News we all expected?
Erling Haaland
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Yeah but now we have to go all out and get the other one they don't
Yeah of course. We have no chance of signing a player city want. As history has shown us.
Usual misery drama queens whinging.
Obviously being totally sickened by hearing Cooper say that City & Chelsea can make hay this summer isn't allowed
Let's just close the thread and update wiki to call him a city legend.
Yeah sounds like a good idea to me
Strange folk who log on to behave like this. Can only assume they are wumming us.
Good stuff. Then you can find another thread to take veiled swipes at your own club in.
I am taking swipes because it hurts me deep that our yankee leech scumbag owners don't give a shit about us, I also feel absolutely disgusted that oil bankrolled clubs are able to just act as if everything is normal with finances
Right. So city announce the much anticipated, and totally expected, moving on of Aguero at the end of the season and your first thought is to log on to the Caf and tell as many people as possible that Haaland is a done deal and United can't compete with city.
Seems reasonable.
Bastard Glazers.
Well we can't compete with them over a season due to their unlimited resources, may feel differently if there was any sense of us buying the CB, CDM, RW & ST we so badly need this summer but as usual we are cutting corners
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Yes that sense that we are cutting corners in the transfer market for next season.
Yet we are still in the current season and the transfer window is closed. Sounds legit.
If we weren't paying £40-50m odd per year in interest we'd be able to blow even City out of the water in the transfer market. Something like £500m over the last 10-15 years? What a joke.
All that dominance under SAF to play second feeder to oil clubs and the likes of Bayern.
All that dominance under SAF to play second feeder to oil clubs and the likes of Bayern.
Not really. Out of all the big clubs, we'd have been the most financially competitive and sound club, but if you add clubs like City and PSG they could just drop 500m for a player (with no FFP) and be fine with it. City were rumoured to have made some such bid for Messi in his heyday.
Must be tiring being totally sickened AND absolutely disgusted at the same time
The speculations that City were willing to break their usual ceiling of 60m to go after a striker were true. This transfer will inject a large chunk of money into the market that had been frozen and start the rounds of musical chairs. Now that United has appointed a director of football, he will keep track of the trends in the market and become an active participant. This summer should be replete with opportunities to upgrade the squad. I am looking forward to the transfer news to come.
How about Erling’s cousin who plays Molde, Albert Braut Tjaland?
Well, as expected, we're in March and the summer transfer window is shaping up to be a shit show already. So messy before it's begun. Pogba, Bailly, Lingard - all going in to their final year with no sign of a renewal. I can see all three staying and seeing out their contracts - great work from the board on that. We need a CB, CDM, RW and CF. We'll be lucky to get one of those of the required calibre. I can see a Donny-type signing in one of those positions - maybe Dembele, who is essentially a squad player. The rest will be fluff like last summer. Add in the Euros, which leaves little time to get business done and it's a grim summer.
Apologies for the negativity, but this board has lost all confidence I may have once had that they can do a decent job and put the manager and the team first.
Apologies for the negativity, but this board has lost all confidence I may have once had that they can do a decent job and put the manager and the team first.
Bailly and Lingard will leave because they actually want regular game time.
You're right though Cooper's interview on Utd stand was as grim as it can be if he's even remotely right our focus will be on a CB, cost effective ST or RW and perhaps a back up GK(he mentioned we'll look to move on De Gea as Henderson will likely be 1st choice GK)as Haaland/Sancho won't happen, no DM being looked at, no RB with Dalot likely to come back to be back up to AWB and our budget at best will be £100m. He also did mention Pogba has a higher chance of staying but it looks like an ordinary summer coming up
Haaland knows Ole so he'll sign with us.
I don't see it as you being negative at all just realistic and I'm still praying that the ultimate nightmare of City totally eclipsing our treble with a quadruple doesn't become a reality either, that would just make me think they will have basically turned our great game into glorified football manager on cheat mode and that is a really sad thing to see
Like Cooper said the relationship with him won't mean anything when City/Chelsea can drop £150m without any problem
I don't know who Cooper is but he sounds irrelevant. Haaland will go to to la liga or us.
