Transfer Tweets - 2018/19 | Remember if posting foreign language tweets to post in English too

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yo@Kirk said:
Is Demetri Mitchell even an option at LB. Transfermarkt shows him with a contract until 2018 and there is no talk of a new contract that I can find. Maybe there's a club option for an additional year but there isn't any chatter about that.

Dalot could play LB but why count on a 19 year old RB playing out of position in his 1st season on the big stage? Just doesn't make sense to not sign an experienced, starting quality, left footed LB.
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Luke Shaw got a contract until this summer 2018 as well, with an option to extend one year. I mean, should we take a chance on him and then see him leave for free next season potentially? That is a waste of money in terms of what he cost as a transfer and what we have gained back in return.
Young is getting old, blind is simply not good enough nor has the speed to keep up with wingers in PL.

It would most definitely be smart to buy a new 1st choice LB this summer for sure. I feel it is a no brainer to be fair.
 
United_We_Stand said:

Gazzetta dello Sport claim that Darmian is only interested in signing for Juventus and ‘will not accept another offer’, having ‘given his word’.
If we are to believe everything that’s out there, the situation stands as is: Napoli have offered €18m, while the Serie A champions have only offered €15m.
Manchester United are demanding around €20m
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Darmian needs to help us out here...
 
Dalot plays left back as well as right. Might be that he plays left back when Valencia is at right for one more season, then when he's injured Dalit moves over to right and Young/Shaw play left. It's not ideal by any means and I highly doubt we work in a manner which says "if we buy a backup striker then we don't go for a left back". I'm sure we can do concurrent deals.
 
midnightmare said:
I’d rather watch us win the title, thanks. Would you lay off the manager for not signing the right players after finishing 7th? :confused:
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Feck are you talking about? Just said I'd like him to be given an opportunity, not starting every game. Pretty sure we finished 2nd?
 
iHicksy said:
Dalit plays left back as well as right. Might be that he plays left back when Valencia is at right for one more season, then when he's injured Dalit moves over to right and Young/Shaw play left. It's not ideal by any means and I highly doubt we work in a manner which says "if we buy a backup striker then we don't go for a left back". I'm sure we can do concurrent deals.
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After 4 years of seeing wingers playing fullbacks, centerbacks playing fullbacks and rightbacks playing leftback for us, I'd rather see Dalot played in his primary position as a start. No thanks, we need a quality specialist LB, none of this "he can do a fecking job at LB also" spiel.
 
Dolf said:
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Isn't that "tapping up" of a player?




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The question is how the reporter's supposed to ear drop in private text messaging conversation...

United_We_Stand said:

Gazzetta dello Sport claim that Darmian is only interested in signing for Juventus and ‘will not accept another offer’, having ‘given his word’.
If we are to believe everything that’s out there, the situation stands as is: Napoli have offered €18m, while the Serie A champions have only offered €15m.
Manchester United are demanding around €20m
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Where is the "feck Juve" mentality when we need it?
 
iHicksy said:
Dalot plays left back as well as right. Might be that he plays left back when Valencia is at right for one more season, then when he's injured Dalit moves over to right and Young/Shaw play left. It's not ideal by any means and I highly doubt we work in a manner which says "if we buy a backup striker then we don't go for a left back". I'm sure we can do concurrent deals.
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We need our full backs on the right side. Especially with our wingers on the ‘wrong’ side. No point buying full backs with great crossing ability only to have them need to check back and change foot every time to deliver.
 
Giggsyking said:
We need quality players at Left and right back to compete. We cant afford trying young unproved players
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You're right. Whilst we are at it, forget our heritage and sack off the academy. we can't afford to keep giving these youngsters opportunities.
 
Quizierda said:
Why would he go there?!
Cash seems the only motivation these days...
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Seems like a bench player at Lazio, only started 9 games in the league and came off the bench more times. At West Ham he's probably guaranteed a starting place.
 
Utdstar01 said:
Feck are you talking about? Just said I'd like him to be given an opportunity, not starting every game. Pretty sure we finished 2nd?
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Guess you misunderstood. I know we finished second. I was insinuating that playing Mitchell as a primary / second choice LB without signing a quality LB would result in our sliding down the table and if we finished 7th, most would be on the manager’s back for not having recruited the right players.

Mitchell has shown nothing for us to assume he’ll ever be good enough to be even a squad option. Having him even get minutes as a backup would imply our primary option is Young. Just not good enough.
 
