To replace Dave according to sky sources. Yea those ever reliable sky sources I hear you say.
Whether there's any truth in this or not....replacing a player like DDG is only going to go one way whoever we sign. Theres not a keeper out there who we can get who is better or even as good for me. So whoever we sign it's going to be a downgrade.
Schmeichel has been as good as anyone in the league bar DDG over last 24 months so it's not like we'd be getting a shoddy player IF we do sell Dave and get him. I can see people moaning too though as he's a clear step down in quality from safe Dave.
Oblak n Handanovic supposedly our other two main options.
Personally if we get £60m for Dave and could get Kasper for £20m tops then him n Romero as our two main keepers wouldn't be disastrous as long as the rest of the team is strengthened greatly as well.
What do we reckon? Sucks even contemplating losing our best player I know but it has been coming. He's gone for sure this year I reckon.
Kasper Schmeichel our No 1 target
posted on 2/5/17
Fair play to Zidane
About to win the league for the first time in years and is probably the best placed side to retain a CL for the first time
posted on 2/5/17
comment by Keano's Magic Hat (U10101)
posted 15 hours, 1 minute ago
How would people feel if we got Heaton?
He's been sensational for Burnley this season and would be home grown.
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It would continue our financially sound policy of letting Academy graduates go for free before buying them back at artificially inflated prices quite nicely
How about Heaton, Keane and Drinkwater this summer?
posted on 2/5/17
comment by Robb : the Martin Samuel of ja606 (U21234)
posted 3 hours, 38 minutes ago
Fair play to Zidane
About to win the league for the first time in years and is probably the best placed side to retain a CL for the first time
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Yet by the end of the month could very well end up potless and out of a job.
posted on 2/5/17
comment by Robbing_Hoody (U6374)
posted 5 hours, 56 minutes ago
comment by Robb : the Martin Samuel of ja606 (U21234)
posted 7 hours, 55 minutes ago
comment by Robbing_Hoody (U6374)
posted 1 hour, 17 minutes ago
think we'll need 6 signings tbh
With these guys gone and likely going
Morgan
Bastian
Depay
Rooney
Ibra
Smalling
Jones
Carrick
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If they went Utd would have to buy some home grown players I think so this story possibly has legs. Great story too.
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We have Lingard signed up and I think we might bring in Keane to add to the likes of Rashford and TFM etc
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TFM is too young to count I think as is Rashford.
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Correct on both counts.
Not that it matters because you can have a squad (albeit a small one) with zero homegrown players registered if you like.
posted on 2/5/17
Yes you can but Utd are not going to I wouldn't have thought. I expect Smalling and or Jones to stay as a result.
posted on 2/5/17
comment by Robbing_Hoody (U6374)
posted 2 minutes ago
Yes you can but Utd are not going to I wouldn't have thought. I expect Smalling and or Jones to stay as a result.
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I think one or both will go after Joses words. I feel he feels he can't rely on them so will get rid
Keane from Burnley is odds on to join us and he's homegrown.
posted on 2/5/17
You need 8 for a full squad.
posted on 2/5/17
Keane would be interesting as he may count as home grown by the club.
posted on 2/5/17
comment by Robbing_Hoody (U6374)
posted 8 minutes ago
Yes you can but Utd are not going to I wouldn't have thought. I expect Smalling and or Jones to stay as a result.
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As it stands, we have only 14 overseas players registered, so even if Zlatan was to resign and DDG stays, we'd be able to register three more.
Then we have eleven homegrown players that we'd need to register (including both Pereiras and Januzaj). I think it's pretty likely that Januzaj, Rooney and Carrick will go.
That would allow us to register three more players either homegrown or otherwise to make it back up to 25.
Any of Young, Jones and Smalling might still go, but not because we need to hang on to homegrown players.
Rashford, TFM, Tuanzebe, Riley and CBJ will still count as U21 players and wouldn't need to be registered.
posted on 2/5/17
*I should add that all of those U21 players (Rashford, TFM, Tuanzebe, Riley and CBJ) will count as homegrown by the time they hit 21 and need to be registered.