Oh it's a staggering indictment!Which is saying a lot about the rest of your team.
To be honest, I'm glad we didn't. feck Atletico and giving in to their demands. €11m + his wages for 5 months is pathetic piece of business. If it was the difference between top 4 or not then it'd probably be worth it, but we're very likely to get top 4 anyway.
Tbf, that was essentially his amortisation wasn't it? Aleti paid €126m for him and put him on a seven year contract. That works out to €18m+wages per year. Of course, Chelsea paid €11m but tbf, there was more of a second half of a season left than there would typically be due to the WC.
I actually hope he goes to Chelsea. How Atletico and Simeone are treating him is a disgrace, it’s as if Jose’s and Pogbas season of hatred lasted many years and they didnt either sack Jose or sell the player to this very this day.
This is my line of thinking, their demands were just so unreasonable that under any other circumstance he'd still be at Atletico. Think he'll make a very positive impact for Chelsea in the second half of the season.
I really don't get this thinking, is it ego?
I don't think it's ego, 12 odd million is just a ridiculous amount of money for 6 months service with no guarantees of securing the player permanently.
What if it was Mbappe? Weghorst cost us 2m just to be a body up front. I can understand if fans just want to save ten mil but incredibly bad business? Just don't get the reaction
Yeah but it isn't Mbappe, not to say Felix is a bad player by any stretch. Maybe the poster's choice of wording isn't the best but I do agree with where he's coming from.
It's but if he had helped us challenge for the title, it would've been entirely worth it.
I'd love to see Joao Felix here, as he can be an incredible player on his day and blessed with unreal technical ability, but purely from a business perspective it's not a good one, especially when there is no option to sign him permanently after the loan. It's not my money, but we need to stop having clubs overpricing their players just because we have a history of paying whatever it takes as Maguire and Antony are great examples of. Besides, we're not in desperate need of him. Rashford can play as our CF the rest of the season with Sancho, Garnacho, Antony battling it out on the wings. When (if) Martial decides to stop being as fragile as he is, he can play CF while Rashford goes back to the left. We've likely secured Champions League next season, so having Joao Felix wouldn't exactly make a big difference. We'd get to watch a lovely player on his day for 6 months and he can be quite entertaining, but is that worth 12m? I don't think so.
Fair enough. I didn't think anyone would feel that strongly about a loan. IMO, 10m is the average rate for a punt on a young player that you can write off anytime. Plus if the player doesn't do as well as expected, we won't be saddled with a big contract. I just wanted the best available in the market.
It's a good point, but as we've seen time and time again, loanees or players whose contract is about to expire suddenly burst into a form never seen before and put in top performances only to turn average again after a permanent transfer or a fat, new contract. Initially, I thought we'd get Weghorst on loan for free but knowing we paid €3m to Besiktas, we should've just paid €8m more and gone for Felix instead, really. Luckily, Chelsea don't have an option to buy, so if it turns out he's a great fit for the Premier League and consistently put in world class performances, we could in theory enter the race to sign him after his loan. We're the better team, better manager, very likely in Champions League and a solid and stable squad whereas Chelsea is all over the place with no plan.
Yeah Erik must be looking at him and wondering why we wouldn't push boat out. He could have made difference in those late January games.
Osimhen won't be a better fit for us. Neither would Halaand. Kane would be though. Go ahead... argue with me
We are currently what you were last season. An absolute shitshow on the pitch. Yet that didn’t stop Casemiro from leaving a comfy Madrid lifestyle with almost guaranteed medals. This season you have turned it around for sure but last season you were in relegation form, don’t forget that. Players don’t look at that, they look at lifestyle, location, how it affects their family and obviously money. London is a big pull.
Yeah I'm with you on this.
the way he has been talking about life at Chelsea, I'll be more surprised if we dont sign him permanent tbh.
That's all if's buts and maybe's. United needed a 9. Felix isn't a 9.
Yeah our leeches wouldn't pay up for him and that still really wrangles with me. He could have made difference in those Palace or Arsenal games.
You are a lot worse than what we were last season. I think we were still top 4 on March
If he settles in at Chelsea, which so far looks like he's done very smoothly, I doubt he'd choose another PL club over Chelsea despite the lack of CL football.
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Probably cause United are a bigger club than Chelsea?
Agreed, but let that horrible club pay for their own mistakes.
Have Chelsea already forgotten Nkunku is arriving in the summer?
They can play together in several formations.
Players don’t actually care about that.
They care about Champions League though.
Let's face it, they'll be back soon and he's young. It's not as if he's going to be winning the CL if he joins us.
Again, like Casemiro?
