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Eric Bailly - English players were favoured
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
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I assumed we'd sold him!
Looked it up and he's under contract til 2024....... and there's an option for another year
Looked it up and he's under contract til 2024....... and there's an option for another year
Thank God. Because losing assets for free was like cutting off a limb for Mr WoodwardI assumed we'd sold him!
Looked it up and he's under contract til 2024....... and there's an option for another year
Fair enoughYou would have a point if I read the title of the thread or cared about Bailly.
Perhaps not Marseilles’.
Was that obligation not if he played a certain % of the league games and they qualified?
This is what I found:
"the purchase figure for Bailly has been set at €6m. This will be automatically triggered if one of two conditions are agreed. Firstly, if Bailly plays 50% of Marseille’s games, he will become their player on a permanent basis or if OM qualify for the Champions League next season by finishing in the top three in Ligue 1."
So let's all cheer for Marseille finishing top 3 as he barely plays for them. Good news is they're currently 3rd, 2 points above 4th place Rennes.
Same story as here then, much liked, much injured.
Comes back from injury, does something nuts for a few games, then finds form for a few games and looks top drawer; then gets injured for a few months.
Rinse and repeat.
To think there was certain parts of the fanbase who wanted to keep him around. One of the dumbest players I can remember.
Absolute parody of a footballer, no way in the world ETH has him in the squad on the off chance he ends up back here next summer.
Another one of our woeful deals - they basically get him on loan and we "might" get £5m if a few very favourable happenings take place!
No, too late. Time for you to take your medicine like @JPRouve had to...What
Edit: I am an idiot
Haha you didn't read the thread title Iol.
It's all good, happens to the best of us
I think it's a good deal all things considered. Bailly is so injury prone and inconsistent that no team, that can afford his current wages, would take him.
A loan deal with an automatic clause that doesn't depends on his minutes played it's a Smart choice. OM won't throw away his UCL chances just to feck up Bailly's deal, but they would surely bench him so he doesn't hit the minutes tag if that was the only clause. Hopefully OM will keep their UCL place and we'll get rid of him.
Great tackle
All things considered, it’s one of our better ones. They either need CL football or he needs to play a bunch of games and they have to sign him. Unfortunately however it’s more likely that neither will happen…
Kung Fu kicks someone in the chest and injures himself in the process while getting sent off.
The guy is a fecking liability, on the rare occasions when he's fit anyway.
English players wee favoured my fecking arse Eric.
The guy is a fecking liability, on the rare occasions when he's fit anyway.
English players wee favoured my fecking arse Eric.
We'll have to hope Eric doesn't play that much for them then. They'll not come in the top 3 playing this lunatic week, in week out.
Spot on.
I saw this thread bumped and I immediately guessed red card.
When I saw it was a red card before seeing the title or the video I guessed a kick to the chest.
Is anybody surprised
When I saw it was a red card before seeing the title or the video I guessed a kick to the chest.
Is anybody surprised
King Eric only did it once or twice though. By the end of most of Baillys matches he's probably did more kung-fu kicks/clearances than traditional football kicks.Imitating his name sake hero? Kung Fu Erics
What if they finish 3rd? In Ligue 1’s CL qualification place? Does that count as CL qualification or do they have to finish in the top 2?
Group stage qualification, where the money is.
Not his mistake to be fair. You just don't run into King Eric like that. U gotta give the loonies like Pepe, Terry, Matterazi, etc and such respect.
Man, I clung to the hope he'd put it all together for so long. Such a talented player. Such an injury prone lunatic.
Best of luck to you Eric, you mad bastard.
Best of luck to you Eric, you mad bastard.
Another waste of money we need to fully get off our books.
He is more reckless than Phil Jones. Both of them used to play together as our CB. Glad that this dark period was over now with ETH who knows what he is doing.
Why is it not on Merseilles interest to qualify for CL? The money that they receive from CL will far out-weight Europa.
For argument sake, let's say PSG will sell Mbappe for 50m, add-on 30m if we win EPL, add-on another 30m if we win CL, do you think it is not our, Club management and fan's interest, to pay the add-on? Or we would rather play Europa for the next 5 years in order to save 60m?
In fact, sometime you have this clause of add-on if a player is nominated for personal award, which doesn't bring in financial incentives, but is still worthwhile in other indirect benefits.
Ah I see. So we will need them to finish second or finish 3rd and qualify into the groups.
Seems a bit of a reach, he will most likely be back here.
Forgot he existed to be honest
He'll never play for United again anyway
Read it as English players were flavoured.
Covering themselves in those Pot Noodle flavour packets
Qualifying for the Champions league yes, but it's probably not great for Marseilles that they'll have to fork out money for a player like Bailly.
Tea flavour
This is a club FROM ENGLAND so there is a probability there will be more english players around. That being said offcourse nobody will favour Joey Barton over Eriksen but using the nationalty card just because you didnt make the cut is just sad. He is still better than Lindelof goes without saying
The safest assumption in the history of assumptions.
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