Striker Poll - Who should we buy ?

Which striker should United sign this summer ? | Poll Reset

  • Viktor Gyökeres

  • Hugo Ekitike

  • Jean-Philippe Mateta

  • Benjamin Šeško

  • Jonathan David

  • Patrik Schick

  • Samu Aghehowa

  • Ollie Watkins

  • Yoane Wissa

  • Krzysztof Piątek

  • Serhou Guirassy

  • Kolo Muani

  • Alexander Sørloth

  • Gonçalo Ramos

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Bastian said:
Yeah, I don't know about some of these. Osimhen is a player, but his wages might really be disruptive. I'd rather we clean out those on 250K + and create some parity within the first XI and have some sensible squad level wages. Watkins will cost too much, especially given his age, though he's a classy player. Schick is coming off of a injury free season but in the last 6 years he's missed over 200 matches with injury. I wouldn't spend any money on him. With Mateta we already know he can handle the league very well and I can't imagine he'll cost anything near as much as Sesko, Ekitike (both of whom I think are out of our range) and Gyokeres. I imagine he could be prized away for 40m. He's 27, they are pretty much a selling club, although they really stood strong with Guehi.

I just hope we are working on a number of targets and have things in place as soon as the dominos start to fall, like getting Mbeumo over the line or selling one of the unwanted ones.
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I genuinely don't think his wages would be disruptive, feel he deserves a similar wage to Bruno but club clearly don't feel the same way. I agree that Mateta is certainly more attainable than the others.
 
NLunited said:
He went to play in the sandbox in his prime, demands extortionate wages. We need to steer clear from players like that.

An ambitious player would have been at a top team by now.
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He hasn't gone to Saudi Arabia
 
Question:

Let's say alongside Cunha we get Mbeuomo, could we manage without a new striker? Are Zirkzee and Hojlund serviceable ahead of Cunha & Mbeuomo?

For me I still think we must get a striker, but can we manage with the addition of Cunha & Mbeumo?
 
No Delap
Probably no Gyökeres
Probably no Osimhen
No new striker before preseason it seems.

So we play Zirkzee or go for Mateta?

Gyökeres might still be an option if Arsenal go for Sesko though.
 
OmarUnited4ever said:
Question:

Let's say alongside Cunha we get Mbeuomo, could we manage without a new striker? Are Zirkzee and Hojlund serviceable ahead of Cunha & Mbeuomo?

For me I still think we must get a striker, but can we manage with the addition of Cunha & Mbeumo?
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No a striker is imperitive
 
The striker position is beginning to go down the same route as the GK one - with us being randomly linked with quite a few different ones despite no report suggesting we've actually bid for any.

With no sales seeming Imminent / likely, and the Mbeumo deal still ongoing, I'm not even sure if we'll end up bidding £60m+ for another attacking player this summer if we do complete the Mbeumo deal.

I think a new big money striker will only happen if we either miss out on Mbeumo (and so have that budget available) or somehow manage to sell some of our unwanted players for good fees. Until then - if the latter even happens - I'm not expecting any bids to be going in from us for any of these strikers who are reportedly on the move.
 
OmarUnited4ever said:
Question:

Let's say alongside Cunha we get Mbeuomo, could we manage without a new striker? Are Zirkzee and Hojlund serviceable ahead of Cunha & Mbeuomo?

For me I still think we must get a striker, but can we manage with the addition of Cunha & Mbeumo?
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I'd say that if we do sign Cunha and Mbuemo, then we can allow ourselves to pick from another "shelf" at least. The likes of Goncalo Ramos, Mateta, Kolo Muani, Jonathan David are probably all solid upgrades to what we have today, and seemingly available for far less than Gyokeres/Osimhen/Ekitike/Sesko.
 
OmarUnited4ever said:
Question:

Let's say alongside Cunha we get Mbeuomo, could we manage without a new striker? Are Zirkzee and Hojlund serviceable ahead of Cunha & Mbeuomo?

For me I still think we must get a striker, but can we manage with the addition of Cunha & Mbeumo?
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I think both Rasmus and Zirkzee are better than what they showed last year.

If we have better more team orientated players around them Cunha and Mbeuno hopefully we’ll see an improvement.
Don’t think either will be banging in 20 league goals next season but 10-15 plus Mbeuno, Bruno, Amad and Cunha scoring should see us alright for a season.

If one of these top class strikers are available, willing and still leave us capable of buying other key positions like wingback, midfield (probably need 2 players there) and a defender then yeah get one of them. If however it drains our entire budget leaving us unable to get other key positions then yeah Rasmus and Zirkzee will see us through.
 
I'm also in the camp of not convinced we will go for a striker or we buy Mbuemo. To have a striker that runs in behind with Bruno, Mbuemo and Cunha all playing would be insanely attacking, not too mention having Amad on the wing as well.
 
There’s plenty of good options still out there.

Samu
Mateta
Ekitike (for now)
Joao Pedro

Then there’s some left field options too, such as Strand Larsen from Wolves, who impressed me this season. Perhaps Inter could be convinced to part with one of Lauturo or Thuram? There’s plenty of players in a similar mould to the ones we’ve supposedly been interested in.
 
pocco said:
There’s plenty of good options still out there.

Samu
Mateta
Ekitike (for now)
Joao Pedro

Then there’s some left field options too, such as Strand Larsen from Wolves, who impressed me this season. Perhaps Inter could be convinced to part with one of Lauturo or Thuram? There’s plenty of players in a similar mould to the ones we’ve supposedly been interested in.
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This is it. By the end of the window whoever we pick we will be alright. Forgot about Joao Pedro too.
 
