Imagine a Lacazette/Ramsey swap. No doubt Douglas Costa' name will be put in there too as part of Arsenal new Brazilian look (and not that kind of Brazilian
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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.
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)Dean Smith is prioritising a move for Ollie Watkins.
With this many suitors, Watkins will surely be able to get a nice compensation no matter where he goes (unless he goes for a personal preference).
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With this many suitors, Watkins will surely be able to get a nice compensation no matter where he goes (unless he goes for a personal preference).
According to Football Leaks United are paying Raiola 19.4m€ in five installments (the last of which is scheduled for next month incidentally) plus 2.6m€ which Pogba himself owed to Fat Pizza Dude.
More than anything he just seems the ideal RW signing for us. Regardless, if we can't get a deal done we have to sign someone to play there.
Let’s hope this is the ”Se queda” of this summer.
This is correct. Juve paid him £23m (out of the transfer fee). We paid him a further £16.39m (in five instalments).
£40m for the fat slug, in a single deal.
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Ideally, events like that would have the same consequences as crossing the streams with your proton packs.
I’d like Watkins and we were in for him last summer but £25m for a totally unproven striker in this market is a joke. Be shocked if he goes for anywhere near that.
He has 2 years left on his contract. If we don’t get him this year the price will be lower next year but there will definitely be more bidders
There is also a possibility that football clubs would be in a worse financial position than they are now - if governments opt to limit attendances. Also pandemic measures will continue to have negative effects on the economy in general which can also have negative impacts on club finances.
His contract ends 2023
I heard you’re looking at Sarr to as a loan option to buy.
Must be more to this as you would expect loads of big clubs happy to buy him at this price, I expect that he has a desired choice of the only club (liverpool) he wants to join if he leaves Bayern.
Don't know what the translation is but sounds like he refuses to play for us unless he can wear a camisole. Shame.
Where the feck have you been???
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Watkins, Wesley, Mbwana and Kienan Davis seems a bit overkill for a club like Villa. They’re also pretty good strikers for a club of Villa’s current level (no offence, and wit the exception of Davis).
Is someone going to leave? They’re mostly recent signings as well, would find it weird to keep throwing money at the striker problem every window and hope it sticks. Think a bit more patience is required with these lads.
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Please no.
Costa 
Not keen on him, he's quite injury prone, he doesn't exactly fit our ethos. There's usually a reason big clubs let players of his age go.
Not a chance.Costa
Coman, Costa please no. Go out there and get the best. No B or C list
Not sure Costa makes a lot of sense. I'd prefer someone a lot younger with something to prove if we miss out on Sancho, someone like Nkunku or Sabitzer would be ideal. Sabitzer is older at 26, but an exceptional player. Nkunku only 22 and very similar to Sancho is style of play.
I would hope that fans will be sensible and compare us to our rivals and what they spend. I'd not really considered that football could be behind closed doors for thr majority of this coming season, or have reduced capacities. No wonder the club don't want to shell out that kind of money if it's true. No club will.
Good lord not Sabitzer
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Douglas Costa is definitely not an alternative. It’s pretty clear that Ole doesn’t Consider signing of any old average players (we have enough of those).
It could be believable if he were to sign either a) another young winger (even if not very good) or b) truly great winger (even if not very young).
But Costa is neither a) nor b)
Would rather stick with Mason and upgrade other areas tbh. With Mason coming up, we can afford to wait one more year or sign some stop gap like Sarr.
I get what you mean, but he's also 24, so it's not like he's necessarily at his peak. He's also been Brentford's top scorer, so it makes sense for them to demand that much, especially since they barely missed out on the PL.
The journalists have reported his desire to join Liverpool, but I can see other reasons behind this:
- He's injury-prone
- He's at an age where his physical attributes will start to decline (though he doesn't necessarily rely on them)
I'm posting this here for the folks that don't check out the particular player threads in the Transfer Forum:
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They also said he'd love to play for United but is a different character to Dembele and won't go on strike.
Feels like Costa has been linked to United for about a decade. Still don't want him.
This means that he might play out his contract with Dortmund and then move to a bigger club if Dortmund don't get a deal that they're satisfied with.
Speaking of which, from that same podcast, United apparently put in a low offer at the start (probably to test Dortmund out). The fact that we're going through their agents makes the whole process slower than usual.
Wasn't this guy supposed to be some world beater a few years ago?
Definitely. He s still at Juventus because no big club wants him. I m sure we re not even considering him
From what's being said he wants to move to United and the deal between club and player is done. To me if both United and Sancho have agreed that much then there's still a very good chance it will happen.
The offers were indeed to test the water. There's been no official bid as yet.
Next we might see an official United bid followed by a transfer request. Or we might see this get sorted between clubs. I don't see United and Sancho coming this far so early in the window to let this simply die though. Sancho saying nothing at the moment supports this in my opinion.
Yep. He was very solid for Wolfsburg to be fair.
Yeah, exactly, this has gone way too far now for it to break down at this point. If we've come to a personal agreement with the player, there's no way we'll end our negotiations with Dortmund unless we want to risk looking way worse. The only way I can see the whole thing breaking down is if Sancho changes his mind all of a sudden or another club comes in and tempts Sancho to join them.
I think it's positive for United all this is happening early in the window rather than later on.
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