Transfer Tweets - Manchester United - 2024/25

Our best-11 has a couple of gaping holes in it - but 8-9 of the players when fit are up there with City and Arsenal. Of course that doesn't help when the gaping holes aren't good enough and our back-up players aren't good enough

But Onana, Shaw, Martinez, Yoro, Dalot - Mainoo, Bruno (one quality midfielder missing) - Diallo, Højlund and Garnacho on paper looks really good.

But to say that our squad depth is among the worst in the top 10 is stretching it . If you look at the second best 11

Altay - Malacia, Lindelof, Maguire, AWB - McTominay, Eriksen, Zirkzee, Mount, Rashford, Sancho is probably the 4th or 5th best.
 
Woziak said:
Nope however we are looking for another striker other wise, the club would not be linked with DCL, Maximilian Beier and Ivan Toney. If Sancho goes someone else is coming in?
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Dont think so. We are not getting 3 strikers, we already have 2. Sancho has already been replaced with Amad.
 
lysglimt said:
Altay - Malacia, Lindelof, Maguire, AWB - McTominay, Eriksen, Zirkzee, Mount, Rashford, Sancho is probably the 4th or 5th best.
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Bayindir

Mazraoui
Lindelof/Maguire
De Ligt
Malacia

Casemiro
Eriksen/Collyer
Mount

Antony/Sancho
Rashford
Zirkzee

Is not half bad, but we still need some signings.
 
Woziak said:
Nope however we are looking for another striker other wise, the club would not be linked with DCL, Maximilian Beier and Ivan Toney. If Sancho goes someone else is coming in?
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I don’t believe those rumours. We play a system with one up top. We’ve already got Hojlund, Zirkzee and Rashford who can play there. If we have 50m to wave around on a striker I’d suggest it would be best spent elsewhere
 
golden_blunder said:
I don’t believe those rumours. We play a system with one up top. We’ve already got Hojlund, Zirkzee and Rashford who can play there. If we have 50m to wave around on a striker I’d suggest it would be best spent elsewhere
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I’m not disagreeing with you but the hierarchy are rightly so, concerned about the number of goals this United team scores and creates. Benny McCarthy was an attacking coach widely liked by the whole squad, but the powers above were simply not impressed and this is the real reason RVN is part of the revamped coaching team, yes they’ve kept ETH but with caveats.

One of those is a different brand of football this season, much more attacking style and more goals with less goals conceded. You say we are well covered in this area but we are one injury away from a crisis.

Consider Hojlund actually has a more severe injury than the one caused against Arsenal, Zirkzee Fails to settle to the PL pace and Rashford goes 9 but can’t hold the ball up.

If Ivan Toney was on a free would we sign him, probably as the window timer ticks down and Brentford realise he could leave for free next summer, maybe a £30-35m bid actually gets that done and finally creates true competition in our attacking positions both Toney and Zirkzee can play as 10’s and Toney is probably the best 9 of the options listed, we need goals, we need assists so we need to upgrade the fullbacks and the midfield too.
 
Woziak said:
I’m not disagreeing with you but the hierarchy are rightly so, concerned about the number of goals this United team scores and creates. Benny McCarthy was an attacking coach widely liked by the whole squad, but the powers above were simply not impressed and this is the real reason RVN is part of the revamped coaching team, yes they’ve kept ETH but with caveats.

One of those is a different brand of football this season, much more attacking style and more goals with less goals conceded. You say we are well covered in this area but we are one injury away from a crisis.

Consider Hojlund actually has a more severe injury than the one caused against Arsenal, Zirkzee Fails to settle to the PL pace and Rashford goes 9 but can’t hold the ball up.

If Ivan Toney was on a free would we sign him, probably as the window timer ticks down and Brentford realise he could leave for free next summer, maybe a £30-35m bid actually gets that done and finally creates true competition in our attacking positions both Toney and Zirkzee can play as 10’s and Toney is probably the best 9 of the options listed, we need goals, we need assists so we need to upgrade the fullbacks and the midfield too.
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We don’t need another penalty taker
 
Woziak said:
I’m not disagreeing with you but the hierarchy are rightly so, concerned about the number of goals this United team scores and creates. Benny McCarthy was an attacking coach widely liked by the whole squad, but the powers above were simply not impressed and this is the real reason RVN is part of the revamped coaching team, yes they’ve kept ETH but with caveats.

One of those is a different brand of football this season, much more attacking style and more goals with less goals conceded. You say we are well covered in this area but we are one injury away from a crisis.

Consider Hojlund actually has a more severe injury than the one caused against Arsenal, Zirkzee Fails to settle to the PL pace and Rashford goes 9 but can’t hold the ball up.

