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Should we sign Rashford?

He is 29 on crazy salary, nobody will sign him.
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I do think he has talent but I wouldn't sign him. I feel like the guy has lost interest in football a la Sterling. He's always been a fair weather player only playing well when it suits him. If we are to buy more experienced players we need players who our young lads can look up to not someone who will hide when the going gets tough.

 
Rashford has apparently played 492 senior career games, which is close enough to the fabled 500-game wall to put me off.

He's an exceptional footballer though.

 
Rashford has apparently played 492 senior career games, which is close enough to the fabled 500-game wall to put me off.

He's an exceptional footballer though.
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Are you sure? The guy had 8 goals and 7 assists in a Barca side where Raphinha was out injured for 4 months, and stilled ended the season with 13 goals and 3 assists playing the same role.

He is on £325k/w, wouldn’t touch him even as a free transfer.

 
Are you sure? The guy had 8 goals and 7 assists in a Barca side where Raphinha was out injured for 4 months, and stilled ended the season with 13 goals and 3 assists playing the same role.

He is on £325k/w, wouldn’t touch him even as a free transfer.
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15 goal contributions in 19 games' worth of minutes (plus a further 8 in the Champions' League) is pretty good, yes.

 
Are you sure? The guy had 8 goals and 7 assists in a Barca side where Raphinha was out injured for 4 months, and stilled ended the season with 13 goals and 3 assists playing the same role.

He is on £325k/w, wouldn’t touch him even as a free transfer.
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His output dwarfs Julian Alvarez whom everyone seems convinced is a £100m player, lol

 
No, because the negatives he brings outweigh any negligeable positives.
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If Rashford is not on crazy salary, you will have a lot of team queuing for him. All of this "attitude/toxic" issue is really more for fans. In reality most of the time player get along just fine.

 
I do think he has talent but I wouldn't sign him. I feel like the guy has lost interest in football a la Sterling. He's always been a fair weather player only playing well when it suits him. If we are to buy more experienced players we need players who our young lads can look up to not someone who will hide when the going gets tough.
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No team will sign Rashford as he is 29 on crazy salary, it is as simple as that.

For free and reasonable salary, Rashford is definitely an option. The problem we already have so many attacker in the squad

 
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. All of this "attitude/toxic" issue is really more for fans. In reality most of the time player get along just fine.
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Except thats the entire reason Utd got rid of him in the first place, nothing to do with the fans.

 
Except thats the entire reason Utd got rid of him in the first place, nothing to do with the fans.
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United is trying to reduce their salary.

We don't hear anything bad about Chilwell yet we sent him to bomb squad.

 
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Maybe, but isn't Rogers also similar to Palmer? How would that work? I think when you look at the depth of say Man City you could say it does work.
Get the best players you can get. I have no idea about the specificity - it is only a rumour at this point.
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I actually see Rogers as the perfect player for Alonso's main formation. If he goes three at the back with pacy wingbacks like Quenda and Gittens (i just have a feeling that he might try to create a Frimpong out of Gittens). Caicedo and the CM midfielder he wants, then both Palmer and Rogers could reside in their respective half spaces with JP up top. It has got pace and overloads throughout with genuine quality. Will they do it. Will they fck. Can they afford it, can they fck.

For a sell to buy club let's wait and see if they are capable of selling anyone in this window first to fund all of these grand plans and PR briefings

 
For a sell to buy club let's wait and see if they are capable of selling anyone in this window first to fund all of these grand plans and PR briefings
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This is my concern, if we adopt a sell to buy policy then we could miss out on any targets we realistically could have attracted.

Convincing players to come to a club without any European football is one thing but convincing them to wait until we sell a player to get the funds is something else.

Unless we buy first and sell later I’m struggling to see how we can attract any top players this summer.

 
This is my concern, if we adopt a sell to buy policy then we could miss out on any targets we realistically could have attracted.

Convincing players to come to a club without any European football is one thing but convincing them to wait until we sell a player to get the funds is something else.

Unless we buy first and sell later I’m struggling to see how we can attract any top players this summer.
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My bigger concern atm is that all i hear is content creators and tv pundits talking about who is going to be leaving as well as PR briefings by the Twattarati with some ridiculous numbers.

Would we really be genuinely surprised if we get to the last two weeks and we have sold George and Chalobah on the cheap ( pure profit) got half a dozen kids out on mediocre loans and are still haggling over an ultimately fruitless and unsuccessful sale of Fernandez.

 
Think we all need to take a step back and come to terms with some things. The World Cup is going to delay a lot of activity, and Alonso (based on briefings) is going to have a say on the squad, who stays/goes.

We aren't going to see major movement until mid/late July I reckon.

 
This is my concern, if we adopt a sell to buy policy then we could miss out on any targets we realistically could have attracted.

Convincing players to come to a club without any European football is one thing but convincing them to wait until we sell a player to get the funds is something else.

Unless we buy first and sell later I’m struggling to see how we can attract any top players this summer.
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Vuskovic is a prime example. Croatia’s starting CB at just 19, bought by Spurs last season for £10m, loaned to Hamburg. De Zerbi is trying to buy Van Hecke from Brighton, who have smartly bid £30m for Vuskovic as a direct replacement, which is well under his £50m market value.

He is a £80m+ player in the next 2 seasons with regular game time, and would be surprised if Liverpool don’t throw in a bid as a replacement for Konate.

 
The sale of Enzo is going to be key in this, at this stage he has to go but for how much. Could involve other players in the deal plus unlock some cash.

At this stage I hope he goes I really don’t want him here half hearted with pressure to play him and all that crap again.

It needs to be a new start under Alonso.

 
Bouaddi looks a great midfielder. Imagine him next to Caicedo. Looks Arsenal bound
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Not sure he solves any problems for us, but our owners will still try. They tried signing him last January, he said No. Don’t think we are an attractive destination this summer.

“According to our sources, Chelsea are pulling out all the stops to convince Ayyoub Bouaddi to join them.

Currently, the Blues are among the frontrunners to sign him.”

 
I actually see Rogers as the perfect player for Alonso's main formation. If he goes three at the back with pacy wingbacks like Quenda and Gittens (i just have a feeling that he might try to create a Frimpong out of Gittens). Caicedo and the CM midfielder he wants, then both Palmer and Rogers could reside in their respective half spaces with JP up top. It has got pace and overloads throughout with genuine quality. Will they do it. Will they fck. Can they afford it, can they fck.

For a sell to buy club let's wait and see if they are capable of selling anyone in this window first to fund all of these grand plans and PR briefings
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Interesting shout about Gittens, the little I've seen him I've thought he might make a decent, attcking wingback. Generally seems to be a consencus out there that he can't though, so who knows.

 
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