Predict our top summer 2025 transfer targets

LB - Dorgu
Winger - Dibley
CAM - Musiala

Mark my words, I think we go for all 3 of them in the summer.
 
Musiala would be an absolute dream but why would he leave Bayern to come here?
 
We need playmaker, left back and right winger.
So, i predict;
1. No 10
2. Right back
3. Left winger
 
JoeyJoJoJrShabadoo said:
Grew up in England in fairness. Family left due to Brexit coming, which is incredible.
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He lived in Germany until he was 9. ;)

PS: I'm just having some fun with you. I know it was close between Germany and England and I'm incredibly happy that he chose Germany.
 
Going to go full on muppet…

GK - Diogo Costa
LB - Kerkez
CDM - Wharton
CAM - Palmer
RW - Rodrygo
 
I'll say:

LB - Davies - He wants big wages, Madrid might not want to make him a top 3 or 4 earner and Barca maybe can't afford to. He's 23 years old, same age as Zirkzee and Ugarte, much higher wages but no transfer fee. Also opens up the possibility of us moving to a back 3/5 which could suit our personnel anyways (Lisandro, Dalot and Mainoo mainly) and who knows who the hell our next coach is or what he'll fancy.

RW - Dibley, the rumours are good enough for me. Mbeumo will have one year left on his deal, that wouldn't shock me either. Brentford could take 30-40M for him and buy a pretty good replacement for that kind of money. Kudus maybe another option.

Casemiro/Eriksen replacements - Literally no theories here whatsoever. Wharton I think would cost a fortune, so uh, the return of Angel Gomes on a free to replace Eriksen and Ederson from Atalanta will have 2 years left, so let's say him.

2-3 teenagers - No idea here, just seems likely after Obi-Martin and Kone.

Mbeumo and Ederson are the oldest signings (currently both 25). Gomes is 24, Davies is 23. Basically players with years ahead of them but hopefully ready to hit the ground running. Still young at striker, a couple of young wingers in Garnacho and Amad, Mainoo in midfield and only Bruno past his prime, defence is 23-26 years old across except for young Yoro and aging Maguire and Shaw who are probably too expensive to move anyways.

Hojlund/Zirkzee
Garnacho/Rashford
Mbeumo/Amad

Bruno/Mount
Mainoo/Angel
Ederson/Ugarte

Dalot/Mazraoui
Davies/Shaw
Lisandro/Maguire
De Ligt/Yoro

Onana/Bayindir

and the other 3-4 players in the first team are let's say Malacia, one final Jonny Evans season, one of the young midfielders (Kone, Fletcher, Collyer or a surprise) and some attacker gets a few games as the 7th attacker and makes some benches.
 
There’s a lot of interesting RW talent in the Prem alone for us to target this summer as an Antony replacement:

Kudus
Adingra
Dibling
And Fatawu looks some talent Leicester

There’s also options outside of the Prem but given our track record it might make sense to go low-risk from within the league this time.
 
(Contract with current club expires)

I think because of our financial situation we're going to have to focus of players (high reputation) with a max of 2 years on their existing contracts or hidden, cheap gems. It will also require more significant outs.

I also don't think we'll target a player in all of these positions but I do think we'll go for 2 CBs, a LWB (if not signed in January) and a CM as minimum.

That being said we are Manchester United and aren't know for world class recruitment in the recent years but I'll go for the following:

RCB: R. Araujo (2026 and we know they're broke just like us, may as well give it a go) or more realistically M. Guehi (2026, not really a right sided player despite being right footed but HG reliable and contract up soon)
LCB: J. Branthwaite (2027) or G. Inacio (2027 but think has a release clause ~ £40m?) also tempted by Olivier Boscagli (2025)
LWB: A. Davies (2025, again a bit like Araujo - have to try for a player of that quality) and I think if that fails then also test Milan's resolve on T. Hernandez (2026) or more realistically R. Aït-Nouri (2026)
DM (back-up): W. Ndidi (2027), A. Stiller (2027) or H. Hackney (2027)
CM : Ederson (2027) or A. Haidara (2026) - struggled with this one to be honest.
AM: Wirtz (2027, an absolute wet dream but won't happen... probably), J. Musiala (2026, but will probably sign a new deal at Bayern) so more realistically Eze (2027) and/or A. Gomes (2025)
ST: Osimhen (2026, seems like many on the CAF have gone off of him but not me. The most "gettable" he's been in ages. Proven goalscorer) or M. Cunha (2027, probably will be on my own here but I he's a player I like) and/or J. David (2025)

