Thankfully it's likely bullshit. Grealish makes feck all sense as a Sancho replacement because he's not a right winger.
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That is a very high valuation you associate with our players. Only Martial is worth 80m. Rashford around 70 and Greenwood 50 to 60.
I wouldn’t sell Rashford for £70m nor Greenwood for £60m
Grealish has a girlfriend, so I'm sure he's straight. But his hair, tight clothes and skin exposure are what some of my gay friends would do, if they were footballers. Nothing wrong with it, as long as it's within the rules. I'm used to seeing that kind of thing on nights out with them.
I don't mind showing off a bit of individuality in football. The same applies to Pogba and his hair.
Of course we won't but that is the max we will get I think if we were to.
Rashford is difficult to put a value on because I can't see the club even contemplating letting him go. It would have to be over £100million+ for the club to even think about it. What he's worth is a difficult question to answer. He'll be 23 next month, so still early in his career. I'd be annoyed if we accepted an offer sub-£100million for him in the next few years.
To be fair, this sounds very similar to our response when PSG knocked on our door with a 40-50 millions offer for Adnan Januzaj when he first bursted onto the scene. We also felt he must not be let go at any cost, being a product of our academy. And the rest was history. So I wouldn't turn my nose up a 100 millions offer on Rashford immediately, or at least not that fast.
On the face of it, it seems like an obvious comparison to make. But, when you look closely, I'm not sure I agree. Januzaj only had the one good season for us where he scored 4 league goals. He never hit the same heights again after that season.
On the other hand, Rashford has just had his best ever season for us, scoring 22 goals in all competitions (17 in the league) and looking much more comfortable in the roles where he has been playing. He's local, so that adds an extra element, too. The situation is different for the club where Januzaj started off well and then never got to the same level or surpassed that, whereas Rashford is just now (and partly last season) showing his true potential. We've developed him over a number of seasons and now it's starting to pay off, with the promise of more to come.
Makes no sense if we’re in for him and VDB unless we’re signing both him and Sancho and cashing in on Pogba.
No, Grealish isn't a bad player at all. The problem is this:
Almost like buying a player for the sake of buying.
I don’t believe that for one second.
We only sell if the player is too old, not good enough or so good another team pays over the odds for them.
Not at all the same. Rashford has proven his worth over the past few seasons. £100m+ for him and I’d consider selling but surely having a Manchester academy graduate is too much of an appeal to sell off while performing well.
but the club hasn't addressed the position in almost a decade, so it makes sense they would so something like this.
Really hope the signing of Van De Beek ends our interest in this guy. Really strikes me as a player who'll lose his hunger not long after getting a move to a big club . The money will ruin him.
There is nothing with buying quality players who are better than players you have. Buying Grealish makes sense if we can offload the likes or Periera and Lingard as he is better and gives us more options to have .
The problem is though getting rid of the players we have as they are on far more money than they would get elsewhere
Really misguided comment. Can’t see that at all, I see the opposite. I think he would thrive at a top club, be that at Utd or elsewhere. He’s the sort of player Fergie would have bought, and I’m sure we would have done too if the price was right.
Quality player, but looks like he will be staying at Villa this season.
Hope he gets a game, he deserves a chance at international level, and it was a bit perplexing why he was left out originally.
Martial and Rashford would easily command values in excess of 80million depending on particular urgency by them to leave the club. Not that we will sell at those values.
Greenwood £50-60m
Greenwood is priceless, you don't sell those level of academy products. The club clearly agree as they knocked back Dortmund who wanted him in the deal for Sancho.That's the deal breaker then
I’m not sure it helps to dress like he’s on a night out with your friends, gay or otherwise. But the issue is that he is probably more likely to get injured if he won’t wear proper pads. So far so good but for most people shin pads are a very sensible precaution.
The tight shorts could cause injury too I suppose. And the hairstyle could annoy players or confuse them so may go either way.
