Fair enough. Can you imagine if we spent £60 million on Cavani and then PSG use that money to buy Vidal? This place would be cheerful for a while.
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The transfer makes no sense, I'm usually excited at being linked with good players but I'm the exact opposite with Cavani, it's a complete waste of money.
I suspect he's just used as a PR line. Notice that the day after the Moyes sacking, his name was getting thrown about again at a very convenient time?
Woodward is a Glazer appointment. It goes completely against the Glazer's interest to spend such a huge fee on a player that the manager doesn't particularly want, who plays in a position that we're strong in. They're business men at the the end of the day and the transfer makes zero sense from both a footballing standpoint and a business one.
Jesus Christ.
Absolute bollocks. Why would he be running around trying to sign players of his own accord?
Are you being serious???
Read the tweet again!!
Yeah I know he's claiming it's been translated but if it had been it'd be completely different & again, he's the first person to report it.
Thought that Alex Shaw was known for spouting shite anyway but wasn't sure if it was him or one of the many others.
Maybe we are buying Cavani and also planing to invest in other parts off our team. If chicha leaves, RVP/Rooney/Wellback/Cavani - we don't have champions league but injuries happen, nothing wrong with having 3 world class players/strikers in our ranks. If the club can afford it, no problem.
Good post. X100, or whatever that shite thing is people post when they really agee with something.
No because it will dictate the way we play, having to accommodate a player on 300k a week, a £60m striker and presumably our next captain in RvP is a recipe for disaster. Then you throw in the Mata problem and how we go about fitting him and even Kagawa in the mix and its a complete mess.
We should be looking to drop 1-2 strikers if anything and improve our midfield and wingers along with our defence, pretty much every single position except goalkeeper and striker could do with an upgrade.
Who gives a feck what Mitten says? Is he The Oracle?
You'll post any old shite to perpetuate the myth that anyone but Moyes was to blame for our clusterfeck last summer.
I really cannot seriously comprehend why some posters on here actually believe that Woodward would sign a player without LvG's agreement, incredible
Cutting through all the crazy paper talk and such, I wonder realistically how many deals we are trying to conduct at the moment? As each day passes I become convinced nothing is happening until the World Cup is over.
Because they're retarded.
Where did that Woodward rumour even come from?
I think we don't need to worry about how to accommodate Cavani. If Van gall wants hime and our interest is not media bullshit, then I am sure Van gaal is aware off Rooney/RVP situation and he will have a plan to keep all off his attacking players happy. He is experience enough to know these sort off signings can destabilise the whole squad. But I understand your concern, it does look a bit confusing, fitting Cavani with our current strikers.
No he isn't but he's pretty clued up. He's probably the only journalist to have an interview with Woodward.
Why wouldn't he? All he needs to do is check in with the caf and he has all the information about who he needs to sign and how much he is allowed to pay. Additionally, what formation LvG needs to play is all here.
Simples!
True. Good thinking. It's on!
Did we have van Gaals blessing when we were persuing him months ago? Journalists have been saying since then that Cavani is a target that Woodward wants to happen. I don't believe for a second that van Gaal wants to add another expensive striker to our ranks, he's got enough issues to deal with in that position as it is. Luke Shaw is another signing that is obviously one the club wanted to make, regardless of who the next manager would be.
He's as clued up as any other bullshitter when he has papers and online subscriptions to sell to gullible morons.
You just described me thereI reckon we should save complaining about signing Cavani until such time as we sign him. That way it will be more special.
But you're here telling us what is and isn't true. What the feck do you know?
I don't think he'll come here in the end. He's more chance of ousting Zlatan than breaking up the RVP and LVG partnership. Nobody will start ahead of RVP, no matter how good they are.
I agree. How anyone can believe something so ridiculous is beyond me. To think that Van Gaal would simply work with the players Woodward signs for him is mind bogglingly stupid.
We are all basically thinking the same, some are better at controlling their emotions than others. Passion for your team is very much allowed.
Ah, journalists are saying it so it's happening, and definitely all Woodward's doing.
You're not even subtle anymore. Give it a rest, it's tedious.
I wonder how many of the players we had previously been linked with and possibly made in-roads to sign under the previous two managers Van Gaal would fancy? For example, the resurfaced link with Ander Herrera? Is that more paper talk or is there something to it?
I can confirm that it is definitely one or the other.
Do you think so chief, I mean Woodward is not really in a position to force his signing on Van gaal. We finished 7th - We need to get back to top 4 (obvious) I think fro now Van gaal is in total control off our transfers, maybe once we are up and running Woodward can sign his "star" player.
As much as you and anyone else.
Because I've read from a good source (would need to look it up) that he wants a superstar signing.
I even found it. http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/apr/23/manchester-united-edinson-cavani-cesc-fabregas
1. LvG wasn't our manager months ago 2. Don't really care what journalists are saying 3. If Luke Shaw is a signing the club still wants to make then it will be because LvG has said he is Ok with it, otherwise it won't happen
You can picture the scene: LvG returns from the WC, first day at United, Woodward comes up to him and says " Welcome to United and Surprise! I've blown all the transfer budget on a few players I quite fancied buying myself." LvG replies "Oh, wonderful and it's not even my birthday!" Then the fairy godmother ran away with the goblins- I mean what happened to the real world!!!
No, because van Gaal wasn't the manager, David Moyes was.
My best guess is everything that we read is just paper talk as LvG is completely focused on Holland now. Excepting the Dutch players who he could easily recruit in private at this moment, I doubt Woodward is going to proceed with anything until the WC is over - unless of course LvG has already given the go ahead to a player or two who aren't involved in the WC (like that Ukrainian player for example). Otherwise, I wouldn't expect any business until mid July at a minimum.
If this Cavani thing is true then I wouldn't be surprised at all if its a Woodward thing rather then a Van Gaal thing. Think he really wants to do a marquee signing just to prove people wrong or whatever. Really hope it doesn't happen though. Would be a bigger waste of money then Fellaini was.
Firstly, there is a difference between lining up a deal for one of the best players in the World who would walk into any team before presenting it to the manager and just going after someone he fancies as a good player and a big signing. Secondly, even in this circumstance, van Gaal would 100% have to sign off on/agree to/authorise the signing before it was completed.
Even saying that, I doubt wholeheartedly that Woodward would venture from the list of specific names given to him by the team's manager. Woodward is a business man, not a football man and, contrary to popular belief, he did not obtain this high profile job by being an idiot and therefore would be aware of this.
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