Sarr would still be a possibility though.
Y.A.W.N
Yeah, deleted my post as realised that Sarr and Brooks are now in championship
Hasn’t realised that and it’s a very good point!
That transfer also took months to sort out...
Good thing they started early then.
That's the funny thing for me as well. I have never really followed a developing transfer story as I don't find it particularly interesting and I have no dog in this particular fight. This is also not a case of me being German and sticking up for the Bundesliga (I'd much rather watch the Premier League) if anyone wants to go down that route. But as this saga has been progressing I have found myself hoping that Sancho stays another season more and more. I don't understand what United are playing at here and the way they are acting comes across a bit small time. What is it with all the journalist briefings? Is that normal with these transfer stories? Why would you tell these leeches anything? And as you said, this whole thing is not even discussed in Germany. Dortmund's forum doesn't even have a Sancho thread. Think if a deal does not happen in the coming weeks, United will look like bigger mugs than Dortmund if it does not.What?!There are no briefings (not that clubs in Germany do these kind of things anyway) and the only statements of Dortmund officials are disclaimers when journalists ask them if one of those twitter rumors are true. You know, there's an equivalent to this thread on the biggest German football forum, transfermarkt.de. It was closed after August 10 and reopened after the insider stories that United had agreed personal terms with Sancho (to the bewilderment of most fans). There hasn't been a single post in it since 5 days. Nobody talks about this over here and that's because this rumor is dead in the German media landscape.
By the way, not saying that this has any meaning. But your theory is definitely as far from the truth as possible.
Real Madrid, Barcelona, heck even PSG have been cautious. The clubs that are spending are taking a risk. Next year football prices might look a lot different.
Thats the kind of optimism we are known for in Lisburn!
Therein lies the problem for us. If prices are more reasonable next season, a player of Sancho’s current ability and future potential will have every one of the top clubs in Europe vying for his signature. If United don’t pull the trigger on this signing given his willingness to come, our needs as a team, and the lack of any rivals for his signature at this time, we may well love to regret it for a very long time in my opinion.
I think one issue is the club have made an assessment, that no matter what players we get, competing with Klopp and Pep is highly unlikely. So spending money now does not affect us much. Our squad is still 3rd best and we still should make top 4 easily. Waiting till next year when prices are lower across football is a reasonable strategy.
This late in the window probably not. Club should have made their offer and moved on to a plan B.
This is possibly the most hopeful thing I've read for the last 1133 pages.
Done dealio.
I’m pretty sure this was mentioned ages ago. Because If I recall Dortmund also have a quarterly report coming out very soon and it was suggested that United would wait till theirs is out of the way and then move on Dortmund once their report is done as they believe they (Dortmund) will be in a worse financial situation.
The only way there would have been any further developments would have been if Sancho had thrown his toys out of the pram - he hasn’t, there is no discussions going on with the clubs, Dortmund clearly are not desperate for the cash and why would they now want this turmoil after the season has started?
Grasping at straws.
It really is and I don't see the logic behind that sort of move, though maybe I'm just missing the point. But surely if we bid a couple of days after the 30th then investors would know about it and whatever conclusions they would draw if we bid earlier, would still be made.
Yes, after 30th September
This is “It will be completed when the NYSE opens up again on Monday“ on methamphetamine.
Waiting for the entrance to the underground to open I suspect.
amazing
Not for me anymore, we're behind Chelsea, which means if we have the 4th best squad we have little room for error to not miss out on CL. However, your point is valid that if the club believe he won't materially affect our position this season then what's the point. The problem with that thinking is that its a process. Sancho this summer, DM and CB next summer and suddenly everything has changed. I also don't disagree with your last point that prices are likely to go down not up as I think this season is looking more and more likely to be fan-less, but the problem is that I think the window for United to get Sancho is short lived. We've had a free run at him this year, I don't think we'll get that again.
I don't think that'll be the case. We're one of the more financially insulated clubs around and I'm sure, if the situation was fine, we'd have been willing to pay the £108m required from Dortmund right now, which is something the other clubs wouldn't have ever countenanced.
