Time for the dominoes to topple.
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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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Cagliari are the first team to submit an offer to buy Inter's Nainngolan, but it looks like Inter will take more to assess whether they want to keep him or not.
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Wish we'd just cough up the cash for Sancho. He's twice the footballer Grealish will ever be.
Grealish plays on the opposite side of the pitch to Sancho?
Exactly. Makes absolute no sense. Just guessing like the rest of the British media do when it comes to us.
Someone asked Man. City correspondent Sam Lee about Houssem Aouar. This is what he had to say:
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Would that mean the one to follow is Roma getting Smalling?
And then we get Sancho.
Fab said it - Sancho's on.
Ciro Immobile renews his contract with Lazio until 2025.
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A pittance in today's world for a player of this quality. The way he plays, he'd fit in any top team, injury or not.
Because Villa aren't going to demand an insane fee for Grealish aren't they? They're going to want upwards of £80m i bet, which in that case, we may as well just pay the extra bit that Dortmund want for Sancho. The media are useless nowadays!
Big contract for a 30 year old. Guess he is class for them though.
They're probably expecting him to continue to deliver like Fabio Quagliarella did.
I don't think Upamecano is a big upgrade on what already have. He'd fall right in line with the level of CB's already at the club pre Thiago Silva signing.
He’s perfect as a free signing. Would give us 2 years imo and is a quality finisher.
You want him?
If City is out of the picture, focused on Messi (still feel weird to be typing this) and Juventus are skint, Arsenal have an outside chance to get Aouar. That would be amazing, i think i'd rather get Aouar than Partey at this point if we can only have one big signing.
Yeah, pretty much what I said really.
So chances are he will leave if a decent enough deal is sanctioned.
All the reports were that Dortmund wants the entire 120m upfront (due to their current dodgy financial situation) whereas we wanted to pay in instalments.
Totally agree. They don't really play the same position, anyway.
No other club that isn’t financed by a zillionaire is spending anything like pre covid right now. Dortmund are being unrealistic it seems. Any time this club got bent over for a player it didn’t end well.
It's a bit strange that a club that has financial difficulties is going for 120m or nothing. You'd think that 80-90 up front, with the rest in installments would be helpful if they indeed are poor.
Valladolid sign the Austrian Bundesliga top scorer Shon Weissman.
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People saying they want 120 up front are just spreading a baseless myth. We'll probably still get this over the line.
Age seems not really an issue for strikers in Serie A.
Yeah still convinced they would accept £85-£90m up front with another instalment of between £18-23m next year, however it really comes down to whether or not Utd are willing to meet that
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Luke Edwards of Telegraph is now consistent with Mark Ogden, stating are considering an approach - mindful that if we wait for the new release clause there will be too much competition.
Not happening without external funding. We don’t have that much in cash.
The other problem is whether Dortmund's agents send that info out on time and not delay things any further.
Why on earth didn't we make a move while this summer's release clause was still in effect?
We've missed our chance for this summer.
Because the release clause for this summer was €60 million. Next summer is ~€45 million. Perhaps we feel we can split the difference?
That's why I don't think the links to Upamecano are legitimate. We've tracked him for a few years, but I don't think we'll make a move for him this summer.
You think we can buy him for less than his 2020 summer release clause after the clause expired and he signed a new contract?
That strikes me as rather optimistic.
That would make sense they have been struggling to bring players in due to funds. I am not allowed to post media yet but RB's English Twitter just tweeted a reminder he's signed until 2023. These German clubs are throwing it at us publicly, who knows what's going on behind the scenes.
Agree with that.
The only way a deal for Upamecano happens is if we are willing to let them have Axel in addition to more than his 2021 release clause.
Sorry, but this has "Woodward briefing" written all over it. Reminds me of the "United Bid 90m for Varane" days.
If it’s a brief, none of the big lot (Stone, Peach, Ducker, Hirst) have got it which would be a bit strange. More likely some agent talk that the club haven’t bothered to deny yet imo.
The cash component is a point for discussion, but giving them Axel as part of the deal is perfectly acceptable.
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Not sure if serious..
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