I do have further thoughts on the matter which I'm not going to go into.
True. But so did George Best, and that was in a much more dangerous era.
High challenges up the the front of a player's shin are pretty much non-existent these days. When a high challenge does happen, it's usually from the back, the side or lower down near the ankle (where his shin pads actually do cover).
I agree that it's a risk. But I've always liked a maverick.
Have you ever considered applying for the Director of Football post at MU?
Shin pads are mandatory at all levels of football, the tight shorts are less so but depends on the manager I suppose. Wouldn't want to piss off a coach if he said, ' I'd like you all to wear your underpants on the outside of your shorts.'
Yeah, s’pose you’re right. Mavericks are fun - we need more of them.
True. But so did George Best, and that was in a much more dangerous era.
High challenges up the the front of a player's shin are pretty much non-existent these days. When a high challenge does happen, it's usually from the back, the side or lower down near the ankle (which his shin pads actually do cover).
I agree that it's a risk. But I've always liked a maverick.
I really hope we sign this guy, by the way.
Grealish has the intelligence and skillset to play anywhere across the frontline and midfield.
Given that we already have Rashford/Martial/Greenwood - that they need supporting rather than replacing - Grealish would be a far more astute signing than Sancho in allowing us to spread the leftover budget across other gaps in the squad.
Hallo mein Fruend. Ich kommen aus Dortmund.... you want Sancho ja...? We can let him join you in exchange for Rashford und Greenwood.
Ist gut deal ja? Sehr einfach.
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Comparing Rashford to Januzaj. Wow
Strange post.
I'd have a lesser opinion of him if he'd downed tools and contributed to his club being relegated, just to force a move.
Would that be the kind of player we'd want at the club?
He's probably been priced out of a move, but he'll leave Villa eventually. Contracts don't last forever.
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Misguided, I don't think so. Fergie wouldn't have thought twice about signing him and I don't think Ole will either.
I honestly don't think we've ever been interested and its all just the usual press hype. They'd absolutely love us to sign him so they could wet themselves eveytime he slips up.
Can’t remember a single Utd player getting in trouble whilst at the club...?
or a single Utd player that had caused controversy before we bought him...?
Just as an example, why don’t you look up Dwight Yorke before and after he joined Utd. Puts anything Grealish did firmly in the shade. You clearly have google skills!
If the price was right, we would be all over him. He’s the right type type of player who would relish the step up.
A typical Fergie signing.
Fergie couldn't stand Yorkes lifestyle making the headlines. He was made a rotational option in only his 3rd season with us and a backup player the next. Fergie couldn't wait to get him out the door.
You must have loved United in the 80s. Full of your type of players.
Plenty of winning sweet feck all.
Plenty of winning sweet feck all.
Or Cantona that notoriously low maintenance player who absolutely didn't throw a hissy fit and 'retire' at 25 after being run out of France.
He still signed him didn't he? He was sidelined because Sheringham had a far better year than him. And there's a massive difference between Yorke's lifestyle and Grealish's incidents five years apart.
Fergie was also going to sign Ronaldinho. He signed Rio and stuck by him. He signed Anderson. Keane was arrested days before the FA cup final in 1999 on assault charges. He was in court again in 2005.
Di Canio was another one that Fergie really wanted.
Yeah remember a lot of talk of that back in early 2002 and we ended up getting Forlan
Yeah as the poster says Jack doesn't play on the RW well hasn't since the Notts County days anyway. I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised to see this pick up again if the Sancho stuff reaches a dead end.
I think players like Grealish need to be a lot smarter when they were signing contracts at these levels of clubs if they want a big move. They need to start putting fairly low release clauses in their contracts so they can have more control over their career.
Yep. You cannot expect clubs to keep paying £60m+ when they can get similar quality from abroad.
Maguire, Chilwel, Maddison, Grealish etc.. Players need to think of their careers and it is obvious for the better of their career, they need to be playing for the better teams.
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