Agree with the Gakpo shout. Looks a nailed on centre forward for me, and more interesting than most of the other young striker options on the market. Ekitike has gone now, but he was another who interested me. And of course Joao Felix, although he of course is a different tax bracket!
Antony | Here we go! €100mill, contract until June 2027, option 'til 2028.
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Ajax fleeced us for Vdb and had no qualms extracting the last penny for Martinez so f**k them.What's this nonsense about not wanting to anger Ajax. We're paying them! They're a listed company FFS
Gakpo's WhoScored stats are pretty eyepopping... 22 games started (+5 sub appearances), 12 goals, 13 assists, 9 MOMs, 7.79 rating. Only players in top 6 leagues with higher rating are: Mbappe, Lewandowski, Sinesterra & Tadic in Eredivisie, and Luis Diaz in Portugal.
His target/template thing is also insane:
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Watched some of his highlights and he looks really good. He's like Rashford and Greenwood rolled in one
Only if Ronnie leaves.
Martinez was a key player we didn’t wánt to let go. Though Man Utd (and in particular TH) persisted. Well, that makes the price both high and also valid. It even more counts for Antony, so I say Man Utd’d better go for Gakpo from PSV while he is attractable and you also do not have to pay them too much. They attracted about 6 players like Til, Benitez, L de Jong etc for not more then 6m euro all together. So they do not need the money. Free tip!
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I also think Gakpo is a huge talent but i think he is injury prone. So i wonder how that would play out in the premier league. Talentwise i think he has everything to become a top player. As for Anthony, I think Ajax only want to sell him after the worldcup. But thats a gamble since his competitor is Raphina and if he does well at barcelona Anthony will be on the bench.
How much is Laird worth?
The only player im excited about, he's either going to tear up the league or become like nani! The latter is still an upgrade on rashford so nothing to lose here.
that will be rejected for sure....but we really need to add him to our attacking lineup
maybe 40m + Tuanzebe
Not £20-30million for sure, which is what we'd need to make up with the up front cost to match Ajax's valuation. So this offer (if true) will almost certainly be rejected.
Not a bad first bid then if there's any truth to this.
Nani seems to be the same as Berbatov in that an overall underwhelming United career is now seen as legendary by those who cannot remember or just see any talent part of that successful era as a legend given the shit we've seen since.
Nani was a very good player for us. I don't ever feel he was underwhelming.
Not sure about the reliability of soccernewsnl but this one on reddit is pretty reliable apparently so it kind of adds up
After we just paid 55mill for a defender from them, you think they'll accept 40m for their prized attacker? When they pull these figures out of their arse, they should think about it at least.
He was always very controversial, and inconsistent is exactly how you'd describe him. That being said it's not nostalgia when I say that I'd kill for a player like him now - so direct, tricky, two footed, a great shot, great pass. A young Nani in today's game would go for a huge fee.
Hamsterlaar(a portmanteau of Huntelaar and Hamstra, the technical directors of Ajax) is a pretty new twitter account but had information about players a week before the Tier 1s, so might become a Tier 1, to soon to say though
Yeah saw that he's apparently ITK not a journalist but seems like a genuine ITK
My guess it's a few journalists/ITKs who want to remain anonymous.
Can't we offer ronaldo to ajax ?
Get antony on the cheap. Win-Win.
Get antony on the cheap. Win-Win.
I’d like a buy-back if Laird is going anywhere. I still think he has a chance of being a top fullback.
We need Antony real bad.
This is indeed very true. Although less so about Berbatov, I don't see him glorified to the same degree. Nani had one incredible season in 10/11 I think it was before Carragher stopped him. Other than that, was generally flashes here and there.
Lad had some incredible ability though, and scored some memorable goals.
Nani, Berbatov and others (e.g. Da Silva twins, etc.) were seen as underwhelming at the time but after a decade of real misery, it's not surprising these guys look great in comparison.
Haven't Ajax just bought a right back in Wijndal?
Maybe offer them Tuanzebe / Chong or Amad instead?
Maybe offer them Tuanzebe / Chong or Amad instead?
If you go by some on the Caf over the years, then about €80m. Seems to be ridiculously highly rated by some.
Give them Chong, he's never going to make it here.
Wijndal is a left back and Ajax probably isn't interested in players that wouldn't make it here, because that means they'll never be able to resell them with a profit
Laird can play either side
Completely inconsistent from one game to the next. Went months and sometimes even whole seasons contributing absolutely nothing. Even in his best season 2010/11 he was almost irrelevant in the second half of the season. When we signed him he had the potential to be the best player in the world. Definitely underwhelming.
Just because he was underwhelming doesn’t mean he was a flop. Far from it. This is the point I’m making. We’ve had so many genuinely awful flops since that the likes of Nani are now seen as great.
£15m-£20m seems to be the going rate for other big clubs, he also has some decent experience.
Quite a lot of hyperbole there. He wasn't that inconsistent
Looks like a player if you turn up all his stats to 99 in Fifa. Just crazy how direct he is but also has the smarts to play in others in or around the goal area and he has a cannon of a right foot.
Crazy how he is often fouled too running an at the opposition.
Sooo, the same?
My bad got it in my head he was a right back
I'd give Laird up as part of a deal for Antony in this case, United can always add a buy back or go shopping for a full back another window
Laird is good and has the potential to be really good but I would give him up in a heartbeat to get Antony at a decent price, we need to improve immediately, not 2-3 years from now which is what Laird needs.
Worth noting Laird has just a year left in his contract
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