Litch
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Only if the RR Fred is the real one….fecking hell!
Made me snort my tea! Thank you.
Only if the RR Fred is the real one….fecking hell!
Made me snort my tea! Thank you.
With Pogba, Cavani, Matic, Lingard and Ronaldo off the books you have room for a ton of wages I guess.Buying kante means no change in transfer policy. Old players on big wages. Next is who? dybala I guess. Won't be surprised if the board wants big names to attract sponsors while telling everyone that ETH wanted them.
Reality is a funny old thingfecking hell!
Made me snort my tea! Thank you.
Would rather take FDJ, Kamara and Erikssen.How about Kamara on a free transfer + FDJ + Kante?
I usually drink mine, but each to their own.fecking hell!
Made me snort my tea! Thank you.
I remember last year people were saying our squad is too youngIndeed, our squad is far too old already.
I'd say Kantes defensive ability is much more consistent based in watching them both.I don't think they are. I'm struggling think of another current player closer in playstyle to Kante than Fred - and the stats pretty much back that up.
Kante carries the ball a bit more and is better at it, but that's about the only difference in style. You can say Kante's currently better, and Kante was certainly far better before this season, but I don't think they're different types of player at all.
The stats show this too (that Fred's gets dribbled past way more easily than Kante).I'd say Kantes defensive ability is much more consistent based in watching them both.
Fred gets bypassed a lot
If he were free and were adding some extra quality on an already quality team. I see it also in the Koulibaly thread, a lot of people in this forum don't admit to the fact they love it when the club hands out big contracts to players on the decline. Take Pogba, Cavani and Matic off the big wages and add Ngolo /Koulibaly. I wanted both few years ago but not today.Anyone happy about the idea of us spending money on a 31 year old in decline, who’s been injured on and off for half the season, is clearly incapable of learning anything from the last decade.
The only way this would be a deal that makes sense is if he were free.
Ronaldo isn't leaving though, is he?With Pogba, Cavani, Matic, Lingard and Ronaldo off the books you have room for a ton of wages I guess.
I thought he was.Ronaldo isn't leaving though, is he?
If he don’t want to play for Utd he can feck off, Europa league or not.I thought he was.
If he's staying to play in the Europa for the first time in his career then fair play to him.
I agree with this. Kante on a decent fee will be a good signing. We do not have 300m to spend on players and need 5-6 quality players. The math is simple.The Matic comparison is understandable, but falls flat when you highlight some important differences:
- Kante deserved a ballon d'or last season, Matic was nowhere near as good before we signed him.
- Matic got old really fast. It happens, but in no way is such a sharp decline at 30 the norm.
- Matic was pretty good for a while when we got him. He hasn't been a bad signing by any means, and this French bloke is even better.
- We're actually in the position that we could use some short term fixes to save money. That wasn't the case when we signed Matic imo.
If Chelsea demand £30-40m for him, and Kante expects a 3 year contract that matches his current £280k wages (wage cost of £45m)...We’re not going to be able to sign every player we want this summer, a low risk, low value signing like Kante would be shrewd. Whilst he is not a muppet signing, he’d improve us a lot in the middle of the park.
What?Kante deserved a ballon d'or last season, Matic was nowhere near as good before we signed him.
Which claim do you find laughable? That Kante was the best player in the world in the 20/21 season or that Matic was not the best player in the world in the 15/16 season?What?