Liam Delap | Official: signed for Chelsea

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VP89 said:
Didn't Grana reject Napoli in the winter though?
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There was an issue regarding his salary demands but these things might change in the Summer especially if they become Serie A winners
 
VP89 said:
I think it was Napoli's own people that said it.
Napoli's sporting director Giovanni Manna said they couldn't meet his salary demands

https://talksport.com/football/2883...-utd-transfer-chelsea/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
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I wouldn't worry too much of it. First of all because few months in football is an eternity. His agent might persuade him to make the move, Napoli might win the Serie A title which would give them more leeway in terms of finances etc. Secondly Osimhen is their version of our Sancho. They want him out and he is determined to keep his salary. There's not many clubs he can move that can guarantee him that monstrous salary and Napoli knows that . Finally I think Garnacho will attract alot of suitors. He's young, he can play on both flanks, his salary isn't huge and he's very experienced for his age. If Napoli doesn't buy him then someone else will and I can see us dictate the Osimhen deal on our terms as long as we pay the player the salary he has at Napoli.
 
devilish said:
I wouldn't worry too much of it. First of all because few months in football is an eternity. His agent might persuade him to make the move, Napoli might win the Serie A title which would give them more leeway in terms of finances etc. Secondly Osimhen is their version of our Sancho. They want him out and he is determined to keep his salary. There's not many clubs he can move that can guarantee him that monstrous salary and Napoli knows that . Finally I think Garnacho will attract alot of suitors. He's young, he can play on both flanks, his salary isn't huge and he's very experienced for his age. If Napoli doesn't buy him then someone else will and I can see us dictate the Osimhen deal on our terms as long as we pay the player the salary he has at Napoli.
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There is zero chance we take him on at the current salary (Osimhen). If he were a consideration, he'd need to drop his wage demands.
 
VP89 said:
There is zero chance we take him on at the current salary (Osimhen). If he were a consideration, he'd need to drop his wage demands.
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Whats his current salary?
 
VP89 said:
There is zero chance we take him on at the current salary (Osimhen). If he were a consideration, he'd need to drop his wage demands.
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His salary is around the 200k-250k mark. Eriksen is leaving (150k a week) If we get rid of Sancho, rashford and co then we can easily pay it
 
Cassidy said:
Whats his current salary?
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devilish said:
His salary is around the 200k mark. Eriksen is leaving (150k a week) If we get rid of Sancho, rashford and co then we can easily pay it
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According to capology he is on 10m eur a year so yeah that's about 200k a week.

I dont know why I thought it was higher than that in my head!
 
VP89 said:
According to capology he is on 10m eur a year so yeah that's about 200k a week.

I dont know why I thought it was higher than that in my head!
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It's between 200k and 250k. I am all in favour in lowering united salary bill. However we can't be in a situation were no one is paid past the 200k mark either. Even Ineos acknowledge that hence they increased Bruno's salary to 300k
 
Hammondo said:
Just because we can doesn't mean we should.
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United's issue was that we gave silly salaries to almost everyone. That was wrong. However we can and we should be able to match Napoli's highest earner if he's a great player in a position that we need to fill. We are talking of Napoli here not Real Madrid
 
devilish said:
United's issue was that we gave silly salaries to almost everyone. That was wrong. However we can and we should be able to match Napoli's highest earner if he's a great player in a position that we need to fill. We are talking of Napoli here not Real Madrid
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Yes but it would be real Madrid level wages.
 
VP89 said:
According to capology he is on 10m eur a year so yeah that's about 200k a week.

I dont know why I thought it was higher than that in my head!
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Fair enough. I think he is a gettable player if we want to do the deal
 
Roboc7 said:
I think he would be well worth spending 30m on, improves the starting eleven and if doesn’t work out would be easy to move on.

We’re not getting Osimhen or Gyokeres and there’s no point bringing in someone as average as David. We are shopping in the younger, unproven market but even those players will cost £60m odd so half that on Delap is a decent deal, but even he may have better offers.
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Yeah I think many on here believe we actually have a chance of signing either of those
 
SonOfFergie said:
Exactly. For 30 mil it is a no brainer. Also not a lot of good strikers available at the moment. Send Hojlund on loan and add another veteran striker and we will be in better shape striker wise for next season.
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There has been zero talk of signing experienced striker so wouldn't get hopes up on that
 
Would love to think he was smokescreen for Osimhen, however not when Ornstein says he hears he's most likely to be Saudi bound
 
You'd have to have a screw loose to go to Chelsea. They stockpile players like missiles.

Hope he picks Utd. Good deal at £30mil.

 
Nothing I've seen from him convinces me TBH. That said, we don't have that type of cash to spray on breakout players especially in the striker position. Nor do we have the time to waste blooding them in or gambling whatsoever.

