You 8-2 See One Team Score 9 Times- The Other Teams Thread

Anything to avoid spending in the summer.

Then in another season we'll be hearing about how he is finished and how we can't get rid of him.

Lucas has been a great servant.. I have defended him on here as well as criticized him on here. However his time should have been done.

Which shows what kind of level planning we're doing. We sell a talent most of us here valued well over €40M last summer, who turns around and is now worth double less than a year later (shocker!) and who would meet a need for next season.

Hey at least we forced Bale and James to stay two summers ago and told then we wouldn't let them go..... even though our manager wanted nothing more.

 

Fair enough, but since you think everyone is going overboard linking names to the club, who can the club get in your opinion that you think are realistic options to " fill in" said spots, if we get the squad down to only useful players ?

 

Sancho to United is much closer now, apparently the deal will be sealed soon.

 

Apparently Chelsea are seriously making a move for Halaand as well.

 

Maybe we'll make a "serious" move for Mbappe...maybe...

 

I hope so, if not him then some other players, we simply can't go into next seaosn with this same attack.

 

Manchester United are in talks with Paul Pogba over a new contract. The midfielder either has had a change of heart and wants to stay at the club or there are no offers for him because of the current financial climate.

(Source: Sky Sports) pic.twitter.com/McKSE9zgev

— Transfer News Live (@DeadlineDayLive) June 10, 2021

 

Yet people constantly blow the "Hakimi can't defend" thing way out of proportion.
We've been playing a 30 year old winger as RB, he would do just fine.

 

Who said Lucas is the best comparison?
Hakimi was not that bad for us in the season he played for us and he was a teenager. Dude is a good player. Good RBs are extremely hard to find, someone like Hakimi is even harder.

 

We'll probably see Bale quitting golf before Carvajal manages to have a healthy season.

 

Carva played 31 league games in 2019-20. Hakimi was used to playing that many games as a starter at BVB. His agent had a strong tone about playing time last summer. An injury plauged season by Carva and fans making themselves believe that Hakimi would have taken a rotation role based on a recent quote when it was convenient for him to say that. Morata does that a lot after every transfer. Why was Hakimi's agent harping so much about his role being key last summer then?

 

Well, we can consider all that drama to every discussion or we can go back to the basics. Is he a good player or not. I think he is. Is he worth 60-80 million? Of course not.

 

If Mbapoe thinks that’s his PSG are winning anything important soon I would ask him to think again. From what I understand they are going with a mid of verratti winjaldum and paredes as starters next year.

 

It's moronic. As if what we are missing is more defensive FBs. No, we need attacking ones... heck one who could also play as RW in emergency.

We sold for €40M last year and when some of us complained about the price the same people told us it was a good price. A year later the same people are trying to convince us the player is trash.

The reality is we are being poorly ran.... ran right into the ground (in terms of on-field, personnel management, etc)

 

I still think selling Hakimi for 40m was good business but wtf do I know.

 

It's not even about bringing him back at this point, it's how the hell was it intelligent or good planning to sell him for €40M yet do everything to keep the other bums we have forced into this team?

 

It was "good business" if you take it out of context.
If you take into consideration that we've kept Marcelo, Isco, Asensio, Lucas and Odri while selling someone who would have provided Carvajal healthy competition and eventually replaced him when the time came, then it doesn't sound like such good business, does it?

 

I’d refer honestly to @Saeta Rubia post above. Isn’t the difference that Hakimi was the only one of those guys that wanted to go?

 

Bild says Bayern willing to sell Coman for around 65 ME as they have no intention of matching his 20 ME gross wages demand.

 

We going to have a Euro's thread or follow the games on this thread?

I wasnt fussed a week or 2 ago about it but I am buzzing about this tournament now!