(You made need to grab a change of underwear before you read the below)

So best (and most muppet/unrealistic FIFA/FM scenario) for 2025/2026 is:

GK: Onana / Bayindir

RCB: Araujo / Yoro
CCB: de Ligt / Branthwaite
LCB: Martinez / Shaw (Yes I don't like this either but I don't think we'll get any suiters for him and can't see us terminating his contract)

RWB: Mazraoui / Dalot
CM: Ugarte / Hackney
CM: Ederson / Mainoo
LWB: A. Davies / Amass

AM: B. Fernandes / Amad
AM: Rashford (last chance - if not sold) / Garnacho
ST: Osimhen / Hojlund

Couldn't bring myself to include either or Wirtz or Musiala, just too much man :lol:

(now you've had a chance to clean yourself up he's a more sobering team)

GK: Onana / Bayindir

RCB: Guehi / Yoro
CCB: de Ligt / Branthwaite
LCB: Martinez / Shaw

RWB: Mazraoui / Dalot
CM: Ugarte / Collyer
CM: Mainoo / Haidara
LWB: Aït-Nouri / Amass

AM: B. Fernandes / Amad
AM: Rashford / Garnacho

ST: Hojlund / J. David

Thanks for reading.
 
-------------------Onana
---------Yoro - De Ligt - Braithwaite
Frimpong - Ugarte - Mainoo - Davies
----------------Wirtz - Bruno
-------------Gykerös

--------------------------Vitek
--------------Dalot - Evans- Martinez
-Mazraoui - Goretzka - Gomes - Garnacho
--------------------Amad - Mount
--------------------------Höjlund

Davies 0m
Gomes 0m
Goretzka 0m
Braithwaite €70m
Frimpong €40m (release clause)
Wirtz €90m
Gykerös €75m (agreed release clause)
= €275m

Out:
Rashford €75m
Malacia €10m
Shaw €15m
Casemiro €20m
Heaton 0m
Lindelöf 0m
Maguire €20m
Zirkzee €40m
Antony 30m
=€170m

Net spend = €105m

Muppet mode? Maybe... But if we can show a real progress the rest of the season, i can´t see anyone besides Writz and Davies as "very hard targets" and if they dont want to join i would go for the same Alvaro Fernandez we sold to Benfica (reports say we have €19m buy-back clause) instead of Davies and Nnkuku from Chelsea who is not happy being a squad player mainly playing in the cups at the moment even though he is smashing in goals lately.

That would save us a lot of salary cost from Davies and the €19m would be saved in that way. Nkunku would also save us €20-30m and fit perfectly in the more offensive position of the those 2 behind the striker while Bruno would have to help the 2 CMs more.
 
Branthwaite
Davies/Kerkez
Tchouameni
Kvaraviskielia/Omar
Nypan

Sell

Rashford
Lindelof
Casemiro
Antony
 
SWE-Chucky said:
-------------------Onana
---------Yoro - De Ligt - Braithwaite
Frimpong - Ugarte - Mainoo - Davies
----------------Wirtz - Bruno
-------------Gykerös

--------------------------Vitek
--------------Dalot - Evans- Martinez
-Mazraoui - Goretzka - Gomes - Garnacho
--------------------Amad - Mount
--------------------------Höjlund

Davies 0m
Gomes 0m
Goretzka 0m
Braithwaite €70m
Frimpong €40m (release clause)
Wirtz €90m
Gykerös €75m (agreed release clause)
= €275m

Out:
Rashford €75m
Malacia €10m
Shaw €15m
Casemiro €20m
Heaton 0m
Lindelöf 0m
Maguire €20m
Zirkzee €40m
Antony 30m
=€170m

Net spend = €105m

Muppet mode? Maybe... But if we can show a real progress the rest of the season, i can´t see anyone besides Writz and Davies as "very hard targets" and if they dont want to join i would go for the same Alvaro Fernandez we sold to Benfica (reports say we have €19m buy-back clause) instead of Davies and Nnkuku from Chelsea who is not happy being a squad player mainly playing in the cups at the moment even though he is smashing in goals lately.

That would save us a lot of salary cost from Davies and the €19m would be saved in that way. Nkunku would also save us €20-30m and fit perfectly in the more offensive position of the those 2 behind the striker while Bruno would have to help the 2 CMs more.
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No chance we get anything close to your valuations in sales.
 