For all the talk of Chelsea and City paying exorbitant fees for players and how easy it would be for them to drop £150m for Haaland, United still hold the record for paying biggest transfer fees in English football though not much to show for those outlays maybe it would change for Haaland but let's wait and see before hitting the panic button.
Haaland was also coached by Roy Keane’s Dad when he was younger who kicked his elbow in training and it puts the deal in doubt.
What about him? He plays for their youth team, hasn’t featured for the seniors yet.
Its so typical of United fans to go in full panic mode because Aguero is retiring, if anyone havent noticed City played their best football this season without an no9..
Stylistically, Kane suits City better than Haaland.
That makes sense. In the early 10's they bought many players around 20-25M (Silva, Toure, Milner, Balo, Lescott, etc), Aguero was the exception (£38M).
Playstyle wise as well, at least as long as Guardiola is their manager.
Still unsure about whether I want him.
I mean, he's a fecking great player but the team is going to face a lot of the same problems it did with Lukaku.
I think we need a more all rounder and a player great with his back to goal. Haaland wants to play on the last line.
This team does not create nearly enough to support that kind of striker.
Prime Benzema would have been a great option to have.
I mean, he's a fecking great player but the team is going to face a lot of the same problems it did with Lukaku.
I think we need a more all rounder and a player great with his back to goal. Haaland wants to play on the last line.
This team does not create nearly enough to support that kind of striker.
Prime Benzema would have been a great option to have.
For anyone who thinks there's even the slightest chance of Haaland coming here, you need to have your head checked. That's regardless of Aguero leaving City or not.
We simply don't have the cash to be in for the biggest signings right now. It's clear that the pandemic has hit some clubs harder than others, and of the "big" clubs, we're probably one of hardest hit.
Only City or Chelsea will be able to get him if he's to come to the Premier League. We've literally just had to take out a loan to off-set our expenses. And if Ole was as big a pull as some hope, he'd have joined a few years ago.
We simply don't have the cash to be in for the biggest signings right now. It's clear that the pandemic has hit some clubs harder than others, and of the "big" clubs, we're probably one of hardest hit.
Only City or Chelsea will be able to get him if he's to come to the Premier League. We've literally just had to take out a loan to off-set our expenses. And if Ole was as big a pull as some hope, he'd have joined a few years ago.
Haaland is actually great with his back to the goal. And his first touch is solid. The only real comparison to Lukaku is that they are both big and powerful.
We actually create a lot of chances in most games, but some days our strikers can't hit the side of a barn.
Disagree with this, from the very beginning him and his family were only going for where it was best suited for his development. And for all the discussion BL is an easier league than PL.
That combined with the exit clause is why they chose Dortmund. Also he didnt want to fight with Martial for the starting spot, he wanted to be a nailed-on starter.
The guy chose RB Salzburg over Juventus when he left Norway, that just shows what his priorities was.
Now that he is ready to go to a top top league and team, Ole might still be a deciding factor.
Yup. Will leave next summer. But there will of course be a lot of speculation this summer which will help media outlets and clubs in keeping fans enticed.
Honestly. I don’t even think he’ll leave this summer, tbh.
I agree. And the result has been spectacular for them.
he’s more sought after now, and will command a far higher salary, and bonuses for everyone involved than If he went to United first.
Dortmund were a stepping stone, they have enabled him to develop.
as you say, when he left Salzburg he wouldn’t have been a nailed in starter at United.
the mapping out of his career has gone better than planned.
Well, seeing as we won't be able to get anywhere near the price it will take to pry him away from Dortmund, Ole is hardly going to factor in at all.
And if he's wanting to take the next step up and be guaranteed of success and career progression, why would he choose us over City right now?
Ole would only have been a bonus if he was still looking to develop, as that's the role Ole had previously played in his career. If Ole couldn't lure Haaland into him choosing us over Dortmund 2 years ago, he's hardly going to be the deciding factor in him choosing us over City/Pep.
But as mentioned, it's sort of immaterial as we won't be able to afford him anyhow.
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