It Could Get A Bit Messi In Here - The Football Thread.

Jonathan Y said:
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wokeupnew said:
Hindsight 20:20, etc
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Also not true. They bid the same as Dortmund but being a bigger club one couldn’t guarantee he would be number one striker, you have to earn it, even if hindsight shows he would have. Also united absolutely refused the release clause Dortmund accepted and again bigger club couldn’t allow themselves to be used as a stepping stone, sends out all the wrong messages.

Once it was clear he was going to Dortmund for those reasons Igahlo was brought in because they needed bodies and it was late in the window so there was more than a touch of desperation about it.
 
Joe Mac said:
Also not true. They bid the same as Dortmund but being a bigger club one couldn’t guarantee he would be number one striker, you have to earn it, even if hindsight shows he would have. Also united absolutely refused the release clause Dortmund accepted and again bigger club couldn’t allow themselves to be used as a stepping stone, sends out all the wrong messages.

Once it was clear he was going to Dortmund for those reasons Igahlo was brought in because they needed bodies and it was late in the window so there was more than a touch of desperation about it.
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I don't know the background behind the deal, but my "hindsight, 20:20" comment was more about him being the player he is today. Everyone and their uncle scores goals at RB Salzburg. Patson Daka, Minimino, Hwang, all left and didn't really kick off like Haaland did at Dortmund.
 
wokeupnew said:
I don't know the background behind the deal, but my "hindsight, 20:20" comment was more about him being the player he is today. Everyone and their uncle scores goals at RB Salzburg. Patson Daka, Minimino, Hwang, all left and didn't really kick off like Haaland did at Dortmund.
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I think it was more that he scored such a ridiculous amount of goals in the champions league group stage in his 6 months there, that and his physique, that made him feel even then like was a dead cert in the way that they didn’t.

Also as good as he is I wasn’t sad to have less to do with Raiola.
 
After seeing the news headline today I think I understand Gareth Southgates issues with Jack Grealish - want an unpleasant man he appears to be
 
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