SWE-Chucky said:
Rashford €75m
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Imagine sanctioning your club to spend €75m on such dross.

"Hmm, you know what I think we need? An attacking player who is unprofessional, someone who shows zero desire to work hard and has an uncanny ability when it comes to not scoring goals. I'm thinking €500k a week might tempt him. As for his club, €75m might get them to the table".
 
Rojofiam said:
Adam Wharton, Jarrad Branthwaite, Cole Palmer. Possibly Edmond Tapsoba.
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I posted this in September, when ETH was still manager, but I think Tapsoba might actually become a real target for us now, as I see him being an even better fit for Amorim's back 3.

Pros:

-Plays in a back 3 already under Alonso
-Really good progressor of the ball, and we know for certain that the CBs are crucial to the build-up in Amorim's system
-Can play RCB and I suspect LCB too, so getting a real wide defender like him would be the start of building towards moving Yoro to CCB in the future, however as of now, I think that role will likely be occupied by mainly De Ligt and Maguire.
-It will be 5 and a half years in the summer, since he moved to Leverkusen, and I think he will leave his current club.

Cons:

-He will probably cost a lot.
-He reportedly earns around €96k per week at Leverkusen, so I doubt we can offer him around 100-120k GBP/week, it will have to be 150k+ instead.
 
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Remember the geese said:
Imagine sanctioning your club to spend €75m on such dross.

"Hmm, you know what I think we need? An attacking player who is unprofessional, someone who shows zero desire to work hard and has an uncanny ability when it comes to not scoring goals. I'm thinking €500k a week might tempt him. As for his club, €75m might get them to the table".
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He also thinks we can get 10m for Malacia who has disappeared for the last 2 years. 20m for Maguire who is in his last year, will be 32 in the summer and earns 200k pw. 15m for Shaw who has missed 5 years worth of games in 10 years, is approaching 30 and on 150k pw. The rest of his valuations are also ambitious to say the least.

Posters who dream up these scenarios should state which clubs they actually think will buy those players for those prices and add a bit of context to (what I perceive as) their stupidity.
 
Gyokeres is a must to solve our ST issues.
An attack minded LWB.
Another playmaking midfield as we rely to much on Bruno to create everything.
 
Borussia Teeth said:
He also thinks we can get 10m for Malacia who has disappeared for the last 2 years. 20m for Maguire who is in his last year, will be 32 in the summer and earns 200k pw. 15m for Shaw who has missed 5 years worth of games in 10 years, is approaching 30 and on 150k pw. The rest of his valuations are also ambitious to say the least.

Posters who dream up these scenarios should state which clubs they actually think will buy those players for those prices and add a bit of context to (what I perceive as) their stupidity.
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I found it amusing how Zirkzee has already found his way to the trash pile. Perhaps it might not work out for him here but the haste to kick him out the door is alarming.
 
The thread should be changed to What will be our top transfers for Winter and Summer windows?

We are definitely doing business this winter, Man United doesn’t sit at 13th in EPL with no fit LB/LWB and no scoring CFW and not make a changes when there is half a season to play for?

We are 4 points off third place, moving up Europa League table, in the 1/4 final of Carabo Cup and still have FA cup to play for. Had our strikers been on form or simply better quality, We would have drawn away at Brighton, Beat Palace away and beat West Ham away which would have meant that we had 21 points and the idiots would be talking about a title challenge with ETH.

Perspective City have lost the same amount of games this season, are out of the Carabao cup, look like they are having a mini meltdown without Rhodri and our new manager just thrashed Pep 4-1 in the Champions League, he looks the real deal that’s why we need to back him in the winter and the summer?

Ruben’s in a hurry and so to are the fans, if that means we get rid of two or three sellable assets to give him cash for Osimhen or Gykores in January and an emerging left wing back like Alt Nouri, let’s do it?

We can take £50-60m from the summer budget, Sancho already gone for £25m and I’m sure we can sell other underperforming players.
 
Woziak said:
The thread should be changed to What will be our top transfers for Winter and Summer windows?

We are definitely doing business this winter, Man United doesn’t sit at 13th in EPL with no fit LB/LWB and no scoring CFW and not make a changes when there is half a season to play for?

We are 4 points off third place, moving up Europa League table, in the 1/4 final of Carabo Cup and still have FA cup to play for. Had our strikers been on form or simply better quality, We would have drawn away at Brighton, Beat Palace away and beat West Ham away which would have meant that we had 21 points and the idiots would be talking about a title challenge with ETH.

