I remember that summer like it was yesterday – and I was on Twitter back then. We had been teased with links to Bale, Fabregas, Thiago and Kroos. We completely ballsed the window up but it seemed like we would get Herrera and Fellaini on the final day and somehow the former would have made the latter more palatable. I’ll never forget my feeling when the Herrera deal fell through and we had a bog brush in a suit grinning next to Moyes at midnight.
Jadon Sancho| Staying at Dortmund for now
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I remember that summer like it was yesterday – and I was on Twitter back then. We had been teased with links to Bale, Fabregas, Thiago and Kroos. We completely ballsed the window up but it seemed like we would get Herrera and Fellaini on the final day and somehow the former would have made the latter more palatable. I’ll never forget my feeling when the Herrera deal fell through and we had a bog brush in a suit grinning next to Moyes at midnight.
I'm starting to believe both clubs aren't in active dialogue for quite some time with neither side refusing to budge. And our briefings have been pretty negative so far so i think we'll walk soon. Need to get down on alternatives now
Don't forget that we waited for the clause to expire so we had to pay more for him
I think that’s what ultimately triggered my mental breakdown.
Very little to ease the pain since...Bruno,Pogba but not much elseI think that’s what ultimately triggered my mental breakdown.
Don't forget that we waited for the clause to expire so we had to pay more for him
Incredible that after all this people still think that we have any clue what we are actually doing
Yeah, slim pickings sadly. I’d say Martial was a great success. Interesting that he’s the sort of signing that the likes of Dortmund are now specialising in.
Who might that be? I haven't a clue about such a player ever signing for United!
As you were.There was also the strange logic of trying to batch Fellaini and Baines together for £35m.
They should at least change it to Jadon Sancho - Muppet Homeowners United!
Do other clubs suffer from this phenomena whereby a lot of noise is made then it goes quiet for weeks? Seems to happen to us a lot.
Go on other clubs’ message boards. I’m sure there will be anxiety and speculation.
But this one is huge so no surprise
Yeah a transfer window to forget. It was an absolute shit show.
I’ve read on a few occasions that the truth behind Thiago saga came out later. Apparently he wanted to come to us but Moyes refused to sign him. Thiago then went to Munich to do a deal with Pep’s Bayern. Apparently when he was about to sign he asked his agent to check again if there was any possibility with Utd. Moyes turned it down a second time as he didn’t think he would fit in. We went on to sign Fellani instead on deadline day. Unbelievable Geoff.
The Herrera deal was a joke. 3 agents who weren’t associated with Utd went to speak to him. They were imposters. It was unbelievable.
I don’t even know what to say. I think Moyes’s decision making in this instance pretty much sums up in a nutshell why he should have been nowhere near the club.
Patrici is in London trying to find buyers for Douglas Costa and Bernadeshi, there's your alternatives.
If anything, Dortmund are the ones who come across as wannabe Hollywood in this case, making a complete ruckus about everything for win a haul of PR trophies.
The Thiago one is absurd. How do you struggle to see that player fitting into your team? Fecking Moyes.
Ew. The Douglas Costa links are dreadfully.
Yes, the German clubs definitely like to make media sound bites. I personally think we are wasting time with Sancho now and should move on. Perhaps we already have.
If there isn't a breakthrough with the transfer of Sancho by next weekend, I think we'll have no other option but to move onto alternatives like Costa who'd be easily obtainable. We've got a new season to prefer for that starts in 3 weeks, I think Ole would prefer to have his squad for the season sorted before then.
I've read someone hear say Woody should be applauded for trying to pull off this deal.
Maybe we can try for Messi or Ronaldo next? Effort is all that matters apparently, poor old United punching above their weight because of the masterminds at work.
Maybe we can try for Messi or Ronaldo next? Effort is all that matters apparently, poor old United punching above their weight because of the masterminds at work.
I don't want to move on
I rarely Muppet but Sancho would be just do darn good for us. But yeah, we should either pay up and get the job done, or move on. We cannot afford anything other than a very very good window.
That requires us to actually sell players... have you seen how good we are at that? It's like asking a retarded chimpanzee to run a nuclear plant on it's own
That should have been a huge red flag on Moyes. Should have asked him before we hired him. What a disaster. Didn't give him time my ass. Gave 9 months or whatever too many.
I don't want to move on
I rarely Muppet but Sancho would be just do darn good for us. But yeah, we should either pay up and get the job done, or move on. We cannot afford anything other than a very very good window.
I would love us to get Sancho but simply refuse to emotionally invest in United any more, especially on transfers. I agree with your final sentence, and would say we can tell how our season will go before the first ball is kicked.
We really need far better players than him.
I just find interesting that we cant cough up the money for this deal. Yes, Covid impact and all that but between this and next summer surely we are going to spend around 250 million either way. That's what we always tend to do (that's conservative), and we have to bridge the gap with Livepool. Unless we're happy watching them reach title number 22 within the next few years, we have to spend.
I genuinely don’t think the higher ups within the club care about glory beyond CL qualification. We will get briefs as the window closes that Covid has changed the economic reality, which is true to a large degree, but in that case I’d rather have not heard Ole saying earlier in the year that we would still be spending. The biggest thing is that the club never does anything to manage fan expectations.
We sold a couple last summer plus Fellaini in January last year TBF have a strong feeling a couple go this summer as of now Smalling to Roma seems inevitable, Jones/Rojo behind the scenes have clearly let it be known for a while they have no futures here so one way or another they leave even if its late in the window, Pereira and Dalot reportedly seeking moves cause of playing time and with Dean Henderson set to stay Romero who wasn`t happy over being dropped in the EL and FA Cup semis will leave and he`ll have many offers. Would not shock me if Sancho is our only signing mind you
At least, for you, we signed Fellaini just once.
That's what she said
That's what she said
Good oneThis looks dead now....either it s really dead or else the calm before the storm
Bayern loaned Perisic when it became obvious that they wouldn’t be able to sign Sané last year. It was a stopgap solution but maybe a possibility for United to explore (Not Perisic himself obviously) if they feel positive about signing Sancho next year.
Calm before the inevitable storm.
Agreed. Deals like this involves knock-on effect transfers, hence the intermediaries IMO , especially when Dortmund always seem to be a step ahead in terms of recruitment, fair play to them.
What a shit summer that was. Was it the same when two fake agents turned up acting on behalf of us?
ah, the three amigos. What a shit day that was.
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