Recent content by Baxquux

  1. Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach

    If you read anonymous comments from other people working in football, including managers, that Mitten, Laurie Whitwell etc have cited re. this current squad, this magical thinking about 'replace the manager and it'll all be great' might disappear. Doesn't matter whether this squad plays under...

  2. Transfer Tweets - Manchester United - 2024/25

    I've seen this reported as anywhere from 5m (on a 42m deal) to 22m as 50% sell-on. Not sure anyone outside of the two clubs knows what sell-on % we negotiated (though given how cheap he went for, anything below 35-40% would have been robbery)..

  3. Transfer Tweets - Manchester United - 2024/25

    Can we do this for promising PL academy Midfielders too? Hoping for a press-resistant CM version of Heaven who we can basically steal for a million or two.

  4. Your Hidden Gems or under the radar - Wanted Signings

    One advantage at least is that there's a clearer immediate pathway into the 1st team; I would be more confident of his being properly on the radar of the new transfers team (Vivelli etc)- just an issue of how much it spills into financial risk on a 'Belgium league player' with United's...

  5. Liam Delap | Ornstein: Delap is going to Chelsea

    Means we can go to Ipswich and line-up the structure of payment in the event of his final go-ahead. Wouldn't be the first time players have agreed deals with multiple clubs and then decided between them.

  6. Jean-Philippe Mateta | no links to United

    He's provisionally agreed a deal. He may have also agreed terms provisionally elsewhere but its only the United 'in principle' deal that's being reported by the media. Chelsea have also been linked with yet another striker this evening in Ekitike (who seems more their style in terms of...

  7. Yoane Wissa : One of the most underrated attacking player/CF in premier league

    He's going to be 29 this year (young in real terms, middle-aged in footballing ones), and not that cheap. Clubs tend to be wary about shelling decent money out for players whose resale value might significantly decline in a couple of years unless the player's a dead cert....

  8. Transfer Tweets - Manchester United - 2024/25

    In terms of the article, he only mentions the players that we've most recently signed (most of whom, eg Yoro and Heaven, happy to be 'saddled with') as those who the club's unlikely to move. Tweet is, as often with the MEN and its headlines/social media, slightly clickbait. Luckhurst comes...

  9. Jadon Sancho - Chelsea (loan) watch | £5M opt-out fee | Skysports: Chelsea negotiating to keep if contract terms agreeable

    After the Conference League final, presumably.

  10. What do we still need? Aka The never ending story

    Chelsea were willing to pay 50m last summer. He's, what, not 21 yet and has relatively good g/a numbers, speed, high potential, and can say those numbers have come in a bad team (even last season). Napoli are also interested. Atletico, if they don't go for Antony, are another. Napoli and...

  11. Transfer Tweets - Manchester United - 2024/25

    I think he's facing a Delap-style situation where there are a few clubs in for him. Haven't seen any confirmation of (say) Dortmund move, just indications of interest. He could just as easily go to Everton, who are apparently revamping their midfield with Doucoure going, or to Brighton as...

  12. Transfer Tweets - Manchester United - 2024/25

    I mean, Bruno can do this, but he needs the right partner. Doesn't have to be a pure DM, given that the CCB can step up, but needs to be someone who can cover-ground, doesn't get knocked off the ball easily, can play passes first time and crisply, and can drive with the ball when necessary...

  13. Erik ten Hag | Bayer Leverkusen Manager

    For the money you're getting for Wirtz, 40m for Antony isn't crazy (and that's, scarily, less than half of what United paid). Antony's salary isn't actually that bad - again, probably no more than the top earner at BLv. Some of the other United outcast suggestions are jokes but I think Antony...

  14. Gary Lineker set to leave MOTD

    It'll be nothing-burgers: probably affairs and that's about it. Normally, even with super injunctions, the Chinese whispers are such that you get truths (plus a bunch of embellishments or speculation) courtesy of everyone from anonymous callgirls to assistant producers to police station workers...

  15. Transfer Tweets - Manchester United - 2024/25

    Slightly laughable that people would think Bruno 'has to go'. You just need a proper midfield controller alongside him and mobile passing options on the side and ahead, together with CBs willing to step into midfield & enough pace in your backline not to be caught as a result of this.
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