that be just crazy....
No transfers in January
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that be just crazy....
Frank Lampard on loan imo
That would be easy.
All we would need to do is to start leaking stories about us signing them to the Manchester Evening News and then have our players talk about how much they'd love to play with them.
All we'd have to do next is to have someone slip a united top onto them when they're not suspecting it and make sure that pic gets circulated in the press.
That approach seems to work well in Spain anyhow....
Or promote Morrison and Pogba to the first team to make up the numbers.
Even without Fletcher we still have Carrick, Anderson and Cleverley as specialist midfielders as well as the likes of Giggs, Jones and Park who will play there. No need to buy anyone.
Giggs Jones and Park are not natural cm, neither is Rooney either. Anderson and Cleverley are both still injured and its difficullt to said even when they come back they be match-fit.
If SAF can find a midfielder that can improve the side then he should sign him up ASAP. It would be a morale boost for both fans and players + it will keep our present side on their toes. I'm no scout but I can name at least 2 players (Montolivo and De Rossi) who are at the end of their contract and who would give a boost to the present side.
To be fair I think we need a midfielder too but we've put ourselves in a position where everyone knows that and teams will want top dollar for players, and we cannot afford to pay it.
How do you know we can't afford to buy?
The only signing we'll hear about in the next month is probably some 16 year old ear marked for the future nobody here has ever heard about. Cue mass Youtube investigations followed by experts prognosticating when said superstar will make it into the first team.
As far as genuine world class talent that could make an impact on the title race this season? I'm not holding my breath. SAF has said he's happy with what he's got and buying now would be admitting he's miscalculated on that early season assessment.
As far as genuine world class talent that could make an impact on the title race this season? I'm not holding my breath. SAF has said he's happy with what he's got and buying now would be admitting he's miscalculated on that early season assessment.
Sarni is a modern day Nostradamus. He knows everything.
I wouldn't expect much activity in 2012. I don't think the cash is available for more than one good signing personally...
Yeah, because I was so wrong last Summer when I posted the exact same thing.
It's funny how a lot of posters, including Pogue on the last page, suggested the same thing yet you still give me all the stick. And when I suggested that we could have signed Mata or Silva when we had the chance, I was wrong too because apparently we weren't financially capable of doing so.
Basically, I am always wrong, whichever way I go.
welcome to redcafe
It's alright we have a lot of people on here who seem to live with a red blindfold on. When we miss out on a player it's because he's a mercenary or because he was always going to another club. But when you suggest we obviously can't compete financially you are deemed to be some blasphemer.
You're jealous about the top reds aren't you?
Was that the Summer when we paid the second highest fee ever by a considerable margin for a goalkeeper as well as spending one of the largest amounts ever to sign a teenager?
Yes, the Summer when I said we wouldn't buy a midfielder and we didn't. According to people who slag me for saying that, it was because Sneijder wanted too much money and City overpriced Nasri. Nothing to do with money though.
Dont sugarcoat it, we also released 6/7 older players. Saving huge amounts on wages and getting some transfer fees back in.
Giggs is these days. Has been for years. Strange that people don't accept that yet.
Jones I'm not sure about yet, but definitely agree with you on Park and Rooney. Hate seeing either of them in central midfield.
With Sarni. for obvious reasons we wont buy in Jan.
So because the Sneijder and Nasri transfers didn't happen that means we'll never again pay ''top dollar'' for a midfielder? Where's the logic in that?
I might add that you based your claim that we wouldn't pay ''top dollar'' for a central midfielder on your strongly held conviction that we had no more than a total of £20m to spend on players in the Summer. You were laughably wrong.
And yet the wage bill increased by 12% in the first quarter of this financial year (July-September). You've had the likes of Smalling, Hernandez and Cleverley signing improved contracts to reflect their growing status in the first team squad and replacing those players who left.
If Sarni had any brains whatsoever he would pretend like his "predictions" last summer never happened. Yet he brings it up constantly. 
Weirdo.
Weirdo.
Giggs is a very good player and can do a job anywhere but he's not much of a CM
Do you think we should smash our wage structure to smithereens to bring a new player to the club?
Even if we could afford to pay Nasri £180k a week I wouldn't want us to. With the money that City offer prospective signings these days do you really think it's so outlandish a suggestion that they overpriced him?
He predicted that we wouldn't spend anymore than £20 million and that we wouldn't sign a MF. We bought Jones, De Gea and Young for almost three times his prediction. His reaction? "Well, I was right, we didn't sign a MF."
Like us you couldn't pay Nasri over 70% of what he was worth because of the effect on the whole dressing room.
That's my point though, we cannot compete against City and such.
He predicted that we wouldn't spend anymore than £20 million and that we wouldn't sign a MF. We bought Jones, De Gea and Young for almost three times his prediction. His reaction? "Well, I was right, we didn't sign a MF."
I said £20m net and already admitted being wrong about that one.
I was right about a midfielder.
If Sarni had any brains whatsoever he would pretend like his "predictions" last summer never happened. Yet he brings it up constantly.
Weirdo.
Why would I? I was one of maybe a few people who weren't convinced we'd get a midfielder. It was a very good call.
You also predicted that we won't sign a MF next season, either. Still confident on that one?
I find it hard to believe that departures of Scholes, Neville, Hargreaves, Van Der Sar, Brown and O'Shea didn't lower our wage bill, any evidence for that? Unless Scholes, Hargreaves and VDS weren't included at the beginning of that period (Neville couldn't have been) then it's strange.
No, it wasn't. You wandered from thread to thread in here saying "we won't sign him, we won't sign him, we won't sign him", etc. If I remember correctly you were infracted for it.
It's like saying we'll lose every game, then jerking yourself off after a ten game winning streak comes to an end because you were "right" all along.
To sum up, you haven't got a clue.
Pretty much yes. Fletcher's disease changes things but we'd probably known about it before.
Still going to stalk me if we don't sign a midfielder again?
Ah, the "stalking card." Commonly pulled when someone talks shit and is pulled up on it.
Well yes, the evidence is the club's first quarter financial results!
It just demonstrates the rampant wage inflation in football and as Storey points out, you're only going to further that problem by paying someone like Nasri much more than the vast majority of our squad.
Well yes, the evidence is the club's first quarter financial results!
It just demonstrates the rampant wage inflation in football and as Storey points out, you're only going to further that problem by paying someone like Nasri much more than the vast majority of our squad.
But did that include wages of players mentioned? If it does, it'd probably be 40 or 50 per cent increase instead had we kept them. Wow, just wow.