Marko Arnautović | United have pulled out

Re: luckhursts tweet

100% agree with this. I think he is a great manager but his completely blinkered approach to only looking at players from Dutch football and who he was worked with in the past is quite simply bizarre. Do we not have any scouts ? He must have a wish list outside of his comfort zone. He is in the hot seat at one of the biggest clubs in the world.
Come on Erik, get involved !
 
Who the feck are FC Twente? Does anyone know any Sunday league players currently looking a new contract somewhere. Really hope this isn't true.
 
Think the club will pull out, the backlash is pretty evident all around the media. And we all know they do care about their image a lot which might be a saving grace for once.

Absolute shitshow in any case.
Ok never knew this about him. Can't believe we even did this in the first place. Surely there are other players willing to come in as a back up?
 
This could get to 2000 pages too for the entirely opposite reasons to FDJ :wenger: :nervous:
 
The club may be taking a bit too far of "backing the managers" to the extreme. Or the new guys are just incompetent again.

Probably both. Worrying stuff.
 
Think we should ask Benni McCarthy to be a player coach.
 
What’s next? If he wants Adam Johnson cause we need a winger on the right we go get him? Back the manager yes but there still should be limits. We got him 3 out of the 4 he asked for. And the last one we have done everything we can. It’s not in our control. But fecking Arnautovic? How is he going to make us better?
:lol:

This can’t be a serious post.
 
He was at least banned for it
Ok.... not very good eh? We need to forget about this transfer. I'm sure there are other players out there. ETH needs to get it together on this one.
 
Can we look past the players our manager has worked with in the past? This is a very bad way to run the club given that you're looking at a very small pool of players from literally thousands of them, and is made even worse when your manager has only ever coached in the Eredivisie.

Where the fck is our scouting department? Where the fck is the management structure in place to stop making the same mistakes we have made in the past giving all the power and responsibility to the manager in terms of recruitment? What happens if ETH doesn't work out and we have a 35 year old Arnautovic on our books?
 
ETH must be feeling the heat. What a difference one match makes.
The scouting team shouldn't be going to the manager for every fecking position. Murtogh and Arnold have fecked up massively on this one.
 
The club may be taking a bit too far of "backing the managers" to the extreme. Or the new guys are just incompetent again.

Probably both. Worrying stuff.
As I said in the other thread, we need someone experienced to handle transfers and be confident enough to show the manager that his choice(s) are flawed (if they are). Best to work in a team with these decisions and not just let the manager take all the decisions here. That's just common sense. I despair with the club hierarchy who remain stupid (sigh).
 
Maybe we bring back Fellaini? What’s Andy Carroll doing these days?

Yes please my fecking ass.

At his very best he wasn’t top 4 quality, he’s 33 year old now coming off 2 1/2 years in China ffs.
Actually coming off a really good season in a top European league but never mind with actual evidence eh!?
 
Bloody hell what is going on here?

Targeting a massively underwhelming striker, who seems to have a horrible reputation personally.

Ten Hag isn't going to outlast Moyes at this rate.
 
ETH must be feeling the heat. What a difference one match makes.
The scouting team shouldn't be going to the manager for every fecking position. Murtogh and Arnold have fecked up massively on this one.
We probably gutted them too much and they are no use at this moment.
 
Whether you believe he’s a bellend, he makes a very good but sickening point…

 
ETH must be feeling the heat. What a difference one match makes.
The scouting team shouldn't be going to the manager for every fecking position. Murtogh and Arnold have fecked up massively on this one.
Andy Mitten says this has been in the works for a while
 
Actually coming off a really good season in a top European league but never mind with actual evidence eh!?

13 goals isn’t exciting me pal. You really don’t want to delve into his numbers either he’s hit double figures about 3 times in his career.

Im not arguing with somebody who wants Marko fecking Arnautovich anyway you do you.
 
ETH must be feeling the heat. What a difference one match makes.
The scouting team shouldn't be going to the manager for every fecking position. Murtogh and Arnold have fecked up massively on this one.

People saying the bid or the reaction from people in here is because of the match are wrong. Both the news of the bid and posters calling it a joke in here happened hours before the game.
 
ETH must be feeling the heat. What a difference one match makes.
The scouting team shouldn't be going to the manager for every fecking position. Murtogh and Arnold have fecked up massively on this one.
We were linked before the match started.
 
This is beyond embarrassing now
 


The state our club is in is so fecking sad. Not only the fact that we obviously did feck all to properly plan this window but also that players like Arnautovic are our only ideas for an emergency signing reeks of sheer incompetence on all levels. Don't think it's ever been that bad. This is really a new low.
 
People saying the bid or the reaction from people in here is because of the match are wrong. Both the news of the bid and people calling it a joke in here happened hours before the game.

Ah okay did not know that
Baffling then at least a panic signing made some sense