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El Zoido said:
Gary's right, but those players have to want to join you as well.
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Gary is wrong, because:

- We signed Luke Shaw instead of Felipe Luis, he is 10 years younger and have been brilliant in the same frame of time Felipe Luis became a good player.
- Fabregas girlfriend wants to stay in London.
- Kroos wouldn't have signed for us last summer and even less this summer without europe.
- Bale would have cost us 20% more.
 
I'd quite like that one.

Nani needs to go somewhere to build some confidence and rediscover his talent. Going home would help.
 
JPRouve said:
Gary is wrong, because:

- We signed Luke Shaw instead of Felipe Luis, he is 10 years younger and have been brilliant in the same frame of time Felipe Luis became a good player.
- Fabregas girlfriend wants to stay in London.
- Kroos wouldn't have signed for us last summer and even less this summer without europe.
- Bale would have cost us 20% more.
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Neville praised Shaw to high heaven in his programme notes on Saturday. I've no idea why he's bought Felipe Luis' name into any point he was making.
 
JPRouve said:
Gary is wrong, because:

- We signed Luke Shaw instead of Felipe Luis, he is 10 years younger and have been brilliant in the same frame of time Felipe Luis became a good player.
- Fabregas girlfriend wants to stay in London.
- Kroos wouldn't have signed for us last summer and even less this summer without europe.
- Bale would have cost us 20% more.
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There is no point in taking Neville at face value on United. At the start of last season he said we didn't need to spend and quickly changed his tune in January, and now he's trying to say we should go for our own version of the Galacticos.
 
Do we have any tweets this burgeoning Fabregas discussion is related to?

If no, then perhaps talk about it in the football forum where it belongs.
 
Woah
moonred said:
Why don't you cry alone, preferably away from the twitter discussion thread?
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Dwazza Van Hernandez said:
Do we have any tweets this burgeoning Fabregas discussion is related to?

If no, then perhaps talk about it in the football forum where it belongs.
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Crikey calm down. Was only making a quick statement. I'll leave it out of your beloved twitter thread from now on then.
 
Silverman said:
Woah




Crikey calm down. Was only making a quick statement. I'll leave it out of your beloved twitter thread from now on then.
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I am calm, just doing my job telling posters who are derailing a thread with irrelevant information to take it elsewhere. I can thread ban you if you like?
 
Adnan said:
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You can say what you like about how we've done out business, or lack thereof. This final two weeks will certainly be interesting.

Also, this quote :rolleyes:

With United, one player deal that was at a tentative stage this summer is said to have never got off the ground because of a difference of about two million pounds.
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sullydnl said:
Even ignoring any question over Delaney's reliability it really is hard to argue with his analysis of the situation.
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In what way? Just as an aside, van Gaal's neck looks rather large in that image.
 
LonelyFire said:
He's a good journalist. The bit about a deal not moving over 2m says everything. The vermaelen stuff is incredible.
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But Arsenal wouldn't sell to us by all accounts, or wanted Jones/Smalling in exchange, what could we do?

.........Personally I'd have given them Smalling but I'm in the minority I guess.
 
It genuinely makes me laugh how we've actually come to the table to do our business in the last two weeks of the transfer window. Herrera and Shaw do not count. One took 12 months and the other was a teenager that was purchased for well over his actual value that even moneybags Chelsea (who needed a left back) baulked at it.

I literally can not believe the club didn't learn from the mistakes of last season. Flabbergasted and astounded are words that don't describe the half of it. I mean what was the club/Woodward thinking? United have become a circus in the last 12 months or so and all the things we used to laugh at other clubs for being.
 
DWelbz19 said:
In what way? Just as an aside, van Gaal's neck looks rather large in that image.
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I mean it's pretty much impossible to argue with any of this:

It is now United who cannot afford to wait. They basically have two weeks to try and complete the entirety of their summer transfer plans.

Although this window is still not expected to be as bad as last year it simply remains remarkable that a badly needed overhaul that had been planned since January comes down to the frantic final fortnight.

United may have signed Luke Shaw and Ander Herrera, but both of those deals were effectively finalised last season following months of negotiation and only needed to be signed off once the market opened. As such, the club have not made any tangible progress on a deal in this window.

Now they must cram it all into two weeks and we have this striking situation: the Premier League club that needed to do the most business to reach an acceptable level have so far done the least.

The short time left also poses another key question. Given the complete lethargy with which United have moved in the three windows since Ed Woodward succeeded David Gill as executive vice-chariman, is it actually realistic to expect them to now do so much in such a short space of time? It certainly doesn't make for the strongest bargaining position.

It's hard not to think United will come up short of what is so urgently required, even if another two or three signings or made. That would be lamentable and could well be a wasted opportunity, particularly with all the momentum a genuine innovator like Van Gaal has generated.

Either way, it is simply stunning that one of the biggest and wealthiest clubs in the world has endured such a confusing difficulty in actually signing players. The starkest sign of that is that a midfield problem area has now also become a defensive problem area, purely because of an inability to go out and buy who they need.

While United of course need Di Maria, they also need more than gloss. They need to improve the team as a whole. They need to end the problems of the last two windows, and quick.

There's no time to wait.
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It sums up our current position quite well, I think. Fairly common sense point of view.
 
C'est Moi Cantona said:
But Arsenal wouldn't sell to us by all accounts, or wanted Jones/Smalling in exchange, what could we do?

.........Personally I'd have given them Smalling but I'm in the minority I guess.
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They sold us their captain, I hardly believe they wouldn't have sold a player that couldn't get in the side had we put up the money.

And giving them Smalling would have made the entire transfer pointless, we'd be no better off. The entire point was to add a defender.
 
Delaney is right you know. Herrera was very straightforward even if there was some legal things to go through but at the end of the day it was a fixed fee transfer. The same could be said about Shaw, from what the player said the moment we came in for him, we were his only choice. Everyone knew since around April or May that Shaw would be our player, we just needed a confirmation. If you put it like that we haven't done anything this summer, it was all last season's work.
 
If woody thinks the fees quoted so far are too expensive , what the feck does he think is going to happen now in the last 2 weeks of the window?

fecking hell. What an absolute bellend he is.

Retarded planning on an epic level.
 
forevrared said:
They sold us their captain, I hardly believe they wouldn't have sold a player that couldn't get in the side had we put up the money.

And giving them Smalling would have made the entire transfer pointless, we'd be no better off. The entire point was to add a defender.
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They're in a different place financially now as to what they were 2 years ago when RVP was sold to us, no sense in offering £20 million+ for him as he isn't worth that, it's Barca coming in, and him losing his nerve that cost us.

Re Smalling his isn't first team quality, and IMO never will be.
 
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