Transfer Rumour Sean Longstaff

[MACCA75]

I haven't seen much of this lad at all. All I know is that he was linked with United for a stupid fee a couple of years ago, and now he can't get into a midfield of a team with otherwise pretty crap midfielders. From that I deduce either he's had a bit of a Tom Davies of a career so far where he burst onto the scene and then generally reverted to being poo, or he's a good player who is low on confidence/form, been played out of position or in the wrong system, etc, etc.

What I WILL say is that much has been made, and rightly so, of our expensively-assembled squad "downing tools" for 73 managers in the last 5 years. What if this lad really does want to play for this manager? I get that motivation alone won't turn him into Xavi, but maybe he'll go some way towards being the player United were considering chucking decent money after a little while back?

1. Surely he’s motivated enough playing for his boyhood club?
2. Benitez ain’t gonna be here long

 

[Blueclouds]

Very underwhelmed, but I suppose Benitez knows how to get the best out of him.

He is probably an improvement on Delph and Gbamin?

And Davies

 

[The binman chronicles]

At last the missing piece! I don’t think I'll eat/sleep until we get this one over the line...

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Gana signed from relegated Villa who their fans didnt rate at all iirc

They turned on him when they realised he had a £7.1m release clause in his contract (that we triggered) and he jumped ship as soon as they were relegated.

 

[Eggs]

In a world where Rangers 2nd choice RB who has barely played many games in a farmers league is going for near £15 million the days of you being able to sign a Jagielka/Baines for £5 million is long gone mate.

….it actually hasn’t. The aspiration is to build from the top down, otherwise you don’t progress. Gray has been a terrific signing for £1.7m, Richarlison cost Watford £9m, we bought Gueye for £7m.

it’s not easy, but you have to buy quality & not make do with dross.

As I said, I don’t have strong views on Longstaffe but you suggesting he’s not very good but is the best we can do is just wrong. If he’s not very good we shouldn’t be going anywhere near him. If his contract is up, he’ll be demanding a huge signing fee & salary which is something we should only commit to if he’s going to be very effective.

 

[blue to the bone]

Why is he not signing a new contract with them.
Are they not offering him one .
They are minted so money ain't an issue

 

[CahillsCornerFlag]

We seem to have a penchant for collecting slow, immobile, ineffectual midfielders. Welcome Sean.

 

[toffeeblue9]

Why is he not signing a new contract with them.
Are they not offering him one .
They are minted so money ain't an issue

They offered him one a while ago. He said no

 

[Nymzee]

"Most dribbled past player".


lol lol lol

The utter mental categories these kids have these days.

FFS, is there one for a player who spits most on the pitch or points more than others?

I bet if Patterson had that stat you'd be reminding us every 5 minutes.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Tying absurdly average players down to 3+ year contracts is a big part of why we're in this mess in the first place!

Low wage makes it a lot better, 70k a week less than some of our big wasters! I do think contract length is a concern though

 

[blue to the bone]

They offered him one a while ago. He said no

So we are goin to offer him higher wages then probably the richest clubs In the world..

 

[CahillsCornerFlag]

I do actually have a feeling that there’s a player there in Longstaff to be fair, and that he’d contribute more than most of our midfielders. On a free or negligible fee (which looks unlikely) I’d be fine with it.

 

[Carloblues]

We need to reduce the massive wage bill and get the older, higher paid players out the door in order to invest in new, better players. Longstaff will be better than those he is replacing and save big bucks.
As I said, it’s not ideal but it is needed

I do get what you mean, I just don't think it's what we need.

The whole club and fans are so far apart at the minute, continually signing players this bad isnt gonna bridge the gap, don't see the point in signing players to replace players who never ever start,

Even if delph and gbamin go, we still have doucoure Allan Davies and gomes.

We should he looking to sign a cm that competes to start instead of of next to Allan and doucoure, otherwise we've just wasted more money on another cm that will barely feature

 

[JimmyK]

He’s not signing his mates though, he’s signing cheap players he knows in order to get us out of this mess and free up money for better players. Think walcot-Townsend and Gray
Longstaff for delph plus tens of thousands a week will improve us and give money for better players
It’s not ideal, but it’s better than the mess we were/in squad wise

So in other words we're kicking the can down the road building a team we know is crap but hope is good enough to stay up and then when we don't want the crap players anymore we cross that bridge when we come to it. It doesn't sound like a great plan to me.

 

[brian labone]

They offered him one a while ago. He said no

Why would we want to buy a player who cannot even make a regular first team spot in a team like Newcastle. I also notice there does not seem to be anybody else in for him, says it all for me.