20 Jan 2016 20:55:43
I seriously hope we are not going after Cavani who has no premier league experience. The guy is awsome, a proven goal scorer, but he is approaching the twilight of his career. I would rather we pursue lukaku, he is much younger and has time on his side to get better.

What's your view?

1.) 20 Jan 2016
20 Jan 2016 21:04:18
Hardly approaching the twilight of his career, at 28 he'll be entering his peak years. That being said, I'm not a fan of Cavani and wouldn't like us to pay a big fee and big wages on him.

If it was up to me in all honesty I'd go for Benzema. I know all about his case and some would argue it would be morally wrong but the guy is seriously top quality and for once, available.

2.) 20 Jan 2016
20 Jan 2016 21:43:17
If he's used right, I think he'd be a great signing. 28? In his prime. A good 4 years left, and a top-class talent IMO. But I stress - If used right.

3.) 20 Jan 2016
20 Jan 2016 22:31:21
A top top player who I've wanted here for a few years now.

At 28 I'd hardly he worried about his age.

4.) 21 Jan 2016
21 Jan 2016 01:26:27
Giggs and Rooney won't want Benzema to come in, they could afford it!

5.) 21 Jan 2016
21 Jan 2016 06:25:00
Cavani will actually turn 29 on Valentine's Day. Some might argue 29 is still young, but I do worry that it will be RVP all over again. One very good season followed by steady decline whilst the club paid massive wages. A transfer fee of between £30-40m and wages of £250-300k per week seems excessive for a 29 yr old.

Don't forget we were allegedly close to signing lewandawski the summer we signed RVP, but opted for RVP given his premier league experience. Even despite saying premier league experience was important in my first post, I think RVP was a mistake.

I would have loved Cavani 2 seasons ago, but would prefer a established but younger striker.

I would like us to move away from marquee signings and move towards a balanced team made up of young hungry players, some home grown some purchased. Ultimately I think it would lead to more sustained success. At the moment other clubs look forward to Ed Woodward turning up with his cheque book because they know they can double the price.

We have never been a club that signed the elite players. In the 90's we lost out to the Italian clubs and the 00's to spainnish clubs, yet that was our most successful period.

6.) 21 Jan 2016
21 Jan 2016 06:58:46
RVP was a mistake?

We would have never won the league that year if it wasn't for him.

7.) 21 Jan 2016
21 Jan 2016 07:14:07
RVP was no mistake.

8.) 21 Jan 2016
21 Jan 2016 07:14:25
Lukaku is a beast.

9.) 21 Jan 2016
21 Jan 2016 07:48:59
RVP won us the league with an old overrated team.

10.) 21 Jan 2016
21 Jan 2016 07:49:40
I am of the view that signing RVP over Lewandowski was a mistake. I believe we would have won the league with Lewandowski up front and that he would have offered more movement and pace up front. He is less injury prone and would still be young now/ performing.

RVP cost the club circa £63m in wages and fees. It seems a lot for 1 decent season. He did score a lot of goals in his first season, but I would rather have two cheaper striker scoring 20-25 goal each per season rather than 1 who scores 30+ a season.

My rational being that if one loses form or gets injured you have another to fall back on. With RVP in his second season he was injured/ not interested if you believe the press and our performance dropped massively.

It is a personal opinion, and like a** holes we all have them, I would take potential over super stars everyday as it is the ethos the club has been built on and that has served it so well.

11.) 21 Jan 2016
21 Jan 2016 08:03:25
Still don't believe he was a mistake. I don't really care for how much a player costs as we can well afford most players in the world irregardless of what was spent on RVP.

Theoretically what you say is correct. Could have signed lewandowski over him, lewandowski might have come and been brilliant and still be here banging them in. Or if we had bought two cheaper strikers who would score 20-25 goals each a season. But in reality it is hard to know how exactly lewandowski would have done if signed then, and it is even harder to find 2 strikers who will score 20-25 goals each a season. Give me RVP scoring 30+ for that one season all over again. Fergie knew exactly what he was doing.

12.) 21 Jan 2016
21 Jan 2016 08:22:05
RVP was a mistake?! Don't be absurd. He single handedly won us the league that year and for that we should all be grateful. Plus he scored one of the best goals I've ever seen at Old Trafford. As the ball was flying over I was slating Rooney for trying the Hollywood ball, got about half the way through saying it and RVP pulled that out the hat. The mans a legend.

