Recruitment blooper No. 129...Mount v Palmer

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Another in a frequent series of recruitment bloopers sees us buying Chelsea reject midfielder Mason Mount for £60m while it allowed Chelsea to buy City midfielder and boyhood Man Utd fan Cole Palmer who was available for just £42m.

Palmer is now joint top goalscorer with Haaland and the only midfielder to score hat-tricks in successive Prem games. Now worth at least £80m.

Mount? Made 12 Prem appearances, eight as a sub and scored...one goal.

Doh!!
 

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We are not getting any player directly from City.

And yes, Mount for that fee is a bad deal.
 

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sixdwarf said:
Another in a frequent series of recruitment bloopers sees us buying Chelsea reject midfielder Mason Mount for £60m while it allowed Chelsea to buy City midfielder and boyhood Man Utd fan Cole Palmer who was available for just £42m.

Palmer is now joint top goalscorer with Haaland and the only midfielder to score hat-tricks in successive Prem games. Now worth at least £80m.

Mount? Made 12 Prem appearances, eight as a sub and scored...one goal.

Doh!!
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Absolute bollocks.

If the CAF found out we’d be buying Palmer for £42M this place would have spontaneously combusted in anger that we’d pay so much for someone who had proved the square root of feck all.

This is purely made to take a massive shit on the club when it’s not needed.
 

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Most knew the Mount signing was a pile of shite when we signed him but there was the contradicting voices that said it was part of some masterplan. Centre back, left back, deeper midfield, striker. There were so many positions crying out for improvement and we blew the money on a spare no10 who’d had 1 good season at Chelsea and a questionable injury record and who was 1 year from being out of contract.

Thanks god INEOS are changing things
 

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God, I hate all this unbalanced, gossipy and/or simplistic threads being created lately.
 

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Don't know if this has been mentioned in here, but is there any chance City would've actually sold Palmer to us?
 

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If he only we signed him before he joined City's under 8s. What are the point of scouts.
 

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UnitedSofa said:
Absolute bollocks.

If the CAF found out we’d be buying Palmer for £42M this place would have spontaneously combusted in anger that we’d pay so much for someone who had proved the square root of feck all.

This is purely made to take a massive shit on the club when it’s not needed.
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It's not often you make a good post, so well done. I agree.

Plus the fact City never would have sold him to us.
 

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Mount vs quite a few players tbh. At 60m and a reported 250k p/w - the opportunity cost is extremely high for a central midfielder.
 

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Big Andy said:
No way city would’ve sold to us so a moot point really.
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No Love said:
Would City have sold him to Utd?
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Drainy said:
If you think City sells any senior players to us...
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AshRK said:
Yeah as if city were selling palmer to us.
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Orange Tree said:
We are not getting any player directly from City.

And yes, Mount for that fee is a bad deal.
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madzo2007 said:
Hardly a blooper when City would never ever sell to us.

Pointless thread
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Judas said:
It's not often you make a good post, so well done. I agree.

Plus the fact City never would have sold him to us.
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Big Ben Foster said:
Don't know if this has been mentioned in here, but is there any chance City would've actually sold Palmer to us?
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Not sure if it has been mentioned here by anyone but would City really really sell Palmer to us?
 

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UnitedSofa said:
Absolute bollocks.

If the CAF found out we’d be buying Palmer for £42M this place would have spontaneously combusted in anger that we’d pay so much for someone who had proved the square root of feck all.

This is purely made to take a massive shit on the club when it’s not needed.
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:lol:

I can just imagine this place if we gave the Abu Dhabi project 42m quid for a youth player who’d played just a handful of games, would’ve been spectacular.
 

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I'm not sure City would have sold him to us, if they did it wouldn't be for the fee that Chelsea paid and I'm sure there was a rumor in the past they had some form of an anti United clause in Brahim Diaz's deal when they sold him :lol:.

The OP's suggestion is similar to when we had people saying that we should have paid the extra £20-30m to get Kane instead of Hojlund, Spurs would have demanded more from a Premier League rival and Hojlunds overall package (transfer, wages and fees etc) is most likely less than that outlay combined. Whereas Harry Kane's package would be nearer the £250m mark.