Perspective City have lost the same amount of games this season, are out of the Carabao cup, look like they are having a mini meltdown without Rhodri and our new manager just thrashed Pep 4-1 in the Champions League, he looks the real deal that’s why we need to back him in the winter and the summer?

Ruben’s in a hurry and so to are the fans, if that means we get rid of two or three sellable assets to give him cash for Osimhen or Gykores in January and an emerging left wing back like Alt Nouri, let’s do it?

We can take £50-60m from the summer budget, Sancho already gone for £25m and I’m sure we can sell other underperforming players.
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I'm not entirely sure we'll be doing business in January because despite our league position, we're not far off at all
 
I think we need to look at young dynamic players, but also first team ready as the future is just as important as the present.

LWB - Ait Nouri is doing that job in the prem, question of price but is in the top 1% for successful take one, giving us the ability to dribble through a press.

ST - Need a finisher, Gyokeres knows the system, can it translate and allow Hojlund to develop, or Sesko similair age and let them fight out for the spot.

CM - Stiller looks a huge talent who can control the tempo of the game while also providing defensive stability.

Obviously could look at longer term such as Nypan, Rigg and others, but need to start winning games in order for Amorim to have the time to shape the team, we want to see play the football he played at Sporting.
 
LWB - Alphonso Davies, Ait-Noiri, Kerkez, in that order.

CB - Hard to say what we need CB-wise as until Amorim has tinkered with the CB options to see what works. We also don’t know whose contracts will be renewed out of Maguire, Lindelof and Evans. Diomande is probably a safe shout at this stage as he can comfortably perform either the RCB or CB roles.

CM - Baleba. Won’t be cheap but he’s exactly the profile of player (in terms of age, physical and technical skillset) we need as a Casemiro replacement.

AM - We have some young talents coming through the academy such Lacey and Ibragimov, but I still think if there’s low-risk young talent available we should still go for it. Nypan, Bardghji and Rigg are all very promising and if Guler becomes available we should definitely be taking a look.

ST - I still have hope that he can make something click with Rasmus. If not I would be targeting Gyrokeres or Openda.
 
We cant rely on Shaw and Malacia at LB, so a new signing in that position is a must. Alphonso Davies will be available for free and although hes bound for Madrid I believe we have a chance to sign him with the right offer (just look at how we managed to land Yoro). I also expect one or two of Maguire and Lindelof to leave. With Amorim preferred 3-4-3 system, we need another CB. Brathwaite. With Casemiro and Eriksen likely to leave, we need to sign two CMs. Wharton and Hjulmand. We need another creative winger who can cut inside and score goals to replace Rashford. Kvicha.

I am not sure how much it would cost to sign all 5 players, but if we manage to bring them in the summer, I honestly believe we could win the league title.
 
All the noise coming out the club is that Amorim is going to have a very very modest budget to work with.

We made losses of £130 million for the 23/24 season so we are going to need to sell to buy to afford anybody next summer.

I think people need to considerably lower their expectations and be a bit more realistic with who they expect us to target.

If we go through it in each area,

GK - I don't see any immediate change here. Onanana will be number one with Bayindir and Heaton as backups

CB - With Evans, Maguire and Lindelof all likely to leave on a free we will need to strengthen this area. I'd expect De Ligt, Martinez and Shaw to be first choice, Yorro will be a squad player initially so we could do with one or two more. It wouldn't surprise me if we extend one of Evans or Maguire for another year and try and bring in Olivier Boscagli from PSV on a free.

Full backs - Dalot and Mazraoui will be first choice with major doubts over the durability of Shaw and Malacia. I think Shaw will mainly play in the back three now also. Talk of Davies from Bayern is wishful thinking, Ait-Nouri from Wolves is a more realistic option if they go down. He'd still probably cost around £40 million though!

Central midfield - Eriksen will go, but we are pretty covered here with Mainoo, Ugarte, Fernandes, Casemiro and Mount as options. Amorim tends to only play with two players here, so no need to buy.

Attacking Mid/Wide Forward areas - Garnacho and Amad, plus Rashford with Mount and Fernandes capable of playing there too means I don't think we will sign anyone for this area yet either.

Strikers - Hojlund is good but needs more support. Zirkzee looks a mile off it at this level and should be loaned if not sold. I could see us going for anothrer Wolves player in Matheus Cunha. He seems like the right age and would be capable of playing with Hojlund as well as in place of him.
 
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