Marko Arnautović | United have pulled out

"ETH is convinced Marko can be ready for premier league level"

...Arnoutovic the number 9 for Manchester United in 2022...Remember all the whining about FDJ? No, THIS is embarassing. Shows a COMPLETE lack of planning, and fecking Bologna turned down the bid my god.
 
Newtonius said:
and fecking Bologna turned it down the bid my god.
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Not 100% sure on this, but I feel like Bologna has no reason to sell at a discount - he's already at the club and if the fans are accepting him there, then he's got no reason to rush to sell unless he feels he can get someone better with the cash.

We, on the other hand, have not yet sullied our hands with him so we shouldn't be asking the question.
 
pocco said:
Are we still in for him? I've not seen much since we apparently bid and there was a lot of blowback from supporters.
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if the club are sensible (and they evidently are not) they would back quietly away from this and leak it to the press that “any rumours of interest in Arnautovic were unfounded”
 
Why are people incredulous that Bologna reject a bid? Whats the difference between them rejecting a bid, and Brighton or Aston Villa rejecting a bid? No difference whatsoever, we made a small bid for their main striker and they rejected it. Simple. Not sure they're supposed to bend over just because a bid comes in.
 
Abraxas said:
Why are people incredulous that Bologna reject a bid? Whats the difference between them rejecting a bid, and Brighton or Aston Villa rejecting a bid? No difference whatsoever, we made a small bid for their main striker and they rejected it. Simple. Not sure they're supposed to bend over just because a bid comes in.
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Hes 33 and hes shit they are taking the piss they think they have struck gold because United we panicking and ETH wants him.
 
This for me is a resignation matter. I'm not saying EtH should resign, because he can ask the club for whoever he thinks could do a job for the club. However senior executives have to do the "due dilligence" on any potential signing looking into stuff like anyone with access to google can find out about the player. It's one thing to have "enquired" about the player to at least get an idea of his cost, but this should never have reached the stage of making an actual bid.

To then continue to make a second bid in the face of public outcry is just an appalling degree of mismanagement. Releasing briefings to the press that the club is effectively "helpless" and that they have to do what EtH has asked them too is just duplicitous ass covering.

If you're going to take the big salary and job title you have to actually stand up for something. You didn't....you failed...gave pathetic excuses....then failed again.

If the club make another offer for this guy I will spend the last of my time following United to bombarding social media about it. We are acting as abysmally as Raith rovers did and will deserve all the online hate that will follow if we are stupid enough to sign the guy up. If they do... I won't follow United at all.
 
SportingCP96 said:
It’s a sad reality but I think the fans need to realize that United at the moment is not a attractive prospect for high level players. Their are the couple that will come of course but United is not the first choice option for a lot of guys.

This current state of United reminds me of when Liverpool were signing Joe Allen, Stewart Downing, Jose Enrique and such while having Ngog at striker.

Arnautović for what United current level is, all things considered is an ok signing. You don’t have the ability to attract elite players right now and Arnautović could probably still put in some better performances and a better shift then the likes of Anthony Martial.

United have a long way to go to come back and personably if I was United I would attach the marker and season one a different manner.

- Promote the biggest talents in the club and give them a run on the bench and the very best ones at first team I.E Garnacho, Garner etc

- Sign talented Young players who might be interested to join a big name and a club with less pressure to win (atm)

- Buy some veteran players that can guide the youth, guys like Christian Erickson fit that role perfectly

- keep some veteran or core pieces that can be of value on the squad, I.E David De Gea.

Rebuild the club the correct way!
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Hard to disagree with anything here. Still don't want this guy though.
 
Memphis Depay can leave Barca for free.

SURELY he's a better option than this guy.
 
mancan92 said:
He did
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.dw...ned-for-one-game-after-racist-slur/a-57923713
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Look, I haven't come on here to defend the guy I just want some more information. I think Arnautovitch would be a bad signing due to his age and his history. Did he not used to play for Stoke (so not exactly a galatico!) and has he not also had a spell in China, which a player would normally only do when they know themselves that they have lost a yard of speed or the ability to last 90 mins in a top league....

But I don't understand all the racist arguments I'm reading on here, I really think that 'R' word is too often used these days and it is such an explosive one. For instance, if an Austrain abuses a North Macedonian (so basically two white men) is it racist? If I make a joke about a Scottish person, am I guilty of a racist joke? I don't think so.

Turning now to the other allegation, well I don't know the full details, but in December 2020 Cavani received a three game ban for using an 'n' word in an instagram post: “Gracias negrito” – Spanish for “thanks little black person”. Was the caf up in arm about that, did people want him drummed out of the club? I don't recall so.

Interestingly, I think Cavani felt he had been dealt with harshly due to the PL not understanding the nuances of slang terms made in other languages - did he think Manchester United should have shown him more support? (tricky as this was at the height of the BLM campaign) because he seemed to lose all motivation for the club, after that. So was the alleged racist incident from Arnautovitch years ago made in English, or not, because as the Cavani thing shows, the language of the language, really matters.

Apologies, as I was typing this breaking news came through, but I will leave it up here because I'm still interested in what people think and in some ways, now its even more important. The tweet announcing the end of this mentions two reasons: i) that Bologna have priced him out of the bargain player bracket and ii) complaints from fans seen as contributing factors...

I can accept i) but in view of the Cavani thing, are fans really getting that powerful? Is this as someone else said in the Rashford thread regarding organisations getting a bit too 'sensitive' to public opinion: "you go woke and you go broke".
 
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