Smalling made our position weak as he, according to report said he wants only Roma. I think we will accept this deal for 14m with add ons. No point in keeping him against his wishes.
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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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If we only bring in Reguilon/VDB, sell Smalling on the cheap and give Sanchez away for free then that’s a very weak window from us. I don’t know why but I expected a bit of urgency from Ed and the glazers.
If we are able to keep Smalling happy at not being first choice, we are in driving seat here. We should ideally be in no requirement for selling him on cheap atleast this year. Its not like we have a viable CB target this window.
14m is a fair price for him, and he's did really well for us over a decade and we shouldn't stand in his way with choice of club at this point.
In a market where Koulibaly, at the same age, is 60-70 million its not really a good price. Smalling had the superior season comparing them also.
We need to sell players tough, so we are in a difficult spot.
We qualified for CL so this isnt a surprise. If we had missed out we would have seen much more urgency / rushing.
It's madness. We are in a strong position, so get stronger.
I don’t agree. CL or no cL, this is our default transfer speed
So what's that big news Jamie!
It’s not a fair price, he’s already had 1 good season at Roma. They know what they’re getting. I’d be rejecting that 14mill anyway.
Of course not they’re decent players but it seemed like a lot of them were gearing up for Newcastle going after the likes of mbappe before the Saudi deal fell through.
yeah.. Mason got #11
We really arent in the driving seat though,
Smalling wants to rejoin Roma. Roma want him back. Smalling has no future here, he doesnt need replacing in the squad cos he wasnt part of it last year.
We have been linked with several CB's, it's clear we want to do business there but its depending on others leaving (Smalling/Jones/Rojo).
We always end up keeping players for years on end because we over value them and other clubs cant match the fee's and wages. We are the only losers in our transfer dealings because we make things so difficult with inflated wages.
We arent going to play Smalling and we need him gone to re-invest the squad. 14mil isnt that bad of an offer. We wont get 25mil. I'd rather him gone for 14m than be sat on the bench preventing us signing anyone else.
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Would be disappointed if this went through. That being said, not sure he's ready for a team like Leicester just yet.
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He can't replace anyone in the squad if he can't keep himself fit. He made a whopping 2 appearances more than Phil fecking Jones.
I swear we have been reading exactly the same or a similar tweet about Koulibaly every day for the last four weeks
Wouldn’t be shocked if the signing doesn’t even happen in the end.
Lautaro is also an amazing player. With Fati, Messi, Griezmann, Memphis and Lautaro they will have a very good forward line.
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We must be the kings when it comes to “monitoring” players. We have so much experience doing it.
There is that mention of a striker again but seen next to nothing about one. I also feel the CB links have died down since the Upamecano stuff got squashed by Falk & Cooper.
It's Napoli trying to sell him. CIty deffo want him but only made one bid so far (55+5) and doubt they'll offer so much for a 29 year old.I swear we have been reading exactly the same or a similar tweet about Koulibaly every day for the last four weeks
Wouldn’t be shocked if the signing doesn’t even happen in the end.
A Bola well known shite talkers no?
This lends credence to the idea that United might want to switch to 5-3-2. That's the only way to fit Telles (left wingback) and VdB (attacking midfielder) into the first XI.
Yeah as we saw with Bruno O Jogo is generally the one to trust when it comes
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So who starts in a 5-3-2? I don't see it.
28 soon. Hope he's reasonably priced
I think he meant 3-5-2
Sergio Reguilón will not be the left back of #SevillaFC in 20/21. The club was willing to pay the 20 million that were demanded for him, but United will pay 30 and pay the player 5 million per season. Plan B is not Cucurella and his name will come out in the next few days.
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Interesting. United “will” pay. Hoping that we get this done.
So it seems like the club are bringing in a new LB. Either Reguilon or 21 year old Mykolenko from Kiev.
We can sell them Dalot, can play both sides. What more would they want.
Linked to Telles aswell
So it seems we are definitely in for a left back this season. I hope it's Reguilon.
Over Telles?
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