…I’m impersonating someone getting angry (it’s not actually me being angry).
Rasmus Højlund | Signed for United
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Why are you mixing valutas? If Kane was available for €100m, we would've gotten him. Selling to Bayern or to a club who are in direct competition is not the same. Levy isn't going to sell Kane to us for €100m. He wouldn't even do it for £100m.
Harry Kane would be closer to £110-120m, and factor in his wages and no re-sell value, and it's looking entirely different than signing Højlund.
I think it’s very unlikely we get Kane for 100m unless we wait until the end of the window which would be a huge risk
none of us really know though
I know you were, but you took the time to type out a made-up conversation where a poster is angry, clearly indicating you're emotionally invested on this topic.
The state of this thread ffs.
We have a young, hard working, intelligent striker who’s also a United fan. Guys only 20, so has plenty of room to grow.
Those crying that we didn’t get a £100m+, 30 year old Kane lead a miserable life.
27yr old Keeper, 24yr old MF and a 20yr old CF. Signings don’t need to be ‘Marquee’, but there’s an essence of potentially building for the future here.
We have a young, hard working, intelligent striker who’s also a United fan. Guys only 20, so has plenty of room to grow.
Those crying that we didn’t get a £100m+, 30 year old Kane lead a miserable life.
27yr old Keeper, 24yr old MF and a 20yr old CF. Signings don’t need to be ‘Marquee’, but there’s an essence of potentially building for the future here.
I’ve been around here a long time, mate. In my experience, every member of the Caf is/has been negative. You say so yourself. I’ve been wrong (I was desperate for Sancho
) and I’ve been right (too many to list — that was a joke
)I am delighted we have bought a striker and I hope he proves me “wrong” and worth every penny of the £72m fee. The vitriol from some members in the Caf when a different opinion is expressed is troubling. We lack nuance here. Stating that Kane wouldn’t cost much more when looking a additive revenues isn’t an unique and crazy opinion, there have been quite a few journalists that have said the same.
Enjoy your day. Hope you can see that even though we have different perspectives, we both want what’s best for United.
It’s an impersonation mate, a mockery, closer to a joke than the actual ‘emotional reaction’ I’m making light of.
I’m not bothered in the slightest by some other Utd fans thinking Højlund is the best signing in years, it doesn’t make me angry in the slightest, and you won’t find me telling anyone to ‘stop disagreeing with me’, or ‘stfu’ in here.
I don’t view it in that way and couldn’t imagine being that mean spirited or controlling on such a trivial issue.
After Cavani, Falcao, Lukaku and Zlatan, I for one am happy we got Hojlund instead of Kane. Can’t wait to see him in action - always love the buzz of a young talent breaking through at United.
Yes, he’s expensive, but Atlanta were never going to sell him to us for the price of a bag of chips. Not the first time there’s been a United tax, certainly won’t be the last.
Will be huge pressure on the lad’s shoulders, but that tends to be how it is at United. The young players who handle it go on to reach great heights. Thankfully the squad and coaching department are now in a much better place, potentially a great environment for an emerging talent to thrive.
Was hoping for a keeper, midfielder and forward this transfer window. With the saga surrounding the takeover, I was wondering if we’d even manage to check one of those boxes. To tick all three a few weeks in advance of the season starting is frankly a minor miracle.
Yes, he’s expensive, but Atlanta were never going to sell him to us for the price of a bag of chips. Not the first time there’s been a United tax, certainly won’t be the last.
Will be huge pressure on the lad’s shoulders, but that tends to be how it is at United. The young players who handle it go on to reach great heights. Thankfully the squad and coaching department are now in a much better place, potentially a great environment for an emerging talent to thrive.
Was hoping for a keeper, midfielder and forward this transfer window. With the saga surrounding the takeover, I was wondering if we’d even manage to check one of those boxes. To tick all three a few weeks in advance of the season starting is frankly a minor miracle.
