Goals and trophies are meaningless. Football is all about winning on a spreadsheet.
Rasmus Højlund | Signed for United
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
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Yeah he is going to get loads of critism now from pundits sadly. Just the way it seems to work.
Woah, that’s huge tbf.
Danish up and coming player expresses positive sentiment for established Danish players.
Makes sense we paid the extra 25m on top of his actual worth tbh.
Know nothing about this guy. Wait and see what he will bring to the forward line.
I'm hoping you're not directing that at me, as that'd be pretty stupid.
I gave my point quite clearly and said what would potentially happen if he doesn't perform.
It's the same thing. You try finish as high as you can.
Lindelof is Swedish.
Calm down everyone, all he has to do is outperform Wout Weghorst and he will be a success.
Is Lindelof also Danish? as you said players.
I can't work out if some of the posts on here are real, or are just been posted to try and wind people up.
Nah, you have to judge players relative to their price as we don’t have unlimited budgets. A player that we buy for £5m you wouldn’t expect as much as a £100m player, to use an extreme example, although double is fairly extreme in this case.
He must have a foot like a traction engine
Huge fee but if he proves to be a success there won't be much talk about it. I do worry a bit about the pressure on him though, fans and media.
Nunez was laughed at a lot last season but expect similar to happen if our guy doesn't hit the ground running.
Nunez was laughed at a lot last season but expect similar to happen if our guy doesn't hit the ground running.
72m doesn't get you a finished article these days. For that, you're looking at kane or osimenh and they would cost 150m+.
Just look at Nunez, cost roughly the same I believe and he was hardly a finished article.
It’s not, different pressures, different expectations.
You just did
And I also fully expect him to sulk. That’s the only thing he does consistently. We have to look forward anyway since Martial has no future here. If giving the no.9 to Hojlund boots his confidence then we should do it. Just my opinion of course.
My danish friend Rasmus will be joining us. It’s been confirmed 100%. Here I go
We love to see it!We actually don’t know the fee yet lads, it certainly isn’t 72 million £? I’m reading 70 million € + 5 million € addons, and 68 million € total fee elsewhere. Italian tweets.
Mount and Onana are fine fees. Hojlund is the overpay.
People dismissing scouting assessments and professional judgement to sign this based on literally nothing but looking at his Wikipedia page.
Bet Ten Hag feels an idiot. If only he consulted people who have literally never seen him kick a ball.
Bet Ten Hag feels an idiot. If only he consulted people who have literally never seen him kick a ball.
Big gamble given the price but we’re fecking desperate for a striker and the kid must have something about him.
Remember when we laughed last year for Liverpool spending something similar on Nunez.
That fee 
Our negotiating skills are genuinely appalling.
I am looking forward to seeing him play though, the clips and videos I’ve seen do look promising.
Our negotiating skills are genuinely appalling.
I am looking forward to seeing him play though, the clips and videos I’ve seen do look promising.
He's going to have some pressure after that £91M transfer. Shocking.
72 + 50 = 122. Nope that doesn't get you Kane or Osimenh.
Only for you. The team will try to win every game and thus the league and no matter who we sign top four will be a battle. It's called competition.
As much as I’m lukewarm on this rn for the money we’re paying, 15 goals would obviously be a great return for a 20 year old not taking penalties. Pretty sure Rashford only managed that like 2 years ago, and his career high PL non pen goals is 17 (this year)
Let's hope we haven't bought a donkey
Nunez showed way more though
Absolutely clueless. You claim Højlund is nothing special, and then go on and suggest Sesko ffshorrible deal, shame ... for that money you add whatever extra it takes and go get Kane. As far as young prospects go, Hojlund is nothing special, we should have pursued Šeško instead, for that kind of money Leipzig would have sold him (not that either him or Hojlund are worth that sum though)
Wayne Rooney was pretty much a guaranteed world-class player. The talent was oozing out of him. Zero doubts could be had about him.
It's basically the price of Osimhen from Lille to Napoli. There is no denying that it's a big fee but it's also not one that is special.
Yeah, £20m more.
Can't say I am jumping for joy at this one. The numbers don't paint a particularly promising picture for me but I am ready for him to prove me wrong.
I do worry that goals once again will be a major issue of he is the only striker we sign.
I do worry that goals once again will be a major issue of he is the only striker we sign.
Let's be positive for a change, folks. We needed a striker, we now have a striker who already loves our club. No point banging on about Kane, he's not available to us and he's at the wrong end of his best years in any case. This lad has years to develop further.
Probably, but also in an easier league for the most dominant side within said league.
As the fee has been agreed I now take back anything I've said doubting him and he is clearly better than Haaland.
Realistically though, he seems to be extremely talented and has a lot of attributes that are needed for a top modern striker. I hope Martial has less injuries this season as we are clearly not signing another striker and carrying the load will be a lot for someone with his experience level.
If he does hit the ground running this will be one of the biggest signings we've made in years as we've not had a quality striker in his prime for a long, long time.
Realistically though, he seems to be extremely talented and has a lot of attributes that are needed for a top modern striker. I hope Martial has less injuries this season as we are clearly not signing another striker and carrying the load will be a lot for someone with his experience level.
If he does hit the ground running this will be one of the biggest signings we've made in years as we've not had a quality striker in his prime for a long, long time.
Szoboszlai, Akanji, Aké, Romeu, Joselu, Guerreiro, Laimar, Garcia just off the top of my head are signings made by big clubs in the past year that I’m not sure anyone would call established. What world do you live in if you think big clubs should only sign established top class players?
If it makes anyone feel any better, Nunez and Mudryk both cost more.
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