[MyOnlySolskjaer]

Full Name: Brandon Paul Brian Williams
Date of Birth: Sep 3, 2000 (21)
Place of Birth: England

Position: Defender - Left-Back/Right-Back
Player Agent: YMU Group
Joined: Jul 1, 2017
Squad Number: #33
Contract expires: Jun 30, 2024
Contract option: Club option 1 year
Date of last contract extension: Aug 4, 2020
Outfitter: Puma​

 

[Red the Bear]

The renovated player performance threads are due to the preseason starting, right?

Anyway shane he completely burned the bridge with Norwich although I doubt they could have afforded him anyway.

He should be someone who we look at when we're trying to raise cash by offloading players as frankly I'll doubt he's ever going to make it here, let's see if he impresses ten hag or not.

 

[MyOnlySolskjaer]

The renovated player performance threads are due to the preseason starting, right?

Anyway shane he completely burned the bridge with Norwich although I doubt they could have afforded him anyway.

He should be someone who we look at when we're trying to raise cash by offloading players as frankly I'll doubt he's ever going to make it here, let's see if he impresses ten hag or not.

Yessir.

 

[Red the Bear]

Yessir.

Good job then, looking forward to you creating some new ones for our incomings this summer

 

[LawCharltonBest]

Wanted by Brighton for £15m apparently

You’d think United would bite their hand off for that. Might even allow United to sneak in a new RB

 

[Rozay]

Praise be.

 

[sincher]

Could be a good signing for Brighton.

We definitely don't need him but he is a good player I think.

 

[marktan]

If Neco Williams can go for £17m then £15m for Brandon who has far more prem experience is a good price.

Brandon is a solid defender, and I think if he played more on the right (vs on the left for Norwich) he'd be more productive in the attack too. He's good with the ball to feet, just needs to improve his final ball.

 

[sincher]

Would clearly play on the left for Brighton, they are looking for a replacement for Cucurella and they have Lamptey on the right.

 

[DutchCruijff]

We should insert a buy back clause.

He could develop into a decent player at a club like Brighton and under Potter.

 

[ThanksBoss26]

One that might suit all parties this. Expect we’d accept that offer.

 

[mu4c_20le]

I'd ask for 20. Never take the first offer..

 

[phelans shorts]

Would clearly play on the left for Brighton, they are looking for a replacement for Cucurella and they have Lamptey on the right.

Cucurella doesn’t appear to be going anywhere and Lamptey is an injury concern. Could definitely see him playing mostly on the right if this were to happen

 

[Rozay]

The sort of deals we should be doing more often. We've missed the boat on Axel. Henderson I think we have played right to be fair, although could have cashed in for a good fee after Sheffield. Personally, I think Elanga is in a similar category.

 

[Trequarista10]

We should insert a buy back clause.

He could develop into a decent player at a club like Brighton and under Potter.

I think including a buy back clause is something we should look at in general. I guess it would likely mean knocking a % off the transfer fee (unless the buy back price is high). But then we give big salaries to our negotiators/plethora of directors so they should be looking at how to maximise deals to our advantage.

I don't see Williams coming back though. Maybe he'd be alright as a backup options covering LB and RB, but Dalot can fill that role especially if we ditch AWB and sign a top class RB next summer. Malacia and Shaw at LB are both miles ahead of him. A couple other decent young full backs coming through. Shame cos he's a committed player and might have done quite well as an inverted full back under ETH. Best for all parties if we can get a half decent fee and go our separate ways.

 

[OnlyTwoDaSilvas]

We rarely seem to add the English Tax onto our outgoing players. In top flight football, £15m is pocket change.

He's a decent player. Definitely midtable PL quality. £20m minimum

 

[Elcabron]

The sort of deals we should be doing more often. We've missed the boat on Axel. Henderson I think we have played right to be fair, although could have cashed in for a good fee after Sheffield. Personally, I think Elanga is in a similar category.

Agree on Elanga, no where near good enough for us. Now that he has played for Sweeden we should be looking to cash in and a fee of 25m would not be unreasonable. 50m for Elanga, Williams and Pierra would be a good start. AWB and Bailey should easily bring in another 35 and I don't see the point in keeping both Lindelof and Maguire, I would sell one at this point, most likely Lindelof who should easily fetch 40m.

Finally it's time to cut our losses with Donny, hard to see where he fits in with Ericksen and FDJ set to join. 20m wouldn't be unreasonable.

Those sales (balancing out squad and allowing players who want game time to leave) and the almost 150m they would bring in would go a long way to resolving our issues.

 

[Bwuk]

If we can get 25m for him and Telles after bringing Malacia in for 15m it’s been really smart business (for once).

 

[PoTMS]

Sell him for £15m but any less and I'd rather keep him. He's a far better player than AWB.

 

[hellhunter]

Sell him for £15m but any less and I'd rather keep him. He's a far better player than AWB.

He's hidden that pretty well so far

 

[AkaAkuma]

We should be getting a better fee, but the reality is that we need to trim the squad more than a few extra million.
a strategy would be to let a few players leave this summer: Pereira, Williams, Jones. Hopefully they prove to be good signings which would mean clubs come back the following seasons. At this point raise the price to market levels.

what’s interesting is that Liverpool keep getting these high prices, city too with their batch of u21s. But I don’t remember any proving good value?

 

[Rozay]

Sell him for £15m but any less and I'd rather keep him. He's a far better player than AWB.

He’s not even a right back.

