Completely agree. After the first-choice front three, we have no players I'd be confident starting every week in the event of a long-term injury. Even Greenwood is still early days and can't be expected to play every match.
I'd definitely trust Ighalo, he would continue to score goals consistently, especially if played alongside Rashford/Martial and Greenwood.
Yes true, we do have a lot of games and I’m sure Ole will handle Mason perfectly, he has so far.
Of course you need discernment. That is not the primary reason for looking to buy the player. But it's like anything. You look at what you have. You look at age. You look in regards how often they're injured etc. You look at potential. So we show that because Griezmann may be available...but we believe that overall Sancho would be the one to go for. So we can't buy everyone but for Us Sancho is a non brainer. We can't stop other teams buying players. We just have to try to be smarter. It would be nice to get Sancho for a good price but of course we got to play the game.
It'd be a nice change if we could just get about one thread in United forum which is positive about United without one post from a smug German league fan.I'll raise you 8M€ and 83 goals (across league, cup, and CL)
Agreed.
Fixed.
Alright, sorry. The topic inspired me to look up on transfermarket how our attack compares, that's all.
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Agreed, and that is how it was always meant to be. Bringing through young players is fine but the way we've done it pre-Ole was very haphazard, we've relied too heavily on them becoming integral to save the current manager. Rashford looks good - LVG plays him in more or less every game; McTominay looks decent - he's Jose's golden boy and a stick-on first XI player; Williams looks the part - fans talking about him rotating with and eventually replacing Shaw in the near future. Don't get me wrong it's been great to see our young players getting important minutes but for me it was all too quick and too forced because we were lacking quality. Now Mason is coming through in a much healthier environment and has forged a starting place for himself, yes in a position where we are struggling for options, but also because he's genuinely a class act even at his young age.
...Lewandowski was stolen from Dortmund wasn't he?
You can say the same during 07 season. None of Ronaldo and Rooney was a true top player. Look what they have achieved together.
How do you get a sucessor to someone that never wore the crown? We dont need a successor to Mata, we just need a Right winger for the first time in many years.
Huh? Mata has been a good servant and I meant it as replacing our only left-footed specialist, which is... Mata. I thought my comment was clear enough, but maybe not.
They don't need that type of pressure. Especially the 18 year old.
Why would he be worried about playing as an inside forward? The best attacking players in the last decade have mostly been playing the same positions. The lad is no Lewandowski or Zlatan, he's perfect to be a modern-day forward and doesn't need to be focused on one position, his talents are just too great for that.
Also we need to rotate regularly to avoid fatigue. Just pay the asking price and move on with it.
The only one that will be benched is Greenwood. Then, in 2 seasons time (maybe even less), we'd have to decide to sell one of Martial, Rashford or Greenwood, because each of them will want guaranteed playing time. As it happened with City and Sane.Adding Sancho will raise this trident into 138 million pounds, or just 100 million pounds, depending on who we left out on the bench.
I believe it was 50m euros, with an extra 30m in bonuses which I have no idea if it was paid or not.
Left for free after his contact ran out. So yes.
Yeah sure that’s impressive but 2 of our front 3 are from the academy and the other was signed when he was 19. Their current ages are 22, 24 and 18, be interesting to see how they stack up when they match the age of the Bayern front three.I'll raise you 8M€ and 83 goals (across league, cup, and CL)
Yeah, most likely to leave is Martial, maybe to Barcelona, Juve or Real Madrid in the latter of his career.
So why would we buy Sancho for such a ridiculous price? I honestly don't think he is more talented than our current main forwards, plus they all compliment each other perfectly.
They sure have the potential to give you a decade of high performance each, whereas we will have to replace some big names in Lewandowski and Müller soonish. Doubtful we'll get those replacements from our youth.
I’m sure you can just nick Haland when Lewandoski hangs up his boots
Only Müller of course.
One can dream ^^I’m sure you can just nick Haland when Lewandoski hangs up his boots
And you would be wrong.
Ok fine let's say he is happy there - will the board not persue Sancho because of it?
I've already given my opinion on Sancho several times in this thread alone. Great player, but I don't think we need him anymore, not for the record-breaking prices that are quoted.
