Paying that sort of money for a mediocre player like Mount is absolute insanity clubs gone mental. What a joke, don't care how much ETH wants him walk the feck away.
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Good, I hope they take him.
I thought he'd go to Liverpool for around £35m this season, he'd suit their high energy midfield. Instead they get McAllister for 30m and we're going to pay £65m for him? Crazy stuff.
We definitely have a habit of vastly overpaying on good but not great players. Someone or a group of people in our scouting / team is doing a very poor job.
It was an overpay for those who watched him. I watched him regularly and regularly he said he was not worth that much, there's a lot of outlying reasons for those stats (which I've mentioned before in other threads). It's a testament that no other well run club was in for Sancho at that price.
We definitely have a habit of vastly overpaying on good but not great players. Someone or a group of people in our scouting / team is doing a very poor job.
And we risk pissing Ten Hag off?
Jassim handling the negotiations?United: this is our final offer.
Chelsea: one more, go on.
United: no haha this is final
Chelsea: one more final one after the final will make it finally.
United: k … here’s £65m. Final
He’s not a mediocre player, he’s a definite upgrade on Eriksen, but the context surrounding this deal means we should walk the hell away and explain to Mount’s people that we’ll offer a pre-contract on Jan.
Add a bit more to Rabiot’s offer and then get Caicedo.
Add a bit more to Rabiot’s offer and then get Caicedo.
I’d rather shit in my hands and applaud City’s treble.
I knew it that Chelsea will reject the third bid and ask for more because of our club bidding for a third time!!! The 45+5 (2nd bid) should have been the final offer and United should have just waited for Chelsea to cave in first!! Mount made it clear that he no intentions of singing a new deal which should have given United a strong position, because of that third bid Chelsea knew that they could push the envelope and ask for more!!!
I hope this time United walk away and tell Chelsea it's 50+5 or nothing
I hope this time United walk away and tell Chelsea it's 50+5 or nothing
Maybe he should be going after higher quality players that people wouldn’t mind overpaying for.
Yeah that's what we should do
With what money? We’ll just pluck some out of thin air should we. Lets sign Caicedo, Kane, Costa, KMJ etc
Just because that's what Chelsea wants doesn't mean we'll end up paying it. They've already brought down their figure from what it was before.
He'll get pissed off regardless, you think our board will get in signings early? Not in a zillion years. I think he knows he's working for a club that is not ran well anyways
Rather sign any single one of them instead of an average player who doesn’t even improve the starting 11.
What bs every manager knows a club has financial restrictions even baldy at Oil Inc had to move to other target when things got out of budget
It’s pretty obvious this deal is going to happen no matter what. It makes zero sense for all parties to not go ahead with it.
The truth is any homegrown player who is actually good enough to improve your first eleven or squad is going to cost more than you would pay for a similar non homegrown player. We’ve all got our views on Mount, but the truth is there isn’t a large pot of home grown talented players to choose from. Mount is one of the better ones. We have to be conscious of the homegrown quota.
The truth is any homegrown player who is actually good enough to improve your first eleven or squad is going to cost more than you would pay for a similar non homegrown player. We’ve all got our views on Mount, but the truth is there isn’t a large pot of home grown talented players to choose from. Mount is one of the better ones. We have to be conscious of the homegrown quota.
What does he want, for us to be treated like mugs on every transfer and get ripped off despite having a limited budget? Mount isn't even that good.
This bid being turned down + Rabiot staying at Juve is looking like disaster for our midfield plans.
Okay so we sign one of these and then what? What about the rest of our summer
Hopefully a lesson that we need to plan for transfer windows. It’s been 10 years of shit planning, we bring it on ourselves.
Right. Thats the point. Eriksen is deployed in a DM role alongside Casemiro with an AM ahead, 2 wingers and a striker.
Mount doesnt play there for Chelsea. But if he did its a role that emphasises keeping the ball, passing and making good choices of when to be more risky. Those are areas that are questionable vs other AMs such as Maddison, Bruno etc. let alone Eriksen who is certainly better at that stuff. So the idea that our starting lineup is a lot better because Mount is better than Eriksen doesnt make a lot of sense, unless we change formation to make it happen and he plays more of the role he plays at Chelsea. Playing the role Eriksen plays as our 2nd DM he is unlikely to be much better.
No club in the world will offer more than we have.
Tell Chelsea the offer remains on the table but there will be no increase.
