Transfer Tweets - Summer 2017 | Keep it on topic

Vanya said:
I disagree, ive described THE problem.

Its a problem thats inherent to Mourinhos style of football and his philosophy. Take a look at his possession based Cheslea and Madrid side and they all had the same problem when they came up against solid defensive sides.

We had 10 draws at home where we roughly averaged 60-65% possession and scored no goals or only 1 per game. If we had made use of all that possession and won those games, we would be 20 points better off, 2nd in the table only 4 points behind Chelsea.

Mourinho is practical. He identifies teams that are better at keeping possession than his team and he lets them have the ball. In the entire league season Mourinho only really played an all out counter attacking style against city, arsenal, spurs, liverpool away, chelsea away against the rest he tried to keep possession. Theres no doubt that our main issue is opening teams up when we have the ball. But i do agree, having a great counter attack is an advatage against the top sides. Regarding that i disagree with you again, I highly doubt Perisic is the best player for making our counter attack potent.
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That was never THE problem.

THE problem was poor finishing. Our table standing would have been much different if we simply took as small as 40% of our chances. It's easy to forget how many times we opened up defences and then blew the chances away. Zlatan, Pogba, Raahford, Lingard, Mikhi etc all lost clear sitters.

I agree that what he outlined was also a problem but it was just a part of a few crucial problems.

I do like your analysis though.
 


Manchester United are indeed interested for Alvaro Morata, but what they are offering (€70m) is far from what Real Madrid wants [cope]

Looks like this one could develop into a full blown saga.
 
God I hate these pigs. When Ronaldo wanted to leave we sold for a reasonable price, De Gea ditto. But now Morata wants to go the other way to get game time and it's got to turn into this big drama.
 
If Morata is worth 80 to them, what do they value Benzema at? 100? They clearly want to fund Mbappe.
 
don't sign old players said:
God I hate these pigs. When Ronaldo wanted to leave we sold for a reasonable price, De Gea ditto. But now Morata wants to go the other way to get game time and it's got to turn into this big drama.
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Its a different market these days. This year is even significantly more inflated than last. The Pogba deal was probably the start of a lot of expensive player transactions.
 
I don't think we should offer more. No one else is going to pay that much, and if we've actually agreed terms with him (as reports say) then surely he won't go anywhere else. Also I'll find it really annoying if we basically fund the eventual transfer of Mbappe to Madrid.
 
Raoul said:
Its a different market these days. This year is even significantly more inflated than last. The Pogba deal was probably the start of a lot of expensive player transactions.
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Specially for us, as it is obvious we are in need of a striker.
 
don't sign old players said:
God I hate these pigs. When Ronaldo wanted to leave we sold for a reasonable price, De Gea ditto. But now Morata wants to go the other way to get game time and it's got to turn into this big drama.
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That's simply not true.

Nothing reasonable about 80 million in 2009.

Markets were still reasonable then.


And we demanded Real pay the amount in one instalment.
 
willhse456 said:
I don't think we should offer more. No one else is going to pay that much, and if we've actually agreed terms with him (as reports say) then surely he won't go anywhere else. Also I'll find it really annoying if we basically fund the eventual transfer of Mbappe to Madrid.
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But what if they don't really want to sell? He is a useful player for them.
 
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don't sign old players said:
God I hate these pigs. When Ronaldo wanted to leave we sold for a reasonable price, De Gea ditto. But now Morata wants to go the other way to get game time and it's got to turn into this big drama.
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K2K said:
That's simply not true.

Nothing reasonable about 80 million in 2009.

Markets were still reasonable then.


And we demanded Real pay the amount in one instalment.
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I think the initial comment was very much tongue in cheek. The Ronaldo transfer dragged on over a couple of seasons, ending in a world record fee. The De Gea transfer has rumbled on, been on, scuppered by a dodgy fax machine, then off again. All whilst we demand a world record fee for a goal keeper.
 
Even tho I value Morata I prefer us going for Aubameyang (who may be a bit overrated) than funding Mbappe's transfer for those Madrid cnuts.

Heck even Belotti is an option in that case, no matter how unproven he is.
 


Retweeted by Diego Romano. Basically David Orstien of BBC in Spanish terms.
 
willhse456 said:
I don't think we should offer more. No one else is going to pay that much, and if we've actually agreed terms with him (as reports say) then surely he won't go anywhere else. Also I'll find it really annoying if we basically fund the eventual transfer of Mbappe to Madrid.
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Mbappe isn't coming here. Real have won the CL 3 times in the last 4 years and are his dream club.. we on the other hand have only qualified for the champions league twice in the last 4 years and don't look as if we are quite good enough to compete yet, all we can offer is a boat load of money in comparison. Madrid will get their man whatever so just enjoy Morata for the potential player he can be.
 
Stan Jefferson said:
Morara leaving for manchester. His agent asked madrid about more playing time and madrid have said he can leave. Money will go towards Mbappe move.
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I think it also says something about the Telegraph, so perhaps this is based on yesterday's report instead of their own.
 
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