Jeez. You can just as well flip that and say if Alderweireld has a terrible WC or get injured again you will lose out yourselves, on whatever imaginary self-gratifying scenario you come up with. The clock is ticking
It seems you really want to sell him to us, you don't rate him or what?Toby is available for £25m next summer, why do you think you have a strong bargaining position. As for Martial if we are to sell him at all, I highly doubt it would be to a direct rival. I know you would love to have him and I don't blame you but the valuation of a player who is 29 and has a very reasonable release clause next summer is not at all comparable with a player that doesn't have such a clause, is 22 years old and one of the best attacking prospects in Europe.
Spurs would have preferred he sign the new contract on offer, as he originally agreed to do, because obviously Spurs do rate him highly.Jeez. You can just as well flip that and say if Alderweireld has a terrible WC or get injured again you will lose out yourselves, on whatever imaginary self-gratifying scenario you come up with. The clock is ticking
Well, the contractual effect is similar for Martial because next summer his price drops significantly due to his then only having 1 year left on his contract, assuming you optionally extend it this summer.
In absence of simply saying 'dream on', here are my thoughts. You'd be very luck to get AM, even at the price quoted due to his age, ceiling and fact we will not want to sell to a rival club, not to mention he would need replacing at a sizable expense. So to think you could pull United trousers down in the process is a bit ignorant really.
It's not a question of whether or not we can afford him. It's a question of how much United want Alderweireld, how much they want Spurs to drop our asking price for him (in return for United doing the same with Martial) and whether United think any club is going to offer £75m for Martial.
Probably not as much as you think, I would hazard a guess that we would rather sell Martial abroad than sign Alderweireld
Well, if United are that scared of selling Martial to Spurs …
Juve for a start
75 million seemed a lot but levy managed to get 25 plus for Wimmer didn’t he? So never know when it comes to dealing with him. I would love to see Toby in a United shirt been a fan since he was at Ajax. But think he will stay with you another year. Maguire or maybe even Lenglet is probably more realistic at this stage.
That is a possibility but we are not desperate for a CB so we can take that risk and if he goes elsewhere then we will buy another CB.
Says the guy who spent at least last 2 years arguing how Spurs won't sell their "key" or "star" players to premier league clubs.Time moves on. We now have Sanchez, one of the most promising young CBs in Europe and our record-fee signing. And Toby turns 30 during next season. Couple all this with what is perhaps a growing propensity to get injured and the result is that's he's no longer as key a player as he once was before Sanchez arrived.
I wasn't talking about Toby, I was talking about Spurs' "policy" of not selling key players to PL rivals.
You want us to break the bank for him even? I wouldn't go as far as that but. Wouldn't be a bad player to have at our ranks. He would compliment both Bailly and Smalling relatively good I think and be a much better option than Jones and Rojo. He probably could be third choice next season and play more games than they have combined this season. So yeah, would be a decent alternative if we can get rid of those 2, but if we can't then we shouldn't break the bank for such a small upgrade in our squad, not in that position.
He was a far better option than Lindelof last summer at a bargain price.
Yep. I totally agree. And just to clarify, I mean break the bank for Skriniar if it came to that (I agree it's by no means our most pressing need). Dude is all kinds of class. Maguire I like, but won't put in the break the bank category just yet...
I thought Maguire looked very shaky last night, I'm not sure I'd go for him personally.
Yeah, he looks great. I'm sure Carlos Sanchez agrees.
Agreed!
None set the world on fire.
Koulibaly and Skriniar are obvious choices for me.
Wow! He could be perfect for United.
I hope this is true. This guy is made for the Prem!
You hope it's true that we had a bid rejected? How would failing to sign a player be good news for United?
As in true we bidded and showed interest. Not the rejection part
