When we buy players like Rojo, Rawk say we can't attract or afford top class players, when we buy top class players like DiMaria and Mata, Rawk say we are desperate and they are panic buys.
Rival fans are so annoying lol.
Angel Di Maria | £59.7M fee agreed I Maybe tomorrow...or the day after...
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When we buy players like Rojo, Rawk say we can't attract or afford top class players, when we buy top class players like DiMaria and Mata, Rawk say we are desperate and they are panic buys.
Rival fans are so annoying lol.
Worth a repost I think.
Extremely optimistic, Pepe being gold.
So he's on a plane right now to Manchester? Is that confirmed?
He was so explosive the season following that horror injury. Even better than before. No idea what happened to him during that #7 season. Did the expectation of the shirt crush him? It did seem odd he reverted back to 25. He was my favourite player prior to him taking the 7, and then he looked like a different player once he starting wearing it. So disappointing.
He better not be flying with Malaysian airlines..
And the 7 at the end of my username actually has a bit more prestige again 
Tomorrow according to Ballague.
What changed is that he was identified as a threat and the opposition double up on him when it's on the right hand side of the field. We've had nobody to switch the play either so it was easy for them to do that and get away with it.
As he's purely a kick and rush player and needs an acre to run into, his entire skill set was nullified.
He'll sign when we're on page 272 of this thread.
This all feels so strange still. We just don't sign these type of top top players. Surreal almost.
This is actually a situation where we can say "tomorrow" and it looks certain to happen!
Apart from RvP and Mata only within the last two years, yeah we don't.
With the money Real Madrid throw around, I'm sure most Madrid fans would have much preferred to keep him than get even the unlikely and optimistic £80m that some places are touting.
In that tweet Marcelo also tells Di Maria that he loves him. Aww...
Is it too early to start thinking chants?
To the tune of Blondie:
He moves like he don't care
Smooth as Giggs, cool as McClair
Ooh he'll make the Scousers cry
He doesn't know your name
And like Van Gaal plays with his brain
Ooh he makes you wanna die
Ooh, don't you wanna take him? (na-na-na)
Ooh, wanna make him all your own? (na-na-na)
Di Maria, you've gotta see him!
Comes in off the wing, scores a goal!
From Argentina, he's Di Maria!
No te deja, no te deja de alentar!
...the whole thing might be a bit too long, but just the chorus has a lovely ring to it.
He moves like he don't care
Smooth as Giggs, cool as McClair
Ooh he'll make the Scousers cry
He doesn't know your name
And like Van Gaal plays with his brain
Ooh he makes you wanna die
Ooh, don't you wanna take him? (na-na-na)
Ooh, wanna make him all your own? (na-na-na)
Di Maria, you've gotta see him!
Comes in off the wing, scores a goal!
From Argentina, he's Di Maria!
No te deja, no te deja de alentar!
...the whole thing might be a bit too long, but just the chorus has a lovely ring to it.
"@marcoslopez: Di María ya es jugador del @ManUtd Los diablos rojos pagarán 75 millones de euros de traspaso + 15 en bonus. 10 de ellos muy fáciles."
"marcoslopez: Di Maria is already playerManUtd The Red Devils will pay 75 million euros transfer bonus + 15 in 10 of them very easy.."
"marcoslopez: Di Maria is already playerManUtd The Red Devils will pay 75 million euros transfer bonus + 15 in 10 of them very easy.."
Only if the plane is flying over Ukraine
Is it too early to start thinking chants?
To the tune of Blondie:
He moves like he don't care
Smooth as Giggs, cool as McClair
Ooh he'll make the Scousers cry
He doesn't know your name
And like Van Gaal plays with his brain
Ooh he makes you wanna die
Ooh, don't you wanna take him? (na-na-na)
Ooh, wanna make him all your own? (na-na-na)
Di Maria, you've gotta see him!
Comes in off the wing, scores a goal!
From Argentina, he's Di Maria!
No te deja, no te deja de alentar!
...the whole thing might be a bit too long, but just the chorus has a lovely ring to it.
That makes me want to cry.
RVP, yes. Mata? I wouldn't put Mata in the same echelon as Di Maria and RVP.
I didn't realise he almost signed for Arsenal but Di Maria chose to sign for Benfica instead.
Mata and RVP are world class, without question. This one feels a little surreal because Madrid are the Champions of Europe, and probably a bigger club than we are, especially so in terms of throwing around financial weight, and attracting the worlds best players. I can't remember the last time we signed a player who was taking a 'step down' to join us, as there are so few step ups from United anyway. Ancelotti wanted to keep Di Maria, and we seem close to taking him. I can't remember a transfer like this happening in this manner.
Some news outlets are reporting that the player has agreed terms, but negotiations between the clubs are scheduled for Monday. Surely the deal must already be done in principle already though? It's not as if Ed will fly to Madrid to start haggling tommorow when Ancellotti claims the player has already said goodbye to the team. Everything must already have been agreed, right? RIGHT?
