Are we talk advance to sign Adrien Rabiot for free so we gave up of Amrabat??
Sofyan Amrabat | To Fenerbahçe SK pending medical
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Different kind of players.
I only really like him for the Imhotep factor.
How about - he is an excellent option for a second choice DMF, for a low price, and we would be too naive to assume that one DMF can play all games we have to play in four different competitions?
This assumes Casemiro is getting sold, of course
Im glad we're making proper footballing decisions again.
Not signing a guy who underperformed most of the season and is coming up to 28 years of age is the correct move.
Save that money and sign someone younger who will at least have the potential to perform better.
Not signing a guy who underperformed most of the season and is coming up to 28 years of age is the correct move.
Save that money and sign someone younger who will at least have the potential to perform better.
Sanity prevails
United opt not to sign at current valuation
New
.He's a poor choice and he's low cost because we've already spent too much on him
We played exact same set up against Brighton a few days earlier and he was atrocious and ponderous on the ball.
I was genuinely concerned we were going to sign him. The amount of people who wanted to sign him based on the FA cup final is ridiculous
Yeah they were quick to forget the shit show performances before the final.
Good decision.
Funny how everyone is celebrating that we 'aren't signing him', whilst largely ignoring Romano going on to say that we are still interested in signing him.
Eriksen next, can't manage 60 minutes.
You could say that about literally every single one of our players though last season. All rubbish up until a game where they could win a trophy.
Don't think of ourselves too highly. Even Man City has Kalvin Phillips.
Yup that tweet is indicating we're trying to negotiate a lower fee more than anything.
Reading comprehension is piss poor on here.
Very mental. Although our manager did survive on the same basis.
Will be back on another loan
Great news. He's not it.
There’s no competition for his signature, we shouldn’t pay the amount. They’ll probably let him got for less than £10m this summer.
I think Romano's talking shit. ETH likes him but steadfastly refused to use him very often. It doesn't add up.
It basically means they’re not willing to pay 20million euros for him. They might try and pay less and in instalments , something along those lines, if at all. We’re literally keeping our options open with fingers in many pies. Refreshing if you ask me.
Exactly. Yet I see some interpreting (and celebrating) this development as us not signing the player. Two very different things.
Title is misleading
The tweet says they still want to sign him but not at the release clause
The tweet says they still want to sign him but not at the release clause
Not totally against his signing but he's barely worth half that fee. Worth waiting to see what fiorentina are prepared to accept elsewhere and then deciding if he's worth going back in for
Hope they club don't sign him. One good performance seems to have overshadowed jow slow he is with the ball.
We could end up paying more than 20m euros to pay in installments as well presumably. Hopefully not obviously
we keep making solid decisions it feels weird
We shouldn't be having him even on free. No need to waste our wages on mediocre players.
Agree
He’s the kind of player who needs the absolute longest preseason possible to try and mitigate for his slowness around the pitch - if he could at least be mentally adjusted to the speed of the game in the PL, he might have some functionality in it. Other than that, he’s a terrible fallback option towards the end of a transfer window for the same reasons listed as to why he needs a long preseason.
You’d just get the same slow, clunky player who’s desperately playing catch up as the game zooms by him. He’s not good enough to insulate with others, nor to modify a playing style for.
I’d rather we not sign the player. We should be aiming for better quality than this - any minutes he would get are better served on an academy product or another signing.
There’s no point buying cheap for low quality players.
You’d just get the same slow, clunky player who’s desperately playing catch up as the game zooms by him. He’s not good enough to insulate with others, nor to modify a playing style for.
I’d rather we not sign the player. We should be aiming for better quality than this - any minutes he would get are better served on an academy product or another signing.
There’s no point buying cheap for low quality players.
Thank god for that
He had a decent cup final which im grateful for but he was shocking for the vast majority of the season.
He had a decent cup final which im grateful for but he was shocking for the vast majority of the season.
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He is not a youngster that will get better neither is he a Shaw, Bruno etc level. We should be ruthless and cut ties. At any price he's going to become deadwood before his contract is up.
I didn’t read the “want to sign him on better terms “ part. These are the situations where we have to override ETH’s wishes as the player really isn’t of the required level. He’s a poor fit for the PL with his lack of mobility and physical presence.
Yeh I feel everyone is just reading half the headline, I still think we want to sign him, just not at 20 mill.
Only good when you sit back and soak up pressure. Like the cup final and like Morocco. Looks good in those types of games looks shite when you play proactive football high up the pitch, if you think this guy can get up against people and compete for legs it's Dreamland, he has to sit in at all times to avoid exposing his weaknesses.
As we should be playing proactive football 95% of the time if not 100% of the time if we're trying to advance as a footballing side he has no place. For any fee.
As we should be playing proactive football 95% of the time if not 100% of the time if we're trying to advance as a footballing side he has no place. For any fee.
Not really. Bruno and Mainoo had good seasons whereas Hojlund and Amad showed potential. McTominay had a good season in terms of end products
I think he was partly a victim of EtH not being flexible with his tactics, adapting to available players. It's not a coincidence that his best games were in last games of the season - where all he had to was be the ball winner.
If EtH plans to be flexible with his tactics or play more of the counter attacking, pragmatic football that helped close out the season well - we should consider buying Amrabat for a squad player role but if EtH is going to do what he did for most of last season (attempt to play a possession based, fast pressing, fast passing game) - wrong player for the system, even as a depth piece
If EtH plans to be flexible with his tactics or play more of the counter attacking, pragmatic football that helped close out the season well - we should consider buying Amrabat for a squad player role but if EtH is going to do what he did for most of last season (attempt to play a possession based, fast pressing, fast passing game) - wrong player for the system, even as a depth piece