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Not having Europe means we'll only really have to rely on 14-15 players next season, providing injuries don't take over.

Solomon to me is perfect for that. He can cover Deki and Son, takes on his man and scores. He was great at Shaktar, got champions league experience, Premier League experience through Fulham albeit injury affected, and is young.

People will moan because it's free, then also go and laugh at clubs for spending £50m on Havertz... No consistency in their moaning at all.

So what if he's free... No risk for you to moan about if it doesn't work out. But I think he'll be a good signing, and add quality we didn't have last season.
 
Joan Thomas said:
Nothing. If the players are built around to enable our club to win trophies. Like we used to.
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Are you sure about this?

UEFA cup winning side had players we bought from non league clubs. Sold Archibald to Barcelona straight after we won that cup.

The FA cup win in 91. Sold Gazza. Had previously sold Waddle.

Do you and John live in some sort of alternative dimension where these things never happened? We only built these great sides of household names and never sold anybody?
 
GGTH said:
People always make judgments on transfers before they kick a ball, do you really want the thread of every new transfer to be a thousand posts of "well we'll see how he does" until the season starts? Personally I've had an eye on Solomon since I've seen him score a brace away at Madrid, and I think it's a good piece of business.
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The fact that he has that in his locker tells you he’s a player.
 
It's amazing how some people believe spending more money on a player means that player will definitely be better..

Ndombele, Lo Celso and Sanchez are proof of that not being true.

Bentancur cost us £16m, and is probably the best signing we've made since Son.. People moaned about him.


Antony cost Utd £100m!! He's not 100 times better than Solomon is he?
 
Gatsby said:
It's amazing how some people believe spending more money on a player means that player will definitely be better..

Ndombele, Lo Celso and Sanchez are proof of that not being true.

Bentancur cost us £16m, and is probably the best signing we've made since Son.. People moaned about him.


Antony cost Utd £100m!! He's not 100 times better than Solomon is he?
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Antony isn’t better than Solomon at all.

He’s definitely worse.

Has achieved less in big competitions as well.
 
McCOYS said:
We've hung onto average players too long but apart from Kane and Son we've sold too many of our so called star players over the last 2 decades or so.
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It says something about our earlier recruiting that we have star players to sell to the top clubs.
There is a hierarchy in football whether you like it or not. (Nearly) all footballers want to reach the highest level they possibly can. For Modric and Bale, that level is the best club in the world. For Berbatov, Teddy and Carrick, it was inarguably the best domestic team in our league.
Contracts are finite. You can sell players that won’t resign new contracts and reinvest the fee received in others or you can let them leave for nothing.
Finally, players are human beings. Holding a player who doesn’t want to be here sends a message to potential incoming players that they won’t be allowed to move up the hierarchy and it gives you the headache of dealing with a disgruntled employee often in a very public way — Berbatov and Modric sagas and, if you want to look beyond Spurs, William Gallas going from Chelsea to Woolwich after allegedly threatening to score own goals if selected.
 
Give them 5 million or something. It's the right thing to do, and cultivating relationships and doing things the right way have a way of paying for themselves over the long run, look at Florentino Perez who'll sometimes pay over the release clause just to keep a good relationship with the club.
 
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It's a shitty situation.

Ordinarily you laud a club for being shrewd enough to make a move like this, but Shakhtar makes for an uncommonly sympathetic victim.

If they can be bought off cheaply, the PR of getting them to shut up might be worth it, but alas it's Daniel Levy we're talking about.
 
FightingIllini said:
It's a shitty situation.

Ordinarily you laud a club for being shrewd enough to make a move like this, but Shakhtar makes for an uncommonly sympathetic victim.

If they can be bought off cheaply, the PR of getting them to shut up might be worth it, but alas it's Daniel Levy we're talking about.
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Uefa problem though so they should be the ones needing to sort them out (pay them something)
 
Sean said:
Uefa problem though so they should be the ones needing to sort them out (pay them something)
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By the time we get him he'll only have 5 months left on his deal.

We're no more culpable here than Fulham and no-one's on their case, FFS!!!
 
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