Jose's Wish List...

[Mr Anderson]

No left-back? Agree with everything else.

Depends on Shaw really. We have CBJ coming back from loan, Mitchell looked alright against Palace. Darmian possibly winning Mou over in the season run-in (albeit he isnt good going forward, just an out and out defender). It boils down to who we sell there I feel, same with de Gea if he leaves. 4 main signings across the aforementioned positions - any remaining depends on who leaves.

 

[Dembeza]

That would sounded so much smarter if they were actual release clauses in their contracts.

Now it just sounds daft.

I was showing you that there's no such thing as "that's not how real life works" in transfers.

In real life we should have gotten Griezmann but we didn't. We are also going to sell De gea maybe not this season but we will because in transfers there are other factors other than just transfer fee.

If Ali and Kane are unsettled Levy will be forced to accept the bid just like we did with Ronaldo and how we will do with De gea.

@Klopp_De_Klown made the points I'm making

Oh its exactly how it works. Its just a fact that we do not do that. Yet Real Barca Bayern and Juve do exactly this and nobody bats an eyelid.

Because its not about just buying them out of spurs. See you add in a double your current wages contract and that puts all the pressure back on levy, Pay me what im worth or im off. With their wage structure we could easily do that too. Ok you can say well spurs are doing much better than us. Yea but for 3 years in a row. They have won nothing while looking like world beaters. We are winning trophies and have one of the worlds best managers a proven winner. Poch has NEVER won anything and he is not looking like he will either.

Its the long game you play here. Even if you dont sign them this summer. You have and still go all out to unsettle Kane and Alli then next season you only have to sit back and watch the mayhem it causes when they win nothing again. You never stop tapping them up and letting the press know how much you want them making sure everyone knows the wages on offer. Even if we dont get them it sees off spurs as a force and makes sure the players are paid a premium for. The knock on effect it dips into the available funds of clubs. As we are the biggest fish in the pond it wont hurt us as much as it hurts others. This is how you flex your financial muscle.

You either get the best players or force others to pay what you will. Spurs have had a free ride for the last while time to put them under a bit pressure. Exact same with Sanchez and hurt the goonies. He wants 250KPW offer 300 and start a bidding war.

 

[Dembeza]

Neither of them have a release clause in their contracts...

I didn't say they have one...

I was making a point that we just missed out on a guy who has a release clause that we could have easily matched. Transfers are complicated and saying we can't get Ali or Kane because of Levy is what I'm against.

 

[C3Pique]

Varane
Fabinho
Douglas Costs
Lukaku

Would add a lot of quality to our starting 11.

 

[kouroux]

You can't go wrong with the Croatian Milner, the Spanish Welbeck and a couple of English prodigies, imo.

That is more like it

 

[Acole9]

Depends on Shaw really. We have CBJ coming back from loan, Mitchell looked alright against Palace. Darmian possibly winning Mou over in the season run-in (albeit he isnt good going forward, just an out and out defender). It boils down to who we sell there I feel, same with de Gea if he leaves. 4 main signings across the aforementioned positions - any remaining depends on who leaves.

I'm struggling to see who we'd buy as a left back. It's a very small market and the players you have mentioned above shows we have plenty of options.

 

[lysglimt]

if Perisic or VNL is high on Mourinhos wishlist, then I am getting concerned. Don't get me wrong, Perisic is a good player - but he is not £40 million good when he is turning 29 in 6 months time. As for swapping Smalling with VNL - lets just those are vicious rumours

 

[Escobar]

I know. Said that few posts up

Then why would you put him on the list when you know it's not realistic?

 

[pocco]

if Perisic or VNL is high on Mourinhos wishlist, then I am getting concerned. Don't get me wrong, Perisic is a good player - but he is not £40 million good when he is turning 29 in 6 months time. As for swapping Smalling with VNL - lets just those are vicious rumours

Who is VNL?

 

[itso 7]

Our attack will be improved next season, regardless. We have to as we came up well short. Jose is no fool lads. Griezmann was never the sole man to replace the goals Ibra gave us, he isnt that type of style. We were always going to get 2 forwards in, especially after Ibras injury. A striker and someone as a support striker (a la Griezmann). We have a sheer lack of shared goals, one player was never going to fix that. It will be 2 forwards in, whether Grizmann comes or not, there will still be a main striker sitting in front of him.

