Mount now done and it looks like we are in talks with Inter over Onana and I'm sure a compromise can be agreed there.
Those two deals probably means getting a striker (Hojlund perhaps) will boil down to how many players we can sell though.
Henderson, Fred, Bailly, Elanga and 1 or 2 others will hopefully get us the £20-30m (or more) we need to get a striker in with our rumoured remaining budget.
Maguire and Sancho I feel will be staying put. Can't see where they would go and who would take them on those wages. Both players would need to probably half their current salary to find a club the form they both in. What a mess.
Really happy with the Mount signing. Although I'm a bit surprised he's been given the 7 shirt tbh. That's huge pressure on the lad. Hopefully it doesn't weight too heavy on him as it has on others.
1 down 2 more to go (hopefully)
posted on 5/7/23
Or Fred, McTominay and Casper are off.
posted on 5/7/23
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comment by The Process (U20671)
posted 7 minutes ago
I said a few weeks back that if we can upgrade on De Gea, Eriksen and Martial in our starting XI that we should improve drastically and I'm hopeful we will.
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Is Mount an improvement on Eriksen? Never seen Mount reach any level Eriksen has been.
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Yeah he is.
He's not a world beater that is going to make us title contenders but he's better than Eriksen for sure. Eriksen really struggled last season physically in the last half of the season.
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But Mount was even worse last season. He was so bad that he even got dropped when Chelsea were awful.
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Utd are desperate for a marquee signing so they want to hype up Mount who they are paying an astonishing amount as wages to secure him, and I am afraid I don't see what Mount brings to them?
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So basically what Liverpool have done with Szoboszlai
Paying more up front for an unproven PL player who hardly lit up the bundesliga and no decrying United paying less up front for a first team player in the PL?
posted on 5/7/23
comment by Kobbie The King Mainoo (U10026)
posted 24 minutes ago
Or Fred, McTominay and Casper are off.
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Yes, that could be true too!
I'm just pondering whether ETH may think he could make do with just the three recognised CBs (even though I don't think it'd be the wisest move) if we can't get the CB he wants.
posted on 5/7/23
That would mean we would have sold Maguire, though. So I’m pretty certain we’d sign a cb to at least be a squad player.
posted on 5/7/23
comment by Kobbie The King Mainoo (U10026)
posted 4 minutes ago
That would mean we would have sold Maguire, though. So I’m pretty certain we’d sign a cb to at least be a squad player.
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You'd like to think so in an ideal world but, as it stands, it doesn't seem there's money there to buy someone to start ahead of Varane so I'd imagine it'd be a cheap, reliable squad option we'd go for. Someone who could play DM and CB would be a useful addition.
Why at the back said McT?
posted on 5/7/23
Depends what happens with the sale of the club and sales of players really.
posted on 5/7/23
Players that should be sold/released:
Williams
Telles
Bailly
Fred
Elanga
van de Beek
DDG
Henderson (although we would need a new number 2 if we got rid of both and bought Onana)
I can't see anybody else leaving, that list is as ambitious as it can get.
posted on 5/7/23
Inter director Ausilio on Man Utd bid for Onana: “As of today, the proposals are not at the level we expected”.
“In this moment he’s our GK and André is key player for us — we’d like to keep him, then we’ll see what happens. We wait for him on July 13 for pre season”.
posted on 5/7/23
comment by _Viva_Vida (U6044)
posted 20 minutes ago
Players that should be sold/released:
Williams
Telles
Bailly
Fred
Elanga
van de Beek
DDG
Henderson (although we would need a new number 2 if we got rid of both and bought Onana)
I can't see anybody else leaving, that list is as ambitious as it can get.
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McTominay as well.
posted on 5/7/23
If we did sign Onana we may even see a bit of a comeback from Maguire (if he stays). He's not as bad as he showed at times last season and having a keeper that isn't stuck to his line and is decisive would surely help him. It'd be very optimistic to expect Varane to play every game and Maguire has shown himself capable of putting in decent performances for us in the past. I really think some underestimate just how nervous De Gea was making his defenders these last few years. Yes, he's made saves too of course but I'd wages he wouldn't have to make half of them if we controlled games better.