Woody spoiled us, after each and every signing, we are all saying "1 or 2 more signings and we are good". We are being greedy.
No one could even dream of five signings in May, let alone 8 or 10 departures!
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) and Jamie (@Vault Dweller) are here to talk about United's dreadful home defeat at the hands of Big Ange's Tottenham Hotspur. Should this have been the end of Ten Hag? How long does he actually have left? And does Nik finally want ETH out?!
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No one could even dream of five signings in May, let alone 8 or 10 departures!
All that means is that he's not currently aware of any other incoming transfer activity..
Doesn't work like that though dies it. Blind's club still want him, we seem not to want Kagawa.
Plus, Strootman is younger and likely to demand lesser wages. LvG knows his qualities better, he also knows his medical prognosis better.
Pretty much.we can't complain about that fee at least - £14 mill sounds about right for a player like Blind
I don't think he'll play every week for that Juve team so in that case he'd either be back next summer or we'd end up negotiating a much lower price with them. Unless they're obliged to buy him for they figure next summer it's a bit rubbish.
So we may not sign anyone else, but we actually may do?
Wonderful insight from the muppet slayer.
Wonderful insight from the muppet slayer.
I guarantee someone comes available at the deadline and we make a bid. It wouldn't be the last day without a massive bid somewhere.
For all the abuse Jackson gets it looks to me like we're briefing that we're probably done.
So what begins ?
The signing of Daley Blind, been touted for months.
Have to say if that's us done then that's a slightly underwhelming window, with the exception of Di Maria.
Briefings they report like "indications from United are that their business for the summer are finished etc..". This seems more guesswork on his part.
We are signing his father too?
Seems to me to be in keeping with what he said. Likely finished but if something comes up they'll go in for them. Of course we might be steering him wrong but given how many places have reported something along those lines, or that we'll wait for Strootman, it looks like the club have been talking.
Shit it, op updated. My phone auto corrects Daley to Danny
If Milan sign van Ginkel, will they then be willing to let De Jong go and will we go in for him before the deadline?
But one is more at the "sore knee" end of the scale, and the other is at the "colossal potential career ending" end!
Christ.
We have had a terrific window, just need them all fit and to gel now. Plus get rid of the deadwood.
Who were you expecting?!
Or are you one of the people who have spent months in the Vidal thread despite the club denying it time after time.
That said we do need a world class midfielder!
One is chronical the other isn't. Strootman needed a good surgeon, a good physio and a lot of rest. Vidal needs a lot of prayer.
So he is Carricks replacement then
Replacing Vidic and Rio with Rojo leaves us weaker in defence. Replacing Evra and Büttner with Blind and Shaw at left-back leaves us overall stronger, though I still feel Evra may be the best left-back out of those four right now.
In midfield we've lost Giggs and bought Herrera. We're definitely strengthened but not as much as I had hoped and the jury is still out regarding how good Herrera actually is.
Then on the wings we've lost Nani and bought Di Maria. Massively strengthened here, wonderful.
But apart from that position, I had expected us to strengthen us more. The fact that we've overpaid to the extreme for most of the players we've bought and sold players for charity fees doesn't help.
But I guess this is just as good as it gets for a non-CL side.
Feck
Blind plays in a league where pressing is a staple diet and pressure on the ball carrier is common.
Devil May Care is positing analysis based on watching him 10 times? I've watched him for two seasons now and he is intelligent. That means he knows how to think quickly and play out of high pressure positions.
"overrun time and time again "
It's just negativity for the sake of negativity without decent fact based analysis. The equivalent of the football hipster critic who always has to have the cynical opinion.
Go take that opinion to any Ajax thread and tell them that nonsense. See how many agree with your opinion.
Devil May Care is positing analysis based on watching him 10 times? I've watched him for two seasons now and he is intelligent. That means he knows how to think quickly and play out of high pressure positions.
"overrun time and time again "
It's just negativity for the sake of negativity without decent fact based analysis. The equivalent of the football hipster critic who always has to have the cynical opinion.
Go take that opinion to any Ajax thread and tell them that nonsense. See how many agree with your opinion.
What do you expect?
It was always going to take 2 or 3 transfer windows to get us up and running properly.Why would City get Falcao? They have a great attack already. They had Aguero coming off the bench against Liverpool.
Only seen Blind as a left back not as defensive midfielder so cant really comment with any conviction. Whenever I have seen him, he has struck me as just "decent". Im not iinterested in Blind the "utility" player though we have too much of that as it is, what is he genuinely like in midfield? Also one thing is makin gme laugh our need to sign a world class midfielder. Are we all forgetting we have actually signed the player who was probably the best midfielder in the world last year? Blind/Carrick, Herrera and Di Maria isnt too shabby as a three man midfield, certainly in comparison to what we have had to witness wheeling Scholes out of retirement and since.
Compared to the last summer this has been a fantastic summer of business, as you say Di Maria the stellar signing, but Herrera, ans Shaw were massive deals for us they will prove their class as the season goes on, gotta admit not too sure about Rojo, or Blind yet, but Blind has to be an upgrade on Fletcher, Cleverley, and Anderson.
The only regret I think we will have is letting Vidic go, such a shame he isn't still here to sort that defence out.
All in all if no one else comes in I'm chuffed with this window, look forward to the departures now.
And Blind.
Dear oh fecking dear.
Perhaps you should try with counter-arguments instead of this arrogance. What is to ridiculously outlandish about what I said?
Do you believe Rojo is a better CB than Vidic?
Do you believe Shaw/Blind are considerably better right here and now than Evra?
Do you think Herrera is the world-class midfielder we had all been crying out for?
I've acknowledged that we are stronger but for 150 million, I'm sorry, but I had expected a bit more.
Vidic now is not Vidic of 5 years ago. His last season for United was not as good as people make it out to be.
Ditto Evra. He was responsible for a truckload of goals last season. Shaw/Blind can only improve while Evra is on the decline. Are you advocating keeping Evra instead of buying Shaw?
Herrera by himself? No he won't solve the midfield problem, but he's one piece of the puzzle.
I don't know what else you expect. We've addressed the majority of issues we had: LB, CB, winger, CM and a DM. Did you expect Ronaldo as well?
I can see where he is coming from, though. Still looks to be a bit lacking in top quality in CB and CM.
Signed Shaw, Rojo, Blind, Herrera and Di Maria and some people think we've had a poor window?
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