Jack Grealish / signs new 5 year contract

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they are far from having agreed a price. Leverkusen are playing hardball and want him to play in the EL
I agree, but we havent even negotiated with Villa yet.


The least I can see the 80m price tag reducing to is 60m and nothing less
Yeah, well if its £45m and £15m add ons then I wouldn't be opposed to that. The add ons have to be winning the league and stuff not appearances.
 

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45-50M fee rising to 60M would be a good deal for us I think. He can challenge Bruno and Rashford for their spot, and bring in a different edge to United. We dont have anyone in our squad who can keep the ball under pressure like him.
 

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He's put a picture up on Instagram of him with his fingers in his ears? That's some kind of message
 

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The 5 subs rule has changed a lot, there will be enough game time for everybody. Grealish really should be looking to move this summer if he has any ambition.
 

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Or just don't rate the likes of Fred and Dan James
What does Fred have to do with anything? He's playing in a completely different position. James has room for improvement, but blowing half of our alleged budget on a luxury player such is Grealish, is unwise imo.
 

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Have you seen the drop of in quality? The rain coat has a massive hole in it.
Exactly my point, first strengthen in the areas that are burning issues in the first team, then think about additions to the squad. Grealish isn't going anywhere, he'll be available next year as well.
 

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Relegated Bournemouth moving Ake on for £41m won't help.
 

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For starters we need a proper RW, then we definitely need someone to slowly phase out Matic and by the looks of it, we will need another CB as well.
I completely agree but about finding a replacement for Matic but Utd clearly don't see this as an issue at all
 

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For starters we need a proper RW, then we definitely need someone to slowly phase out Matic and by the looks of it, we will need another CB as well.
Sounds like we are signing Sancho and also looking at CB.
Agree we need a CDM, but we also need AM/LW cover which Grealish could be. Although I wouldn't sign him at the currently quoted fee.
 

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Yeah there is a definite drop off in quality
We have to remember, we are playing CL now, we cannot go into a mid week game with Lingard, Perreira, James, Mata and youngsters in those games.

We will need quality players. We have seen how our players have performed when they are tired.
 

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Luxury player when we have more glaring holes in our team that need patching.
The only glaring hole we have is RW and it looks like we're getting Sancho for that. Other than that we could do with reinforcements at CAM/CDM/CB but I wouldn't say one of those is more glaring than the other.
 

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Define really special.

Very good, I'll admit but 'really special?'
May not be really special but he got something more than the skill. We need players with that leadership and responsibility to play for big clubs. He got that and comes to ability he is not short of that either.

Overall he can be a good addition. See how Bruno kept Lisbon in top-3 on his own with average players around when most of others left. that kind of mentality helps at bigger clubs and he proved it.
 

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Exactly my point, first strengthen in the areas that are burning issues in the first team, then think about additions to the squad. Grealish isn't going anywhere, he'll be available next year as well.
I agree with what you are saying. He isnt top priority.

RW has to be the highest priority this summer
CDM/CB - is a second on the list IMO, however; I cannot see us getting both.
AM - This is more a squad priority, only because we cannot have our forwards tired in CL and PL campaign.

I think we can get away with a Fred / McTominay covering for Matic for one season. However; if we did sign a DM, it would add 5/6 points in the league compared to Fred and Mctominay
 

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Than we don't agree about his qualities. He will be a first team player, get tons of games and will be a big player for us, imo. Rashford has been awful since the restart, imagine having Grealish as an option for his position. Bruno could have been rested a lot more.



Haven't seen enough of Luiz Alberto to comment, but Havertz would be a lot more expensive than Grealish and a bigger gamble. Coutinho, we should steer well clear. I don't think we'll have to spend north of 60m to get Grealish either
Oh God no. I am sick to death of us playing midfielders on the wing. We did it with Mata and Perierra. Grealish on the wing wouldn't work as he has no pace. Would rather play Dan James there.
 

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The only glaring hole we have is RW and it looks like we're getting Sancho for that. Other than that we could do with reinforcements at CAM/CDM/CB but I wouldn't say one of those is more glaring than the other.
I wholeheartedly disagree with that notion. Like i said people want a new toy for the sake of it and that's it. We can get Buendia and VDB for the money we'd be forced to pay Grealish.
 

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For starters we need a proper RW, then we definitely need someone to slowly phase out Matic and by the looks of it, we will need another CB as well.
If you follow the news you would see that we are close to getting Sancho - a proper RW, all the reliable journalists have also said we want a CB and Ole sees Mctominay as Matic's successor
 

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The 5 subs rule has changed a lot, there will be enough game time for everybody. Grealish really should be looking to move this summer if he has any ambition.
The 5 sub rule definitely means that if Grealish were to come, we could rotate our attacking players a lot better than we could with the previous 3 sub rule. It works hugely to our advantage. This is a huge plus in the column for why we should sign Grealish. I think it hinges on the other transfer options. If we manage to pull off the deal for Sancho, that could majorly impact on whether or not we go for Grealish, or whether we could afford both.
 

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Clever bit of marketing that. Doesn't really mean anything and you can decide what it means by whatever side of the fence you're on.

It just keeps you talking about him.
 

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I agree with what you are saying. He isnt top priority.

RW has to be the highest priority this summer
CDM/CB - is a second on the list IMO, however; I cannot see us getting both.
AM - This is more a squad priority, only because we cannot have our forwards tired in CL and PL campaign.

I think we can get away with a Fred / McTominay covering for Matic for one season. However; if we did sign a DM, it would add 5/6 points in the league compared to Fred and Mctominay
Thing is, we won't be attacking all competitions next season anyway, this is a multi-year project.

I'd look to fix my starting 11 first before spending big for a squad player.
 
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