Let's just take a moment. A team just paid £75 million for Lukaku. £75 million. For Lukaku. The world has truly gone mental.
Let's just take a moment. A team just paid £75 million for Lukaku. £75 million. For Lukaku. The world has truly gone mental.
I'm sure why people are having a fanny attack over the numbers. Sunderland got the same TV money for going down, that Leicester got the season before for winning the title - the money has gone up massively.
And regards to Lukaku, he's scored 20-25 goals a season for the last 3 years for a shit team, and had a considerable amount of contract left for a team that didn't need to sell. I'm not sure what isn't to get here? The guy scores a lot of goals, consistently. This isn't rocket science.
Jeez half a billion.Manchester United have spent £587m since Sir Alex Ferguson retired
That's more than they spent in the 27 years he was in charge
I'm the opposite. Lukaku is a great flat track bully. Part of me wished we got him when he was available from Chelsea at the time.Lukaku is a great finisher. I'd rather United got Morata than him, frankly.
I would have happily spent 75m on Kane, so if Lukaku is going for that amount surely Kane is pushing inti the 100m range ?
And how many did Zlatan have even though missing the last two months of the season ? 29 in all comps I think it was. Weren't in contention then though were they. Their problems are more than just a replacement for one of Europe's best strikers. It's a formation/style issue with the players they have, as Mourinho tries to re-make United in Chelsea's image.There's more games and points to play for against lesser opposition than big games. If he gets 20 plus goals a season, which he will, they will be in contention. It's a good signing.
Imagine if the £ had not lost so much of its value after Brexit. The advantage would be even greater.It's nuts but it's all relative to clubs new turnover. It now means that even midtable premier league clubs could realistically compete for players against big clubs in Europe. English clubs have a massive advantage now given the fees and wages they can not afford. It will also make the 'prem proven' players even more expensive / overpriced.
Yeah, although maybe Lukaku's fee with add-ons is getting close anyway?
Certainly Kane's valuation - especially if he has yet another superb season without a Spurs - is going to put him in the wort of price range that would preclude all but the very richest clubs next summer
We used to have strikers like that.
Rush, Fowler, Owen, Torres, Suarez. We've been a bit spoiled really, but God I miss that sort of player
Hes a good player. But hes not as good as Zlatan.
So they have downgraded.
Im sure he will score goals but they havnt improved.
Excluding Rush (which was 30+ years ago really) - we won absolutely fuck all with the other 4 just to remind you.
We'd probably have won loads more of we'd had a mediocre striker who didn't score many goals playing instead.
That's your opinion. My point was factual.
Good for us for being best placed loserWe did come close winning the league twice though.
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