Except that over the four year contract that Kane is demanding he’d cost us in excess of £200m, whereas Hojlund will be less than half that. If that money is better invested elsewhere it might just be the better option
Spot on!
Especially when 'marquee' means giving established players a golden retirement home.
See di Maria, Alexis Sanchez, Ronaldo (2nd time), Falcao etc....
Sure, we paid a bit over the odds for Hojland but its worth getting him in and having some time to settle in before the season starts rather than wait until the last minute to save 10m. I would have loved Kane as I think he would probably have been a perfect fit but the figures being quoted, if true, are just unrealistic both in terms of wages and potential fee. I could possibly see us still enquiring about him in January if his situation hasn't changed but this is the right decision I believe. Would Kane have realistically have commanded a fee of 150m even a few years ago when he wasn't about to turn 30 with a year left on his contract? I am not so sure. Bayern aren't used to dealing with a club that won't be bullied and Kane isn't going to play along with their usual game plan and refuse to even consider any other club so I can see him going nowhere before the window closes.
I'm surprised that a signing like this is generating some negativity. I get the argument that he might not be enough, as he's still young, but it is still an exciting signing, the type that we should be making.
Arguing about the fee is a bit pointless. Clubs aren't always looking to sell, and Atlanta could potentially sell him for much more next summer, so why would they settle for little. If we're happy to pay then fine, we already have all our main targets this summer.
Kid will score 10 to 15 goals at least. But I wouldn't be surprised if he hits 20+.
Arguing about the fee is a bit pointless. Clubs aren't always looking to sell, and Atlanta could potentially sell him for much more next summer, so why would they settle for little. If we're happy to pay then fine, we already have all our main targets this summer.
Kid will score 10 to 15 goals at least. But I wouldn't be surprised if he hits 20+.
Very exciting signing
It’s not his fault the club doesn’t have a respectable striker to take the pressure off him because with Martials injury record he’s going to be our only striker option for large parts of the season.
It’s not his fault the club doesn’t have a respectable striker to take the pressure off him because with Martials injury record he’s going to be our only striker option for large parts of the season.
I’ve seen this 10 times now
I just know the fans at OT will be behind the lad on his debut and I can't wait to see it.
This doesn’t make sense seeing as Smalling is a better/stronger defender than most premier league CB’s. You guys have built up this headcannon that somehow the prem is some sort of iron grid/crucible - when that isn’t reflective of reality.
Also, he‘s a 6’2 - 20 year old who’s not lacking physically. He’ll be fine.
Edit - I just read further down the thread and see that everyone cooked you for this misinformed post
After Jackson posted that £26m difference for the Kane deal, it could be the club briefed the outrages demands to kill the Kane talk.
Very excited by this signing. Finally a young striker with potential to be world class.
Genuinely tired of all the pensioners that have played for us over the past 6 years and treating this club like a retirement home.
Genuinely tired of all the pensioners that have played for us over the past 6 years and treating this club like a retirement home.
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The nonsense about Levy selling us Kane for 100m euros is soooo fecking tedious.
He ‘might’ sell to Bayern for that, but not a chance is he gonna sell to a club he sees as a top 4 rival for such a price, it’d be utterly bananas to do so.
Kane is their only real chance of top 4, if they sell him that gets infinitely more difficult, if they sell him to a top 4 rival well that’s the nail in the coffin for CL qualification, something that could be worth upwards of 40m euros to Spurs.
The drastic reduction in their chances of CL football would be baked into the price to sell to a rival. Wouldn’t surprise me looking at the Rice deal if he’d want as much as 130-140m eur for him from a rival club.
He ‘might’ sell to Bayern for that, but not a chance is he gonna sell to a club he sees as a top 4 rival for such a price, it’d be utterly bananas to do so.
Kane is their only real chance of top 4, if they sell him that gets infinitely more difficult, if they sell him to a top 4 rival well that’s the nail in the coffin for CL qualification, something that could be worth upwards of 40m euros to Spurs.
