One is a CM and other plays either as AM or as a winger. Also it's hard to sign Mkhitaryan considering Dortmund will lose 2-3 of their key players and maybe Mkhitaryan don't want to move to ManUtd. Easy to sign Jao Mario.
James isn't even a ****** winger though, he's a no.10 you'd convert to play outwide, which wouldn't work.
I'm not a scout for the club but if I was I'd be disappointed if I couldn't find a similar alternative to Mane from a foreign league without paying over the top to the extreme.
One more myth just like Mata when Mata played all his career bar 6 months as a winger. James played as winger not as a byline and whip a cross type winger but as a wide playmaker.
They won't, I'd be surprised if anyone was willing to pay over £30m for him.
Plus his 14 goals have come in bundles, like a few hat-trick's here and there. He hasn't been consistently scoring, it is patches throughout an extended run of games.
He really isn't as good as people here seem to be thinking.
He is good. He isn't a striker to judge him on goals alone. He is a winger and he was **** at the start of the season as he was not focussed completely. His head was turned because of transfer. He was back to his best later and tore apart few of the good teams in the league.
I count 5 players in 6 leagues who are teh same age or younger than Mane who have scored at least 10 this season, play wide right and could cost 40m or less.
Two of those are Dembele and Lacazette in fairness, so they could go for more.
The others are Bakamby, Brandt and Boufal
I think few don't understand how hard it is to find a proper goal scorer from wide areas. There are few who scores from wide areas and Mane is one.
For example, we have one in Martial who is scoring a lot from left wing positions. If we can find one more who can do the same from right wing and also add pace then we will have much better team.