Loving the thread title.
Thiago Alcantara | Signed for Bayern Munich
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They are so far ahead of everyone in Germany it's not funny. And somehow, other German clubs have found ways to stay competitive.
Imagine if Luke Shaw-- and for a second ignore that he supported Chelsea-- were to leave tomorrow. Chelsea, City and United would be likely destinations. If he were playing for 17/18 German clubs the punk would choose Bayern over anyone and everyone.
"Pep no te ama como yo x"
Of course Martinez was available, he had a €40m release clause which Bayern triggered.
I know there are players. Vidal, Gundogan, Martinez and now Thiago will have all moved within the last 2 years. We are poor at identifying those players though.
I am gutted that this looks that it's not going to happen, but I also think that in the moment Bayern and Pep came in, chances that Thiago will choose us have been drastically decreased. I don't think that the club can do anything, if Pep really guarantees Thiago playing time.
We seem to be awful at identifying players for our weakest position. Mind-boggling.
It's a pity but we'll survive. We've missed out on big players, that would have been brilliant, before and got on with life and we'll do it again.
He'd no doubt be a great signing, but if the player decides to opt for an offer elsewhere then there's not much we can do about it.
People can say 'oh pay him more' all they like but its not that easy, its not as if Bayern will be offering him peanuts.
There's plenty of time left to sign players and I'm sure Moyes will bring some players in. Until then I wish people would just reserve their judgement and not feel the need to negatively speculate about everything being a poor reflection on the new manager.
He'd no doubt be a great signing, but if the player decides to opt for an offer elsewhere then there's not much we can do about it.
People can say 'oh pay him more' all they like but its not that easy, its not as if Bayern will be offering him peanuts.
There's plenty of time left to sign players and I'm sure Moyes will bring some players in. Until then I wish people would just reserve their judgement and not feel the need to negatively speculate about everything being a poor reflection on the new manager.
Its depressing that I just couldnt (despite a strong desire) see this ever happening. I hate it when my pessimism wins :'(
Strongly disagree with all of what you say here, but particularly the bolded bit which is bonkers. Do you think Ferguson forgot what he knew when he made the trip down from Aberdeen to Old Trafford? Of course Moyes will think bigger but that isn't going to be at the expense of everything he already knows, and trusts. He has taken an underperforming club, in real trouble and of big reputation, and turned them into one of the Premier League's most consistent teams over a ten year spell......with limited funds, a strong will and a lot of hard graft. He will continue to trust his methods and his judgement while always being on the lookout for ways to improve. If you want (or care) for an insight into Moyes read the August edition of FourFourTwo. The guy isn't one to rest on any laurels.
He's been in the job five minutes....if we end the season in a stinking malaise then we can all get on his back, until then let him attempt to prove what Ferguson, Sir Bobby and the Glazer family appear to see in him.
I just couldn't remember what he'd said
, it is pretty bad to be honest. That is maybe the problem of being in limbo for so long with no manager and chief executive. Pepe has taken his opportunity while we were rudderless.Nah, it's the board/Woodward that will be conducting most of the negotiations. I personally think we've been too focussed on bringing in commercial deals, signed an awful lot of them and signed no players.
We do love that bridesmaid dress dont we
........and who was that 'poster' who promised us all it was a done deal (along with Strootman, Garay) ?????
Muppet suicide but if he joins Bayern we'll survive.
Unfortunately that appears to be our priority. All these sponsors are great, but the quality of the team has to be kept up to standard or they might struggle to get sponsors down the line.
♫Summer dreams
Ripped at the seams♫
*sniffs* I'm off to kill myself. Oh wait - the Star reckons we're signing Ronaldo for eleventy-billion pounds. Yay!
Ripped at the seams♫
*sniffs* I'm off to kill myself. Oh wait - the Star reckons we're signing Ronaldo for eleventy-billion pounds. Yay!
Who needs players when you can have a cellphone sponsor in every country? There's no excuse for it to be mid-July and there's been no activity given all the "hard work behind the scenes."
feck sake. Game over. Fellaini time.
Off topic, how do you check the users with the highest post counts in the thread? I'm embarrassed by mine so I'm hoping there are some worse culprits 
I still think we should kick lumps out of him and his ticka tacka next season.
Come on Moyesy. Get a bit a grit back into our midfield.
Come on Moyesy. Get a bit a grit back into our midfield.
I can see that happening.
feck, Bayern can in turn, sell us 1 of Martinez/Kroos/Gustavo
Greedy bastards
Well I haven't heard this criticism of the club before. Well done
The most likely/obvious reason is that he wants to play for Pep.
There's a real gap in the market for yet another corporate sponsor: Official Manchester United Mourning Wear™.
Off topic, how do you check the users with the highest post counts in the thread? I'm embarrassed by mine so I'm hoping there are some worse culprits
click on the number of replies
I appreciate we have a way of operating but maybe Moyes shoulda basically tapped him up like Pep is doing. If he hasn't agreed anything with Bayern yet, Pep shouldn't be talking about him publicly.
We shoulda just come out and gone 'we're going for Thiago.'
I'll give in to the sense of panic the minute I see us linked with a loan move for Tim Cahill during the MLS off season.
I feel physically ill. Even my wife is upset. Sack Moyes, sell Rooney.
We'll get him next year when he is back on the market due to not playing enough.
Maybe who knows? I was mainly thinking of the fans who REALLY wanted him, you know those post on the thread everyday
which I consider a waste of time as nothing has happened yet. Thanks for checking how many posts I have (that's isn't weird at all). No offence but your all over the place man. Your not coming off as coolly as you are attempting to. You where/are in this thread to have a laugh you didn't care if we got Thiago or not fair play, my first post was one you should have ignored. Let's just leave it I have gotten your point not bothered if you get mine or not. Yeh, but my point is that we seems to be ruthless and unstoppable when it comes to signing sponsors, but with players we always seem to miss out. Maybe we should get the commercial team to thrash out the transfer dealings.
Maybe who knows? I was mainly thinking of the fans who REALLY wanted him, you know those post on the thread everyday
I'm not sure whether to read that or use it as an eye-test.
I don't know about you non-ITK plebs, but I could tell he was going to Bavaria just by his body language. So none of this is a suprise to me, despite my 60000 posts in this thread.
http://espnfc.com/news/story/_/id/1496355/pep-thiago-bayerns-primary-target?cc=5901
This isn't anything new, just the article of Pep's interview, what got my attention thought was the last bit.
This isn't anything new, just the article of Pep's interview, what got my attention thought was the last bit.
He can't be serious here
Sick and tired of this feeling
Looking at the posts if you feel my first post about people caring too much was out of order I don't know what to say to you Brigh.
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