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Not our job to help them fund their transfers
Convenient showing that now when about £120mil of that is in the last year when its become plainly obvious that we need to start spending big because our squad is poor.
Show the same list from a year ago and we would be at something like £40mil and very far down the table.
Our net spend under the Glazers first 7 years was about £54mil which is hilarious. The spending we have done the last year really is twisting things.
He's right.
If we're the only football club in the world, yes he is.
Forget last 5 years.
In less than 12 months we have spent £140m and sold Buttner+Evra+Bebe+Fabio+a couple of others and received less than £10m combined.
Fergie was GOD.
The squad is nowhere near as good as it should have been after that kind of investment.. especially when you consider we won the title the season before last.
True, although i doubt any Portuguese side will be able to pick up his wages either, unless half of his annual wages were deducted from a fee for Rojo.
Nah, Spurs wouldn't have sold to us.
They always sell high and the player is theirs. A year ago 30-40m would have been Di María's price.
Jan Hagen who wrote that is a Liverpool fan. When he was linked to Liverpool a month back he made a piece on him and raved about him. Now that it look likely that he has signed for us and he has turned to shit.
I actually have watched Sporting some and I think he will be a fans favorite, he is strong, fast and tough as hell. He gives his all in duels. He is a bit like Heinze in the matter of effort and energy and that can sometimes cause him to rush into attackers that are facing away from goal instead of taking out depth for runs around him.
When it comes to technical ability, I can't think of anyone better.
I'm actually happy about this signing.
And here we were laughing at Liverpool spending so much money.
Well obviously you have to factor in that players might not want to play for a non-Champions League club. But the money is there to spend I think.
It's only because we've spent feck all since 2009.
I dont listen to a word he says regarding United.
He was one of the main Moyes apologists last season and he stated we should have stuck with the 442, we shouldn't have bought Mata because he doesnt play the "UTD style" and he incessantly clamoured to "give Moyes more time".
Maybe now than Phil isnt on the staff he might become more objective but I doubt it.
Exactly, which is why it's a rather redundant point to make. Football transfers don't come down to simply spending money.
Tell that to PSG, Monaco or City.
Actually they were willing to sell him to us, for the same figure in pounds.
I understand this but why don't the other top clubs baulk at the structure of deals. This structure stuff doesn't just happen to Man United deals but fans on here always use it as a way of justifying us not spending. It's Madrid and one of the world best players. If it's too complicated for Ed maybe he should resign or lower his sights with regards to potential signings. He tells the world we have money to burn. The same world knows we need players desperately. What does he expect world class players at bargain prices!?
They want Falcao as well.
So you are saying that whoever picked 5 transfer windows back did not have an agenda? Because it seems strange to start the clock on a January window half way through a season, rather than the far more crucial summer window that began that season.So you're saying that 10 years suits your agenda?
So you're saying that 10 years suits your agenda?
10 transfer windows, not years.
But yeah, it does.
Half of that is down to Moyes spending on players we didn't need to.
Also shaw will go on to be a world class left sided defender. He'll be right up there with the best and far better than luis.
And we tried for fabregas and kroos it seems and they didn't want to come or it didn't work out. Not sure what Neville is trying to prove there. Sounds interesting but it's a bit stupid ultimately.
Good lad, that's more like it.
We have a tough physical centre back that hopefully isn't made of glass and can offer us top cover in the left back and wing back position. If that means no more Ashley Young in that position, I'm all for it.
Excellent signing, now let's get another central midfielder and we're good to go.
I did that in the Glazer thread.
https://www.redcafe.net/threads/so-...-blame-game-topic.394878/page-6#post-16274194
It's not justifying us not spending. We will spend more money this window, however getting ripped off for every player we go in for is stupid. Regarding players like Sanchez, Fabregas etc, they just chose other clubs over us. That's not anyone's fault.
Only seen him in the world cup, and paid attention to him as he was one of the few players for the big sides I'd actually never heard of to be honest. He looked pretty good to me, only world cup and onyl seen him as a full back.....and from that he isnt the answer to our problems. Im guessing he has been signed to play as the left footer in a back three and back up to Shaw as a wing back or left back in a back four? Hope he is good technically as one thing really worries me withour current defenders in a back three and it was already evident against Swansea, none of them are technically good ball players, which I think you need from one. Smalling could burst forward with the ball but never seemed confident in what to do with it, I guess Evans is ok at that.
As a signing Roho doesnt excite me, no rdissapoint me from what i have seen....but that is very little, no club football and probably in a position he is long term unlikely to play consistantly, but I hope you are right, if he is anything like Heinze in his first season for us.....that would be a very good thing
Exactly. We are spending big partly beacuse we didn't spend very much the 5 previous years.
The problem now is that we can't attract top players such as Kroos and that we spend too much money on players who have not turned out as expected. Our scouts are not doing a great job. I would say that we paid an 'United tax' of about 5-10m each on Fellaini, Mata, Shaw and Herrera. We only faced competition for Shaw's signature.
Gotta love the hate for Mata on here. Good Christ.
I think that they didn't count this transfer window, their calcul begin in the summer 2012.
Me too actually. Think he's underrated
Hmm, I'm confused by the numbers so.
Whilst i havent mentioned these exact players, ive been saying this for fecking ages. we've spent lots of money, very badly.
Me too
We overspent on Fellaini. Shaw, Herrera and Mata were/will be worth the money.
What we lack is selling players for good value. We should sell Nani and Fellaini for good money but we are loaning them. Then we have Hernandez, Kagawa and Cleverley who should be sold. We coud generate good money from these sales but we didn't.
What we lack is selling players for good value. We should sell Nani and Fellaini for good money but we are loaning them. Then we have Hernandez, Kagawa and Cleverley who should be sold. We coud generate good money from these sales but we didn't.
Gary's right, but those players have to want to join you as well.
You have a link to this? Hagen's a knobhead and I'd just like to see some evidence to back up my theory.
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