He's hidden that pretty well so far

Well put

 

[flappyjay]

We rarely seem to add the English Tax onto our outgoing players. In top flight football, £15m is pocket change.

He's a decent player. Definitely midtable PL quality. £20m minimum

I think he has a decent salary which plays into affordability and wage structures at small clubs. I believe Brightons highest paid player was on around 40k 3 years back.

 

[roonster09]

He's hidden that pretty well so far

Well played

 

[VanDeBank]

A bit disappointed we didn't see him pre season. Was he injured? I don't mind selling him, but could he be any worse than AWB as a backup RB?

 

[Rocksy]

He's hidden that pretty well so far

Not really. Younger than AWB, good full season in the Prem, good debut season at United. A better player than AWB but not good enough for United. Take the money and start trading more with these young players.

In the last 5 years, Chelsea have taken in 150 million on youth players. City have taken 40 million this summer alone. Only a few youth players will genuinely be good enough for United, and holding onto those who aren’t good enough for too long stops them developing and reduces their value.

Selling Williams, Elanga and Garner would probably bring in enough for Walker-Peter’s and Sangare (I name those as they have been linked).

 

[hellhunter]

Not really. Younger than AWB, good full season in the Prem, good debut season at United. A better player than AWB but not good enough for United. Take the money and start trading more with these young players.

In the last 5 years, Chelsea have taken in 150 million on youth players. City have taken 40 million this summer alone. Only a few youth players will genuinely be good enough for United, and holding onto those who aren’t good enough for too long stops them developing and reduces their value.

Selling Williams, Elanga and Garner would probably bring in enough for Walker-Peter’s and Sangare (I name those as they have been linked).

I disagree that he's better than AWB, but we should without a doubt look to sell, yeah. Same for Elanga, if we had some resemblence of depth in attack

 

[Trequarista10]

Not really. Younger than AWB, good full season in the Prem, good debut season at United. A better player than AWB but not good enough for United. Take the money and start trading more with these young players.

In the last 5 years, Chelsea have taken in 150 million on youth players. City have taken 40 million this summer alone. Only a few youth players will genuinely be good enough for United, and holding onto those who aren’t good enough for too long stops them developing and reduces their value.

Selling Williams, Elanga and Garner would probably bring in enough for Walker-Peter’s and Sangare (I name those as they have been linked).

No chance we're selling Elanga or Garner this summer. We're desperately short of players fir the front 3, so whilst Elanga probably won't make it here he'll be getting a fair bit of game time this season. Hopefully his price will continue to rise with more experience and training with ETH. The goal should be to sell him at about the same age and similar price that Arsenal offloaded Iwobi. Garner also isn't going anywhere, we barely have anyone who can play #6 and he's the closest to first team of all the young CMs.

Other than Williams, Telles, Axel, AWB, VDB, one of Bailly/Lindelof, Levitt, Galbraith should be the next departures. Possibly Pellestri/Chong if we actually bring in a wide forward or two. If ETH thinks he can work with one or two on that list of 11 fair enough, but I expect most if not all of them to be sold before long. Without needing to sell potentially useful players like Elanga or Garner.

 

[AltiUn]

I disagree that he's better than AWB, but we should without a doubt look to sell, yeah. Same for Elanga, if we had some resemblence of depth in attack

Don't think there would be much point selling Elanga yet he looks nowhere near ready so I doubt we'd get a good fee for him, a solid loan then a sale with a buyback might be better.

 

[Mcking]

He will finally get the chance to perform to the level Irwin and Maldini did. Can't discuss the limitations of a right-footed left back without someone mentioning them these days.

Luckily he will play under Graham Potter who doesn't give a feck about the position a player previously played, so he could be signing as an utility player. Best Premier League move for him.

 

[Sammy McIlroys fan club]

He will finally get the chance to perform to the level Irwin and Maldini did. Can't discuss the limitations of a right-footed left back without someone mentioning them these days.

Luckily he will play under Graham Potter who doesn't give a feck about the position a player previously played, so he could be signing as an utility player. Best Premier League move for him.

Is this deal dependent on Cucarella moving to City?. It appeared to be a done deal at the weekend but has faded somewhat the last few days. If we could generate £15m for him and the same for Bailly to Roma that would represent decent business. £40m for Andreas, Williams and Bailly plus high earners like Pogba and Matic off the books, plus Mata, Lingard, Henderson, Grant etc is a decent summer on the outward side of the business.

 

[Rozay]

Seems Cucurella’s departure is gathering pace. Hopefully £15m of that money comes our way.

 

[DWelbz19]

Not sure how true the Brighton links are but that sort of fee is about what I expected. Maybe an initial £10m with £5m or so in achievable add-ons. Selling players straight after successful loans is a good idea. Who’d have thunk it, eh?

 

[Oranges038]

Liked his style when he did play, showed a lot of drive and aggression, don't think he has a future at Utd though.

Brighton could be a good move for him. A well coached team that try and play front foot football. He's not great on the defensive side of things, better at going forward. Be interesting to see how he does if he goes there.

 

[Kostov]

15m from Brighton is what we should be asking if they are indeed interested.

 

[Leftback99]

I don't see Brighton wanting him. They are shrewder than that. They'll get get someone cheaper from abroad who is actually left footed.

 

[Tarrou]

Nobody is giving us 15m for this kid, obviously

 

[flappyjay]

Is he really on 43k a week? If true Brighton might hesitate

 

[arthurka]

Brighton buying him instead of Cucurella is pretty much getting Djemba Djemba for Keane.

 

[Mickson]

Where is he?