We looked at him and saw potential but this was the japanese league and the timing was off.
Now hes come to europe and impressed immensely the £17million ( total not what we have paid, only if hes a success will it be £17million ) isnt a bad price for the best player in germany last season.
the best player in any league for £17million or £12million as we have paid is brilliant business I am sure you will agree.
We could spend £50 million if we wanted to?
Why didn't you?
Why was it last season that instead of signing CL standard players, you didn't sign CL standard players. There is a reason for that, you can no longer attract the better players, other clubs offer bigger wages than you. The truth be known Uniteds two main targets Eden Hazard and Lucas Moura joined other clubs, because they were offered better wages and the clubs that bought them offered fees United can't offer.
Really? Are you really telling me to quit given that absolute pasting you've had on here all afternoon?
Priceless.

This guy just doesn't give up does he?
Is he a robot?

Was he the best player in the Bundesliga? I can think of a better player off the top of my head, he's called Mario Goetze.








He's still a better player all round than Kagawa, before this summer, I'm sure you had never heard of him. All of a sudden he's Zidane and Kaka rolled into one. Most people have heard of Mario Goetze and know he's a terrific player. I think who you are refering to is not Mezut Ozil but Semi Khedira. Understandable as they are both German internationals.
We looked at him and saw potential but this was the japanese league and the timing was off.
Now hes come to europe and impressed immensely the £17million ( total not what we have paid, only if hes a success will it be £17million ) isnt a bad price for the best player in germany last season.
the best player in any league for £17million or £12million as we have paid is brilliant business I am sure you will agree.
Kagawa was in the 2011-2012 Budesliga team of the year, even whilst being injured. I know it is funny to say that they got him because of the asian market but he is a quality player. Was quality the year before but Goetze and Sahin pipped him out in midfield.
Tbh it depends. Too many factors to put it as simply as that.
For example some players will look world class in one league but move to another and do horribly (Shevchenko, Pizarro, Veron), some players will be made to look better than others because the team is based around their strengths and disguises their weaknesses and some players find it hard to step up from a poorer league into a bigger one.
Transfer fees can only truly be judged in hindsight and we won't really know if the £12/17m was good business until a couple of seasons down the line.

Some common sense.
A genuinely top class player.
Also Bundesliga POTY for 2011/2012.
Going to go out on a limb here but everyone slagging him off is going to eat their words, he will be one of the best players in the league next season and for the foreseeable future.
I'll wait to see how it goes there with the settling but I do rate him highly, same with Honda and Enzo for the Japanese. But can't agree with your Rio assessment earlier, gotta go with my boy Lucio. did it Internationally, in Germany and in Italy, and has won everything possible.
I loved Lucio but he seemed a late bloomer. At one point you could even call him a liability ten suddenly he was a wall that no man could breach.
Still rate Rio as the best defender in the world at his peak, there was no defender like him, he had the control and touch of a top class midfielder, the arrogance and swagger of a playmaker and the defensive abilities of the very best in hostory. He couldnt single handedly win England a world cup after all.
Judge him when he played with equals, at United, there was no better imo.
Anyway thats not the point bluffington, if he fails ( kagawa ) I will gladly say I was wrong, I am confident he wont. I mean look at the last player we signed that most people had no clue about, he did pretty well the little chicarito![]()
lol. Loves ya bluffAll I can say is that Gaf71 got some serious points with the posts. Good job all.![]()
Struggling a bit now isn't he? This is a big season for him, needs to show it wasn't a one year wonder. I think Kagawa will do well, wish we had him and am still hoping for ramiez, Tello, or/and Sahin. Doubt it but gotta have some hope.
A full pre season will do him good. Tbh he was never meant to be so good so early, we wanted to develop him but you just cant refuse game time to a player that in form.
He will play less games but develop so much more this season I reckon.

You still here soft lad.![]()