1 centre back
1 midfielder
1 support striker
1 main striker

that will prob be the spine of our business.

This, before Zlatan's injury Griezmann alone would have been enough because he'd have been adding to the goals Zlatan guaranteed for us but now that we have lost him we need a primary goal scorer and a support striker/prolific AM. The prices being touted for the likes of Griezmann, Lukaku and Belotti just make it impossible to sign one and add the other but the upholding of Atletico's ban made a cheaper striker available so maybe that weighed in our decision. Bring in Lacazette for 50m-60m pounds (there will always be that United tax) and sign another attacker then our attack improves massively imo.

 

[Moonred]

Who is VNL?

Lindelof who is probably not coming either.

 

[CamsUnited]

Personally, when I look at the big name, big money signings being mentioned Griezmann, Mbappe, Lukaku etc. The only one I have feeling will happen is Bale.

 

[KingMinger22]

Personally, when I look at the big name, big money signings being mentioned Griezmann, Mbappe, Lukaku etc. The only one I have feeling will happen is Bale.

I can't really see it. He would be prefect but he is always injured.

 

[Bastian]

Given that we are looking to strengthen in many areas our total spend might eclipse 200m. I see that Aubameyang is linked with PSG for 61m. That's pretty cheap compared to players we are linked to. Everton are holding out for 100 unicorns for Lukaku, Griezmann has that 86m clause and Belotti's clause is somewhere north of 80m. Kane is super unrealistic and would cost more than all the others.

There are two outstanding players going this transfer window in Aubameyang and Sanchez. And both seem likely to end up at the clubs most linked to them, PSG and Bayern. But surely we are trying for those. Sanchez is an absolute beast and a warrior, pretty much in archetypal Jose mode, while Aubameyang's goal ratio for Dortmund is (according to Wiki) 85 in 128.

I would expect some signings to be players not linked like Bailly last season, but can't imagine that we aren't interested in the above 2 or haven't at least broached the subject with their agents.

 

[AdNani]

Varane
Fabinho
Douglas Costs
Lukaku

Would add a lot of quality to our starting 11.

That would be an excellent window, made even better if it was lacazette and not lukaku

 

[VanHaal'sRedArmy]

With Griezi off is James on?!

 

[CamsUnited]

I can't really see it. He would be prefect but he is always injured.

That's part of the reason I think it could happen. Just get the feeling all is not well for Bale at Madrid, I'm probably way off the mark to be honest. Be interesting to see if he starts tomorrow, could add to his frustration.

 

[ThomasEmil]

He'll have a lot, and miss a lot also.
We'll end up buying perisic and another unneeded position player to underline, how much we've fallen from grace.

 

[C3Pique]

That would be an excellent window, made even better if it was lacazette and not lukaku

I don't see the hype for Lacazetre personally, not that I've seen a lot of him, but I'm not sure he could lead the line in the PL. Ligue 1 makes Memphis look capable but the defenders in the PL are bigger and faster than most French teams. Lukaku is underrated in here IMO considering his goal return for Everton, hardly a free scoring team.

 

[shaky]

He'll have a lot, and miss a lot also.
We'll end up buying perisic and another unneeded position player to underline, how much we've fallen from grace.

yup, Mourinho sure has history of buying useless players for us. We're doomed.

 

[Turamb]

We should put in a bid on Kane even if he's not leaving this summer.

Show interest and get in his mind, and maybe he'll come next summer if we do better than Tottenham.

 

[yamo123x]

dream would be

Sanchez, bale, renato sanches, mendy Fabinho

But more realistic is perisic, Keane, Lukaku, matic

 

[ThomasEmil]

yup, Mourinho sure has history of buying useless players for us. We're doomed.

Do you always translate posts into something they absolutely didn't say? If so, you should be head of fake news media mate.

 

[shaky]

Do you always translate posts into something they absolutely didn't say? If so, you should be head of fake news media mate.

