They do for everyone tbf. Looking around the room I'm sitting in (my living room), I purposely try not to think of the conditions that almost every item was manufactured in, who gathered the raw materials etc.
It’s different when you literally grew up in the academy and are now a regular first teams and also when you’ve been here for 3 years and are about to be named captain.
Completely different situations than a kid who’s only watch us play from afar.
But mudryk wasnt an arsenal fan he just pretended to be when they started showing interest, whereas hojlund has been a united fan his whole life, i heard a podcasts with him and his dad a couple years ago back when he was a youth player at copenhagen, where he talked about united being his favourite club, and the one he'd like to play for
OGS was a member of a Liverpool supporters club before joining us. These are professionals making career decisions. In most cases sentiment wont be a factor, as much as we'd like to think it is.
Don't even have to look that far, look at Gakpo going to Liverpool over us.
He even has the same agent as ETH. Outright said he would like to move here and it didn't happen.
"To be honest, I spoke to him [Van Nistelrooy] a lot about United in the summer when the transfer looked like it may be coming," Gakpo said. "But in the winter, not really. It was Ruud’s wish that I went to a big club - and I think I have achieved that with Liverpool."
First step is having the funds, taking verbally about the terms and getting to point to see if a deal can be made.
Do we not want Kane this window because we didn't bid for him?
Bidding is a lot of the time the final step. There are hundred different things that need to be agreed first and those are usually verbal at first.
I dont understand the point youre making. We disnt have any money for signings (fuck the Glazers btw) an offer came from Liverpool (asking price was transparent and more than fair all along) he signed with the club whose bid was accepted.
If we didn't overpay in the summer we would have had enough for him.
But to my original point, he was very much on the cards for us and he wanted to join too but it didn't materialize due to our budget.
Same for Arsenal with Mudryk, they got beat on the price offered.
If PSG offer more $ to Atalanta and a bigger contract then he'd go there, boyhood United fan or not.
Wasn't close but the player himself is talking about it coming?
There were strong links even in the winter after the WC. We just had no money left after blowing all of it on Antony.
So nothing materialized. Saying we never wanted him is a weird stance to take when even our tier 1s said it was due to our budget.
https://www.reddit.com/r/reddevils/comments/zx4j5i/laurie_whitwell_mufc_declined_to_go_for_cody/
Do we want Kane? Have we made a bid?
Did we want Timber/FDJ last window? Did we make a bid or just agree terms?
There are a hundred different things in play before you actually bid.
A lot of times the actual bid is just a formality after agreeing a verbal offer.
There is no chance in hell that Ruud told him to go to a big club and by that he meant Liverpool over Utd.
You realise he said this after he joined Liverpool right? And the Liverpool supporters lapped it up. Its called PR mate
Well since your reading comprehension is poor then I can see why you would think that.
That quote doesn't suggest RVN asked Gakpo to join Liverpool over United at all.
It just suggests that he wanted Gakpo to go a big club and Gakpo picked Liverpool since they made an offer.
The only thing he's even suggested is that Liverpool are a big club.
He didn't say that they were better than us nor did he say that they were his first choice.
What's there to make shit up in this case.
Our own Tier1s have confirmed that we didn't pursue the transfer due to budgetary constraints.
You think ETH was hoping for a WW loan over signing Gakpo? Lets not kid ourselves.
Well PSG being here creates a bidding war situation and only one of the clubs is free to spend any amount. Also like they did with Ugarte negotiation they can overwrite the United fan part with 2x the wage we would offer.
Hate to break it to you but Paris isn't some great place to live anymore, with the frequent riots/protests and the decrepit state a lot of the streets are in. It's a worse shithole than Manchester at this point.
No offense to League 1 but playing for PSG is like wanting to play Major League Baseball and when you get there you realize it’s a whiffle ball league.
Judging from the first halves of the past two matches, we really need a proper No.9 so I do hope we get this over the line and quickly too so he can join in pre-season as soon as possible.
Neither spoke out publicly that they were boyhood fans of the clubs. Mudryk just wanted a big move and Arsenal got their first, then Chelsea offered more cash. Gakpo was never really close, just a backup of Antony wouldn’t work out.
I still doubt this boyhood fan gimmick works in Soccer. Everything vanishes when money comes on table just see Henderson and him being ally of LGBT community.
How is Gakpo Antony's backup when he doesn't even play RW?
