That can’t be a real thing, right? Judging players by their FIFA rank? I can sort of see some validity in FM, but fecking FIFA!
Daniel James | Officially Signs
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I would love us to sign this lad. Class act.
I like the look of this signing.
Surely nobody is complaining if we sign this guy for 15mill, if he turns out to be class, then its a bargain, if he flops, well its hardly a loss in this market is it. Genuinely cant believe people are complaining, it doesn't matter who we sign does it, people will just complain. We aren't signing Jadon Sancho for over 100mill or whatever, so just deal.
Hoping if we sign him we add David Brooks too
Hoping if we sign him we add David Brooks too
Doesn't look too impressive I'm afraid.
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No idea how they come up with these stats
Thanks for the tip! Hope you can avoid surgery!
I know he will be shit for us, but I'm firmly behind this transfer.
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Yeah, because Lukaku, Di Maria, Sanchez all worked out well for us...
There are also random reddit posters determining FIFA ratings.
and they take his #11 and give it to James.
I'd pay good money to see he's faceHe is talented and IMO our best attacker but if you look like you don't care anymore then at a club the size of United you will be on the bench and that's what I want to see at our club hard work rewarded.
He has 4 goals an 7 assists in the championship
You can never have enough left wingers.
Get a few of them in, don't even think about the right.
Get a few of them in, don't even think about the right.
Shall we do our usual, wait until a Southampton, or Tottenham take them, develop them, and then be talking 60-70m?
True but we didn't developped a single player for a long time. Even some good/promising players we bought look s***e.
You can still stumble along near the top if you have talented players, like we have been doing. If we start signing players on the basis of being young hungry and British we could end up mid table. We need established talent as well.
Im not against signing him, its a small risk for the money, im just thinking we should manage our expectations, he's hardly a class act right now but certainly looks to have potential
Gareth Bale had 5 goals in 40 for Southampton
Lukaku has scored 42 goals for United my newbie, hardly a flop like the other two
He was a leftback for them and his conversation was complete with Spurs
He was 3 years younger than James is now when he left for Spurs.
I think when Jose was told by the scouts that Big Rom was young and hungry, he assumed that meant driven and not possessing a large appetite.
I have an eye for a player.
Mate has been watching him regularly.
Said he's a top signing; he's similar they say to a more pacier version of say Sharpe but with an even higher ceiling.
If we do sign watch him genuinely flourish in Ole's system.
SPEED KILLS
Said he's a top signing; he's similar they say to a more pacier version of say Sharpe but with an even higher ceiling.
If we do sign watch him genuinely flourish in Ole's system.
SPEED KILLS
So does the hope of good things coming.
I like this comment! Totally agree. Klopp did the same thing when he brought in Mane, Robertson, Salah Wijnaldum etc and promoted gomez AA. We need to stop being rash and be strategic.
Second highest number of assists for an under 21 year old in the division and he wasn’t playing much at the start of the season.
And was considered a left back.
I think once they notice you can type a proper sentence and aren’t 12 you’ll get there pretty quickly if posting regularly. Think it took me like 2 weeks of regular posting to get ‘promoted’. And that was when you needed the full 10 likes to post on the mains.
It’s not draconian, there’s so many posters on here you just need to demonstrate you’re not an idiot like I said - otherwise this forum would be full of the awful United fans we know and slightly love from Facebook, Twitter and other terrible forums. It’s a necessary step imo.
The reason why I like the idea of this transfer is a lot of people seem to think we are looking at an average Championship pace-merchant. That would seem a massively random signing.
I’m confident enough in Ole and the new regime that they see something in this guy that makes them think he can get to the top. That might be naive but I can’t consider that we’re simply trying to pinch Leeds targets.
Like a few previous players we’ve apparently been in for, if we accepted some of the Caf’s opinions you’d have to struggle to understand how many of them even managed to become professional footballers.
I’m confident enough in Ole and the new regime that they see something in this guy that makes them think he can get to the top. That might be naive but I can’t consider that we’re simply trying to pinch Leeds targets.
Like a few previous players we’ve apparently been in for, if we accepted some of the Caf’s opinions you’d have to struggle to understand how many of them even managed to become professional footballers.
Hope he pans out better than Nick Powell. Thought that guy was gonna be a star.
Don’t sign him Fifa says no.
Doesn't look too impressive I'm afraid.
Freddy Adu and Cherno Samba should have been signed years ago.
True; though I never said that one Swallow makes a Summer
In that case write him off now.
I'll admit to not knowing much about him but I'd far rather us take a 15m punt than a 50m one. He presumably wont be on massive wages also.
I've never heard of him previously, let alone watched him play. Just saying.
Selling martial and pogba means literally spending as much as they bring in replacing them. Its a break even. Sanchez will cost a reported 25 million to buy off. New players will replace the wages saved by hererra and mata and some. Young would only leave on a free, with his injury and disciplinary record plus his general shitness rojo wouldnt really fetch anything to write home about and the same applies to jones except replace the disciplinary record with the fact he costs you a goal a game. So after reinvesting what we get for pogba and martial to fill the two holes they create in the team, we’d still have to sign 400 millions worth of players.
Not saying i dont wish we could though
Ok - how about this one then. Jamie Vardy scored 20 goals in 63 matches in the Championship....at the age of 26-27
He terrorised Slovakia for Wales where he got his first competitive goal in March.
They couldn’t handle his pace and that had a defence which included Skriniar.
They couldn’t handle his pace and that had a defence which included Skriniar.
Joe Gomez. Gareth Bale. Michael dawson. Jack butland. Nathan redmond. Demarai Gray. James Maddison. Kyle walker. Dele Alli was league 1. Robertson and Van Dijk SPL. David Brooks. Trippier.
Clyne, Moses, Zaha, Andy Johnson, oxlade chamberlain, walcott, dean ashton, peter crouch. Theres more I’m not thinking of as well.
Generally, the younger they are when you sign them, the better.
Players like godfrey and aarons at norwich look brilliant, and already have a full season pro football under their belts.
Still, like i said earlier, theres a strange snobbery about lower league signings.
Its like we dont learn, 6 years of big, shiny, expensive ‘proven’ signings and at our lowest point in three decades people are still convinced that the answer is more. We’ve became an easy last payday for fat cats and crocks and players entering their twilight. Lets sign more from that category.
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