Look, if the deal was wrapped up in 4 hours instead of 4 months you'd most likely be in here complaining that we had rushed things and hadn't done our due diligence. Have a day off.
Matteo Darmian | LVG confirms he's on his way here for a medical
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Look, if the deal was wrapped up in 4 hours instead of 4 months you'd most likely be in here complaining that we had rushed things and hadn't done our due diligence. Have a day off.
fecking hell, are you on the drink.
I hope he gets that hairstyle back when he's here.I do. What do you want to know?
Was trying to drill the logic into you. We cant start worrying about every rumour floating about. Simple.
Has it occurred to you that the low transfer fee might be a result of us being patient?
I'm sure they were seeking a bigger fee 2-3 months ago.
Blimey.
Last flight from Turin to London was at 17.00, so maybe he is already in Manchester? Next flight is first tomorrow.
Some people are never,ever satisfied. We re signing a player,rumour about us sorting the deal for 4 months and woodward is not up for the job! Blimey indeed...
Flights are being monitored! Transfer season is properly under way!
Doubt he's flying commercial
Yeah, you're right.. I will keep Flightradar on and search the Turin airspace!
Aye, a recurring theme of United's...The never ending Transfer saga
It gets us all from time to time.Not in the slightest, why would a person complain about a transfer being completed quickly?
I remember not so long ago many United supporters complained when Moyes spent months on end wasting time negotiating transfers, seems awful contradictory of you (probably did complain about it) and others when Moyes Dithered over transfers.
What's changed? If I recall correctly didn't Moyes spend a summer (4 months) chasing Cesc Fabregas? What was the out come of that?? I'll remind you, we overpaid for a player that we never really wanted. Suffering from short term memory loss are we Steven?
People can have different issues with transfers Steven, they can have issue with the player signed, the amount paid, wages etc etc... God forbid someone dared raised an opinion.
Possibly, money shouldn't really be an issue for the worlds wealthiest club now really should it? Ok if it was a considerable amount you'd understand. In your opinion, what would you estimate the saving at? Million? Two perhaps? Four months of negotiations for what in reality is a drop in the ocean to United.
Struth?
Never said I wasn't happy with him signing, opposite in fact.
Just wondering why we'd haggle for 4 months over a transfer when we need to obtain more important targets. I'd of thought that would amount to common sense.
you know for a fact we haggled for 4 months?
And Im sure the club is capable of working on multiple transfers in the same time.
I don't, but neither does anyone else. It has been reported however by some media outlets, so I mentioned it here. I personally found it to be an extraordinary amount of time for a player who seemed to only be courted by Juventus aside form ourselves and according to the transfer fee we agreed, £12.7 it doesn't seem like a considerable dent in he transfer coffers for a club of United's stature. It was suggested above that the price probably came down as we remained patient, it probably did. But is it worth waiting 4 months to save a quick buck?
In my original post I simply stated that if it is true, would it not set off alarm bells with anyone. People then basically lost their collective shit. I guess people are clearly cranky from the transfer window! I'm sure once the window is closed people would actually see it as a reasonable question.
I understand no two transfers run the same and there is a lot of paper work, calls and legalities from multiple parties who are involved in transfers and they can take time, I do find it funny however that this time two years ago everyone was losing their minds because Moyes was chasing 1 player for four months.
Paperwork being finalised tonight. So any chance of it being announced today subject to a medical?
Do you have a source? I mean that about 4 months.
Problem with moyes was he didnt sign anyone. Now we re actually signing players.
But we've actually signed him Lil. We haven't missed out on him and bought Kyle Naughton instead, have we?
Thing is Lil, of all the things to complain about, at any point, you chose this rather small detail to complain about. How on earth did you cope with the summer of Moyes without your head falling clean off?
His tagline should be something like cry baby. Same shit over the main in the "getting worried" thread.
Did we start negotiations four months ago or did we start scouting him four months ago?
If that's what you meant then we've all just misunderstood you.
But in your original post you seemed to just believe it that this was indeed true.
A noticeable lack of the phrase "if true" in this post. The wording of which gives the distinct impression the poster is taking the report for being completely true. Rather then accusing people of losing their shit he might want to consider that he gave off a certain impression.
I'm pretty sure a jet just landed in Turin from Rome, maybe it's there to pick up Darmian and head to Manchester?
Sure, I do believe it was Di Marzio who broke the story and he stated on his own website United and Darmians "people" have been in discussions for 4 months
http://gianlucadimarzio.com/en/eng/torinos-matteo-darmian-close-to-man-united/
It's not 4 months of haggling, but the club probably informed Torino that Darmian was a target, and asked about his availability and permission to talk with him, and the club came back in the last weeks with a clearer intent.
@YouOnlyLiveTwice checking flight schedules. Who's checking the Airport - Carrington bus transfer?We have a saying in Croatian but translation wouldnt do it justice.
You are thinking too sanely.
Well I've posted the link from the guy who broke the story, why shouldn't any of us not believe the reporter who told the world of this transfer?
It goes without saying that if I am querying the reliability of this rumour I would probably be leaning towards believing it myself. After all it is not so far fetched considering we seem to be the transfer saga club.
I probably should have inserted "if true" for clarification purposes.
I have to go for 30mins or something now, so i hope someone can watch the airspace while im gone!
If I could be bothered to, I could easily go back through your posts and I've no doubt you were one of many the last two summers pissing an moaning about transfers yourself.
I'm loving that this lad got a bit of height too, it will be handy to have two quite tall full backs.
Di Marzio's credibility is at the top of the list for me. He seems to have an "in" with most of these transfers well before the British tabloid press start fabricating clickbait.
He looks so much like whatshisface from Whiplash.Darmian is so cool.
Really ? We didn't notice it at all.
What the feck is going on?
Are you really moaning because we apparently first made contact four months ago?
What do you want us to do, sign him in bloody March? Oh wait...
People find ever more ridiculous things to moan about.
Are you really moaning because we apparently first made contact four months ago?
What do you want us to do, sign him in bloody March? Oh wait...
People find ever more ridiculous things to moan about.
Really doubt the club have been dragging their heels 4 months when Van Gaal categorically stated that he'd like the squad to be settled by the time the season starts in earnest. A more likely explanation is that Darmian was lower down on our priority list (various media reports indicate that Van Gaal has a tiered system of targets in place) - much like Blind last season whose transfer was resolved sharpish once we showed firm intent. Perhaps Alves was the first choice, and we picked up on the Darmian trail after he signed a contract extension at Barcelona, who knows. Plus, there were reports of Bayern being interested in him a while back. Maybe the player was assessing his options more closely leading to the delay, or a whole gamut of other reasons. We aren't privy to the exact nature of the negotiations so the opinion of United haggling over the fee for 4 months seems like pure conjecture at this point.
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