Transfer Rumour Marcos Rojo

ProZ · July 31, 2018

Had a torrid nights sleep, fancy breaking this before bed, have they no decency.

jtl60 · July 31, 2018

Funnes Mori was no better/worse than Rojo . I dont see the point of selling one dodgy argentine and buying another one for twice the price

Steve0 · July 31, 2018

Apparently we're 'leading the race' to sign him...what race would that be? lol

If he could stay fit it wouldn't be a dreadful signing. £30m for half a player isn't great business.

ijjysmith · July 31, 2018

CRIMHEAD said:
Other than one having years of demonstrated success as a D of F and the other being a scout with no experience being a D of F. They aren’t remotely similar.

Yeah. Not what I’ve heard.

Tipp blue · July 31, 2018

Lanolin said:
Rojo played 12 games last year mate so maybe not a great signing based on the metrics you yourself have decided to use.

For different reasons Rojo was injured until near Christmas last year, big difference in not playing because you're injured and not playing because you're [Poor language removed]. If there is a concern about Rojo then it's injuries.

mkrudden · July 31, 2018

Papa Shango said:
The worst that can happen is that we would be ever so slightly less rubbish but still rubbish and will have paid a large amount to get to that point.

I am not for or against Rojo currently but we do need to be wary of this "better than what we have got" stuff as that still doesn't automatically mean they are any good.

I want my signings to be good regardless, not good in comparison to other levels of crapness.

Agreed but we need to be of rational mind set. We can't just jump levels of quality of player. People use the Robinho example but back then, City were throwing money around that no-one else had. Now everyone has money. We don't have European football nor even a working identity.
The only way we can improve is with steady improvement. Rojo is an improvement so it's a step in the right direction, albeit a small one. Lots of small steps and we'll be back in Europe (7th) and we can then start to attract the next level of quality.I certainly don't mean to appear rude but it sounds like we all need a reality check as to where we are right now. A team that had 3 managers in a season, one of which was Sam Allardyce, and finished below Burnley.

Frang · July 31, 2018

jtl60 said:
Funnes Mori was no better/worse than Rojo . I dont see the point of selling one dodgy argentine and buying another one for twice the price

its Everton all over that's why !

SteStocksDJ · July 31, 2018

Hes a massive horrible snide.

I like that. Sign him up. (At the right price obvs)

Jags and Keane are too passive.

ArtetaMoney · July 31, 2018

4737carlin said:
This is just doing United a favour, helping their budget and taking their deadwood

Helping them sign our number 1 CB target, for less money. It’ll be a weird transfer if we end up signing him. He’s got to be better than what we have though.

Papa Shango · July 31, 2018

mkrudden said:
Agreed but we need to be of rational mind set. We can't just jump levels of quality of player. People use the Robinho example but back then, City were throwing money around that no-one else had. Now everyone has money. We don't have European football nor even a working identity.
The only way we can improve is with steady improvement. Rojo is an improvement so it's a step in the right direction, albeit a small one. Lots of small steps and we'll be back in Europe (7th) and we can then start to attract the next level of quality.I certainly don't mean to appear rude but it sounds like we all need a reality check as to where we are right now. A team that had 3 managers in a season, one of which was Sam Allardyce, and finished below Burnley.

The Europa League wont attract anybody, nobody gives a toss about it as there is no money involved.

Lets face it, it doesn't matter what we do, we will end up in roughly the same place no matter how we sign or how bad/good we are as modern football is rubbish.

DanB90 · July 31, 2018

Looks like he wouldn’t have an issue with breaking into your house and murdering your family.

We lack that in a defender imo.

Number_25 · July 31, 2018

Would be a strange one.

I'm not going to write him off, but I don't think we need another defender whose primary job isn't to defend.

Tin-Tin · July 31, 2018

SteStocksDJ said:
Hes a massive horrible snide.

I like that. Sign him up. (At the right price obvs)

Jags and Keane are too passive.

DanB90 said:
Looks like he wouldn’t have an issue with breaking into your house and murdering your family.

We lack that in a defender imo.

The lad cant defend but he likes elbowing people and 2 footed lunges (which he would never get away with if he come here) so lets sign him up. Extra £££ if he dislocates Salah's shoulder again.

granter79 · July 31, 2018

Tipp blue said:
For different reasons Rojo was injured until near Christmas last year, big difference in not playing because you're injured and not playing because you're [Poor language removed]. If there is a concern about Rojo then it's injuries.

hes s**t that's the concern