Don't even waste your time. Absolute bollocks.
Neymar
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Given the amount of rumours and speculation that the press makes up on a regular basis, they would have to spend a lot of time denying things. There really isn't any point, unless the rumour is one that will seriously damage the reputation of the club. It is the same with celebrities. They (or their people) do not comment on or deny every rumour about them unless it is one that will damage their reputation. There is no real point as the press will continue to make stuff up and it would be way too time-consuming.
If I was Neymar, and knew LVG wanted me, Id turn him down, with the crap hes playing and his rigid philosophy, not made for creative or flair players, just 11 robots
It won't happen
Of course it would be fantastic if it did but it won't and this thred will end up with people saying he is over rated a diver and is too small / couldn't cut it on a wet wednesday at stoke (should that now be West Bromwich)
Of course it would be fantastic if it did but it won't and this thred will end up with people saying he is over rated a diver and is too small / couldn't cut it on a wet wednesday at stoke (should that now be West Bromwich)
I can't believe there's even a thread on this, absolutely no way will he be coming here. We've got more chance of getting Ronaldo or Bale.
Papers are just linking us to point and laugh at us when the window slams shut.
The club need to come out and put this shite to bed. It's obvious that they wind LVG up in his press conferences regarding transfers and he takes the bait and ends up embarrassing himself because of his poor English.
We've been the laughing stock of football since Moyse fecked us over. This shit has become out of hand since Fergie has stopped having a say in what happens.
LVG needs to start banning these cnuts at press conferences, because they're taking the absolute piss with him now. Always asking the same questions and trapping him into answers because of his poor English. It's gotten out of hand now.
The club need to come out and put this shite to bed. It's obvious that they wind LVG up in his press conferences regarding transfers and he takes the bait and ends up embarrassing himself because of his poor English.
We've been the laughing stock of football since Moyse fecked us over. This shit has become out of hand since Fergie has stopped having a say in what happens.
LVG needs to start banning these cnuts at press conferences, because they're taking the absolute piss with him now. Always asking the same questions and trapping him into answers because of his poor English. It's gotten out of hand now.
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In all seriousness, it's not exactly all negative being linked to the top players. At least we're pushing their clubs to pay considerably higher wages than they'd like. If we can inflate the wage structure at the top clubs like Barcelona and Real Madrid, it may prevent their investment in other top talent (Pogba, Reus etc), or even force them to offload the players we want in the future, especially as the tv rights in Spain are looking likely to become more balanced throughout the division.
Judging by our business thus far, we're pretty capable of smokescreening and preventing the media getting wind of our transfer dealings, at least until they're almost over the line.
Judging by our business thus far, we're pretty capable of smokescreening and preventing the media getting wind of our transfer dealings, at least until they're almost over the line.
Did you see him too?!
Shit. He must be having a medical at City. Oh well.
Anything to improve the "Man Utd missed targets XI" that's sure to come.
Apart from a good couple of weeks before our tour, this really has been an awful window
Just want it over
Just want it over
Can Woodward arrange a deal with agents and let us get 1% of any contract renewal when they use our name to get a pay increase? We could probably pay off Greece's debt in a year with that money coming in.
If we were to get him (pipe dream), how long would it take for Young to bench him?
Ooh yeah this is happening! And we are going to sign Bale as well. Memphis, Bale and Neymar to form the front 3. I can already see it. £138m on Neymar and £100m on Bale. Ooh and Muller too!
Don't you love newspapers.
Don't you love newspapers.
Don't get me wrong, as much as I would love to believe these rumors, where is Neymar going to play? Unless its centrally, he prefers to play in the same position as Memphis. I havent seen him play centrally that much, can anyone attest as to whether it would be a waste of his skill set playing him there?
It's just the recently massive expectations. Compared to almost every year ever, it's been really good. We used to get Young and Jones, or Smalling and Hernandez.
This summer we got Darmian (great buy, he's doing brilliantly), Schneiderlin (great buy, he's doing really well, has instantly become first choice), Schweinsteiger (Bastian Fecking Schweinsteiger, also currently playing really well), and Depay (our most exciting, and, so far, effective attacking player). Oh, and Romero, who since De Gea is obviously staying can be considered an extremely good number two - World Cup and Copa America finalists Argentina's first choice keeper, after all.
Honestly, if you consider that a bad window, let alone an awful one, you're playing too many computer games. It's one of our most fruitful ever.
Close thread again please, let's not entertain this bollocks. Might as well put a bid in for Pele and Zola, it's as likely to happen.
Great post.
I miss those weekends.
We have also lost arguably our best striker, and our record-signing player who, whilst naff, did get the most assists last season... and we've replaced neither (If you class Depay as being a superior alternative to Ashley Young).
Its clearly not been a bad window obviously, its been a decent one in fact, but I wouldn't call it great.
Even the Guardian joining the bandwagon. They rarely do without any substance. Either it is someone from the club's PR department trying to justify Woodward's travel expenses to Barcelona or Neymar wants an improved contract.
At these rumours.So, if you arbitrarily discount one of our key purchases from the equation, (and decide against all the evidence of last season that losing RVP has been some kind of blow), then yes, suddenly it starts to look marginally less positive.
