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The shit that won’t flush away.
We had high hopes of clearing the squad a bit. Clearing out some of the debris, if you will. The likes of Pogba, Lingard, and Matic leaving is really not that helpful. They were either starters or starters-lite/bench. And they are all leaving free. The real benefit would have come from removing the likes of Bailly, Jones, Pereira, AWB (i still like him), and Henderson. This would have made some squad room and generated a good amount of money. But it's very quiet on that front. I see nothing about any team attempting to buy them, except for Henderson, there was some light interest supposedly. Looks bleak. Seems like our squad is a decent amount worse off than last year, at this point.
One of many. Our toilet runneth over!
2nd tweet’s translation is interesting. Hope we can actually get it over the line though.
If only this club was in contact with Ajax at some point over the last few months we could have laid the ground work early. Oh wait.
It's like this club does zero preparation throughout the season for the summer ahead and only start to work weeks after the season has ended.
How do you know they didn’t?
No price is ever going to suit our budget.
Would love to fast forward to September 1st and see if we fecked up this window or not.
Getting through last season was such a chore, could do without all the bullshit that goes on in here and social media during the transfer window.
Would love to fast forward to September 1st and see if we fecked up this window or not.
Getting through last season was such a chore, could do without all the bullshit that goes on in here and social media during the transfer window.
United want x player but doesnt fit the budget is becoming quite a tiresome media story this summer.
Boring as shit.
I admire our belief in sticking to a budget but it could get to a point where we don’t actually bid for anyone of note because of it. We may as well accept our budget and look down the leagues and see what we can get. Not even EPL players since they’re incredibly expensive as is!
Yeah tightarse fc
This is an opinion piece, it is important to note.
Given that the reliable Dutch journalist has said Timber is likely to stay at Ajax and players wanting CL football, I'd say its a fair assessment.
You see any incomings, or anyone even close?
Like a turd that won't flush
Hard to sell Man Utd to top players, won’t sign players like Tielemens because we can do better, won’t sign bissouma because of the excuse of a court case, won’t sign players like kamara on a free because they aren’t good enough and won’t sign players like Neves, Antony because we can’t afford the prices but will go after players like de Jong and chase them all summer who doesn’t want to come here, have zero interest in us and try to sign them for record high fees and pay them obscene wages.
Worst case scenario we should just go scorched earth and builaround the promising youth players.
I could still get behind a team lining up next season with the likes of Laird, Garner and Mejbri etc getting minutes.
That being said our squad is still so bloated despite the players who left on a free. We need to sell around 9-10 to bring in 4-5 players just to keep our squad at a reasonable size.
De Gea
Heaton
Henderson
Laird
Dalot
AWB
Varane
Maguire
Bailly
Lindelof
Tuanzebe
Mengi
Jones
Shaw
Telles
Williams
Garner
Van de Beek
Mejbri
Fred
McTominay
Bruno
Pereira
Elanga
Amad
Pellistri
Sancho
Rashford
Garnacho
Ronaldo
Martial
I could still get behind a team lining up next season with the likes of Laird, Garner and Mejbri etc getting minutes.
That being said our squad is still so bloated despite the players who left on a free. We need to sell around 9-10 to bring in 4-5 players just to keep our squad at a reasonable size.
De Gea
Heaton
Henderson
Laird
Dalot
AWB
Varane
Maguire
Bailly
Lindelof
Tuanzebe
Mengi
Jones
Shaw
Telles
Williams
Garner
Van de Beek
Mejbri
Fred
McTominay
Bruno
Pereira
Elanga
Amad
Pellistri
Sancho
Rashford
Garnacho
Ronaldo
Martial
Hard to sell Man Utd to top players, won’t sign players like Tielemens because we can do better, won’t sign bissouma because of the excuse of a court case, won’t sign players like kamara on a free because they aren’t good enough and won’t sign players like Neves, Antony because we can’t afford the prices but will go after players like de Jong and chase them all summer who doesn’t want to come here, have zero interest in us and try to sign them for record high fees and pay them obscene wages.
You have absolutely nailed it
Maybe the glazers just don't want to sign anyone at all
Yeah that would suit those leeches perfectly
Oh, they sign all right, but I have a feeling it wont't be the signings we wish for
It's quite worrying that the future of the above guys hasn't been sorted yet and there doesn't seem to be any concrete news, whether we're keeping the likes of Laird, Telles and Williams or loaning/selling them. There's £90m worth of players in there at least + the savings on wages.
Also the lack of attainable targets.