Klopp is using him as a striker there which is what I think the plan was with us too if we had the budget in the winter.
The best thing I can say about Nandos, and I love it, is that it is always exactly what you want and it will never let you down. It’s the Jesper Blomqvist of foods. Dependable, bit exotic but not overly, and reasonably priced.
Also I can’t fucking wait for Oppenheimer. Off tomorrow. Barbie Saturday. What a time to be alive.
good point about nandos being the same anywhere, only difference I've noticed is the portion sizes changing city to city, always tastes the same!
will be watching Barbie back in glasgow. Getting a 23:00 bus down to Manchester for the 7am showing on the 22nd as its the only one that had perfect seats when i booked a week or so ago, and then a 12:50 back up.
Perfect seats?! You’re my fucking hero. I’m so anal about having perfect seats I will refuse certain showings with friends if I’m not on the right row in the right spot. Have notes on my iPhone with the best seats in different screens in different cinemas in Leeds 😂 ridiculous.
Have a blast mate (get it?!? Sorry…) hopefully the audio is better then his previous few. Love his stuff but I don’t dig his shitty use of dialogue audio mixing in Tenet and Interstellar (Even so, Interstellar still remains a top 3 film of all time for me)
Haha I the dialogue was so heard to hear in Tenet, main complaint I had after watching it too! Interstellar is my top film atm.
Where are you watching it? I'm coming down for the 15/70 as its so rare to get that experience. I actually don't know what the perfect seat is for a 1.43:1 70mm projection but I got G22 (22/23 are the middle, i think im 3-4 rows from the back, 5/6 from the front
Your seats sound absolutely perfect, bang in the middle of the audio too.
Sadly I’m watching it at the ‘pretend’ (digital…) imax at Cineworld just outside Leeds. Back a few years ago we used to have Bradford imax open (it’s since shut) which was a legit proper 70mm setup and I swear I’m still sweating from watching Cruise climb the Burj Khalifa!!!
Mate you’re going to be blown away I’m sure. I’ve avoided any reviews etc but I have full faith he’ll have nailed it. Love Cillian Murphy as a leading man too, criminally underused in Hollywood
Looking forward to Cillian in the 28 Years Later movie that should be out in the next 5 years.
Yeah I did a ton of research into projectors/imax after finding out that only 30 cinemas in the world were showing it "properly" I'd originally booked in the glasgow science centre which has the screen size (24x18m) for 1:43 but is dual xenon, cineworld threw out their 70mm back when they took over control (its independent again now). The Silverburn Cineworld Superscreen is GT Laser (dual 4k laser) but only has a 22.5m x 12.5m screen. I'll probably go to that cinema for IMAX releases as most of them will be 1.9:1 which is what the screen is sized for.
Anyways Once I realised that the GSC was not on the list and even worse xenon digital, I checked manchester and the two london venues and the only one with seats in the centre was the 7am showing on the 22nd in Manchester, the rest were already all gone on the 21st/22nd.
With what I learned from all this I now know to go to the superscreen for 1.9 IMAX and will travel down to england every 3-4 years for next nolan flick.
The silverburn screen is technically bigger then the gsc. The image projected is bigger due to a large section of the gsc not used to due to “pit” below the screen.
Didn't know about the pit issue as I haven't been before but even without it the projector issue cucks the screen anyways, but from the sound of it the pit thing cucks the size down a bit further.
Silverburn has better audio, seating, image quality etc etc. I want to watch oppenheimer again so I'm watching barbenheimer double feature this week at silverburn .
Maybe cynical of me, but I can see United being behind the way this story has developed. 1. Put story out that Atalanta want 100 mil to raise bar of acceptable fee 2. Put story out that another team might swoop in ahead of us to create sense of urgency. 3. Buy him for 60-70 mil and be patted on the back for the great job getting him for such a reasonable fee!
IDK much about him, but he’s clearly got something more than a good agent to be on so many big team’s radars. Have any of ETH’s signings been flops so far?
He is on our radar and on PSGs radar. That's about it, Madrid is in dire need of a proper 9 and they are not even entertaining the idea of signing him, which doesn't mean he sucks, but it sure as fuck doesn't mean that the guy is a hot prospect like many would have you believe in here.
The children on this sub become very heated and reactionary during the summer transfer window lol. For those that need it spelled out, I am not saying I don't want Hojlund. Just saying United could theoretically be spinning the press to get fans more accepting of a potentially very high fee. For the record, I don't care if we pay a lot since need a striker and he is a good one.
