Luke Shaw | Deal done! Almost...

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I am already sick of of this transfer window and it has not even started yet. Woodward get it done ffs.
 
To be fair, Ogden is the most reliable when it comes to news with us but he's been saying that a little while now, I guess we won't know until after the world cup now anyway.
 
Surely if Woodward f*cks this one up too the Glazer's will look to bring in someone who actually knows what they're doing? A director of football or similar?

Woodward is a very experienced, world class negotiator of commercial deals. Clearly those skills are not transferable to signing football players for Manchester United. That's okay, but someone at the club MUST realise this.

It seems inevitable that we'll now miss out on Shaw as Chelsea have freed up wages and fees to get him, while presumably Ed and co have presumably scoped out the best potential official military sponsor in Thailand.
 
Ogden has spoken, he's ours.

Unless Chelsea swoop in the last hour and offer double our wages.
 
It'll be such a relief to get this signing over with, so we can look to the next one.
 
I think Evra's extension means United are not confident enough Shaw will be here next season. And if Pochettino's staying at Southampton rumor is true, i think it could mean Shaw decided to stay one more year. It makes sense, he is very young, his suitors will be here next year and he can still develop at Saints, he has not really outgrown them or anything.
 
If Ogden says it I believe it. He's built up a solid reputation of being correct when it comes to United-related rumours.
 
Lane said:
I think Evra's extension means United are not confident enough Shaw will be here next season. And if Pochettino's staying at Southampton rumor is true, i think it could mean Shaw decided to stay one more year. It makes sense, he is very young, his suitors will be here next year and he can still develop at Saints, he has not really outgrown them or anything.
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Could be. But it would be a very wise move too if Shaw moving to us is a done deal. Would be very silly to try and challenge for the title with a (very talented) 19 year old and Büttner. Shaw has great potential from the looks of it, but look at Rafael. He's played for us since age 18, is 24 now and his injuries made us miss a really good right back like 50% of the time in the last 5 years when he wasn't fit.
 
Beachryan said:
Surely if Woodward f*cks this one up too the Glazer's will look to bring in someone who actually knows what they're doing? A director of football or similar?

Woodward is a very experienced, world class negotiator of commercial deals. Clearly those skills are not transferable to signing football players for Manchester United. That's okay, but someone at the club MUST realise this.

It seems inevitable that we'll now miss out on Shaw as Chelsea have freed up wages and fees to get him, while presumably Ed and co have presumably scoped out the best potential official military sponsor in Thailand.
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Nothing that indicates that he can't be, I assume that someone as intelligent as him has learned his lesson from last summer and will be able to close the deals we need to close this summer.
 
Once again people need to calm down. The season just ended and is not even June yet. A big signing like this often takes time.
 
Don't think the Evra news has any bearing on the possible Shaw deal. Evra's comments and interviews as the season drew to a close all made it sound like he was confident he was staying. And plenty of people (including me) think the sensible way forward is to buy Shaw and keep Evra on too.
 
Henrik Larsson said:
Could be. But it would be a very wise move too if Shaw moving to us is a done deal. Would be very silly to try and challenge for the title with a (very talented) 19 year old and Büttner. Shaw has great potential from the looks of it, but look at Rafael. He's played for us since age 18, is 24 now and his injuries made us miss a really good right back like 50% of the time in the last 5 years when he wasn't fit.
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That's Rafael, Shaw did play 38 games this term and Evra over 40. I don't think these two could work. One of them has to be a deep cover. I wrote a bigger post on the topic here.
 
SirAF said:
Nothing that indicates that he can't be, I assume that someone as intelligent as him has learned his lesson from last summer and will be able to close the deals we need to close this summer.
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This. I think Woodward got what it takes. He must have learned a great deal from last summer. He handled the Mata deal great imo.
 
Looking less and less likely...but everyone still sems confident we will buy him....fingers crossed
 
Moriarty said:
Did he handle the Mata deal? There was a fair bit of talk that it was Fergie and Gill who made that happen.
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In fairness, I guess, if Fergie and Gill handled that transfer, I think Woodward would have left his position and went back to commercial dealings. I also read an article about the Mata deal, and in that article, Woodward did a hell of job. Anyways, lets see what he does this summer. Its only early days.
 
pascell said:
Still very raw, can see him getting a handful of games under Mourinho after him saying that next season Chelsea will be real title contenders. Anyway that'd be 4 CB's which would be enough, still space for a LB.
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Mourinho gave Varane plenty of playing time at Madrid so he could do the same for Zouma.
 
Acquire Me said:
In fairness, I guess, if Fergie and Gill handled that transfer, I think Woodward would have left his position and went back to commercial dealings. I also read an article about the Mata deal, and in that article, Woodward did a hell of job. Anyways, lets see what he does this summer. Its only early days.
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I don't know if we're thinking of the same article but I read one posted on the caf that was the same. He wouldn't take a call from them because he knew they'd bring up Rooney, he just put the offer on the table and then just ignored them or something. I remember him coming out of it well.
 
Evra staying makes it more likely. An experienced player, from whom Shaw can learn from and can help be settled for the season after where he is undisputed first choice.
 
don't think evra would have signed on for another year another year if this was going to happen, can't see evra signing on as a number two
 
Nytram Shakes said:
don't think evra would have signed on for another year another year if this was going to happen, can't see evra signing on as a number two
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Surely not.. I'm worried too! We need a new left back it's as clear as sun and Evra has past it.
 
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