The drastic reduction in their chances of CL football would be baked into the price to sell to a rival. Wouldn’t surprise me looking at the Rice deal if he’d want as much as 130-140m eur for him from a rival club.
Exactly, people thrive on being bloody miserable these days.
Good luck to the young lad, talk about living the dream.
You can see what ETH sees in him, his style really suits what United are trying to do.
H will have a great season hopefully, but he will also massively improve under ETH.
Maybe something to do with people getting extremely tired of the relentless moaning and negativity from a certain section of the fans on here.
And before you come at me with that "dIfFeRiNg OpInIoN" garbage, that's clearly not what anyone is referring to.
He’ll offer us something different. A new dimension. He’ll get the scrappy goals that none of our other forwards get. Always in the right place at the right time. It’s quite rare to have a tall rapid player.
This is ridiculous.
Ten Hag has already proven himself with delivering 3rd and a cup last season. This season he needs to build on that and continue developing our players and his new signings, just has developed Rashford, Shaw, Garnacho etc.
Our scouting team have proven themselves to be failures since 2013. Maybe this is the reason Ten Hag is forced to sign a number players he personally knows about. Like Martinez, the beast!
See, the issue is that you view other people’s opinions as worth less than your own. Hence your ‘differing opinions is garbage’ embarrassing remark.
Example, if someone says, ‘shit, I think that’s way too much’, you’re not seeing it as what it is - an opinion that’s different to yours - and instead you’re seeing it, erroneously, as the person purposely going against what you foolishly perceive as an objective truth (which it isn’t).
So rather than asking, ‘why do you think it’s too much?’, or something of the like, or simply ignoring it, you resort to, ‘oMgZ eNtiTled moaNerz’.
It’s a football forum, people will have different opinions than yourself, better to accept that and be happy that Utd have just made a signing that you are, supposedly, happy about!
Stop whinging about other people holding *slightly* different opinions to you on a football player.
If he turns out to be good can we use this thread to identify a list of posters to hit with the banning stick 
Some people don’t give a hoot about transfer fees.
Plenty of garbage takes in here on the transfer though and not just fee related.
If ETH trust him, then I trust him too. Great physical attributes, loads of potential and with the midfield we have, I’m certain he will score around 20 goals this season in all competitions. Welcome to United Rasmus, hope you are more of a Haaland and less of a Nuñez.
Off course I will have preferred Kane (and believe maybe it can still happen if Levy is desperate at the end of the window) or Osimhen (too high of a fee and De Laurentis is basically Italian Levy).
Off course I will have preferred Kane (and believe maybe it can still happen if Levy is desperate at the end of the window) or Osimhen (too high of a fee and De Laurentis is basically Italian Levy).
I couldn’t give a monkies how individuals do, the collective is all that matters, and I find it bizarre so many care so much, like with the case of Antony.
We finished 6th, on 58 points in 2021/22 and needed big changes. Those changes, which included Antony, got us silverware, 3rd place & 75 points, our best total since 2018.
If Antony, Højlund or Mount don’t pull up trees but we go deep in the CL, improve our football, take mid 80’s points in the league and win more silverware, why would anyone question ETH?
Stop focusing so much on individuals.
I never thought id see the day a post would be so stupid and lacking in knowledge that it would unite the cafe
Congratulations
You haven't been around much, but thanks
Good that we've sorted this out.
By lying if I said I wasn't worried about it not working out... But hopefully he can thrive here
By lying if I said I wasn't worried about it not working out... But hopefully he can thrive here
Yeah, don't you know Smalling is God's gift to defending? He could be playing for Real Madrid or Barcelona, but he chose a midtable Serie A team because he enjoys a challenge.You haven't been around much, but thanks
You wouldn't be human if you weren't at least a little bit worried, especially given our track record on big signings. Shame he can't play today.
I love how he seems to have a knack for getting on the end of crosses in the six yard box. We haven’t had a player who does that for years.
A player I knew nothing about before our links with him. Excited to see what he can bring and how he develops with us.
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