Anthony Martial

[jezz]

What? Of course they’ll activate the clause. We’re talking about a £50m+ asset here. Even if they want to sell they’ll activate the clause.

They've been hawking him around Europe for sale.
How comes they haven't activated the clause yet?
There bluffing.
We've offered and they don't want to strengthen us its that simple.

 

[Hengy1]

They've been hawking him around Europe for sale.
How comes they haven't activated the clause yet?
There bluffing.
We've offered and they don't want to strengthen us its that simple.

You can’t normally activate until you hit your last year of contract which I don’t think they have yet till next month

 

[robertgoulet]

They also have some transfer fee escalators coming up for his goals scored and caps with France. I think I’m the realm of 30M additional to Monaco if I remember correctly (it was talked about earlier in this thread). He’ll hit the goals scored this season almost certainly.

 

[jezz]

You can’t normally activate until you hit your last year of contract which I don’t think they have yet till next month

I agree but that doesn't change the fact he's for sale.
We're being bent over like the walker deal last season.
We're not getting Martial your not getting Toby should be our line.
Put the pressure on them Mourhino wants Toby and will bitch to the media if he doesn't get him.
It's being spun like we don't have a choice.
Both players are for sale and they don't want to sell to us but want our player to strengthen them.

 

[King of the Lane]

Well i hope plan B is Leon Bailey

 

[archiewasking]

Tired of plan B, C, D etc.

 

[Univarn]

Tired of plan B, C, D etc.

I am as well but my hope, naively optomistic it may be is that this year better than those before the divide between our Plan A and D smaller and more intelligent than before. If the target list is Martial, Zaha, Bailey, and Pulisic say then that is a good list. If it is Martial, Zaha, Shaqiri, Rondon then damn we back on that old Spurs shit.

 

[DaniLeves]

It’s important to remember that he wasn’t included in the WC squad...

Wouldn’t surprise me to see Toby sold off imminently - to avoid any potential loss stemming from the WC like injury or bad form - which would leave us open to circle back later in the summer to finish the deal.

Obviously a major drawback is that we’d have to rely on Yanited to close the deal, and it depends on how closely the two deals are linked.

 

[yankspurs]

Tired of plan B, C, D etc.

What happens is we set plan a, b, c and d so high and nigh on impossible just to excite fans this early and temper the malcontent. Then we get angry enough at nothing happening. Its around that time that levy knows he can go for plan e and get people back on his side. Its a vicious cycle and happens every year. Levy has no real interest in plans a, b, c or d and its really the cheaper plan e he likes

 

[chinaman]

What happens is we set plan a, b, c and d so high and nigh on impossible just to excite fans this early and temper the malcontent. Then we get angry enough at nothing happening. Its around that time that levy knows he can go for plan e and get people back on his side. Its a vicious cycle and happens every year. Levy has no real interest in plans a, b, c or d and its really the cheaper plan e he likes

Then you'll have to take your hat off to the genius of Poch to be able to continually mold our Plan E calibre players to produce Plan A results.

 

[SandroClegane]

What happens is we set plan a, b, c and d so high and nigh on impossible just to excite fans this early and temper the malcontent. Then we get angry enough at nothing happening. Its around that time that levy knows he can go for plan e and get people back on his side. Its a vicious cycle and happens every year. Levy has no real interest in plans a, b, c or d and its really the cheaper plan e he likes

The issue is you see players as A, B, C options rather than a bunch of players that are plan A choices to do what the manager wants.

 

[Carson35]

what happens with Gelson Martins? Didn't we want him at the end of last summer's transfer window?

 

[JacoZA]

Levy is not without his faults, but some of the bashing on here is OTT. Haven't we broken our transfer record every summer for like 5 seasons now?

 

[worcestersauce]

My understanding is that last year's plan A was Davinson Sanchez.

 

[allatsea]

Levy is not without his faults, but some of the bashing on here is OTT. Haven't we broken our transfer record every summer for like 5 seasons now?

Yep the bedwetters are out in force despite there being two months of the Transfer Window left.

 

[allatsea]

Theres alot of rumours that United are trying to off load him + ridicoulos money to PSG for Mbappe.

Rumours where ? I haven't seen any reliable rumours.

 

[tiger666]

Rumours where ? I haven't seen any reliable rumours.

Don Balon. Say no more..

 

[punkisback]

What happens is we set plan a, b, c and d so high and nigh on impossible just to excite fans this early and temper the malcontent. Then we get angry enough at nothing happening. Its around that time that levy knows he can go for plan e and get people back on his side. Its a vicious cycle and happens every year. Levy has no real interest in plans a, b, c or d and its really the cheaper plan e he likes

I agree, we jump from plan A to plan E!

 

[double0]

We don't play to any range of plans because Poch system is fluid.

Can anyone one tell me which teams in the EPL have more than one way of playing (Man United Mourihno apart)

 

[Hoddtastic72]

What happens is we set plan a, b, c and d so high and nigh on impossible just to excite fans this early and temper the malcontent. Then we get angry enough at nothing happening. Its around that time that levy knows he can go for plan e and get people back on his side. Its a vicious cycle and happens every year. Levy has no real interest in plans a, b, c or d and its really the cheaper plan e he likes

Objectively he's made massive improvements in all areas since he came to the club. Maybe its more that he's not doing it as quickly as you would like