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Cashing in on our talented young keeper after successful loans.

Hopefully we can include a buy back clause.

I’d be hoping for a similar fee to what City paid for Trafford (£27m). Certainly £20m+.
 
No chance we get anywhere near £15m, he's worth circa £10m if not less,
 
Champ said:
No chance we get anywhere near £15m, he's worth circa £10m if not less,
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What a joke, if we were trying to sign this kid then we would be forced to pay 30-40m. A kid who had a brilliant season in the champion. Anything under 20 is a joke in this market.
 
IrishRedDevil said:


Cashing in on our talented young keeper after successful loans.

Hopefully we can include a buy back clause.

I’d be hoping for a similar fee to what City paid for Trafford (£27m). Certainly £20m+.
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Hate to be the bearer of bad news.

Won’t happen. I don’t agree but over £10m would be very good.

Also bear in mind that city ‘cook’ their books in every way like we cook soup for our lunch
 
Trafford won YPOTY in League One, had a season in the Prem and then holds the joint record (29) for clean sheets in a Championship season before he moved. Plus English tax. Vitek was good last year but it's not exactly a like for like comparison and I presume the fee will reflect that.
 
15-20m is reasonable to expect. We sold Kovar for about 8-9m and he was no where near as good.
 
Champ said:
No chance we get anywhere near £15m, he's worth circa £10m if not less,
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If he was a City player he'd be fetching around 25-30m, if he was a mid table club player (Palace, Everton) he'd likewise, also fetching 20m or upwards. I'd rather loan him another season to a better league than sell him for pocket change.
 
A shame but best for everyone. He would have had a chance if onana wasn't absolutely shit but the second we signed lammens, that was it for keepers probably u16 upwards at United, they probably won't get a look in.
 
Bastian said:
If he was a City player he'd be fetching around 25-30m, if he was a mid table club player (Palace, Everton) he'd likewise, also fetching 20m or upwards. I'd rather loan him another season to a better league than sell him for pocket change.
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City sold Bazunu for £12m after he won POTY and Players POTY at Portsmouth & was capped internationally
 
Bastian said:
If he was a City player he'd be fetching around 25-30m, if he was a mid table club player (Palace, Everton) he'd likewise, also fetching 20m or upwards. I'd rather loan him another season to a better league than sell him for pocket change.
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Feels like maybe, finally, smarter people than your average to good caff poster is making these decisions at the club. If we put a sell on or buy back if we really believe in him he'll make us more in the future. Hopefully there's a bit of a bidding war and let's revisit his improvement at the start of the next few seasons
 
I would've loved for another loan, hopefully to a lower team in a top European league where he could be guaranteed match time, then for him to return and challenge Lammens.

Shame he hadn't made it into his country's World Cup squad, and I wish him all the best (and hopefully with a decent buy back clause for us).
 
I think we should be looking for at least 15m for him. Anything less, then we should probably look for a PL loan if possible. A (good) season as a regular in the PL he would become a full international for sure and would probably fetch in and around double that fee next summer.
 
Santos J said:
City sold Bazunu for £12m after he won POTY and Players POTY at Portsmouth & was capped internationally
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You mean years ago?

Ali Dia said:
Feels like maybe, finally, smarter people than your average to good caff poster is making these decisions at the club. If we put a sell on or buy back if we really believe in him he'll make us more in the future. Hopefully there's a bit of a bidding war and let's revisit his improvement at the start of the next few seasons
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Yeah, although we'd do well to get more money in now for the task we're about to embark upon. That being said, we should always include hefty sell-on clauses and, when we are talking about players who would get a chance here if it was just down to talent (and not someone occupying the spot) a buy-back clause too. As is, I don't see us pursuing a buy-back clause, given Lammen's age. And United is not Real, we don't buy back our players to sell them again for more profit. We have a hard enough task of selling players as is.
 
Has he performed better than James Trafford who went for £20m and had zero Championship experience. Conviently is was Burnley who were probably managed by Kompany at the time.
 
Lammens in no.1 for the long term.

He probably wants to play and has been told he's not getting a look in. I'm fairly sure any keeper coming back from a year of playing every week isn't going to want to come back and sit on the bench. It's the same reason Henderson left.
 
Rozay said:
I think we should be looking for at least 15m for him. Anything less, then we should probably look for a PL loan if possible. A (good) season as a regular in the PL he would become a full international for sure and would probably fetch in and around double that fee next summer.
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Yeah, I agree that a PL loan at one of the recently promoted teams or other lower table teams will double his value. It's an unnecessary sale unless we have a signing that we want/need to fund urgently, we have to extend his contract and find him an upper Championship or Lower end PL loan.
 
Oranges038 said:
Lammens in no.1 for the long term.

He probably wants to play and has been told he's not getting a look in. I'm fairly sure any keeper coming back from a year of playing every week isn't going to want to come back and sit on the bench. It's the same reason Henderson left.
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Tell that to Onana!
 
