Come on you water living mammal a bit of haggling? £70M for a 29 year old who goes for £25M next season?
But for Berbatov and Carrick read Kane and Eriksen. Point is, we’re choosing who we are prepared to sell unlike the pastIs it really that different to Carrick or Berbatov? Utd decide they want one of our players and after a bit of haggling they get their man. We've already seen how they react when the shoe is on the other foot.
But for Berbatov and Carrick read Kane and Eriksen. Point is, we’re choosing who we are prepared to sell unlike the past
We don’t have to sell to United.The end result is the same though. £70 mill (if the figure is that high), is nothing to Utd, just like £30 mill was nothing to them a few years back when they took Berbatov off us.
But for Berbatov and Carrick read Kane and Eriksen. Point is, we’re choosing who we are prepared to sell unlike the past
It’s the only choice, according to multiple sources. What else? Have a disgruntled bench warmer for a year then sell for less than half the money? This isn’t comparable to Berbatov and Carrick, we’re keeping the bulk of our best players and extorting a huge wedge from a club infamous lately for being really wasteful with their moneyIf it is indeed a choice, then it's not one I understand.
Utd finished above us last season, knocked us out of the FA Cup, and we're choosing to sell them a defender who walks into their first xi?
Whichever way you slice it, and I'm anticipating plenty of spin on this in the coming weeks, it's a small time move.
It doesn’t matter what the money is like to United. It matters what the money is like to us. That’s the only thing that matters.The end result is the same though. £70 mill (if the figure is that high), is nothing to Utd, just like £30 mill was nothing to them a few years back when they took Berbatov off us.
It’s the only choice, according to multiple sources. What else? Have a disgruntled bench warmer for a year then sell for less than half the money? This isn’t comparable to Berbatov and Carrick, we’re keeping the bulk of our best players and extorting a huge wedge from a club infamous lately for being really wasteful with their money
Every club will sell any player if the price is right.Remember how cocksure everyone was 18 months or so ago that the days of us selling our best players to domestic rivals were over?
For better or worse, Levy is a business man, and he will sell anyone if the price is right.
We replaced him with Sanchez last season.Let me get this straight first NO WAY do I want Toby to leave & especially not to a direct rival but after what happened with Judas 17 years back Levy will not got played again.
Yes I’m aware Toby still has 2 years on his contract left (if we take our option up, which we will) but that concludes with him leaving for a knockdown fee in this current market. Levy/Enic will not allow that to happen hence will try to extract every last penny out of this deal now.
But line is whatever fee we get for him it will cost us pretty much that sum to replace him...
Perhaps they are the only club interested at the wages he is demanding...Let's be honest, it's the only choice because we've priced him out of a move elsewhere.
Given the choice between selling abroad and selling for a 50% markup to a domestic rival, Levy will invariably plump for the latter.
That's the problem.
No amount of spin will ever convince me that Man Utd are the only club in Europe interested in Toby.
Offer the entire amount to Lazio for SMS. That's how we come out on top of this deal.
I know it isn't going to happen but thats what I would try.
I’d still try it. He might sign. Poch picked him at the end of the season purely so he could go to the WC, so the relationship between Poch and Toby is probably good or at worst salvageable. The problem appears to be between Levy and Toby’s dad. But I argue that Toby is the best CB in the EPL (or maybe second to Jan), and we’d do better next year with him already acclimatised rather than spending £55m on the still developing DeLigt, and use the money on a top drawer CM rather than gambling on Grealish.
Let's be honest, it's the only choice because we've priced him out of a move elsewhere.
Given the choice between selling abroad and selling for a 50% markup to a domestic rival, Levy will invariably plump for the latter.
That's the problem.
No amount of spin will ever convince me that Man Utd are the only club in Europe interested in Toby.