Its going to be very difficult to finish 4th with all these changes, let alone challenge for the title. Like I say, to go into the new season and hope jones smalling evans shaw herrera stay fit, is asking for it
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Its going to be very difficult to finish 4th with all these changes, let alone challenge for the title. Like I say, to go into the new season and hope jones smalling evans shaw herrera stay fit, is asking for it
Especially if it was Rooney. 'No smoke without fire' etc.
The same squad that is 2 years older, without ferdinand vidic evra giggs scholes, along with a new manager coaching and system change. I like to see any team try and challenge for the title, with an under equipped in midfield and defence
Still struggling to get my head round this. If we are interested then why have we not put a bid in, surely we want to sort this (either way) sooner rather than later, other it's just a repeat of last year.
If there is a chance then let's get it done.
If there is a chance then let's get it done.
The hope of going into a new season thinking 6-7 new first teamers is the answer is just as littered with disaster in the PL.....
Somebody needs to set a haveunitedbidforvidalyet.com website....
Yea we have gone the other way, we have lost players. I like to see any team go into the new season after losing ferdinand vidic evra butner and carrick is injured too, with his replacement? herrera who is new the PL
We need someone to be put on surveillance and keep an eye on Vidal's movements!
The thread would've been locked if it was about Rooney
more like unitedneedtosignsomeone.com
Ferdinand, Giggs only played bit parts, Scholes only played partly the season before last since when we have bought Mata Shaw and Herrera for £95m just this year, City have spent £18m this year
We will sign a couple more players, we have less games to play, we had a management change last season and a new system (passing sideways and backwards and relentless crosses)
The thread would've been locked if it was about Rooney
I wish that were true, but last summer is was allowed to just roll on unchecked. In all my years on this planet I have genuinely never seen a greater conglomeration of human idiocy than that thread. Transfer muppetry doesn't even come close.
You should be called 'Paul the Octopus'.
Unless he makes a couple of proper predictions for us he is not worthy of that name.
Predictions at start were Shaw, Vidal, a.n.other midfielder (can't claim Herrera - but very pleased) CB -Hummels or Badstuber, Reus/Sanchez as bonus but never convinced
Isn't that also the nickname the Juve fans give Pogba? Because of his 'tentacle-like legs'.
We have Shaw who is better than Evra was in recent seasons...Herrera who is our best midfielder....with Adnan a year older and better presumably and Zaha who may be wild card who knows and I'd still suggest another couple of signings to come in guaranteed. No reason to think otherwise just yet.
Why does Marotta talk to the press everyday?
is he involved tonight for Juve against Cesena?
Not in squad
and people want to lock this threadWe need Raoul to come in and give us hope again like last night.
He probably doesn't, the press have been recycling the same quotes for weeks now - what's to say this is any different?
I don't know, I read and ask, hard to believe Beppe Marotta suffers from dementia at 57 that he has to repeat the same fecking thing everyday.
If we're interested maybe we have a verbal agreement, and will give offer at the same time pr after we have tied up the other main targets, to keep prices down. I can imagine 2-3 consequential announcements ala Shaw and Herrera.
I think Ogden or someone came out and basics said "the club are saying there's nothing in it but they lie to us all the time" and also that the stories from Italy and Chile are not going away so there could be something to it.
Thing is if United are negotiating through Vidal's agent (it's common for agents to rep both player and buying club simultaneously in these cases) then its not exactly far fetched to think that we're telling the press there's nothing happening just so as to let the agent do his business.
I'm not saying that's definitely what's happening, but it's certainly not implausible.
Indeed.
Going public last year made the club look daft when it didn't come off.
If they are negotiating for him but it doesn't work out then then they don't have to comment and its not a big deal.
Not briefing the press is, in my opinion the best way to go. It means they're speculating and everyone takes that with a pinch of salt.
Course not. It's entirely possible. I'd suggest it's probably less likely then the alternative, though, when you consider that we seem to have briefed the journos on the tour about other targets. Plus if Juve/Vidal are open to a big bid then stories coming from Italy and Chile is pretty logical.
Have we briefed them about other targets? Vermaelen seemed to leak but still isn't done and everything else seems to be speculation.
Van Gaal mentioned wanting a defender but no names.
Quite clearly we have. A bunch of the journos came out with the same four or five names around the same time.
Possibly, but I'm holding out hope that there's something in all this.
If there really isn't and we're genuinely not interested in him it's more than puzzling as to why the hell not.
This has all become a bit shit.
The club's lack of activity, for the second year in succession, is disappointing. Shaw and Herrera coming in is nowhere near enough if you look at the overall state of the squad.
Would've been nice to get the extra players we need in for a pre-season with the team.
The complete lack of anything in relation to Vidal makes it hard to be optimistic we'll get him. Seems to have fizzled out.
The club's lack of activity, for the second year in succession, is disappointing. Shaw and Herrera coming in is nowhere near enough if you look at the overall state of the squad.
Would've been nice to get the extra players we need in for a pre-season with the team.
The complete lack of anything in relation to Vidal makes it hard to be optimistic we'll get him. Seems to have fizzled out.
One of those names went to Lazio two days later, I don't think we're briefing a thing, the Herrera deal supports that view.
What was all that talk from Giggs about getting players that were still involved in the last week of the WC? Don't see any new Argies or Germans around!
Gah I can't keep up. I miss the old uni days when I could get properly into transfer sagas. Sneijder was my first and last.
Nothing.
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