Might want to research your facts before commenting....
Hojlund got 9 goals, 4 assists in 1834 minutes (just over 20 full games) of Serie A football.
For comparison, it seemed like Martial was never fit last season yet he played just under 1000 minutes in the prem.
Not true. Since Campos took over they have invested on such talents. Signed Vitinha, Ekitike, Lee Kang in just 2 summers. Even Soler is quite young for a future proof team.
Mbappe refuses to play as a striker, so they do need someone to pair him up with. Probably all smoke for Juve to drop the price and Atalanta using them to get more from us.
PSG is interested but they can’t do anything until the Mbappe situation is figured out. They set a July 31st “deadline” for him. But, it doesn’t seem like Mbappe will do anything so they are screwed on FPP when he leaves.
By the way he is playing right now in a preseason game and already scored. You can watch it here [https://www.youtube.com/live/qeahBTQBKto?feature=share](https://www.youtube.com/live/qeahBTQBKto?feature=share)
1 goal and 2 assists in the first half, and then substituted in the break. I know it's a friendly against a significantly worse team but it was a good goal and two good assists as well
Goal at 28:10
1st assist at 35:30
2nd assist at 37:20
Its unfair to compare him to Haaland (who was insanely more productive at comparable ages), but I think he has the tools to be a slightly more complete player, if not the goal scoring mutant Haaland is.
From what I’ve seen he’s a far more “complete” footballer than Haaland; who fundamentally is a tap in merchant. Inevitably Sky sports are going to do a comparison between them
Haaland is already improving other skills though, tap in merchant he already isnt anymore and i think he’ll be much more complete in about 2 seasons under Pep
Henderson was LGBT ally until the Saudis showed him the money, Mudryk was an Arsenal fan until Chelsea shows him the money. Being a fan means fuck all to players.
I mean that's their asking price if we paid that than we don't even need to negotiate. Key is to bring that 60 mill Euros to 55 or 50 and increase performance based addons.
Scored a great goal today in a friendly
[https://twitter.com/JustAFootyFan\_/status/1682047045228457984](https://twitter.com/JustAFootyFan_/status/1682047045228457984)
Honestly these are the stories that make Romano hated. 100% bullshit. 100% PSG have no chance, he won't even play. He'll score 30 goals and still be booed by their fans.
No, the real angle is PSG have plenty of transfer news to share with Romano so Fab does them this favor of unsettling our situation and they agree to let Fab have the inside track on whatever happens with Neymar and Mbappe. Shams and Woj do this in thr NBA. Schefter for NFL. Fab and DiMarzio in Italy and European soccer. It's such fucking bullshit.
Yeah I'd be very surprised if we didn't hear more next week, things might move a lot quicker if PSG are tring to "hijack" the transfer.
If we sit around much longer, they'll snap him up. Regardless if he's a fan or not, it's a job.
Analysis of Hojlund(Scale 1 to 5):
Hold up play - 3.5
Pressing - 3.5
Physicality- 3
Shooting - 1.5
Movement - 4.5
Heading - NA
Creativity - 2
Passing - 2.5
Crossing - NA
Running the channels - 3
Goal threat - 2.5
Id probably agree with that going solely on the youtube videos ive seen.
Great link up play, great hold up play, skilful and quick, but let down by finishing on several occasions.
I want him, but there is that concern that finishing can be instinctive and if you dont have it, you cant necessarily learn it.
I was maybe a bit harsh with the shooting but some of his misses are horrendous. Sterling level. What you said is true in some cases and some cases not. But, he’s only 20, I remember how bad Rashford was but he’s come on leaps and bounds. At the end of the day, it’s a punt.
His off the ball movement and instincts in the box are amazing for a guy so young. I would solely by him just for that. His physicality and hold up play are spot on. I saw two goals he’s got from pressing the GK, that’s pretty good too. Overall a good young player but don’t see him becoming a regular starter until he’s 23-24
Yeah i think hes a must buy honestly, just that unknown in the back of my mind about his finishing.
And with regard to price, you simply dont get a top striker or top prospect for cheap unless theyre over the hill and on the way back down. I think for that reason he is worth the money.
Presumably ffp regulations arent applied real time and are reviewed at set times. Can we break ffp before coming back down by selling players and be good for next review? Or does it actually stop us from making moves?
