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Di Maria has his days counted in Real Madrid. United are going for him and Real Madrid are willing to sell.



he's an ESPN reporter working in Argentina. And he was a football player, played in Colombia NT along with Valderrama and Asprilla.
 
pascell said:
Those deals were sorted out by Moyes. After what Woodward said in his interview he really has let himself down again so far in this transfer window.
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Yeah but you don't know how other clubs bidding worked. You don't know how long they've been working on these deals. Once again, it's all conjecture and bollocks that is repeated so often that people believe it.
 
walsh said:
Yeah, didn't you know? Because we said we're capable of spending big money it means we should just skip any negotiating and pay over the odds immediately. That wouldn't make us a laughing stock and drive the prices we're quoted up exponentially.
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Sadly when you're Ed Woodward and you're telling the world that we can do things that other clubs can't and the fans should watch this space it kind of throws negotiating for a cheaper price out of the window.

Clubs will look at how desperate we are, look at the Adidas deal, look at the Chevrolet deal, look at all the other deals we've done to earn stupid amounts of money and then laugh in our face when we offer under what they want.

We aren't in any position to try and buy players on the cheap.
 
matherto said:
I'm fed up of it too my friend. I could very well just be venting frustrations and need to chill, can completely accept that and the likes of KM may have a much more balanced viewpoint but it isn't half annoying listening to constant speculation that we're gonna buy X and Y and then we end up with nobody and we've still got a broken midfield and a broken defence.

Said to myself at the start of this summer than I wasn't gonna get invested in transfer dealings because I hate all the bollocks in the papers and on twitter and now I'm fully invested and full on muppet. Doing my head in seeing other clubs buying great players and we're just fecked as ever.
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It is your choice to listen to all these bullshit rumours though and you could quite easily go about your day without indulging in them. Problem is though, we don't know what rumours are true, what players we are after or anything, yet you hold Man Utd/Ed in contempt for following these said rumours and being drawn in.
 
matherto said:
Sadly when you're Ed Woodward and you're telling the world that we can do things that other clubs can't and the fans should watch this space it kind of throws negotiating for a cheaper price out of the window.

Clubs will look at how desperate we are, look at the Adidas deal, look at the Chevrolet deal, look at all the other deals we've done to earn stupid amounts of money and then laugh in our face when we offer under what they want.

We aren't in any position to try and buy players on the cheap.
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We never have been, it doesn't mean you don't bother negotiating. Would be a mental, PSG-esque precedent to set.
 
walsh said:
Yeah, didn't you know? Because we said we're capable of spending big money it means we should just skip any negotiating and pay over the odds immediately. That wouldn't make us a laughing stock and drive the prices we're quoted up exponentially.
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Who even needs lawyers?
Just wire the money to their bank account straight away, after all that's all we need to do.
 
The most shocking thing about that article is that 51% of Mirror readers think we're going to win the league.
 
Ole's_toe_poke said:
Seem completely made up to me. Or more like they have been rehashed from older quotes to say something completely different.
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Would be very weird that.. It's a completely new interview.

It is a strategy of Manchester United to do that. At this moment, we have five No.9s and four No.10s – and we don’t have wingers to give us attacking width.

“Or, I should say, we don’t have wingers of the highest level, like Ronaldo or Di Maria or somebody like that. So, I have to play in another way – and you have seen that already. I only buy when I think we need to buy – in the position that is necessary.”
have to see for myself what those players are capable of before I can make any judgement – two weeks is too short to say.

“I know more now than I did when I first came to the club, but we could not train properly on tour. I cannot judge that because the squad I have inherited has not yet learned how to perform my philosophy.”

He added: “If they are at the level I want them to be, then I will sign Dutch players. Nationality isn’t something that concerns me.

“But Dutch players are usually cheaper than players of other nationalities and they have usually been very well educated in the Netherlands, I believe.

“But they have to be of a level than can play well in the English Premier League. You have to ask if that is the case with every player.”
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matherto said:
You're gonna tell me you didn't think last summer was embarrassing aren't you?

By extension last year as a whole wasn't embarrassing either eh?
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I'm never ever embarrased to be a United fan. If you are then maybe you're too sensitive for football.
 
