Faster, gets more goals, more of a headless chicken, much less experience. He'd be a more traditional United signing than Pedro who is the finished article and therefore a more traditional Mourinho signing.
Even your own players are warning off others from joining.... they hate LVG that much: http://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation....ews-manchester-united-players-convinced-pedro
Not one of our players really mate, he has been told to find another club and it looks like he is working on that
if it was true, I would be rather glad we didn't get Pedro. Don't need people like that. We already had one fairy arsed coward.
A lot of Barca rejects are turning to the Premier League at the moment, in theory it should improve the standard of some of the smaller teams
Loads going to Stoke and Chelsea. villa got one too. Probably the last 3 clubs you would expect them to go too
Saints want £25m for Mane. I dont usually give a **** how much the club pays for a player, but fck me. The last 24 hrs have been hilarious tbh.
It would be laughable to pay more for a potential flash in the pan than for an known, proven, experienced winner of a finished article. Ok, we could say Pedro should have jumped at the first opportunity to join us and him not doing so shows his heart wasn't fully in it and he could have been ****e but still, how the hell do we know how good Mane actually is or is going to be? Remember Sisse when he first went to Newcastle? Scored a load of goals, was mentioned as £20 million player and then disappeared. You never know how these young Africans will turn out, the long term sustained success rates are very, very few.
Would anyone be that upset if we didn't sign anyone else? I want to see a striker come in but I'm relatively happy with the squad. I don't think Rooney is past it just yet either!
If I'm being honest I didnt at the start, but I kind of got swept along with noise everywhere that he'd create and score goals as a RWF. I've still maintained throughout we need a proven striker to rotate with Rooney. But I accepted a real quality player like Pedro could fill that gap. And he is quality considering what he's achieved I'm sure he would have improved us. My biggest gripe though is that we continue to have an ad-hoc approach. The Ramos and Pedro saga bcos THEY wanted the move, and now a last minute offer for Mane. Nothing seems calculated. Finally, there's far too much negative stuff to do with players and the club - which is becoming a circus. Personally, I think the whole thing is related, and a symptom of something greater. Maybe it's the process of transition post-Fergie and it's needed but the one thing we need post-Fergie is stability and imo we're not seeing it. Probably more than you asked for
I think we need a forward myself, then that's it. I also don't think that Rooney is finished by a stretch so a back up for him would be perfect. Not overly bothered by Mane, we certainly don't need a winger at all. Kane would be nice but I would (honestly) take Charlie Austin as a squad No.9, Hernandez is not nearly enough to cover van Persie and Falcao leaving and Wilson can not be relied upon to be goal scorer should Rooney get injured. That all said, in an ideal world we'd sign Thomas Muller and everyone can wet their kecks in anticipation.
We need a pacey winger. It's a slow team at the minute. Young is reasonably quick. Depay is probably the quickest of the lot. Mata is incredibly slow. Valencia is quick but ****e. Did you see Everton's first goal against Southampton? It started with a Saints corner, Barkley fed Kone down the wing and he floated in a cross for Lukaku to score a great header. We aren't scoring a goal like that in a million years with the current attacking squad.
Tbh the ad hoc approach seems to be how every club does it nowadays. Calculated moves tend not to work any more as the selling club just digs their heels in and refuses to back down, resulting in the buying club overpaying. Just look at the 'calculated' moves for Sterling, De Bruyne and Stones by City and Chelsea this summer. The transfer market nowadays seems more driven by a player deciding they want to move or a club deciding they want to sell. The willingness and ability of Wolfsburg and Everton to just tell the rich clubs to **** right off and the ability of Liverpool to milk City for £49m shows that unless the player agitates for a move, and the club agrees, it's damn difficult to get any business done. Most big transfers over the past few years, particularly the successful ones, have been decided more by players wanting to leave or clubs wanting to sell them than by clubs wanting to buy imo. So transfer policy pretty much has to be decided on the fly, as when players come on the market they are snapped up quickly, by their second choice clubs if not their first.
