RW was not a main issue imo. Greenwood played great there last season, and continue to play great there this season. It doesnt help that we`ve only used Sancho on the LW up to this point as well.
Transfer fees are the sticker price but keep in mind their combined salaries are about 10 times that of Ben white. It's not an apples to apples comparison.
Even less, according to Transfermarkt (2,35 m Euros). I'll be damned.
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In terms of sales, Chelsea were just on another planet.
Who else have they signed, I thought it was just Lukaku up front and Saul who they didn't particularly need, and the young Fulham keeper.
They started the window with the expectation of a front 3 of griezman, messi and aguero. Now aguero is injured and they are left with luuk de jong and braithewaiteSurely we're talking about the players improving the team and not net spend? As an aside, that's impressive. But spending that ludicrous sum on Lukaku looks mental too.
Not true, we badly needed a partner for Maguire at the back and we lacked options in attack. Everyone was crying for a right wing and let’s be honest, Cavani can’t play every game and was the only centre forward at the club.
We're THREE games in and Sancho has started ONE GAME
Rice was just an example. We also could have included Lingard in the deal. There is also Ndidi, Bissouma and im sure there are other more premium players had we not gone for a right winger. And im not sure about your prediciton on us using him more on the right than on the left. Greenwood is currently undroppable, and Ronaldo will play as a striker in pretty much every game.
Tbf I agree that RW wasn't as high a priority as CM but if sancho turns out to be as good as many think he will be then you won't find many arguments we shouldn't have signed him
Our lack of creativity on the wings was very evident in a lot of games last season, we needed a player like Sancho so I don't agree that he is a luxury signing. If he had signed for a top 4 rival and gone on to be a Hazard level player we would be furious that we didn't get him.
So you'd have paid £100m for DECLAN RICE(I repeat DECLAN RICE) over Jadon Sancho for £73m? What's the guarantee that West Ham would want a swap deal or that using Lingard would make it significantly cheaper? There's a reason why swaps are VERY rare in transfer windows. Going by your logic Chelsea could have used Zouma in a swap deal to get him. These other options were in the same boat as Rice of being "unsellable" or very hard to get our last business with Leicester shows Ndidi would have only been sold for a premium fee since he's a key player for Leicester with 3yrs on his deal and Brighton didn't need to sell Bissouma after banking £50m for White. The DM market wasn't as favorable for Utd as the ST, RW and CB market and if we let Sancho go to Liverpool/Chelsea and he did a Hazard you'd be the same person in a few years time lambasting Utd for not buying him when the chance was there
RW has been our biggest issue for almost 10 years, we haven't had a true wide winger since ADM left and even than we didn't use him properly. I swear you became a supporter this summer if you don't remember Valencia covering an entire side by himself kicking balls off peoples shins. We have too many strikers playing wing roles, its more evident when teams camp in the box and we don't have anyone with the ability to dribble in the box, attack a defender and create an opportunity with a foul or pass.
Very good point. Have to say that I really don't understand keeping Jones, unless nobody wanted him. Which would not be a surprise.
Jones will stick to his contract till the end. No one will ever give him anywhere near to the silly contract we gave him. Lingard is on us. You don't ask 30m for an average player with 1 left in his contract.
I think you quoted the wrong person, I am happy with the Sancho signing
He's got a contract until 2023 so no club is paying transfer fee + wages, or even only wages with his injury record. The mistake was made back in 2019 giving him new contract, the idea probably was that we could get some money from his sale but it's still stupid decision giving him a new 4 year contract, just like with Pereira.
Why would we want to keep deadwood happy?
Because if we dont there will unrest in the camp. You think Lingard will be pushed to the reserves? Nope. Martial? Nope. Dalot? Mata? Bailly etc What are we going to do with all these players? Answer they will all get games. But we have too many players. Its going to be a nightmare fitting them all in
They might get games or they might not. Unrest is bad if our best players are behind it. Fringe players being unhappy with being fringe players isn't much of a concern. Ronaldo, Bruno or Varane won't be unsettled because Bailly doesn't get enough minutes.
Thanks for the explanation.
Perhaps they'd like to bid for Fred in january
... seriously, Cuty may not have an out and out no.9 but look how many goals they've scored alreadySwapping out Dann and Sakho with Guehi and Andersen changes the way the team plays entirely. Vieira is clearly trying to go a specific style of play. Palace definitely have had an excellent window and I'd expect them to have a great middle to end of the season once the team has gelled together.
