£97.5 mil for that lump? Crazy.
Will the press be adding 40+ million to the transfer fee like they do with all of United's?
Will the press be adding 40+ million to the transfer fee like they do with all of United's?
Lukaku to Chelsea? €100m bid + player rejected
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Funny enough Andy Cole was accused of this to a lesser extent than the main criticism of him needing several chances to score.
I'd rule out Bayern and Liverpool and juve for Haaland
Who have you sold this window?Now I am going to bet for Chelsea to win the league.. Sure we will not stop here to spend either. One midfielder will come before window closed and kounde too.
With Lukaku incoming Abraham will be sold. So Lukaku money came from just the sales of our outcasts. Will spend 100 more million to sign the targets we wanted.
Which was harsh, as there's goals Andy Cole scored that Lukaku could only dream of.
ManUtd fan drooling over a rival club player scoring
Like i said - time will tell. I think he's a much impoved all round players. The decision makers in chelsea seem to agree with me. I'll be sure to remind y'all after his 25+ goal and 10+ assist season
and ps - its ok to have subjective assessments (aka "drooling") on opposing team players. Not everyone on here posting is a united fan living in manchester.
That's not what his song says.
Moses £4.5m
Giroud £1.5m
Tomori £26m
Guehi £18m
Ugbo £5m (TBC)
Bate £1.5m
Simeu £1.5m
Livramento £5m (TBC)
according to @Noodle. 5mn to 10 mn may be varied. But still minimum 55mn already came through via player sales with Abraham,Barkley, zappacosta,emerson,bakayoko,Kennedy all on the line next.
That's another minimum 75 mn worth players means 55mn+ 75 mn =130 mn income will from player sales.
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How did you get that for Tomori?
Because he was excellent for Milan and that was the buyout clause figure.
Without that clause he'd have gone for more.
Oh ok, makes sense.
If Ings could stay fit, scored 15 goals in more or less every league season and wasnt in the last year of his contract, then I dare say he'd be going for around that price, too.
Was only aware that you'd sold Giroud, and didn't think about Moses and Tomori. The others I don't recognize.
I'd say that Chelsea are quite good at getting a fair price when selling their leftovers, but isn't £75m a lot for the rest of the players? And you haven't sold them yet so you can't really say that the Lukaku money only came from selling leftovers.
Like i said - time will tell. I think he's a much impoved all round players. The decision makers in chelsea seem to agree with me. I'll be sure to remind y'all after his 25+ goal and 10+ assist season
and ps - its ok to have subjective assessments (aka "drooling") on opposing team players. Not everyone on here posting is a united fan living in manchester.
Subjective assessment is different from drooling.
Okay I said wrongly. We already got two third of lukaku s fees.Will cover full of his transfer fees with player sales further and can buy one more midfielder and defender with 70 mn over all outlay.
Sure and so did we but it wasn't enough. But hey that's just my opinion.
I'm not sure he is worth his price tag, but you can say the same about other players like Grealish, Pepe, White, Kepa, Maguire and Sancho. Football is now a grossly hyperinflationary industry. But there is no doubt Lukaku is one of the best strikers in Europe right now, stats don't lie.
How very Chelsea.
Huge fee and wouldn't be my first choice, but we were out of options, since Levi would never entertain the idea of selling us Kane and Haaland was mission impossible, at least this summer.
Still, as long as Lukaku scores his regular numbers, we should be OK. We were desperate for a reliable goal scorer upfront and now we've got him.
Still, as long as Lukaku scores his regular numbers, we should be OK. We were desperate for a reliable goal scorer upfront and now we've got him.
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Since when is £55m 2/3 of £97.5m?
I'm only joking - I get that you just rounded up.
Point is - the reported fee of £97.5m, is a high price, but yes, Chelsea are knowingly good at getting money from player sales. I don't think Lukaku's transfer fee will be any problem for Chelsea. Yeah, they probably have enough left to sign other players as well. Good for you.
