Really? What credible source told you we were in for him?
Solskjaer target 5 signings; 6 players could leave [BBC, Telegraph, Guardian]
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Really? What credible source told you we were in for him?
I'd be shocked (and appalled) if we don't sign a midfielder. I think Ed is haggling so a lot our moves won't happen until the last few days. Not ideal but I can live with it if we end up with the right players. Maguire, Longstaff and Fernandes would be ideal.
We weren't really trying to sign him. We were trying to get AWB done and get Maguire. He wasnt a priority. We are still a draw. It's just these prices and players not having left affecting our ability complete more transfers.
Can you name some of these players?
This is the problem I have with it, I think we need 4 players. In under three weeks. The three you mentioned plus a right winger are essential signings, but we’ve already shown we’re incapable of doing more than one deal at a time. So we probably won’t even get the three you said. I understand his need to haggle, but at the cost of making all the necessary signings?
Can't see us going for a RW this season, not been linked with many in recent weeks and I think Ole is happy to make do with the plan to go big for Sancho next summer as our priority.
Hopefully Greenwood gets game time on the right hand side this season.
Can't believe we haven't sold a single player.
I know it's United and we love to keep hold of deadwood but I'm still surprised.
I know it's United and we love to keep hold of deadwood but I'm still surprised.
Don't think we're really looking to sell many of our low end players. Young, Jones, Lingard, Matic etc will still be first team players next season to some degree at least. I don't think we'll bring in anyone other than maybe Maguire on deadline day or thereabouts either .
Yeah I thought we would have got rid of more than two players by now. I hate to say it but really starting to look like we have to sell before we buy.
Still desperately need at least a CB and CM before this window shuts,also ideally someone who can play along the front three.
Agree with the part in bold. Although we don't have Champions League football to offer and are in a rebuilding process. Some players may want to come here for the challenge of making us great again and then they can go down in history as being one of the players who made a significant contribution in doing so and possibly becoming a legend in the process
I can’t see it either, I just think we badly need one. Maybe if Greenwood gets his breakthrough the burden will be lessened, but I’d really hoped I’d seen the end of Lingard and Mata stinking up the right hand side.
I hope we bring in Maguire before deadline day as I've read Leicester want adequate time to find themselves a replacement. Hopefully we don't offer Matic a new deal and he goes when his contract expires at the end of the season mate.
Ole mentioning again club are working on 1 or 2 deals. I'd say it's Maguire and Longstaff. Newcastle want big money for Longstaff so utd won't pay it, unless Newcastle get abit more realistic and accept a reasonable fee. That just leaves the Maguire deal. With just over 2 weeks left I can see us getting Maguire only. If Lukaku leaves doesn't leave alot of time to get in a replacement centre forward.
Think it will be a mistake if we don't get in another midfielder and centre forward if lukaku leaves.
Think it will be a mistake if we don't get in another midfielder and centre forward if lukaku leaves.
Haha you and me both mate, watching Lingard and Mata makes my eyes bleed haha, hopefully Greenwood and come through and big bid for Sancho next summer when we are back in the UCL, fingers crossed!
Solskjaer is singing almost exactly the same tune as the last few managers. Loads of optimism, talking about how we want our signings done early and eventually they're forced to come out and say there may be fewer signings than expected, but that's okay, as they have such a good squad. And then they go mad and cut their own ears off.
I think the plan is to get Longstaff in for Matic. McTominay, Pereira and Fred to cover for Herrera. If we sell Lukaku then Ben Yedder comes in.
Agree with the part in bold. Maybe if Greenwood does well we will not go for Sancho, although I would love to see him here. But if he has another excellent season and a decent Euros, his price will be astronomical and maybe out of our range mate.
The part in bold is a strange coincidence. I think this is down to Woody. I think we should have got our signings in early to give them time to get used to Ole's methods and gel with the squad. I think Woody needs to give Ole the best platform to succeed here, which it seems that he is not doing so far but we have a few weeks so I'm hoping Woody does something special and gets a few players in mate.
RW won't happen this summer. Greenwood/James will play there a lot next season imo. Maybe Sancho next summer if we're back in the CL. Adding AWB, James, Maguire, Fernandes, Longstaff, Gomes, Greenwood and Tuanzebe would be a great squad improvement imo. I'd be delighted with it.
The longer the window drags on without further signings the more nervy I will get about it though. Essentially I think the 3 we are waiting on can be got by simply stumping up the cash. So if the board have decided all 3 are absolutely essential it should happen. But until they are signed we can't be sure of anything.
There are signs that it could end up another disaster of a transfer window. Considering how we ended last season, we needed 5 very good, first team players in to give Solskjaer a good chance. It’s starting to look like we might only sign maguire and maybe another midfielder if lucky. Not good enough.
We need a more mobile defensive midfielder to take over from Matic desperately and if Lukaku goes we’re light in the goal scoring department. I gave up on signing a right winger weeks ago.
Obviously, the young lads have looked promising so far in pre season but to rely on them in the premier league is a big risk. All because the glazers won’t spend what we should be able to. 200m net was the minimum we needed to spend this summer to close the gap. There’s still time but looking dodgy.
