Transfer Tweets - Manchester United - 2024/25

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Irrational. said:
I think we have to accept that we are severely handicapped by PSR, the obscene contracts our players are on and our new ownership.

The days of us going gung-ho in the transfer market and general transfer muppetry are long over. Jimmy Rat will definitely see to the latter.

For the next few transfer windows, expect our transfer activity to be similar to other poor clubs in Europe: taking punts on relative unknowns, sniffing around rejects from other top clubs for a cut-price fee, or trying to secure loan moves for talented players who are yet to make the grade.
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I don’t think loaning an attacker is gung-ho
 
2E_MUFC said:
I don’t think loaning an attacker is gung-ho
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Depends really, if we are being quoted 7m in loan fees for less than 4 months or an obligation to buy in the summer. Especially for players who we aren't sure would actually come in and score for us.
 
It's like we're systematically targeting all the areas of the pitch where we have the least depth and trying to get rid of as many players as possible who can play there
 
sugar_kane said:
It's like we're systematically targeting all the areas of the pitch where we have the least depth and trying to get rid of as many players as possible who can play there
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The players going out on loan don't have a future here. Why are people upset? We are hoping that the players go out on loan and increase their transfer value.

I mean it's not like United is challenging for the title or the Arsene Wenger top 4 trophy and they need depth. Are you seriously that upset that the likes of Antony and Malacia are going out on loan?
 
leeroyTX said:
Why not give him a shot on Friday against LC? Leave Hojlund off and bring up the kid. He literally couldn't do worse.
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Absolutely. It’s impossible - technically - to do worse than our current strikers, so it’s a no risk decision
 
Would take a Weghorst type loan signing at this point.

This is looking a bit grim.
 
I think it might be time to leave football alone until next season. We've arguably weakened ourselves in the winter window and our matches are painful to watch.
 
beck7 said:
I am surprised there were no attempts to sign Gyokeres or Osheimen given there are multiple premier league clubs crying for good striking options. Not saying they were going to be easy deals but I was expecting some bids.

I wasn't expecting us to do big signings but was cautiously optimistic that if we managed to ship off some players, we would bring in a few medium key decent signings to improve us. How I was wrong! Now I worry about our season and as a result the fate of the manager.
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I think we were not interested about Osimhen. And Amorim told he's not going to sign anyone from Sporting this january. Maybe they have some gentleman's agreement. But didn't rule out summer transfers. I guess we will sign Gyökeres next summer.
 
Looks like the club have briefed that’s us done.

I get we don’t want to spend for the sake of it but this has been really poorly managed yet again.

Really don’t like Ineos.
 
Ornstein confirmed too. 100% no incomings for United.

Stone too:



No doubt in the summer we'll get the standard 'funds were too tight/couldn't attract big names because we aren't in Europe" so here's 3 kids and 2 shitters for £150m.
 
This club still have zero clue how important optics are. I really thought INEOS would be smarter in this department but they are actually worse than the old regime in that regard.
 
I'd say we did well in players we didn't sign. Which is a clear progress from past windows. Less good in players we did sign, of course
 
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I didn't think the loan fee would be that much of a problem for them. I don't get why they'd go after Tel if they wanted someone more refined/ready-made. Whilst Tel is incredibly talented, he's still a bit raw.
 
So we got rid of Antony and Rashford just to thin out our already thin attack.

Makes sense....
 
Amorim won’t be happy that he has to compete in 3 different competitions with no actual ST.
 
mazhar13 said:
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I didn't think the loan fee would be that much of a problem for them. I don't get why they'd go after Tel if they wanted someone more refined/ready-made. Whilst Tel is incredibly talented, he's still a bit raw.
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Maybe the concept of a loan fee is new to them?

I was mentioning yesterday how we don't seem to have charged Villa one for Rashford - despite it being the norm for senior players between top flight clubs. I assumed that was because it was the only way Villa would up their wage contribution - if we gave him to them free.

But now they're baulking at what seems the usual type of loan fee you'd expect between clubs like United and Bayern as if surprised at the loan fee request!?
 
