Paris based journalist with a French bias, I'm sure he has news on PSG's side but I'm not sure how much information he has about United's intentions. Following Romano here.
Loan Weghorst
Kolo-Muani is the only other name we've been linked to as strongly. Bundesliga signing and United though... eek.
Thankfully it's not down to you whatever happens. There are fans out here that actual satisfied if he doesn't pay again for Utd.
It might change how much we have to pay but I think he'd prefer United still. PSG aren't as attractive as United to join. You can fairly argue Bayern or the 2 La Liga giants, but not PSG.
Bullshit. Hes a United fan.
Yeah let’s see what the salary figures are once/if he signs. Like you, I’m also very optimistic about this signing. Has all the raw attributes you’d want in a CF. Hopefully we can sign him and he can develop into an excellent CF.
Buy another one? Hojlund is not the last striker on earth?
Word is we’ve marked both Hojlund and Kolo Muani as targets and will be ready to move for him should we fail to land Hojlund.
The market is fecking shite though. Osimhen and Kane seem to be non-starters and we're already scraping the options EtH would have highlighted.
He's close to it.
On the bold part.
I somewhat doubt they would take him on preseason. My take would be that he will have a special rehabilitation program to undertake away from the squad. At some stage while he is going through the rehabilitation program he will be gently eased back into the playing squad
He never said as a 20 year old, though. He means that Salah has shown more in Serie A before his transfer to Liverpool than Højlund has shown before his potential move to us, which is true.
He's a United fan, we are in the CL and most importantly we're Manchester United - why the feck would be out of contention because of PSG?
Moukoko, Hugo Ekitike (if PSG buys Hojlund), Balogun/Nketiah, Patson Daka, Scamacca, Santiago Jimenez, last year's CAF fave - Patrick Schick.
Feel free to provide some links if that is the case. I didn't follow the aftermath, only the deal itself, when reliable journalists were reporting that it was a wage issue.
I think we should buy him but it's not the end of the world if he chooses PSG over us. Hojlund atm is average and there'd be like a ton of average strikers out there. Each team in the top 4,5 leagues have at least one. The only difference here is he is young and ETH or the scouts or both think he might become good.
He said, he had shown more than at this point.. Which point? Point of transfer
, or point of career?Just get Muani innit. He’d do a job for us
Keep up, that was Sesko. Only Lucky Scout was obsessed with Schick.
Another left winger/forward instead of an out and out striker.
Nope I don't think he'll be eased back in at all. He'll be sent out on loan either in this window or in January. We would have heard by now if he was going to be in the plans for this season. Anyway that's enough about that in this thread.
If we're going to spread our net wider in theory Schick wouldn't have been a bad shout. But I think he's out until well into next season with a recurrence of the injury that fecked him last season, no?
Yeh the rest of us were Schick of hearing about him....
There was plenty of people on board with parting with an obscene amount for him last summer. Personally think he wouldn't be bad now that the hype has completely died off post his amazing 21/22 season and any fee should be more sensible. Not certain about his injury situation though.
None of the first 3 are attainable and very raw too. They would cost more and are an equal gamble imo.
Imo it's really hard to be sure atm. Just read about the interview ETH gave ahead of the Arsenal match:
He basically said he'd like to have Greenwood in the squad next season imo. And understandably the club don't want to. Anyway imo the final decision would greatly depend on this deal. Or if we could buy another #9 if this deal fails through.
I agree it's a very challenging market. Lots of old legends and unproven talent (with the best already snapped up by super clubs - Endrick, Vitor Roque and Tel) with mediocrity in between bar a few standouts.
Yeh that's probably true. Whatever my personal feelings are about him coming back, I just don't think he'd actually be match ready until well in to the season, especially when he hasn't even been training with the squad or gone on pre season, so that's of no benefit to us really as a striker option.
We won’t play with and out and out poacher. ETH wants work ethic, pressing, fluidity in transitions, hold up play. Muani fits them as much as Hojlund does He does and is able to play as a 9
We have enough wingers. Højlund matches our needs more than Muani.
It's been reported that he's been training privately for months to keep him fit. Imo despite him not training with the senior players the club would surely keep tabs on that as well. And I think ETH's stand on this is not solely based on what Greenwood did 18 months ago. Imo he wants him in his squad next season then that means he knows Greenwood would be useful for him.
