Too early to be getting worried?

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christy87 said:
Does anyone else think we are holding off on buying players to see what happens with the euro after the Greek thing next week.
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I don't think so

I'am not sure but couldn't a grexit have a revaluation on the euro ? Seeing as they wouldn't need to pump money anymore in the Greek economy ? As I said not sure about all this macro economic stuff could also have other effects that can lead to devaluation.

Any way I don't think we are waiting to see what happens before spending money.

I think some deals we planned to go through haven't gone through for some reasons. Like Hummels suddenly deciding to stay, Gündogan flirting with Bayern and Barca. So we are looking at some new targets and negotiations take time. especially because players and agents and club officials are now often not available because they are on holiday. Alot of players are also on Copa america so I expect things to heat up when players come back from holiday and copa is done.

On the keeper situation I think our contingency plan is Valdes and for the rest we are waiting to see what happens with De Gea. As for the striker position I think we first want to sort our what to do with RVP and Hernandez before signing somebody new.
 
I reckon this will be a very good summer. Otamendi, Schweinsteiger and Schneiderlin seems possible and reasonable.
That said, I don't really follow any particular thread like I used to because I don't expect any super-star signing this summer.
And we're definitely not signing anyone from Madrid. I think we're trying to make it look like we're fighting for the best deal, but eventually I reckon De Gea will leave for peanuts.
 
Any truth in the "no new signings unveiled until 1st August when Adidas become kit manufacturer" rumour? They won't want new signings holding up a Nike shirt. Sounds a reasonable request with all the money they are giving us, plus they have other contractual requirements.

Seems awfully quiet after Depay.
 
Assuming the club wanted players in ready for the preseason events it's becoming clearer day by day that we've missed or we're struggling with our prepared targets.

Hate the transfer window.
 
Smores said:
Assuming the club wanted players in ready for the preseason events it's becoming clearer day by day that we've missed or we're struggling with our prepared targets.

Hate the transfer window.
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The players aren't reporting for training, so how can you come to that conclusion?
 
If we haven't made a bid for another signing by the first week in July when the players return for preseason then I would begin to get worried about the lack of pre season preparation again. I think one of the issues is a few of our targets are tied up in the Copa America right now, Otamendi, Anderson, Firmino, Messi :nervous:. It also seems like when we are pretty certain to close a deal for one player another attractive proposition opens up for us and we want to pursue all possible avenues before committing. The grass isn't always greener springs to mind and we could end up in a position where many of our targets get fed up and decide to join other clubs or extend their contracts.
 
Copa is one thing, what about the other players not involved in that competition? Are all targets south American?
European targets could have been done by now or nearing a done deal.

Maybe they are:devil:
 
Jinn said:
Copa is one thing, what about the other players not involved in that competition? Are all targets south American?
European targets could have been done by now or nearing a done deal.

Maybe they are:devil:
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Holidays, June is rarely the month where transfers happen, the transfer frenzy begins in late june, early july.
 
JPRouve said:
Holidays, June is rarely the month where transfers happen, the transfer frenzy begins in late june, early july.
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This day last year was when all the Herrera stuff broke in Spain and we got Shaw not too long after. Things should start picking up soon.
 
J-Stander said:
This day last year was when all the Herrera stuff broke in Spain and we got Shaw not too long after. Things should start picking up soon.
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Yes, I think that in the next 10 days the picture should be different.
 
Is anybody else just constantly updating the transfer tweets page in the hope that miraculously we're going to sign 4 players in the next couple of hours?!? God knows how I'm going to cope with another 2 months of transfer rumours!! :eek::eek::eek:
 
Perspective is a big thing. We signed Depay really early but if we'd have left it later then it would see more progressive because Depay no longer counts and hasn't for ages because we knew we signed him. It would be nice to get things done but there are some big decisions to be made and it's just about getting the dominoes to fall.
 