We need quality player who will kick the ground running not prospects with no tangible achievements.
 
Ddannidom said:
Nothing I've seen from him convinces me TBH. That said, we don't have that type of cash to spray on breakout players especially in the striker position. Nor do we have the time to waste blooding them in or gambling whatsoever.

We need quality player who will kick the ground running not prospects with no tangible achievements.
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But then you're not going to get an absolutely risk free cf for 30 million are you?
 
In reality, you only buy him if we sell Hojlund. But it is alongside either Osimhen or Gyokeres
 
JBG said:
Which probably won't happen, considering our rumoured transfer budget.
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Why would we want rumours of a large budget?

The savviest/wealthiest people I know profess to be skint all the time.
 
Wrecking ralf said:
In reality, you only buy him if we sell Hojlund. But it is alongside either Osimhen or Gyokeres
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He wouldn't sign unless he knew he would be the main striker. We won't be buying 2 strikers this summer. There's too many other areas that need fixing.
 
FortunaUtd said:
Noone will pay anywhere close to that for Garnacho. And neither should we sell him. We should sell Hojlund.
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But Garnacho is all profit which adds to the budget. Selling Rasmus when we still owe around 40M of his original fee won't do anything for us unless we sell for more than that and who is realistically going to pay a big fee for him off the back of this current season?
 
Gandalf said:
But Garnacho is all profit which adds to the budget. Selling Rasmus when we still owe around 40M of his original fee won't do anything for us unless we sell for more than that and who is realistically going to pay a big fee for him off the back of this current season?
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I don't care. Whatever this forum's newest obsession with "book value", it is bad business to sell off promising homegrown talent while keeping expensive flops around. FFP isn't a problem for us, our boards stinginess and austerity approach is.
 
FortunaUtd said:
I don't care. Whatever this forum's newest obsession with "book value", it is bad business to sell off promising homegrown talent while keeping expensive flops around. FFP isn't a problem for us, our boards stinginess and austerity approach is.
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This was in relation to a discussion about increasing the budget through sales, whether you care or not is frankly irrelevant, selling a player at a loss will decrease our budget under PSR not increase it. It is not an obsession with book value rather an understanding of the reality that we cannot spend what we do not have unless we want to be docked points like Everton.
 
FortunaUtd said:
I don't care. Whatever this forum's newest obsession with "book value", it is bad business to sell off promising homegrown talent while keeping expensive flops around. FFP isn't a problem for us, our boards stinginess and austerity approach is.
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I would sell him for £50m + he is overrated and never going to be someone to lead us back to the top, he has played 138 times for the first team and hasn't developed at all, he has been in the team since Ten Hags first season, where he played for 19 PL games.

He cannot beat a man in the dribble, he shoots from every opportunity instead of passing to team mates in better positions, it wasn't like he was scoring those as he went 50 shots without scoring, how many counter attacks have we had where he has been dribbling and not looked at what's around him and played a sh1t pass that killed the attack or just ran into there defender.

I completely agree on not selling promising academy talent, but don't put Garnacho in that Category, he is a small PL counter attacking player at best, he may prove me wrong but while his value is at it's highest lets cash in.
 
FortunaUtd said:
I don't care. Whatever this forum's newest obsession with "book value", it is bad business to sell off promising homegrown talent while keeping expensive flops around. FFP isn't a problem for us, our boards stinginess and austerity approach is.
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Not sure I've read a worse take.

Book value is important when considering PSR. It's a new obsession because it will dictate what we can do in the market and to say anything else is displaying a serious lack of understanding.
 
Think I’d take him for slightly over if we can spread the payments, a bit like we did with Zirkzee.

Potentially him and Cherki for 50 million combined, sell Garnacho for 30-40 and send Hojlund on loan.
 
dinostar77 said:
He wouldn't sign unless he knew he would be the main striker. We won't be buying 2 strikers this summer. There's too many other areas that need fixing.
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Only way we get two is if it's David on a free
 
I’d buy him at £30m. Lots of potential and still young. I’d sell Hojlund and it’s one in one out. i think Hojlund will eventually be a good striker but it’s not worked for him here. Think of his first game, aggressive, bullying Gabriel…..shadow of that now
 
Adamsk7 said:
I’d buy him at £30m. Lots of potential and still young. I’d sell Hojlund and it’s one in one out. i think Hojlund will eventually be a good striker but it’s not worked for him here. Think of his first game, aggressive, bullying Gabriel…..shadow of that now
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Just swapping Hojlund for Delap would be very risky imo, and probably not a risk Berada and Amorim would be willing to tolerate given that not seeing a massive improvement in league position next year could mean the end of Ruben's time at United. Delap and Cunha on the other hand would be much less risky. As could Schick and Cunha or any other combination involving an inexpensive striker who has demonstrated he can score at least 15-25 goals before.
 
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