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

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Infra-red said:
Defensively we're okay.

We need someone to play out from the back though. Having our midfielders drop to collect the ball is really hurting our possession play and making it harder to provoke lesser sides that sit in a deep block against us.
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The thing is, one ball playing centre-back never works because all the other teams have to do is press high against him and the keeper is forced to pass to the non-ball playing centre back more or less every time.
 
MadMike said:
I'm still shocked we're not pursuing a LB but thinking of adding a 7th CB to our roster. Surely Mourinho will be told he has to sell a couple of CBs before buying!
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There's every chance we are after a left back. No one actually knows our targets, just lots of speculation, that changes every day.
 
jesperjaap said:
How much time do you want him to have, he has had three years and his initial few months were far better than what he did before signing Sanchez. Lets not forget Sanchez is one of the best left wingers in the world that we signed, even though he obviously hasnt performed like it so far. I really dont think Martial is a left winger anyway, I think he can develop into a very good striker, his best spell was up front under LVG in my opinion when he first came. And you have hit the nail on the head, he wont get the oportunities with Lukaku in front of him to develop into a top striker. For that reason he is right to want to leave, and he doesnt hold so much value to us as I would put Rashford ahead of him on the left too. It is a shame as personally I dont rate Lukaku as highly as most and I do think Martial can become a top player but he hasnt done anything special consistantly here if three or four years and there are plenty of other top talents about, lets not forget France have Dembele and Coman for example of a similar age who I think are more developed and more talented. He wants to go if the press is to be believed, why on earth should we stand in his way for £60-70m considering what he has done so far?
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I get you but still disagree as I believe he’s more talented than Dembele and Coman. Don’t forget Dembele is currently a Barcelona flop and this is his first big move where the stacks count. He hasn’t done nothing but in hindsight if De Bruyne and Salah got the spread out opportunities we would say the same for them at Chelsea. He needs the minutes and he’s clever enough to know so himself which is why I can’t be angry at him for not wanting to ‘buckle down and fight’ for a position playing at the very top. Lukaku is good for what we are doing now but I can’t lie and say he’s what I really want to watch.
 
Klopper76 said:
Do you desperately need a CB though? Mourinho's pretty good at improving CB's and you've been pretty solid at the back under him.
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No, not at all - our ambitions seems to be lower than what our fans want. If we want to consolidate we do not need one, but if we want to compete for the title and CL we do. Maguire is not even close to be the player that would help us in that regard. 65M to make us (possibly) a bit better at scoring goals from corners? Nah, we already have Smalling for that job.

Bailly is a really good stopper and amongst the best in the league, now we just need him to become 5% better from natural development and experience in this league, as well as staying free from injuries. Big ask of course, seems like he’s another player made from glass.
 
Kaivalya said:
I believe they want a smooth customer at the back with the ball at their feet. Not necessarily the experienced head the media thinks United need and want. Maguire would not be someone with a lot or even any top level experience. At 25 he's never played in the CL, and was only in his second PL season. That's less top level experience than someone at 24 in Romagnoli or Jimenez.

What does make sense is his profile. Not necessarily the fastest, but extremely confident and smooth at dribbling and bringing the ball out of the defense and breaking opposition lines. He's also got some beuatiful long passing skills. What dropped for him at the World Cup was being paired with actual competent defenders also fluent with a passing style.

If at 65m £ Leicester are silly enough to say no, United might as well take the risk City took on the likes of Laporte and Stones and get a player like De Ligt or Upamecano.
De Ligt in particular is extremely confident on the ball and has taken it to a different level with Ajax this past season. Think he's definitely better than what Stones was when City signed for 50m. Add that with the experience he's had with the NT and Europe he's a prospect who could make a difference immediately.
That's assuming Bonucci and Godin are impossible at this point.
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Well he has more premiership experience than those players and has played in a world cup semi final now. I totally agree though for that fee I would much rather spend probably less on the two players you mentioned or more on Khoubillay. In a dream wodl we would sign one of the two you mentioned AND Khoubillay as Rojo, Jones, Lindelof for me just arent good enough and neither is Smalling. I would rathe spend £70/80m+ on two of those three + the fees oncoming from 3 of our avergae centre backs than spend £70-80M on MacGuire for a slight upgrade on our average centre backs
 
Ekeke said:
Yes people are paying inflated prices, but paying double a players value is something else
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It's a case of desperation* I suppose. Didn't help we had a shortened transfer window for the first time on the same year as the World Cup.