Lukaku may go on to be a huge success for Chelsea because they are desperate for a 9 but this must be the first time a Pl club has made a record signing and I don’t feel scared or jealous at all . Transfer value is relative after all but beyond the price also he just doesn’t excite me much
What do you think the formation / strongest XI will be with Lukaku ?
Would you have prefered Lewandowski even if he only gave you 2-3 years of service?
All pointed out we tried to bring one striker. We tried to sign one of haaland,lewa and Lukaku. Finally we signed Lukaku. But who don't want Lewandowski to play their team in right mind.
Fabrizio with the "here we go"!
Feels weird to be celebrating when another team signs a player, but.... .
Feels weird to be celebrating when another team signs a player, but....
.That's a tough one. Lewandowski is an outstanding talent, clearly a better striker than Lukaku, but he's 33 in two weeks, so no resale value and he never played in England before. Even if he was available, Bayern would demand a huge fee so if you add wages/bonuses/agent fees, his overall cost would probably have been similar, if not bigger than Lukaku's.
From the club's point of view it might have been too much of a financial gamble, but it's not my money, so purely as a football fan, I'd have still gone for Lewa.
No idea, but if Tuchel continues with three at the back, two wingbacks and two in midfield, with Lukaku upfront it only leaves two positions available for attacking players. So it's going to be a combination of any two of Mount/Havertz/Werner/Ziyech/Pulisic on the right/left of Lukaku, I guess.
If Tuchel changes formations depending on the opposition which I think he is going to, there could be many different formations, and even some not involving Lukaku, like the one with false nine.
United fans seriously underrate him. There aren’t many center forward better than him. I have him in top 5, after Lewa, Haaland, Kane and Suarez.
I expect he'll be much better than he was for you, then every once in a while, he'll do one of his old tricks and united fans will claim nothing has changed and he's an awful player, without any regard for frequency of mistakes or how much good work he'll have gone through in a match.
We know this because plenty of united fans were doing exactly this whilst lukaku was picking up player of the year in serie A.
He was low of confidence here and I remember at one point when his boot sponsorship expired no company wanted to touch him so he had to colour in the Nike logo black. He’s a different player now and in fine form. This myth about his first touch is just ridiculous. He’s world class.
Again did you watch him at Utd. Why is it that Utd fans opinions get shut down despite the fact we watched him very closely for 2 seasons? He’s just not where near top class.
Benzema, Cavani and you probably also need to include Mbappe as CF's who are all better than him as well
We don’t underrate him, we watched him week in week out and apart from a purple patch in his first few weeks he was fecking dreadful.
Chelsea are super sus or super good on player sales. Apparently Abraham is going to fetch 40mn
This is what he has to over come. He was dreadful In big games.
Fair. It just seems like all other top clubs struggle a bit more than Chelsea on both the number of players they move on AND the fee they get. This has been the case for a while now iirc. I mean, we would struggle to get half of that for Lingard and he's a proper international coming off a big season.
Not that there is anything wrong with it. It's great that you'll can reinvest less while continuing to heavily invest in the squad.
Lingard is at an age where there's no sell-on value, that's why nobody wants to spend 20+ million on him.
The likes of Guehi, Tammy and Tomori are investments as much as players for the first team.
No doubt the criticism of a player who, for better or for worse, is one of the world's best centre forwards is over the top from many United fans. His goals record was very respectable for us and when he wasn't scoring he did some decent work for the team as you say, particularly on the right if memory serves, but watching him week in week out you couldn't escape how un-elite so much of his play was. The wrong decisions, the missed chances, the famous poor ball control, the disappearing acts in many big games are not figments of our imagination, and while you could rightly say the club should shoulder some responsibility for the failed transfer so should the player.
When all's said and done we know objectively he can be a great player, but Jesus he talked and talked in the press then lumbered about out of condition and was downright dreadful at times. We can't apologise for our somewhat tainted outlook on the bloke, and I'm sure the feeling's mutual!