Search results

Sure, you've made it clear you're not a fan, that's fine. I on the other hand remember him being a very good player, you're not a Man Utd and England regular without being 'excellent'. It went wrong for him from the time Solskjaer took over at United, when freed from the ManU shambles at West...

Yeah they're not good on paper, but I think Lingard is a case where you have to look beneath the stats. Man Utd have been in turmoil for several seasons, changes of manager and style, terrible recruitment and loads of previously excellent players struggling for form and playing time. It's not...

Regardless, the overall sums will still add up in the way i suggest. Make it a 17m transfer fee and 50k per week, that's a good deal, vs a 10m signing on fee and 180k a week, a terrible deal.. for the same outlay over 12 months.

The under £40k players want to stay up, that's their route to a bigger salary. If they're just going to resent the players being brought in to help them do that, they'll be back as no marks in the championship very soon

If I was playing for Forest having just been promoted, lost stars like Spence, and nervous about being thumped every week, I'd happily welcome a potential superstar into the team. It's a very different situation to a club like Brighton where the likes of Cucu and Trossard and Mac Allister...

But if they bought him for £7m and paid him £50k a week we'd be saying it was a fantastic deal for Forest. It's exactly the same amount of money.

What happened to Lingard is a mystery, going from the World Cup to where he is now. Alli too. And Loftus Cheek to a degree. From those heady days of a world cup semi final to where they are now in 2 short years.