Metro1962 wrote:James was going to Leeds once before for 2 million it did not go to plan,The other team stepped in with 18 million and got him so my question is......
Why are they selling him for 30 million to a rival Leeds Utd?
You need to explain the £2 million part
They are selling him because they have spent massively recently and feel they can get a good price for him.
Metro1962 wrote:James was going to Leeds once before for 2 million it did not go to plan,The other team stepped in with 18 million and got him so my question is......
Why are they selling him for 30 million to a rival Leeds Utd?
Er.......CR7?
and Jadon Sancho.
Man Utd signed James 6 months after Swansea backed out of our deal.
His value has gone up because he was a Championship player back then, he's since featured 50 times in Prem & European games.
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Selby White wrote:...His value has gone up because he was a Championship player back then, he's since featured 50 times in Prem & European games.
I see it this way too.
Value went up by 7 million because of 2 years experience. Yes, some believe it's overpriced, but Manure are a business, so it's reasonable for them to up his value based on 50+ PL and European appearances.
If we pay the additional £5m in add-ons, it will be because he has performed and reached pre-defined goals, thus proving a wise purchase (to be proven yet of course )
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I don't think MB will have signed Dan James to be on the bench, I think he will play in a three behind Bamford. I think both James and Raph can drop into a central role maybe even Harrison. So having slept on it I'm quite excited about the move and if I was a defender I would no relish the thought of that front line running at me.
Having seen some of the posts regarding his value etc from both sides I'm still swaying towards it being too much to pay for James, however, I do see why with him being young, british, played in the PL/European cups etc. Assuming James ends up being a brilliant signing (which I do want btw, I'd rather see him succeed and for me to have egg on my face), how on earth can a buy back of £55m be good business - if this ends up being true but saw this from Fabrizio Romano yesterday who generally is right with transfers/details etc
Weren't we in for Dan James for 12m originally? So he's gone from 12m - 18m - 25m+ inside two years.
I am still unconvinced about the price tag and am not sure that he's that much better than when we were originally in for him, I'm just worried we're going to have another one dimensional winger who is maybe/maybe not good enough on our hands but at double the cost of what we would have originally paid, or what Costa cost us (give or take with the addons). It doesn't feel like good business at the moment and the fact that it's Man Utd that are receiving the cash just makes it feel worse.
I was hoping we'd get a pleasant surprise before the end of the window, I was just hoping it was going to be in centre-midfield, not on the wing.
Overall I'm more positive than negative about the summer transfer window - the work done for the u23s has been fantastic, Firpo and Harrison were excellent deals for the first team, and we've not sold anyone that we didn't want to lose. I just wish the 25m+ spent on Dan James had gone on a more creative 8/10 - we need a way to unlock low blocks and 10 man defenses, and I am not sure we've got a more creative option in the middle of the park when we need it. If physicality won't unlock the opposition have we got the guile to do it? Rhetorical question, in the middle of the park we don't have it and that's the one thing I was really hoping this window would fix, and it hasn't, so naturally I am a little disappointed about that.
It's obviously been a tough market behind the scenes this year, with valuations all over the place, we've Brexit impacts, pandemic impacts, the Euros - all in all, it's probably proved much harder than Orta had hoped to navigate the market this summer and that's probably contributed to why we didn't sort out the CM issue - how different the window might have looked if we'd got one of our targets in, who knows how close we got to some other targets alongside the Conor Gallagher disappointment.
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