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Player watch: Toby Alderweireld

cliff jones

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no Martial, no deal- unless we do spend the Toby money first on De Ligt and Kovacic (I'd accept Pavard and NDombele if you hold a gun to my head).
 

spursfan77

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Godin for 18 million. Wow someone is going to get a good couple of years out of him for that price.

Although this is the second centre back I’ve seen Man U linked with in the last week. Could it just be a game over toby and martial?
 

TheAmerican

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Aug 30, 2012
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Godin for 18 million. Wow someone is going to get a good couple of years out of him for that price.

Although this is the second centre back I’ve seen Man U linked with in the last week. Could it just be a game over toby and martial?
Swap deals rarely happen. I absolutely do not think Toby and Martial are linked.
 

SpartanSpur

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Swaps are certainly rare but with transfer fees escalating to astronomical levels they might become more common.

Pressure on clubs to achieve high fees and/or not strengthen rivals does make them more likely going forward IMO. Inter Milan just announced one today with Roma for Nainggolan.
 

G Ron

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Swaps are certainly rare but with transfer fees escalating to astronomical levels they might become more common.
Also with the supposed sell on percentage to Monaco maybe a swap suits United. They pay a lower price for Toby, we supposedly pay a lower fee for Martial, Monaco get their pants pulled down. I’m sure we’ve done a similar deal before.
 

Lilbaz

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Also with the supposed sell on percentage to Monaco maybe a swap suits United. They pay a lower price for Toby, we supposedly pay a lower fee for Martial, Monaco get their pants pulled down. I’m sure we’ve done a similar deal before.

Vorm.
 

Lilbaz

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Didn’t Swansea get sued for that?

Something like that. Or it may have been an official complaint. Not sure.

Edit - wiki says they complained to fifa who dismissed it. They then took swansea to the court of arbitration for sport.
 

Lighty64

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If Martial goes to Juventus, where would this leave us with Toby to United? Will be buckle and sell him there anyway even though they refused to sell us Martial?

quite simple really, sell him to Man U for 55+m this season unless another club gets involved which hasn't so far, or continue wasting wages on a player that Poch isn't happy with, so might not play as much as any replacement would, then sell him for a massive loss of 30m next season.

and all because he might stay fit, and might improve Man U's defence (no guarantee on either, he might not click with his new team "Suarez").

that 30m will go towards a very good replacement, or strengthen other areas
 
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