he wants then fair fecks to him.
Well he has already said it himself.
He is vastly better than any of your current defenders - not just in defending, which his main strength is positioning (top class) but his distribution from the back is extremely good. He would most definitely strengthen your squad.
He is our second best defender after Vertonghen who is an absolute Rolls Royce of a player and seems to go under the radar a bit - I'd be more gutted at losing Verts than Toby.
What did he say?
I wouldn't mind him here. Will be our best CB right out of the gate and gives us time to get the right defenders in instead of panic buying. Having said that, not sure why he'd come here unless it's for money? Spurs are stable and in the UCL. We're a joke and playing with Arsefam in the Europa.
Yes, it would be for the money. He has already turned down a very generous offer from Spurs, so United would need to offer him at least £200k per week and possibly more.
All those YouTubers that follow the club with shitloads or subs that announce stuff all the time and really check their sources say he's staying out his contract.
Hope we complete a deal for this lad.
If de Ligt can't happen and maguire is insane money and Koulibaly is not for sale, we should definitely sign him while keeping close tabs on defenders in preparation for next summer. He and lindelof would be good together
Would definitely be an upgrade on our defenders and a quality player for at least a season. But if we offer him a 4 year contract, which I suspect he will ask for on big wages, then it could potentially be a bad move. He's not exactly the most injury free player which many of the injuries being muscle injuries that will affect his athleticism. Plus he's approaching 30, I can see him declining pretty quickly after another season.
False.
It’s a ridiculous myth that players who go on a free get the equivalent of their transfer fee to sign-on. Crazy nonsense.
Nobody is giving Alderweireld £25m to sign for them next season.
This.
Yeah. If that were the case it’d be impossible to get any decent player to sign a multi-year contract.
Equivalent of transfer fee maybe not but surely if (for example) De Gea leaves for free next season his agent will be asking for a massive signing on fee. It's why Sanchez is on so much a week.
He won't get 25m but he will get a fair chunk more than he would if the club had to pay a transfer fee. It's definitely worth it for a player as a free agent.
He turned 30 in March.
Except that he has already lost a packet - probably more than £10m - by not signing the greatly improved new contract that he could have signed 2 years ago.
I think he'll stay.