wouldn't be surprised if valdes has been on the phone. He's suspect like that.
Pedro | Agreed terms with Chelsea
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Aren't they offering £20 mill? Thats not completely unreasonable under the circumstances. I fully understand and accept De Gea's reasons for wanting to go. Plus I accept that we're fecked because we let his contract run down.
Sell him, replace him, move on and learn a lesson from it all.
I would like him here, he's a good player.
However, I'm not interested in any more players who don't know if they want to be here or not. If he's not sure, leave him.
Assuming the article is true that is, of which I have my doubts.
However, I'm not interested in any more players who don't know if they want to be here or not. If he's not sure, leave him.
Assuming the article is true that is, of which I have my doubts.
How did we run his contract down if he didnt want to sign a contract extension..?
Feck me Woodward, stop hosting interviews for Aston Villa and sign Pedro already you cnut.
Uncanny how much this guy looks like Woodward, even has his surname.
I think Pedro was plan D or E after Bale and a host of others.
Did we only just realise this now? If somebody had asked him a year ago what his intentions were, or even offered him a deal then, maybe we would have had a bit more bargaining power with 2 years on his contract.
If he had no intention or signing an extension 2 years ago then you would've sold him? Because without him last year then we wouldn't have gotten champions league.
We may have got a suitable replacement in and still managed Champions league football. Anyway back to Pedro is this happening? Ive a feeling he will stay at Barcelona.
Pedro is a matter of time imo. Van Gaal namedropped him as a player who we still need, on top of that he's a realistic target who would get more playing time for us (why he wants to leave) and a nice wage increase I assume. We wouldn't let Di Maria go if we couldn't replace him, I guess it's just some minor differences between us and Barca right now.
We still can, no replacement will be as good as him though, I think we've played the situation well. I'm still confident this is happening, when LVG was asked about it there was an air of inevitability in what he said.
AS copying Jamie Jackson... 
Talk about morons leading morons.
Talk about morons leading morons.
Various media outlets are saying the fee is the issue. I know we've spent a lot of cash already but I don't think £30m more will break the bank. Which suggests to me we're looking at another signing as well, probably a CB or ST. Two more signings at around £60m to £70m for the pair.
There is no way we'd be haggling over £3m if that wasn't the case in my opinion.
There is no way we'd be haggling over £3m if that wasn't the case in my opinion.
We dont need him
The way we have cleared the wage bill and not spent a huge amount like last summer when you consider fees received this summer makes me think we may be trying to pull off another galatico before settling on Pedro.
I think LVG wants Muller with Pedro being plan B and we won't finalize anything with Pedro until the club is satisfied that there's absolutely zero chance of getting Muller
Not going to happen IMO and if it does happen will be disappointing.
This is absolutely ridiculous. We have immediate needs that need to be addressed right now, so LVG should know that we have no time for that kind of unrealistic shit with Thomas Müller.
Just sign Pedro already, for Pete's sake!
It makes me think last summer may have been an exception rather than the rule where it comes to our approach in the transfer market. In absolute terms we've spent very little this summer.
I agree. It's looking like turn from what was a brilliant start to the transfer window to ultimately a very mediocre one.
Very mediocre? Really?
Mediocre? Signing Memphis, Schneiderlin, Schweinsteiger, Darmian, Romero and Pedro, and you're calling it a very mediocre window?
The state of some people on here, fecking hell. 5 players who would walk into the majority of teams in the league, and then Argentina's starting goalkeeper. All for reasonable fees.
feck me, this place is full of miserable bastards
How the feck can signing 4 good players be brilliant start but now its mediocre?
What in your mind happened to make it all of a sudden mediocre.
Yes. Fix the midfield, great start. Then sell our best striker, our biggest ever signing and not replace either, plus probably selling one of the top three goalkeepers in the world.
Selling RVP & Di Maria, and probably DDG. That made it mediocre from brilliant.
Hope not. I'd love Muller at Utd but we're in need of more a Pedro type player, in my opinion.
Van Gaal said we need pace and creativity. Muller, whilst a very good player, is not known for his pace.
Best striker was done, ADM didnt want to be here. Whats the manager supposed to do? Its also not September 1st yet.
RVP was done, Moyes' season and last season he was a shadow of himself. Keeping hold of him that he might find his old form again would have been pointless.
Van Persie was shite last season, worse then rooney, so selling him isn't a problem at all. And yeah, sell our biggest ever signing because he didn't want to be here and failed perform apart from 1 month at the start, so much so that Ashley Young was deservedly keeping him out of the side. Selling de gea would be shite, but the other two don't make us any worse performance wise.
What's he supposed to do? Replace them. That's it.
Yeah but he's a number that still did a job and therefore still has to be replaced. We are threadbare up front.
RVP worse than Rooney? Not so sure, close one. Selling players in positions that we are pretty weak isn't fixed by not actually replacing them.
The RVP and Di Maria that played for most of last season are really no great loss.
Van Persie was a shadow of his former self and has been replaced with Hernandez and ADM couldn't be arsed the majority of the time and has been replaced with Depay.
De Gea hasn't left yet and likely won't, this time last year we had only signed 2 players so i expect us to sign more before 1st Sep.
But that doesn't negate the fact it's been a very good window so far.
If we sign a couple of players it makes it a very good window.
I'd say we're probably better off with Chicha as our #2 with his pace in behind, but who knows. Hernandez and Wilson are effectively taking the spots RvP and Falcao had last season, as well as Januzaj in there. Basically none of them have been any good over the last 2 years so it doesn't change much I think
The only sources that have City in for Pedro are rags and Balague. Hardly reliable.
Unless the BBC or the Guardian report it.. I'm fairly certain it's only United in the race at the moment.
Unless the BBC or the Guardian report it.. I'm fairly certain it's only United in the race at the moment.
Rooney did have a pretty good spell last season when played up front. I can't say the same about RVP.
I think it's a case of Rooney starting the season so poorly, people are over-looking how bad RVP was last season, however, I'm not sure how anyone could be worse than how Rooney has been in the first 2 games.
If our objective for the season is to challenge for the title, then getting a good, pacey striker, who can hold up the ball, is absolutely crucial. That should be our number 2 priority at the moment, behind getting a pacey winger.
Just flipping sign Griezmann or Reus! If only it was that easy....
Griezmann/Reus + Kane/Muller/Benzema would be perfect.
Well if that were the case wouldn't that depend on the players that were actually signed?
I think you went into this window expecting way too much mate.
Signing the likes of Depay, Darmian, Schweinsteiger and Schneiderlin cannot be described an anything other than very good business.
Nearly all the major issues in the squad sorted with only another versatile attacker and maybe a CB needed.
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