Does the media have a clue about united transfer plans

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I don't think so, at this stage we should already be aware which positions are our priority and which players are top of the list in those positions.
They have been links to center backs like Timber, Torres, Inacio, midfielders like De jong, Kante, and forwards like Nunez, Nkunku.
Aside from the De Jong link which I feel the media have very little info about there's no certainty to the others.
 
First things first, do United have a clue about Uniteds transfer plans?
 
At this point it looks like they are kept in the dark. It’s better that way.
 
Yeah, we've never been good at hiding them.
 
pacifictheme said:
First things first, do United have a clue about Uniteds transfer plans?
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I'll like to believe so, Ten hag and Murtough should have a plan. I just think the media aren't aware of it, linking us to everything Ajax and Eredevise, then every other popular player in the market.
Although I see your point and its quite scary because that would be like Van gaal-Moyes era window.
 
I can’t really put my finger on it but it feels like we’re being a little less “public” about our targets than in the past.
 
Coops73 said:
I can’t really put my finger on it but it feels like we’re being a little less “public” about our targets than in the past.
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I don't agree, pretty much everyone and their mother knows we're targeting de Jong and Nunez.
 
I think we pretty much know who we’re after. Timber, De Jong, Nunez - there’s too much smoke. Only problem is that all three might turn us down :lol:
 
They just googled the RB Leipzig squad and linked us to a load of their squad. Then ETH came along and they started linking us with every Ajax player. Then a few players from the dutch league.

Also they thought we wanted to buy Max Kilman. A 25 year old CB that can't even make the England squad and has played more non league games than PL games.

Safe to say they are guessing a lot of the time.
 
2 man midfield said:
I think we pretty much know who we’re after. Timber, De Jong, Nunez - there’s too much smoke. Only problem is that all three might turn us down :lol:
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How much sense does the Timber link make though, do you really think Ten Hag value him above our current options, he spoke about us having potential surely center back is one area where there's scope to improve the current options.
And then Nunez for what he'll cost only to sit on the bench for Ronaldo?
 
It's going to be a good summer. Patience folks.
 
Our main targets are obvious. What seems to be more secretive are our backup options... And yes, we will have them.
 
2 man midfield said:
I think we pretty much know who we’re after. Timber, De Jong, Nunez - there’s too much smoke. Only problem is that all three might turn us down :lol:
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De Jong I get, Timber ETH knows well and if he thinks he can improve us over who we have I'm all for it- especially if he's changing systems and Timber is a key player.

Nunez, IMO so far a one season wonder and if we spent £75m or whatever on him I'd be a bit surprised. There must be better options out there given Haarland went for £50m (if you believe the figure)
 
AltiUn said:
I don't agree, pretty much everyone and their mother knows we're targeting de Jong and Nunez.
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I dont see how this could even be true, by all accounts we have circa 120/150 million for transfers but we were going to sign an 100 mill striker and 70/80 mill midfielder when we need at least 4 players have some common sense
 
Trex said:
How much sense does the Timber link make though, do you really think Ten Hag value him above our current options, he spoke about us having potential surely center back is one area where there's scope to improve the current options.
And then Nunez for what he'll cost only to sit on the bench for Ronaldo?
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I think Ronaldo and Nunez would have enough game time given they’d be our only strikers. Sounds like he’s Liverpool bound anyway but I still see us signing a striker as ronaldo is literally our only one once we manage to shift martial’s carcass.
We need an rvn said:
De Jong I get, Timber ETH knows well and if he thinks he can improve us over who we have I'm all for it- especially if he's changing systems and Timber is a key player.

Nunez, IMO so far a one season wonder and if we spent £75m or whatever on him I'd be a bit surprised. There must be better options out there given Haarland went for £50m (if you believe the figure)
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Yeah I haven’t seen a great deal of him and don’t really have an opinion on him either way. We need to be in for someone up front though, let’s see if the scouts can earn their money for once.
 
I think there’s a lot of noise independent of United’s actions. There always is. However, my impression is that United have sent out almost half and half true and false info.

It wouldn’t surprise me if, say, the Nunez link has been perpetuated through either an agreement with Jorge Mendes or Benfica. Perhaps we’re buying another Benfica or Mendes player and our interest has been faked to give them more leverage to squeeze more money out of the Nunez deal.

De Jong sounds legit to me and it’s come from the Spanish side. Why? Well Barca maybe want to let the narrative set in that they are selling such a top player out of necessity. Therefore, when it happens, Barca fans are already used to the idea. Maybe Barca are waiting to do deals for Raphinha, Lewandowski and co to smooth the path for De Jong’s departure in the eyes of the fans. Also, it helps their negotiating position if Leeds and Bayern don’t know they have £60m burning a hole in their pocket.

I suspect there’s lots of dominos in a row and one or two big transfers being completed around Europe will set everything in motion. Lots will start happening after the international matches are over.

I’m hoping we have at least one or two hidden gem, cheap revelation signings lined up. Especially up front as 70m for Nunez seems way too much.

Departures will be the toughest thing. I’d guess the 2 or 3 priority positions will be filled by the default transfer kitty. The lower priority signings should be funded by the outgoings I expect.
 
Nope, most players we are linked to are dutch/ex ten hag players/ex Ajax players. Oh, and that Nunez fella.
 