13.) 21 Jan 2016
21 Jan 2016 08:33:33
It's all about "what if? " who knows what would have happened if we signed Lewandowski over RVP, may have flopped and struggled?

I like the idea of Cavani but I do agree there are potentially better/ younger options for us which sound more practical. I would love Lukaku at the club, he is a gem of a player and offers something completely new to the side. I remember him going ham in Fergies last game v West Brom.

14.) 21 Jan 2016
21 Jan 2016 08:35:12
Well yo say RvP was a mistake is to say you would have been happy to see City lift the title in Sir Alex's final season. He was expensive, but he won us a title.

As for Cavani, he is an excellent striker, and one I feel would work wonderfully both in the EPL and in LvG's possession system. Would he be expensive? Yes, would he be a sucess? Who knows, but I think he would.

I completely get the idea of going for Lukaku instead, younger and Prem proven. We could also sign him, have 5/ 6 really good years out of him then sell him probably for around what we paid for him. On the surface it would be excellent business.

But it does leave a massive question mark over what to do with Martial? We all agree his future is as a main striker, but to bring in a player only 2/ 3 years older than him will leave us with the issue of he will likely have to remain on the wing, or rotate with Lukaku.

Where as signing a player in their late 20's allows Martial a couple of years to adjust and fine tune his skills ready to step up in a couple of seasons time, while also keeping space in the squad for young strikers to come through such as Wilson, Fletcher and Rashford.

I wouldn't complain if we signed either of Cavani or Lukaku, both have massive plus points with little downside. But atm I would probably fall just on the side of Cavani due to my excitement of what I feel Martial could achieve.

15.) 21 Jan 2016
21 Jan 2016 11:19:50
If we can bring in a world class proven striker of benzema/ lewandowski/ cavani ilk then I would definitely take that.

If not I would stick martial up top and put better players around him. Invest in some top drawer wingers and work on pereira and depay who will give him the service he needs.

I like lukaku but I wouldn't buy him as I believe martial to have much more potential.

16.) 21 Jan 2016
21 Jan 2016 13:09:47
I love the posts when we are linked with a top player saying 'I really hope we aren't going for so and so' for varying reasons. You say he is world class, something in which we are really lacking, but you wouldn't want him because he is 28?!

17.) 21 Jan 2016
21 Jan 2016 14:13:56
I think lukaku would be a perfect fit for man united he's a cracking player and would score a barrel load👍.

18.) 21 Jan 2016
21 Jan 2016 14:31:03
What world are you living in where it's as simple as signing 2 - 20-25 goal a season strikers? First and foremost; there really aren't many strikers anywhere outside of Messi, Neymar, Suarez, Lewandowski, Benzema, Higuain, Cavani, Zlatan and Ronaldo who are consistently banging in 20-25 goals a season.

Aguero - who is arguably the best striker in the league - has failed to manage 20 goals in a season in 3 consecutive seasons at any point in his career. Rooney hasn't managed it (although he has consistently hit around 20 every season) and Costa has once (although 2 of those seasons 3 included tallies of 20 and 21). Falcao was considered the best striker in the world by many when we signed him and was someone that in theory should have guaranteed us 20 goals a season as was RVP. Remind me again how they turned out.

Perhaps a realistic target would be 2 10-15 goal a season strikers - but with the way that we play only one of them would play week in week out (barring injuries) meaning that we'd end up with 1 10-15 goal a season striker and 1 5-10 goal a season striker that is unhappy due to a lack of playing time (similar to Remi at Chelski) . There's also the image of the club to think about and in that sense signing Cavani looks a hell of a lot better than signing Defoe and Pelle (or some sort of combo like that) .

You mention Lewandowski as if he was a guaranteed signing at the time and we opted for RVP over him - but who is to say that he would have chosen us over Bayern? Looking at the two squads and taking away the fact that I am a Manchester United fan - I probably would have chosen Bayern too.

Cavani is a proven goalscorer and we are a team lacking a proven goalscorer. I'd probably rather sign Lukaku too - but who is to say that Everton would sell to us and who is to say that he would want to play for us if it came down to a choice between us and one of the other big teams in Europe? My guess is he would probably cost more than Cavani anyway and being younger - is a lot more likely to be lured away to Real/ Barca in a few years time.

If Cavani is available we should snap him up. We're crying out for a player like him and ultimately it may well be a case of him or no-one this window.