That isn’t true. What budget did Liverpool use to close the gap on City?
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That isn’t true. What budget did Liverpool use to close the gap on City?
It does matter and it's a fundamental mistake that people make, the refusal to accept that you generally don't get where you want to be in a single step. The fact that it's a huge budget means that the process should be faster than it would for most teams with the same goals, it means that we actually have a chance to close the gap with currently better teams.
Yes it's not enough if your timeline is to be the equal to City or Liverpool by September but is that a sensible goal? It clearly isn't reasonable and nothing should be judge on the base of unreasonable expectations.
Well they did break the transfer record for a goalkeeper, defender and spent a lot of money on keita too. They haven't operated on a shoe string. They just managed to have almost every transfer work really well for them. Basically everything came together and they are still second best.
Someone post a positive tweet you bitches
How many pages do we think we’re gonna reach before a deals agreed? 
Of course it was Real......Madrid
Forgot about that Ramos saga
They used 3 or 4 years and more than 400m€ gross spendings. So probably less than what we intend to spend.
Pretty much true. But small, big and huge are relative terms. Many clubs have spent much more in a single window, many clubs will never spend that much in all their years of existence.
Let’s just spend what we’ve got the right way. And let’s try and close the gap over a few windows. You never know.
The worry is, even if we get De Jong, he’s just replacing Pogba - who was also a world class player in other settings and with a decent midfield around him - France and Juve - but struggled to do it with us as he was playing with dross and having to try and do it all himself. The same will happen with De Jong unless we give him a decent partner.
Okay, I’m a United fan and I want us to close the gap. If we spend the money right, it could be done but last time we spent that kind of dollar (12 months ago) it didn’t go too well.
They had the fortune of one of the most dodgy deals of all time, 140m for Coutinho!
Fused with having a manager who got the keys signings all spot on.
Manager and a coach responsible for defending. I hope these are sorted.
We now obviously need a striker or 2, plus a midfielder. A central defender would be on my list, but we might be ok if Maguire gets his act together under the new regime.
Didn't realise it went that far, or don't remember it.
I just figured it was Bollox from the start and ignored it.
Forgot about that Ramos saga
That's why it's pathetic when people declare the De Jong transfer the worst, most tedious saga we've had.
When Sancho stretched for over a year, Maguire took ages, the Ramos and Fabregas wild goose chases, and countless others.
Not even in the top 10.
Vidal and thiago.
Only way a striker becomes a possibility this window is Ronny leaving
Its not about the length alone. I find De Jong one of the most tedious for other reasons.
Yeah amazes me more can't see that we still need to sign a midfield partner
Strangely enough people forget that Berbatov transfer was very long. The last years have seemingly created a lot of impatience.
That Sport tweet early was kinda positive but still not strong enough source for me
It's true but the hope is that ETH won't be like Mourinho or Ole, that he will put a larger emphasis on team chemistry and complementarity, it needs to be said that almost all our issues come from our managers shortcomings.
It has to be him. He is the best player in the world in the role non existent in our club since Carrick retired. We never fixed this problem.
It would rank among one of the better ones if we finalize it before the pre season.
Never forget Ander Herrera and the fake lawyers
Yet we spent more than them
Expectations like that is why so many players fail at United. If we buy him and no other players join the first 11 is still weak. He’s not suddenly going to turn around our fortunes.
Greenwood and Cavani need to be replaced.
Yet we out spent them.
The main difference is the manager and the recruitment choices not the amounts spent.
Shame I’m a better source than James Robson
If those fees are true
He's worth it. You're going to see it when our midfield goes from not being able to hold the ball to functioning properly, resisting press, and passing properly. You're going to see us building from the back and by the end of the season we'll probably rival City and Liverpool at building from the back. You have no idea just how much quality De Jong adds on the ball. He's superb.
The only issue that I'm worried about are the next midfield signings. Signing is pointless if he's passing to Fred and Mctominay.
69m? Giggidy
I guess that's why we're after Eriksen too, so De Jong has a clever player available to pass to rather than looking for McTominay, who'll likely be hiding behind someone
I reckon there was a thread with people saying much the same with Van De Beek
Nice
Tomorrow is my birthday and I'm sure the club would want to give me a nice present... It'll be a done deal tomorrow 
£69m? Sounds like both are giving it to each other.
I see all the talk on United needing to sign so many players. Unlike majority here I still believe in some of our players and weird enough I still respect Ralf too but not for his opinion on this one. Signing players for the sake of it has never solved anyones problems.
Look at Chelsea with Tammy Abraham and Giroud . Everyone thought they were upgrading with Lukaku and Werner but they were wrong. Same with Mount and Ziyech or Pulisic.
You can say the same about Sancho so far who hasn’t yet proven to be better than Rashford in this United team.
Don’t get me wrong I would love signings but coaching this team is far more important than any recruitment
This team needs to be coached. Shaw, Maguire , Bailly, Fred, Fernandez Ronaldo, Rashford, Sancho and possibly FDG can’t be a mid table team. Most of us are struggling to come up with Names that will outright improve our first 11.
Look at Chelsea with Tammy Abraham and Giroud . Everyone thought they were upgrading with Lukaku and Werner but they were wrong. Same with Mount and Ziyech or Pulisic.
You can say the same about Sancho so far who hasn’t yet proven to be better than Rashford in this United team.
Don’t get me wrong I would love signings but coaching this team is far more important than any recruitment
This team needs to be coached. Shaw, Maguire , Bailly, Fred, Fernandez Ronaldo, Rashford, Sancho and possibly FDG can’t be a mid table team. Most of us are struggling to come up with Names that will outright improve our first 11.
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