Dr Fink said:
Any truth in the "no new signings unveiled until 1st August when Adidas become kit manufacturer" rumour? They won't want new signings holding up a Nike shirt. Sounds a reasonable request with all the money they are giving us, plus they have other contractual requirements.

Seems awfully quiet after Depay.
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That wouldn't be a reasonable request at all. There is no truth to that.
 
Kag said:
That wouldn't be a reasonable request at all. There is no truth to that.
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Agreed.

Surely they wouldn't even need to be pictured with a Nike kit and even it they were so what? I am sure Adidas will make use of our new signings at a later date. Anyway why would we screw our chances of getting the new squad to gel over a sponsors request.

I personally think we are struggling to land our targets and Woody is dusting off the scatter gun... INCOMING.
 
Paul the Wolf said:
Just look at all the players our main rivals, Chelsea City and Arsenal have signed and here we are only having signed Memphis,oh hang on a minute that's more than all the others put together:lol:
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I run a United page on Facebook and said the same to few of the posters there. Early days yet, last year we signed Shaw & Herrera on the 26th & 28th of June I believe it was, I'd be fairly confident that we'll announce at least 2 signings by July 10th!
 
Jinn said:
Copa is one thing, what about the other players not involved in that competition? Are all targets south American?
European targets could have been done by now or nearing a done deal.

Maybe they are:devil:
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But these things can often be connected can't they. If team A wants a player from team b but team b wants to be sure they can get their target it can slow things down. Overall the transfer market is very quiet, that ought to tell us that it is not that we are dragging our feet or having problems.
 
Im already worring that madrid will sign De Gea and Otamendi, Hummels Schweinsteiger and Gundogen will sign new contracts and so will Ramos, and that we will just not sign anyone that we really want. Probably end up with Valencia at right back aswell.
 
I wonder what the folks who thought the Copa America was holding things up will think now after the Firmino signing.

I'm a lot more concerned as the days go on. I think we need at least another 4-5 players and with only a few days until the players return for training we still seem to be wasting our time with players who don't have much desire to play for us.
 
JPRouve said:
The preseason hasn't started until the players are on the training ground, until then there is no conclusions to make.
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OK, I thought you meant we couldn't sign players until they'd reported back to their clubs for pre-season
 
I'm quite concern right now. We seems to be linked to all sorts of players around Europe but nothing concrete.

Hummels and gundugon suppose to be within our grasp, but both of them wanted to stay, plus Cech going to Arsenal gonna significantly improve them.
 
predator said:
Have a bit of patience you tools. We've got 2 months left of the window.
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I'm normally patient and technically we have two months. Fans and board are demanding a challenge this season though and I don't see how that is going to happen unless we can get the players in Van Gaal wants and give them a full pre season. That way there is no room for excuses.

This isn't a Fergie team where we can expect players to just come in an hit the ground running they need time to adapt and we can't afford for that to be in competitive games especially with CL qualifiers to come.
 
predator said:
Have a bit of patience you tools. We've got 2 months left of the window.
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I'm all for being patient but it's getting a little tiresome now, we need 4 or 5 players still yet there's literally no noise coming out of United regarding transfers. 2 of our reported targets have gone elsewhere is it due to lack of movement on our part?

What exactly is stopping us signing schneirderlain? I refuse to believe we aren't interested in him considering he's exactly what we need as a Carrick replacement.

People were saying we aren't signing otemendi because he's at the copa but Liverpool have signed firmino who is at copa so what exactly is stopping us matching otemendi's buy out clause and getting him signed up?

It's not that Long until our first pre season game it'd be nice to have our players bought and squad fully settled before setting off for those games
 
dannyrhinos89 said:
I'm all for being patient but it's getting a little tiresome now, we need 4 or 5 players still yet there's literally no noise coming out of United regarding transfers. 2 of our reported targets have gone elsewhere is it due to lack of movement on our part?