*How desperate are we? Watching that pass from Bonnuci yesterday made me wonder, when's the last time one of our CBs played such a simple albeit effective ball? Is it a confidence thing? Or just ingrained. In any case, with the season fast approaching I'd say it's worth it to pay double for that. We may not win the league, but we'd at least look less impotent
 
willhse456 said:
I disagree. Our current style of play is so negative and defensive because of the quality of our centre backs. All of them need protection. A quality centre back would allow Pogba more freedom, and I think our football would become a lot more coherent.

You can see just from the World Cup how bad some of our defenders are. Rojo and Jones were pretty terrible for Argentina and England. Smalling didn't even make the cut, and although Lindelof played well, he was playing in a very defensive system.

Alderweireld would be perfect for us. Not too sure about Maguire though, as we need a more experienced player to bring the best out of Bailly, who I think is our best defender currently.
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I agree totally on your first two paragraphs. For the premiership fees though I think we need to look further afield for top quality
 
Mainoldo said:
I get you but still disagree as I believe he’s more talented than Dembele and Coman. Don’t forget Dembele is currently a Barcelona flop and this is his first big move where the stacks count. He hasn’t done nothing but in hindsight if De Bruyne and Salah got the spread out opportunities we would say the same for them at Chelsea. He needs the minutes and he’s clever enough to know so himself which is why I can’t be angry at him for not wanting to ‘buckle down and fight’ for a position playing at the very top. Lukaku is good for what we are doing now but I can’t lie and say he’s what I really want to watch.
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Fair enough, it is opinions on players. Dembele had injry problems though didnt he and do you think Martial would have succeeded at Barcelona? Coman was doing well at Bayern but barely saw them last year to know how he has been more recently. I agree with you on not being angry with him wanting to go for sure though.
Also yes Lukaku suits the Mourinho system, but no hardly any are, he is certainly no Drogba. I know there is more to a team and football than technique but watching the likes of Smalling, Fellaini and Lukaku on the ball sometimes is just painful the lack of basic skill sets in certain areas
 
Where's @United_We_Stand when you need them? we need more transfer tweets please. You are our only hope, just please, anything but more Maguire.

I'm seriously doubting this thread at this point; half the caf is about to cream themselves at signing Maguire and/or have a mental breakdown at the thought of signing him; and the other half couldn't give a flying feck.

I being part of the other half just want something else to discuss; someone please help.
 
Surprised Jose isnt after Godin, 20 million buy out clause and looking for his final big pay day. Wish United had moved for players prior to the World Cup, but I guess we'd have a massively bloated squad, which would affect the prices we'd get when selling...
 
Bradley Leach said:
Where's @United_We_Stand when you need them? we need more transfer tweets please. You are our only hope, just please, anything but more Maguire.

I'm seriously doubting this thread at this point; half the caf is about to cream themselves at signing Maguire and/or have a mental breakdown at the thought of signing him; and the other half couldn't give a flying feck.

I being part of the other half just want something else to discuss; someone please help.
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JK-27 said:
Exactly, our problem is we need to score more, not concede less.

As for those saying we need someone who can play it out of the back well we had a player who could do exactly that, his name was Blind and he never played last season and has just been sold, so I don't think Jose is looking for a ball playing CB seeing as he never played that system at all and got rid of the player who could play in that system.

I think Jose is hoping that a midfield 3 of Matic, Pogba, and Fred will finally allow Pogba the freedom to get forward and supplement our attack.
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1. Blind couldn't defend and was slow.
2. Have you considered jose may want to change formation or have a trained formation that differs from 4231 or 433. 352 requires ball-playing cb and helps us with our lack of a right winger.
3. The problem maybe that we need to score more goals, a change of system may allow that though. Its not always personnel.
 
Again, why did clubs agree to this early deadline? Absolute madness.
 
