Manchester United have enquired about the availability of Eintracht Frankfurt's Hugo Ekitike. United have made contact with Frankfurt in recent weeks to try to understand the forward’s availability and what a potential transfer might cost. Ekitike is valued at €100m by Frankfurt. 🔗 bit.ly/3HLn3xi - ThreadSky

theathleticfc.bsky.social • 3 days ago

Manchester United have enquired about the availability of Eintracht Frankfurt's Hugo Ekitike.

United have made contact with Frankfurt in recent weeks to try to understand the forward’s availability and what a potential transfer might cost.

Ekitike is valued at €100m by Frankfurt.

🔗 https://bit.ly/3HLn3xi

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halfordslane79.bsky.social•2 days ago

Surely better options 😌 🙂 for him than Man United

willeightysix.bsky.social•3 days ago

If Arsenal boxing them out of Gyokeres leads to United paying this fee, that should count as another win in the H2H history

absinthemiasma.bsky.social•3 days ago

Crazy price for this lad.

Man United are welcome to him if they want to pay that.

cheshirekot52.bsky.social•3 days ago

walk away! he is not worth half of that!

harryellis.bsky.social•3 days ago

Area hobo inquires about the availability of medium rare aged rib eye steak

matzebra.bsky.social•3 days ago

Why would he want to join them at the minute, unless they are going to massively overpay on wages to get him through the door?

ruddymarveaux-lous.bsky.social•2 days ago

Think you've answered your own question there pal.

lukehook.com•3 days ago

I honestly struggle to believe our interest in this is legitimate. As good a player as he might be this has high risk and red flags all over it. Which is largely going against everything the club has been seemingly trying to do with their transfer SINCE Ineos took control

percytoplis.bsky.social•2 days ago

Immediate walk away

thetacticalyellow.bsky.social•3 days ago

United spending 200m to have three young strikers - Hojlund, Zirkzee, and Ekitike - who massively underperform their xG would be fantastic. Go for it Jimmy.

thistimesurely.bsky.social•3 days ago

Very surprised if there’s any truth in this, for exactly that reason. We need an experienced goal scorer. And I’m pretty sure everyone associated with the club knows that.

thistimesurely.bsky.social•3 days ago

It was only the price tag that attracted us to Delap. He looked very much like the right player at the wrong time. We won’t be spending another £50m+ on potential.

thetacticalyellow.bsky.social•3 days ago

100%, as you said, you need a prem-proven pro who can shoulder the pressure and be consistent while the other two grow.

I haven't really thought this through because I'm not a United fan and don't really mind if you sign the right one but a Mateta or a Wissa would be smarter, hell maybe even Toney?

thistimesurely.bsky.social•2 days ago

Mateta would be great for us. Very difficult to ascertain what a fair price is for him though.

thetacticalyellow.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yeah and as Joel said, Palace would probably hike it, rightly so with them being in Europe this year (ownership issues pending) he's probably worth more to them than any other club

jodaba91mufc.bsky.social•3 days ago

Problem is that they still cost you +£50m. And in 2 years time if they haven’t lived up to billing. You can’t shift them, high wages. High amortisation left. Nobody will pay. Palace will rinse us for mateta for example. PSR really affecting the higher age bracket market in terms of willing risk.

jodaba91mufc.bsky.social•3 days ago

Not advocating £85m on ekitike at all, however if the deal is a lot smarter, around £60m with clauses and add ons, if he isn’t good enough after 2 years you’ve got a 24yo with maybe £35m needed to clear PSR cost. So I can see the attraction albeit scarred form Hojlund/kolo muani type deals

iaindowie.bsky.social•3 days ago

how are they going to afford that when they were apparently a few kitchen redundancies off going bump just a few weeks back?

steviec7.bsky.social•2 days ago

I understand the art of negotiation but where are these transfer demands coming from? Even Transfermarkt (German) only rate Ekitiké at £63.99M!🙄

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/hugo-ekitike/leistungsdaten/spieler/709726/plus/0?saison=2023

jjavy.bsky.social•2 days ago

For that price they can have him

claytona07.bsky.social•2 days ago

Assume this is to ensure we still have a player who can celebrate by sitting on the advertising hoardings?

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