What exactly is stopping us signing schneirderlain? I refuse to believe we aren't interested in him considering he's exactly what we need as a Carrick replacement.

People were saying we aren't signing otemendi because he's at the copa but Liverpool have signed firmino who is at copa so what exactly is stopping us matching otemendi's buy out clause and getting him signed up?

It's not that Long until our first pre season game it'd be nice to have our players bought and squad fully settled before setting off for those games
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Martinez to madrid as well, that myth is silly.

We are stalling on otamedi because woodward actually thinks he can get ramos. Naive if you ask me, or maybe I'm just underestimating him.

Schneiderlin is the only real question mark, as those reports dissapeared. However he hasn't been strongly linked anywhere else so he coudl still be on option.

My only fear atm is that the club actually thinks schweinsteger is the solution to our midfield problems.

Great player but he needs to come alongside another cm if we are to compete imo.
 
3rdCarter said:
Martinez to madrid as well, that myth is silly.

We are stalling on otamedi because woodward actually thinks he can get ramos. Naive if you ask me, or maybe I'm just underestimating him.

Schneiderlin is the only real question mark, as those reports dissapeared. However he hasn't been strongly linked anywhere else so he coudl still be on option.

My only fear atm is that the club actually thinks schweinsteger is the solution to our midfield problems.

Great player but he needs to come alongside another cm if we are to compete imo.
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Logic dictates We should be doing it the other way round though we should be signing otemendi and schneiderlain then we should go for Ramos and schweinsteiger after we've got them 2 signed up.

Like you say I'm just worried we are putting focus on schweinsteiger who's decent but not very young and we will end up missing out on schneirderlain or we are focus time on Ramos and we will miss out on otemendi.
 
JPRouve said:
Holidays, June is rarely the month where transfers happen, the transfer frenzy begins in late june, early july.
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I think its absolute nonsense that Copa America Cup is preventing us from buying players.
According to this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33250535
A Brazilian player, involved in Copa America, has been signed by LFC.

The June holiday period is even more ridiculous.
Last year, Mourinho signed Fabregas. The deal was announced on 12th June 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27819204


LFC and Chelsea don't seem to have a problem with getting their business done early.

My worry is that, like last year, we will play our first few games without a complete team, which may allow Chelsea to gain a head start on us.
 
sunama said:
I think its absolute nonsense that Copa America Cup is preventing us from buying players.
According to this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33250535
A Brazilian player, involved in Copa America, has been signed by LFC.

The June holiday period is even more ridiculous.
Last year, Mourinho signed Fabregas. The deal was announced on 12th June 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27819204


LFC and Chelsea don't seem to have a problem with getting their business done early.

My worry is that, like last year, we will play our first few games without a complete team, which may allow Chelsea to gain a head start on us.
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You can insist all you want, June is generally calm, everything generally begin now.
 
this thread really does sort out the men from the big girl's blouses

getting worried my arse!
 
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sunama said:
I think its absolute nonsense that Copa America Cup is preventing us from buying players.
According to this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33250535
A Brazilian player, involved in Copa America, has been signed by LFC.

The June holiday period is even more ridiculous.
Last year, Mourinho signed Fabregas. The deal was announced on 12th June 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27819204


LFC and Chelsea don't seem to have a problem with getting their business done early.

My worry is that, like last year, we will play our first few games without a complete team, which may allow Chelsea to gain a head start on us.
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Didn't we just sign Depay? In May.

If by July 10th, things are still as they are now then I'd suggest we should have reason to complain. Even that is 16 days away.
 
MarkC said:
I wonder what the folks who thought the Copa America was holding things up will think now after the Firmino signing.

I'm a lot more concerned as the days go on. I think we need at least another 4-5 players and with only a few days until the players return for training we still seem to be wasting our time with players who don't have much desire to play for us.
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OMG one player was signed by another club! We are DOOMED!!!!!!!


Also how do you know who we are trying to sign and not?
 
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