Hard to sell Man Utd to top players, won’t sign players like Tielemens because we can do better, won’t sign bissouma because of the excuse of a court case, won’t sign players like kamara on a free because they aren’t good enough and won’t sign players like Neves, Antony because we can’t afford the prices but will go after players like de Jong and chase them all summer who doesn’t want to come here, have zero interest in us and try to sign them for record high fees and pay them obscene wages.
I said exactly the same thing in the Kamanthread when he signed for Villa, posters saying he isn't good enough for United etc - but the point is our midfield has been shite for years, and we just don't even attempt to improve it.
Free transfers this year that could have done a job for us :
Belotti
Bernardeschi
Kamara
Kessie
Christensen
Rudiger
Dembele
Dybala
Tarkowski
Eriksen
Romagnoli
Grillitsch
But we'll be spending all summer chasing a player that doesn't really want to leave his current club.
Some of those players are average at best, some would have no intention of joining us, some we just simply had no interest in and the rest had already agreed to join other clubs.
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Most of them would start for a club in our state, yes some are average, but our squad is filled with average players.
Yes some of these players have already gone elsewhere, but that's the point, we probably didn't even talk to most of them, instead chase unrealistic targets thinking we can get them for a good price while players that could replace the snakes in our squad have already gone elsewhere.
You think Bissouma wouldn't have been a good buy at €25m? You think Kessie couldn't have been convince to come before Barcelona made contact? Reality is we leave our business way too late, Barca had all but agreed to sign Kessie around January time, and I'm betting we had no clue who we wanted to sign until recently.
I know what you're going to say, "Ten Hag was only appointment a month ago" - which is true, but also shows another area where this club is lacking, someone who can identify targets (managers and players) that suit a certain styles and getting those players in knowing the manager hired will work with them, we're stuck in the 90's
Grillitsch? Jesus...
Christ some of you need to start playing the lottery or or join MI6 because you clearly have fantastical powers of foresight and prediction. The window has just opened. FdJ signing isn't simple. The only reason City have signed Haaland is because of his release clause. If that wasn't there then he would still be at Dortmund and have loads of teams fighting over him for the summer. Liverpool paid a lot of money for a striker from the Portuguese league who has gaping holes in some areas of his game and might be a flop. There is no concrete evidence that anyone else was that interested in him. Chelsea have lost most of their defence and have to get rid of Lukaku before they can spent much and so far haven't done anything. Tottenham have taken a 33 year old winger on a free and look like buying a player with a sexual assault charge hanging over his head. Arsenal have done nothing.
Come back and have these whinges in 4 weeks time.
Come back and have these whinges in 4 weeks time.
Stretching the list a little admittedly, but he could be a Matic replacement and would cost nothing.
My point is, with only 120m this window, and our current squad full of players who have had enough chances, and who have just gave us the worst season in decades then free transfers would be a smart way to go, rather than dropping 70-80m on one player.
I would tend to agree with you in general. But our performance in the last few windows hasn’t inspired much confidence.
We do tend to leave the biggest signings till very late on in the window. ETH isn’t a miracle worker. He will need time and pre-season to teach his football philosophy to the team. And teammates need to get used to each other.
Pre-season starts in 11 days. Would be good for some of the new lads to join by then.
Remember - this is the summer of ‘massive change’
FYI The massive change quote was attributed to back room staff and for all intensive purposes, that has happened
Come on, some of these players man...
Bernadeschi? Tarkowski? Grillitsch? Nowhere near good enough for United.
Dembele, Dybala are examples of the type of mistakes United have made in the past with the likes of Di Maria and Sanchez.
Rudiger, Christensen, Kessie have simply just chosen bigger/better clubs at this moment in time so they were never likely.
What is the point in bringing in players just for the sake of it if they're not good enough to help elevate United to the level they want to be at? In a year or two's time you'd want to upgrade on Belotti and Romagnoli yet end up stuck with them because they'd be on wages no other club will touch with a barge pole.
And the players currently here are good enough? It's better to replace proven shite with players who may have some mental resilience to be able to run a little.
Bernardeschi would be better than Martial, easily.
Tarkowski would be better than having Bailly in the treatment room.
Grillitsch would be better than having no proper DM after losing Matic on a free.
Dembele and Dybala may be risky, but it's why a club like United should have people to look at them closely to assess whether they would be another Di Maria or Sanchez - I don't think United plan that far ahead unfortunately.
Yes they have, but we should have been in their ear a year ago, but my guess is they had already signed for other clubs before we even spoke to their agents.
Again, my point is that we can't be targeting a 70-80m player while only having 120m to spend when we've already lost 4 first team players from an already shite squad.
Why would we be in their ear a year ago? I’ve seen other people say this now too. We had a different manager a year ago with different targets and no DoF in place.
The truth is that we probably won’t see the benefit of the new structure in the 1st window
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