Stop this, it's not fun not viewing the forum as a monolithic whole. Yes, no.
Memphis Depay 2.0 as no. 9
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Think we will sign him in Jan, and think its an acceptable option for depth.
I wouldn't mind him at all one bit.
Barcelona are mad to get rid, we'd get him for a net of footballs and a set of jerseys. He'll be hungry too. Its a no brainer to me.
100%.
His hold up play is great.
His hold up play is great.
I would love him to join United, get number 7 and do Siu celebration everytime he scores a goal and pretend he's Ronaldo, remake every Ronaldo chant into his chant. Then one day he releases a new rap album and its Piers Morgan that interviews and promotes his album.
Loan for the rest of the season would be a great deal.
Wait, people are bumping this thread and giving opionons based on one world cup game?
To be fair most threads are bumped from frivolous reasons like these
Pass. Surprised people want him so bad.
I can understand with young players, people pretend they've seen them but change their opinion based on actually finally watching them. With Depay, he is 28, I am pretty sure everyone here knows what kind of player he is already, even if he is player of the tournament we know what kind of player we would get.
Yeah I don't want him for what its worth. He doesn't improve our squad in my opinion. Garnacho Rashford martial and Antony are better for me. Gakpo I'd take over Depay because I think he's already offering more and he's got a higher ceiling / sell on potential and all that.
Yeah provided we still get number 9 in summer
Are thread bumps to be reserved when players win a Ballon D'or or something? It's been discussed for a long time and he just had a great game in a high pressure world cup game!
His hold up play has got better, it's true. But he's just not a No.9, and that's what we need
He's wank, next.
Soon to be the top scorer of all time for Holland, whilst having strikers such as Van Persie, Van Nistelrooy, Van Basten, Kluivert etc, he is clearly not 'wank'.
He is not the level of striker to be starting every week, to take the club back to the top, but there are worse options for depth, especially for peanuts.
His goals have come in a pretty unsuccessful period in Holland's history though. I wouldn't like him back.
Do not want, he is shite. There are better stop gap options such as Giroud.
He wouldn't be a bad option off the bench if he's cheap honestly. Not sure he wants to be a bench player though and he's too inconsistent to start for United.
Can't see why on Earth we'd think this was a good idea.
Does seem a little on the utterly baffling side.
Why is this even being bumped? Appears to be zero links to United
No thanks! Good player, but not what we need.
I don't think Milan will give us Giroud for a couple million. Barca would probably take that for getting Memphis' wages off the books this last 6 months.
What is the point of getting a player because he's cheap and available if he doesn't suit our long term requirement? It'll be repeat of DVB storyline.
I don't think we're going to get our long term #9 in January, unless Ten Hag is confident that overpaying 15-20M for a guy like Gouiri or Ramos is worth it.
So 6 months of Memphis seems fine to me. He's doing well as a lone striker for a Dutch team and manager and his scoring record since he left us is as good as a guy like Giroud's.
Not sure there's a realistic better case scenario than us signing Memphis for 6 months and then buying an expensive #9 in the summer, and I'd say there's even a 25% or so chance that Memphis is a great fit here and we can sign him on a free for 2 years and just spend huge at #8, CB, GK and RB in the summer with the money saved, and we really have no idea if Martial will stay healthy so we might actually need two #9s.
Ship sailed
Had to look this up as I couldn't believe, and he is indeed only 7 of RVN. Scary, shows how weak international football truly is. To think he's managed that while the Netherlands have gone through a truly average period shows you the standard of the teams you face during qualifiers etc.
The Nations League means that there are far more international games than in the past. Previously top players would try to avoid meaningless friendlies, but I think we can expect to see more international scoring records being broken.
That's exactly where I am. I've said before, but we must understand that a January striker is not going to be our main striker purchase which will be presumably in the summer.
So January options must be (a) cheap/loan so it doesn't cut into our summer budget too much, (b) available, and (c) a decent/good number 9 option (we're unlikely to get an excellent player due to (a) above).
Depay hits all three. It does NOT mean that he's our dream striker, it's just a practical solution to a short-term problem.
Incidentally, Gakpo fails on (a) and possibly even (c) depending on how confident you are he can quickly transition to number 9 in a new and higher quality league.
Are we reaching that desperation point where we want Depay back?
Look where Depay is. Pretty impressive.
Mbappe is a freak.
How do these stats indicate Mbappe is a freak? His numbers are high because they get the ball to him often and because defenders stay close to him. He's obviously a great player, I just don't understand why these numbers are particularly revealing of anything.
Look where Depay is. Pretty impressive.
Mbappe is a freak.
Dont know about the others - but I base it on the fact that he will be very cheap, he is only 28 years old - and the fact the he has scored almost 80 league goals in his last 170 matches for clubs in France and Spain.
If he costs £50 million - I would not want him - but he will be available for maybe half or a third of that - or even better on a loan. No brainer for me in the situation we are in.
If the board releases funds to get a top-top striker - I would not want Memphis, but that is rather unlikely
I think it's probably illustrating more that he's quite comfortable at receiving the ball very frequently under high pressure. That's not an easy trait to have, and it's shown by the fact he's pretty much alone in that quadrant of the graph.
Is there a top NT whose all-time top scorer isn't someone playing for them these last few years?
Off the top of my head, it's only Spain still having Raúl there
That depends entirely on how much funds ETH will be given in january.