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Edinson Cavani - SIGNED for United
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Again. It must be repeated. Again and again until it sticks.
Is he better than Ighalo? Yes. Are we breaking the bank and our wage structure for him like Sanchez? No
Is it too long or too short a deal? Neither. It's a 1 year with option for 1 more. We can let go if he flops.
He is a decent upgrade and replacement for Ighalo who will be leaving in Jan. We had concerns with squad depth, it is getting addressed now.
Same first 11 as last season. A slightly stronger bench which hopefully Ole can call upon much more often this season
As for match fitness, Ighalo leaves in Jan. We will probably have him ready in about a month. There really is no rush, here.
My only concern is injuries. Hopefully we manage him well like how SAF managed RvP.
Is he better than Ighalo? Yes. Are we breaking the bank and our wage structure for him like Sanchez? No
Is it too long or too short a deal? Neither. It's a 1 year with option for 1 more. We can let go if he flops.
He is a decent upgrade and replacement for Ighalo who will be leaving in Jan. We had concerns with squad depth, it is getting addressed now.
Same first 11 as last season. A slightly stronger bench which hopefully Ole can call upon much more often this season
As for match fitness, Ighalo leaves in Jan. We will probably have him ready in about a month. There really is no rush, here.
My only concern is injuries. Hopefully we manage him well like how SAF managed RvP.
Has he suffered in the same way? I don’t have any idea of his injury record
At a merely superficial glance, his final season with PSG was quite bad. Someone posted his record here a few pages back.
All hinges on the wages and agent fees as long as they are sensible it’s an improvement for the season on the squad. Far more confident of Cavani coming on and scoring than Ighalo.
How is that anything close to being a positive, if our goal for this season was to close the gap to City and especially Liverpool?
If we are fighting for 3rd and 4th again, it makes a bit of sense, though even some of our rivals for these spots seem to have strengthened more than us.
Well I’ve just check my replies and you haven’t but let’s leave it now, it’s all very boring.
good points tombom.
A good signing but we still really need other areas addressing.
So 12 important goals is the bet.... Hmm, I might take that offer.Something like four
I have a sneaky feeling this might end well. An experienced head fir the lads to learn from with a proven track record, on a short term deal? May as well give it a go.
Is Cavani better than Ighalo?
If the answer is yes it’s a step in the right direction.
We aren’t going to challenge for the title this season even with Sancho and Telles we wouldn’t challenge.
We need this season and next season to be in that kind of position. Players need to be entering their peaks and we have a squad that is a bit too young at the moment.
Never read so much bollocks in my life.
No, Larsson scored four in total. Can’t remember how many of them you would class as “important” though.
For the purposes of the bet any goal is important....
Here comes the PR spin
Have you forgotten about Rojo already?
If he only plays half the games as planned surely there's less chance of him being injured?
You should have a read through your last 24 hours of posting.
I don't think challenging the top 2 ever came into the conversation in the board room. The gap is simply too big to close in one year. I'm pretty sure the aim is to get top 4 again. And the first 11 probably has a decent shout at that. The main concern, as we saw last season, is lack of squad depth. No rotation and concerns about injuries.
These signings, Donnie, Edinson, Telles, they smack of building up squad depth.
My remaining concern now, is lack of options for centerback. One long term injury or covid19 infection to Maguire, and I think we might just be in trouble. *touchwood*
But I think our squad is already too big, as Damien showed. We have something like 27 players for 25 slots. We really need to let go of some players.
I'm sure there is a long list. Half of them are nowhere to be seen. We need a search party for some of them
When you’re having to put in he’s better than Ighalo twice you are kinda short on positives
You might care to expand on your thought so maybe ?
Get someone like Ziyech that can cover both RW and CAM, proper left footed attacking player, who would also be the natural successor to Mata. Get a LB similar to Telles, someone to give balance to the squad an provide a proper attacking outlet from the full back position. Get a young talented specialist DM to be the Matic and understudy, leaving the striker position for last if anything was available and we could afford it, if not, look for a stop gap in January until we look for proper targets for next summer.
