Said it already in the thread. Can't keep letting our best players, never mind for free!
Lucia Garcia | joins Rayadas Monterrey in Mexico
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We better sort this out!
Never realised she only played for Bilbao on a technicality (due to their Basque only policy) !
Earps & Garcia are the big tests for INEOS this summer
Gutted if we’ve lost Lucia.
Another own goal. Can't keep losing tenacious players.
That's annoying. If it was her choosing it as the right thing for herself or her career I'd just thank her and be happy for her. I'm just not sure that's really the case.
At this rate we might as well do a deal to become some more successful and ambitious team’s official feeder club. That way we might at least get some promising young players on loan for a season so they can get some game time. We will never, ever make any progress if we keep losing our best players every summer. This is infuriating.
This can't keep happening. How are the team meant to build towards anything.
What is ghis? Is nobody running the team at all?
We barely play her, she probably wants to be a starter somehere.
I didn't watch the women that much this season, but I thought she's an established starter now?
She should never have been benched her first season anyway
Last season she was used in 20 matches in WSL, though she only started 8.
This season she's started 13 in WSL and come on as sub in the other 9 games. In the FA cup she started 4 matches and scored in the QF, SF (against Chelsea) 2 x final. She's been a key player in the second half of the season and an important player all season.
Crucially we've tried replacing her with new signings and she's always fought her way back into the team. She's hardworking and a team player. There's no way we'll find a player who's better than her and who wants to come to us.
If she leaves I'll see this as United's failure.
Don't get me wrong I rate her but you could understand if she wanted to leave as we have messed her about a bit.
I think she’s stated she’s happy at United only recently so if this move is true it’s on United not Garcia.
Shes a hard worker who runs all day. There are areas where she clearly needs to improve though. For example she has our 3rd lowest passing percentage after Geyse (61.8%), Williams (67.8%), Garcia has 68.3%
Overall I'd still pick her over Galton and shes 30 now on top of that. Despite having more end product I'd potentially pick her over Parris too. Just because she will chase lost causes and press a bit
All 3 of them were in the 1200-1260 range of minutes, so she pretty much played as many minutes as the other wide options and attacking players. Only Toone was far ahead with 1735 mins and shes part of the midfield, albeit attacking. It was the deep midfielders and defenders who played more minutes
Overall I'd still pick her over Galton and shes 30 now on top of that. Despite having more end product I'd potentially pick her over Parris too. Just because she will chase lost causes and press a bit
All 3 of them were in the 1200-1260 range of minutes, so she pretty much played as many minutes as the other wide options and attacking players. Only Toone was far ahead with 1735 mins and shes part of the midfield, albeit attacking. It was the deep midfielders and defenders who played more minutes
Yea, and I think the passing percentages has a lot to do with crosses being an important part of the game plan. I think Galton at her best is better, bu as you point out, Garcia is an integralnpart of the matchday solutions, and she brings something only she brings, wether rain or shine.
Makes no sense just ‘allowing’ her contract to run down. I would love to go to Mexico to play football, and follow in the footsteps of Ravel and Morrisey, but I doubt somehow that Rayadas would have the pull over us in a bidding war.
This very much sucks. Was just a great player to have around. I saw Natalie Burrell on twitter mention Mexico for her a while back, and she thinks there's another couple of big departures still to come
Terland would be a nice signing, though I can't imagine we'd be the only ones in for her.
This very much sucks. Was just a great player to have around. I saw Natalie Burrell on twitter mention Mexico for her a while back, and she thinks there's another couple of big departures still to come
Terland would be a nice signing, though I can't imagine we'd be the only ones in for her.
Two year deal, 38 minutes in first season, out on loan second season, leaves for free in 2026.
So we got outbid financially by Las Rayadas a Mexican club that made her an offer she could not refuse!
How are we supposed to react to this? Is Man United so poor we cant compete with teams in Mexico?
Or does United not think Garcia is good enough to match the offer from Mexico?
How many fan favorites can we lose without it affecting attendance negatively?
How are we supposed to react to this? Is Man United so poor we cant compete with teams in Mexico?
Or does United not think Garcia is good enough to match the offer from Mexico?
How many fan favorites can we lose without it affecting attendance negatively?
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The Mexican clubs are offering stupid money, woman's football is growing massively over there.
Sponsorship money is fairly huge in comparison to what it is in England.
There will be many more high profile signings to Mexico soon for sure.
So yes, United cannot compete with that, nor can many WSL teams, I really do think people need to to get real about the state of the WSL and the money it's bringing in.
How does that work? Is it companies that sponsor the clubs with insane money compared to clubs in england? And why is that the case?
If this is true it might be time for the fans to start hating on the club for Garcia allegedly leaving?
Expected but still a gut punch, wish her all the best
I'm sad to see her go but delighted that she won a trophy with us. Fought her way back into the team from the fringes of it and always fully committed.
I guess we'll hear soon whether she really is heading off to Mexico.
Best of luck to her.
Another good player leaving. Wouldn’t blame anyone in the women’s team for looking elsewhere at this point.
This one will piss me off a lot more than Earps as she's just got settled in the team and hitting her prime
Indeed, its a shame since Garcia is a fan favorite, a work horse which rubs off on others and as you say are entering her absolute prime years in opposite of most other players leaving or rumored to be leaving us.
On the other hand, if a mexican club rode in with huge offer and United would have to pay Garcia for example twice or three times as much Toone, what do we do? Destroy or wage structure to keep Lucia or get a similar replacement that fits our wage structure?
I also want to know how clubs in Mexico have so much money to throw around getting Hermoso for example and I am sure we will see lots more players leaving for Mexico soon.
All the best to her. My personal favourite womens player. Gutted
New address confirmed.
When Ella Toone Leaves can she please switch out the light....INEOS killing off the women's team with indifference!
No worries, they have already moved the light bulbs from the women’s portacabin to the men’s dressing room.