Muppet Watch 2013 Edition

Ricky-Romeo's list there is going to cost 150 to 200 million.
 
SharkyMcShark said:
No one for Sandro?
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Really like him but Dunno, how well him and Carrick together will work and he won't come to be backup to him + would be too expensive for a backup anyway.

We'd be better going off for someone who is young and upcoming to be backup to Carrick or someone who can play Box to box next to him and also deputize for him when required.

Plus, he is long term injured so there would be a risk there.
 
Bale (left wing) & Diame (centre midfielder). Then, we're done. 50 + 20 million pounds should do the trick. I reckon our sales out from Nani, Lindegaard might fetch 20 million. So all in all, a net spend of 50 million pounds sounds alright.
 
Longlivekeano said:
Bale (left wing) & Diame (centre midfielder). Then, we're done. 50 + 20 million pounds should do the trick. I reckon our sales out from Nani, Lindegaard might fetch 20 million. So all in all, a net spend of 50 million pounds sounds alright.
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You did read the title? Muppet edition, any signings and you choose to sign Diame? Not that I don't rate him, but there is a few better in his position....

Saying that, in reality, I wouldn't mind us signing Diame at all, quite physical and strong, haven't seen too much else to his game as I have seen him a limited number of times...
 
Gundogan and Bale would have me VERY optimistic for next years UCL. Cna't see it happening though :(
 
Longlivekeano said:
Bale (left wing) & Diame (centre midfielder). Then, we're done. 50 + 20 million pounds should do the trick. I reckon our sales out from Nani, Lindegaard might fetch 20 million. So all in all, a net spend of 50 million pounds sounds alright.
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Diame has a pretty cheap release clause IIRC. Much cheaper than 20 million anyway. Has some medical problem though.
 
2 midfielders and a young attacking player, perhaps this Bruma, who I have heard great things about but seen nothing of. Young, exciting, Portuguese winger currently playing for Sporting Lisbon. Only 18, sounds like something we would do.
 
Dirty Schwein said:
Gundogan and Bale would have me VERY optimistic for next years UCL. Cna't see it happening though :(
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If that happened we would certainly be up a level.

a front 6 of bale, gundogan, carrick, valencia, rvp, rooney would be magestic.
 
golden_blunder said:
not a bad call actually, we need some pizza chucking
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So Anderson can keep his weight down.

On a different note, maybe if Barca get butt fecked again at Nou Camp, they may reshuffle and some of their players may become available. We should keep a close eye on that.
 
Joleon Lescott pls

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/apr/24/football-transfer-rumours
 
Rowem said:
Me! He's twice the player Dembele is.
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He's a different type of player but definitely not twice the footballer that Dembele is. In fact, most would probably rather have Dembele here.

Dirty Schwein said:
So Anderson can keep his weight down.

On a different note, maybe if Barca get butt fecked again at Nou Camp, they may reshuffle and some of their players may become available. We should keep a close eye on that.
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Thiago would be the best outcoms of that one, for me.
 
Dirty Schwein said:
On a different note, maybe if Barca get butt fecked again at Nou Camp, they may reshuffle and some of their players may become available. We should keep a close eye on that.
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Thiago and Song would be some scraps worth looking at.
 
pocco said:
He's a different type of player but definitely not twice the footballer that Dembele is. In fact, most would probably rather have Dembele here.
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'Twice the player' is rather obviously an idiomatic expression not a literal comparison of their abilities.

I don't doubt that many would prefer Dembele however I think their reasoning is flawed. Sandro is considerably better. Some might say that he's thrice the man Dembele will ever be!
 
Interesting Gill is saying this, when SAF was talking down doing big business in the summer.
 
Cevno said:
Interesting Gill is saying this, when SAF was talking down doing big business in the summer.
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When did he say that? I'd say he was keeping a low down during the season until closer to the time. He could well be going after a certain player or more, and wanted to keep suspicions low until nearer the time.
 
I really can't see us signing a striker, unless Rooney is leaving.

If we can assume that Nani will leave, as is looking likely, I'd have us using that cash plus whatever extra was needed for Bale, giving us Valencia, Young, Zaha and Bale as our four wingers going into next season.