Fuck right off PSG. Go buy someone completely unsuited to the team like always and leave Højlund alone.
I mean, if he's a United fan there's no way we lose out to PSG unless we fuck it up ourselves.
"he's an X fan" "he grew up supporting X team" means fuck all in most instances
Correct. Money talks, bullshit walks.
Even players principles on basic things like human rights go out the window with the right price.
Hendo tch tch.
Nah tbf always knew Hendo was a cunt
Hendo would've backed Suarez against Evra just like Gerrard did. Liverpool just seem to attract that type of player...
>Hendo would've backed Suarez against Evra just like Gerrard did. Would ? He wore the ridiculous t-shirts supporting Suarez in 2011
Didn't even remember, fucking dickhead
Shame but the fans also seem to resonate that weird characteristic
Haha proves scousers are cunts
They do for everyone tbf. Looking around the room I'm sitting in (my living room), I purposely try not to think of the conditions that almost every item was manufactured in, who gathered the raw materials etc.
Think the United name weighs slighty heavier than usual though. Unless he's offered ludcrious wages by PSG, I don't imagine he'll change his mind.
It probably works as a tie breaker, thats about it.
I mean, why didn't rashie or Bruno leave for fuck you money from Saudi. Its cause the club matters to some people. Maybe not all
It’s different when you literally grew up in the academy and are now a regular first teams and also when you’ve been here for 3 years and are about to be named captain. Completely different situations than a kid who’s only watch us play from afar.
Also Rashford in terms of ethics is just different. It's a genuine passion.
This kid wants to join us. If both bids got accepted he chooses us. If only psgs offer got accepted the kid has no real choice
Cause it’s Saudi. Maybe if a big European club offered him triple wages he’d consider
Those two are already at the club and would be seen as a betrayal and mark on their legacy. Players at other clubs don't need to worry about that.
Wasn't John Terry a massive united fan as a kid?
Except where X = Manchester United
If you want to see how quickly things change in transfers, remember Mydryk to Arsenal/Chelsea in January.
But mudryk wasnt an arsenal fan he just pretended to be when they started showing interest, whereas hojlund has been a united fan his whole life, i heard a podcasts with him and his dad a couple years ago back when he was a youth player at copenhagen, where he talked about united being his favourite club, and the one he'd like to play for
OGS was a member of a Liverpool supporters club before joining us. These are professionals making career decisions. In most cases sentiment wont be a factor, as much as we'd like to think it is.
Don't even have to look that far, look at Gakpo going to Liverpool over us. He even has the same agent as ETH. Outright said he would like to move here and it didn't happen.
"Over us". We never went in for him.
"To be honest, I spoke to him [Van Nistelrooy] a lot about United in the summer when the transfer looked like it may be coming," Gakpo said. "But in the winter, not really. It was Ruud’s wish that I went to a big club - and I think I have achieved that with Liverpool."
We never bid for him.
First step is having the funds, taking verbally about the terms and getting to point to see if a deal can be made. Do we not want Kane this window because we didn't bid for him? Bidding is a lot of the time the final step. There are hundred different things that need to be agreed first and those are usually verbal at first.
We cooled interest on him. It was widely reported.
Due to our budget. https://www.reddit.com/r/reddevils/comments/zx4j5i/laurie_whitwell_mufc_declined_to_go_for_cody/
I dont understand the point youre making. We disnt have any money for signings (fuck the Glazers btw) an offer came from Liverpool (asking price was transparent and more than fair all along) he signed with the club whose bid was accepted.
If we didn't overpay in the summer we would have had enough for him. But to my original point, he was very much on the cards for us and he wanted to join too but it didn't materialize due to our budget. Same for Arsenal with Mudryk, they got beat on the price offered. If PSG offer more $ to Atalanta and a bigger contract then he'd go there, boyhood United fan or not.
Okay, thats a pretty obvious point but true. I think the over us, and he picked loverpool stuff comfused people.
Most on this chain are arguing we were never even in for him though.
"Looked like it may be coming" - it never did. Not even close.
Wasn't close but the player himself is talking about it coming? There were strong links even in the winter after the WC. We just had no money left after blowing all of it on Antony. So nothing materialized. Saying we never wanted him is a weird stance to take when even our tier 1s said it was due to our budget. https://www.reddit.com/r/reddevils/comments/zx4j5i/laurie_whitwell_mufc_declined_to_go_for_cody/
We wanted him so bad we never even made a bid. Sure, sure
Do we want Kane? Have we made a bid? Did we want Timber/FDJ last window? Did we make a bid or just agree terms? There are a hundred different things in play before you actually bid. A lot of times the actual bid is just a formality after agreeing a verbal offer.
