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#Kev for DOF.
We were easily miles ahead of Bayern from a footballing side just a few years ago.I hope we aren't. I don't really care about our great fan base or massive revenues, we need to buck up on the pitch. For all the bashing of Woodward in this thread, it's just the easy route to take. How the feck is anyone supposed to convince a neutral that we are a better choice than Bayern atm?
Tbh most German clubs tend to try to wrap up most of their business before the window opens. This unhealthy obsession with the deadline day seems to be mostly an English thing.Getting stuff done before a busy summer with the Euros and all that. Bayern doing good business.
Still watching that space though.
No, I know nothing about the price. I just said 35m that can rise to 45m sounds more reasonable, but honestly, no clue what's true at this point. If it's 35m+45m, then I'm a bit shocked to be honest.I think @Balu has confirmed this (price).
After all the media hype last summer, when is Gaitán making his debut? Seems a bit strange that he's not been given an appearance all season long by Van Gaal.This would be true if we dropped interest but we didn't. It's has been widely reported for months that wooward and Benfica have been arguing over the nature of guaranteed payments and bonuses
Which part you want me to translate?
Mais se informa que no acordo estão previstos valores adicionais, num montante global de € 45.000.000 (quarenta e cinco milhões de euros), dependentes da concretização de objetivos contratualizados e a ocorrerem até 30 de junho de 2021.
O Conselho de Administração
At least its happened now rather than a long protracted summer like the Thiago debacle wasDidn't he start following us on social media and everything? A bit like Depay last year I thought this was a foregon conclusion.
@NL MaxHis name no longer marks red when you tag him, I think he has deleted his account after this fiasco...
Nope. You can cut the bs. I did my assessment of him from his time playing for us and again was pretty spot on for his inability to play as LB even countering an article from a portuguese reporter from the DN who said that he was a LB. I mean it was pretty easy for any Sporting fan to see since he played 99% of the time as CB so you can stop your bs. Yes, i lost plenty of time on this forum, translating articles and giving my opinion about his time at Sporting, helping out United fans who were asking me stuff, if you don't like it just ignore. I don't have time to put up with your pseudo bs.Nah you were endorsing him, saying he would make it and making doomsayers feel better about having signed him.
'United in Crisis' headlines ahoy.United signs Martial for bucketloads of money = media says "what a waste of money"
Bayern signs Sanches for bucketloads of money = media says "haha United lost out"
You've probably answered it about 1000times on the Caf in the Sanches transfar sage, so sorry for asking you again, but what's your take on him? Why don't you rate him that highly? Is it just a maturity thing or a lack of ability? Feel free to copy an old post of yours or tell me to feck off because you've wrote it already so often, I'd understand that .My assessment of Rojo was spot on actually. I said he wasn't good enough for us as LB and that he was competent as CB but had concentration and positional lapses. It was pretty clear. And it's pretty natural for players to struggle when moving to top leagues (even with bigger name players coming from the Serie A or La Liga to England). My assessment (not endorsement) was from his time playing for us. Pretty easy to understand for a football scholar like yourself.
Nah, inconsistent fax machine.Woody probably hasn't got the message yet because he communicates via carrier pigeon.
Having watched him a handful of times I'll temper my comments but to be perfect honest, he looks like he has all the tools to do very well. Strong, confident and looked like a player older than his years - very much like Martial in fact.Not bothered at all. Bayern can make these gambles considering that they have also the likes of Martinez, Thiago and Vidal in midfield. If the transfer doesn't work, they will lose 35m euros, but the results won't get affected. However if we bought him for a lot of money and the transfer doesn't work, then we would have lost money in addition to having to play Fellaini in midfield.
I don't want us to sign young players for a shitload of money, unless they are pretty much stars in the making, like Martial. Sanches can go either way, and isn't an attacker in the first place to command that much money. The beneficial thing on signing young players is that they cost cheap, but if you have to pay 35m (+45m in add ons), then it isn't a very shrewd business IMO.
