Salford and Stockport have to compete with United, City, Bolton, even Liverpool and Everton to some degree.
True, but as you saw with Man City, you can define your success based on your neighbours. You create a narrative about rivalries and history and bring international attention to what was a local event. Without United, City's owners wouldn't have had half the attention they got in the beginning. But beyond this point, my main contention is that it's far better financially to purchase a non-league team and make them into a strong league team that pushes into the PL eventually, than it is to purchase a middle of the road championship team and turn them into a premier league team. Bristol City would be a great option for any country that has 100m-to-500m to spend and that wants to whitewash any human rights questions. Stockport, Salford, etc would be ideal for the millionaire looking to make a quick 100m with a 10m investment.
I can see him playing for Arsenal.
If we really need to get an Eredivisie winger i'd rather have Neres than Lozano.
Hopefully the people in charge shares your opinion.
The time to but him was when he was still at Dortmund. He's been dropped by Low for a reason.
Oh wow that's some real inside info right there. Hummels to leave BL and to go to either the PL, the La Liga, the Serie A or Ligue 1 or he could be going anywhere and we have no idea where he could be going but here is our exclusive
Yeah, preferred him to kluivert when he was there.
100% agree, Lozano would be an underwhelming signing, he's quick but does not have the fundamentals of a technically proficient player so he wouldn't be able to use his speed in the context of a competitive game.
I wish more players did this
Oh man.. i hope it’s true!!! Praying for it to happen!
So we want our beloved Utd to be taken over by a horrible regime in order to buy some players? Feck that.
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I like the sound of that.
Nice and straight words from Ole. Hope he doesn't face a summer where he sells everyone before better replacements are secured though.
Poor Ajax following the route of the previous existing teams (Dortmund & Monaco). Sad to see
There you go
Good
That would be quite good. Get an interesting Serie A again.
By signing Varane, Umtiti, Mbappe and Griezmann as well?
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Don't be ridiculous.
I guess with Coutinho and Dembele there, obviously alongside Messi (Suarez I'm considering won't get the same playing minutes next season), he might have legitimate concerns about developing there.
Well a lot of people were critical of Low for dropping Hummels because his performances haven't been as bad as Boateng or Muller. He is still a top defender imo if he's motivated, which I don't think he's lost in the last season.
Strong comments from Ole, hopefully he's as ruthless as he needs to be and I can't help but feel some of what he says hints towards Pogba perhaps leaving, he needs everyone on board with total commitment, if his head is turned by Real then there's no point in a "one more season" thing like Fergie had with Ronaldo, we are in a totally different situation now with totally different personalities involved.
I'm not saying he's not going to be a good player but he's got 5 appearances for Benfica and he will be 20 in August. At the same age Ruben had something like 50+ appearances for Porto. captaining the club in the process.
I agree, but just wanted to put a different perspective on Neves. He just turned 22 and has 50+ games for Porto and 70+ games for Wolves. He's so young and already has lots of experience.
Some players mature at an earlier age. Lukaku and Rooney were first team players by 16, whilst Lingard was only really ready by 22-23.
Players develop differently. Does not mean that the one who breakthrough early will be the best player or are the most talented.
Also Rojo says Ole has told him he's in his plans so looks like he's going nowhere.
Not sure how this is related to my comment?There you go
It's easy reading those comments the know it's his father who is his agent because he has his sons best footballer interests at heart. Any modern agent would be filling him with false hope and lies to get the biggest move as early as possible. Football has truly gone to the dogs but that's a conversation for another day.
Ole probably needs to give him a chance before he can say he's not good enough.