The Caf, we need to clear out the deadwood and stop spending stupid money on rubbish players

Also The Caf, I can't believe we loaned out 2 players who weren't playing/contributing and didn't pay £8m for a 19 year old on loan
 
Incomings appeared to be dependent on Garnacho being sold. Now that he hasn't been I'm not shocked that we're doing no further business. People seemed to want both Garnacho to stay and to bring in new signings but I don't think that was an option. Can't just ignore the existence of PSR.

The rest of the season might be a struggle but January has been a notoriously shit time for us to do business particularly when trying to sign centre forwards.

We can still win the Europa League with the squad we have and hopefully we've made small savings this month with the like of Anthony and Rashford that can help us in the summer to get rumoured pursuits like Quenda over the line.
 
mazhar13 said:
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I didn't think the loan fee would be that much of a problem for them. I don't get why they'd go after Tel if they wanted someone more refined/ready-made. Whilst Tel is incredibly talented, he's still a bit raw.
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Maybe a tactical punt that was too costly vs risk?
 
Bertie Wooster said:
Maybe the concept of a loan fee is new to them?

I was mentioning yesterday how we don't seem to have charged Villa one for Rashford - despite it being the norm for senior players between top flight clubs. I assumed that was because it was the only way Villa would up their wage contribution - if we gave him to them free.

But now they're baulking at what seems the usual type of loan fee you'd expect between clubs like United and Bayern as if surprised at the loan fee request!?
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It’s a ridiculous loan fee for a completely unproven player that we’d be essentially helping to develop.

If it was an experienced player who give you some bottom level guarantee of a performance or two then it’d be different
 
rajds89 said:
So we'll continue to battle for a mediocre mid to bottom half table finish then.
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That’s true enough. If the alternative was digging into our PSR/budget capacity on a compromise profile player in order to battle four Conference league, I think I’m with the club on that thinking for this window.
 
Keyser said:
The Caf, we need to clear out the deadwood and stop spending stupid money on rubbish players

Also The Caf, I can't believe we loaned out 2 players who weren't playing/contributing and didn't pay £8m for a 19 year old on loan
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You realise we only have two non scoring strikers at our disposal right?

Proper joke from INEOS this. There were more than enough options even for a loan. Options that would have improved is. To keep going with these two clowns up front is crazy. Not unexpected by Ratcliffe but still crazy.
 
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Bertie Wooster said:
Maybe the concept of a loan fee is new to them?

I was mentioning yesterday how we don't seem to have charged Villa one for Rashford - despite it being the norm for senior players between top flight clubs. I assumed that was because it was the only way Villa would up their wage contribution - if we gave him to them free.

But now they're baulking at what seems the usual type of loan fee you'd expect between clubs like United and Bayern as if surprised at the loan fee request!?
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Not necessarily. United were negotiating a loan fee for Malacia with Benfica and couldn't come to an agreement on that.

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Bayern were only okay with a straight loan if United weren't meeting the price that Spurs offered. I can see why United wouldn't want to offer a loan fee in this case.
 
mazhar13 said:
Not necessarily. United were negotiating a loan fee for Malacia with Benfica and couldn't come to an agreement on that.

More info on Tel (Tier 2):


Bayern were only okay with a straight loan if United weren't meeting the price that Spurs offered. I can see why United wouldn't want to offer a loan fee in this case.
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Makes perfect sense then, £5mil counting against your already tenuous PSR position with no player to show for it after 6 months is stupid business.
 
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It’s a ridiculous loan fee for a completely unproven player that we’d be essentially helping to develop.

If it was an experienced player who give you some bottom level guarantee of a performance or two then it’d be different
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As Mazhar13 said, I'm surprised we spent so long negotiating for him then? He's been talked about for a good while as one of our main loan targets.

Did they not know he was a "completely unproven player that we’d be essentially helping to develop" all that time? Or did they not think we'd be asked to be the usual type of loan fee for a senior (first team) player going between Bayern and Man United?

Both of those things should have been obvious, and ruled out the deal, long before this time on transfer deadline day. Now we've ended up short on attacking players when we could've been looking elsewhere if we wanted "an experienced player" as you suggest would be better.

The likes of Morata joined Galatasaray on loan yesterday for instance. Why were we still in talks with Tel at that time and only just discovering that he was a raw 19 year old that we'd be helping to develop for Bayern? That was obvious long ago.
 
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