I always believed that Ole wanted to sign players, but he needed to get rid of the players first. Plus our wage structure was out of order and letting players leave first meant we're steadying the squad.
Like I said.....I'd sooner that £30m goes towards a Bruno Fernandes type player who is ready now and we invest time into Garner n Mejbri who are both terrific young players anyway. Our first team squad is light years behind. Our academy thankfully isn't.
Him and his parents were smart. Apart from the ego boost being at an academy of a 'top club', it's literally impossible to break into the first team. Much better off actually playing for a lesser club then working their way up than just being part of a stockpiled group.
yeah - they can develop together like gomez and chong then bugger off in a few seasons when they dont get games...
You mean like Alexander-Arnold, Rice, Ramsdale, Rashford, McTominay and others are doing?
United have £140m in cash in the last accounts that were released, it was over £300m just 3 months earlier. United had to pay everything upfront for Maguire which is unusual.
Dont think anyone is saying that?
This. I have no idea why top young players go to the bigger academies anymore.
Yeah that's nonsense. He's good but he'll not anywhere near our best player. Ridiculous overrating.
So what is everyone moaning about then?!
I think the gist is everyone moaning wants us to use the money plus another hundred million to bid for mbappe or sancho or someone else who wont want to join us. Theres also seems to be a second group who want a ‘first team player’ who dont seem to realise that you can be in a first team squad before the age of 24
It's all kind of irrelevant, as if people are circling him now, we have to move now. People moan all the bloody time about how we don't snap up talents before they go to Dortmund, or Leicester and have to pay through the nose to get them - but as soon as we do that, all of a sudden we're all bothered about the budget.
I already expressed what I meant by that in a later post.
And since we have no clue about the price - it's a rather silly discussion to be having. If the fee was £30 mill up front - that is one thing, but if the fee is £10 mill up front and £20 m based on clauses - now suddenly it wouldn't be so badStrange that the people defending the club from claims of being cheap in the Bruno thread are suddenly defending the club from an apparent ridiculous fee in here
Don't people get bored running from thread to thread defending the club at every turn.
yeah but if we sign him now i dont get the chance to come on caf and moan in two years time that we didn't sign him and now have to overpay and call woodward and the glazers a few names
This is really short sighted.
yeah. Beside, We have loads of pacey, attacking midfield players who score and create chances and can dribble and mainly play the ball forward. Loads of them.
Whats that got to do with securing a future top class talent
Let's make him understudy our creative genius JLingz
Haha exactly.. if we fused together the best parts of Mata, Lingard and Pereira together we might have something that closely resembles that pacey, attacking midfielder who scores, creates, dribbles and plays the ball forward.
other way round surely? Pretty sure jude has at least one goal or assist in the last 14 months??Let's make him understudy our creative genius JLingz
i was being sarcastic. I dont see him as future, I think he could go straight into the first team squad. We dont have a player that does what he does. (Well, not one that wants to play for us anymore).
I don't think Lingard has any 'best part'. His movement is overrated and he offers nothing else. At least Pereira offers work rate. This fusion will be mainly 90% Mata and 10% Pereira.
You will probably be banging on about ‘poor planning’ or the typical buzzwords in some other thread.
Thats pretty much what an 18 year old Wayne Rooney cost us in 2004.
This thread you mean? I agree
Strange that the people defending the club from claims of being cheap in the Bruno thread are suddenly defending the club from an apparent ridiculous fee in here
Don't people get bored running from thread to thread defending the club at every turn.
He's better than Pogba was at 16. But nothing is certain
That's exactly what we did with Mejbri. We didn't give them the whole fee up front, it's all tied to incentives which I'm sure the £30m for Jude includes a lot of as well.
Which would put Rooney at around £100m in today's market. Not really comparable.
inflation doesn't increase by 1.5x in 3y that's not accurate at all.