2 man midfield said:
I think Ronaldo and Nunez would have enough game time given they’d be our only strikers. Sounds like he’s Liverpool bound anyway but I still see us signing a striker as ronaldo is literally our only one once we manage to shift martial’s carcass.
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The versatile forward link makes more sense to me as it will absolutely make no sense to have an 80 million striker rotating while Elanga gets more minutes on the right.
 
I remember last year Luckhurst ran the story about Varane being Ole's number one target at centre back just after the EL final. This year it seems there's a lot of guessing going on even from the more reliable journos.
 
No clue what so ever, basically throwing names out there hoping that something sticks. To be fair agents are probably feeding them bullshit rumours to up interest in their players.

The only one I think they've got right so far is De Jong.
 
Trex said:
How much sense does the Timber link make though, do you really think Ten Hag value him above our current options, he spoke about us having potential surely center back is one area where there's scope to improve the current options.
And then Nunez for what he'll cost only to sit on the bench for Ronaldo?
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Why do people assume Nunez will sit on bench for Ronaldo. I think the person most at risk is Rashford, the wide forward role. He will play from the left, offer defensive work rate, will run in behind and is a lethal finisher.
On the occasions that Ronaldo sits, he'll play CF with Rashford on the left. Then once Ronaldo leaves, he'll take over that position.
 
AltiUn said:
I don't agree, pretty much everyone and their mother knows we're targeting de Jong and Nunez.
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De jong sounds like there’s something in that but Nunez? I can’t recall anyone really credible suggesting he’s a target maybe I’m wrong I’m not on top of all this sort of shit but every other name seems like hack guess work, Ajax players, any Dutch player, any player that played in eridivisie.
 
I think 'sometimes' is probably a conservative and reasonable answer.

You can't say that they definitely know nothing, because sometimes it suits the club to put lines out there. Also, even if the club do not, there is another club at the other end of the deal and it may suit them to talk to the media. We see this a lot with selling clubs in other countries, which means their journalists can be informed. This can simply be the way a selling club does business in an attempt to drum up interest or push a particular narrative in order to garner interest in firming up a deal.

But most of the time it will of course be nonsense, because there is a transfer story every day, and they simply cannot all represent valid targets. So there is a fair degree of throwing shit at the wall.

I think generally you can attach a probability to a target based on the source, the number of sources and the consistency of the story.
 
Given the fact we've been linked to about 200 players so far I'm betting 'no'.

It's the same every summer. Throw enough brown stuff and eventually some sticks.

Until Ornstein pipes up I don't pay much attention to any of it.
 
We need an rvn said:
Nunez, IMO so far a one season wonder and if we spent £75m or whatever on him I'd be a bit surprised. There must be better options out there given Haarland went for £50m (if you believe the figure)
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Do you realise this was something Dortmund had no say over? I keep seeing people using Haaland’s price as an argument to justify what price another player should be.

Haaland’s price to Man City was set before he even played 1 minute for Dortmund.
 
Trex said:
I don't think so, at this stage we should already be aware which positions are our priority and which players are top of the list in those positions.
They have been links to center backs like Timber, Torres, Inacio, midfielders like De jong, Kante, and forwards like Nunez, Nkunku.
Aside from the De Jong link which I feel the media have very little info about there's no certainty to the others.
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Yeah they have no clue. Even the 120m transfer budget they alluded to seems off, I think the manager has a lot more to work with before factoring in money from sales.
 
We need an rvn said:
De Jong I get, Timber ETH knows well and if he thinks he can improve us over who we have I'm all for it- especially if he's changing systems and Timber is a key player.

Nunez, IMO so far a one season wonder and if we spent £75m or whatever on him I'd be a bit surprised. There must be better options out there given Haarland went for £50m (if you believe the figure)
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Haaland had a cheap buy out clause. He should never be included in such conversations
 
2 man midfield said:
I think Ronaldo and Nunez would have enough game time given they’d be our only strikers. Sounds like he’s Liverpool bound anyway but I still see us signing a striker as ronaldo is literally our only one once we manage to shift martial’s carcass.

Yeah I haven’t seen a great deal of him and don’t really have an opinion on him either way. We need to be in for someone up front though, let’s see if the scouts can earn their money for once.
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There’s this amazing player our South American scouts have come across by the name of Andreas pereira who can solve our midfield options…little did they know he already plays for us. I’ve very little hope or trust in our scouting department given the last few years

up front, I don’t see is getting the top world class talent until we establish ourselves again for a few years
 
Wasn't there reports of the new management filing up the holes and so preventing inside info coming out from the club?
 
Plans? That sounds fancy. I think we're much more freestyle than that.
 
Trex said:
I don't think so, at this stage we should already be aware which positions are our priority and which players are top of the list in those positions.
They have been links to center backs like Timber, Torres, Inacio, midfielders like De jong, Kante, and forwards like Nunez, Nkunku.
Aside from the De Jong link which I feel the media have very little info about there's no certainty to the others.
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if ETH is what we all expect him to be then answer is NO.
 
Intentionally and unintentionally, NO. When you have someone questioning the position of DDG, not saying he is the best keeper in the world/EPL, but the simple fact that we have dozens of problems to address.

I do believe Ten Hag and the board know which are their priority, DMF, B2B MF, CB, RB and possibly a striker. The media, agents, and someone working for media pretending to be fans, simply want to hijack the agenda to suit their business needs.

I am more concern with whether we will recruit the right player for the job, not someone assumed to be RW but ending up as LW, or buy first think about how to use him later.
 
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