He needs to be out of the club by the start of next season.
Has Zlatan deserved his contract extension?
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
You again....I thought you would be here much earlier to hate Zlatan.
Zlatan will be here next season and that's a correct decision. Great player.
Leave me alone.
A strange thing to say after we just extended him a year.
Why so? You got a better option than him as a striker? Only Rashford/Martial would be a bit thin don't you think? They still very young aswell that's why it's great to have a player like Zlatan at our club.
I think he is doing more harm than good on the whole to be perfectly honest.
Moderate your tone, otherwise you're outta here.
What harm is he actually doing in your eyes? Zlatan is still a classplayer which lots of qualities and has this aura around that not many players has.
Yes sir!!
Good man.
All those missed chances, immobility up front, being undroppable, huge wages, endless supply of unnecessary flicks etc...
No problem at all sir.
Oh snap.
Well I'm sure quite sure that haven't seen the best side of Zlatan yet and there's much more to come. Obviously many of us head enormous expectations which he probably has yet to live up to, but theres mores to come for sure.
Yeah, Spurs got relegated under Pochettino.
They didn't do what you suggested, which is go with all Youth and place rigidly austere limits on the wages of experienced players. That's an ideal recipe for perennial mediocrity.
This is what irks me. It fecks up our wage scale, and it's undeserved.
We can do better for these wages.
I'm sure every single United fan would rather have Coutinho and Firmino than Zlatan. But further than that, we can do better than those two as well.
Our standards have dropped and we don't seem to realize that using our wealth as leverage is what will get us back to the top.
You wanna earn 300,000 a week? Sure, we can pay that, but set the bar high FFS.
which high profile player will come and play for 80000 ? We keep saying we are miles behind barca /RM /Bayern - do you have any idea how much do they pay Messi / Ronaldo / Neymar / Bale ? or even Aguero / Toure / Silva / hazard ?
even Bolasie might be getting 60-80k at Everton !
He's the only potent striker we have. We need his services till we sign someone else
Wrong question. Zlatan doesn't do auditions.
On the upside, he is already on pace for about 25-27 goals in all comps despite being perceived as not putting away some of his chances. Once he improves his conversion rate he could wind up with 30 or more. Not bad for a 35 year old player on a free.
Till we sign someone better... and only after he proves he is better for us!...
The problem is, we play with one striker at top. Even when we sign someone else, how can he prove himself if zlatan plays most of the time, Just like he kept Cavani at bay during his time at PSG. Everything points to the fact that Zlatan will be here the whole two years before anyone can get a proper look in.
That's not an upside. It's a guess at what might happen over the next seven months.
Its an educated guess based on what we've seen so far, as opposed to a blind punt.
Not sure why we're guessing at all what he's going to score and even more unsure as to why we're using this guess as a positive right now.
"He could end up with 30 or more.Not bad for a 35 year old"
He's not done it yet! Let's hold back the congratulations.
Its based on his form of scoring 50 in 50 last year in France, as well as what he has already scored this year in just over a third of a season. All he has to do is slightly better his so called mediocre form and he will have a chance at 30, which is frankly what I expected of him when he came here.
In answer to OP, hell feckin NO
I hope he does but quite a few posters, like yourself, are talking as if this goal tally is already written and has vindicated the decision to sign him. It's just a guess. It's like saying Martial will only get 6 this season and then criticising him for it.
Nobody is saying anything of the sort, from what I've seen. Only extrapolating on what he's done so far and where he can potentially end up. It's an educated guess, like anything else. Hell who knows what tomorrow brings for anyone?
They really are. Quite a number, Raoul just a few posts up, talking about him scoring 30+ goals already being an upside.
I'm already happy with his performances so my view that he has a good chance of getting 30 is just an extrapolation of what he has already done.
I said 25-30 goals on current pace, 30 if he improves his form and finishing. This is hardly unrealistic given his form over the past 12 months.
Well it's not complete nonsense, It's funny because you were the actual person I got into a debate with in the Zlatan transfer thread when you were talking about his supposed Messi/Ronaldo figures. I spoke about his goals in France completely skewing his overall goal record and you weren't having it.
https://www.redcafe.net/threads/zla...the-united-forum.410554/page-32#post-19122533
Now to me that presents a very strong case that you believed this guy was going to get some seriously high goal-scoring figures. All that hype and not just from you but others, I was met with complete arseholeish responses to my genuine concerns.
I also like the back tracking in that last quote, hyping up ronaldo/messi figures then going onto say "if he gets 25 goals he'd be an immense buy".
Nothing I said there was not accurate. I never suggested Zlatan would get Messi/Ronaldo type numbers in England, just reiterated that his PSG numbers were comparable to both of them.
1. There aren't that many strikers better than Zlatan.
2. Actually we play with three strikers, sometimes with four (Zlatan, Rooney, Martial, Rashford).
3. We may watch those players once or twice per week but Mourinho watches them play every single day. And he evaluates them every single day.
He's our top scorer. Our most prolific scorer for many years.
I have an idea - lets get him out, asap.
We didn't pay one cent for his signature and you're acting like that is completely irrelevant and all that matters is the wage. Paying him £300k/week is the same as paying £15mil for the transfer and then giving him £10k/week.
So basically you are arguing that we could've gotten both Coutinho and Firmino for £15mil and then paid them £5k/week each but we chose Zlatan instead..
the haterz.