Posts that annoy you during transfer windows

“Do we really want x cast offs?”

If a big club decides to sell a player it seems fans think they are useless because they are selling them because they’re crap. Not always the case. I remember it being said about Robben and another Madrid player(?). They then went on to be great at their next clubs.
 
Tedious debates about whether player X would want to move to United vs other clubs, with weighing of factors from wages to trophies to weather. As if we know the players personally to judge this.
 
99% of all transfer articles is rehashed rubbish. Insert CL club + player and the write something a bit vague. Then flesh it out with some random facts:

United are in contact with the representatives of Dumfries, ETH sees him as an ideal fit for his team and sources close to the player suggest a move to Old Trafford would be of serious consideration. Dumfries however is believed to be focused on a preparing for this weekend’s CL final in what could be his last game for the club, he has been ever present this season for the Nerazzurri and, after lifting the Coppa Italia, Inter are one game away from an impressive European and domestic cup double.
 
Baneofthegame said:
For me, the “oh look how other teams do their business so fast we are garbage etc”.
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and the best part is the person will compare all clubs who do their business fast and make this the premise of how we should be able to do it too.
 
Unrealistic transfer fees for our players. We're never getting 35m for McTominay.
And posters wishing we had bought x player because they're going for so cheap to a rival, e.g., Regullion & Aurier when they moved to Spurs, and countless others.
 
roonster09 said:
Good list, 1,3,4,8 is spot on.

I'm assuming 10 is in reference to Carrick?
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Yes, I still remember many fans (including myself) absolutely bricking it when we signed only him and sold RvN and Chelsea signed Ballack, Shevchenko and Ashley Cole that summer. Seemed like we would never be able to compete with them.

The wider point is that there is (still after all Di Maria’s etc) an overestimation of the importance of signing star players vs being able to develop and maximize potential of existing players and picking up players who are e.g. relatively young and promising but not a world star yet but would fit and have potential to go to next level (and being able to get them there). I remember the phrase “we do not buy stars we create them” that was common here in Fergie days but complexly vanished thereafter under a torrent of demands to sign world class.

For instance, I do not think many people were too upset when City signed KDB or Liverpool signing Mane or Salah. We all knew that they were good players but we also signed players with similar level (on paper) at the time when they joined our rivals. The difference is that our rivals developed them to world class and ours stalled/were misfits etc etc. In other words you should not worry that much when a rival buys a good player with lots of money if this rival is not run well. But you should really worry when a rival develops players better than your club.
 
Big Ben Foster said:
"Calm down, the window hasn't opened yet / just opened"

Because of course clubs wait until the registration period to begin their transfer business
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Yep that's the one

Happens every Summer before the inevitable point where United have left everything too late and start scrambling/overpaying. And we barely ever take new signings on pre-season tour.

It blows my mind that people don't learn. The best operated clubs already know who their ideal signings are.
 
The knobheads who pop up in every player specific transfer thread (i.e. Mason Mount) and say "no way worth £70m, we should sign Carlos Kickaballos from Gremio instead for £30m".
 
Literally everything that is spoken as if this is an irrefutable fact and not just paper talk. For example -
They could have bought him for 40mill but they just waited around and bought him for 90 mill - Antony.
If everyone just realizes that the media make up bullshit we would be better off.
 
The debate about what type of midfielder a player is, naming things I haven't even heard of, and how they will / won't work in our current midfield.
 
MyOnlySolskjaer said:
"He's using us for a new contract at his current club."

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"He's using us for a new contract at his current club."

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This is mine too and especially when it becomes painfully obvious (Varane and Casemiro) that the player is wanting a move.
 
Tweets from Romano and the like that just state obvious stuff ("Utd will look to sell Bailly") and pass it off as inside knowledge.

Talk of players being "on the list" (of transfer targets) like they've seen said list. While committing to nothing either way on what will happen.

Posters lapping up said tweets as gospel.
 
"Oh great we'll let him go to somewhere like Brighton/Benfica (used to be Leicester) then try to buy him when he's worth £100m"

80% of these players turn out to be crap
 
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Big Ben Foster said:
"Calm down, the window hasn't opened yet / just opened"

Because of course clubs wait until the registration period to begin their transfer business
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I'd say the opposite is worse. The melodramatic moaning that we're not going to sign anyone, even though we have signed at least one player in every summer transfer window I can think of.
 
The lists of players to sell x the lists of players to buy with net spend of £50m.

Love a bit of Transfermarkt research!
 
top1whoisman said:
I nominate OTT statements like this. In reality we’ve signed on average almost one player every summer before July during the last 10 years. A few more early July.
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Of our last 10 signings, how many went on pre-season tour with us?

