Adrien Rabiot | signs 1 year deal at Juventus. See you all next year

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Can we not just drop some dosh on Brighton's table and see if they would sell Caicedo? Or Lyon for Caqueret?

Hell Neves is looking more desirable right now - at least he'll genuinely help with ball retention and transition. Unless we will sign this type in addition.

Even Brozovic, as @TheNewEra mentioned.
I mean, we supposedly agreed a fee for De Jong so we can't be THAT broke. We should be able to pay money for someone with a bit more potential than Rabiot.
 
Honestly? United are bigger than West Ham and he'd get paid more. The only other move would be Chelsea which is not that far away as a squad.

I don't see him going abroad, Liverpool, City are stacked in that position. Spurs wouldn't pay that kind of money.
Really don't think this guy is about the money
 
Everyones missing the point. The real value in this transfer is having Rabiots mom as acting Director of Football during the duration of his contract.
 
That point is interesting because people are sharing his worst season's stat as an indication of what the player is overall, they even try to extrapolate them to previous seasons that had far different passing stats.
That's fair enough, but then that leads to the question of why are we picking up a bloke on a massive downturn in performance in the last year of his contract where his club are desperate to see the back of him? It's not a set of circumstances that inspires confidence. We just have to pray to reinvigorate his career, I guess.
 
Can we not just drop some dosh on Brighton's table and see if they would sell Caicedo? Or Lyon for Caqueret?

Hell Neves is looking more desirable right now - at least he'll genuinely help with ball retention and transition. Unless we will sign this type in addition.

Even Brozovic, as @TheNewEra mentioned.
Caicedo would be the best possible buy with the greatest potential instant impact on our midfield fortunes we could make but that's far too sensible for these lot in charge.

We need a lengthy,drawn out and embarrassing wild goose chase to stay in the headlines only to pony up for an unwanted problem child instead
 
He was a press resistant and tidy player for PSG. He was actually pretty good there playing with Verratti.

He hasn’t been great for Juve, but they don’t play a possession based style, so I’m hoping under EtH he’ll look much much better.
I'm considered press resistant in Ligue 1 ffs.
 
I like the optimism here, wish I felt some too!
Yeah mate to be honest after yesterday I’m taking it anywhere I can find it haha. If that means going full muppet over Rabiot so be it.
Between the 18m transfer fee and the wages we will need to pay him, he is not going to be cheap. His wages will mean that we have less money to sign others. He is also going to be impossible to get rid off
I don’t think the fee is an issue. The wages maybe. But with all the players we let go and didn’t replace there should be room. Again, if there were loads of players we were linked with I’d be less happy about this. But other than De Jong/Sesko it doesn’t seem we are. Therefore I don’t think the wages will block anything else from happening .
I'd be furious if we were signing a player of Mbappé's quality for £15m if it turned out that PSG were willing to let him go for free. The sheer incompetence of our DOF is astonishing.
Yeah I somewhat agree but I’m at the ‘feck it let’s just get things done’ stage now. At first for example I was super against paying the deferred FDJ wages but now if that’s what it takes to make it happen I’m all for it
From what I understand he's never been in charge of transfers at Ajax and our transfer 'activity' this year shows that.

I dunno everything I’ve read says our scout department had a long list of targets but they were all scrapped in favour of what ETH wants. I find it hard to believe we are linked with so many current or former Ajax if he’s not heavily involved. Regardless, if he’s the driving force or not, I’d imagine he at least has given a thumbs up to Rabiot if it’s got to the stage of having a bid accepted.
 
You should read Adnan's posts were he goes in detail about how great Murtough is.

Unfortunately Adnan was also singing the praises of our recruitment structure and talking about how Lawler and Bout were a big part of it, just hours before they got sacked. He strikes me as one of those people that is just perennially positive about everything we do, no matter what it is.
 
Which is exactly what he's doing here, buying some players that he's worked here before + accepting some random players that board presents in front of him. I was wondering how he knew Rabiot as he never played against Ajax though.

Yeah, the difference is Ajax don't pick any random players and their academy is better than ours.
 
He's not good enough so will need replacing again, what's the point.

The squad if full of overpaid mediocre shite and Rabiot fits right in with the 7-8 we need to offload.

We've had all summer and in all honesty about 3 years of knowing we need a midfielder and we're now at the 'its better than nothing' stage of the window. Im furious with this club.

I don't disagree on the whole.

Rabiot wasn't my preferred choice by any means or even on the radar - I doubt he was for any United fan, but if signing him for the relatively paltry sum of £15 million means the end of McFred, then so be it.

Also, we've been incredibly unlucky with FDJ. His contract situation is such a mess that we literally cannot sign him, which United would have had no prior knowledge of until they attempted to sign him.
 