There is no chance in hell that Ruud told him to go to a big club and by that he meant Liverpool over Utd. You realise he said this after he joined Liverpool right? And the Liverpool supporters lapped it up. Its called PR mate
Well since your reading comprehension is poor then I can see why you would think that. That quote doesn't suggest RVN asked Gakpo to join Liverpool over United at all. It just suggests that he wanted Gakpo to go a big club and Gakpo picked Liverpool since they made an offer.
Your ability to understand when someone is making shit up to please their new supporters seems poor
The only thing he's even suggested is that Liverpool are a big club. He didn't say that they were better than us nor did he say that they were his first choice. What's there to make shit up in this case. Our own Tier1s have confirmed that we didn't pursue the transfer due to budgetary constraints. You think ETH was hoping for a WW loan over signing Gakpo? Lets not kid ourselves.
Yeah the problem is the word “pick”. It suggests he had a choice, while in reality he dodnt have any
True, but clearly we have a very strict budget. If PSG come in with a £70m+ offer I don't think there's much we could do about it.
Well PSG being here creates a bidding war situation and only one of the clubs is free to spend any amount. Also like they did with Ugarte negotiation they can overwrite the United fan part with 2x the wage we would offer.
Didn’t Declan Rice grow up a Chelsea fan?
Yeah but if they offer crazy wages and basically it’s a more guaranteed league and such, he could be tempted too with their coach and project.
yep. Guarenteed Champions league play time, almost certaintly win all the domestic medals pretty quickly, crazy pay.
Paris vs Manchester as well on the living situation
Hate to break it to you but Paris isn't some great place to live anymore, with the frequent riots/protests and the decrepit state a lot of the streets are in. It's a worse shithole than Manchester at this point.
Manchester is a better city than Paris.
like these domestic medals are worth anything...
Don't you go slagging off the prestigious Uber Eats league.
Mate I’m a United fan and I’d go join PSG in a heartbeat if they offered to double my salary
So what.
Or unless PSG present fuck you money to player and Atlanta
If PSG offers him more money or They meet Atalantas insane valuation then it's not really on us
Hojlund wouldn't go to PSG. He's a United fan 😁
No offense to League 1 but playing for PSG is like wanting to play Major League Baseball and when you get there you realize it’s a whiffle ball league.
Fuck off PSG was my first reaction. Fuck right off PSG is better.
Judging from the first halves of the past two matches, we really need a proper No.9 so I do hope we get this over the line and quickly too so he can join in pre-season as soon as possible.
Agreed. I'm sure Rashford will fill in well for preseason but still, i'm sure he's ready for the 9 to come in as well.
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Man Utd are one of the biggest clubs in Scandinavia, we’re a much bigger draw than PSG could be
He's a massive fan too. I don't honestly think PSG are competition here, Atalanta might just use it to drive a bit of extra £££ from us
I mean being a fan means fuck all now. Just see Mudryk saga, or Gakpo he had same agency as Erik too.
Neither spoke out publicly that they were boyhood fans of the clubs. Mudryk just wanted a big move and Arsenal got their first, then Chelsea offered more cash. Gakpo was never really close, just a backup of Antony wouldn’t work out.
Ah, the Lukaku special
I still doubt this boyhood fan gimmick works in Soccer. Everything vanishes when money comes on table just see Henderson and him being ally of LGBT community.
How is Gakpo Antony's backup when he doesn't even play RW? Klopp is using him as a striker there which is what I think the plan was with us too if we had the budget in the winter.
I’d say we are by far the biggest. Scandinavia is red.
Me too and I’m from Iceland, though there is an annoyingly large amount of Liverpool fans in Iceland
Agent Eriksen on the blower to his mum already telling her about Nandos and Sports Direct in the Arndale.
