Increased Costa Living - The Transfer Thread

Right. I dont think he really needs to go anywhere to be honest. Dortmund is a big club, though how they re-stock after they eventually lose some of their big names either to transfers or age (Auba, Reus) will be interesting.

 

If he keeps on developing he might move to Bayern, Madrid, Barca or whatever, at some point. I just don't think it's a necessity for him to move at the end of this season or possibly even the next.

 

lol. some old timer who used to play for bayern said they should get pulisic, that's all.

you can say that about any young player: should he stay/go to Club A/B/C?

 

Pulisic said he also couldn't ever see himself playing for Bayern.

 

More rumors that united will be looking to get Willian in January. I'd be more ok with that than Matic but still don't think we should sell to them.

 

Rather take Martial

 

Ha. There's no trading!

I dont think Willian is going to United. He's always been a glorified bench player for us anyway. His "breakout" season was an aonomaly and in fact, Oscar was superior to him in every way that season despite having fewer appearances. Willian had some nice free kicks.

 

Will always admire Willian for when he was head and shoulders above the rest of the team during the disastrous season of 15/16. Only player who cared.

Unfortunately he has long suffered from stopping and starting and stopping and starting whenever he gets the ball to be too effective anymore. Never seemed to reach the heights he was destined to during his time in Ukraine. Will surely wish him well wherever he ends up, but I don’t doubt that that time is coming up. United can honestly have him if they’re paying any sort of fee even slightly above average/market value imo

 

It is true he seems to have lost something this season, but I think he had more than 1 good year. I would like to see him stay as recently we seem to have let players go without replacing them with an upgrade or even a comparible player.

 

Don't think this team loses anything if he goes but I'd rather not see us make United better as Jose will surely use him in a specific capacity that helps their team.

 

Well Willian certainly contributed yesterday

 

I mean yea, I guess, if you're into scoring and drawing pk's and stuff

 

I don't think that was ever in doubt... a couple goals against Qarabag don't really change the fact that he was at the center of a couple of our absolute worst performances in the Prem this season.

And considering Eden & Morata's form as of late, the only chance he has of displacing either is if they get hurt. And even then he has Pedro to contend with. The reality is he's 4th choice as far as our attackers go. Its unfortunate for him since he was starting quite a bit until the passing of his mother and Pedro rose to the occasion for us.

 

Oh hey, we're going to swoop in for Aubamayang, which makes sense because he'll sit on the bench here.

Everton makes more sense, to be honest.

 

I don’t really want to say it because all of the hype and discussion is so much more intensive with him, but Pulisic would be a decent fit for what we need, no?

 

Aub is an out and out striker. We need one, yes, but he won't come here to sit behind Morata. Finding a top striker who is willing to sit and then paying them to sit is hard to do/find.

Pulisic is a right winger/central attacker. I'd welcome him as competition but I'm not sure he beats out Pedro and Willian. We need another striker first. Michy is just, I don't know what he is.

But Pulisic's price would be a lot less than the crazy 43m Juve is going to pay for Douglas Costa, who is just a left winger. Or maybe not. Pulisic is about the same player as Dembele and they have both put in the same amount of time at the top level. Dembele is at Barca for a gazillion dollars. Why? He's French. Pulisic is not.

 

If Mourinho got rid of De Bruyne and Salah then he is horrible at spotting talented players. Imagine Chelsea with both of them on the team, Chelsea would be amazing.

 

This but Jose's eye for talent was always hit or miss.

Frickin Juan Cuadrado... talk about a waste of time and money.

 

Well, it's also not just a one way street. Players at this level want to play and most likely had their agents push a move. Both players went to intermediary teams to make the jump to another shot at the big time.

There are also stories about Jose basically ignoring both players, so there's that, too.

 

Rumors that Real, Barca and AC are monitoring he Luiz situation heading into January