I legit don’t care who we get, and part of me thinks that was the plan
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Talksport clearly back to being quite a sh*te source now.
This is the 50th player for the last two weeks that we are considering or preparing a bid for. Open the champagne!
Yeah, they've been pony this window. Especially for us.
Man Utd’s recruitment incompetence since Fergie has been surgical in its precision in terms of targeting, signing, and extending the contracts of the wrong players. They’ve barely ever done the right thing by mistake, which given the volume of players is pretty incredible.
That's the guy we could have bought for peanuts a year or two ago right?
Them bloody sources are working hard this summer
Yes but he was shite then. Now that's he's value has risen exponentially he's great. See how that works?
How many are we considering now? How many have have we thought about considering?
It's laughable really....
It's laughable really....
Even more impressive is that very few have recovered their careers afterwards. It took Moyes years, Mourinho struggled at Spurs and is doing ok at Roma.
But of the players who has gone onto a successful career? Blind has done wel back at Ajax. Memphis did reasonably well in France but Barca only signed him because he was free, even Di Maria hasn’t reached the same heights pre-United. We’ve become a graveyard of players careers either with us or after.
p.s Wilf Zaha is maybe the best example of a successful career after.
In fairness, there was a very weird part ownership issue with him that put a lot of clubs off, hence why he ended up at Brighton.
Hindsight is making it look very much like the wrong decision, as he took almost no time at all to break into their first team.
To be fair, with our recent development of players it was probably best he didnt join us then.
Though you could argue whether its best for him to even join us now.
I don't remember him being shit, I remember him being unproven. But thank you for the great explanation.
I’d sign either Tom or Dick but Harry can feck off! We have one already.
Im almost looking forward to the transfer window closing in the (probably futile) hope that it will spark us in to action and we go a bit mad and get our act together finally.
Foolish optimism or just foolishness, one or the other.
Foolish optimism or just foolishness, one or the other.
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I hope we back out of this deal. A bang-average player that wants a top player's wage.
So we still haven't signed someone else after a pathetic start to the season where we sit rock bottom? This club is taking the piss.
Lukaku found some success at Inter (won the league and iirc was top scorer in Italy) but failed miserably at Chelsea after a 100m move.
Good. Would become deadwood in a year or two on astronomical wages
It’s getting more unbelievable by the day.
We rush out and sign someone - PANIC BUY - Pathetic club.
We don't buy someone - This club is taking the piss!
Rule of life: You cannot win.
Mate, you were the one advocating for patience at the back end of June when we hadn't signed anyone yet. Then you carried on throughout July and August with no significant strengthening to the first team. Now you're taking about panic buying. You couldn't make it up. It was painfully obvious this was going to happen.It was internet sarcasm Great Dane.
We have a history of looking past players only to try and sign them much later for way more money.
A bit more info on the Rabiot deal stalling:
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The wage demands are too high from Rabiot, who's unconvinced about joining a team that isn't in the Champions League. As a result, this is also stalling Juve's ability to acquire Leandro Paredes. The only way Paredes can join Juve is if PSG is open to a loan deal.
Rabiot becomes another player who doesn't want to join United because we aren't in the CL.
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The wage demands are too high from Rabiot, who's unconvinced about joining a team that isn't in the Champions League. As a result, this is also stalling Juve's ability to acquire Leandro Paredes. The only way Paredes can join Juve is if PSG is open to a loan deal.
Rabiot becomes another player who doesn't want to join United because we aren't in the CL.
Well to be fair, I was hoping the FDJ deal was gonna happen before now. Infact I was convinced it was gonna happen and our transfer business would have been concluded by now.
If/when FDJ happens it'll be a great addition, but in hindsight, I think we waited far too long before approaching other targets.
The FDJ deal is a special situation (deferred wages) but I'd have liked more players in by now.
I was just highlighting how us NOT signing anyone these past two weeks was a sign of the club being incompetent, but also if the club were to make panic signings the club is also incompetent.
I'd be alarmed if EtH doesn't get the signings he requires over the line before the close of the window. The next 2-3 weeks is going to be interesting and we're going to have a very busy deadline day yet again I suspect.
Rule of life UnitedSofa making up scenario posts
Wonder if you can come up with a third acceptable scenario.
It literally has happened all over the CAF, people were slating United for panic buying and now they're getting slated for not buying anyone.Rule of life UnitedSofa making up scenario posts
Wonder if you can come up with a third acceptable scenario.
A schimpanzee have better ability of negotiating than the useless dross we have at the club. They are the type of people who get offered a pair of jeans for 30 quid but end up paying 50. And because of this, with 2 weeks left of the window these morons are still out there contacting clubs 24/7 and making enquiries about 50 different players.
I think you'll find players agents are offering them to us, rather than the other way round.
As UnitedSofa stated, it's the opposite; after the Arnautovic approach by United, many agents have started to reach out to United akin to how they'd reach out to Woodward for various deals. United have kept a few of those options open, but that doesn't mean that they'd entertain them. So far, United have only worked on Rabiot. United haven't done any work on the other players and have only gone as far as expressing their interest in SMS, Morata, Gakpo, Cunha, and Casemiro. That doesn't mean that they've commenced talks with those players' clubs or started discussing terms with their agents.
Nah mate I believe the ending of the window will spark us into action too.
Remember the window where Arsenal signed like 6 players (Bennayoun, Arteta etc) on deadline day? Thats what I expect from United this time. Good players won't be sold towards the end of the window and we'll sign more mediocrity on high wages. Would love to be proved wrong but I wouldn't count on that based on past experience.
Wake me up when we manage to get past 'considering' and move on to 'preparing a bid' those few weeks are always more entertaining.
Yeah, that’s a fair shout. Strangely Darmian as well in that case!
At least he will fit right in with our current crop of players.
Maybe it's time to just pull the trigger on Neves & Tielemans - both could be attained for a combined cost of around the £60m mark and would literally take our midfield up a few tiers overnight.
Would take that in a heartbeat!
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