I'm not sure, think it's about half 6 though.

 

[Lawman]

He'll have a lot, and miss a lot also.
We'll end up buying perisic and another unneeded position player to underline, how much we've fallen from grace.

We are crying out for someone who can beat a full back on the outside. Martial has had a very poor season so can't see any problem in Jose signing this type of player.
We need a central midfielder a winger a centre forward added minimum in this team.

 

[Richrip]

We are crying out for someone who can beat a full back on the outside. Martial has had a very poor season so can't see any problem in Jose signing this type of player.
We need a central midfielder a winger a centre forward added minimum in this team.

That winger should be Dembele..... he'd absolutely light up Old Trafford.

 

[Sandikan]

dream would be

Sanchez, bale, renato sanches, mendy Fabinho

But more realistic is perisic, Keane, Lukaku, matic

One of Sanchez or Bale would really be an exciting signing. But the hype would be unbearable.

I think we'll go the other way, make a few signings that excite no-one, but they fit in very well indeed and make us a better team

 

[GlastonSpur]

Oh its exactly how it works. Its just a fact that we do not do that. Yet Real Barca Bayern and Juve do exactly this and nobody bats an eyelid.

Because its not about just buying them out of spurs. See you add in a double your current wages contract and that puts all the pressure back on levy, Pay me what im worth or im off. With their wage structure we could easily do that too. Ok you can say well spurs are doing much better than us. Yea but for 3 years in a row. They have won nothing while looking like world beaters. We are winning trophies and have one of the worlds best managers a proven winner. Poch has NEVER won anything and he is not looking like he will either.

Its the long game you play here. Even if you dont sign them this summer. You have and still go all out to unsettle Kane and Alli then next season you only have to sit back and watch the mayhem it causes when they win nothing again. You never stop tapping them up and letting the press know how much you want them making sure everyone knows the wages on offer. Even if we dont get them it sees off spurs as a force and makes sure the players are paid a premium for. The knock on effect it dips into the available funds of clubs. As we are the biggest fish in the pond it wont hurt us as much as it hurts others. This is how you flex your financial muscle.

You either get the best players or force others to pay what you will. Spurs have had a free ride for the last while time to put them under a bit pressure. Exact same with Sanchez and hurt the goonies. He wants 250KPW offer 300 and start a bidding war.

Kane and Alli have both recently signed new, long-term contracts - so your "Pay me what im worth or im off" scenario is a non-starter.

So too is the notion of putting in massive bids for either player - all that will do is bump up their market-value for Spurs by setting a minimum benchmark for the future ... all to Levy's satisfaction.

You seem to think that flexing United's financial muscle - and spraying around wild bids left right and centre - would work only to your advantage. But of course it wouldn't. And apart from anything else it would also serve to bump up the asking price for other players that you may be interested in: club X says "well, you offered £120m for Kane, so player Y must be worth (insert earlier valuation + 50%) ...."

 

[ROFLUTION]

I get behind whoever we sign but every team who wins the league has at least two superstars performing for the whole season. The signings I truly feel would elevate us to title contenders would be:

Sanchez
Bale
Griezmann
Mbappe
Müller

None of them sounds plausible. It's shitty circumstances for Mou.

 

[ROFLUTION]

Best bet to get us as far as possible:

Lukaku - still disappears a bit, but if he would have been on the end of some of the chances against midtable sides we could have 8-12 points more

Semedo - buy the big ones for these specialist positions when available

Lindelöf - thinks his muscles would go great with Bailly. Can play the ball too.

Morata - intelligent runs/technique and would be a good mix for Mou's at times fire football

Fabinho/Matic - both would do a good cleaner job

Perisic - would suit Mous football and make us able to go 3-5-2

 

[ThomasEmil]

We are crying out for someone who can beat a full back on the outside. Martial has had a very poor season so can't see any problem in Jose signing this type of player.
We need a central midfielder a winger a centre forward added minimum in this team.

