Loads of reports if I remember rightly that he didn't want to come to ua because of CL football. Apparently this year's deal of getting him was centred around us getting CL football
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I find this to be believable. Didn't someone holding a top position at Bayern Munich come out and accuse United and Liverpool of waiting until deadline time to pitch an offer for Thiago? Liverpool did act swiftly after that and wrapped up the deal. I guess United do think of delaying until last few weeks of a transfer window to be a viable strategy once they think the selling club is willing. And maybe thus risk putting off certain clubs as the selling club may feel like they're being taken for a ride especially since German clubs are directly calling out this strategy and showing clear disdain for it.
Just depends who you believe. I think the deal was there last year, but a bit like this time, we're constantly trying to be clever with money.
I don't think CL was crucial to getting him, it was always about us paying the money.
I don't recall this at all
Chelsea would have got rid of him by now. We aren't cut throat enough - the issue is we haven't got a replacement for him yet.
It wasn't widely said, but there were plenty people saying it, I remember it, they could have been talking shite though, but who really knows.
I could imagine a deal with may be 15m up front with the potential to rise to 25m if he hits a number of milestones. Would not sell for less than we paid for him at this point as we are not overloaded with wide players and he can be used to rotate or in the case of injury problems. If we are signing a true RW then of course that changes things.
Thing is Goldbridge has said all along it’s about opinion. He thinks he’s been told something by someone but he’s not saying it’s 100 percent.
If this transfer doesn’t happen I’ll be slating the people that run this club not Goldbridge.
Definitely not typing this to troll but how the feck can anyone think this deal still has any sort of possibility? Dortmund have just said publicly their stance is not changing over the next 3 days. Their stance being that he is staying this season. It was dead as soon as 3-4 members of the clubs board made public statements that the player was staying. The August 10 deadline clearly wasnt a bluff.
Honestly I don't remember a single article suggesting this. If anything it was the opposite.
Woodward and the board are right, you can’t sell Dan James just because he looks like he belongs back in championship football and not the prem. You’ve got to give him at least 7-8 seasons and a few new contracts. Just look at the growth of Phil Jones and Chris Smalling over the course of their United careers.
Maybe Dortmund want James?
Yeah i know, i could barely stop sniggering when I typed it to be honest.....
Yeah i know, i could barely stop sniggering when I typed it to be honest.....
If all that is true about James, it's absolutely moronic. Woody shouldn't be making footballing decisions over the manager's head and unfortunately there's no one to call him out on it. The Glazers don't care as long as he makes them money and we obviously don't have a DoF to communicate that and won't be getting one under Ed's watch. It's a mess even if this transfer ends up happening.
Probably they mean 10m + 15m add on "when" he wins ballon d'or.
We can still do that. Hope no one relaxes and forget about what happened. We need those Glazers out
Honestly if you believed that last summer, when we needed him even more, why have you been so convinced we'd get him this year? Honestly, some people deserve this bullshit because they buy into everything the club feeds the media. People just do not learn. And what's worse? This will be forgotten about if the window shuts and we get a couple of good results. Then when we inevitably hit the rocks again then people will pipe up again. Rinse and repeat.
This thread is better comedy now that it is for a any transferAugust 10th deadline doesn't mean anything in a window that closes October 5th. That's almost common sense. The issue of this transfer is not a time conundrum it's the notion that the club seemingly don't have the money to fund the transaction.
This saga....
1) Makes sense to wait until October for wages and stuff of that matter.
2) Not training or going to training and training separate with the inability to play but still sign on for national duty
3) making a point to let everybody know he is our #1 target
4) the back and forth with the journalist saying the same shite everyday
5) our real lack of "anything" real during this window except for our one back up signing.
6) this extra baggage we have in Jones, Rojo, Smalling, Romero, Dalot, james and Lindgard
7) our noted lack on Right wing
this screams shite show. How in the world have we not made progress this window? I we drop points to Tottenham its going to be a long year and a sign of things to come....
something needs to be done and the lack of communication is a bit depressing.
Also... how can Ole suddenly see that depth is not a problem. Its obvious to me that it is and has been. Is he just covering for the board? Watching all of these teams strengthen their squads has me thinking we are destined for a 5th or 6th place finish.
1) Makes sense to wait until October for wages and stuff of that matter.
2) Not training or going to training and training separate with the inability to play but still sign on for national duty
3) making a point to let everybody know he is our #1 target
4) the back and forth with the journalist saying the same shite everyday
5) our real lack of "anything" real during this window except for our one back up signing.
6) this extra baggage we have in Jones, Rojo, Smalling, Romero, Dalot, james and Lindgard
7) our noted lack on Right wing
this screams shite show. How in the world have we not made progress this window? I we drop points to Tottenham its going to be a long year and a sign of things to come....
something needs to be done and the lack of communication is a bit depressing.
Also... how can Ole suddenly see that depth is not a problem. Its obvious to me that it is and has been. Is he just covering for the board? Watching all of these teams strengthen their squads has me thinking we are destined for a 5th or 6th place finish.
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If we drop points to Tottenham, you'll likely see panic buying on a scale we've not seen before.
Loss to Palace, barely scraped by Brighton... if we lose to Tottenham that'll be a disastrous start and a defo sign of things to come.
My opinion is wed go on a mad panic buying spree and not on the right players either
I honestly believe (and I stress believe, I obviously don't know) that they won't sell no matter what now.
But I hope I'm wrong! Nothing will give me more satisfaction than being wrong about this!
Can a mod just close and delete this thread?
Do you have a better word?
Well, you could start cussing at the ineptitude, I suppose.
A better course would be to make a big pdf of the thread and email it to the Board. Not that they'd bother reading, but nonetheless.
Or maybe you don't need to post in it?
You having a wobble there Gary?
That's what bothers me... our back line looks about a useful as a screen door on a submarine. Our attack disappears for huge chunks of the game. We honestly needed a miracle to beat Brighton. Looked shite against palace!
I love Mata as much as anybody, but I swear his speed is a liability and no way he scores that goal against a top side. Still, I like the idea of him on the bench in reserve. Lindgard reminds me of an old dog I had....Let him out and he just runs... doesn't really do shite... but runs all over the place.
Can you send me the original? This is gold
https://imgflip.com/memegenerator
It's the sixth one along, called, "running away balloon.
What's the point of closing the thread, only to open again when Sancho signs on Monday at 2.15 PM?
I lost hope before, then I got sucked back in, but now it feels like this might really be dead
Top meme creations....
Basically Ed Woodward doesn't want any flack for selling James and spending wonga on Sancho and wants it publicly known that this call is on Ole.
1. Who would give Ed flack for selling James and signing Sancho? I'd like to meet such people.
2. If Ed spent a fraction of the time trying to sign players, that he does briefing the media and worrying what the papers will say, we'd have a world class squad.
Pull your finger out Ed and make a call.
Basically Ed Woodward doesn't want any flack for selling James and spending wonga on Sancho and wants it publicly known that this call is on Ole.
1. Who would give Ed flack for selling James and signing Sancho? I'd like to meet such people.
2. If Ed spent a fraction of the time trying to sign players, that he does briefing the media and worrying what the papers will say, we'd have a world class squad.
Pull your finger out Ed and make a call.
everyone knows that most speculation is BS don’t they? Perhaps 90% at least.
so it’s really interesting to see fans losing their shit and believing every word of this tweet.
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