Randal Kolo Muani (14 Viewers)
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I just don't see a good investment in us buying him for 50-70 mil when he's 27 years old, that's all. If we can loan him our with an option to buy again, that would be amazing. If not, we can't let them take us to the cleaners on this transfer.
I'd rather we gamble on the next Haaland or Vini J instead of buying a world class striker that is at his peak. I think Dybala is a good example of what good looks like when buying a striker. Buy young after he's had 1-2 good seasons and preferably sell at 25-26 when Barca offers you 100 mil. That's what we should have done with Chiesa as well.
I'd rather we gamble on the next Haaland or Vini J instead of buying a world class striker that is at his peak. I think Dybala is a good example of what good looks like when buying a striker. Buy young after he's had 1-2 good seasons and preferably sell at 25-26 when Barca offers you 100 mil. That's what we should have done with Chiesa as well.
The thing is we've already loaned him and he'll still be 26 for another 1/2 when the next transfer window comes. PSG is either giving us a deal with loan + obligation or option which becomes an obligation with certain parametres or they won't hand him over again. They could easily sell him, if he continues to play well that is.
Say we make it to the CL and we sell Vlahovic... We can't keep on gambling on young guns. And that's not only at the #9 position, really. Then I'd opt for 3-4 more experienced and proven players (not old) because we're seriously lacking in that and it comes with a winner mentality.
The buying young and selling high is always going to be a strategy limited a few succes stories and a few failures.
Say we make it to the CL and we sell Vlahovic... We can't keep on gambling on young guns. And that's not only at the #9 position, really. Then I'd opt for 3-4 more experienced and proven players (not old) because we're seriously lacking in that and it comes with a winner mentality.
The buying young and selling high is always going to be a strategy limited a few succes stories and a few failures.
I agree with you in principle but I think that lately we have failed on all of our transfers for older players, and made a killing with our young player transfers. I'll give you a couple of examples:
Great players bought when under 25:
Yldiz
Conceicao
Thuram
Weah
Bremer (bought at 25)
Chiesa (great buy but should have sold when Chelsea offered 100 mil)
Pogba (at 20)
Cambiaso
Gatti
McKennie
Kulu
Christian Romero (but then we sold him)
Shit signings 26:
Koop
Douglas Luiz
Nicolas Gonzales
Milik
Pogba (at 29)
Ramsey
Di Maria
Sure you have a few outliers like Vlahovic, Danilo, De Ligt but the trend seems to be positive when we buy younger than 25. Pogba is a pure example of what good looks like from our side and what bad looks like from Man United's side. Up until we brought him back at 29.
