He can sign but won’t come until next season. He’s one of Porto’s best players they probably don’t give 2 shits about 15m they’d rather keep him for the season and hope they can get him tied down to a new deal.
If somebody offered us £15m for Luke Shaw we'd bite their hands off.
I'm sure if the club misses out on the Champions League next season or fails to get anywhere near a major trophy again this season, the five extra million he didn't spend on a top class full back will be more-than-adequate compensation. It's back to the old "no value in the market" excuse for another botched transfer window where the club spectacularly fails to secure any of its top targets and leaves the squad half-baked for another year. But I guess expectations have been lowered enough over the past decade that what's one more year of "rebuilding" anyway? People are already writing off this season and talking about next summer, when surely Red Ed will bring in Sancho and Telles and Messi and the ghost of Bobby Moore. Can kicked, mission accomplished.
Naah, we'll be demanding 30m for Shaw and offering him new contract to retain value while we're waiting
don’t be ridiculous. He’s a good full back. Clearly he’s nowhere near as good as we hoped he would become, but he’s still a good PL player.
Worst post of the day so far, congrats.
Not even close. Someone today posted a thread asking people if they should celebrate Cavani's goals if he's with us because it would represent Woodward and the Glazers
Seriously?Not even close. Someone today posted a thread asking people if they should celebrate Cavani's goals if he's with us because it would represent Woodward and the Glazers
I just think no one really knows. I’m sure Porto could consider something close to £20 million
Yep. Good thing it quickly got deleted by the mods. It was so bad it couldn't even last literally 5 minutes before it got nuked.Seriously?
Who said that?Not even close. Someone today posted a thread asking people if they should celebrate Cavani's goals if he's with us because it would represent Woodward and the Glazers
Can't even remember, the thread got nuked so fast that I can't even properly recall the OP's name. It was something a long the line of Horse something type of name.Who said that?
I'm sure they would.
@horsechoker ?Can't even remember, the thread got nuked so fast that I can't even properly recall the OP's name. It was something a long the line of Horse something type of name.
Yeah that's him
The fans definitely are partly to blame.
Porto are being ridiculous to be fair. Apparently they want to use the Telles fee to fund more signings. Well too fecking bad your most valuable asset only has a year left on his deal! I think Telles ends up staying and we sign him up in January.
I mean when you see fans all over twitter crying and screaming how we should have just bent over for Real Madrid and accept that Buy back clause for Reguilon, instead of understanding the club's stance and actually applaud it in that particular case. What do you expect? Everything we now do, be it good or bad is perceived negatively by our fanbase and they quickly run to twitter and cry about it together with rival fans who fuel it because they are having a great time with our fans self loathing and pitying to their amusement.
Yeah that's him
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TBF Evey club has an element of fans that are like that. But the whole shitshow is down to the mismanagement of the club's footballing affairs by the board.
He’s clearly not undroppable. He was dropped when fit for rookie Williams last season. Telles would most likely end up first choice if he came. He’s not as good as Shaw defensively but he’s much better going forward. We already have 1 defensive FB in Wan Bissaka, so we can afford to have an attacking one.
Don't think we'd get much more, Chris Smalling is a better than good PL player yet we are struggling to get £15m for him.
Didn't realise Newbies were limited to how many posts they could read as well as post, thanks any way
We can argue(or just agree about the board incompetence all day long). That's a completely different matter altogether to fans embarrassing themselves on social media though, and I think it should be pointed out. While the board have seemingly so far let us down, the fans on their own have been and utter embarrassment during this entire window. Easily being used and baited by bs journos out there and rival fans who get a great deal of amusement seeing our fans act the pathetic way they've acted on social media.
As @Santoryo said, the muppetbase has been a consistent embarrassment since Fergie left.
Who is overrating him? Why does it always have to be extreme one way or the other with some of you.
I don't disagree with that, but what are the fans supposed to do? I'm not one of those fans and I'm not on twitter, but I actually think the more exposure the board's incompetence gets, the better, be it from a transfer muppet fan, or from a respected journalist. We need to call out the mismanagement of the club otherwise we are complicit in it.
You'd probably find Shaw already did that and stuffed it in a pie
Again I don't necessarily disagree, but the toxicity originates from several seasons of mediocrity, caused by stupid decisions, starting with the hiring of Moyes and the Fellaini release clause debacle to this season's window where we have had months to do our deals, but are still scratching around to get it done.
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