We need a more mobile defensive midfielder to take over from Matic desperately and if Lukaku goes we’re light in the goal scoring department. I gave up on signing a right winger weeks ago.
Obviously, the young lads have looked promising so far in pre season but to rely on them in the premier league is a big risk. All because the glazers won’t spend what we should be able to. 200m net was the minimum we needed to spend this summer to close the gap. There’s still time but looking dodgy.
Agree with your post. At the speed we have been moving so far in the window it seems a hard task for us to sign 3 players in 3 weeks. Really hoping it happens but it is looking increasingly doubtful the closer we get to the end of the window mate. Woody might surprise me though.
Transfer negotiations have been a joke now for years. Woody doesn't appear to have the balls to get things done. Surely he should be walking into these negotiations and putting deadlines on the table and if they aren't met then moving on to choice 2 and making that clear to the seller. If we are looking at a central defender we should have a priority target, a good second choice and a third choice fall back that is an improvement on what we have.
As we have failed to secure what I believe was the primary target of De Ligt and our second choice of Maguire is becoming a problem we should simply demand Leicester do the deal by Monday or move on to a 3rd choice which we should have in theory already scouted and agreed as an improvement.
Get on with it ffs!
As we have failed to secure what I believe was the primary target of De Ligt and our second choice of Maguire is becoming a problem we should simply demand Leicester do the deal by Monday or move on to a 3rd choice which we should have in theory already scouted and agreed as an improvement.
Get on with it ffs!
Hope your right on the part in bold as I don't think Matic is capable of being a regular starter anymore and should just be kept for the big games and allowed to leave on a free when his contract expires next summer.
Don't be shocked. If there's one thing we have learnt over the last, I don't know 6 years, Woodward doesn't like surprises. He is an incompetent executive and that's it.
At least LVG and Jose got massively backed in their first transfer window, doesn’t seem to be the case with Ole.
This unfortunately.
In fairness under LVG we made 2 signings quickly (Herrera and Shaw) on the 26-27th June, then it was nothing for ages until the 20th of August (few days after the season began) when we signed Rojo. Then Di Maria on the 26th. Then Blind and Falcao on the 1st of September. Under Mourinho we signed Bailly on the 6th of June, then Ibra and Mkhi a month later, then Pogba a month after that.
So basically it's like a month between spurts of transfers, so I maybe our next player will be signed around 25-30th July? Guess that's just how we operate!
It'll be the same old sheeet next year as the last few months.
Welcome the the current Manchester United. Spent ten's of thousands over the years watching this team, but I'm losing interest quickly with this current shower.
Hel likely have spent 150m when Maguire comes in. If you add a midfielder to that it's fair to say he's been backed.
Well the transfer window outside of the PL shuts a lot later than ours, so I imagine we want to get transfers in sorted first. Unless there are PL teams that really want our highly paid deadwood.
I will be absolutely flabbergasted if Darmian and Rojo are still here next season. Outside of them and Lukaku, I can't see anyone else leaving.
Not getting at least one midfielder would be suicidal I'm sure Ole has made that very clear. We will get one
I've got a feeling we'll end up signing Lemina on deadline day.
You likely said/thought that last summer...
I'd imagine Ed wants them off the books. AWB, Tuanzebe and a possible new CB would suggest they will not play at all next season. So if hes going to get anything for them he needs to do it now.
Our transfer policy is worse each year. So far we made zero improvement bar AWB which was an issue for years. Our main success will be to keep a player who doesn't want to be here...
The infuriating part is that we didnt prioritize the areas of need. We could have gotten by with Dalot as RB and without another forward. CM, CB and CDM were the top 3 areas that needed reinforcement. I cant believe weve lost our starting CM and have not replaced him especially with our current midfield options. Even with Pogba that's a woeful midfield. If he gets hurts then we could end up in the 2nd half of the table. Not reinforcing midfield by now is madness. And the excuse that market is overpriced shouldn't fly. Tielmans was available for 40 mil. This is just pure incompetence.
How did you come up with that?
We’ve just bid 70M for Maguire!
We’re one of the richest clubs in the world, I really don’t understand how people can come up with such imaginary scenarios and paint them out to be fact.
We’re likely to be in talks with both Bruno and Maguire and hopefully Longstaff, so there’s 3 signings there - which makes 5
Lukaku is most likely out the door & Ole says he’ll be replaced.
Still 3 weeks to go. Not a lot of time. But squeaky bum time, I’m sure we’ll get them all over the line.
I'm expecting a statement of " we are going to use our terrific youth because that's the Manchester United way" . Personally I really want to see Gomes and Axel ,Greenwood and Garner and Chong being Filtered through the team this year ,but not plugging holes that are so obvious is just not good enough whilst giving players that are obviously not good enough to get us to the top new contracts. I dont want to see our youth and Ole thrown under the bus to Save face for the inadequacies of Woodward and the Leeches that are the Glazers .
Same shit, new summer.