MPH Posted 25 August 2019 Share Posted 25 August 2019 United know it will take another huge bid, similar to the £80million which finally secured central defender Harry Maguire. Manchester United are preparing another transfer raid on Leicester – this time for rising star James Maddison. The 22-year-old midfielder who is expected to be named this week in Gareth Southgate’s England squad is wanted by Old Trafford boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as he looks to continue the rebuild of his squad. Maddison fits the identikit of the Norwegian’s future plans, young and bursting with energy as Solskjaer looks to bring down the average age of his side. But United know it will take another huge bid, similar to the £80million which finally secured central defender Harry Maguire’s switch from the King Power Stadium, to repeat the feat with Maddison. James Maddison helped Leicester beat Sheffield United on Saturday (Image: PA) Leicester , who have lofty ambitions of their own, will be reluctant to part with the player they bought from Norwich for £20million last summer. But like they discovered over Maguire, it will be hard to hang onto Maddison once United come calling. United will make a bid in the January transfer window but it’s likely they will have to wait until the end of the season to prompt Leicester into meaningful discussions. https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/man-utd-plotting-another-leicester-19000658 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPH Posted 25 August 2019 Author Share Posted 25 August 2019 top class copy and paste by yours truly, 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuna Posted 25 August 2019 Share Posted 25 August 2019 Man United can **** off. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post surrifox Posted 25 August 2019 Popular Post Share Posted 25 August 2019 He won’t be their manager in January 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dorkingfox Posted 25 August 2019 Share Posted 25 August 2019 Yes the shit has started and we are only three games in. https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/man-utd-boss-ole-gunner-19001491?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+daily-star-football+(Daily+Star+%3A%3A+Football+Feed) The media are already trying to sell our players, why would anyone go to manager less Man Spew!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crisp packet Posted 25 August 2019 Share Posted 25 August 2019 Hopefully top just puts this one to bed early...... ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ Any thing to upset the apple cart ... we really don’t need the money. Top 6 else these boys will all be off! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Carl the Llama Posted 25 August 2019 Popular Post Share Posted 25 August 2019 These guys have no awareness whatsoever, Maguire didn't go because it was too hard for us to resist big old Man Utd, he went because we told them to give us silly money or do one and after a summer of trying to be the irresistible force that always gets what it wants they finally capitulated to our demands in desperation. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthStandUpperTier Posted 25 August 2019 Share Posted 25 August 2019 As with Maguire, we don't want to sell and we don't have to sell. But if the player fancies the move then these transfers usually get forced through in the end. We'll just have to keep replenishing the stocks, although as Southampton found out, it gets harder and harder. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pSinatra Posted 25 August 2019 Share Posted 25 August 2019 Man Utd are still a million miles from sorting their shit out & are are becoming less and less of an attractive proposition for any player. They have become what Liverpool were. Randomly throwing silly money at players without an actual strategy. They can't even decide on who is their penalty taker. Anyway. I expect Maddison to be signing a new contract very soon. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazza M Posted 25 August 2019 Share Posted 25 August 2019 Lazy journalism combined with the thought of us spoiling the party again by the press. Ole looked like a lost little boy again on MOTD. I think they will implode eventually this year as they have some rotten players still lurking around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthStandUpperTier Posted 25 August 2019 Share Posted 25 August 2019 9 minutes ago, pSinatra said: Man Utd are still a million miles from sorting their shit out & are are becoming less and less of an attractive proposition for any player. They have become what Liverpool were. Randomly throwing silly money at players without an actual strategy. They can't even decide on who is their penalty taker. Anyway. I expect Maddison to be signing a new contract very soon. Which as we know from experience, simply means we can demand a bigger fee. I'll be amazed if Maddison is still here this time next year. I don't want him to go, but we've got to be realistic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m4DD0gg Posted 25 August 2019 Share Posted 25 August 2019 Sadly inevitable i suspect come january he will stay but on a much better contract. We will then get till the summer or the following summer depending on how strong we hold out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodsey1727 Posted 25 August 2019 Share Posted 25 August 2019 Double Harry's price then, then we'll start talking 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Fox Posted 25 August 2019 Share Posted 25 August 2019 14 minutes ago, m4DD0gg said: Sadly inevitable i suspect come january he will stay but on a much better contract. We will then get till the summer or the following summer depending on how strong we hold out. If we finish top 4 he will stay pretty clear that the likes of Ricardo and him may move on if we cannot offer Champions league/ Europa league football Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reynard Posted 25 August 2019 Share Posted 25 August 2019 Why don't they try and buy Neves instead? How come no one ever talks about players from Wolves who are very good. If they want in January I'd personally tell them it is 150 million, up front, all of it, absolutely no staggered payments and deal must be complete by the end of the 2nd day of the window or they can do one. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayfox Posted 25 August 2019 Share Posted 25 August 2019 1 hour ago, SouthStandUpperTier said: Which as we know from experience, simply means we can demand a bigger fee. I'll be amazed if Maddison is still here this time next year. I don't want him to go, but we've got to be realistic. Next summer will be worse than the window just gone. Madders, Ricardo and Chilwell will all be on teams radars. Holding onto them is gonna be difficult. Think ideally we would only sell 1, but unless we have put a trophy on the table and got European football to offer I think next summer may signal a few being tempted to move on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthStandUpperTier Posted 25 August 2019 Share Posted 25 August 2019 Just now, Bayfox said: Next summer will be worse than the window just gone. Madders, Ricardo and Chilwell will all be on teams radars. Holding onto them is gonna be difficult. Think ideally we would only sell 1, but unless we have put a trophy on the table and got European football to offer I think next summer may signal a few being tempted to move on. Yeah, I'm beginning to think that we bought Justin and Praet with one eye on the possibility that those you mention could move on (with Tielemans moving into Maddison's role) - kind of like how we prepared for Maguire's departure by buying Soyuncu and Benkovic. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m4DD0gg Posted 25 August 2019 Share Posted 25 August 2019 1 hour ago, Happy Fox said: If we finish top 4 he will stay pretty clear that the likes of Ricardo and him may move on if we cannot offer Champions league/ Europa league football Got no chance of champions league, i think the top 4 will be man city, liverpool, spurs and arsenal. Europa league we have a very good chance. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 25 August 2019 Share Posted 25 August 2019 They'll be offering us Pogba and £50m. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozartfox Posted 25 August 2019 Share Posted 25 August 2019 I just love the Sun and Star. They need to keep all their Yanited fans happy. I hope Top tells Woodpecker to go do one this time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Claridge Posted 25 August 2019 Popular Post Share Posted 25 August 2019 21 minutes ago, FIF said: They'll be offering us Pogba and £50m. Rather have just the 50 million 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPH Posted 25 August 2019 Author Share Posted 25 August 2019 5 hours ago, mozartfox said: I just love the Sun and Star. They need to keep all their Yanited fans happy. I hope Top tells Woodpecker to go do one this time. except of course this story is from the Mirror.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ithuriel Posted 25 August 2019 Share Posted 25 August 2019 6 hours ago, FIF said: They'll be offering us Pogba and £50m. Phil Jones is still available isn't he Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozartfox Posted 25 August 2019 Share Posted 25 August 2019 1 hour ago, MPH said: except of course this story is from the Mirror.. It was in 4 papers including the two I mentioned and the Mail. Perhaps we get different on-line versions in the Alps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out Foxed Posted 25 August 2019 Share Posted 25 August 2019 good luck with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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