@do.ob Can you verify this? How good is Berger with regards to Dortmund news?
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It's random non-committal report.
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Lille have requested Bayern for Nübel on loan.
Yeah just frustrating to see future stars pass us by and have to pay a kings ransom to get them from the likes of Leicester.
I hope Ole sees how massive the drop in quality is from Maguire whenever we have to rotate or when Harry is injured like right now.
Regardless of the report. What would you say is the historical reliability of the journalist in question with respect to Dortmund.
Leicester didn't exactly buy him for peanuts in fairness
I don't know. When they hitch their wagon to reasonable narratives it's hard to tell. But it's basically the same story as last summer: Dortmund have a sum and a deadline in mind (maybe €100m?!), if someone meets their demands then they get Sancho, if not, then they don't.
Yes that makes sense. Patrick Berger seems to have come out from nowhere over the last few months, at least on Twitter (I may be mistaken)...same for the Sky guy, Max Bielfeld (sp?). So since these guys seemed to be relatively new to the transfer tweets scene, I didn’t know whether they had any prior reputations or reliability within German media.
True but there was enough evidence to be confident the risk would pay off.
We’ve started to spend on youngsters like this recently, shame this one slipped the net.
Fofana would've been well scouted by the club, with the then French Scout Mathieu Seckinger likely having a full dossier on the player. But the scout can only make recomendations which then need to be taken up by the person setting the directive, when it comes to recruitment, which at United is the first team manager.
There's another young player at Lens (Loic Bade) who could also have a similar impact as Fofana. All the scout can do is make a recommendation and provide a report on the player over the course of the season.
Yeah I’m hoping we can net some of these French super crop of defenders.
I hope the performances without Maguire crystallise it for Ole just how much the quality in that position drops off in Harry’s absence.
I've been monitoring the German sports journalists for a while starting from early 2020. Most of the stories that Romano and other reliable journalists eventually latch onto pertaining to the Bundesliga typically come from the Sport1 or Sky Sport Germany journalists. In terms of reliability, Sky Sport Germany are at the top (Reddit Tier 1) with Sport1 journalists Florian Plettenberg and Patrick Berger just behind them (Tier 2). From the remaining sources, Falk's good enough for Bayern Munich and not so good for the rest, and the rest...well, yeah.
The regional outlets are still somewhat reliable for their own stories (like Ruhr Nachrichten for Dortmund news). Overall, when you see the aforementioned Sport1 journalists lock down exclusive interviews with personnel from Bayern and Dortmund/Schalke (respectively), I can safely say that they offer more than just random stories.
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So if you look at it from Solskjaer's pov, signing a youngster with limited first team experience like Fofana was risky due to the expectations and immense scrutiny at the club . Leicester can take that risk and their players play in a less demanding environment.
But like I said in my previous post, There's other players of a similar profile who we can target if the plan is to take a chance on a young CB with a high upside. But we would have to be patient because there will be teething problems.
Great, that’s what I hoped. Thanks mate!
We already got Willy Kambwala, not Ole’s fault he got injured and isn’t old enough. Kid has amazing potential.
Whatever happened to Wily Kambwala? Granted, he was a bit young, 16 (?), when we signed him, but I don't even see him in the U18 lineups.
Edit: I see my question has been answered by @Red_toad. Thanks!
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They also play in a 3 which gives a lot of security with some of his weaknesses and allows him to come straight into the side with out the added pressure
Sky Germany is a garbage source. Max Bielefeld in particular has a daily (?!) show about transfer rumours, which means he's either somehow clued into everything or he has to bullshit to fill air time. The Sport1 guys at least still have the regular dynamic where they don't have to come up with insights based on a production schedule.But Sport1 gets access, because it's a TV station, that doesn't necessarily mean that their reporters don't make up stuff. Until a couple of weeks ago I had never heard of the two journalists you mentioned, now they tell you they are so well connected they know about everything that's happening everywhere. Odds are that they know some things because they work for a TV station, but they also fill a lot of the blanks with fortune telling.
The only Tier 1 sources in Germany are Kicker, who sell proper old fashioned reporting and then the odd local paper with connections or some of the serious papers, who rarely break football stories, because they are above the whole gossip clickbait game.
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So you would get rid of Rashford but keep Martial?
Im a big fan of Martial but i would not in a million years get rid of Rashford before Martial.
Absolutely agree, Rashford over Martial in any scenario.
Injured
Not now though. He was outstanding yesterday but will now need to kick on and if he does ...expect BM or one of the others to come calling.
Feck, he’d be a shoe in at City right now!!!
I think he's ready to take Matic's place in the squad. Arguably also Pogba's place, seeing as he's now a leftwinger.
Nope. It would be a terrible mistake. He needs game time. Another season on loan makes the most sense to me. I don't think he's close to being ready to play for us yet.
Last summer we had maguire, Lindelof, Bailly, Rojo, Smalling, Jones and Tuanzebe on the books. We’ve got rid of 2 so far.
we can’t buy literally every promising youngster when you are watching several and have 1 on your books. Now we know more we should make a move this summer for someone
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Interesting link now that David Ornstein is on it too.
I do like the look of Botman based on a 5 minute Youtude compilation of all his 'best moments'.
I'd consider you something of an expert then. I couldn't even be arsed watching a 5 minute compilation.
Was it a compilation of his actual defending? You know when there's no substance when they talk about a defender being such a "beast" in the title, and 50% of it is passes
Pogba?
Boubakary Soumare that Leicester wants is a player to watch.
They already got Ndidi and they're bringing another CDM from potentially the winner of the Ligue1.
If he'll be another sensation like other transfers that they had in the past I'll be so mad because he was linked to us last summer.
They already got Ndidi and they're bringing another CDM from potentially the winner of the Ligue1.
If he'll be another sensation like other transfers that they had in the past I'll be so mad because he was linked to us last summer.
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Yeah, was just highlighting how they could bed him in earlier and give him the right environment to develop, than someone like us who doesn't play a 3 back and the pressure is vastly different.
Be interesting to see if they're in the CL next season and what they're competing for.
Shame he never got to win that Champions League Trophy at Arsenal
But he won a good contract, even for a short period.
If they can ship out those two then that’d be a great summer for Arsenal on its own
Willian has two more years of a fat contract and he and his family loves living in London. He is not going anywhere.
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