And he did! Remember how open we used to be in the midfield? Anybody and everybody was dominating us there. Not anymore. Between him and Eriksen, we are now the team typically winning the midfield and connecting defense with the attack has become pretty seamless. The concern is - if either one of them or Bruno can't play, we are in trouble, again.
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I would be surprised if we managed to panic buy Casemiro in a week, so we were probably working on it for quite a while before it was announced. Doing deals in private, probably because the player said he was only interested in joining us and didn't want to be offered all round Europe, meant that it didn't become a public auction. That is how to do good business.
I think you will find that under the Glazers, we have probably spent more than any other club on transfers during that time. It is just popular to bash the owners for not spending, but that is not where the true blame lies.
Firstly, we had no structure at the club, which I would blame Woodward for, as we should have had continuity. If one manager wants to play possession football, the next more defensive, counter attacking style, and the third doesn't have a style or system, then players from one manager are not suited for the next one. That is why we wasted money. Woodward was supposed to be managing the club (not the team), and he was a disaster, so I guess the Glazers can be blamed for keeping him in a job for so long). Then the managers were to blame, and finally many of the players have massively underperformed. I don't blame players like Mctominay, who has his levels and he aims to give his maximum every game. Arguably he is not Man Utd quality, but that should be the manager's call. The players who don't give their all, and who cause trouble, like Pogba, Henderson, Greenwood and Ronaldo, they should hang their heads in shame.
Obviously the period of Glazer ownership will not be fondly remembered by most fans, but a big chunk of the blame lies elsewhere. Asking for a transfer in public just before a big game, or bad-mouthing the club is indefensible, and none of those four players should ever play for the club again. The incident this week shows how these things should be managed, with the manager punishing Rashford, and he responds in the best way possible, accepting responsibility and scoring a goal.
I don't really get the fan obsession with the Glazers. Since Fergie retired we have had a rubbish CEO and rubbish managers. As soon as we have got a new CEO and a good manager, things are looking up. We spent a fortune in the summer, and bought players the manager wanted. Since the Brentford game we have outperformed Man City, and would only be behind Arsenal, who have lost only one game so far this season, to us.
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Unsurprisingly, Sommer prefers to join Bayern Munich.
Unsurprisingly, Sommer prefers to join Bayern Munich.
Transfer window’s been open for three days now and we haven’t signed anyone. Lads, I don’t think it’s happening this January.
He's going to be 3rd choice when Neuer is back and Nubel returns from loan.
Thank goodness for that!
The problem is that Nübel doesn't want to come back if he's not going to play regularly. If Neuer's still their #1, then he'll most likely play for another club.
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No surprise really. We’re lacking in attacking depth as it is never mind letting anymore go when we can’t really sign anyone with the financial constraints.
Amid the Randal Kolo Muani links from L'Équipe:
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Liverpool, Spurs, and Bayern Munich have all been interested before the World Cup. There's no corroboration of the recent Manchester United news, though.
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Liverpool, Spurs, and Bayern Munich have all been interested before the World Cup. There's no corroboration of the recent Manchester United news, though.
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I thought it was very clear when we went over stretched ourselves in summer, and it was let be known that we’d borrowed from the future budget to buy Antony that there would be very little money left. Throw in that the club is now for sale. Why do you do it to yourselves??
The player himself said he’d been talking to United for a long time and had made up his mind to leave for a new challenge as far back as Christmas 2021
I could understand Dubravka but Butland not so much unless Heaton wants to leave.
You wonder why we bother with some of these backup keepers. Butland isn't a better goalkeeper than Tom Heaton
I can only think that we don't rate any of our youth keepers even a little bit and don't want to take even the tiny outside chance that any of them will have to play.
I created a thread with your tweets because i'm a desperate transfer virgin
He’s a perfectly passable PL keeper, with a very specific role to fulfil. I don’t really get the issue. Romero, the Argentina no. 1 being willing to be out backup was the anomaly, not the norm.
Gotta be fast bro
Signing Butland as a second/third goalkeeper makes sense, he will be able to play a role as a backup in the GK-team long term as he is only 29 - so hopefully we don't have to bring in a backup GK every window going forward..
Dubravka gone, both De Gea and Heaton has uncertain futures in the club (for different reasons but both have contracts expriring in the summer), and we don't want to be in the position where we need to sign two or even three goalkeepers in the summer.
Dubravka gone, both De Gea and Heaton has uncertain futures in the club (for different reasons but both have contracts expriring in the summer), and we don't want to be in the position where we need to sign two or even three goalkeepers in the summer.
I actually made mine first if you look at both.
But people went with @unplayable 's plagiarism
It's fine. I get it....
Romero was a back up for 3 seasons before joining us. Apart from last season where his season was cut short due to injury his last full season of football with 2012-2013 and he lost his place at the end of that season.
Sorry, genuinely didn't see your thread.
Joking aside, it's really no bother. There was probably less than a minute between them
A lot easier to sign a backup keeper who'll barely play, than a striker whom we will need to contribute significantly
Partly agree, we should instead blame the Glazers for reducing our spending power and spending what was left poorly for over a decade.
I think a standard for an EPL team is that you have to have three keepers minimum just in case two of them get injured in some freak scenario.
We don't want to find ourselves having to play Luke Shaw in goal because both of our two keepers are injured or sick
1. Glazers are spending United's money, not their own. They are not like Qatari or Saudi owners who invested their money. They bought us on loan, and everything they spent was United revenue or more loans. So nothing to be grateful for. They actually took money from club in dividends
2. They are exactly the ones to be blamed for having idiot CEOs because they are the ones appointing them. Current one is just as incompetent as the previous one. So the horrible structure is 100% Glazers fault.
3. We only fixed manager. CEO is still bad and so is the rest of the structure, including recruitement. Huge cleanout is necessary when new owners arrive. We are not fine
We have other goalkeepers in reserve. We signed Bishop a couple of years back, for example. What was the point of that?
The Butland signing just feels like it'll be a repeat of the Dubravka situation. He'll play a couple of games max before leaving and looking for the next one again in the summer.
Oh yeah there is no doubt our new owners simply have to sort out structure of the club
You are making an excellent point about Bishop. Forgot about him. Very confusing why is he not in rotation? Or sold if he is not good enough. Why do we carry so much ballast in this club, all the time?
As for Dubravka... He looked AWEFUL in the friendlies we recently played. Why does Newcastle even want him back is so confusing
So sick of us going for backup keepers. They're never even good enough to play (nor would be Butland) so what's the point? Heaton is totally fine as a backup option and in the very unlikely scenario that both DDG and he get injured at the same time we have other options in our reserves. I'd rather we give whatever amount would be linked to signing a new keeper to getting a striker that we simply can't go without in 2nd half of season.
I think it might be a training thing (or maybe even a league regulation?). Since every team seems to have 3 goalies
We can register a 3rd keeper from our reserves right now
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