Summer Transfer Window 22/23

Dembele is undoubtably quality but there is a reason no sane club will touch him with a barge pole. Injury record combined with attitude and his wages. Will be interesting to see where he goes after Barca. He will have to take a large pay cut IMO.
 
Robbo said:
Dybala is a very good player, but there's a reason he's a free agent at age 28. Would be a risky signing and far from a guarantee of success.

Ousmane Dembele is an even bigger gamble, he would want a huge contract, has attitude problems and gets injured every other week.
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Dybala is like mata, but with some pace, a powerful shot and drive about him.

Given we just released Cavani, Pogba, Mata etc I'm sure we could make it so.

True he's not a guarantee. Is Antony guaranteed to be a success at 70m from the Eredivision with worse stats than Kezman, Depay etc?

At least Dybala put up great numbers for years in a tough league AND is free...
 
fez said:
Dembele is undoubtably quality but there is a reason no sane club will touch him with a barge pole. Injury record combined with attitude and his wages. Will be interesting to see where he goes after Barca. He will have to take a large pay cut IMO.
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He's taking a pay cut to stay at Barca. this broke at the weekend
 
Bigpig said:
He's taking a pay cut to stay at Barca. this broke at the weekend
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Do you know how much?

If I was any player at Barca I would be telling them to **** right off. They are pleading poverty and trying to cut players wages whilst talking about spending well over £100m on new players.
 
He doesn't have a contract though right? So it's not lowering his contract as such, he's looked around realised nobody is interested and is accepting what he can get.

However what they've done with other players is pretty ******
 
Time to go back to what we market ourselves as being good at, developing players.

You don't go to a club like Ajax and start trying to unsettle 3 of their starting 11 and expect them to play nice after taking their manager too. All while trying to hijack their signing of Brobbery.

Who was the last great player to move to the EPL directly from the Ere anyway? Erikson 8 years ago is a rarity. And he expected 11m not 80m so not much of a risk at the time.

A great manager will implement a cohesive plan and find other targets and not rely on buying players specifically from his old club.
 
Apparently Pogba is only on about £130k/week at Juventus which I really struggle to believe unless they gave him a massive signing on fee. There would have been a host of clubs happy to pay him that in spite of all the issues he has with injury and form. Hell, I would have happily kept him at United on that money.
 
fez said:
Apparently Pogba is only on about £130k/week at Juventus which I really struggle to believe unless they gave him a massive signing on fee. There would have been a host of clubs happy to pay him that in spite of all the issues he has with injury and form. Hell, I would have happily kept him at United on that money.
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You are probably forgetting to add up the wages from "helping train and coach the sister clubs"
 
Raphinha to Barca is finally just about done and we are getting the 65m, not the ridiculous 47m they wanted to pay. Surprised, I thought we’d lose out as it prolonged.
 
Andybtsn said:
Raphinha to Barca is finally just about done and we are getting the 65m, not the ridiculous 47m they wanted to pay. Surprised, I thought we’d lose out as it prolonged.
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Barca are such a joke. Begging their players to take pay cuts and then making signings like this.
 
Robbo said:
Barca are such a joke. Begging their players to take pay cuts and then making signings like this.
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And we have to beg players to come to us and try to buy completely unproven players for 100% over their market value.

Barca are doing something right.

When was the last time we got a good player to take a non mandatory pay cut?
 
The Running Man said:
And we have to beg players to come to us and try to buy completely unproven players for 100% over their market value.

Barca are doing something right.

When was the last time we got a good player to take a non mandatory pay cut?
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Barca are in a financial mess. For all our failings, we aren't.

Who have we bought this year for 100% over their market value? Define market value? Malacia seems a very shrewd buy for £13m or so.
 
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