Ten Hag joined Ajax a year after De Ligt made his debut and had appeared just 11 times in the league.
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The sheer stupidity of articles in modern times.
They wouldn't be at all, they have previous for this. They sold off De Bruyne, Salah, Lukaku(and bought Morata) etc.
I'm not sure where I mentioned that I wanted to stop supporting United? I have enough perspective in my life to not let that negatively affect my overall happiness. I questioned why some of these doom mongers carry on if it obviously causes them so much anguish.
So we can say we get the best Chelsea player currently.
De Ligt played 23 games including a European final for Ajax in 16/17. He started every single game from the knock out stages onwards in Europa League run. He started 6 of the last 10 league games of that season.
He wasn’t well established. Nobody is well established with 11 league appearances to their name.
None of them are academy players who up until recently didn't see their career outside of Chelsea. That's the point made by the article, it would be like United having to sell Rashford. The term "embarrassed" is probably an overstatement but it is clearly not a good look, an example of that would be Bayern with Kroos or Nkunku/Coman for PSG.
Because it's not 11 appearances?
Should be, he's up there with the best in the league in terms of set piece delivery. Comfortably better than anyone in your team I'd say.
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The bit you're missing that he played the entire first half of the season before ETH joined in 17/18. I'm guessing you just didn't know that ETH only became the Ajax manager in January 2018 which is why you keep ignoring that bit.
And Manutd did the same: they started with £45m and ended up paying the max we were willing to go to, which is £55m.
Nice to hear.
I think you’re probably better at corners than anyone at United at the moment n
Don't jinx him. Mata was amazing at set pieces before he turned up here too
It’s not comparable.
Sounds cool. Interesting how much of an upgrade he will be on Eriksen, seems to have more energy and tenacity but will still probably lose some of his attacking threat when deployed a bit deeper (I think people believe putting #10 in midfield means he will still put good numbers, just from a different position). I wouldn't judge midfielders based on G+A so I'm not that excited about Mount numbers, but at least it's a tool to have if Bruno needs to play RW/ be rested.
Because he's a player valued at circa £80m!
It's not like he's a childhood fan or something let's be real. He wants to come here because he took a look at the likes of Sancho and knew we would pay him more than anyone else plain and simple. Which is fair enough and understandable. Now let's hope we were all wrong to lament his every start for England as basically everyone on here did before we got linked to him and he actually somehow turns out to be good.
It's too much of an overstatement. I don't see Bayern or PSG crying about Nkunku or Kroos either. Chelsea has history of signing young talents, farming them out to loans and still spending loads of money on new players. They aren't known for promoting their youth like us at all. They should be embarrassed for losing Salah and De Bruyne because of the levels they have reached but Chelsea seem to get on which they will do for Mount as well.
Bayern and Kroos didn't go down well at all, especially with what he went on to achieve.
Bayern definitely cried over Kroos leaving, it was hilarious.
Ofcourse Chelsea would value him at that, but I would struggle to think of any club willing to sign him for such a price.
Not with 1 year left on the contract he isn't
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What does that even mean? Why do people care about resale value? Shall we cash in on him in two seasons or something?
People have PTSD when it comes to those lot, they seem to think every player they buy is a sure thing. I still remember the commotion around Minamino when he joined them, even the press jumped in to give us shit because we couldn't identify world class talent at £7.5m but they could apparently.
Sshhh don't tell them, otherwise they won't give us Reece James in January.
Player valued by Chelsea at 80m. It's not like there's a bidding war out there. Chelsea also valued Fofana and Mydrik around that figure that doesn't mean that its general consensuses he's worth that much. On top of that in 5 months time he could discuss personal terms to go for free after this season.
It looks like him + possibly Onana will get a full pre season. Hopefully we can get a striker for a big part of the pre-season too.
