It wasn't really incompetence though, was it? We only wanted a loan with the option to buy due to his issues, Barcelona only wanted to sell him. There's enough to accuse the club of being incompetent about without making every signing that didn't go through "incompetence".
Amad Diallo - Atalanta winger
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Im guessing paperwork will take a while so why not let him stay and play?
I understand mate.
€30m+ for an unproven talent? Not even available until January?
The sheer incompetent at this club, my god!
The sheer incompetent at this club, my god!
YouTube compilation is great. It mainly involves him skinning defenders alive before getting kicked up in the air. Sold!
He's looks almost a spit of Marcus Edwards, also referred to as 'Messi'.
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Anyone genuinely know anything about this kid?
Proper sexy skills and tekkers. I like.
Finally a left footed winger!!
He looked quite comfortable on his right from the clips
He looked quite comfortable on his right from the clips
He has made 3 but only totalling under 30 minutes of actual football.
Remember when majority of us were happy with Dan James signing. Looked like shrewd business from us. Hopefully, Amad is on a different level to our young Welsh lad.
I mean we were £30m off Sancho...
united started paperwork on Friday
Feck it I know nothing about this kid but I’ve seen 30 seconds of a YouTube compilation and I’m sold!
Get him in ASAP a skilful right winger sounds absolutely wonderful to me.
Get him in ASAP a skilful right winger sounds absolutely wonderful to me.
Greenwood is exceptional on the right? No he isn't, Salah I would class as exceptional.
Greenwood is adequate and a future no.9 star for us. He's learning his trade. Has a lot to learn, like tracking back which is a massive weak point.
We wouldn't be clamouring for a RW if he was 'exceptional'. The way we hype up our players and then just as quick to knock them down.
Good to see us not panicking on the final day....
‘Incompetence’ in this case being unwilling to sign him permanently? Or do you know more?
A lot of money for someone his age. Does this guy become an elite player greater than 25% of the time?
nope! This is just the kind of transfer we do After chasing Sancho all summer. Great isn’t it?!So our name gets used even for low profile transfers now??
Maybe with each target we have an idea in mind of what range of fees represent an acceptable degree of potential value/risk and are unwilling to go beyond that range? That would seem a fairly logical way of assessing potential purchases and I'd be surprised if some sort of metrics-based assessment like that doesn't take place in a multi-million pound deal.
So in this case this guy might offer better potential value as he's cheaper and (if he turns out well) has the potential to be sold on for more, or (if he flops) can be sold at less of a loss? Whereas with Sancho you'd be buying at the top end, which means less potential profit and greater potential loss?
In other words it's less about the total amount we have to spend and more about whether each individual deal is deemed to be value in and of itself.
So what do we do until January? Play James?
I think its a bit on the high side tbh. However from what I've read this guy is mint ie Greenwood like good.
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Seems pretty strong and physical for an 18 year old. Is he our Ansu Fati?
That’s called being a journalist: scouring sources, correlating your findings, etc. It seems people have forgot what it means to report the news.
Cant accuse us of being short-termist . And also.. we arent skint.
That said.. how the feck have we not signed a right winger for the first team yet? What are we doing?
That said.. how the feck have we not signed a right winger for the first team yet? What are we doing?
Greenwood?
Martial left wing, Rashford right wing, Cavani up top.
Sounds like he won't even be available until next year due to needing permit,oh this just gets better
I'm not talking specifically about the Dembele deal, I'm talking about the signing of a more experienced option. A loan deal for him was always going to be chancy. We haven't made proper contingency plans and that's why we're running around like headless chicken on deadline day desperate to get some deals done.
Sancho stuff to one side this is a exciting deal.
Seems to be highly rated and for £25m wont be playing for the reserves.
Seems to be highly rated and for £25m wont be playing for the reserves.
Now now don’t be nasty! Maybe a bit plump but not a fati.
It doesn't seem like he is ready to come in and start anyway but it seems like we left this one late as he'll join in January because of paperwork? Did he just become available last minute? Otherwise it looks like a case where the club left this one too late to complete the deal in time.
So between him and Pellistri, a couple of promising prospects for that right wing. Decent business.
30 million on deadline day for a talent that can't play for us until January. Mint.
Quite exciting. Work permit issue otherwise we would have got him now.
Maybe he was simply third on our list? And we always planned on this if the other two didn’t work out?
Who knows maybe this ends up being a master stroke! Or is that being waaay too positive?
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