Of course he is, he has a release clause. They're not planning long term with him.
They gave Periera a contract too and will likely give one to Lingard too.
This. I’m not falling for it anymore. We might get telles done and that will be that.
Haha I knew a brief linking us with players was coming after that performance.
Last summer he was recovering from a knee injury that saw him out for 6 months, which is partially why no one signed him.
Still believe we are getting a RW too just not confident at all that is Sancho
His new deal was signed with a lower release clause so he would 100% give RBL one more season and it would be even easier for him to move at the end of this season. Why would he go back on that for us? He has his choice of clubs. The time to start going for him was before he signed that deal but we are late and slow as always.
Yeah cannot see any way that Leipzig will go back on their word to sell him this summer
If united offer them more than the clause, why wouldn't they
Are they willing to do that though and like Ducker says it's fully reliant on selling CB deadwood and unlike other clubs we have great difficulty shifting it
Because we could offer more money than that clause. I'm not denying we're late and slow, we seem extremely amateurish when it comes to deals on positions we really need. VDB shows when we can strike a good deal, we will move it on very quickly.
I would like us to sign him now too but doesn't feel like the club is willing to take a hit on our CB deadwood in order to free up wages.
RBL is primarily a business oriented side. Like Keita, if they receive more money this year they will sell. What would be that amount is something which we don't know.
Smalling -> Roma (18M) (experience)
The difference with that being VDS involved helped to speed up the process and also didn't have to shift players in that position either like we would with this one
Nobody is paying £5m for Phil Jones... not even the morons at West Ham!
£55m I reckon
I think for a premier league footballer you would be lucky to get someone for £1M.
Yeah me neither
Thing is, we aren't going to shift any of the deadwood for a decent fee anyway, clubs won't want to pay their wages. They are made of glass as well.
Yeah we have definitely reached that point for me already but the club unfortunately don't seem to see things in the same way
I agree, bit surprised we've not done this with some of our ridiculously longstanding deadwood. Must be a money thing, but on the outside looking in it seems just a logical thing to do at this point.
He's not just any ordinary EPL player though, he's a man who everyone knows can't stay fit. Nobody is going to spend £5m on a player that they can't even guarantee will make more then 10 appearances over a season.
I don't think VDS helped, the price was reasonable and Ajax have always been reasonable in letting their players move on. We definitely need to get rid of at least one defender before we buy another one, but let's say Smalling goes tomorrow, I reckon we could quite easily agree a fee we find reasonable.
Honestly think we could still afford both but wouldn't expect him to leave until the release clause activates next summer
Doubt so after we get Jadon as well mate
Still not hearing enough for me on that
