Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - The Slotification of Liverpool is nearly complete

[Givethanks]

Real Madrid's Guler sidelined with knee injury and could need surgery

Real Madrid attacking midfielder Arda Guler is set for a spell on the sidelines after sustaining a knee injury. He will undergo a platelet rich plasma injection and if this is not successful in treating the problem, he will require surgery. Madrid confirmed the 18-year-old had been diagnosed...

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Same injury as Fati, and we know he hasn't been the same since. I hope he comes back the same player, such a shame for such a young player

 

[nyknick]

How do we know ETH has so much involvement in transfers?

Not so much the Hojlund signing but all other transfer targets with Dutch connections. For example I understand the Mount transfer even though he was overpriced, ETH needs a midfielder with a certain profile, Mount is a known quantity and both ETH and DoF agree that he's the man they need.

But there is zero percent chance that United higher ups had any clue who Malacia was, zero chance they had interest in both Timber and Martinez. Wout Weghorst signing was a complete embarrassment, you're telling me a club with a scouting network as big as United's doesn't have more of a contingency plan and possible targets for each position. If they had done any due diligence and had any other right wing targets, they would never spend 95m on Antony.

Onana was available on a free transfer a year ago, these fukking idiots didn't even know they needed a goalkeeper, much less who Onana was. He was coming off of a drug suspension season and wasn't even guaranteed a starting spot at Inter. And then a year later United pays 50m for him.

I won't even get into the whole FdJ saga

 

[Givethanks]

Selling Dembouz would be suicide

 

[TobiOT]

Not so much the Hojlund signing but all other transfer targets with Dutch connections. For example I understand the Mount transfer even though he was overpriced, ETH needs a midfielder with a certain profile, Mount is a known quantity and both ETH and DoF agree that he's the man they need.

But there is zero percent chance that United higher ups had any clue who Malacia was, zero chance they had interest in both Timber and Martinez. Wout Weghorst signing was a complete embarrassment, you're telling me a club with a scouting network as big as United's doesn't have more of a contingency plan and possible targets for each position. If they had done any due diligence and had any other right wing targets, they would never spend 95m on Antony.

Onana was available on a free transfer a year ago, these fukking idiots didn't even know they needed a goalkeeper, much less who Onana was. He was coming off of a drug suspension season and wasn't even guaranteed a starting spot at Inter. And then a year later United pays 50m for him.

I won't even get into the whole FdJ saga

Amrabat played at Utretch when ETH was there.

Ralf told them about Luiz Diaz, Nkunku and Julian Alvarez and Man Utd were like.

 

[Winston]

Ten Hag's vision so far... I'm not saying anything

 

[GnauzBookOfRhymes]

• 30+
• High wages
• Wants Champion’s League football

I figured at that age he would've cashed out in Saudi lol

 

[merklman]

I figured at that age he would've cashed out in Saudi lol

Zaha? Im sure i read even Saudi clubs were turning him down due to salary expectations

 

[Ill-Yaz]

72 million fee means Hojlund has to be starting every game. This also means that he is expected to bang in 25-30 goals this coming season.

Anything less would make him a failure.

 

[Ill-Yaz]

72m for Hojlund United stay getting finessed by everyone

So angry right now

 

[nyknick]

72 million fee means Hojlund has to be starting every game. This also means that he is expected to bang in 25-30 goals this coming season.

Anything less would make him a failure.

We can only hope he'll be able to hypnotize defenders like this

 

[Diddly Drogba]

We can only hope he'll be able to hypnotize defenders like this

Act like ronaldo at age 20 wasn't hypnotizing defenders brehs

 

[nyknick]

Act like ronaldo at age 20 wasn't hypnotizing defenders brehs

 

[Givethanks]

 

[Ukbrotha]

Crazy fee for Hojlund. Just hope he doesn't crumble under the pressure.

 

[TobiOT]