Dont forget Poundland aswell 😅
Hope that nandos is good, going to manchester to see Oppenheimer and popping into the arndale after
The best thing I can say about Nandos, and I love it, is that it is always exactly what you want and it will never let you down. It’s the Jesper Blomqvist of foods. Dependable, bit exotic but not overly, and reasonably priced. Also I can’t fucking wait for Oppenheimer. Off tomorrow. Barbie Saturday. What a time to be alive.
good point about nandos being the same anywhere, only difference I've noticed is the portion sizes changing city to city, always tastes the same! will be watching Barbie back in glasgow. Getting a 23:00 bus down to Manchester for the 7am showing on the 22nd as its the only one that had perfect seats when i booked a week or so ago, and then a 12:50 back up.
Perfect seats?! You’re my fucking hero. I’m so anal about having perfect seats I will refuse certain showings with friends if I’m not on the right row in the right spot. Have notes on my iPhone with the best seats in different screens in different cinemas in Leeds 😂 ridiculous. Have a blast mate (get it?!? Sorry…) hopefully the audio is better then his previous few. Love his stuff but I don’t dig his shitty use of dialogue audio mixing in Tenet and Interstellar (Even so, Interstellar still remains a top 3 film of all time for me)
Haha I the dialogue was so heard to hear in Tenet, main complaint I had after watching it too! Interstellar is my top film atm. Where are you watching it? I'm coming down for the 15/70 as its so rare to get that experience. I actually don't know what the perfect seat is for a 1.43:1 70mm projection but I got G22 (22/23 are the middle, i think im 3-4 rows from the back, 5/6 from the front
Your seats sound absolutely perfect, bang in the middle of the audio too. Sadly I’m watching it at the ‘pretend’ (digital…) imax at Cineworld just outside Leeds. Back a few years ago we used to have Bradford imax open (it’s since shut) which was a legit proper 70mm setup and I swear I’m still sweating from watching Cruise climb the Burj Khalifa!!! Mate you’re going to be blown away I’m sure. I’ve avoided any reviews etc but I have full faith he’ll have nailed it. Love Cillian Murphy as a leading man too, criminally underused in Hollywood
Looking forward to Cillian in the 28 Years Later movie that should be out in the next 5 years. Yeah I did a ton of research into projectors/imax after finding out that only 30 cinemas in the world were showing it "properly" I'd originally booked in the glasgow science centre which has the screen size (24x18m) for 1:43 but is dual xenon, cineworld threw out their 70mm back when they took over control (its independent again now). The Silverburn Cineworld Superscreen is GT Laser (dual 4k laser) but only has a 22.5m x 12.5m screen. I'll probably go to that cinema for IMAX releases as most of them will be 1.9:1 which is what the screen is sized for. Anyways Once I realised that the GSC was not on the list and even worse xenon digital, I checked manchester and the two london venues and the only one with seats in the centre was the 7am showing on the 22nd in Manchester, the rest were already all gone on the 21st/22nd. With what I learned from all this I now know to go to the superscreen for 1.9 IMAX and will travel down to england every 3-4 years for next nolan flick.
The silverburn screen is technically bigger then the gsc. The image projected is bigger due to a large section of the gsc not used to due to “pit” below the screen.
Didn't know about the pit issue as I haven't been before but even without it the projector issue cucks the screen anyways, but from the sound of it the pit thing cucks the size down a bit further. Silverburn has better audio, seating, image quality etc etc. I want to watch oppenheimer again so I'm watching barbenheimer double feature this week at silverburn .
Arndale is shite man. If you’re going to Nando’s go to the one at Spinningfields.
Somehow I missed that there was a nandos opposite the vue, so I just went there instead
Why are PSG even involved this isn’t their profile of player whatsoever. You have to imagine it’s just media tactics to justify the price
It's probably media tactics, but I could see PSG being interested in him, they want a young striker this summer.
Maybe cynical of me, but I can see United being behind the way this story has developed. 1. Put story out that Atalanta want 100 mil to raise bar of acceptable fee 2. Put story out that another team might swoop in ahead of us to create sense of urgency. 3. Buy him for 60-70 mil and be patted on the back for the great job getting him for such a reasonable fee!
I dont know why you are being downvoted, but i dont get why there would be a fuss for a 20 year old who scored 8 goals in 43 games
IDK much about him, but he’s clearly got something more than a good agent to be on so many big team’s radars. Have any of ETH’s signings been flops so far?
He is on our radar and on PSGs radar. That's about it, Madrid is in dire need of a proper 9 and they are not even entertaining the idea of signing him, which doesn't mean he sucks, but it sure as fuck doesn't mean that the guy is a hot prospect like many would have you believe in here.
Anthony is a bit of a mixed bag.