But RVP was crap last season, and Di Maria was deeply disappointing. We'll be expecting more from Memphis this season than we got from ADM, and so far the signs are good, so we have to consider that a decent replacement. And although we haven't replaced RVP, there wasn't much to replace any more. If anything his inclusion was regularly hurting us because he didn't have the legs to do any sort of running any more and it was killing our threat up front.
Basically, you're having to work really hard to find negatives. The players who left us were very poor last season, and so far all the ones who've arrived have been excellent.
Well no, we bought Depay at the beginning of the window (hell, the season hadn't even ended)- when nobody thought we would lose ADM... Pretty sure everyone assumed they'd be in the same side. I'm not discounting him at all, but clearly we didn't buy him with the intention to replace ADM - but more to offer an alternative to Mata/Young.
RVP was crap last season - BUT he still contributed at key times, and actually managed to win us a game on his own - more then some people offered us! Fact is, we treated RVP as if he was a top-quality centre forward, and we've sold him - so surely, if not the player, it's the idea we need to replace? Especially with this current incarnation of Rooney bumming around up front.
The players who have arrived have been excellent, but it still doesn't mean it's been an outstanding window when you look at the overall picture.
Why does it matter? We bought Memphis, a flair attacking midfielder/winger. We sold ADM, a flair attacking midfielder/winger. In what world do we not consider that a replacement, rather than bizarrely discounting Memphis' purchase as a 'Young alternative'? He's played every game so far, both with and without Young.
Again, you're having to completely defy logic to find fault.
Can you find a better window in our recent history? And if not, doesn't that pretty much by definition make this an excellent window? We've won the league and CL after sparser summers in the past.
Did you not read the first sentence of my post, apart from buying all them players you mentioned in the space of a couple of weeks it is been pretty shit otherwise.
Not really, logic: A team with both (an in form) ADM and Depay is better then a team with Young and Depay.
Why are we only allowed to have one attacking midfielder/winger? LVG it seems wanted them both, our team would have been better with both... Depay over last years ADM improves us, but does it push us up to a level to compete for the title? (I love Depay, but I think it's a bit soon to be so reliant on a 21 yr old in his first PL season)
But Di Maria's sale has nothing to do with us bringing in Memphis though, so in that sense he's not a direct replacement. As we signed him back in May there was no real indication that Di Maria wanted out, it's coincidental that he left later on in the window.
And apart from all the fecking money he makes, Bill Gates is poor.
It's not a replacement in terms of why we did it, but I was talking about whether this summer has been successful or not. You might consider selling Di Maria a loss, but you can surely count Memphis as a replacement, balancing that loss out on the 'did we do good or not' scales. That's what I mean by replacement. What Annihilate Now did was claim that Memphis somehow doesn't count because he's 'just a young alternative'. Which is clearly totally daft, because he's one of our key signings and currently one of the brightest sparks in the side. Of course he 'counts'.
He's not played yet this season and has had mysterious injuries and illness.... He's in the bag as far as I'm concerned...
Again, Memphis does count (not once have I said he "doesn't count" - thats just invented daftness) but he was meant to be an addition to what we had... something to take us above and beyond where we were last season.
It would be like buying John Stones now - to partner Smalling - then flogging Smalling in a few weeks time and saying its okay, because Stones is his replacement.
I don't know. Loosing 2 strikers and replacing them with none will not do IMO.
The players we've bought are good buys, I agree. But the net outcome of this window is soso so far IMO.
The midfield looks very good and the defence as been above expectations but the attack is in serous need of a boost.
our last few days of this window is basically going to be us going to the top teams saying we have £100m here, please give us somebody for it
This will be damaging for the club. Even if we are not interested, the press will say that we failed to land our target. The club should simply come out and announce that this is all rubbish, unless Neymar is using United to get the contract he wants from Barcelona and playing United and Woody.
You can't say it's the bet transfer window in our histRoy until we find out how they all will develop into the squad. It's certainly a promising one, just like when we brought in Nani and Anderson.
You also said we should be happier than when we signed Jones, smalling and Hernandez. All 3 of them had excellent first seasons and I was delighted with all.
It's generally been a good window and I have high hopes for darmian and depay. I'm not sure Morgan will ever be a world beater but we shall see and I think there are major questions over what impact bastian can have on the team other than experience and a good guy to have in the dressing room
But the negatives which go against this being a great window is losing RVP who was poor but still hit 10 goals last season. He needed to be given another chance for me. Losing our most expensive signing in history at a loss and having a shambles in the goalkeeper dept.
This on top of some of our comedy pursuits of players we either stupidly missed out on or never had a chance in the first place and in general mixed messages from Lvg and woody throughout.
Bizzare rumour.
Bizarre rumour because he just does not match to Louis hunting scheme...
The overreaction by some of you lot is funny
What's wrong with making an enquiry? Where has it said anywhere that we made a bid? What's wrong with talking to his agent to find out if the player would fancy it?
All we have to do is meet the release clause..
What's wrong with making an enquiry? Where has it said anywhere that we made a bid? What's wrong with talking to his agent to find out if the player would fancy it?
All we have to do is meet the release clause..
Like we could sign anyone from Barca or Madrid that they weren't wanting to sell.
Pointless and a little embarrassing. Hope Neymar gets his new deal soon, for fear this rumour may last as long as the Ramos one.
Pointless and a little embarrassing. Hope Neymar gets his new deal soon, for fear this rumour may last as long as the Ramos one.
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