Word in Croatian press is that Chelsea is interested a lot but he decided to stay at RB one more year.
Joško Gvardiol | extends his contract
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Everyone seems to rate him very highly. Surprised we've not had any credible interest. Maybe we decided on Timber instead.
Oh yes, yes, yes aaaand yes please.
Or we asked and he said no
With there being reports of Timber wanting to stay another year at Ajax it makes sense why we’re being linked with Gvardiol now, to be honest I’d rather have Gvardiol than Timber from what I’ve seen of both as I think Timber will end up as a defensive midfielder like how Declan Rice did.
He looks immense. Would love if we could pick up a couple of RB Leipzig, and a couple from Ajax this season.
I like him and he has big potential. But the report in question also mentions Chelsea and Spurs also being interested in the player.
Ideally it would be best if he stays at Leipzig for one more season imo.
He is miles better than Timber.
Everyone is ravig about him in this thread and you imagine there would be more hype surrounding him due to that but that isn't really the case .
Barely any rumors regarding him.
Barely any rumors regarding him.
its a no brainer. which means we wont sign him 
Amazing on FM, which about sums up my knowledge of him. But then we'd have been better off going with FM signings than whatever we've been doing this past decade, in fairness.
https://www.skysports.com/ipad/liveArticle/12476234?postid=3997864#liveblog-body
Spurs are in talks to sign Bastoni who’s also a left sided centre back so I’d imagine that’d rule them out of signing Gvardiol, Chelsea definitely need centre backs but haven’t they made it pretty much known that Kounde is their main centre back target ? If Timber is staying at Ajax for another year then makes sense for us to go all in for Gvardiol.
Both United and Spurs are interested in Gvardiol and Bastoni according to reports. So I guess one or the other may end up at United.
I haven't seen much of Bastoni, but there's a lot of hype surrounding him as well. So either player would potentially be a exciting pick up. But Gvardiol will require some patience at first due to how young he is.
I was very surprised Inter would allow Bastoni to leave as he was meant to be the crown jewel of Inter but I guess they need the money, of the two of much rather Gvardiol who I think is already as good if not better than Bastoni and has a much higher ceiling plus I think he’d adapt to English football much better too.
It seems like Inter might be forced to sell if the below information is correct.
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From what I have seen he is higely talented but still seems a bit raw which is understandable as he is only 20. Think he coul dbecome a huge player. Isnt a good left back though and we are only really seeing him in a back three, a lot to pay on undoubted potential.
I do think he is getting a bit too much hype too soon though. I think there are other centre backs who are further on with more experience, Romero being one and he went for £50m, so I think talk of fees above that are a bit crazy. He could become the best of the lot though but too early to tell, keep reading "if one player is guaranteed to become world class" type comments.
Does make it all the mor epainful we paid £80m for Maguire though and there are the likes of Romero, Gvardiol, Fofana who have broken through in the last couple of seasons who are all far better centre backs than him. I dont think Maguire is a bad centre back, is certainly far better than what we saw last season....but there are a good 7/8 centre backs who would all probably cost little more than we could still sell him for still now I believe, was a under whelming and overpriced signing at the time,,,,now it looks utterly ludicrous
I do think he is getting a bit too much hype too soon though. I think there are other centre backs who are further on with more experience, Romero being one and he went for £50m, so I think talk of fees above that are a bit crazy. He could become the best of the lot though but too early to tell, keep reading "if one player is guaranteed to become world class" type comments.
Does make it all the mor epainful we paid £80m for Maguire though and there are the likes of Romero, Gvardiol, Fofana who have broken through in the last couple of seasons who are all far better centre backs than him. I dont think Maguire is a bad centre back, is certainly far better than what we saw last season....but there are a good 7/8 centre backs who would all probably cost little more than we could still sell him for still now I believe, was a under whelming and overpriced signing at the time,,,,now it looks utterly ludicrous
The CIES Football Observatory claim Joško Gvardiol is the second most valuable defender in world football behind Ruben Dias, at a staggering 99.8€M.
https://www.unitedinfocus.com/transfer-talk/manchester-united-linked-with-a-move-for-josko-gvardiol/
https://www.unitedinfocus.com/transfer-talk/manchester-united-linked-with-a-move-for-josko-gvardiol/
That’s some fee, is that just under £80 million ? From what I’ve seen of him though he could very well be the best centre back around in 3-4 years and young enough to be at the very top for a decade.
Chelsea planning ahead well with this. Him, Fofana and Koulibaly could be brilliant after Silva.
And not even getting him in right away.
Noooooooooooo, come to United Joškooooooo...
90m for Josko, 80m for Fofana, 60m for Cucurella, 50m for Chilwell. Thats one expensive defense and thats not even including the 35m for Koulibaly.
I honestly don't think he's that good from what I saw last season, scored an own goal of a miskick this season as well. Scouts from all big clubs seem to rate him very highly though.
Sounds ridiculous to spend that money when you have Reece James.
Maybe we could put in a cheeky bid for James?
Mark my words, he's going to be the best CB in the EPL in a few years, if he moves to Chelsea. He's the new Vidic we can't afford to miss, but with Martinez I don't think we'll be in for him. Too bad as I really haven't seen a CB this good at his age as far as I can remember. He is worth the hype around him.
I don’t see why one would affect the other?
Gvardiol is a LCB/LB
Thought he was a RB
Primary position in FM is LB and he is the highest rated youngster in it. Don't really know the real player though.
Gvardiol sounds like pokemon name not gonna lie
A lot of money but that's the way the market is nowadays.
He'll be the best CB in the world in 2 years. Fantastic player.
Price is steep but he's a huge talent.
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Potential to be a world class CB as he’s shown all the key elements of a modern CB at a very young age.
We heard it before he leftOf course.
Before he left and we hear that now.
Did we?
Yes
I dont recall.
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