On 21 March 2022 he is presented as Director of Football by Royal Antwerp, causing the withdrawal of four sponsors of the club the same week.[5]
So we should've offered him £150k, he'd have told us to feck off and took the £200k from Chelsea and then we wouldn't need to think about moving him on. Clever!
Offer him the same wages (200k) and CL footy.
First of all, if we'd given him £200k/w people would've been moaning anyway because they think that we should've given him £120k or something.
Looking at Al Thani brother instagram post, maybe this was something proposed behind the scene, because is SJ bid wins, there will be no Pay ceilings and upper wage limit, their philosophy will be in 2/3 transfer windows 25-27 quality players all on an average of £200-250k per week that’s about £325m per week just for senior mens team, meaning our wage bill with coaches, youth, woman’s etc would be £425m so our revenue would have to grow to £750m per year with a few Qatar Airways sponsorships and a new stadium highly likely.
The things you’ve listed - moving house etc are the same with every transfer, it doesn’t mean you break your wage structure ffs.
Edu, like Klopp, identified Mount as well. Arsenal settled for Havertz and Liverpool Mac Allister, because Mount preferred us.
No offence but if you think the dippers snapped up Mac for 35m because Mount preferred Utd you’re delusional.
Ahh that's why Ten Hag wanted mount. It was his half a season in Holland as a teenager. Klopp probably only wanted him because he was doing an undercover boss role at Go Ahead Eagles at the time.
What did he ever do to solve the wage problem at United? They wanted to keep Ronnie until he threw a fit, seemingly wanted to keep DDG around, gave out monster contracts to basically all our starters (Varane, Casemiro, Martial, Rashford, you name it).
Very little to suggest that those guys made any real pursuit of Mason Mount. And Klopp ‘settled’ for Macallister months ago by all accounts, the pursuit was no secret.
Eh?
Yep. Apparently been chasing him ever since. Who knows to what degree Klopp wanted him, there was no real move so no point in such comparison.
Surely believing that Ten Hag wanted Mount based on a few months in Holland rather than the fact that he has gone on to be the player of the year twice for Chelsea, been one of the most important players winning them the Champions league and become an England international is very frail attempt at painting Ten Hag as someone who can't see past the Dutch league.
It’s not ‘frail’ at all, it is being unsurprised by well-informed journalists literally saying that Ten Hag was first drawn to Mount at Vitesse and tried to sign him for Ajax. Of course, he’s then targeted him at Manchester United.
Your "point" discounts everything that Mason Mount has done since he left Vitesse which makes him a sensible signing.
I'm sure he'd be thrilled to hear your brilliant insights in to his mind and you ideas as to how to best build his team. You'd be an invaluable resource.
You’re again making things up, and seemingly refusing to read what I wrote. I repeat - well respected journalists have literally said that Ten Hag became interested in Mount having seen him at Vitesse and also tried to sign him at Ajax. Those journalists were not Rozay from the caf. Rozay from the caf simply read those reports and expressed his views on them.
Shullup man.
Yeah, fecking idiots doing their job and signing a player!
I'm really not, you just aren't understanding what I'm saying.
They didn't because Mount made it clear he wants ManUtd move.
And I’ll say that he hasn’t proven himself enough of a top player to warrant this tunnel vision aggressive approach. If not for the fact that he’s clearly a favourite. On an open market, with a willingness to spend 60m on a CM (who isn’t even a fecking CM but I’ll save that point for a different argument one day) - there are surely better options than Mason Mount.
Mount is excellent and has all the attributes to play the 8 in a midfield 3. His defensive stats are brilliant and he is very good at carrying the ball and a very good passer.
Really don’t understand that. He looks a good player who could help the collective but why do we pay top player wages for players who haven’t earned the right ? It as if anyone the Glazers hire is hellbent on making the exact same mistakes.
You're a good poster mate and this doesn't suit you. You contribute towards the football discussion on the forum and I enjoy reading your posts. But I think you're allowing your frustration to cloud your judgement.
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If there job is just to sign players at any value then they have they easiest job in world football.
Because we are man utd and any player that comes has to be on a massive wage to show how big a club we are, regardless of their ability
Yeah, and in the meantime they became champions for the first time in 60 years, won the cup and play CL football. The guy made a mistake, was fired for it. Not saying I want him at Utd, far from it.
Can't argue with any of this. I suppose Haaland is shite too because he once took a flight that landed at Schiphol.
They're so bad at it I suspect something shady. It's incompetence or fraud.
Or some of us have always maintained the guy is genuinely clueless and severely out of his depth.
