Manchester United Summer Transfer Window 2015: What do we still need?

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So we've blitzed through the transfer window with a circus of buys and sales. We've somehow ended up with 1 striker, absolutely no cover for our glass defenders, shitshow for goal keepers and a stacked midfield with little to no creativity. It's almost like Ed/Van gaal set a certain goal as to how our wage bill and finances should look, then hit a random squad generator button and we ended up with something hideous but hey it fits the bigger goal so we go with it.
 
We still need a squad with enough numbers to get us through the season!
 
Darmian, Schneiderlin, Schweinsteiger, Memphis, Romero and Martial.

De Gea remains at the club.

That's six signings, all in positions people wanted. Another forward would be great and definitlely necessary, and I dislike that we've loaned out Januzaj without replacement, but that's a lot of hard work and investment right there.

People will do well to remember that.
 
WR10 said:
So we've blitzed through the transfer window with a circus of buys and sales. We've somehow ended up with 1 striker, absolutely no cover for our glass defenders, shitshow for goal keepers and a stacked midfield with little to no creativity. It's almost like Ed/Van gaal set a certain goal as to how our wage bill and finances should look, then hit a random squad generator button and we ended up with something hideous but hey it fits the bigger goal so we go with it.
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We have signed 6 players (presumably) all of great qualities and in positions we needed enforcement in. We've got 2 forwards (as much as City) and are about to announce a 3rd one. Even if Wilson goes on loan (he hasn't, by the way) we'd certainly have a recall clause in case someone gets injured. We've got 8 defenders, only two of which have had injury problems in the past few months. We have the best goalkeeper in the league and the strongest midfield for the past 10 years. It's almost like Ed / Van Gaal did pretty much exactly what the fans wanted in the beginning of the summer but the latter group decided to lap up the media's sensationalist narrative that we're "in shambles", without thinking.
 
Kag said:
Darmian, Schneiderlin, Schweinsteiger, Memphis, Romero and Martial.

De Gea remains at the club.

That's six signings, all in positions people wanted. Another forward would be great and definitlely necessary, and I dislike that we've loaned out Januzaj without replacement, but that's a lot of hard work and investment right there.

People will do well to remember that.
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It sounds like you are trying to convince yourself all is rosy in the garden of old trafford. We have lost our front line Falcao, RVP, Hernandez, Januzaj(unbelievably with an option to buy if reports in Germany are correct) & possibly Wilson maybe following them out of the door.

The Martial signing is an interesting one and hope the lad does well but why has it been left until last minute with the fee inflated, it sounds like a C List signing to me after the A & B List options had been exhausted.

The central midfield is strong but is to the detriment of the way we play, as any Utd team shouldn't be playing with 2 CDM's, its slow build up horrible football to watch.

As a sky commentator said earlier, pinning our hopes on a 19 year old to carry the team forward is not what we expected with the investment, if Rooney gets injured or doesnt pick up form then we are bang in trouble.

You say De Gea stays at the club like its some kind of victory, the guy has been wanting to leave all summer and then when the clubs cant get it over the line, all of a sudden he slots back in the team with his mind on the job in hand, I dont think so. It wouldnt surprise me if LVG doesnt play him regularly and if does is he going to be the player from the last 2 seasons, probably not.

On a positive, Darmian & Shaw have been excellent.
 
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It sounds like you are trying to convince yourself all is rosy in the garden of old trafford. We have lost our front line Falcao, RVP, Hernandez, Januzaj(unbelievably with an option to buy if reports in Germany are correct) & possibly Wilson maybe following them out of the door.

The Martial signing is an interesting one and hope the lad does well but why has it been left until last minute with the fee inflated, it sounds like a C List signing to me after the A & B List options had been exhausted.

The central midfield is strong but is to the detriment of the way we play, as any Utd team shouldn't be playing with 2 CDM's, its slow build up horrible football to watch.

