January Transfer Window

Sandikan said:
100% this. It's almost as is a lot of people are presuming he's top class because he's a Spanish based midfielder!
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It's gone a bit overboard indeed. Those of us who have seen him have been quite consistent in pointing out:

1) He would be a good fit for our midfield, as he offers something the others don't
2) Moyes was right to regard him as a 20-25M player in terms of readiness and immediate impact he could make
3) Long term he would prove to be a steal if we paid his release clause. Once you consider his skillset, the current midfield situation, the reliance on an ageing Carrick, how many years he could be a regular for us, paying 5-10M over his current value is irrelevant. It seems we bid 4.5m less than the release clause, which is exactly what we overpaid on Fellaini as if it were small change.

i.e. he wouldn't turn our season on its head, but it would be a move in the right direction
 
Good player who'd improve us but seeing as we just spent £27.5m on a player to fulfil the exact same role he'd demand I can hardly see it happening.
 
we could get that Song-RvP partnership going again! Also it would annoy Arsenal fans! Do it David!
 
Song is a good player who would also add some strength. I agree though that signing Fellaini means it probably wouldn't make sense.
 
There's no point in signing any more good/average/decent players, we're overstocked at that level. Whoever we sign has to go straight into the first team and take us up a level, or at least have the potential to do so. Someone with quality technique, passing, creativity, not someone who'll add strength or steel or any of that bullshit.

As Moyes himself pointed out, you need a certain amount of world class players to compete at the top level. It's time to sign a few. We don't need any more dross in the squad.
 
Manchester United may not recruit in January, admits David Moyes

Manager tells fans not to pin hopes of imminent player arrivals because the winter transfer window is rarely profitable.

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Quality search: David Moyes insists he will only consider 'top-end' signings and is prepared to wait to sign them Photo: EPA


By Mark Ogden
10:30PM BST 04 Oct 2013


David Moyes has warned that the January transfer window should not be seen as the cure for Manchester United's ills after admitting he may not be able to sign the players he requires to raise the quality of his squad.
Moyes takes United to Sunderland on Saturday evening knowing that defeat would be the first time since the 2001-2002 campaign that they have lost three Premier League games in a row.
Having added only £27.5 million midfielder Marouane Fellaini to the United squad this summer, Moyes remains determined to recruit two more midfield players, with a new left back and central defender also being targeted.
United’s owners, the Glazer family, have told Moyes that money is available to strengthen in January.
However, with United targeting quality rather than quantity, Moyes admits the winter transfer window is not the ideal time for recruitment.
“I’ll look at January, but I wouldn’t want people to have big expectations about what you would sign or do,” Moyes said. “I don’t think January has, in the main, been a really good month to sign really top players.
“If you’re in trouble near the bottom of the league you might make signings if you’re desperate for something, but I think we will be looking for the top [players].
“The quality of players I’ve got here they are really top-end and great players to work with, but undoubtedly we will, in time, try to make that better. That’s the part of the job; the job is to make progress. United won the league last year and I want to try and progress on that.
“Will we win it again? Will we go and try to win the cups if possible as well? Yes, but we’ll look to add to the squad if the right players become available. We wanted to try and get one or two players in during the summer, which we said at the time.
“It wasn’t that we needed many more players, it was a need for one or two that could definitely help and affect the first team.”
United travel to Wearside with Robin van Persie facing a fitness test on a toe injury sustained against Shakhtar Donetsk in midweek. Wayne Rooney, meanwhile, is expected to be fit following a shin injury.
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He's actually spot on, most good players are unavailable for a move in January at any price and few that could make a switch are priced unreasonably so it's better to way until the Summer.
 
Prices will be very high after a World Cup though so we're probably in for another summer of low-balling and then failure. I certainly won't expect us to sign a top class player, maybe another Fellaini, one who with some improvement could be a decent option for the squad.
 