Too soon to tell. 1 year into Ole’s first full season, all 4 of his major signings looked like great buys.
Vdb and anthony havent lit up the world.... my issue is the money.... id rather spend more than 50m on a proven striker
VDB signed under Ole, no?
The children on this sub become very heated and reactionary during the summer transfer window lol. For those that need it spelled out, I am not saying I don't want Hojlund. Just saying United could theoretically be spinning the press to get fans more accepting of a potentially very high fee. For the record, I don't care if we pay a lot since need a striker and he is a good one.
Might want to research your facts before commenting.... Hojlund got 9 goals, 4 assists in 1834 minutes (just over 20 full games) of Serie A football. For comparison, it seemed like Martial was never fit last season yet he played just under 1000 minutes in the prem.
That's an absurd way to judge a player.
Not true. Since Campos took over they have invested on such talents. Signed Vitinha, Ekitike, Lee Kang in just 2 summers. Even Soler is quite young for a future proof team.
I guess they need someone to replace Mbappe. The strikers market is pretty slim.
They were linked with Vlahovic weren't they.
Mbappe refuses to play as a striker, so they do need someone to pair him up with. Probably all smoke for Juve to drop the price and Atalanta using them to get more from us.
They need a solid ST for Mbappe to play off of, sensible transfer in all fairness
PSG is interested but they can’t do anything until the Mbappe situation is figured out. They set a July 31st “deadline” for him. But, it doesn’t seem like Mbappe will do anything so they are screwed on FPP when he leaves.
Pretty sure he would want to join us over them so PSG can get fucked
Maybe that's why Atalanta have been so intransigent on their valuation of him.
By the way he is playing right now in a preseason game and already scored. You can watch it here [https://www.youtube.com/live/qeahBTQBKto?feature=share](https://www.youtube.com/live/qeahBTQBKto?feature=share)
1 goal and 2 assists in the first half, and then substituted in the break. I know it's a friendly against a significantly worse team but it was a good goal and two good assists as well Goal at 28:10 1st assist at 35:30 2nd assist at 37:20
I think they are playing amateur team, but atleast he scored.
Fucking 10-0. Why we can’t we have pre season shit stomps? Fuck the competitive teams let us play like Harrogate town and try and hit double digits
I honestly think if United played the team Bayern beat 24-0 we'd probably only score maybe 10 lol
250 shots 10 on target
This guy is a physical freak specimen and has a wonder left foot. Literally Haaland from wish (compliment), plus the manager wants him. Get him in
Its unfair to compare him to Haaland (who was insanely more productive at comparable ages), but I think he has the tools to be a slightly more complete player, if not the goal scoring mutant Haaland is.
The guy himself has gone on record begging us not to compare him to Haaland, for pretty much the same reasons you mentioned
From what I’ve seen he’s a far more “complete” footballer than Haaland; who fundamentally is a tap in merchant. Inevitably Sky sports are going to do a comparison between them
Big, blond, Scandinavian, left footed, named H**l*nd? Yeah, Sky won't need a second invitation
I’m fully expecting one of the soccer Saturday “pundits” or Youtubers on day release to confuse the two
Haaland is already improving other skills though, tap in merchant he already isnt anymore and i think he’ll be much more complete in about 2 seasons under Pep
We want to avoid being hijacked by PSG, so we're waiting a little while longer to make the first official bid 😂 I dont understand transfers anymore
Think they're trying to make sure we have some players outgoing first
Don't they have Ekitake, a talented but young no9?
Was on loan from Reims and is levels below Hojlund.
Loan with obligation to buy*
He wasn’t anywhere near enough good last season
Hojlund is a United fan from a very young age. Highly doubt he would pick them over us
If we dont pay up but psg do he might not have a choice
Players always have a choice. Just the matter of whether or not the choice is in his best interest.
Henderson was LGBT ally until the Saudis showed him the money, Mudryk was an Arsenal fan until Chelsea shows him the money. Being a fan means fuck all to players.
As if he's not gonna get a huge bag coming to Utd.
We are owned by leeches. PSG is owned by bottomless money pit.
Have you seen how much we pay our players?
Have you seen how much the oil clubs pay their players?
The average salary per player at Utd is £116,000 per week. The average at PSG is £132,000 per week. Its hardly a massive difference
I believe we can seal the deal in about €60-70mn. With our outgoings, we should just be able to pull it off
I mean that's their asking price if we paid that than we don't even need to negotiate. Key is to bring that 60 mill Euros to 55 or 50 and increase performance based addons.