We've been buying for this position far too long, to be needing to purchase another. Depay? Januzaj? Martial?
Martials proven he can operate out there, and although he's had a nightmare season, it doesn't prove he can't work there anymore.
But sure, let's keep purchasing 10's and 11's... Makes sense.
Let's especially NOT buy anybody with the ability to cross, but rely on dribbling and finishing, since we never really rely on crosses versus teams playing 11 men in the box.
... Yeah

 

[Lawman]

We've been buying for this position far too long, to be needing to purchase another. Depay? Januzaj? Martial?
Martials proven he can operate out there, and although he's had a nightmare season, it doesn't prove he can't work there anymore.
But sure, let's keep purchasing 10's and 11's... Makes sense.
Let's especially NOT buy anybody with the ability to cross, but rely on dribbling and finishing, since we never really rely on crosses versus teams playing 11 men in the box.
... Yeah

That doesn't make sense and is a contradiction. We are United we should have to good ones for every position it will make or break Martial to have competition. If he doesn't rise to the top then no one to blame but himself.

 

[Maradona10]

Best bet to get us as far as possible:

Lukaku - still disappears a bit, but if he would have been on the end of some of the chances against midtable sides we could have 8-12 points more

Semedo - buy the big ones for these specialist positions when available

Lindelöf - thinks his muscles would go great with Bailly. Can play the ball too.

Morata - intelligent runs/technique and would be a good mix for Mou's at times fire football

Fabinho/Matic - both would do a good cleaner job

Perisic - would suit Mous football and make us able to go 3-5-2

We aint going 3-5-2 anytime soon, also peresic is an out an out winger he wont play as a wing back. He will be in the 2 forward positions than in the wing back ones.

 

[ROFLUTION]

We aint going 3-5-2 anytime soon, also peresic is an out an out winger he wont play as a wing back. He will be in the 2 forward positions than in the wing back ones.

I think we are - We won against Chelsea in a 3-5-2, so he will eventually try it again if it works against the champions.

 

[Maradona10]

I think we are - We won against Chelsea in a 3-5-2, so he will eventually try it again if it works against the champions.

We dint, we used herrera to man mark Hazard and Darmian to man mark the other winger.

 

[Sparky Rhiwabon]

Best bet to get us as far as possible:

Lukaku - still disappears a bit, but if he would have been on the end of some of the chances against midtable sides we could have 8-12 points more

Semedo - buy the big ones for these specialist positions when available

Lindelöf - thinks his muscles would go great with Bailly. Can play the ball too.

Morata - intelligent runs/technique and would be a good mix for Mou's at times fire football

Fabinho/Matic - both would do a good cleaner job

Perisic - would suit Mous football and make us able to go 3-5-2

Best bet? That just seems like you are naming the players we are being linked with in the media at the moment. Surely, there are better players than some of those

 

[ROFLUTION]

We dint, we used herrera to man mark Hazard and Darmian to man mark the other winger.

But on paper its a 3-5-2 - I agree that they followed them all over the place, but how we played besides still resembled a 3-5-2 with Young and Valencia shooting forward. Football-lineups.com has us as 3-5-2 / 5-3-2 too: https://www.football-lineups.com/match/238114/

 

[ROFLUTION]

Best bet? That just seems like you are naming the players we are being linked with in the media at the moment. Surely, there are better players than some of those

Best bet in the sense that we surely wont get Bale, we probably wont get Sanchez, and we surely wont get Griezmann or Mbappe. I could name Messi too, but surely it seems we'll have to pick from the 2nd best tier.

 

[ROFLUTION]

Lindelof, Perisic, Fabinho Morata/Lukaku for example wouldnt be that bad when we are where we are right now - All realistic players to get.

If we keep chasing Bale all summer it'll just be a "go for Fabregas, get Fellaini" kind of summer.

 

[Sparky Rhiwabon]

Best bet in the sense that we surely wont get Bale, we probably wont get Sanchez, and we surely wont get Griezmann or Mbappe. I could name Messi too, but surely it seems we'll have to pick from the 2nd best tier.

Did you see the KPMG stuff? We're the biggest, richest club on the planet - if we can't get those players then who can?? We got Pogba last summer. We should be buying big stars like Neymar, Sanchez, Griezeman, Messi, Bale, whoever not scrabbling round after players like the ones you've named