quite what?
Moyes: "January not an easy month to purchase in. We have a good squad."
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) and Jamie (@Vault Dweller) are here to talk about United's dreadful home defeat at the hands of Big Ange's Tottenham Hotspur. Should this have been the end of Ten Hag? How long does he actually have left? And does Nik finally want ETH out?!
I know it's only the 4th but you can already tell that this January window is shaping up to be boring as feck. I'm starting to think United will never sign a player ever again.
Does seem fairly quite on the rumour front anyway, for all clubs.
It's natural, I guess, given that clubs have the entire month to complete their business.
I just hope we use the time afforded to us properly this time round, as opposed to a last minute trolley dash.
I don't even see January as a transfer window, never really have with how quite we tend to be.
It's eerily quite.
Its quiet quite alright.
you're all quite shiet.
Were not signing anybody, I know it.
Nah, I was referring to Moyes rather than you.
Cynic in me says the statement should be "Any transfer window is not easy for us to make a purchase as we have always have a good squad and will always look for value".
Maybe convincing both club and player in January is a little more difficult than in the summer but, money can take care of that difficulty. Doubt we are willing to resort to that though.
Maybe convincing both club and player in January is a little more difficult than in the summer but, money can take care of that difficulty. Doubt we are willing to resort to that though.
Apparently, Moyes has spoken to the Sunday papers and it's supposed to make pretty grim reading for United fans. Supposedly full of negativity and doesn't sound up to the job. I mention it because that could come across really, really bad if we are trying to recruit this window. If it really is as bad as been mentioned then this place is going explode tomorrow. I hope the writer who posted it on Twitter is making it sound worse than it is, because I'm all for Moyes but when he becomes un defendable, it's going to get difficult.
Who wouldn't be up for the United job? Maybe he is finding it too much? He is starting to look a bit tired to be honest. This one hell of a job to take on. I know we are the champions, but all the other side to it i.e. media and sponsers can be taxing.
I'll wait to see the quotes, but he really doesn't have any idea how to deal with the media. I guess he wants to keep them on his side to get an easier ride in the papers by giving them access/stories, but it's not going to work.
It won't work because, yes they might like him,but this is the press and they will sell the grandmother into a brothel if it sold newspapers.
I'm wondering whether he's told the reporter that he's going to 'shut down the redcafe transfer forum!'
He just needs to learn when to shut the hell up. Fergie didn't give a seemingly stream of interviews to journalists and managed what he said in press conferences.
Not sure if SAF spoke to all the sundays or just his chosen ones. Maybe Moyes is talking to everyone. Fergie had his favourites who he trusted.
I'm pretty sure that the Friday press conferences are split in two. The first part is the one you see on MUTV and is generally about the game and injury updates etc. The Sundays etc are then allocated the 2nd part of the press conference. Of course SAF probably had less journos to speak to!
He wasn't great last season and I don't see how people are saying that he is better than Carrick, when Carrick was much better last season.
Would be happy if we get him cheap. He would be an upgrade on Cleverley/Jones/Giggs/Fellaini. But he's very similar to Carrick on style which is a small problem, and won't come to us because of Scousers which is a big problem.
Sounds right.
You don't even know what he's supposed to have said, and already he should shut up.
Why am I getting dragged into your posts? I don't even like Moyes.
Also, there's a bit of an elephant in the room with your post, with the whole "it'll be so hard to get back in the top 4 if Liverpool pip us to 4th spot." Liverpool being it. If they pip us to it then they'd have managed it having had a few years out of it. What's stopping us doing the same thing?
what really scares me is that I feel pretty much the same way....
Tomorrow's Sunday papers should make for interesting reading then.
His tone and comments thus far this season have often been regrettable and negative. He talked about being afraid to take RVP off because of the stick he would get, despite the lack of fitness and danger of re-injury. While it's dumb to make his substitutions based on public opinion, it's even dumber to acknowledge it publicly. He shouldn't have said a word about it. Ergo, he should have shut up. His other comments, like being happy with our performance against Liverpool after losing or being content that we were close to signing a top, top, top player, should never have been made.
His tendency to say stupid or unhelpful things to the media doesn't help his case. Maybe if he can avoid putting his foot in his mouth...
I dragged you into it because I saw a few posts by you insulting people criticising Moyes. Jesus, Fergie got criticised all the time on here, I don't know why you're being so precious, we've taken 14/30 points at home, of course people are hammering him. The irony is I actually like Moyes, I'm one of the seemingly few who wanted him as our next manager, but I'm just saying it like I see it, we're going to struggle in the medium term if we fail to make the top four, and if Moyes fails to get top four with this squad he won't find it any easier next year.
I explained the "elephant in the room", they signed Suarez who has developed into one of the best players in the world. They got lucky, his baggage put off other clubs, and Ajax wanted rid because of his suspension just when Liverpool had been taken over in the January and had money to spend. It's very hard to sign players with that sort of potential, all the clubs know about them nowadays, that's why Wenger can no longer pull off a Vieira type signing, and we struggle to compete with the sugar daddy's even with Champions League football. We could get lucky too, I'm just saying it will be difficult, whoever finishes top four will be stronger next year, whilst we're going to be replacing key players and trying to offload the dross.
Priceless. Sums up the Caf perfectly.
It doesn't matter what he says really, managers feed the press rubbish all the time, there's no point in trying to read too much into it anyway.
He's said we won't be signing anyone. Confirmed
Papers are reporting it but I haven't seen a quote yet.
It's on Mirror website.