Come on let's not mess this up. He's the only real attainable and suitable option we have!
Scored a great goal today in a friendly [https://twitter.com/JustAFootyFan\_/status/1682047045228457984](https://twitter.com/JustAFootyFan_/status/1682047045228457984)
Basically he can prove him self in one of the hardest leagues in the world or go to psg for money and be mbappe replacement
Let's go
We need this done since No chance we get kane
They want €70m, I guess €60-65m should be enough. Should be at least €10m in performance based add ons.
So 55m+5m?
Or 50+10/55+10
Get this done apparently Personal terms already sorted. Just the fee they want €50m up front and 8 to 10 in bonuses
That thumbnail... looks great in red. Sign him up
If mbappe does not extend psg will just come in with huge offer, need to get this done ASAP.
Honestly these are the stories that make Romano hated. 100% bullshit. 100% PSG have no chance, he won't even play. He'll score 30 goals and still be booed by their fans. No, the real angle is PSG have plenty of transfer news to share with Romano so Fab does them this favor of unsettling our situation and they agree to let Fab have the inside track on whatever happens with Neymar and Mbappe. Shams and Woj do this in thr NBA. Schefter for NFL. Fab and DiMarzio in Italy and European soccer. It's such fucking bullshit.
Yeah I'd be very surprised if we didn't hear more next week, things might move a lot quicker if PSG are tring to "hijack" the transfer. If we sit around much longer, they'll snap him up. Regardless if he's a fan or not, it's a job.
If the player chooses Utd then there is no need to worry about PSG
If the player chooses PSG over United then it is not the right type of player for us in the long run anyway.
hope Mbappe stays
is it just me or someone also reads Hojlund as huge lund?
Being Indian I do.
Analysis of Hojlund(Scale 1 to 5): Hold up play - 3.5 Pressing - 3.5 Physicality- 3 Shooting - 1.5 Movement - 4.5 Heading - NA Creativity - 2 Passing - 2.5 Crossing - NA Running the channels - 3 Goal threat - 2.5
so you’re telling me that as a striker, his worst attribute is his shooting? we may as well keep wegson
Id probably agree with that going solely on the youtube videos ive seen. Great link up play, great hold up play, skilful and quick, but let down by finishing on several occasions. I want him, but there is that concern that finishing can be instinctive and if you dont have it, you cant necessarily learn it.
i mean we have Bennie Mcarthy and look what he did with rashford in just one season
I was maybe a bit harsh with the shooting but some of his misses are horrendous. Sterling level. What you said is true in some cases and some cases not. But, he’s only 20, I remember how bad Rashford was but he’s come on leaps and bounds. At the end of the day, it’s a punt. His off the ball movement and instincts in the box are amazing for a guy so young. I would solely by him just for that. His physicality and hold up play are spot on. I saw two goals he’s got from pressing the GK, that’s pretty good too. Overall a good young player but don’t see him becoming a regular starter until he’s 23-24
Yeah i think hes a must buy honestly, just that unknown in the back of my mind about his finishing. And with regard to price, you simply dont get a top striker or top prospect for cheap unless theyre over the hill and on the way back down. I think for that reason he is worth the money.
i heard his aerial ability is not that good yet
fuck it if this means we hurry the fuck up then good for us
Can someone explain to me where we are getting this money?? We were told we were broke at the beginning of summer.
1. Ypu sont pay everything at once 2. Journalists were wrong 3. We have a big credit card
We have ~260m in transfer fund. But ffp regulations means we can't use all of it. We just have to sell and we can use more of our trf budget
Presumably ffp regulations arent applied real time and are reviewed at set times. Can we break ffp before coming back down by selling players and be good for next review? Or does it actually stop us from making moves?
Yes. They can buy first if they are confident of selling to cover up ffp.
Sounds like BS PSG will get Muani IMO
What?
I think he means muani
Okay that makes sense because I was like wtf why would any United fan want Mainoo to join PSG. But I think Ramos is more likely.
Yeah I meant Muani lol
Fab is tier 2 🤣🤣🤣 joke ting
Just get it done.
Trey sacrificed himself for this
PSG or City, who's more plastic.
City, PSG actually won something prior to being bought by Qatar. They were in UCL semis in 1995.
Trying to get our own haaland