Transfer Tweets - Manchester United - 2024/25

UTD_Since_1978 said:
And we are still losing at home to Brighton & CP, so much for your idea of improvements.
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I didn't say they were improvements in that post, I just highlighted how we've conducted our transfer business so far.

For your argument's sake, I do believe they were improvements on what we had by the time we sold/released those players. ETH was sacked because he wasn't getting performances out of those players. Amorim will go down the same path if he doesn't get performances out of them as he's somehow made us worse than we were under ETH. Us looking barely any better than a relegation team is on Amorim.
 
Withnail said:
Casemiro was a panic buy wasn't he? I thought that's what had been reported since.
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No, he wasn't.

We was in contact with him long before it was reported we were in for him. After the brentford game his signing got accelerated, you could say that is an element of panicking, but at the time we were chasing De Jong if I remember correctly and when it looked like it weren't happening we pulled the trigger on Casemiro.
 
Bertie Wooster said:
It's a good point. And like you say, it covers both windows of the season not just January.

We've been desperate for goals for a good few years now, and so far the signings over the two windows for INEOS have been about 95% defensive minded players, with just Zirkzee as attack minded.

We've signed Mazraoui, Yoro, De Ligt, Heaven, Leon, Dorgu for defence. DM's Ugarte and Kone as the only midfielders. And more creative than scorer Zirkzee as the only attack minded player.

That's 1 out of 9, and he's not a #9 or a proven scorer.

That's been a very poor choice of distribution of signings. We knew we had ongoing problems scoring, and yet have pretty much neglected that problem in both windows. And guess what happens? We continue to have trouble scoring and it's looking like a nightmare season.

The excuse 'not making mistakes of the past' would ring more true if they'd successfully corrected the ongoing striker problem, and not made the same mistake by leaving us blunt up top once again. The only difference if they've made no attempt to solve it, rather than a tried and failed one. I was rather hoping all those people had been employed so that the difference would be that we'd try and succeed instead.
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a big part of it was gambling on rashford scoring more than last season and expecting hojlund to develop. remember that we started the season with ten hag, who seemed very comfortable playing hojlund up top, with some mix of wide players from rashford, antony, garnacho, and amad who he played far less than he should. i think we gambled that hojlund and rashford would both hit 15-20 and the garnacho and bruno would be around 10+, then added zirkzee to make up some shortfall from last season. got it all wrong obviously.

trying to be more positive, out of the 9 you listed, i would say most are the profile of player we hoped for. a mix of solid established players and young potential. we did desperately need defenders and a dm, but again, i thought it was very clear we needed an experienced striker who might even be a sub but some sort of plan b.
 
Dannn411 said:
Right now, I really think our ceiling is 16th. Spurs, Everton and West Ham are all within 3 points of us and are all better teams. I expect them all to jump ahead of us in the table after our next loss to Spurs. Wolves are also better than we are but are far away enough (10 points) that we can hopefully somehow hold 16th. Well on track for the second worst season in the 147-year history of Manchester United. Shameful.
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And the worst part is Amorim is getting a free pass, he needs to start wining games or he can go to with Berrada!
 
Woziak said:
And the worst part is Amorim is getting a free pass, he needs to start wining games or he can go to with Berrada!
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I mean, he's clearly not getting a free pass when you see the pages and pages of dreck posted in the Utd forum, but yeah that's "the worst part" :)
 
Gazza said:
I mean, he's clearly not getting a free pass when you see the pages and pages of dreck posted in the Utd forum, but yeah that's "the worst part" :)
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Losing 54% of your PL games will do that, no other big team in Europe would tolerate that loss rate in their domestic League, SJR is not patient, if he doesn’t stop losing games he’ll be gone before the summer!
 
Woziak said:
Losing 54% of your PL games will do that, no other big team in Europe would tolerate that loss rate in their domestic League, SJR is not patient, if he doesn’t stop losing games he’ll be gone before the summer!
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So, your initial point was nonsense? Glad we agree!
 
Woziak said:
Losing 54% of your PL games will do that, no other big team in Europe would tolerate that loss rate in their domestic League, SJR is not patient, if he doesn’t stop losing games he’ll be gone before the summer!
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He's not going anywhere before the summer. Obviously. He'll be given a fair crack at next season too. The desperation and childish impatience is pretty laughable.
 
SER19 said:
We desperately needed a striker, but we signed Dorgu, Leon and Heaven. Sometimes maybe we need to simply look at our signings to see our strategy and it looks as if we've done what many have wanted for years. Signed younger hungry players that can be developed.

Don't get me wrong I want fast improvement too, but the time to sign a top striker was last summer
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They will.....we desperately need wingbacks. One down, one to go.
 
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