Answer that, then explain why my statement was "OTT"
 
LawCharltonBest said:
Of our last 10 signings, how many went on pre-season tour with us?

Answer that, then explain why my statement was "OTT"
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A totally fair question considering we didn’t have a tour in 2020 or 2021.

The following new signings participated in our pre season tours:

2022: Malacia
2021: -
2020: -
2019: AWB, James
2018: Grant, Dalot
2017: Lindelöf
2016: Mkhitaryan, Bailly

Want me to go on? Those were in the officially announced squads, it could actually be that some players got signed after those announcements and joined up later during the tour. Barely ever, right?
 
People who post a made up starting XI including players we haven’t even signed yet and have barely been linked to.

Any suggestion of a player swap deal, as these rarely happen.

Also, when we are linked to someone and people start suggesting that we’re buying them to play a different position. Like how every CB is actually going to be played as a DM or an Inverted RB, or how we should buy that attacker who has played out wide his entire career and retrain him as a number 9.
 
top1whoisman said:
A totally fair question considering we didn’t have a tour in 2020 or 2021.

The following new signings participated in our pre season tours:

2022: Malacia
2021: -
2020: -
2019: AWB, James
2018: Grant, Dalot
2017: Lindelöf
2016: Mkhitaryan, Bailly

Want me to go on? Those were in the officially announced squads, it could actually be that some players got signed after those announcements and joined up later during the tour. Barely ever, right?
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:lol:
 
Liverpool transfer fees reported as base fee/initial up front fee only e.g. Mac Allister and Nunez, whilst Utd fees reported with full add-ons, salary and total package. To top it all off most of our fans not able to spot these differences and instead use it to bash our club with.

Liverpool new signings always supposedly turning down Utd in order to sign for them.

Liverpool players/signings all on supposedly low wages when their total annual wage bill is up there with everyone else.
 
He's too old (he's 30 or something), let's buy an 18-year old player who might become a superstar in a couple of years and invest in the future.
In reality that 18-year old in someone who's not for sale and is not even mentioned as a potential signing
 
Whether x player is tall enough for the PL.

Whether or not x player is press resistant (crinkly?)

Eyemeltingly tedious stats-based ‘debates’

‘Di Maria vibes’

EMBARRASSING

DISGRACE
 
Posts confidently stating that a certain player is not the profile we need, as if they have more knowledge than the club or manager. (To be fair, there are some signings that have been incredibly obvious but we've failed to get them)

Also this one isn't a particular comment, but people who instantly believe rumours that favour opponents and rumours that make United look dumb (for instance how posters immediately comment on how Liverpool is an amazingly run club when MacAllister's rumoured fee was £35m and United are pathetic because we're going to buy Mount for £80m despite that not even being close to the truth).
 
Posts about the scouts/recruitment team being useless/needing to be fired when we're linked with a big money move for some player who signed for a lower mid-table side for peanuts a year earlier.
zaafi said:
Posts confidently stating that a certain player is not the profile we need, as if they have more knowledge than the club or manager. (To be fair, there are some signings that have been incredibly obvious but we've failed to get them)
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Seconding this.
 
(Reads Tweet)

Believes every single word without question, followed 2 seconds later by instant meltdown!
 
Most posts don't bother me because everybody is entitled to their own opinion but man.. Those long posts where people think real life is football manager, making calculations about who goes out and who comes in, what we should get in sales (never going to happen) and how much we should pay for X player (most of the times an unrealistically low price).
 
Chris-Red said:
“Do we really want x cast offs?”

If a big club decides to sell a player it seems fans think they are useless because they are selling them because they’re crap. Not always the case. I remember it being said about Robben and another Madrid player(?). They then went on to be great at their next clubs.
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Could be many. Even when we're looking just at their Dutch players Van der Vaart was amazing at Spurs and Sneijder was arguably robbed of a Ballon D'or at Inter. Real really let a lot of good players go, even if it wasn't really a loss for them.
 
Transfer window is a muppet time so I'm not that annoyed by valuations out of thin air and people looking for the next Messi in a second Albanian league. What I find ridiculous is when people swiftly 180° and completely change their opinion of a player's ability based on his transfer decisions. So a lad I rated joins our rivals - he was never good enough, midtable at best. A lad I didn't rate seems to be poached by us - he was always a world beater, finally will find a place to show his class, loved him since day one. Quite funny
 
I hope that we don't sign player [from X club] or [of this nationality] as our last signing [from X club] or [of this nationality] flopped.
 
'If he were called Juninho Simoes instead of John Smith you'd all be raving about him and eager to spend 100m on him'

Always such mind numbing reasoning :rolleyes:
 
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