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I've seen it mentioned that we have submitted a £31.2m bid for him already, but I dont know if there's any truth in it. Think it was in the Metro.
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I'm not sure a striker can help us at the moment, the way we play just seems to be broken. We've lost our identity and the only plan we've got is to pass the ball to Sterling and ask him to do everything.
That was all you had before as well (under Rodgers at least). The only difference between this season and last season is that you don't have Suarez to bail you out.
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You only need to watch us play to know that's not the case at all. We were excellent without Suarez in the team last season, we're playing nothing like the same style of football this season.
Suarez did bail you out of a lot of losing/drawing situations though, you can't deny that. You'd probably have finished mid table without his goals, and those just haven't been replaced, and in addition the amount of space that he created for other players was immense. Balotelli certainly isn't the answer. I suppose Gerrard getting exponentially slower every year isn't helping the team either.
IMO Gerrard shouldn't be an automatic starter. He's not the 'box to box' player he used to be. Personally I would like to see Henderson and Lallana play together a bit more. Any time I've seen Lallana play he seems to make an impact, the way Gerrard used to but hasn't recently.
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Higuain is a better striker than Benzema for sure. Benzema's primary role is to help the big names score goals, his main job isn't to score goals despite being their official main striker. I don't know if maybe Benzema was happier to play that role than Higuain.
In terms of stats, Higuain had seasons in which he was statistically more devastating than Messi.
Last year with Napoli 28 starts 17 goals in 90 shots is pretty good for a less good team, had himself 7 assists as well. In the UCL 5 starts, 4 goals, 2 assists 15 shots, great really.
12/13 at Real, league 19 starts(9 sub) 16 goals 5 assists in 56 shots, goals to shots ratio of 1/3.5 is fantastic, but not his best.
11/12 at Real, 18 starts(17 subs) 22 goals and 7 assists, only 60 shots. goals/shots ratio of 1/2.7 is pretty much phenomenal, something Benzema doesn't get close to and something Messi hasn't done either.
Higuain is a ridiculously good striker, at the time I was very angry we didn't buy him and very surprised every other top club in europe wasn't in for him.
Higuain is much better than Napoli(who are doing pretty crap this year) and the italian league and to establish himself amongst the likes of Aguero he needs to be at a top team very soon.
Arsenal should absolutely have paid out 30million on him last year, we should have tried to get him off Napoli this year, I suspect he'll be looking for a way out next summer anyway. At 27(next summer) he'll have a few years at least where he could be scoring 30+ a season if he started most games at a decent club.
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That can be leveled at any of the top teams. Take out their best player and they'll generally be worse off.
We're not passing the ball with any authority at the moment, we're very slow and cumbersome in attack and it's like we completely lost all self belief. Suarez would undoubtedly help, as will Sturridge when he's back, but our football in general has taken a massive step backwards this year, bar the Spurs game.
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yeah bit silly United would not have won the Title if RVP never had that super season
and you're football started to go like now after the Chelsea game last season
and you're football started to go like now after the Chelsea game last season
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Its true but very short sighted. As now we have a player we paid a lot for, has huge wages, little resale value and plays pretty poorly for us ever since. ..
was hoping this was RvP's last season (on his current contract) but appears as though he signed a 4 year deal 
Next season Utd could have three strikers on the verge of or older than 30 (in itself not bad, but given how Utd play at their best its not brilliant - not to mention the astronomical wages they are all being paid)
Next season Utd could have three strikers on the verge of or older than 30 (in itself not bad, but given how Utd play at their best its not brilliant - not to mention the astronomical wages they are all being paid)
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Exactly what I've said and taken abuse for
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You get abuse because you quote daily mail.
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No I think it's because some fans cannot accept that the club can also be criticised for decisions made and think they must agree with whatever decision is taken, no questions asked.
It just so happens that today frankly woke up and realised RVP was an expensive foray into the old striker brigade and it also just so happens that the dailymail also thinks this yet when I've said it on here previously it's been lambasted as a busted idea...
It just so happens that today frankly woke up and realised RVP was an expensive foray into the old striker brigade and it also just so happens that the dailymail also thinks this yet when I've said it on here previously it's been lambasted as a busted idea...
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Well the problem is that tou can't sell one player to fund another. You end up writing off rvp value and either keeping or releasing for nothing and maybe have to spend another 30 -40 million to buy a new replacement striker. ..
but for all 3 of them in the next 3 years so that's a required spend of 100 million minimum just on new forwards to replace what we have now by 2017.
but for all 3 of them in the next 3 years so that's a required spend of 100 million minimum just on new forwards to replace what we have now by 2017.
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Looks like Pique leaving Barca in Jan is going to happen... and Chelsea are in need of a CB if either Terry or Cahill gets injured... Then you look at the price. I wouldn't rate him any more than over 10m these days.
Where do you get this rubbish from! United fans have been criticising transfers and the general running of the club for a number of years. We have slated a huge number of our players in that time for being below par / overpaid for their skill.
Buying players near 30 does have a risk but just because RvP is having a bit of a stinker at the moment doesn't mean he won't come into a rich vein of form again in the next few months.
Drogba and Ibrahimovic didn't slow down at 30 so I don't see why its suddenly a "past it" age. If RvP was banging the goals in right now we wouldn't be having this discussion but because he is going through a rough patch its suddenly because of his age.
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You believe a story in which Chelsea would target Pique, the single most over rated and not at all high class CB, despite both Chelsea and Mourinho pretty much having the best record of any manager of buying top CB's or stopping using or letting go CB's who are past their best(when Carvalho stopped being good he was cut despite his history with Mourinho).
Pique being pushed out of Barca, possible, Mourinho going after such an entirely useless CB, not a single chance in hell.
then of course there is the little matter that Barcelona have a transfer ban from the end of the last window till the summer 2016 transfer window. It will be hard to sell Pique in January when barcelona aren't actually allowed to buy or sell players.
On every single possible level this is a bogus story and I can't believe anyone would buy it. It is quite literally not possible because Barcelona are quite literally not allowed to sell him. But as explained even if they were allowed, the very idea of Mourinho going after an overpaid and rubbish CB is ridiculous in an of itself.
AS for Chelsea needing another CB.... errm, they have this god damned behemoth known as Ivanovic, and then further back up in Zouma, the potential to push Matic or Mikel back there in an emergency and a couple youngsters that you wouldn't want to rely on but are there.
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Yes and no. If rvp was banging them in this then no we wouldn't. But he isn't.
Having him at this age with rooney at his age and Falcao at their respective ages is an issue.
if rvp had the strength of Drogba or the all round ability of ibra then no it wouldn't be a problem... does he?