Ah we didn't need him anyway. I'm guessing this will soon turn into another Ole Out thread.
Erling Haaland | Dortmund player
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik and Imran hold a long overdue conversation about United's awful league form with 1 win in 7. They discuss a disappointing draw at Bournemouth, a not so disappointing draw against Liverpool and a crushing defeat at Chelsea - Is time nearly over for Erik Ten Hag?
Then in a special second half of the pod, Nik welcomes Natalie ( https://twitter.com/natalie_17) to discuss the fortunes of Manchester United Women as they booked a place in the FA Cup Final after a historic first ever win vs. Chelsea.
Yeah, because that's how agents work. They see their player thriving and immediately hand power over his future back to the club, in order to miss out on a massive payday when he moves again.
Are you a 13 year old girl? Get a grip on your emotions and act like a man ffs.
It's just a temporary move for him, he'll be here within 3 years... 
We lost Mikkel Diskerud to the Yanks, we're not about to lose anyone to the Anglos!
He might be if we buck our ideas up.It's just a temporary move for him, he'll be here within 3 years...
Exactly. I seem to remember Sir Alex saying if you see a world class talent, and it's available -- you sign it. Saying that, they did want to stipulate a release clause in any contract, with any club, so I can understand why we e eventually didn't sign him. We've missed our chance now -- he'll end up at Bayern before United.
Thank feck for that Ole Norwegian connection there. Would hamper Greenwood's progress.
Great movements and finishes. No hard feelings, we already have Greenwood
We dodged a bullet here. Imagine this place hating on OGS/Ed for giving such a player a £50m release clause.
That dude only qualified for USA though 1 of his parents. Haaland was born and raised (kinda) in England! You've stolen him from us!
So basically worst case scenario we'd have him for 1.5 seasons upwards before he fecked off somewhere. Just enough time for Greenwood to develop then and us to perhaps come back to the CL.
I mean it's not that bad clause, is it? But we're too big club for that I guess.
This is going to be one of those tedious threads that gets bumped every time a player scores a goal and the exact same discussion plays out each week.
Who should we hire after Ole?
It's a great clause. For the agents of any player we tried to sign from that day onwards, whether that is current players getting new deals or transfers.
Not sure if the release clause stuff is even true or paper bollocks but if that's the reason it's a poor decision from the club.
The position we're in it shouldn't be surprising that top talents want release clauses in their contract. It's just turning down a huge upside for a bit of pride
The position we're in it shouldn't be surprising that top talents want release clauses in their contract. It's just turning down a huge upside for a bit of pride
You must enjoy United playing in the Europa league year in year out. This game requires a lot of emotions. Blood, thunder, passion, sweat, tears. If you don’t have emotions then you are complicit to the drop in standards.
We didn't dodge no bullet. Its not about that twat woody. This guy would have helped us get to the top again and we could have moved him on once we're up there. Both parties happy
Meh, doubt everybody would try imposing such a clause on us but I guess that comes with territory of drifting in the place we've been drifting for the last couple of years.
It's basically like saying that we should only do the long-term planning from now on. Almost as if you don't need the short-term planning for it to work.
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Reading everything, if seems as if solskjaer was the only thing that appealed him to us. It's the people in charge money who decided against him.
Why wouldn't they try? You think when we give a player a wage increase, the other players' agents don't add a few more thousand a week to their demands when it's their players turn?
If we signed him and he turned out to be a goalscoring machine in the EPL, you really think we’d be happy to be forced to move him on due to a release clause?
Regardless of what happened in this saga it would have been angled as indicative of the dire straits United is in, and Ole’s ineptitude.
I agree, short of SAF coming out of retirement, I wouldn't bother with anyone else if we have a shot of getting Poch (which I think we would have if we tried).
If Raiola is his agent then he is best off elsewhere. If he scored that debut Hat-trick for Utd today, the headline tomorrow would be 'Erling eye's up Madrid move next season'
Nordic Lukaku, will block the development of Greenwood etc etc
Didn't want to afford him.
Try is the key word here, we wouldn't have to agree to it on every ocassion though, no? I mean it's not like the mid-tier/long-term players would have such demands anyway as there wouldn't be as much 'courting' from other clubs. I guess that had we not been inept, it wouldn't have been the other players' wages that would be the measuring point for our targets' wages (how would they obtain such exact info anyway?) but the target player's merits, ability, and so on, and so forth. It's not like Pogba's wages determine whether the agent of James or some other AWB asks for more money.
I’m sure the club and some of you glazer sympathizers feel great with your principled position on Raiola and agent fees. Principles over winning and success!
It's natural for players to move to better teams as their careers progress.
Not only he'd have a release clause but Raiola would have started offering him around few months in.
Man, Bayern is going to have one hell of a striker to take over from Lewandowski a couple of seasons from now.
Proper overrated the guy. I mean just a hattrick on his first game?
That's hindsight though - that's because he is currently at Dortmund and we wish that he was instead at United.
Instead if he was only at United and it looked like Dortmund move never happened then the £50 mil release clause agreement would look horrific for such a big club with no history of being a selling club.
Who would have thought that signing one of the best talents around could lead to that?
If the release clause was higher, i would have taken him.Dortmund will enjoy him for 2 and a half years and sell him for 60m. It isnt a bad deal at all, especially if they win something and he makes them competitive. Pretty smart and will pay off
Typical caf reaction. This tells us nothing.
Some people here did not want us to sign him
The kid is ridicilous. He makes it look easy.
You, and others noting this, do realise the release clause essentially just puts a cap on the limit Dortmund get when selling him? His overall next transfer could still be for £150m+, but it will be him, his family and his agents carving most of that up in agent fees and signing on fees. Release clauses mean feck all unless the player, and by extension his agent, exercise contract options to demand the move if the release clause is triggered. Nobody is getting Haaland for circa £50m if he has a good time at Dortmund, because Haaland and Raiola won’t agree to any move unless they are serious recompensed.
This type of move is going to become the new norm for hot talents reaching the top of the tree. Players and agents are finally waking up to the fact that they are the sole precious commodity in football.