Tell Chelsea the offer remains on the table but there will be no increase.
Ok i will.
Romano has literally said Caicedo is our alternative so if you’re lucky you can see your hypothetical play out in real life.
Lots and lots of drama queens in this thread. Expert negotiators too.
We’ve offered 55 incl addons, Chelsea want 65. Clearly we’ll settle at around 60. Probably 55 plus 5. Or thereabouts.
It’s a great deal for a 24 year old England international, PL proven, twice Chelsea player of the year, in a position we want to improve, and as the player ETH wants the most.
I am happy to be alone in my excitement over this transfer. Mount is a great player with a fantastic engine. He’ll improve us a lot in midfield. A Casemiro, Mount, Bruno midfield is aggressive, high energy, technical, and very forward thinking. I like this transfer a lot.
We’ve offered 55 incl addons, Chelsea want 65. Clearly we’ll settle at around 60. Probably 55 plus 5. Or thereabouts.
It’s a great deal for a 24 year old England international, PL proven, twice Chelsea player of the year, in a position we want to improve, and as the player ETH wants the most.
I am happy to be alone in my excitement over this transfer. Mount is a great player with a fantastic engine. He’ll improve us a lot in midfield. A Casemiro, Mount, Bruno midfield is aggressive, high energy, technical, and very forward thinking. I like this transfer a lot.
Must-have transfer might exist, but not every one can be one. If managers like Pep can suck up missing out on players like Kane, ETH will have to forego his favoured choices sometimes too.
That said, the other side of that coin is that if the second choice we move on to is an inferior version of that Mount style attacking #8 then the people who wanted us to move on for the sake of a few million can't really complain either. Moving on from your first choice will often mean getting a worse player, so you have to suck that up too.
Yeah dreadful night for us isn't it
Signing their main target instead would be the most incredible feck you to Chelsea. Mount joining for free next year as the cherry on top.
You should work for one of the tabloids. Manipulating figures to suit your agenda.
If we don't learn from our past mistakes and stop letting teams rinse us for bang average players we are doomed.
I fear they're going to make us look like fools over this.
I fear they're going to make us look like fools over this.
Okay, let’s see which one of us is right in the next few weeks, won’t pay an extra few mill for Mount but we’ll pay 80+ for Caicedo who is a different type of player. It seems more obvious we’re pushing the name because he’s Chelsea’s target. We’re not going for Mount because we have an unlimited pot of cash
I hope ManUtd walk away like we should have and call their bluff. Chelsea should not be able to get away with this insanity. You anyway get the player for free next year. While one can question why arsenal wanted Havertz but with him it seems they paid so much and Arteta really wanted him so they got lucky and he had 2 yrs to go so they had some leverage. But this after the player said he would walk away for free this is just insanity.
They would be getting 120m-130m for these two.
(I am still angry Arsenal are paying so much for Havertz)
They would be getting 120m-130m for these two.
(I am still angry Arsenal are paying so much for Havertz)
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That midfield still lacks cover for Casa and that player who can progress the ball from deep
Just walk away...
Need to set a new precedent early in this window and Chelsea are having a right laugh expecting £60M+ for a wantaway, who was frozen out of their squad, with with a year left on his deal...
Need to set a new precedent early in this window and Chelsea are having a right laugh expecting £60M+ for a wantaway, who was frozen out of their squad, with with a year left on his deal...
They wanted 70 and we made an opening bid of 40 and our third bid has taken us to middle ground when a deal is normally struck in transactions.
We did not take the piss with our first offer but they are taking it now when we should be pulling the reins in this deal.
We did not take the piss with our first offer but they are taking it now when we should be pulling the reins in this deal.
I get the homegrown point but still, United made 3 offers, the third one is not small fee at all, Chelsea know that we will cave hence why they just rejected it and countered with a higher figure (+10m), United should walk away at this point, because Chelsea will not throw away a 50+5 on the table and keep an unhappy player that they will lose for free next summer
Time to walk away. Get GK in first and consider the other position afterwards.
Yeah it really would be
The 100 million that's our budget shouldn't necessarily be interpreted as a flat 100m.
Transfer market is just insane! Everyone seems able to command massive fees even for their cast-offs.
I mean you have Chelsea looking to get over £130m for Mount and Havertz! It’s a fecking joke!
I mean you have Chelsea looking to get over £130m for Mount and Havertz! It’s a fecking joke!
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