Also, not all big money transfers from Portuguese League work, and as efficient as Bayern are, not each transfer they make works well. Still think that Bayern have made a very risky signing, which could go either way. I would much prefer if we go for a more safe transfer, considering that we need to improve the squad immediately, not 5 years down the line.
I honestly think Bayern are the best run club in the world but for some reason we use every transfer you make as a chance to rubbish our own club. It's not as if every major club have announced signings today and we're left standing in the corner like a lonley stepchild.The fact that we played Benfica twice and certainly did a shitload of scouting and research as preparation for the games means the club has seen a lot more than just scouting reports of 2 games.
I agree that it's annoying to use this to bash United though. But that's the Caf these days, everything works as ammunition to have a shot at van Gaal/Woodward. That being said, transfer threads are always full of people with extreme opinions. Everyone is more often than not either worldclass or shit. You simply can't predict how transfers turn out, there are so many reasons why a transfer can fail, no matter if it's a young talent or an established player. It's good that we take risks to sign players with huge potential in an attempt to stay where we are though. You simply have to do that in football today, but many of the players won't turn out as brilliant as people initially thought.
In that regard us singing Götze and Thiago in 2013 is really comparable to Barca signing Fabregas and Sanchez in 2011. Both times the majority of people predicted that it would cement the place of the clubs at the top and both times it didn't work out that way. You gotta keep trying though. What else can you do with all that money football clubs make these days?
Yeah, it's a truely annoying trend on the Caf. Fully agree with that.I honestly think Bayern are the best run club in the world but for some reason we use every transfer you make as a chance to rubbish our own club. It's not as if every major club have announced signings today and we're left standing in the corner like a lonley stepchild.
We are probably having to wait until CL football is confirmed either way before we can green light transfers. Even last year all our business (minus Martial) was concluded early in the summer. Morgan even said the deal was wrapped up mid February and that wasn't announced until late June if I remember.
I know what you mean, but the club had always denied interest in Gaitan. If you bothered to follow the Sanches story, English journos on Twitter have said the club itself said it was in discussions with Benfica.After all the media hype last summer, when is Gaitán making his debut? Seems a bit strange that he's not been given an appearance all season long by Van Gaal.
According to Diario Noticias, it's 35m plus 45 in addons which means a possible 80m fee.Google translate of the statement from Benfica's website says this:
Its 45 mil in total, which is 35 mil pounds at todays exchange rate.
My mistake then, i've read as 35m to 45m in euros, if it's 35+45 then it does look like the sort of money we would have paid.They've paid 35m euros plus another 45m in potential bonuses according to Benfica which is pretty much the same amount we were getting linked to him with
I meant in terms of his ability on the ball. His best attributes are his physicality and work rate, with his weakest being things like his passing. Thats more what I mean by natural talent on the ball.It's one thing to be happy you didn't spend €80m on a teenager but to say he's not all that talented He's clearly one of the best midfield prospects in Europe at the moment.
Sorry for asking that, but does that mean the global sum of 45m Euros could be added? Or that the global sum of the transfer could be 45m ? It's really not 100% clear to me? Thanks for translating by the way.@K2K
Mais se informa que no acordo estão previstos valores adicionais, num montante global de € 45.000.000 (quarenta e cinco milhões de euros), dependentes da concretização de objetivos contratualizados e a ocorrerem até 30 de junho de 2021.
O Conselho de Administração
We also inform that aditional values are predicted in the deal, in global sum of 45 million euros, depending on the achievement of certain objectives in contract and occuring until 30 june 2021
The board of administration.
Go have a read through..the 45 mil?
There is no way Bayern would pay 80 mil euros.
But the Benfica official site is saying something completely different.According to Diario Noticias, it's 35m plus 45 in addons which means a possible 80m fee.
€35 upfront and €45 in add ons. Total €80m.Sorry for asking that, but does that mean the global sum of 45m Euros could be added? Or that the global sum of the transfer could be 45m ? It's really not 100% clear to me? Thanks for translating by the way.