Don’t agree. It’s like saying why aren’t City after Trent because they know there’s no chance he would leave Liverpool so it’s pointless making links. Also Ajax is famous for selling top talent. Plus the one area City obviously need is a DM and de jong is an obvious DM. Where as winks isn’t although personally I think that’s his position. Most would see him competing with silva and de bruyne. So there’s numerous reasons nobody would link Winks with city. But I’d definitely say the media tone has definitely changed on winks in the last couple weeks. It’s gone from him being appreciated by a few in the media to now most rating him. A club I could definitely see him being linked with Is United he’s just what they need.
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Don’t agree. It’s like saying why aren’t City after Trent because they know there’s no chance he would leave Liverpool so it’s pointless making links. Also Ajax is famous for selling top talent. Plus the one area City obviously need is a DM and de jong is an obvious DM. Where as winks isn’t although personally I think that’s his position. Most would see him competing with silva and de bruyne. So there’s numerous reasons nobody would link Winks with city. But I’d definitely say the media tone has definitely changed on winks in the last couple weeks. It’s gone from him being appreciated by a few in the media to now most rating him. A club I could definitely see him being linked with Is United he’s just what they need.
Spurrific
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What do you think Winks would go for? Consider the fact that James Maddison went for 800m and he'd only ever done it in the Championship. Winks single-handedly dismantled Madrid
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Daaammnnn
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When someone as average as Fred goes for £50m it's not totally ludicrous to value Winks at that if he manages to stay free of injury this season and builds on his current form.
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No one's bidding £70-80m for Winks even if he has a stand out season.
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I'm not saying they will, but merely that it's not crazy to value him close to that, given that defenders and keepers are going for £50m plus. Midfielders will always be more expensive, and strikers the most expensive.
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You know Fabinho was £40m, right? Are some of you living 10 years ago? Prices are fucking bananas now and for a 22 year old, homegrown, academy graduate, full international with the cheekbones of a model - we'd demand a fair whack, especially from competitors. Central midfield is an expensive position as well.
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Not forgetting Pep was waxing lyrical about him in the 2nd half of the recent their recent match with us a Wembley. Pep never praises opposition players for the sake of it.
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What makes you say that?
Is it because he's a Tottenham boy so sides won't bother (although the same could be said of Kane and that doesn't seem to put some off!).
Or because of concerns about his ankle?
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This is obviously based on pure speculation and predictions right? So let's look at the scenario... If Winks' potential value is gonna be worth than he'll have to stay Injury free, become one of our best players and sign a new contract giving him maximum value, basically his stock has to rise so high for that to happen.
Also it's more than likely that at uber rich team will need to come in for him seeing as their the ones who are likely to put up the bread.
The way I'm seeing it is that there's too many factors involved including the fact that there will be other midfielders his age who may be better but will definately be cheaper than £70-80m
But the scenario at this moment in time just seems utterly bizarre and a bit pointless to speculate at the moment.
We don't even know what kind of player Winks is going to be yet.
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You know £40m is a world away from £70-80m right?
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You know there was more to my post than the first 6 words, right? All the reasons I listed afterwards, aside from the cheekbones, are reason why Winks could feasibly command a far larger fee than Fabinho.
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https://www.transfermarkt.com/harry-winks/profil/spieler/249126
Because his alleged market value isn't gonna shoot up by £60m in half a year, it's just not gonna happen.
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I think those players you mentioned the ship has sailed on them the prices are climbing to a level we can't hit, but I would imagine that come summer some cheaper alternatives are on the agenda at least hopefully.
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I read the rest of your post and even if you added in those factors his value still won't be anywhere near £70-80m, you're talking about nearly double the initial price just a year after Fabinho's was set, that type of inflation just doesn't happen unless it's a special case i.e Pogba.
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Tbf, I don't think it'd go up to £70-80m, so not sure why I argued. I do think Levy would make him unbuyable by slapping an exorbitant fee on him, but that's because we have no reason/inclination to sell him
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I agree.
Winks is young with a lot of potential. If a situation occurred where his head was turned and was destined for a big move then the fee would be extortionate.
I can’t see us selling to a lesser club at this stage nor a bigger club willing to make him such a target to turn his head and pay a high fee.
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