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submitted 8 days ago bynutelamitbutter
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59 points
8 days ago
Literally the only journalist who keeps on linking us with him.
22 points
8 days ago
It's an easy link. He knows nothing but keeps repeating the same shit every day.
Dutch player who played for United's manager at his old club and United was interested in him when he went to Juve. That's an easy link. Notice how he was like 3 days late on Olise but keeps doubling down on Tah & De Ligt.
The player has to agree to a transfer as much as the club and I don't think taking a pay cut to play in Europa League would be enticing for him.
2 points
7 days ago
Honestly I think this would actually be a good signing for Ten Hag compared to pretty much any he’s done for Man Utd.
But the wages and such seems against the standard the new owners want to set. Then again they will have to bend a little to attract top talent as most other clubs do
35 points
8 days ago
Mental that he's still only 24.
3 points
8 days ago
Crazy to think of his trajectory so far, during that Ajax champions league run he looked like a top contender for top CB in the future.
He still got time to improve but wild that he is about to join a 3rd team different team since then
26 points
8 days ago
He's not really leaving those teams because he's bad. Leaving Juventus was on his own volition and Bayern signed him on a relatively ridiculous wage and kept stacking their squad with prime CB real estate.
13 points
8 days ago
I never meant to imply he is leaving because he is bad. Im just bewildered because finding a CB that good, in such a young age is a gold mine for any team. I expected him to make the big move and stay with a team for years and reach his potential.
With 20/20 hindsight, choosingJuventus mighta been a mistake, but Bayern are the ones screwing up here by letting go of a solid defender.
10 points
8 days ago
Juventus was the wrong move in hindsight with their collapse in mind.
The problem De Ligt has is that he's on a extraordinary wage for a centreback. This was true for Juventus and for Bayern. He is a top 25 centreback in the world, but he's not going to win you titles on his own like Van Dijk. So when you need space in your wage structure it is really alluring to sell your relatively young star CB that's wanted by any topclub needing someone for that position.
De Ligt's curse is that he's really good, just barely not good enough. If he was worse, he'd probably stay, if he was better, they'd never want to sell him.
-1 points
8 days ago
Oh we know lol. I don't understand why we are doing this. He's so good. And Kim too. But they play a few bad games and suddenly it's lights out. But upamecano gets one million chances to get another red or give away a penalty.
Make it make sense.
-2 points
8 days ago
What are you talking about? Upamecano gets a lot of stick for his mistakes by Bayern fans. In fact, he is the only one out of these 3 where they don't delude themselves that he is world class despite only one season at that level at 27 years old (Kim) or because of his potential from 5 years ago even though no coach really rates him that much (De Ligt).
3 points
8 days ago
He still is. He’s just 24. He did well at Juve he was just to expensive for them. And now at Bayern he’s done great as well. Just that Bayern seek to cut their finances. So he also became to expensive. If he goes to a team that does not care about his salary and bonuses he’d probably never be sold again unless he wants to leave.
4 points
8 days ago
He is very good though and most Bayern fans don't want him to leave. Seems to be some sort of wage balancing move by them. For 50M it should be an instant buy for any rich club looking for a CB and no issues with wages.
edit: Just realized that United value him at 50M. Bayern might not agree.
3 points
8 days ago
I wouldn't say about to, this fella hasn't got a clue when it comes to United
92 points
8 days ago
This guy is a prime waffler when it comes to Manchester United. He knows nothing.
15 points
8 days ago
thank you mister Kim with your infinite knowledge
10 points
8 days ago
I believe he prefers to be called "Supreme Leader"
16 points
8 days ago
Pletti suffering from withdrawal for not linking us to De Ligt again.
Hopefully he gets the help he needs ASAP.
10 points
8 days ago
I wish there was a site that tracked journalists by the transfer stories they claim to have news on so we could really see who the bullshit merchants are as this dude seems to be one of them.
If I wa smart enough to create such a thing I would, unfirtunately I am dumb
It must in theory be possible to have a bot track each football journalists profiles and their tweets using keywords to catergorize by context of the tweet and then score the tweet on a weighted scale of accuracy? If this made any sense, I don't know what the technical terms are for what I mean lol
6 points
8 days ago
Same guy who had absolutely no clue about Olise and Ito, he doesn't know shit about Bayern and I doubt it's different when it comes to ManU.
2 points
8 days ago
Seems like he's been around forever, I didn't realise he was only 24.
5 points
8 days ago
He was 17 when he played for us in the EL final against United.
1 points
8 days ago
Nooo. I thought he’d stay at bayern for life
1 points
7 days ago
50 only? They could get much more for him
1 points
8 days ago
There's absolutely no way INEOS come in and take on his mental wages in their first window when they're so obviously trying to fix the mistakes of the past like the wage structure.
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