Rumoured Luke Shaw

[Toli 977]

No left back is worth 30million. the back four of Zabaleta Cahill Kompany Baines cost less than Shaw

United bid 20 m pounds or something like this for Baines, didnt they?

Zabaleta came 2008 and was at that moment, not one of the best RBs in the world or the league. Futhermore RBs are cheaper than LBs.

Cahill had only 1 year on his contract.

Kompany was an ok defender for Hamburg but turned into a beast for City. So really, cant compare anyone of those with Shaw.

Signing is perfect. A little overpriced, but if it goes the way it normally should, they are set for 10 years in a position where good players are rare and futhermore have one homegrown spot filled.

@The only place to be:

I agree with you upon the fact, that they are taking a gamble. In terms of wages, we dont know. some are reporting 75 k others 100 others 120. 75 would be ok I think. You have to see that they arent in the CL this year so they have o pay more, to bring players to their club. Yes, it is a gamble, but sometimes you have to tike gambles in life. I would rather take a 30 m Shaw gamble, than a Torres+Shevchenko gamble, like we did back in the years. It aint like our club isnt doing this type of things. We bought Drogba+ Essien for crazy money, but it paid out. At the beginning people were talking about the huge price tag, but who is now talking about it? Only thinkg we are talking about is being Drogba a legend of this club and Essien of the best midfielders in the last few years. If he flops, yes, they made a mistake, but he still has re-sell value as he is really, really young. They could probably get 50%-30% of the paid price for him, so they wouldnt lose that much money. All in all as I said, if you take all factors in consideration, that transfer is a great one. He could be something Ashley has been for us.

[Jase 43,479]

For the fun of it, hoping we do another Willian style hijack on United.

[Strike 7,260]

United bid 20 m pounds or something like this for Baines, didnt they?

Zabaleta came 2008 and was at that moment, not one of the best RBs in the world or the league. Futhermore RBs are cheaper than LBs.

Cahill had only 1 year on his contract.

Kompany was an ok defender for Hamburg but turned into a beast for City. So really, cant compare anyone of those with Shaw.

Signing is perfect. A little overpriced, but if it goes the way it normally should, they are set for 10 years in a position where good players are rare and futhermore have one homegrown spot filled.

not comparing those players to shaw. that's weird. it just shows you can get good defenders for cheap prices.

[LAB 1,030]

Mourinho is perfectly capable of signing a young LB in the upcoming years. Hopefully we will be perfectly fine with Luis for some time. No need to panic MU-style for an English LB. It's a long-term investment, but a dangerous one too, because he is very young + very expensive.

[Term-X 7,891]

Well that's because of management instabilities.

If we believe Mourinho staying here for a long time then he will help bring in some.

No, the top clubs will not be 'producing' English talent anytime soon, it's got nothing to do with managerial instability. We'll continue poaching players from other clubs, if we want to compete. Whilst the smaller clubs will develop them and sell them off for a premium; and they can, because they're the only ones doing it.

Better buy a cheaper, more experienced foreign player (Wolfsburg's Ricardo Rodriguez, perhaps?) than overpay a talent just because he's English...

You're supporting an English club, so show some respect.

You must have hated every second of being a Chelsea fan when we had Ash, Lamps, JT, J. Cole etc representing us. It's so important for the culture of english football for the TOP clubs to have representation.

[Special Juan 27,439]

31.5M according to The Mail.

[Pizy 18,430]

31.5M according to The Mail.

Nearly £5m more than Cesc and half a million less that Hazard.

Reasonable, huh?

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Time will tell if this was worth or not...if he turns into Cole 2.0, and keeps their LB for next 10 years, 30m would be bargain.

They are also paying for potential rather than just current form and Shaw can be realy good one day.

If he flops, 10m would be too much. Anyway, time will tell who won in this battle. As they say the bigger the risk the bigger the reward...

[Special Juan 27,439]

Sky Sources: Manchester United sign Luke Shaw from Southampton for fee in excess of £30million

[Miki-Liki 405]

You're supporting an English club, so show some respect.

You must have hated every second of being a Chelsea fan when we had Ash, Lamps, JT, J. Cole etc representing us. It's so important for the culture of english football for the TOP clubs to have representation.

I know, I would actually like to see a few more Englishmen at Chelsea, but I'm not for overpaying them (remember Carroll and Henderson?)

[mediator 2,026]

His twitter bio says Manchester United player. https://twitter.com/LukeShaw3

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time to close...

Sky Sports News @SkySportsNews

Sky Sources: Manchester United sign Luke Shaw from Southampton for fee in excess of £30million. #SSN

[Special Juan 27,439]

BBC Sport ‏@BBCSport 1m

Luke Shaw completes his move to Manchester United from Southampton #saintsfc #MUFC

Done deal now people. Time to lock this up and see how he copes being the most expensive LB around.

[Jase 43,479]

He looked happier than Mata did when he joined United...

[MrBlueGuy 1,552]

Bullet dodged...nicely done by the club . Remember all the people who were disappointed we didn't sign him hehe

[iseah100 5,612]

Bullet dodged...nicely done by the club . Remember all the people who were disappointed we didn't sign him hehe

Hindsight is 20/20

[Oscar 441]

Shaw is still young and should be fine, unless they buy another leftback this summer.

[OneMoSalah 8,788]

Hes been a huge let down for United this year hasn't he? 32M as well was it, crazy really, we signed Costa for that ffs, really happy we didn't get him because even when he has played he's looked out of sorts and although Filipe Luis hasn't been a regular its obvious hes a better player.

The argument about English clubs needing English players is gonna rumble on but I'd rather we looked at getting players for a decent fee like Cahill, Lampard, Joe Cole, Johnston, Ashley Cole etc before hand than spunking 30M on a 18 year old full back like United did. Obviously times have changed as well but like we did with Cahill, still shows there is value for money on some English players its just about finding the right ones.