Unfortunately Adnan was also singing the praises of our recruitment structure and talking about how Lawler and Bout were a big part of it, just hours before they got sacked. He strikes me as one of those people that is just perennially positive about everything we do, no matter what it is.
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I trust Ten Hag knows what he is doing. Dont care who we sign if its "his" man. Probably posted before but can we get som report on this guy?
 
We genuinely do not seem to have a plan at the moment. Bissouma was available a few months ago for a decent price and is probably 3-4 times the player Rabiot is. What are we at?

Is he though, Rabiot has mixed it in Europe, fair enough he's had a bad time at Juve but he was decent enough for PSG.

For the fee they are talking it's clear we are looking to add numbers to our squad and that means we can't pay 50 million for everyone we sign.

Rabiot is an upgrade on Fred and Mctomminey, that much is certain so it's a start and I accept this far more the Arnautovic transfer.
 
As freaked out as I am about the links to this guy and Arnautovic, it is worth remembering that one of the reasons many fans wanted Ten Hag was his ability to turn average players into gems - Tadic, Haller, even Blind to a degree. Maybe clutching at straws but Ten Hag probably thinks he could do a similar job with these guys.
But those are probably quite talented players by the standards of the Dutch league. Trying to pull off the same trick with the same level of player in the pl feels doomed to fail. Also none of those players you listed come across as massive cnuts
 
Caicedo would be the best possible buy with the greatest potential instant impact on our midfield fortunes we could make but that's far too sensible for these lot in charge.

We need a lengthy,drawn out and embarrassing wild goose chase to stay in the headlines only to pony up for an unwanted problem child instead

That was one of the best midfield performances against us in a long time. He dominated McFred single handedly, along with whichever other player of ours that came near him. His engine is ridiculous! He's a very good player.
 
That was one of the best midfield performances against us in a long time. He dominated McFred single handedly, along with whichever other player of ours that came near him. His engine is ridiculous! He's a very good player.
Only 20 years old to boot...

He'll be a monster for a big club for a long time whenever he gets his next move
 
Somebody said stop raiding the Eredivisie.

Now look what you've done
 
Which is exactly what he's doing here, buying some players that he's worked here before + accepting some random players that board presents in front of him. I was wondering how he knew Rabiot as he never played against Ajax though.
Well isn't that what cafe wants, that he doesn't buy just players he worked with or knows them but in agreement with the board too?
 
This might be an unpopular take but feck it - I’m not unhappy about this.

why? It’s simple really. He’s an upgrade over what we have at a fairly low price and a deal we can get done quickly.

It’s not instead of De Jong - we’ll still get De jong or Ruiz as well.

We need fresh faces and bringing in someone with international experience whos played on top leagues and is an instant upgrade on what we have is an absolute no brainier.

If we were linked with loads of other midfielders I’d get it but we are not. Let’s be grateful we are at least making some signings:

Plus Ten Hag will have clearly given the thumbs up if it’s gone this far so let’s back out manager and have some faith he knows what he’s doing here lads.
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Ruiz is going to PSG already confirmed.

And Andy Mitten reporting that FDJ has told two people that he prefers Chelsea + London over United + Manchester.

Also Juventus fans hate Rabiot with a passion. They call him soft, lazy etc...
 


Welp

Of course he is, gets to fail upwards and be rewarded quite handsomely after underwhelming at another big club
 
Unfortunately Adnan was also singing the praises of our recruitment structure and talking about how Lawler and Bout were a big part of it, just hours before they got sacked. He strikes me as one of those people that is just perennially positive about everything we do, no matter what it is.

He's well too knowledgeable and persistent to be like that and I am talking from the experience as one of the most persistent people in this forum. Let me say that sometimes I do wonder who is the person writing at the other side.
 
Very true. but they were also highly effective in the Champions league. Haller was one of the top scorers in the CL last year - who would have guessed that would happen when he was struggling at West Ham?

Its one thing having 6-7 difficult games per season were you have ample time to prepare and its another having 1-2 difficult games per week.
 
That's fair enough, but then that leads to the question of why are we picking up a bloke on a massive downturn in performance in the last year of his contract where his club are desperate to see the back of him? It's not a set of circumstances that inspires confidence. We just have to pray to reinvigorate his career, I guess.
Juve wanted rid of kulusevski - which turned out to be a bit stupid! That said, I can't remember seeing Rabiot play for at least two years...
 
Caicedo would be the best possible buy with the greatest potential instant impact on our midfield fortunes we could make but that's far too sensible for these lot in charge.

We need a lengthy,drawn out and embarrassing wild goose chase to stay in the headlines only to pony up for an unwanted problem child instead
We pulled out of negotiations with Caicedo and he went to Brighton instead
 
If he improves our squad I'm all for it, were so thin on the ground we need numbers. if we can get our squad to a reasonable level we may then appeal more to world class players.
 
Funny how talks of “panic buys” when there’s 24 days left of the window
 
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