Summer Transfer Window 2019

[maccavennie]

Wait what? Lössl would be gettin 11 mil for 3 years of going to training and warming the bench? We’re not paying a 2nd/3rd choice goalie 70k a week

I said we'd be paying him £11 mate not 11 million

 

[Bob Elstone]

Lingard isn’t really a footballer is he? Looks like mr magoo. So so bad.

 

[marnie]

The only way on gods green earth that we should be going near Wellbeck is on a pay as you play deal and that’s stretching it.

He'll probably stretch it himself without any help from us.

 

[SerenityNigh]

Welbeck may easily receive a reported contract of around 120k, but in reality that may as well be something like 70k. 2 year 70k contract with an automatic option for an extra year if he plays an amount of games with 5 million sign on fee = 120k contract reported in media.

And it could still make great sense for us - I can imagine we pay around 70k to Tosun. And Welbeck is surely not worse striker and is more versatile than Tosun. If we can sell Tosun and Niasse for 20 million combined, and sign Welbeck for 5 million, we have replaced our backup striker with someone who is surely not a downgrade and we got 15 million extra to spend elsewhere, ideally on a young striker that would compete with Welbeck and DCL for the position.

It just makes great amount of sense to try to sign Welbeck. He is not a bad player - he has a PL goal every 265 minutes. That's 1 in 3 striker - Tosun has a goal every 255 minutes, Niasse every 276 minutes, DCL every 363 minutes. A player like Martial has a PL goal every 218 minutes, Rashford every 249 minutes, so Welbeck is surely not a bad player. If we can get him cheaply, he surely makes sense for us. He is also a HG player, and as we are about to lose players like McCarthy, Jagielka or Baines soon, we will need to find some new HG players as well.

**Rubs sand in eyes**

WHAT?

 

[Eggs]

....at least nobody has opened a Welbeck thread.

 

[TheFinnFan]

Well deserved x

Keane keen for ManU move.

 

[onlyme]

....at least nobody has opened a Welbeck thread.

I attempted to but my computer shut down with the following message.
'Suspicious activity, you've been hacked by a RS'

 

[ProZ]

Welbeck is better than what we have by a large margin.

 

[COYBL25]

Welbeck is better than what we have by a large margin.

Which sadly isn’t saying much

 

[ijjysmith]

Welbeck is better than what we have by a large margin.

How is a player who never plays better than what we have?

 

[Toast]

How is a player who never plays better than what we have?

In the case of Niasse, it is better.

 

[buskwhi2]

....at least nobody has opened a Welbeck thread.

It might end the chances of us signing him if they did though.

(Rushes away to start a Welbeck thread)

 

[Jimishorts]

....at least nobody has opened a Welbeck thread.

Quick, open a thread it’ll quash any further rumours.

Do one for Danny Ings while you’re there.

 

[Eggs]

Keane keen for ManU move.

...god loves a trier. Anyway, Roy retired many years ago.

 

[blueblue]

Signings like Cresswell and Welbeck would appear to contradict the transfer policy as stated by Marcel Brands not so long ago .
They are both aged 29, will be on large incomes and neither will be regarded as certain starters. There will even be a fee with Cresswell.

Welbeck would make sense in some regards if it were not for his horrific injury record. I doubt that we have unlimited funds or even close to it, DCL was impressive last season and if he can improve his goal ratio then he can become a huge asset. It will of course depend on wages paid to him and signing on fee as well.

Cresswell will cost money, is going to largely cover for Digne and is already 29 years old and will have a substantial wage as well, hard to understand that signing if it happens... that would be the signing of a club that has more money than sense... which ironically could have described us perfectly at times.