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rgk_lfc

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30 minutes ago, KingArthur said:

I really don't know what people see in Mount. Goes missing a way too often. Has the legs that Eriksen does not have, but passing is lot worse.

 

If he would be let's say German or Dutch player, price would be half of that max.

 

Midfielders who can score and assist in double digits are always going to cost more than 50 million. Add to that the English tax, he is young, can press and follow instructions. The reported wages of 250-300K per week seem high if true. But Pochettino (wanted to keep him), Klopp, Tuchel, and Ten Hag wanted him and they are no mugs. 

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23 minutes ago, KaKa said:

 

At the start of the 21/22 season he was only 22 years old and went on to score 11 goals with 10 assists in the Premier League over the season.

 

I think Man Utd are betting on him getting back to that kind of form, which is very  likely I think. Chelsea have been a complete shambles recently and it has hampered a lot of their players.

 

Exactly. Remember Rashford under Rangnick? 

 

Mount is homegrown and just turned 24 this year. It's expensive for someone with a year left but he does significantly improve us. 

 

Don't think people realise just how much Eriksen's legs went last season. He was out on his feet by 60 mins when he played. 

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Froggy

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£240k a week for Mount is what I'm hearing from my little birds inside the club. Couldn't get Fergie on the blower tonight. 

 

Puts him on par with Bruno but Bruno will get a new contract in the near future to make him our highest earner. 

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The College Dropout

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Mount plays with no style or swagger. Doesn’t look like a top player.  
 

but at his best he scores goals, creates goals does everything a manger asks. He’s going to go for a lot of money. 
 

I always preferred Maddison because HG has more ability on the ball and is more enjoyable to watch. But I reckon most top managers would prefer Mount because of the off the ball work he does. 

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Can't see how Mount makes them a better team tbh. Strengthens the squad definitely but the person you'd drop to make way for him is probably offering just as much.

 

If you're an opposition fan and you saw Mount on the team-sheet instead of Eriksen would you shit yourself? Exactly. 

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Wolfcastle

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2 hours ago, Deuce said:


:lol: still be haggling with Leicester for £3m rated Hamza Choudhury.

and that would just be a smokescreen to make it look like we were actually trying to do at least something, which we wouldn't be.

Halcyon days.

 

 

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20 hours ago, rgk_lfc said:

 

Bayern scored 92 goals in 34 games this season, and I think that is the lowest in the last few years. They normally score nearly 100 goals. The Spurs scored 70 goals in 38 games. I am not trying to downplay Lewa who is a great player. But I think Kane is not that far behind. Sometimes we are guilty of underrating EPL players. Kane's record in the premier league is insane. I think he is as good and there is a slight chance that he could be better than Lewa. I would be sad to see him leave Spurs as he is a genuinely great striker and I love watching such players. However, if he moves to Bayern, I wouldn't bet against him scoring late 30s number of goals per season, atleast. 

 

I don't disagree, I never even said he was behind, let alone far behind.

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53 minutes ago, timeEd32 said:

I think Mount and Rice are both underrated on here. I expect both will do very well next season.

No doubt about it. Mount was Chelsea's player of the season twice (when they weren't a shambles) and I expect him to get back to that sort of form. 

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McCormick

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2 hours ago, KingArthur said:

I really don't know what people see in Mount. Goes missing a way too often. Has the legs that Eriksen does not have, but passing is lot worse.

 

If he would be let's say German or Dutch player, price would be half of that max.


I hate this take, if he was Italian, Dutch or whatever he’d get way less hate; of course English tax is a thing but being proven in by far the best league in the world comes with a hefty price-tag. He’s a very good player and is very versatile tactically. 

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Tiresias

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Mount is young, english talent in a clownshow of a club. Absolutely no problem at that price, wages seem a bit much but very good signing for Man U imo, and how on earth are Chelsea letting him go? Madness

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2 minutes ago, gbandit said:

It’s so weird like, do the matches get good crowds? Is football big there? I know money is a huge draw for people but a lot of these players will already be incredibly rich

 

A lot of these dudes are really well off but going there for two or three years is going to effectively double or even triple their networth. There was a piece about one of the dudes going there because now he can build like half a city for his hometown with this money.

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1 minute ago, cubaricho said:

 

A lot of these dudes are really well off but going there for two or three years is going to effectively double or even triple their networth. There was a piece about one of the dudes going there because now he can build like half a city for his hometown with this money.

For sure it’s life changing money for some but I’m sure there’ll be players who go there just to get richer with nothing to actually spend it on 

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brummie

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1 minute ago, gbandit said:

For sure it’s life changing money for some but I’m sure there’ll be players who go there just to get richer with nothing to actually spend it on 

 

They might not have anything to spend it on right now in Saudi, but they have the rest of their lives to do it.

 

I think as fans we sometimes underestimate the extent to which footballers are really about the money. This Saudi thing is really showing it.

 

It is the same dynamic that brings a lot of players to the Premier League, we just find it harder to admit that.

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10 minutes ago, brummie said:

 

They might not have anything to spend it on right now in Saudi, but they have the rest of their lives to do it.

 

I think as fans we sometimes underestimate the extent to which footballers are really about the money. This Saudi thing is really showing it.

 

It is the same dynamic that brings a lot of players to the Premier League, we just find it harder to admit that.

 

I don't know why this is a bad thing. Professional athletes have a limited window of time to make money. It makes sense to want to maximize that.

 

Although I think it's also reasonable to react differently to a player moving to the Premier League for money vs. the Saudi league. One is competing at the highest levels of the game. The other is ... not that.

 

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