Nathaniel Brown to Bayern looks around £50-55m which is pretty high, but if Lewis Hall is £70m odd...why not throw out a bid for Balde at Barcelona. I like Hall but just personal opnion, Balde is way better, only Davies and Mendes are better in my opinion
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A Barcelona player born in the city isn’t going to leave to come to United, there’s zero chance of that happening.
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Hall isn’t going to push for a move, I’d say any deal is a none starter.
There was a very particular reason for that though, and once it was resolved he asked to go back there
Barca seem open to selling him this summer.
He has a lot of potential, but has also been very inconsistent and had injury issues across recent seasons.
If the club is prepared to sell there is. Also sure ive read if he had to play for any other club he named us a couple of years ago...the way they are attacking the transfer market they are surely going to sell players
We need more English players and he’s one of the most talented young ones so why not! The problem is would Newcastle sell? Probably not.
How do you know?
There’s zero evidence he’s actively asking for a move. Unless you know better. He’s at his boyhood club, that he actively sought a move to from Chelsea.
Like all the Newcastle links, seems highly unlikely. Not when we need to do major surgery to the midfield.
We aren’t just going to buy midfielders this summer.
It’s between he and Tonali as the next big money sale from Newcastle and Tonali is the most likely and most agitated for a move
Likely yes, but we won't have room to smash 60-70m on a full back. Especially not from Newcastle.
Where did you pluck that figure from?
I agree Hall looks like a really good candidate for long term Shaw successor..but I don't think we will be able to get him out of Newcastle for a price we can afford this summer.
I do hope we sign a top LB who is ready to go straight into the first 11, but I think it's more likely to be someone like Truffert or someone else in the 30-40m price range.
I do hope we sign a top LB who is ready to go straight into the first 11, but I think it's more likely to be someone like Truffert or someone else in the 30-40m price range.
Maybe next year when the Newcastle owners get even more disinterested.
He’s gonna be a hell of a lot more expensive next year than he is now.
It’s a now or spend £70m on a left back next season which is crazy
He’d be a perfect left back investment
£70m completely dwarfs the current world record for a full back. Hall is good but no way is he worth that kind of money. Lets move on.
Lucas Hernandez was €80m, so not exactly dwarved
Hakimi is the record at £60m. Hernandez comes under CB signings according to Google.
Liverpool paid 40mil for Kerkez!
Get fecking real!
Seriously!
Get fecking real!
Seriously!
CentreDevils is a sh!t X account. Just posts tons of tweets and adds a link to a media site to make it look “official” (and Railston isn’t a good link either).
It links us to a few players a day… and has today.
It links us to a few players a day… and has today.
£68mil was the record for lucas hernandez back in 2019. He played his football at atletico and france predominantly at left back. At bayern it was nearly a 50-50 spilt between left back and centre back.
Gvardiol for city cost £77mil and has played most of his games at left back.
So Lewis Hall at £70mil, wouldn't be a world record for a fullback.
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Balde’s current contract is also very low, something like 2m a yr. It makes for a much safer investment as we can move on if it fails or increase his salary to a elite level if he performs.
If Bayern go for Brown, maybe we could bid for Davies? Not seen him much recently but clearly class if he is fit.
Bolded bit is doing the heavy lifting here. Having both Shaw and Davies in the squad is just tempting Murphy's law
Have we not learnt our lesson after getting burned with Mount?
Thought a negative Stone update was overdue
Defensively he is still a risk. What is his injury record like?
I believe he can overcome the problems, however starting to look like we will be priced out for him
We are now being linked to Cucurella for 40-50m €. Is it genuine? Or to pressure Hall to push for a move?
Either way Cucurella is also class.
Either way Cucurella is also class.
That move makes sense to me as it’d give the kids we have at LB a chance to grow and become second choice behind him after Shaw goes.
He wants to go to Barcelona. I doubt there is any truth in it. He is also very, very good versatile player. He just needs to cut the Ashley Young antics.
A few Spanish outlets saying we are interested in curcurella
Fantastic player and would happily have him. Seems crazy he's only 27 as well.
If Cucurella is available at this sort of price range and is willing to come to Man Utd then we should absolutely go for him.
Are our young left backs so promising we should be basing squad building decisions around them?
I'd be quite happy to ignore them for now personally. Sign Hall and if Amass or Leon or whoever else I'm forgetting were to end up the level required then we decide what to do about that issue when it presents, rather than try to pre-empt it.