If we get down our list as far as Mateta then it really is a barren market.

If it comes to that then rather than scraping the barrel we ought to look to see if we can bring in someone on loan.

It would be madness to make Mateta an important player for us for the next 5 years.
 
Uncle Mainoo said:
This is it. By the end of the window whoever we pick we will be alright. Forgot about Joao Pedro too.
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Any of these players would improve us drastically. I reckon we could get Mateta for a reasonable fee, so I’m expecting that we’ll at least go for him if we can’t get any of our ideal choices. No way we could be heading into next season with Hojlund leading the line, it’s not necessary.
 
witchtrials said:
If we get down our list as far as Mateta then it really is a barren market.

If it comes to that then rather than scraping the barrel we ought to look to see if we can bring in someone on loan.

It would be madness to make Mateta an important player for us for the next 5 years.
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Why? He’s a good striker and is a handful for most teams. At the right money, he’d be a fine player for us over the next two or three years, and then I’m sure he’ll be fine as a backup once we find our long term solution. He’s so much better than Hojlund - so these issues he has with being bullied by defenders and having no instinct in the box will be forgotten about with Mateta. He bullies defenders, he’s quick and can carry the ball to a reasonable level, and most importantly, he scores goals.
 
My preference is still Sesko, but I do think, watching Ekitike that he would link up well with Cunha (and Mbeumo) and bring the best out of them.

I do think the striker needs to be the right fit and doesn't necessarily have to be a goal machine (Osimhen)
 
pocco said:
Why? He’s a good striker and is a handful for most teams. At the right money, he’d be a fine player for us over the next two or three years, and then I’m sure he’ll be fine as a backup once we find our long term solution. He’s so much better than Hojlund - so these issues he has with being bullied by defenders and having no instinct in the box will be forgotten about with Mateta. He bullies defenders, he’s quick and can carry the ball to a reasonable level, and most importantly, he scores goals.
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I think that's a pretty fair assessment of his strengths.

My main concern is about his lack of craft on the ball. If we do end up signing Mbeumo too, then I worry about the lack of quality on the ball in our five forwards. To my mind, Mateta, Mbeumo and Dorgu is a worrying concentration of players with limited passing ability. If Amad is replaced by Dalot then the level becomes quite nightmarish.

Additionally, although you say he scores goals, in his first five proper seasons of top division football he scored a total of 32 goals, so 6 goals per seasion. Obviously in the last couple of seasons he's hit the mid-teens which is undeniably respectable, but over the length of his career he's not exactly demonstrated that he's a prolific scorer.

Also with him being 28 we'd be setting ourselves up as giving him the peak contract of his career, meaning if he doesn't work out he's likely to be on wages that mean we struggle to shift him before 2030.
 
I’d still take any of Gyokeres/Osimhen/Sesko/Ekitike/Mateta first, depending on price and wages, but my wildcard is Semenyo. Played as a striker in the championship and has proven himself in the PL. I think he has the skill set to fit into what Amorim wants from his striker - Running the channels, running in behind, and physical enough to play with back to goal and win aerial duels
 
I feel Joao Pedro is going under the radar atm. Looks like he has alot of interesting attributes.
Plus he's only 23 yes old. For some reason I had it in my mind he was older.



Newcastle looks like the likeliest destination at the moment if Joao does move on from the south.
 
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FrankDrebin said:
I feel Joao Pedro is going under the radar atm. Looks like he has alot of interesting attributes.
Plus he's only 23 yes old. For some reason I had it in my mind he was older.



Newcastle looks like the likeliest destination at the moment if Joao does move on from the south.
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I don’t see why he’d go to Newcastle when they already have one of the best CFs in his position. I know they’ve rotated a bit in the past with Isak and Wilson, but Isak has improved and will be starting their big games for sure.
 
userman said:
I'd say that if we do sign Cunha and Mbuemo, then we can allow ourselves to pick from another "shelf" at least. The likes of Goncalo Ramos, Mateta, Kolo Muani, Jonathan David are probably all solid upgrades to what we have today, and seemingly available for far less than Gyokeres/Osimhen/Ekitike/Sesko.
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Yeah I’m on the same page with this

When having Mbeumo and Cunha as 10

Why not buy David and Mateta. Both will upgrade our current situation massively
and for 40-50M you have both

We can sell Hojlund and consider our options with Zirkzee
 
To be fair Wilson is 33 and there's been rumours he maybe leaving this summer.
Plus, I believe Newcastle have held a long standing interest in Joao. By all accounts Joao was regarded as thier back up to Isak if his signing never went through.
Joao is still work in progress though.
 
OmarUnited4ever said:
Question:

Let's say alongside Cunha we get Mbeuomo, could we manage without a new striker? Are Zirkzee and Hojlund serviceable ahead of Cunha & Mbeuomo?

For me I still think we must get a striker, but can we manage with the addition of Cunha & Mbeumo?
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I don't think this is a top half Premier League team if the #9 and GK options remain unchanged, even with Cunha and Mbeumo thrown into the mix.

In Hojlund and Onana, we simply have the worst starting #9 / GK combination in the entire league and it will undermine anything we do this summer in midfield or the #10 positions if we remain as bad in both boxes as we were last season.
 
Ideally Osimhen, but seems his wage demands are too high for our new profile. So how about we sell either Højlund or Zirkzee and bring in Sørloth and Ekiteke. Wont happens of course but I think those two would be the best options available for our system now. Ekiteke seems to be too expensive unfortunately though.
 
If we're considering Ekitike, we should also have a look at Woltemade from Stuttgart. Similar age, technically very strong (not quite as good as the Frenchman), similar record, physically stronger and likely a good bit cheaper
 
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