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Get £50-60m now or 0 in the summerSelling Eriksen to United is an unmitigated disaster. I know the itk's said he's been fucking us around but how has it come to this?
Get £50-60m now or 0 in the summerSelling Eriksen to United is an unmitigated disaster. I know the itk's said he's been fucking us around but how has it come to this?
They need several signings and a new manager before they're 'past us'.
I think people forget that we were fighting for the league title until January last season, until our injuries and post WC tiredness caught up with us. We are a lot closer to City and Liverpool, than to Chelsea, Arsenal and United. United have strengthened, sure, but they are far from our level yet.
How anyone sees Utd as any threat is beyond me. They’ll finish outside the top 6 with Ole in charge.
I canI don't see United getting a deal done in time.
And if it's the only way that we strengthen ourselves, what then? Keep an unhappy player for the last year of his contract and then let him slink away for fuck all? If he's really what's standing in the way of us getting new players in then sell him to whoever is willing to pay and do it yesterday. I'll drive him up north myself.We absolutely cannot well Erikson to Man Utd for almost any fee, simply on principle alone.
We’re either a club that strengthens our rivals or we aren’t. This week will show what sort of club we really are. Perception is reality.
Get £50-60m now or 0 in the summer
Its been spin for the last week. ITK on here telling us that Eriksen is playing up and Utd can offer more money. All the reasoning being delivered- 60mil is better than nothing blah blah - when selling to a rival is just not acceptable and directly influences CL qualification.I agree with that but if we are this close and don't wish to push on, when will we push on? When Arsenal, United and Chelsea recover and go past us?
The spin is starting now, the excuses, Eriksen - no doubt - is one of them.
I'm guessing man u are perhaps preparing themselves for losing pogba and to appease their own fans
Yeah, I'm not having it either. Only way it's acceptable is if he's adequately replaced, and by 'replaced' I mean GLC/Fernandes.Its been spin for the last week. ITK on here telling us that Eriksen is playing up and Utd can offer more money. All the reasoning being delivered- 60mil is better than nothing blah blah - when selling to a rival is just not acceptable and directly influences CL qualification.
Then today, a media release that Eriksen isn't going to be used (isn't wanted ala Walker) this season and that foreign teams are offering shit money. Could see a mile off, it was setting it up lovely for the club to say 'oh, but united offered big money and we don't want him anyway'...just like with Walker. And now the Utd rumours hot up.
And apparently CE is to blame for our window being meh, good luck selling that one. Even a long term believer in Daniel Levy, like me, isn't buying that.
I know people will say we have no choice with the contract, but dear me it couldn't turn out much worse if true.Yeah, I'm not having it either. Only way it's acceptable is if he's adequately replaced, and by 'replaced' I mean GLC/Fernandes.
If United get him for 50/60m, they're getting an unbelievable deal for one of the best CAMs in the league for the past 5 years.
...and what the hell was the point in the whole Dybala story? Now the spin is we don't have the money for all of these incomings, yet happy to release a story linked to a 80m player.I know people will say we have no choice with the contract, but dear me it couldn't turn out much worse if true.
I generally give Levy the benefit of the doubt, but I agree with you 100%.We will sell Eriksen and sign an AM next summer which we will be told to be grateful for, when all we will be doing is signing a replacement a year later.
Sound familiar?
If Eriksen leaves and we don't sign both GLC and BF, it's more and more obvious Levy has no ambition of winning the league and is simply doing the bare minimum he can publicly get away without a fan revolt to keep us competitive and around the CL places.
Selling players like Dembele and Eriksen and merely replacing them is not improving, it is not moving forward, it is standing still, and if you stand still in this league you move backwards, which is what we did last season.
If I was Poch, I'd be amazed if he hasn't walked by June 2020 if Levy doesn't finish this window having properly backed him and provided him with at least those two players. He should go to a club who display ambition to win things.
It's really so simple, if Levy provides Poch with both GLC and BF, I'll hold my hand up and say the guy has ambition and wants us to win things. If he merely replaces Eriksen, it's obviously just not acceptable.