BluesJr said:
Again, why did clubs agree to this early deadline? Absolute madness.
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As what was discussed back then before this was passed, the reason seems to be the owners OF smaller clubs want excuse not to spend citing short window.
 
ti vu said:
As what was discussed back then before this was passed, the reason seems to be the owners OF smaller clubs want excuse not to spend citing short window.
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Just baffles me that the big clubs went along with it knowing this scenario after a World Cup was likely to develop. It’s fair enough if it’s Europe wide, however just being in England makes it incredibly stupid.
 
Red_toad said:
Surprised Jose isnt after Godin, 20 million buy out clause and looking for his final big pay day. Wish United had moved for players prior to the World Cup, but I guess we'd have a massively bloated squad, which would affect the prices we'd get when selling...
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I don't think we (or anyone else) would get Godin for £20m, but he is the sort of CB I'd like to see at United, as far as buying early goes, well I was under the impression we would get ALL our business done early.
We should have turned around a dozen or so players (more leaving) this summer, as it stands it's two serious transfers (Fred and Blind) and two less so, Dalot as a gamble/long term investment ? and a keeper back-up to allow a loan move.
 
BluesJr said:
Just baffles me that the big clubs went along with it knowing this scenario after a World Cup was likely to develop. It’s fair enough if it’s Europe wide, however just being in England makes it incredibly stupid.
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City and us opposed it. The other big guys can spend big sometimes, but they may spend less in some other years. Still it's passed on the majority rule, so not much you can do when more than half of the teams, the owners would be happy to not speond
 
BluesJr said:
Just baffles me that the big clubs went along with it knowing this scenario after a World Cup was likely to develop. It’s fair enough if it’s Europe wide, however just being in England makes it incredibly stupid.
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Its not on the same scale obviously but the same kind of stupidity as voting for Brexit. Its like a microcosm of Brexit really when you think about it, hamstringing yourself whilst the rest of Europe gets stronger and can still steal from you.

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So if Maguire is really looking dicey in terms of clubs not playing ball, and thank god for that btw, does that mean the other signing is the one that's nailed on to happen?
 
jesperjaap said:
He pretty much is. And not a bad one by any means, definately better than what we have. But if we are talking £70m+ from that bit of press, surely there are better players, which is no offence to McGuire at all. English premium and a decent English centre back is no bad thing but wow £70m+
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Jesus he's far far away from the finished product. Granted he looked good on the ball for England at the WC but look at the opposition bar Croatia. If he wasn't English half the fans on here singing his praises would be non existent.

He is barely even an improvement on what we have and is not a better CB than Bailey. Give Phil Jones a chance to cut out the sloppiness from his play and he'll be a fine defender to sit in next to Bailey.

£60m odd for him is laughable. People moan about the standard of players we have, signing the likes of Mcguire is exactly why. Compare him to the likes of Ferdinand/Vidic.

Show some ambition we're supposed to be the biggest club in the world. Mcguire is a middle of the table team player.
 
jesperjaap said:
He pretty much is. And not a bad one by any means, definately better than what we have. But if we are talking £70m+ from that bit of press, surely there are better players, which is no offence to McGuire at all. English premium and a decent English centre back is no bad thing but wow £70m+
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Which better players available at CB who are
- at good age
- helps in home grown quota
- who are already suited to the league

CBs peak at around 28-29. He is 25. He isn't a finished product.
 
I actually think we'll be getting Mbappe.

MacGuire may be coming too.

Martial will go the other way.

Great business!
 
ayushreddevil9 said:
Which better players available at CB who are
- at good age
- helps in home grown quota
- who are already suited to the league

CBs peak at around 28-29. He is 25. He isn't a finished product.
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We don't really need to worry about home grown scenario. Jones Smalling Young Shaw all defensive home growns.
 
Fridge chutney said:
PSG need to sell. Evra and Zlatan seem to be indicating something big is in the works.

The only thing that springs to mind is Mbappe who wants to come play with his buddy Pogba.
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Have they been hit by new FFP sanctions that I do not know of? At the moment they still seem to be pursuing targets like Bonucci and Sandro.
 
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