Delap and another, not Delap and Hojlund.
Liam Delap | £30m release clause?
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Nik (@Rood) and Imran (@Annihilate Now!) discuss United's fantastic win away against Athletic Club in the semi-final of the Europa League.
They also pick out the positives of United's 4-3 loss away at Brentford, and Nik reviews a day out at Old Trafford watching Manchester United Women qualify for the Champions League.
Crazy wages will be looked for. Not a chance
Unfortunately we don’t have the funds for 2 strikers
Yeah sadly spot on
Then sell Hojlund and sign David on a free
Pretty certain David will go to Napoli, mind you I thought Wirtz would go to Bayern so who knows
Simply because he is better than any striker that we or Chelsea have at the moment.
That is all Shearer said,
What is so hard to understand about what Shearer said?
Reckon they will view Cunha for that role and he will play some games up top.
Based on the media reporting, it sounds like this is almost done. I have no objection or reservation with Delap particularly at this price.
Ideally though, I wanted a Gyokeres just given the pressure and importance of this position for us at the moment.
Ideally though, I wanted a Gyokeres just given the pressure and importance of this position for us at the moment.
David isn't really good enough though, is he? Maybe for the level we are now, but I genuinely don't see him as all that special. Better than what we have? Yeah, but the bar is lower than it ever has been or should be again. I suppose on a free we could do worse.
Gyokeres is still a bit of a gamble and will come with a much bigger price tag. He's had one decent season in England in the Championship and 2 abnormally high goal scoring seasons in Portugal.
For comparison, Victor has scored 26 goals from open play in the league this season. The year before he went to Liverpool, Nunez scored 22 in Portugal.
There is no evidence he is better than what we or Chelsea have. If you remove his penalties he has a similar first season to Hojlund's first season, with a big difference is that Hojlund was playing under the huge pressure of a big club. Neither him nor Hojlund should start for us next season.
Well who is going to start then given our financial restraints??
Please do not proceed to state how much money we will recoup with the sales of Rashford and Antony and getting the wages of Casemiro off the books as odds are that is not going to happen.
I see he is 8/11 to join us now.
That is the shortest price on him I have seen.
That is the shortest price on him I have seen.
I think win or lose the final - him and Cunha are coming.
If we can move Rashford, Antony and Sancho on for a similar (ish) amount that it costs to bring those two in - then that is a very good start to the window.
If we can move Rashford, Antony and Sancho on for a similar (ish) amount that it costs to bring those two in - then that is a very good start to the window.
Really keen on this signing, I've seen him play really well quite a few times this season for a pretty poor Ipswich team. If he can get us 10 league goals in his first season with the other forwards chipping on 10 or so each I think we will be on the right track. Need to take small steps and I think he will improve us.
We will be lucky to get half imo. No one is buying Sancho if Chelsea aren't, not sure anyone is serious about Antony and are certainly after a cut price deal if they are and rashford is a big question mark. The only thing I have seen is him wanting a Barcelona loan which is like me saying I want a one night stand with Sydney Sweeney.
Playing for Ipswich does not equal being good enough for Manchester United. Not sure why the links to United have proped up. Not convinced about his technical ability and United should steer clear.
What's our Plan B out of interest?
Roy Keane ring a bell?? Just because you are in a poor team doesn't mean you are a poor player. There are so many other examples out there as well, how else are players supposed to be noticed and go up the leagues if they don't play for smaller clubs?
I'm excited by this, even if there are obvious question marks over him, so it would make sense if we miss out and he went to Chelsea 
Probably to promote Joe Hugill and pray Hojlund and Zirkzee work out, unfortunately that’s&a the level of faith I have in our board and recruitment team to a genuine Plan B.
What’s Ighalo up to these days?
I'm excited by this, even if there are obvious question marks over him, so it would make sense if we miss out and he went to Chelsea
I'd be gutted if he chose Chelsea over us.
I'm baffled by the amount of people that think he's not good enough for us, yet don't seem to realise that we can't afford the sorts of players they want us to go for!
Agreed, I think people are really underestimating how important a season in the championship and then premiership is in a player's development in England. It makes a massive difference to getting into the physicality if the game in this country and understanding what it takes to succeed here.
Would love to know clubs reasoning for not buying a cheap more experienced striker for him to learn from
its gonna be eden hazard siutation where he decided for chelsea over Utd when chelsea win the CL that season.
jornalists being briefed by the club or people in around the club or delap. Its been stated by a number of outlets that he is our no1 target fof CF this summer. Jason Wilcox, Amorim and whoever else is involved in our summer transfer targets obviously think hes good enough.
Who are these cheap, experienced strikers we should be looking at?
That's what Wilcox and Vivell should know instead of putting all the eggs in this basket which is stupid
Find this thread so surreal. You'd think this were a young Rooney or Benzema from some of the posts.
Also the "race" to sign him. Like it were a superstar Hazard choosing his big club destination.
Will be an interesting thread to look back on in a year or two. Perhaps this is the next great striker.
Manchester United being in the predicament where there's a chance we have to find out potentially the hard way makes me sad.
Also the "race" to sign him. Like it were a superstar Hazard choosing his big club destination.
Will be an interesting thread to look back on in a year or two. Perhaps this is the next great striker.
Manchester United being in the predicament where there's a chance we have to find out potentially the hard way makes me sad.
‘I’m signing for the winners of the conference league’
Doesn’t have quite the same ring to it
No it doesnt. My point was Hazard was swayed by Chelsea winning CL, hopefully Delap will be swayed by us winning Europa League.Its mad, but its where we are as a club, the likes of osiheim / gyokores are just too expensive for the amount of surgery we need this summer.
What are you talking about, most people in this thread aren't bigging him up at all. More of a case we think it's unfair that someone so young should have to shoulder that much responsibility for goals. He is still very unproven at the top level and that's very concerning.
Which United side? Because this one was in a relegation battle.
Seeing those two going elsewhere is very gutting, however like you say that's where we are right now
Its mad, but its where we are as a club, the likes of osiheim / gyokores are just too expensive for the amount of surgery we need this summer.
Relegation battle..
Yeah and only drew with that Ipswich as well
I could take us signing Delap if it meant we also got a midfielder, right wing back, goalkeeper etc.
Its mad, but its where we are as a club, the likes of osiheim / gyokores are just too expensive for the amount of surgery we need this summer.
I’ll be pissed off if we spunk our entire budget on Cunha, Delap, then have to make sales to sign anyone else. A goalscorer should be the number one target.
Well if you believe Ornstein article then he said any other signings outside those two is dependent on sales