He wont be joining us, he has other options though and we pulled out.
Paulo Dybala
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I don't blame the club if they walked away from having to be taken to the cleaners. However FFS don't end up in a situation were we are left with our duck in our hand hours away from the end of the transfer window. That's fecking silly
This is pretty much the crux of the issue.
I'm glad we aren't throwing money at another player who doesn't appear to want to come here.
Whilst much of that is true, Spurs have pretty much nothing over us. It's decades since they won anything and they have a manager who has won nothing. As good as he might look to be, until they actually lift some silverware it's all meaningless. On the other hand Dybala is 25, he grew up knowing us as the biggest club in the world. He has watched us win everything there is to win.
We are a risky destination for him and we have to pay him accordingly. There is no risk for him going to Spurs, he knows he will win nothing.
Despite everything, this was a player who was a must buy. One player can transform squad. Overpaying 30y old player is one thing but in Dybala you get huge upgrade in squad and you still have time to sell him if things go bad.
Martial, Rashford, Lingard and James front 4 this season. Not looking promising
Martial, Rashford, Lingard and James front 4 this season. Not looking promising
Big difference between the Tevez signing and Dybala is that Tevez came from West Ham and wanted to come and had a point to prove - Dybala doesn't want to come and is demanding stupid money. Their motivation will be completely different.
In this case, I think Woodie's done the right thing. We need to be signing players who want to come here, like AWB, Mag, James etc
you're forgetting Greenwood. Whilst can't be relied on to start, I reckon he'll get us c. 10 goals this year. Main pressure is on Rashford and Martial but I think they can do it, if they want to take on that pressure and not rely on Lukaku like perhaps they did last year.
Unfortunately, this kind of summarizes it all. Dybala would’ve made a huge impact.
Without that addition, the attack is theoretically unchanged and still unproven - no matter what new “take the hill”, pressing style or new found fitness may add.
Too many holes to fill, too little time left to address them - all the while fighting the uphill battle to sell the idea United is still a desirable destination this year with no CL.
You're banking on a 17-year old with no real Premier League experience to give you around 10 goals this season? I'll admit I haven't seen him play apart form the PSG game last season but I think it's telling that you even have to count on him at all (and not that good for the lad to be under such pressure at that age).
AWB, Mag, James. Is that the best we can do? Do they sound to you as the difference between placing 6th place and top 4?
Don’t get me wrong I’m thrilled with these signings. But why didn’t management identify the type of difference makers for the attack that would’ve wanted to come, the type of players to vault United back to the PL’s upper echelon?
In all honesty, the problem lies in the people that are trying to do this job are really not that good at doing their jobs.
Dont think he said 10 goals in league. So 10 goals in all competitions is not out of reach, especially when we will playing few poor teams in Europa league, league cups, FA cup.
I don't think we are relying on him as such but he looks a special talent and the position we are currently in it makes sense to give him some minutes rather than waste large amounts of money on players who don't necessarily fancy being at the club.
I think it's a breath of fresh air and I'm more than happy if it helps us move forward and develop our own players. As Ole has said it's a long term project so little steps and all.
Totally agree. People need to realise this. It might take more than 1 year to fix this. "Quick fixes" aren't the solution. Build from the back, which it seems we are doing.
No he didn't, but for example 2 goals in a 5-0 third round League Cup game don't really contribute to anything apart from his further development. Agree that 10 goals in all competitions is achievable if he's regularly starting/playing, but imo it's the PL that counts so that's where you'll be needing goals from somewhere (although I think Rashford could easily score 20 on his own).
Yeah agreed, always great to see a young academy talent breaking through.
Just sign him, pay what his agent wants, all will be forgotten if he's class.
Yeah, same as 2 goals in 5-0 win against some relegation teams also won't add much. We need attackers to play in all competitions and if Greenwood can get around 10 goals then it will be a successful season.
Out attackers have barely scored 10 league goals, so doubt we will be relying on (or believe) 17 year old to get 10 goals in PL alone.
I agree we need goals and about time players like Rashford, Martial take up the responsibilities of goal scoring as this season they will play many games. We need contributions from every outfield player, like Lingard, Mata, Pogba, James and everyone with Rashford and Martial leading the goalscoring charts.
Yes. And class aside, we needed this type of talent to help/push our young core, and add balance needed to inch this club back to prominence.
He doesn't want to come to Utd, neither does Eriksen apparently.
At this point who knows what the truth is because new reports are saying he had agreed to go to United on 300k but a company owns his imagine rights and they want a 15 mil payment on top of what it’s already costing us for Dybala.
Hence why United have walked away as they refuse to pay that payment. Supposedly all in the deal was 108mil. Can’t see Spurs stretching to those sorts of fees either.
I actually think we’ve hit our 150mil summer spend limit and when it was a swap with Lukaku it was all good but now these extra fees mean we won’t be able to fluff up the books so it looks all shiny for the shareholders.
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Well we will find out for sure if he does come to Spurs (which I still refuse to believe will happen).
I'm sure he'll love the financial package levy is putting together, plus there's the agents fee being demanded. If you sign him, fair play.
Lukaku will end up at Inter it seems, they are back in and agents meeting in London. It's almost embarrassing that some italian sources still bang on about Utd and Dybala, even after Utds brief. Key point was that Utd weren't convinced the player actually wanted to join, which we all read from various places that he didnt.... and now? Eriksen, exact same. Quite clear to me anyway that Utd are not going to aim for the mega star signings to solve problems and sign them no matter what, they want players who want to play for you, and hopefully of a younger age. Right now i dont think Utd will sign anyone else. My money would have been on Longstaff but for £50m you'd have been robbed blind
He wasn’t a key player. He got dropped by Fergie several times. He was a good player who scored some important goals but never “tore” the league up for us like you mentioned.
No Dybala. No Eriksen. No Bruno.
Who cares, we will be giving youth player Lingard plenty of minutes.
Who cares, we will be giving youth player Lingard plenty of minutes.
Dybala has liked Evra's post about United being a club you should want to play for.
HE HAS REPENTED !!!
It's back on!
Don't do this to me, not now I've just made peace with no more signings.
No he hasn’t?
Where Evra is attacking the greedyness of agents
He has.
It’s fake, I’ve literally just checked the post.
Dybala didn’t want to come here, so why sign him and end up with another di Maria? Have you learnt nothing?
Eriksen likewise. Have we even made a concrete offer for Bruno? All the talk seems to have come out of Portugal, not united.
It’s not fake. Go get some specs.
It's very possible he's unliked the post since liking it in the first place.
DYBALON'DOR!
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