Because your excuses and rational are nonsensical.
I said Antony was a signing who did not live up to the potential thus far - what is the excuse or irrational/nonsensical logic there? Your lack of comprehension is laughable, as you'll find later in this post.
Malacia is on the Ten Hag list for sure. And i think Mount is too.
I didn't say he wasn't. My point is neither played for him, and just because they happened to play in Holland doesn't mean they are bad targets. Mount was wanted by Arteta and Klopp, and his rocket in trajectory happened in England. You are clutching at more straws than a masturbating strawman by insinuating Ten Hag wanted him because he loved a freekick from him in the Netherlands or whatever bullshit you're on about.
I said a well established DOF, I.E. a DoF worth their salt.
FDJ was a bonafide ETH target.
Never denied this - as was Kane, Kim, Todibo, Rabiot. You can't cherry pick targets to suit your narrative, even though it's apparent you're clutching at straws.
Another reason to backup the fact that the clubs targets are weighted towards ETH. A fact you still deny.
I never denied this. I know Ten Hag is having more control on targets. I'm saying its as a result of the fact that we dont have well established people in the right roles, and have sacked off our head of scouting, and are clearly still working oursevles out above him.
Your comprehension really is taking a hit here - considering I never denied the bit in bold.
You are making out like all those "rumored targets" were all players ETHs wanted, thus reducing the number of actually signed players that have ETH links. But you have no idea if the likes of Kim or Rabiot are manager or club/scout driven.
Why are you writing rumored targets in speech marks? Bit of a weird time to apply that.
Anyway, they weren't rumors, they were reported by very well connected journalists - you can google it yourself and educate yourself on the matter if you wish.
Remember - even Hojland has a ETH link after signing for the same agency, who ETHs brother just happens to work for.
Not an uncommon practice and also used by other top managers. A weird bone to pick.
Especially considering we sacked our head of contract negotiations in the last window and had to bring in an ex-player's BROTHER to help negotiate deals. I think our lack of a proper structure warrants this sort of approach - hence my point, he's adapting to our shitshow and you have a problem with it.
Rumors. If someone wanted Mount, they would have gone for him. But all knew that only United wanted him enough to spend 50mil+ on him with a year left on his contract. Plus the massive contract we have given him. We paid him like he was a free transfer.
They did want him, but he was set on United. The Telegraph also broke it by saying Mount and Mac Alister were the top 2 targets for Klopp and it was a big blow that his preference was United.
You struggle with memory or googling, but you can't keep shouting "rumors" when you get shown up, it doesn't put you in good light.
Here, let me help you out with a tier one report
https://theathletic.com/4549383/2023/05/24/mason-mount-manchester-united-transfer-chelsea/.
Previous head scouts were let go before Ten Hag joined. I don't believe they have been replaced, but that doesn't mean the club have stopped scouting and recommended targets. And it doesn't mean that every scout is useless and should be ignored by the manager.
A point you've made up as a result of lazy correlation. Good one.
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The bottom line is, United are off to their worst start to a Premier League season in the last 34 years under Erik ten Hag.
This is a factual observation that has little to do with the debate we were having.
Despite Ten Hag being backed in the transfer market more than any United manager ever has, we are still massively underperforming.
Do you remember how many matchday squad players left the club the summer after Ole left? As for the "massively underperforming thing", yes, right now we are. It's also 7 games in. It's entering a different debate now but chill the feck out and come back after 14 games if there's still a problem.
His signings have not been good enough to improve United to the level that justifies the spend. Of the major signings made over half are his old boys.
Jury is out on Mount + Hojlund which is basically > 100m EUR worth. Onana has barely settled into life with us too, and Licha is obviously a good fit. Antony I agree on, but even Arsenal fecked up with Pepe, City fecked up with Phillips, Chelsea fecked up with Kepa. I am forgiving one big money mistake from every club and Antony is his.
I don't however, prematurely judge transfers or lazily extrapolate flops. Eriksen was a free, I think thats a good deal for squad depth. Malacia was squad cover LB, at his age, for £14m that's decent enough. Reguilon is proving to be pretty good. Weghorst was an emergency loan that we had to tie up in 3 days with 2m fee - I struggle to think who the feck else we could have punted for. Amrabat has played 2 games out of position.
Basically, chill the feck out. Stop making shit up. And read posts better. It's getting tiresome.
Give over, I'm just responding to the people who are quoting me when I said that perhaps we should start to question whether the manager is up to the task or responding to the people who are acting like there's absolutely nothing we can do about the on the pitch performance because the Glazers are still the owners. I appreciate they might come across as negative but I'm actually quite positive about United on the whole if we just get the right man in the door. My issue has always been that you shouldn't cling to a mistake just because you spent time making it, but anyway, I got next to no work done today chatting on here so I'll be probably be busy the rest of the week. Let's hope I've got nothing to moan about by the time the weekend comes around! 