Have they spent any money?
Transfer Tweets - Summer 2017 | Keep it on topic
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Chelsea won't deal with us after the Lukaku incident, not a chance.
Bunch of empty talk. Nothing that we don't know and they don't seem all that sure we've outbid them.
Only because we nabbed Lukaku, suck it Chelsea.
Know this done but nevertheless interesting
I'm intrigued.
The guy just covers his bases by saying it's almost done BUT Monaco are impatient and might look elsewhere.
Well, I didn't have to wait long for that.
The eternal optimist in me wonders if we simply put the Griezman transfer on hold around about the time things started progressing with Lukaku.
He's not even close to our most talented player, Pogba and De Gea are more talented. Also he was marginalised because he was fecking piss. Rashford was working harder both off the pitch and on it, which is why he was preferred. Everyone's crying about Martial's treatment, ask yourself, if he was half as talented as some on here would make you believe, that position would be his, no questions asked.
He's had one good season ffs, was good but hardly a superstar at Monaco, came to United and was played with the ball into his feet constantly, being the main man. Not every manager he's going to play with throughout the course of his career is going to play boring possession football, he needs to adapt. Jose Mourinho is the most successful manager remaining of our era, he's a winner, it's not his job to adapt to Martial who has achieved feck all. No manager can implement a system to get the best out of every single player in the squad, especially when he didn't even sign the majority of them, that's wishful thinking.
Either he does what the manager expects of him, or he continues to be marginalised for players who will. People forget Martial was given plenty of chances last season, he was basically undroppable at the start of the season, despite continuing to disappoint. Jose came in with different tactics, attacking the space, breaking with pace etc. and Martial's looked terrible. SAF didn't play posession based football either, would you lot have complained if SAF expected him to adapt as well? In fact SAF was no stranger to making his wingers track back either. I remember so many people on here would argue that Nani's unwillingness to track back was one of his worst traits. (Which was a myth btw, he would track back) Rashford struggled throughout the season but worked his ass off and began to understand, he basically carried us to a Europa League with his individual brilliance. For all this talent Martial seems to possess, quite funny a youth product is showing him up.
I'm a big fan of Martial, but if he fails here it's not Jose's fault, it's his and his alone. Especially if he's as talented as everyone on here is saying. All manager's have favourites. SAF dropping Nani from the RW when he was having the season of his life to accomodate Valencia, Guardiola dropping one of the best EPL strikers of the past decade, the list goes on. Its down to those players to adapt to what the manager expects, to improve. If they can't, that's a shame, but no player except Messi is irreplaceable. Martial isn't even the best upcoming French talent, in fact he's not even the best French talent in the Manchester United squad.
Martial is going to work under a lot of different managers in his career, especially with the rate that they get sacked at these days, he's not always going to play in systems with pretty passes and balls into his feet for 90 minutes, he needs to add more to his game, it's that simple. Is it Jose's fault for not teaching him in training? Who knows, that's a completely different argument, we don't see them in training. I find it very hard to believe he doesn't though, looking at Rashford's improvement towards the end of the season.
Footballers are made through a combination of hard work, overcoming adversity and talent. If fecking Ronaldo wasn't talented enough not to work his ass off and adapt, neither is Martial.
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He does know 50+5 = 55 right?
Click-click-boom
I assume he means they want it up front
Feels like Inter's asking price goes up 5M every time we up our offer 5M
Costa to Juve done deal for 46m.
Edit: Forget to say, loan for 6m then obligation buy for 40.
5m add on is a stupidly low amount for a 50m transfer.
He is clueless
He is clueless
Interesting, I personally read it as long winded way of saying we have agreed to pay what Inter Milan want but without actually saying it to cover his back. I smell bullsh#t.
Does anyone NOT think we're after a couple more players? Seems obvious to me, just by looking at our squad.
Got to be Mendes, right? unless Mino has other marquee names we dont yet have.
Can't wait to sign Sanchez tomorrow.
I wonder which agent he could possibly be on about? We may as well just look at a list of Raiola clients instead of reading the papers
Collymore was asked in what positions?