Transfer Tweets - Summer 2015 | Stop Spamming - Discussion Should Relate to Tweets
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Was on the cards.Madrid know they can get him on a free next season and are not to fussed.Just hope De Gea knuckles down and puts it behind him.
If £30m of that is spent on Otamendi then that'd leave us 45m to spend on a quality striker, only problem is none of them are available.
What a bellend. It's been said a million times by everyone high up at the club. There's no set budget, we spend what we need to spend.
There's no way Woodward has at any time said to Van Gaal "well you've only got £75m left so spend it wisely."
Van Gaal confirming more signings is good but I hope business is done soon since there will be a massive wave of fake transfer news.
Possibly means more that we've planned to spend about 75m, rather than a limit, and can spend more freely should an opportunity arise.
Good, now we can have a world class GK for another season. Madrid can do one. Hope they get a transfer ban next season.
DDG stays, we buy CB and a striker, everybody happy.
Madrid are an impatient club that prides itself on assmebling the best players whatever the price so i just dont see them capping their spending at €25 million for one of the best keepers in the world (and undoubtedly the best keeper they can buy). I think they will be fussed and will receive heat from a lot of fans if they don't spend big to bring DDG in to replace Casillas.
Yes. LvG and Woody probably thinks that they can get a CB and a striker for a combined 60-75m, but they are willing to spend more if a player such as Bale becomes available.
LvG's comment that we are looking to sign two more players is interesting. My interpretation is that we will keep De Gea and sign a striker and a CB.
The CB will most likely be Otamendi and I think they will try hard to sign Kane. We will get Otamendi in the end but Kane is more doubtful. So who is the back up? Cavani?
if anything, PL players surely are the proven ones to cope with the rhythm
You do realise we will have planned budgets/ forecasts?
IMO we're not in for a striker. Didn't LvG rubbish the links to Cavani et all? Plus, today's reports that Chicharito isn't for sale.
The two positions are CB and the backup GK.
The two positions are CB and the backup GK.
Yay!
"There is no budget, there is money. We are in a very strong financial position. We can make big signings. That doesn't mean we are going to throw money around. Louis is the manager. We have a lot of scouting output through the last 12 months that is flagging various things to us."
We give very vague forecasts to shareholders as the market is impossible to predict. We literally say that we "expect to spend a lot of money in this window on player acquisitions".
If DDG is staying we are in for a striker.
Our performances next season with DDG at the back are worth more to us than £17m (or whatever it works out at)!
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Yes, but it's worded in such a way that there might be a question mark over the ones he's looking at, so probably non PL proven.
Nicolas Gaitan it seems...
more seriously. because "I have to have confidence that he can cope with the rhythm of the Premier League", surely a PL target should not be out of the question?
I wouldn't hold much credence to the 'Hernandez staying' reports just yet. He was behind Rooney, van Persie, Falcao, Welbeck and Wilson in the pecking order last year and look what's happened to three of those. LVG isn't a fan it's quite obvious.
I reckon he'll leave, but we're looking at acquiring a striker first.
I doubt that. LvG already emphasised that we had too many strikers last season, and also said that there is just one spot for a striker in the starting lineup.
He also said something about Romero, about it being a process. We'll be getting a backup keeper regardless of De Gea
By saying we need to improve two positions he could just as easily mean back up keeper & CB, those two are certainties to be bought for, the striker less so imo.
That's all true but I dont think going into season with Rooney, Wilson and Chicharito is very smat imo.
I expect Romero will be one of the two, to replace Valdes. The other one will most likely be a centre-back, so that would mean Otamendi, whom I've been expecting us to sign once he's back from his holiday.
Letting RVP go without bringing in another striker seems risking to me - Rooney will get injured at some point this season, and he will go through a bad patch of form, so if Hernandez and Wilson or perhaps a player like Memphis out-of-position are the alternative options then I'm not if that is enough. But of course there are limited available options for strikers on the market anyway, so maybe risking it for a season in the hope of something better next summer is the thinking?
Letting RVP go without bringing in another striker seems risking to me - Rooney will get injured at some point this season, and he will go through a bad patch of form, so if Hernandez and Wilson or perhaps a player like Memphis out-of-position are the alternative options then I'm not if that is enough. But of course there are limited available options for strikers on the market anyway, so maybe risking it for a season in the hope of something better next summer is the thinking?
Stones to Chelsea would make a lot of sense. I rate the guy but I think we might opt for someone more experienced, such as Otamendi.
Signing a striker wouldn't surprise me. I'm just thinking that the "at least two positions" he refers to in the interview are GK and CB. Striker is probably third in priority.
At times you have to give up. We need an experienced defender, not an another young one with high potential. When we sign that experienced defender (Otamendi) then we will have four senior defenders in our team, which is enough.
Signing another one is pointless unless one of Smalling, Jones or Rojo leaves. And neither of them is going to leave this summer.
Yeah, could be that.
Not sure we are willing to leave anything to chance for next season least of all a goal scorer.
I would bet my house that LvG will play Januzaj in the striker role during the tour, it was only a few months back that there was a bit of talk about trying to convert him into a CF, I would have doubts myself but it's the sort of thing LvG would try, Depay will no doubt get some CF time too.
If LvG thinks it can work then Rooney, Januzaj, Hernandez, and Depay (multi tasking) might be the way we go.
I'd doubt he'd include a backup keeper in a list like that.
Rather wonder what happened there. Were there injuries involved in his dip in form 13-14? Or was it because Bony was brought in? Not sure if he's a headcase, but maybe that 12-13 season got to his head.
I think we will be in for a striker.LVG said he told RVP that he was no longer needed, he didn't push for a move himself.I don't LVG would let him go without getting a replacement, RVP would have been very useful as a backup.
I think we're overanalysing LVG's words, he's simply giving us a bit of insight as to why it isn't as simple as identifying a good player and saying "we want him".
There's lots of factors in determining player suitability, including their prospective ability to adapt to the PL. That doesn't discount PL players; in fact, if anything, it gives the good ones a leg-up as they're 'score' well when being analysed.
There's lots of factors in determining player suitability, including their prospective ability to adapt to the PL. That doesn't discount PL players; in fact, if anything, it gives the good ones a leg-up as they're 'score' well when being analysed.
That's what the transfer windows are for.
This Delph story is weird, if true. Has he got the hump because they're selling Benteke, or have they just chucked more money at him?
Rojo looks the least accomplished of the three. I seriously don't think we should let go of a talent like Stones, especially considering that Jones has not set the world alight either. Stones already looks like he could be the next best English CB at 21.
That is as difficult as it was being United's second best midfielder a few years ago.
If we decide to sell one of Jones/Rojo in order to make room for Stones then fine (I rate Stones higher than both, at least in potential) but Stones + Otamendi + our three senior defenders (assuming that Evans leaves) is overkill.
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