I'd also like to see a central midfielder, someone who can play alongside Carrick, and cover for him if he were to be injured as well. I think there are a few potential options for who that player could be, but there's not a single outstanding player. I guess if I had my pick of all the (reasonably) realistic targets, I'd love to see Wilshere tell Arsenal he wanted a move to Old Trafford to win some trophies!
 
Crackers said:
When did he say that? I'd say he was keeping a low down during the season until closer to the time. He could well be going after a certain player or more, and wanted to keep suspicions low until nearer the time.
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Sir Alex Ferguson feels minor changes are more likely than a major overhaul when he assesses his Manchester United squad for next season - although he admits his summer plans are still to be firmed up.

Given the current pool is on course to win the Barclays Premier League, and he expects a number of players within the group to improve, the boss is set to only tinker with his resources. But while a deal has already been concluded for Crystal Palace's Wilfried Zaha and Fabio will return from his season-long loan at QPR, the boss is refusing to rule out making a big-name buy.

Asked by Sunday newspaper journalists if he would consider signing another star, Sir Alex replied: "In what position? That's the main thing. Normally, the players you’re talking about are forwards and it’s complicated enough as it is with the forwards we have."

When the next question addressed a specific striker - Borussia Dortmund's Robert Lewandowski - there was a hint of interest from the boss.

"Bayern [Munich] are strong in that one too aren’t they?" he responded. "We’ll just have to wait and see where we are in terms of if we win the league. Maybe then we’ll view it differently."

On the whole, it's clear Sir Alex is very happy with the players already at his disposal.

"I think it’ll be minor," he revealed on the subject of any rebuilding. "Maybe but I don’t know.

"It depends on a lot of things like the availability of players. Not everybody wants to sell their players. What do we need? We have a reasonable group of young players in Kagawa, Evans, Smalling, Jones, Rafael, Fabio will be back, Büttner, De Gea, Cleverley, Welbeck and Chicharito. They’re all in a really young age group that can last quite a few years and we expect improvement from the younger players in the team.

"Jones and Smalling, if I can keep them clear of injury, will improve a lot as they’ve got the material. We’ve seen improvement in Welbeck from last season and he’s improving all the time. The issue with Danny is the goals and that’s where we want to see improvement in him. Last year he scored 12 goals but this year only two so he has had a wee bit of a plateau. With England, he looks like he can score in every game though."
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http://www.manutd.com/en/News-And-F...uson-discusses-summer-transfers.aspx?pageNo=2


Jaybezia said:
How long ago did SAF say that out of interest? He tends to strengthen more after recouping a title.
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This Sunday.
 
He mentions all these players, which is all well and good, but none of them bar Cleverley are central midfielders, and he faded badly in the second half of the season. I could just about accept ignoring it last year with Clev and Ando having impressive loans / pre-season, Fletcher supposed to be coming back and Scholes being really good but that's not going to be the case this year.

A midfielder (or two) and a winger and I'm happy.
 
This is all assuming that Bayern don't buy everyone. We might not have a chance to buy anyone. :(
 
Full muppet mode: Gundogan, Reus, some big strong fecker a la yaya toure.

Semi muppet mode: Gundogan, Bale.

Hopeful: Bender, Isco.
 
rcoobc said:
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YAY!! I sincerely promise not to shag hookers, geriatric or otherwise, disrespect the club or manager, feed the Anderson, talk to young, demand anything, moan about being on the bench, have a stupid hair implant that makes me look like a seventies rapist, dive and I guarantee a double leg breaking tackle on both terry and the klanfield cannible in my first season and not to become a "brand" I any way shape or form.

Pinky promise.
 
With Mancini being given nothing to work with last summer and inevitably getting the sack this summer, I wonder if they went down the path of "Well he's got a good enough squad to win the league, if he can't do it without spending a fortune he's not a good enough manager for us anyway".

With that in mind and City's shite season I reckon they're going to look to spend a few quid this summer and I think that could cost us a target or two when City will take their old route of both strengthening and stopping us from strengthening.
 
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