Winter Transfer Window 22/23
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Yes i believe the total package is £10m fee with his wages on top which worked out around 19m euro.
I have to say, regardless of the actual cost of the Felix deal, it is funny watching Utd fans trying to convince themselves that Weghorst is a better signing than Felix 
I imagine that had somebody proposed Utd sign Weghorst over Felix a month ago there would have been a very different reaction.
Who knows how either will turn out but I'm sure Utd fans were wanting and hoping for something a bit more glamorous than Weghorst.
I imagine that had somebody proposed Utd sign Weghorst over Felix a month ago there would have been a very different reaction.Who knows how either will turn out but I'm sure Utd fans were wanting and hoping for something a bit more glamorous than Weghorst.
Don't really care as long as the person scores. It's only a loan anyway.I have to say, regardless of the actual cost of the Felix deal, it is funny watching Utd fans trying to convince themselves that Weghorst is a better signing than Felix
Who knows how either will turn out but I'm sure Utd fans were wanting and hoping for something a bit more glamorous than Weghorst.
I have to say, regardless of the actual cost of the Felix deal, it is funny watching Utd fans trying to convince themselves that Weghorst is a better signing than Felix
Who knows how either will turn out but I'm sure Utd fans were wanting and hoping for something a bit more glamorous than Weghorst.
I'm not saying that at all, of course Felix is a younger and far more talented player - but that doesn't mean he'll actually be better for us at the moment.
I think we just have to suck it up for now, the club is in the process of being sold so that will affect things.
Don
It's your way of coping, it's alright
Utd simply have no cash right now and that's why Utd are looking at players like Weghorst. Richard Arnold told fans this last summer that the club has spent all it's cash and you only had to look at Utd's recent quarterly accounts to see that the majority of Utd's £200m odd transfer spend in the summer was paid for with I owe you's. I listened to a podcast with Andy Mitten the other week and he was adamant that ETH wanted Gakpo but there simply wasn't the money available for him, so that would suggest Utd weren't simply in the market for an out and out number 9.
Rashford and Martial's positions, in terms of being able to play on the left or through the middle, gives Utd the flexibility to look at both out and out centre forwards or somebody that will play a bit deeper or wider and I'd imagine Weghorst is simply the best option that fits what they can afford to spend right now.
So Burnley have loaned out a player to a Turkish team as he wasn't cutting it and no one else wanted him and now he's the top option for a team hoping to challenge for the title? He's 30 too. Seems very odd to me and I'd be massively underwhelmed if I was a United fan.
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It was only really Burnley where he has had a poor record tbf, every club is 1 in 3 or 1 in 2. Performed well at AZ, Wolfsburg and Besiktas.
Yes the one league he was bad in is where he's now going to be playing again.
Nothing screams struggling more than 1 goal in 18 games
His record at Burnley is an anomaly, so it's perhaps unfair to write him off solely for that (which I did myself really too). Because of his size people assume he's like Chris Wood, but he's not.
It's your way of coping, it's alright
Richard Arnold told fans this last summer that the club has spent all it's cash and you only had to look at Utd's recent quarterly accounts to see that the majority of Utd's £200m odd transfer spend in the summer was paid for with I owe you's. I listened to a podcast with Andy Mitten the other week and he was adamant that ETH wanted Gakpo but there simply wasn't the money available for him, so that would suggest Utd weren't simply in the market for an out and out number 9.
Rashford and Martial's positions, in terms of being able to play on the left or through the middle, gives Utd the flexibility to look at both out and out centre forwards or somebody that will play a bit deeper or wider and I'd imagine Weghorst is simply the best option that fits what they can afford to spend right now.
That's all fair enough, I know there was talk initially that Casemiro and Antony were unplanned signings after the poor start we had. And they certainly weren't cheap.
I think the finances will be in limbo now until new owners are in place, which is a good thing in many ways.
Caporegime
I'd love Felix but I don't think he would be a good solo striker. He doesn't play that for Atletico or Portugal. He usually plays either a second striker (which we don't play) or coming off the left (where we have like 5 options) So it would definitely be an expensive gamble hoping he could play up front for us. Weghorst is a cheaper gamble and likely a player ETH is more familiar with (and also more similar to players he's worked with before like Haller)
Consigliere
Weghorst - Can we argue he offers something different? Utd have goal scorers but maybe need a hold up striker? If that is who he is?
Plus the service/quality he'll be getting is going to be different to Burnley etc.
Plus the service/quality he'll be getting is going to be different to Burnley etc.
He's good at pressing and linking the play, and a decent finisher. Despite the fact he's 6'6, he's not a typical target man and isn't anything special in the air (but isn't bad).
So people say, anyway, I'm not claiming to be an expert, I just hope he does well.
Caporegime
Martial is superb at holding up play and playing others in, arguably his best attribute. If it's something 'different' we need then it is someone who offers more of a presence in the box against teams that sit with a low block.
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I have to say, regardless of the actual cost of the Felix deal, it is funny watching Utd fans trying to convince themselves that Weghorst is a better signing than Felix
Who knows how either will turn out but I'm sure Utd fans were wanting and hoping for something a bit more glamorous than Weghorst.
No but we have players of Felix quality or better. Plenty of them really. Weghorst offers something different. A poor man's Mitrovic.
Felix is a great player but we are arguably oversubscribed in that area with Sancho, Rashford, Antony, Martial etc.
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