Is it too early to start thinking chants?
To the tune of Blondie:
He moves like he don't care
Smooth as Giggs, cool as McClair
Ooh he'll make the Scousers cry
He doesn't know your name
And like Van Gaal plays with his brain
Ooh he makes you wanna die
Ooh, don't you wanna take him? (na-na-na)
Ooh, wanna make him all your own? (na-na-na)
Di Maria, you've gotta see him!
Comes in off the wing, scores a goal!
From Argentina, he's Di Maria!
No te deja, no te deja de alentar!
...the whole thing might be a bit too long, but just the chorus has a lovely ring to it.
Please never do this again.
Of course, relax for just tonight and allow panic to set in once again after the Sunderland game
That is very true. I know what you mean by "step down" even though it isn't in some ways but is in others.
This was the big news, from Friday:
Sainz is an AS reporter who knows the Mendes players. He would only have posted that Di Maria had turned down PSG/Monaco if Di Maria/Mendes wanted the story published.
Today he says that only Ronaldo has been a more decisive player for Madrid and:
Manchester are signing Di Maria and configuring a great squad to try to recover the sceptre of the Premier League.
SAF regularly broke the UK transfer record with Bryan Robson, Roy Keane and Andrew Cole. He then went through another short burst of big signings with RVN, Veron, Ferdinand and Rooney.
He was then forced to go 'value' as the football business model got flooded by petro dollars and he could not financially compete.
Though many have heavily criticised Woodward, I think it's been very unfair. He has already shown from his first transfers that he is not afraid to spend, even overspend on the likes of fellaini and shaw. I don't think he's to blame for the lateness of our transfers, Moreso that's been because of the dithering of our 2 most recent managers. Even with there lack of clear direction, he has convinced his bosses to spend record sums of money in our clubs history.
Well the boot is on the other foot, ronaldo also took a step down to join real madrid, if VG gets the system right which complements all our attacking players which is possible, we will get better
Is it too early to start thinking chants?
To the tune of Blondie:
He moves like he don't care
Smooth as Giggs, cool as McClair
Ooh he'll make the Scousers cry
He doesn't know your name
And like Van Gaal plays with his brain
Ooh he makes you wanna die
Ooh, don't you wanna take him? (na-na-na)
Ooh, wanna make him all your own? (na-na-na)
Di Maria, you've gotta see him!
Comes in off the wing, scores a goal!
From Argentina, he's Di Maria!
No te deja, no te deja de alentar!
...the whole thing might be a bit too long, but just the chorus has a lovely ring to it.
I like it!
It's not Brendamian Rhapsody, but catchy.
Has to be scope to modify THIS as a chant
His price keeps going up every hour.
I think it'll be between 60-70 million Euros as reported by Ballbag first.
I think it'll be between 60-70 million Euros as reported by Ballbag first.
Sorry to be pedantic, but didn't Big Ron sign Ronson in 1981 I think?
I agree with the rest, and wrote a rather too long post in the Ed Woodward thread in the United forum about it.
If we get Di Maria and Blind/De Jong we are just a top CB away from title challengers or scary knock out opponents. I suppose, depending on how Herrera settles, next season we will only need to invest in a top CB like Benatia and promote our young guns to replace outgoing players like Kagawa, Hernandez, Cleverley, Young etc.
People can complain all they like about the prices we paid but after this we can afford to just spend big on one top player for the next four to five summers. With Wilson, Perreira, Pearson, Januzaj and Blackett all expected to come into the side from the youth set up we are now back on track.
Of course, relax for just tonight and allow panic to set in once again after the Sunderland game
That is exactly what I expect to happen.Ave Maria
Thank You For Scoring That Goal
Maria Thank You For Signing For Us
Maria Thank You For Saving The Reds
Ave Maria etc.
We only think that because he wasn't wanted by Jose. If we bought him and the circumstances were different we would all feel differently about Mata
He was the best player in the league the season before we got him. He is one of the best #10's in the world. He is pure class. I would definitely put him up there with the other two. He would be playing for Spain much more if it wasn't for the quality in that squad ahead of him.
Don't get me wrong, I think Mata is a talented player - it just remains to be seen what he can really do for us and if he can replicate his quality at Chelsea.
Yes you are right ... Well spotted!
Actually your observation makes an stronger point, before Atkinson signed Robson for a UK record fee of £1.5m, we also bought Gary Birtles in 1980 for (I think) a record of £1.2m. So breaking transfer records and setting new scary financial parameters has been a cultural habit of ours since many many years and only thwarted by the emergence of petro cash.
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Oh. Didn't know that. Thank you! So it started Friday and it really caught fire yesterday.
Big Ron definitely signed him.
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