He wasn't proper shit, was he? He just got tasked with a lot more defensive work in a superstar team of Ronaldo, Ozil, Benzema, etc IIRC.
Antony | Here we go! €100mill, contract until June 2027, option 'til 2028.
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The have vast pl experience and this gy does not. Massive step up
Morgan Gibbs white went for 25m.
Richarlison, Raphina went for close to 50m. Diaz went for 35m. There's value if you actually scout properly and not just overpay for the first player you come across. And paying 80m for a player that has potential but is nowhere near being a sure bet in the PL.. it's that sort of thinking that has had us spunk money on Sancho, DVB, AWB, Maguire etc.
Pretty sure Sterling and Bissouna had 1 year left on their contract.
In Holland yes. So did zyich but we will see in the Pl
So targeting players with short remainder on their contract would be smart, is that what you're saying?
Not really impressive considering Madrid scored 121 goals in the league alone, and outscored by Jose Callejon
That's why their fees were low, especially Sterling.
I know. The other poster more or less claimed you can't sign good players for 50m anymore. My three examples show you can
My bad, I thought you were saying you can't.
If Antony had one year left on his contract left he'd be cheaper too. But instead he has three years left and so he isn't cheaper.
Jesus could see the writing on the wall with Haaland coming in. No way he'd want to be benched for months with the WC coming up.
Maybe just maybe when you’re spending 100m you aim for a more proven player? Especially as you said we’re struggling. So spunk that on a guy who’s unproven in the Prem and puts up at best good numbers is a pretty weak league?
What could go wrong?
Don’t say that, this is the same cafe that told us that AWB, Maguire and Sancho were the best we could do for those fees. Now it’s Antony. Then in 2 years time they’ll be arguing why he’s at best average and how we got rinsed for him. Then complain about a lack of investment.
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Right cheeky cnuts they are
In that case other clubs would have been in for him. He might not have been as willing to come. And instead of paying an exorbitant transfer fee, maybe higher wages would have been needed to convince him. It's the unfortunate situation the club is in. Clubs in better positions are getting the bargains. Even from Ajax. Gravenberch, only had 1 year on his contract, went to Bayern for 18 million euros. And Mazraoui they got on a free transfer.
Because Ajax knows we don't have any recruitment departement for an alternative player. Gakpo I don't see as an alternative because he's for the left side. I still can not believe how it is possible that we don't have any professional recruitment department. We are waiting until Ten Hag comes with a player. What if Ten Hag gets fired? Malacia, Martinez and Eriksen will be sold by the next manager? Unbelievable.
What about Ziyech on loan
Yeah, why would they after we only took their manager and best CB
Seriously? They rinsed us for Martinez and now they wanna rinse us again.
Who do you know for 100M that is more proven, would actually move to United right now and is available + works for EtH?
EtH knows Antong very well and he knows he works for his system. That is big
Is the same problem. Ziyech on loan will only happen because Ten Hag is the manager. But its better idea than spending € 100m for Antony in my opinion.
Because then we save a lot (!) of money and we can invest in other positions. For example: With Casemiro and Eriksen we need someone who runs his lungs out every game. That is in our squad only Van de Beek. He's a nice kid but is he is not good enough, get Ziyech on loan and buy a good midfielder instead. Also don't sign Gakpo, we have Sancho, Rashford, Elanga for the leftwing. And if we really need one more player, please give Garnacho the opportunity to play. Saves us also like € 50m.
He's crap. Why not buy one of the hottest RW projects out there? Who cares what we pay.
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We aren't buying him for €100m.
120m instead
They aren't rinsing anybody, they set the price, he is their player.
If we pay it up, we rinse ourselves... I for one don't care and hope he comes.
Everyone saying who cares what we pay were probably saying the same thing about Maguire.
Pure madness
Next they are going to be saying they need 120m euros. Feck them. There is no excellent relationship between the clubs if they keep wanting to rinse us because we are desperate. The offer we made is perfectly reasonable and they already have a very good prospect in his position in Conceicao and use the money in case they want to buy someone else.
I would rather Ziyech and really test Barca's resolve with an improved offer, see if playing with Casemiro makes us any more attractive.
100M is bonkers. We used to be great at identifying gems and under the radar young players with high ceilings, now we overpay for players year after year out of desperation.
This can’t be true. Antony wouldn’t kick up a fuss. I refuse to believe it.
Only say that because feel we still need De Jong for that midfield to be balanced
We will meet half way on this
Especially if Antony carries on behaving like a rascal
Difference is they are run properly and make profits from transfers, our club is a shambles and regularly gets fleeced by transfers and contracts.
I vividly remember that everyone in the footballing world knew we got taken to the cleaners from the offset there, even our fans
I think we'll get him. £70m + 10m in add ons should do it imo
Im starting to get excited about this guy, dont ruin this for me everyone.
Hoping he pushes for valuation to be lowered
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