If we sell Vitek, it had better be because we're signing a backup keeper on a free.

If we sell him only to sign a new back up at a similar cost, then I don't get it. He looks like a decent keeper and certainly a step up from Altay, who also appears to be leaving (and rightly so).
 
Bastian said:
You mean years ago?



Yeah, although we'd do well to get more money in now for the task we're about to embark upon. That being said, we should always include hefty sell-on clauses and, when we are talking about players who would get a chance here if it was just down to talent (and not someone occupying the spot) a buy-back clause too. As is, I don't see us pursuing a buy-back clause, given Lammen's age. And United is not Real, we don't buy back our players to sell them again for more profit. We have a hard enough task of selling players as is.
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Kelleher then, went last year for the same fee
 
AnotherLondonManc said:
If we sell Vitek, it had better be because we're signing a backup keeper on a free.

If we sell him only to sign a new back up at a similar cost, then I don't get it. He looks like a decent keeper and certainly a step up from Altay, who also appears to be leaving (and rightly so).
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He doesn't want to sit on the bench
 
I doubt he wants to stay as a second kepper he wants to play which is understanable. He can't do that here. Hope we can get 10-15mil at least
 
Didn't Lammens cost £23M? We obviously won't get that for Vitek, probably about half as much. Insert a sell-on and/or buyback clause and keep tabs on his progress.
 
AnotherLondonManc said:
If we sell Vitek, it had better be because we're signing a backup keeper on a free.

If we sell him only to sign a new back up at a similar cost, then I don't get it. He looks like a decent keeper and certainly a step up from Altay, who also appears to be leaving (and rightly so).
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It’s as much for the lads development as anything. He simply won’t get the game time at United with Lammens being young himself.

Hopefully we are looking at Sommer (free) or Sam Johnstone as number 2
 
Uncle Mainoo said:
Why? He’s probably better than a number 2 and we’ve just signed a young number 1. Cash in and bring in a number 2 on a free or £1-2m.
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Because we should've looked for a loan to a Premier League club or another top 5 league if not.

Firstly his value likely would've doubled and secondly it gives us more time to assess whether it's worth giving him a season to compete with Lammens.

His talent is scary and we are selling far too early.

 
A loan doesn't make sense unless we have a +1 option in his most recently signed extension which I can't find any evidence of. It should be a lowish fee around £15mil with a higher sell on if he can't be persuaded to stay on as the Cup/Europe goalkeeper.

I think there are almost certainly 17-20 starts for him if he does stick around. But I get if he just wants the clean break.
 
OverratedOpinion said:
Because we should've looked for a loan to a Premier League club or another top 5 league if not.

Firstly his value likely would've doubled and secondly it gives us more time to assess whether it's worth giving him a season to compete with Lammens.

His talent is scary and we are selling far too early.

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This doesn't take into account the fact that Lammens had multiple worldies scored against him and Vitek was facing championship players.
 
Berbasbullet said:
What a joke, if we were trying to sign this kid then we would be forced to pay 30-40m. A kid who had a brilliant season in the champion. Anything under 20 is a joke in this market.
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Yeah we would, like Trafford when he went to City, but a club with the current standing if United or City aren't going to buy Vitek,

It'll be either a newly promoted club or a strong Championship team, as that's his current level, for which £10/15m is the right amount.
If Arsenal wanted him for example then yes he would go for a lot more for sure.
 
OverratedOpinion said:
Because we should've looked for a loan to a Premier League club or another top 5 league if not.

Firstly his value likely would've doubled and secondly it gives us more time to assess whether it's worth giving him a season to compete with Lammens.

His talent is scary and we are selling far too early.

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Where are these stats from...Lammens with a save percentage of 22%???

That's incorrect for sure.
 
Bastian said:
You mean years ago?



Yeah, although we'd do well to get more money in now for the task we're about to embark upon. That being said, we should always include hefty sell-on clauses and, when we are talking about players who would get a chance here if it was just down to talent (and not someone occupying the spot) a buy-back clause too. As is, I don't see us pursuing a buy-back clause, given Lammen's age. And United is not Real, we don't buy back our players to sell them again for more profit. We have a hard enough task of selling players as is.
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If we are selling it's because we think Lammens is currently a better keeper for the upcoming season, he may not always be. There's no point sticking an improving player who's been starting every game on the bench. I wish him well and if he's good enough he may find his way back here. I hope we get a better deal than we did for Alvaro. That was annoying
 
Champ said:
Yeah we would, like Trafford when he went to City, but a club with the current standing if United or City aren't going to buy Vitek,

It'll be either a newly promoted club or a strong Championship team, as that's his current level, for which £10/15m is the right amount.
If Arsenal wanted him for example then yes he would go for a lot more for sure.
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With a buy back clause!
 
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