I think Mount was a luxury we didn't need and I'm still not really sure why we signed him tbh. I'd rather we signed Madison for the £40m Spurs gave Leicester.
 

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This hasn't been said yet so let me say it now....no way would us have sold to city.
 

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We should offer Chelsea £125 million plus for him. I reckon they'd take it with their FFP issues and it is better than wasting money on cheaper players like Mount, Antony, Hoijland etc.
 

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Jezpeza said:
Most knew the Mount signing was a pile of shite when we signed him but there was the contradicting voices that said it was part of some masterplan. Centre back, left back, deeper midfield, striker. There were so many positions crying out for improvement and we blew the money on a spare no10 who’d had 1 good season at Chelsea and a questionable injury record and who was 1 year from being out of contract.

Thanks god INEOS are changing things
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I remember the fans who questioned the signing in July last year were mocked by some fellow fans on RedCafe "arghhaha, you think you know football more than the professional football managers and hierarchy?"
 

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The odds are even if we signed palmer for 85m , he would have injured himself during pre-season
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Even if he was fit and played at his best, he'd have half as many goals at most, since the few penalties we win would be taken by others, and he'd have half as many assists as we don't have particularly good movement in the box. There would probably be a thread titled "Recruitment blooper No.129... Palmer vs Haaland."

Oh, and if it hasn't been said already, City probably wouldn't have sold us Haaland.
 

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UnitedSofa said:
Absolute bollocks.

If the CAF found out we’d be buying Palmer for £42M this place would have spontaneously combusted in anger that we’d pay so much for someone who had proved the square root of feck all.

This is purely made to take a massive shit on the club when it’s not needed.
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Why are you always so angry when people criticise United. Overt negativity can get wearing but we have been almost universally rubbish in all respects for quite a while now, so it seems fair enough that people criticise things. Do you think Mount has been a good signing?
 

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I think they’d of sold Palmer to us.

Pep said before only small clubs worry about selling to rivals.

Palmer would have been a far better signing. He’d be our starting RW.
 

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Wibble said:
Why are you always so angry when people criticise United. Overt negativity can get wearing but we have been almost universally rubbish in all respects for quite a while now, so it seems fair enough that people criticise things. Do you think Mount has been a good signing?
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I think some of the United (and Liverpool as well) fans are indoctrinated with the belief that only those fans holding "don't criticise, just give support" attitudes are "true loyal Devils (or Reds)"
 

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I think everyone so far has missed to call out the most important point on this subject - city would never have sold Palmer to us.
 

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It does hurt a bit, but mostly because he's from Manchester and United were his boyhood club. But adding a player whose whole game revolves around getting on the ball to become the epicenter of everything to a side that already has the epitome of that player as its captain isn't really the smartest thing to do. It's also partly why Sancho wasn't the best of ideas, either.
 

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I think City would’ve sold to us for that kind of price. We were just too obsessed with an almost out of contract MM.
 

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UnitedSofa said:
Absolute bollocks.

If the CAF found out we’d be buying Palmer for £42M this place would have spontaneously combusted in anger that we’d pay so much for someone who had proved the square root of feck all.

This is purely made to take a massive shit on the club when it’s not needed.
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Even with how much I like Palmer now, I have to agree with this. This transfer was a part of many massive academy sales City made (Lavia, Trafford etc.) that we called suspicious at best, so if we had managed to top them all by boosting City's FFP coffers with £40m+ for Palmer, then it would have led to way more outrage than the Mount signing got. Even in hindsight it made sense that we didn't enter that transfer battle.
 

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What are the previous 128 recruitment bloopers?
 

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More like 'unnecessary thing to criticise an already beleagured United for no 129' if you ask me.

I'd of taken Mount over Palmer at the start of the season every day of the week. It's awesome that Palmer is having the season he is, but the choice of an established first team player with 3 seasons of track record versus a bit part reserve player for not hugely dis-similar fees is an easy one for me.

It's amazing how easy it is to find transfer bloopers with hindsight. We should buy some of that!
 
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