I'm repeating this specially for you, since you seemed to have missed a lot of what has been already said in this thread. We could have spent a reasonable amount of money way before the season started and now we would be in the strongest position possible. But no, let's wait till the 4th of October to sign 33 year old Edinson Cavani on a free transfer, who hasn't played competitive football since March and hasn't trained with a professional football club since July or August.
Larsson scored 0 important goals. His 1-0 is his debut vs. Villa (2-1 win) the only one you can probably make an argument for.
It’s done now. I wouldn’t have personally done it had I been in charge but it is what it is. We aren’t challenging regardless so let’s hope we have enough to get top 4 and take advantage of what a year without fans will throw up in the market in Jan/the summer. Dembele on loan and we’re set I think. Sell a few tomorrow and our net spend and wage clearout would put us in a very good position to take advantage of any collapse in the market.
Glenn Murray is cheap and better than Ighalo if those are the only requirements of a striker for Man Utd in 2020
This is how it went down - Mourinho said how the recruitment works at Old Trafford there is a database of players and for each position you will have choice A, B, C, D. The club tries to secure primary target A, or B and so on and so forth.
Clearly Cavani was on a list of potential strikers, but also clear as the sun is shining here in beautiful Czech Republic, he was probably one of the last choices, this is due to the fact that the guy was available July 1st and we have gone for him with 2 days left of the window.
Last season he played few games due to multiple muscular injuries, he will be 34 in Feb. He is a striker who likes to get into the box and on the end of crosses. That is not how Utd are set up to play - we have no wingers. Utd have been banging the drum about the vision, the project, learning from past mistakes. Last season we finished 33 points behind Liverpool. We had to strentghen our first XI this summer, with players then dropping to the bench. We have failed to improve on our first XI. We will now have two strikers sat on the bench earning between them 400k p/w. It is a disgrace how this football is run.
That's all good and true, to be fair, but a majority of our fanbase expects Ole to challenge Liverpool and City this season, if that doesn't happen, they'd want his head for sure as it's his second full season.
The expectations when last season finished is we would be getting Sancho and at least 2 more class acquisitions so that we challenge our main rivals. The club has to make an obvious statement that we are fighting for 4th again or the fans will eat Solskjaer alive for not achieving unrealistic expectations.
Cavani may do well but it’s not a long term solution by any stretch. Another desperate last minute deal to try and paper over the cracks of another mismanaged, failed transfer window.
It’s become the norm now for our club so nobody should be surprised really. We’re a mess.
It’s become the norm now for our club so nobody should be surprised really. We’re a mess.
Totally agree. Rumors coming out now indicate they lowered their demands and it is within wage structure. Something between 155k and 200k or something like that.
For sure. My main concern, after this, is getting Telles and another centerback. Leave Sancho for next season and pray we get CL again.
Agreed. I don't see why not.
Please feel free to ignore my posts, then.
Wikipedia lists Larsson as 3 goals in 13 appearances (i think mostly subs). 1 match winner I think was in CL.
Beggars can't be choosers, bruv.
Good post bud, I gave up too
Insulting another member
Another tw@t on the ignore listTotally agree. Rumors coming out now indicate they lowered their demands and it is within wage structure. Something between 155k and 200k or something like that.
For sure. My main concern, after this, is getting Telles and another centerback. Leave Sancho for next season and pray we get CL again.
Agreed. I don't see why not.
Please feel free to ignore my posts, then.
Wikipedia lists Larsson as 3 goals in 13 appearances (i think mostly subs). 1 match winner I think was in CL.
Beggars can't be choosers, bruv.
I actually don't mind Cavani at all. It is only disappointing if he is the last signing that we are making this window, simply because we have way more urgent holes to plug in our squad. However if we manage to sign Telles and then a RW before the window closes (very very slim chance) then this would be a good signing.
He’s allowed to express his thoughts, that’s what a forum is for after all
Great to see you like-minded fellows gather together to wank each other off.
Exactly. We will probably buy Sancho in January now, but not without dragging it out and then next summer will be exactly the same as this because the budget is already blown.
Hopefully we get sales from Dalot and Pereira’s loans to mitigate that
That would be Grant for me.
Sounds reasonable on the face of it but way less convincing if he is the last signing of the window.
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