As a sky commentator said earlier, pinning our hopes on a 19 year old to carry the team forward is not what we expected with the investment, if Rooney gets injured or doesnt pick up form then we are bang in trouble.

You say De Gea stays at the club like its some kind of victory, the guy has been wanting to leave all summer and then when the clubs cant get it over the line, all of a sudden he slots back in the team with his mind on the job in hand, I dont think so. It wouldnt surprise me if LVG doesnt play him regularly and if does is he going to be the player from the last 2 seasons, probably not.

On a positive, Darmian & Shaw have been excellent.
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I'm not convincing myself of anything. Aside from yesterday when we had agreed to sell De Gea, I've been satisfied with our summer dealings and haven't complained once, unlike many of the children on here.

De Gea staying is no victory now (there are no victors) but it would have felt like one had we stuck to our guns and refused to sell. We'd have made it clear that money isn't an issue and that players come to and leave United on the club's terms. We didn't do that.

Falcao was appalling, Hernandez wasn't here last summer and Van Persie was a high earning squad player that needed to leave. Offloading them all was and still is the right thing to do.

Januzaj is an error, but then I've clearly stated that above.

The central midfield options we have are outstanding. It's a position of strength and we've bought well. How the manager chooses to use those options is his prerogative and a different debate altogether. Even then, pretending that the likes of Schneiderlin and Schweinsteiger are exclusively defensive midfielders is of course foolish.
 
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I'm not convincing myself of anything. Aside from yesterday when we had agreed to sell De Gea, I've been satisfied with our summer dealings and haven't complained once, unlike many of the children on here.

De Gea staying is no victory now (there are no victors) but it would have felt like one had we stuck to our guns and refused to sell. We'd have made it clear that money isn't an issue and that players come to and leave United on the club's terms. We didn't do that.

Falcao was appalling, Hernandez wasn't here last summer and Van Persie was a high earning squad player that needed to leave. Offloading them all was and still is the right thing to do.

Januzaj is an error, but then I've clearly stated that above.

The central midfield options we have are outstanding. It's a position of strength and we've bought well. How the manager chooses to use those options is his prerogative and a different debate altogether. Even then, pretending that the likes of Schneiderlin and Schweinsteiger are exclusively defensive midfielders is of course foolish.
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I agree the central midfield options are stronger(they couldnt have been much worse) but Schweinsteiger clearly hasn't got the legs to be the box to box central midfielder and I am sorry but Schneiderlin is exclusively a central defensive midfielder that will offer little creativity going forward other than at set-pieces, they have been deployed as 2 CDM's in a 4-2-3-1 so far this season.

I agree on Falcao, Hernandez & RVP but not before we have a couple of replacements in place!!! We have taken the limited goal threat we had out of the team. Its like allowing the chief executive and the operation manager to leave a multi-million pound organisation at the same time without having a plan moving forward, where have I heard that before? It's farcical.

The way I see De Gea situation is that we have lost out on a fee & a replacement goalkeeper on a player that is clearly going next season anyway and is not guaranteed to be same player now he is staying for the season(or at least til January).
 
Now we only need Muller, Gotze, Reus, Hummels, Pique, Ter Stegen, Bale and Kroos.
 
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Its funny that despite what we've spent.. we still have so much to do.

If Schweinsteiger declines by start of next season and Herrera fails to cement his spot as a CM or a 10, we could still need a couple of midfielders to partner Schneiderlin.

Right wing, I expect a superstar signing here.. like a Bale or Reus, to complement Depay and Martial with Mata being pushed out of the side.

A top cb is undoubtedly going to be on our hotlist and a replacement for De Gea. Another striker as well with Rooney hopefully sold.

If we nail next summer, make another round of quality signings like this year...we could win the title in 2017.
 
Same as we needed before summer 2015 window. Top class defender and top class striker. Every man and his dog knows that
 
Points to anyone that said a promising but very young forward for a fee rising to potentially 58m.
 
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