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Transfer Tweets - Manchester United - 2024/25
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Some stories really aren't worth posting.
Tier 2:
Horrible idea. Puts the PL at a disadvantage vs. other European leagues.
All European leagues should try to start at the same time and close the window pre-season, it makes so much more sense than starting the season with players unsettled and unsure of futures.
Yeah I don't understand why this hasn't happened yet to be honest. Protects every club from players wanting to leave whilst games are ongoing.
Kane is exactly the type of signing we would have jumped at 5 years ago. I think lessons have been learned
It kick started a whole fecking movement. It came from public pressure off the back of a video.
Every big organization you have ever heard of has changed in a variety of ways with standards and practices due to public pressure. Dont be naive.
Can we just bin off transfer windows yet?
Is that even possible?
Best to put on ignore for a few months
Insert that gif of a dog at a computer having no idea what it's doing. That's INEOS in a single image.
This is such a stupid take.
Yes businesses will make some decisions to appeal to customers and United are no different.
However, they do that because they want to make money. It’s not in the interests of the customers it’s to try to stay relevant or generate more sales.
It’s also the same for every single football club in the world so to suggest the fans are partly responsible for the last decade or so of mismanagement is moronic.
I must have missed all United fans banding together and begging the Glazers to buy us through a leveraged buy out and saddle the club with debt forever.
I must have missed the fans deciding there was no value in the market when we were selling Ronaldo and buying Obertan.
I must have missed the fans telling the club not to pay off the debt, but to instead pay £1bn of avoidable interest payments AND take on even more debt with the revolving credit facility.
Must have missed it when fans begged for Fellaini (for more than his buyout from a week before) instead of Toni Kroos.
You get the point… they’re a business it’s their job to appeal to the fans/customers sure, but to suggest the fans are in any way responsible for what they have done to this club is so stupid.
Was terrible then, would be terrible now.
Kane for free will be good, perhaps as a veteran striker on his last 1 year contract at the end of his career as our 3rd striker, coming form the bench, would be a good story for him, but we definitely need someone with legs and hungrier than just a pure goalscorer.
Good idea. There are a bunch of characters I'd be happy to not see in here.How about a character limit?
Tier 3:
What an absolute nothing article from the rat. Why wouldn’t we still be interested in Quenda? Yes, Dorgu played on the right on his debut but he’s clearly been signed to play LWB long term and Quenda will obviously play RWB if he is signed. Slow news day for the M.E.N it seems.
Quenda currently playing on the left, both Dorgu and Quenda capable of playing left or right
Quenda played RWB under Amorim at Sporting, you’d imagine he’d play there for us as well and if he were to sign. Dorgu although capable of playing on the right was brought in to play LWB. The whole idea that we’d cool our interest in Quenda because of that is nonsense when we clearly need more attacking options in both wing back positions. This is just Luckhurst knocking out a Utd related article for the sake of it to generate clicks.
Every manager we hired bought few expensive players to suit his 'style' and we have had great trouble playing them / offloading them after the manager was sacked.
I hope club has some vision and prioritizes it instead of buying whatever manager says. If Amorim is sacked and new manager likes 4 at the back, we suddenly have two attacking wing-backs who cant be played as wingers nor as fullback.
Quenda is probably very likely to develop into a great winger, wouldn't worry about that
Yeah, there's a difference between the usual examples of buying players that are no better than what the club has, but are just former players / connections with the new manager so it's much more about him just wanting 'his' players in instead; Or, buying a player regarded as one of the most highly rated young players in the world - so goes along with the clubs new policy of targeting those kinds of player - and who is also a former player of the new manager on top of that.
If we mostly start targeting former Sporting players / players with a Portuguese link then it's a familiar pattern and a worrying sign for our new structure which should be tracking targets from all over the world.
But if, along with more signings along the lines of Dorgu, Heaven, Leon, Kone we also target just one or two of the elite signings from Sporting - such as Quenda and Gyokeres - then I don't see an issue with that (apart from can we afford them?)
I am guessing United are looking at Quenda, Frimpong, Dalot and Dogru as the 4 rotating full backs. Not going to be cheap as we need a striker.
We are not signing 3 wing backs in the space of 6 months.
Where are those Frimpong links from?
There were rumors end of last year when Amorim came in that we will go for him. I haven't seen anything since but he is probably the best right footed wing back that can actually be available. So I am just guessing we go for him considering our interest in the past.
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I would prefer him over Quenda although most wouldnt agree.
I can certainly see a couple of good arguments in support of that: he'd be a ready made signing arriving in his prime, rather than another very promising project teenager.
And he'd add some balance as a quality right footed WB, rather than adding a third quality left footed one and having just the two much weaker right footed ones.
However given there's no real links to him then it all seems moot.
I'd be happy to see us sign either of them though, as 8 of out 9 signings so far have been in the CB/WB/CDM areas, and only 1 in the attacking three spots, then I'm really hoping those attacking areas will take priority in the summer and we'll finally start improving our ongoing scoring issues.
I think in a combo with a finisher like Gyokeres/Osimhen, Frimpong would contribute a lot to attack. I agree with all of your arguments.
I agree. Frimpong carries a lot of attacking threat and is rapid as all hell. He'd certainly give opposition teams pause for concern playing a high line. He's brave in taking on his man and delivering a good cross.
A perfect window IMO would be Gkyokeres, Frimpong, Ederson and Quenda. Obviously depends if we can get rid of Rashford, Casemiro and Sancho.
Knowing how we do business, we’d wait for Frimpong to turn 30 before making a bid for him to contribute to this retirement fund.
I don’t see why not apart from finances - we’ve lost Malacia, Shaw and Anthony and are in desperate need of depth and quality in wide positions. And reinforcing at WB effectively gives us extra cover at RCB with Mazraoui, and also helps us at 10 by freeing up Amad to play further forward.