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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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A few of our many criticisms last season was that we were very soft, lacked physical presence and aerial dominance. It’s therefore interesting to see us linked to multiple players who can be referred to as a ‘unit’.

Bisseck, Branthwaite, Collins, N’Dicka - all strong and aerially dominant

Semenyo, Mbeumo - both very physical

Norgaard, D Luiz, Eze, Gibbs-White - also physical players

Garnacho - tenacious

Sancho, Nenes, Grealish, Simons - exceptions
 
Pedders81 said:
A few of our many criticisms last season was that we were very soft, lacked physical presence and aerial dominance. It’s therefore interesting to see us linked to multiple players who can be referred to as a ‘unit’.

Bisseck, Branthwaite, Collins, N’Dicka - all strong and aerially dominant

Semenyo, Mbeumo - both very physical

Norgaard, D Luiz, Eze, Gibbs-White - also physical players

Garnacho - tenacious

Sancho, Nenes, Grealish, Simons - exceptions
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We actually have some decent players physically: Spence, Romero, Danso, Dragusin, Kulu, Bergvall, Solanke

But it would not help to have a hard CDM and RW/RF
 
Pedders81 said:
A few of our many criticisms last season was that we were very soft, lacked physical presence and aerial dominance. It’s therefore interesting to see us linked to multiple players who can be referred to as a ‘unit’.

Bisseck, Branthwaite, Collins, N’Dicka - all strong and aerially dominant

Semenyo, Mbeumo - both very physical

Norgaard, D Luiz, Eze, Gibbs-White - also physical players

Garnacho - tenacious

Sancho, Nenes, Grealish, Simons - exceptions
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Norgaard is a good player but apparently doesn't train much during the week due to his knees.
 
Geezergood19 said:
The low wages model is exactly the way all football clubs should be run.
If you consider low wages (premier league standard) to be 40-60k a week.

Put the onus on the players to perform through Appearence fees & target driven bonuses add bonuses for team victories etc and there earnings will sky rocket.

For instance Dominik Solanke say he earns £75k a week
For every league Appearence he can also earn £15k
Every goal in the league £7.5k
If he scores a hat trick in a game £30k
Player of the month £30k
if he reaches 20 league goals 400k
Premier league golden boot winner £750k per season
If they win the league every first team player gets 1 million pound bonus
Cup victories % of winnings dependent on how far you go in the competition

And you start seeing how they can earn big money but they have to work for it
Giving them a basic base wage should be fundamental to be driven to perform individually and as a team and limits the costs to the club when they are injured or out of form

When a player is consistently smashing these targets in there contracts thats the time to renegotiate the terms with higher base wages and less personal bonuses because they are proven and to the standard you expect.
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Whilst this might sound good in theory, you'd also have to factor in how humans would react to the incentives to get paid more and how that might clash with what the team and game requires from them imo.
 
Furball man said:

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Sign him up !
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postbox said:
Utd are set to play a VERY specific system. One the squad isnt suited to - so just because a player isnt right for them, it doesnt mean they wont be worth buying for someone else.

If we got Sancho (as an example, or even Garnacho) on the relative cheap from them, and they then stepped up and showed their potential - Id think that was brilliant (and hilarious)

Consequently if we just ended up buying a lemon Id be real pissed off about it

But the whole "not good enough for X" thing never really rings true to me, so many factors in why a player does/doesnt work at one club vs another
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Sancho is just not it. I had to watch him at Chelsea a lot this season (my firm has 6 season tickets there urgh) and hes just not good enough. Hes not a prem player.
 
djchotspur said:
Sancho is just not it. I had to watch him at Chelsea a lot this season (my firm has 6 season tickets there urgh) and hes just not good enough. Hes not a prem player.
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Fair enough mate, you've seen more of him than I have then

I think my point there was more in the general than specific to Sancho, he was just an example.

IE - just because a team are willing to get rid of someone, doesnt mean they cant be a good buy for another team....

That said, maybe Sancho not the best example to use 😄
 
postbox said:
Fair enough mate, you've seen more of him than I have then

I think my point there was more in the general than specific to Sancho, he was just an example.

IE - just because a team are willing to get rid of someone, doesnt mean they cant be a good buy for another team....

That said, maybe Sancho not the best example to use 😄
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Steer well clear of all the current Man U crop.
 
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