he really wants to join?

next Summer we've gotta ship Heaton to Madrid as revenge after this and Varane

No. He really wants to secure the bag

Man is probably maintaining an extended family of 100 people back in Brazil with his salary

Casemiro putting the dipper attack in his back pocket one more time this summer

Casemiro would be a huge buy

There's no way we pull this off lmao

It’s a s*** buy - 2 decent seasons left at most or most likely we suck, he moans, we get in a saga and we wasted a year instead of finding long term solutions.

is what it is

Hard disagree

Yes, he's 30 but Chelsea have just signed a 31 y/o Koulibaly which is apparently a genius signing. If he was 34 maybe but he's still at the top of his game and one of the best defensive midfielders on the planet right now

Midfielder of that level coming to United is much, much needed and almost too good to be true

I like this but it could so easily become a statistic in an infographic in a years time when he’s starting 3 games a season with 3 years left on his contract

Well it can’t be worse than starting McTominay

Could turn out to have 3/4 even 5 amazing years left in the tank. Could not.

Just one of those you got to wait and see.

Only thing we do know for sure is that he is, as it stands, one of the very best midfielders in the world. Hard to be mad at that. Ridiculously ambitious buy it would be considering the state of things.

How have we gone from nearly overpaying for f***ing Rabiot to apparently nearly signing the best defensive midfielder in the world?
Do these idiots have ETHs transfer wish list upside down??

Seems they had just allocated 70 odd mill for De Jong. Now that doesn't seem to be happening that money's freed up and they're able to go for Casemiro.

Have absolutely no problem with them having taken De Jong down to the wire. Although surprised Ten Hag apparently hadn't very clearly gotten an assurance from De Jong that he wanted to come.

who cares if he’s only good for 2 seasons. sign another player in 2 seasons then

i think he has more in the tank anyway

Come on Fabrizio or Ornstein gimme that confirmation

I would’ve been beyond excited if he was signed while we still had pogba but it’s a different time now

ten hag seems like he wants to play with a double pivot instead of a traditional dm so this makes no sense

resembles us signing maguire (mourinho’s ideal cb) after he’s left. ole would’ve killed for a dm like casimero during his time so he could fit pogba in instead of those 2 headless chickens diving into tackles

always 1 manager too late

Make an offer for Karim while we’re at it

Are we the best team in Europe if we get casemiro and de jong?

man we'd still be competing for europa qualification

Is there an Ajax player in a ten Hag system we can compare Casemiro to?

Thiago was 30 too when he signed for liverpool

Not following this “past it” argument

they got him for half the transfer fee and probably pay him half the salary

no one would be mentioning age if we were signing him for 30M

No, his system doesnt use a traditional dm