El Zoido said:
The most shocking thing about that article is that 51% of Mirror readers think we're going to win the league.
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We'd have a chance with Di Maria, Vidal and a top quality CB that's for sure. Without no chance
 
I don't think it's a coincidence that it's Sunday tomorrow and the mirror have an interview with LVG where he's basically saying he wants di Maria, a week after saying he can't name names because their price goes up.

By the way, what happened to PSG's pursuit of di Maria? I thought he was as good as gone.
 
Ole's_toe_poke said:
Seem completely made up to me. Or more like they have been rehashed from older quotes to say something completely different.
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Yeah, those quotes sound dodgy as feck. I cannot imagine him saying "we don’t have wingers of the highest level, like Ronaldo or Di Maria or somebody like that".
 
That interview is so blatantly fake, ridiculous how they can just make up shit like that and write it.
 
I hope those LvG quotes aren't real, it sounds like he's playing down making any signings as he's still not judged the squad ><
 
Chicharito_ said:
We're Man United we don't sign superstars, we...








just don't seem to sign them.
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We can still swoop in for McCarthy and de Jong. They would add iron nails to our midfield and some extra drive and calming composure when playing against high pressing teams.

They can be our superstars.
 
At Carrington today to pick my boy up, the coach he was on got stuck in traffic so I was there 4 hours,most of the first team were there plus the manager and a lot of the young lads, the only one missing was Zaha?
 
Hernandez - BFA said:
Plus, he basically just called our wingers shit and not United quality.

Has to be fake quotes.
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He has said he needs a different type of winger if he wants to play 4-3-3 before so it's hardly an astonishing claim.
 
hebegebe said:
At Carrington today to pick my boy up, the coach he was on got stuck in traffic so I was there 4 hours,most of the first team were there plus the manager and a lot of the young lads, the only one missing was Zaha.
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Kewl stawry Brah.
 
Hernandez - BFA said:
Plus, he basically just called our wingers shit and not United quality.

Has to be fake quotes.
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They are shit though, our wing play hasn't be good for years.
I very much doubt LVG said that directly about them though. It's the mirror
 
Juventus are waiting for a bid, Fiorentina are waiting for a bid, Roma are waiting for a bid, Real are waiting for a bid, Ajax are waiting for a bid.

Might be waiting a long time...
 
walsh said:
Yeah but you don't know how other clubs bidding worked. You don't know how long they've been working on these deals. Once again, it's all conjecture and bollocks that is repeated so often that people believe it.
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Kroos & Rodriguez were simple enough for Real to sort out, they asked the respected clubs to name their price and paid it. I'd say Real spoke to Bayern and Monaco for a week maximum before agreeing the prices for the players. Let's face it if Real wanted Rodriguez before the WC they'd have got him for a much lower fee and would've had it wrapped up before he went there also.

Woodward has barely had to negotiate in this window has he? He paid the buy out clause for Herrera and offered Soton money their not going to refuse for Shaw. He's pants at selling players too, £2m for Bebe who had a great season last season, we could've got at least £4m upfront!
 
Van Gaal during the tour mentioned that he much prefers to play 4-3-3 but can not do that with this squad. He needs specialist attackers to play that and I guess he now has repeated his mantra and elaborated a bit more on it this time... and dispelled the doubt of some strongheads who believed he might have meant something other than wingers.
 
Hernandez - BFA said:
Plus, he basically just called our wingers shit and not United quality.

Has to be fake quotes.
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I remember the interview he never mentioned Ronaldo or Di Maria! He did mention specialists on the wing to give width.
Edit: it sounds similar to what he said in the pre-season interviews
 
The fact he mentions 'two weeks is too soon' suggests these are old quotes from the tour
 
Kevin said:
We can still swoop in for McCarthy and de Jong. They would add iron nails to our midfield and some extra drive and calming composure when playing against high pressing teams.

They can be our superstars.
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Superstar and De Jong should never, ever be in the same sentence, as in feckin never.
 
Does anyone really think we're in for Di Maria? I think Real are trying real hard to drum up interest in him after the PSG deal fell through..
 
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