Siorac said:
Prices will be very high after a World Cup though so we're probably in for another summer of low-balling and then failure. I certainly won't expect us to sign a top class player, maybe another Fellaini, one who with some improvement could be a decent option for the squad.
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I don't mind if we wait until Summer 2015 before making any significant changes. I don't expect there to be much movement in the market from our side next year.
 
That will make it 3 years without sorting out the squad, that's just not acceptable and if it happens expect us to be a million miles away from winning the league.
 
With the way we conducted business in the summer, who's he kidding about prices? We'll overpay in winter. We'll overpay in summer.
 
Ekeke said:
With the way we conducted business in the summer, who's he kidding about prices? We'll overpay in winter. We'll overpay in summer.
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Last Summer it wasn't ideal for us to spend because there was a change in management. Next January its difficult to sign players because the players we want are unavailable and next summer it will be impossible to buy because the prices will go up due to the WC. Thank god that we don't find these sort of problems in selling merchandise and bringing in sponsors.
 
I don't care if we 'overspend'. It's imperative we get the players in that we need. The club are forever boasting about our record revenues but even David Gill said the other day that you don't win anything with money in the bank. Money needs to be invested in the squad on a few quality players.
 
devilish said:
Last Summer it wasn't ideal for us to spend because there was a change in management. Next January its difficult to sign players because the players we want are unavailable and next summer it will be impossible to buy because the prices will go up due to the WC. Thank god that we don't find these sort of problems in selling merchandise and bringing in sponsors.
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Then the following January will have the same problems as this coming window - so Sarni is probably spot-on with summer 2015. The question then will be how the market that summer will be - how many new sugar daddies will have arrived between now and then? The Premier League is arguably the leading sugar daddy league, so I can see another "project" being underway by then, raising prices even higher.
 
January isn't a good time to buy, maybe we can complete the Contreao deal otherwise just wait until the summer but we can't afford to play the whole "It's a World Cup year" excuse come the summer, the market is not going to bend to our will on fees.
 
Ben Arfa and a centre midfielder will do. If he can get Baines bonus.
 
January isn't a great time to buy but thats the price you pay for not getting your business done early. I think we are much more likely to spend in January if a Top 4 spot doesn't look secure, the price for missing out would be catastrophic compared to overspending a bit.
 
akash02 said:
Ben Arfa is horribly inconsistent, injury prone and cnutish.
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Sounds perfect.... He's not cup tied and would be a very perfect impact player for us plus he offers something different as he's an excellent dribbler.
 
Mainoldo said:
Sounds perfect.... He's not cup tied and would be a very perfect impact player for us plus he offers something different as he's an excellent dribbler.
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I'd be more in favour of giving chances to Januzaj and Zaha
 
It appears there is never a good time to buy for Man United.

We will continue to get nowhere with our 2003-level hopeless bids.
 
Sarni said:
He's actually spot on, most good players are unavailable for a move in January at any price and few that could make a switch are priced unreasonably so it's better to way until the Summer.
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Evra, Vidic.
 
Brophs said:
Those are the two that are always mentioned, but where are the more modern examples? Not to mention that neither was in the top bracket when they joined.
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Suarez, Torres, Sturridge, Coutinho to name 4 in and out of Liverpool alone.
 
So basically a couple of players who were, at the time, good enough for us? And not one of those players was at the top level at the time, apart from Torres. As Moyes keeps saying, he wants to improve the first team. Out of those players, the only ones who would have improved the first team at the time are Suarez and Torres (though hindsight tells us he was actually a busted flush).
 
Buying in January would be mostly panic buying, unless an exceptional player was available and we felt we needed to sign him before other clubs did.
 
The only way I can imagine buying in January is if an "out of favour" player, with aspirations of playing in the World Cup, came up or if we had injuries to cover.
 
Raoul said:
Buying in January would be mostly panic buying, unless an exceptional player was available and we felt we needed to sign him before other clubs did.
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I give you: Andy Carol!
 
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