The Haaland saga started last season. He was an option when Pep was going after Kane last year. It took so many months that City missed out on signing him during the season itself and as a result failed to win the CL because they couldn't finish their chances against Madrid.
I don't get how people try to compare our transfers situation to City's. City have a manager that is considered top two in the world, has been settled in his role for years, has oil money, an already great team and are perennial title favourites. We didn’t even know who our manager was until a few months ago and don't have champions league. Then you add the De Jong complication, us tried to shift our reputation of being transfer mugs and I get why things take time. Also if ETH is as much detail orientated guy as they say, we can't just chop and change targets, especially the ones he considers key to his system being implemented as soon as possible. People need to calm down a bit and judge at the end of the window.
Personal terms never discussed yet? Uh huh.
Been reported multiple times by good sources that personal terms are not an issue.
Yeah i reckon united will know what he's after and have that issue resolved already.
On the one hand the club let Ronaldo down, on the other hand he really should have done his homework on how much of a mess we were throughout the Woodward era before he signed. He's stuck with us now I think.
Who gives a shit how long the negotiations lasted if it meant he was on board before the transfer window even started
Exactly, the other thing is we can't forget how much background cost it would have taken. That was basically the whole point of Halaand signing for Dortmund with a relatively small release clause. It basically makes the selling club powerless and means the agent and the player control everything on the next transfer. Dortmund was at least fortunate that he was good right away so they got maximum field value out of him, rather than him getting good towards the back end of his contract.
Haaland wasn’t for sale last year and everyone knew his release clause kicked in this summer. He was efficiently sealed before the window even opened.
We are Man Utd , when has wages ever been a problem for us ? The more zero’s we can give out the better
Barca: We are doing everything to keep Frenkie, he just needs to reduce salary.
City were ready to pay £100m for Kane. Haaland was available at that price last summer. Direct discussions have been going on since at least then. It was a saga by any reasonable measure.
Haaland was not for sale last year and Dortmund slapped a 200M€ pricetag on him to ward off potential suitors. He was only realistically available this summer regardless of when Guardiola, Madrid or whomever else wanted him. Kane was blocked from leaving by Levy, that’s all it was.
We've spent all this time negotiating with Barca but haven't even discussed personal terms with FDJ's camp yet?!
Also agree. This is a united forum and I come here for united content. Not some shite about teams and leagues I've have no interest in. I have it filtered to united only which is super.
Same here, I’m not visiting the other Transfer Tweet threads.
Pretty sure you need an agreement with the selling club before you can negotiate a contract with the player
Its not uncommon to discuss personal terms after negotiations between clubs have concluded.
The way clubs approuch those deals depend on case by case. Barcelona apparently discussed personal terms with Raphinha in advance. Chelsea had tratatives with Leeds to discuss with Raphinha in a second moment. In both cases in general clubs are going talk to agents in the first place to check if they aren't 100% wasting their time.
Nope, it's almost always done in advance through intermediaries. At least at a high level - I'm sure all the legalese and fine print gets ironed out later.
We haven't actually signed ETH. Its Ole in a bald cap to quiten fans
They have to say that because it's technically illegal to discuss personal terms before a fee is accepted (but in reality everybody does)
Fair enough
Of course not.
I'd imagine we know what he wants, when he is represented by people who represent two our players (van de Beek and Lindelof) and until recently Malacia.
Ya, we obviously know what he wants. Hopefully the bloody fee gets agreed soon though. It's taking ages considering how long ago we started discussions. In general, the lack of signings with our 1st pre-season game just over a week away is quite detrimental to our preparation for the season. The delay in the FDJ deal seems more likely to be Barcelona's fault, but he's our most important signing that our entire midfield is being built around, so the players really need time to understand how to interact with him on the pitch
Easy when there's no negotiation needed.
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