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Rasmus Hojlund - Linked to Inter on loan
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Nor can Amorim
PSR at 40 million. No club is stupid enough (unless they're us) will pay that.
Inter must be crazy
Its actually under 40m you don’t need to get all of it anyway. He is young enough to include a sell on
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I’ll carry him there myself if they wanted. Mind you, he’ll probably be wrestling me the entire time and end up losing his luggage to someone else all the time. Probably will even miss the entrance to the plane or his seat.
Looking forward to him scoring thirty for Anyone Else FC next season and the usual narrative proceeding.
Not.
to be honest I think clubs are waking up to the fact that our players are not the cause of the mess so naturally there is a lot of potential value in picking up our dead-wood
Most likely looking for a cheap loan....which actually won't be the worst thing in the world if he can score some goals for them and increase his marker value. Right now I don't think anyone would pay more than 30m for him; which might be on optimistic side.
One less year on his contract, more keen than ever to leave… his market value may not go up by as much as you’re hoping, particularly if his wages get subsidised next season.
Inter are probably about to win the CL, what the hell are they seeing in Hojlund. Absolutely bizarre.
Their backups are Taremi, Arnautovic and Correa
They'd take Hojlund on loan, depending on wages they might even ask you to subsidize parts of it
Do Inter know about this?
I think you and others should look at it from their perspective:
- if this link is even true, wait to see the offer on the table before making a judgement.
- he would be going there as the punt top teams can afford to make due to their ongoing and established success
- their idea on how to use him might be wholly different to ours - from that perspective, you look at different markers and characteristics.
- my suspicion is this will be a lowball loan offer or a dirt cheap purchase attempt; under both conditions, Inter have nothing to lose and no real element of risk
When you look at underperforming players and lost causes from a position of strength and security, you can factor in time vs risk vs reward. They can work on developing him over time with no pressure or concern and if something comes of that which is of use to them, they look like geniuses. If he continues to be appalling? Oh well, punt didn’t work out, sell or return and move on.
What we need to pray for is a Conte like figure to enter the fray who turns rag tag players into versions of themselves he has 100% certainty and confidence he can use effectively and has his club pay what may seem excessive relative to the players current standing to get them in. Hell, even Inter trying to imitate that would be delightful for us. But as things currently stand, I should think it’ll be a shrewd move by a club who don’t have to put any eggs in Højlund’s basket in terms of reliance on him. A throwaway signing.
I agree with that generally, but when you look at Højlund you see massive problems with technique, movement and balance, regardless of how much he may suffer under playing in a poor team. He is so clearly lacking footballing fundamentals.
Was Hojlund this bad at Atalanta? He looks like he's won a competition
I don't think selling him now, when his stock is so low, makes sense.
Ideally we would send him out on loan to Italy/Spain/Germany, hope he has a good season, then sell him next Summer.
Being in the UCL I would've said we can't really afford to let any forward leave on loan but with just domestic football, Delap, Obi & Zirkzee should be able to cope.
There's one benefit to losing the final, I guess!
Ideally we would send him out on loan to Italy/Spain/Germany, hope he has a good season, then sell him next Summer.
Being in the UCL I would've said we can't really afford to let any forward leave on loan but with just domestic football, Delap, Obi & Zirkzee should be able to cope.
There's one benefit to losing the final, I guess!
Yeah but he didn’t really look like that before we bought him, put ridiculous pressure on him to lead the line and destroyed his confidence
I think Hojlund is at a low ebb, but still not a bad player by the standards of current strikers, which I think is lower than I can ever recall. Some clubs might think they can pick him up cheaply having had such a bad season.
We should keep him I think and try to develop a team that actually feeds strikers chances. I am not saying he has played well, he hasn't, but I also don't really think of him missing loads of chances... more just barely being involved in games.
Our aim next season should probably be to make sure we are at least mid table, and I feel like he is of the standard that could contribute to that. A pathetic goal for Manchester United, but reflective of where we are.
We should keep him I think and try to develop a team that actually feeds strikers chances. I am not saying he has played well, he hasn't, but I also don't really think of him missing loads of chances... more just barely being involved in games.
Our aim next season should probably be to make sure we are at least mid table, and I feel like he is of the standard that could contribute to that. A pathetic goal for Manchester United, but reflective of where we are.
Did you watch full games with him, when he was at Atalanta or Sturm Graz? Honest question. I sure didn't, but I have watched a lot of him for Denmark, and while he has gotten on the end of some chances (mostly against poor opposition), I've never been impressed with his overall play.
Inter know it best, they have won titles with some of our cast offs.
From what I saw of Thuram in the Barca matches, they are in for a shock if this is going to be his backup. And yes, im ignoring him being a backup for Lautaro because thats just crazy talk.
Depends how you look at it. I would tend to agree, as Hojlund was OK last season. Sancho never had an OK season.
On the other hand, the fee paid for Sancho looked totally reasonable - even a bargain, at the time. Paying that much for a player who scored 9 goals in Serie A was mental.
I haven't watched a serie A game in about 25 years to be honest
but yeah, his overall play has never been amazing and everyone knows that by now I would imagine
Signing for Inter nearly guarantees you a champions league final
Yep, very well run club from a footballing perspective.
Well when exactly are we supposed to sell players? When they are playing well?
He’s the definition of a flop.
There is no way we’re recovering what we paid for him, it’s best to get him packed and gone for 20m and never make that kind of mistake again.
I get the sentiment of the whole get rid of mentality, but it’s the most unviable thing ever.
Not one single player can leave for a PSR loss without making us weaker on and off the pitch right now.
But yes, if there is a break-even offer, feck him off to whoever wants him!
We have quite a few good players in our squad, and we see how well some of our players do when they move clubs. Players we are happy to see the back of because we think they are shit.
One big problem for us is (have been) lack of a vision and idea from the club. We have gone from one manager with a certain set of ideas how to play, back him for 2 seasons ish, then switch to a completely different manager and back him for another 2 years, and so on.
This means we spend a shitload of money and still never have the right mix of players throughout the squad.
We can´t really do any formation/system that crazy well because the players just don´t have the right strengths. This also means we consistently have loads of square pegs/deadwood that we want to see the back off. I understand why clubs are interested in our rejects.
When you look at Sancho, he was a bad buy one our scouts and team should have avoided. The price he was quoted at - no big team went for him which made sense.
Sancho isn’t physical or quick enough to make a stamp in the PL. He fits a team based style but the price he was bought as was not a bargain despite his performances.
Don't know why people are surprised by the link. Serie A sides have made a business of signing cast-off Premier League players on the cheap and building success off them. Countless from the last 5 years, A.Young, Darmian, RLC, Tomori, Abraham, Mhikitaryan, Pulisic, Giroud all have played roles in the bigger teams (most winning titles) since moving there.
Hojlung would fit that description perfectly.
Hojlung would fit that description perfectly.
He is just a younger Vlahovic without the flattering/breakthrough season, therefore no surprise if he lands a job back over these shores again, but the true dynamite signing would be Nunez, anywhere in Italy really.
Inter love us don't they, I still can't believe they helped us get our money back for Lukaku.
I agree.
funny thing is that lots of their sIgnings are players over 30 and without contracts. United fans lose their mind when we sign a player who is 28 or 29 years old. If player can't play for club next 10 years......."too old, don't want".
Half of them are our cast offs!
Years of the glazers have made us all accountants first, football fans second. Always worrying about things like resale value, which funnily enough, we're terrible at anyway no matter how young and on the upward trajectory our signings are.
Linked with Interflora surely? Wilts when it gets a bit warm.