He will leave for free. We will rue refusing that bid.
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The deal seems dead in the water now. Madness we turned down 30mil or whatever it was
Now you see why I was complaining earlier in the summer. We have Everton’s old academy manager as DoF, it’s ridiculous.
The club has been rueing a lot of things in the past few years.
When he got that ball out on the right I was rooting for him. It was time for him to make his first pass and I said ‘come on Scott, pass it to someone in the same colour shirt’. But it turned out to be false hope as is often the case.
Yup. The club never learns.
Should've sold him when we had the chance. Another baffling decision
I had assumed the decision not to accept the mctominay offer was the clubs rather the Erik's but may be wrong. What is suprising is number of people on here who thought it was the right decision
Why are people acting like Amrabat is the incarnation of Zidane?
He's fine. He's tidy. But he isn't going to transform the team. If anything it'll be worse as it'll be playing two limited anchormen.
Amrabat isn't going to replace McTominay. If anything he's just a younger Casemiro.
Sounds like you are confusing the issue a bit. Fundamentally, Amrabat is just a much better player than McT. Literally nobody thinks Amrabat is anything like Zidane and you mention something quite relevant in that Amrabat is more similar to Casemiro.
We’d much rather have a player who can compete with (and rotate with) Casemiro than have a big useless lump like McT who, as it stands, is probably the only guy we could bring in if Casemiro is unavailable but is no good in that position.
When we talk about “replacing” McT, we don’t mean replacing him with somebody who has the same (limited) attributes. Why would anybody want to do that? He’s not good enough. He is one of our midfield options; let’s replace him with another midfielder who has more useful attributes and would be a better option. Yes?
People actually coming in to complain about a performance when he was brought on with 5 minutes to go 
I think the club overplayed its hand on the sale thinking West Ham were going to come back with a better offer. We didn't read the room, Moyes had battled their new DOF for those bids to come in and I am guessing the Mctominay signing wasn't exactly popular within their ranks so when we tried to haggle they just moved on. Don't think anyone wanted to keep him but we felt we could get more because we knew they had money.
Which is exactly what this squad needs and we all felt anyone with a bit of football knowledge would have known. Casemiro can't play each and every minute of the season and McTominay can't replace him effectively.
In the balance of fairness, he also did a neat/sharp turn that won a free kick, played a key pass and won a header.
Also thought the kick in the head was a bit unlucky - he's got to go for that with his leg and could have no idea Kouyate is going to put his head in that low.
True but are we looking for a like for like replacement for mctominay if eth is trying to use one dm and two attacking midfielders in midfield, plus casimero has shown he can be more than just a dm and offers the options of playing on the left or right of a 3 man midfield with amrabat sitting deep.
Not selling this chump for £30 million will go down as one of the most stupid things we’ve done in the transfer market post window.
Came on and caused carnage.
Came on and caused carnage.
It is ridiculous, and yet you'll get people on here saying that we were right not selling him for less than 40 million; that he's an important squad member. Well you would think a 40 million pound important member of the squad would be getting more than a handful of minutes to start the season. It's madness not selling him.
What I don't get is why do we have to sell anyone in order to buy? Everyone says "We have to sell X before we can but Y". But why? Surely the FFP wolf isn't at the door!
Fine. You think McTominay isn't good enough for Manchester United. Is Eriksen good enough? Is Casemiro?
Not every player has to be visually world class in order to be a part of a successful XI.
I don't recall anyone regarding David Batty as world class and yet he was fundamental to Leeds and Blackburn winning the league.
People actually coming in to complain about a performance when he was brought on with 5 minutes to go
I know. 300 whole seconds.
Probably the same people who bitched about Darren Fletcher playing (and disrespecting Sir Alex Ferguson in the process) before Fletcher turned into a beast and was in the EPL team of the year in 2009/10.
Manchester United fans, at least the online ones, are the most disloyal of any EPL team. Go to the player performance threads. It's wall-to-wall abus directed to the title player.
I think McT is the least useful of our midfield options (I don’t count Donny but if I did McT would be our second least useful!). Eriksen and Casemiro are both good enough, yes. Even taking into account issue with stamina and physical decline they are still notches above McT.
Upgrading the midfield, where possible, would be very welcome. McT and Donny out and Amrabat in would be an improvement for possible net profit.
You get my point, though? Why does anyone have to be sold before we can buy?
What's going on? Have the Glazers stopped EtH's pocket money?
If we sell Donny and McTominay then we're left with Amrabat (If we buy him), Eriksen and Casemiro (both whom can't play every week)
Three midfielders aren't enough for a 70+ match season. It just isn't. Mount can't play deep, even less so than McTominay.
People actually coming in to complain about a performance when he was brought on with 5 minutes to go
He was on the pitch for 19 minutes, made 5 passes, completed 3 of them, made 0 tackles, committed 1 foul & won 1 header.
Mainly the players we have brought to the club
I agree but there were many on here claiming that he's worth more. Some jokers saying £40-50m.
One of the passes he missed ruined a counter attack
JWP is just a far far better player too. I can’t believe it was even a debate on here. Fred too, by miles. Just one of many shocking shocking takes you'd regularly see on here. Hopefully he’ll still be sold by the end of the window.
Just a standard day at the office for Scott. He’s just really not very good. And turning down £30 million for him was the kind of ridiculous decision that this club has been making for years. West Ham gave us an out for a very average player and we blew it. Good work by all involved.
We actually could have replaced him with someone useful for 30-40m. Not sure why we didnt consider 30m for him. Unless its for a home grown quota. Nothing else make sense to me that we held on to a player who wont play any specific role in our squad
Yep we should have snatched their hand off for that price. Hopefully Mainoo who looked good in pre-season won’t be out for too long.
He'd actually probably be worth close to 30mil to someone like West ham. He'd be a great addition I'd think for someone that doesn't want to boss the ball most games. He's a good strong runner.
But for us as a selling club 20mil wouldn't be bad business (if we ignore we've turned down 30 already)
The fact that we turned down £30m for him shows that the club still has a lot of work to do behind the scenes. No top club would've done it. When I think of it, no top club would even have him around for so long. One of the reasons we won't win anything with this structure/owner.
Yeah we need to get another one in. Not sure why we need to sell first!
Tuchel and Bayern then? Vindication? Nah, they too must be clueless.
Sell him, buy Gravenverch, get Amrabat on a loan with obligation to buy, midfield sorted for this season.
Hopefully sell Maguire and bring in Pavard too.
Hopefully sell Maguire and bring in Pavard too.
Bayern news is certainly... something
Took your time. And yes, clearly. Bayern pursuing a player that ONLY West Ham have tried to sign, but refused to go above 30m for is obviously more vindication of their own clueless activity than it is of Scott being some sort of top level player.
Scott plays for United right now, and can barely get a kick. We are desperate for a midfielder and are not counting him. Bayern signed Sabitzer who they don’t want and loaned him to us, yet we don’t want him either.
Could be, with our interest for ome of their players, they are trying to speed things up.
Anyway, enough of this loan shite. He’ll barely get a kick at Bayern and then send him back to us with his value having taken a big hit.
Bayern are not skint, tell them to cash us out if they want him.
Bayern are not skint, tell them to cash us out if they want him.
Is Bild reliable? That news that Scott is wanted by Bayern Munich is surprising to say the least
Yeah, sure. Pearson and Rothwell would have been just as good (or probably better) with same amount of minutes!
Yeah, sure. Pearson and Rothwell would have been just as good (or probably better) with same amount of minutes!
Most probably.
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