Hojoon said:
Seems like a bench player at Lazio, only started 9 games in the league and came off the bench more times. At West Ham he's probably guaranteed a starting place.
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Nick7 said:
He's not very good.
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Still managed 4 goals + 7 assists in the league as well as 3 goals + 3 assists in EL (in only 7 games).. Only saw him in the EL from time to time so maybe my view got biased, though!
 
Giggsyking said:
We need quality players at Left and right back to compete. We cant afford trying young unproved players
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Exactly. The unbareable romantic idea of bringing up youth, it’s seldom backed by results. If you’re good enough you will play, but in no way should we give free chances to youth players that «might» be ok. Look how that panned out with Blackett, McNair and so forth. Show it in training, show progress and join the team like Rashford, but never take chances just because they’re young and one of our own. I would love to see young players come through, every year, but a top club can’t afford to make many mistakes by giving away too many chances.
 
Bojan11 said:
If Mourinho goes into the season with Valencia and Young then he deserves to be sacked especially signing someone like Arnautovic rather than a left back.
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Ashley Young will be our first choice next season. Mourinho even said that he hoped he plays 50 games.
 
Utdstar01 said:
You're right. Whilst we are at it, forget our heritage and sack off the academy. we can't afford to keep giving these youngsters opportunities.
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The ones that deserve it should get it. Not just anyone that happens to have ever been good enough to make the academy. There are hopes from the likes of Chong and Gomes is considered a very hot case too despite a poor season last year. The harsh reality though is that the U18s are the only group that showed talent enough to have hope. The U23s just didn’t show enough promise to believe they should be relied upon.

To give chances for the sake of it seems silly...
 
midnightmare said:
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Guess you misunderstood. I know we finished second. I was insinuating that playing Mitchell as a primary / second choice LB without signing a quality LB would result in our sliding down the table and if we finished 7th, most would be on the manager’s back for not having recruited the right players.

Mitchell has shown nothing for us to assume he’ll ever be good enough to be even a squad option. Having him even get minutes as a backup would imply our primary option is Young. Just not good enough.
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I'd be surprised if we don't sign a LB but I'm not saying don't do that. We should continue to give youth an opportunity. Its also pretty difficult to show whether you're good enough when you've only played one game for the club and in that one game he actually performed really well.

We won the league in 08/09 with an 'unproven' 18 year old Rafael playing 16 league games and also triumphed in 10/11 where he played 16 league games at only 20 years of age.

Not gonna derail the thread anymore now.
 
midnightmare said:
The ones that deserve it should get it. Not just anyone that happens to have ever been good enough to make the academy. There are hopes from the likes of Chong and Gomes is considered a very hot case too despite a poor season last year. The harsh reality though is that the U18s are the only group that showed talent enough to have hope. The U23s just didn’t show enough promise to believe they should be relied upon.

To give chances for the sake of it seems silly...
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Despite Mitchell playing half the season at Hearts and making a damn good impression? Then winning reserve POTY. Not to mention Chong also played half of the season for the U23s.
 
Utdstar01 said:
I'd be surprised if we don't sign a LB but I'm not saying don't do that. We should continue to give youth an opportunity. Its also pretty difficult to show whether you're good enough when you've only played one game for the club and in that one game he actually performed really well.

We won the league in 08/09 with an 'unproven' 18 year old Rafael playing 16 league games and also triumphed in 10/11 where he played 16 league games at only 20 years of age.

Not gonna derail the thread anymore now.
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Exactly. We should give youth a few games to show their ability. Nobody here was saying we don't need to sign a first-choice left back. Many have said the most important thing to get is more goals. If we can get a quality left back in, great. But if not, Shaw and Young isn't bad, and like others have said, Demetri Mitchell has been getting good reviews from his loan. 3 Man of the Matches from 9 games if I remember correctly, from left back.
 
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Well....we have got Dalot now who can play on both sides and Young/Shaw as well if Shaw ever gets his act together. And Rojo. (Although Rojo at LB horrifies me).

I wonder have we needed to hold back some funds earmarked for Sandro (e.g) in order to sign some megastar previously unavailable.
 

"Madrid will ask Cristiano to bring offers to sign Neymar"
"Cristiano Ronaldo learned this week that the club do not intend to make an economic effort to satisfy his economic claims in a hypothetical renewal"
 
carvajal said:

"Madrid will ask Cristiano to bring offers to sign Neymar"
"Cristiano Ronaldo learned this week that the club do not intend to make an economic effort to satisfy his economic claims in a hypothetical renewal"
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So basically they now think he isn’t as good as he used to be and don’t really give a shit about him. Any club that signs him will have to pay his taxes though, ridiculous,
 
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