If Ivan Toney was on a free would we sign him, probably as the window timer ticks down and Brentford realise he could leave for free next summer, maybe a £30-35m bid actually gets that done and finally creates true competition in our attacking positions both Toney and Zirkzee can play as 10’s and Toney is probably the best 9 of the options listed, we need goals, we need assists so we need to upgrade the fullbacks and the midfield too.
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This post is nothing but idle speculation and ifs and buts over worst case scenarios, along with a dash of fantasy land football manager. With our limited funds and gaping holes elsewhere in the squad, we are not getting Toney.
 
UnitedSofa said:
I love how this forum is obsessed with “backups” every transfer is seen as a backup whilst simultaneously claiming that our starting 11 is shit and they won’t even make a league 1 side
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Dalot was our best player last season pretty much.
 
lysglimt said:
The logic is - our squad in several positions is paper thin. And Dalot and Shaw (when fit) are good enough - but behind them we have nothing. Nor do we have money to sign players who are better than them - but we have money to sign decent backups.
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Hope it doesn't come across as too argumentative here, but are you saying AWB is nothing? He is the best 1 v 1 defender in the league, easily, and he is decent enough going forward. If Luke is on the other flank then I think AWB is a fine option as a starter and a great option as a backup.
 
I think too many of you are getting hung up on his 1v1 defending. Yes, he’s world class in that regard, but how many teams have a left winger that it’s that important to lock down? Less than a handful. Now let’s look at the other parts of his game…

Defending space and tracking runners he’s miserable at. He loses backdoor runners all the time. It’s been a problem with him since day one and is more important than the ability to defend 1v1 especially if we play a high line.

Defending his box aerially. Again, he’s awful in the air. Not as big of a deal if we don’t plan on sitting deep, so let’s move on.

In possession and attacking …horrible. He struggles with ball control, doesn’t choose the right angles when showing for passes, makes poor decisions and poor runs. It’s one thing to be a non threat in possession, it’s another to be a liability which he is against any team with a decent press.

Having a 1v1 specialist just doesn’t make more sense than having a guy who’s a better fit for a high line, possession team.
 
Sea-Cow said:
Hope it doesn't come across as too argumentative here, but are you saying AWB is nothing? He is the best 1 v 1 defender in the league, easily, and he is decent enough going forward. If Luke is on the other flank then I think AWB is a fine option as a starter and a great option as a backup.
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No - I like AWB, but at present we have 2 left-backs we can't rely on, and AWB who also was injured a lot last season. And we don't have a single player who can fill that position well for a few games. We don't have a midfielder who can do it (Amrabat tried and was awful) , we don't have a central defender who can do it (Lindelöf has tried a few times and have been poor) - and we don't have a single youngster who is anywhere near good enough. Yes we do have Amass - but he is still defensively too inexperienced.
 
UnitedSofa said:
I love how this forum is obsessed with “backups” every transfer is seen as a backup whilst simultaneously claiming that our starting 11 is shit and they won’t even make a league 1 side
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I don’t think I implied anything like that. Dalot was one of our better players last year. He even won the players player of the year award if I remember rightly.

Mazraoui doesn’t seem like a clear upgrade to me but form could play its part I suppose.
 
I'm not fussed about Rabiot, but we need another midfielder along with Ugarte. Either sign amra or we get this momma's boy in.
Not fussed about Mazzy but we need a LB. With shaw and malacia (treatment table boys) we need cover.

Here's my season starting 11:

Rashy Hojlund Diallo
Bruno
Mainoo Ugarte
Shaw Martinez Yoro Dalot
Onanananana

(bit concerned with goal output tbh, need a more clinical striker)
 
Zed 101 said:
Stick him on the bench and give him 15-20 minutes here and there, could be the purchase of the summer if he progresses
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Is he a Central Forward or an inverted winger like Rashford?
 
mazhar13 said:
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Hopefully this is a great signing but I'm cautious about hyped up youth signings from other clubs.

When we signed Charlie McNeil from City that was supposed to be a huge coup but did he ever do anything of note?
 
These signings are really underrated. We reportedly got two of the biggest talents from our rival teams. Obi could be everything from the new Mcneill to Greenwood (skillwise) to Haaland. He could either get loaned for some years and come back as a pro player or directly integrated to the first team and get minutes. It would probably affect Wheatley's future too. Excited to see how he will develop under Ruud.
 
Tiber said:
Hopefully this is a great signing but I'm cautious about hyped up youth signings from other clubs.

When we signed Charlie McNeil from City that was supposed to be a huge coup but did he ever do anything of note?
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Nope, which is why people need to be patient. Hes not going straight into the first team squad at 16
 
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