INREOS and sticking within budgets
We must buy the next Yamal
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love your work, horsey.
It's funny he slags off Evans
We can buy anyone, but when we don't get our first choice, we just spend the same amount the top choice would cost on a lesser choice to make everyone think whomever we bought is on par with the one we missed out on. Genius plan.
No thanks. He will slow the development of Amad and Garnacho.
If fans spent less time moaning and more time making babies there would be a greater talent pool for the future.
Or even more moaning cnuts in the future
I thought this said "shoot" and I was about to call the police on you
I bet ETH hasn’t even thought about it the Pep Guardiola is my idol.
Yamal jr
You can no longer buy players under 18 from outside the UK, I think. We hit gold with Garnacho before the rules came in. Now it's a case of buying emerging players like Yoro and Zirkzee, and youth players in the UK.
We must buy the next Cole Palmer
Why could just buy Cole Palmer and Yamal. Ratcliffe is loaded. The stingy wee bastard.
If each fan donates a tenner we'd have enough to buy Yamal.
83,000,000 fans * tenner = 830,000,000 million to spend on Yamal and other world class talents.
You said several times that United are the richest club in the world, but I don't think they are, I think that's Madrid.
Players like Yamal won't come to United, its just not appealing enough. World class players rarely come to the club in their prime, just doesn't happen.
If Yamal has a stellar career, he'll come when he's past it, 29yrs old, looking for a last 4yr contract, with his best years behind him, like Ibra and Cavani. He'll then get crocked 18 months into it on 400k a week.
Players like Yamal won't come to United, its just not appealing enough. World class players rarely come to the club in their prime, just doesn't happen.
If Yamal has a stellar career, he'll come when he's past it, 29yrs old, looking for a last 4yr contract, with his best years behind him, like Ibra and Cavani. He'll then get crocked 18 months into it on 400k a week.
Was Zlatan a good signing?
That’s how you anoint the next Homelander.
We already have a talent in the level of Yamal in Lenny Yoro... nicked him from under Real Madrid's nose.
We did overhaul our scouting and recruiting of youth players under Ole and started developing them through the loans system, with a view to them progressing into the first team or being sold. It takes a number of years for this type of strategy to start showing signs of success and you can see that happening the last couple of years.
We signed the likes of Kambwala, Hannibal, Alvaro Carreras, Garnacho, McNeil and Hugill at the start of this process.More recently we have signed Collyer, Amass, Chido Obi Martin, Sekou Kone and Samuel Lusale.
All of these players were rated really highly at youth level and we poached them from top clubs. Some will make it in the first team and others will not, that's the reality of the step up from youth level to first team football.
The hope is that out of all these players you discover a Lamine Yamal but it happens very rarely!
We signed the likes of Kambwala, Hannibal, Alvaro Carreras, Garnacho, McNeil and Hugill at the start of this process.More recently we have signed Collyer, Amass, Chido Obi Martin, Sekou Kone and Samuel Lusale.
All of these players were rated really highly at youth level and we poached them from top clubs. Some will make it in the first team and others will not, that's the reality of the step up from youth level to first team football.
The hope is that out of all these players you discover a Lamine Yamal but it happens very rarely!
United tried hard to get Jude Bellingham. You win some lose some.
We must buy the next Jude Bellingham.
Jobe? I think there might be a Jebidiah after that
We must buy the next Sir Alex.
Yamal wouldn’t turn out anywhere near as good if he played for us. He’d have a couple of bad games in this dysfunctional mess of a club and the fans would be slagging him off as not good enough and desperate to sell him as part of the “dead wood” clear out next summer. Already Mainoo is getting it in the neck from out support.
You can, they just can’t come to the team until they are 18. As of yesterday, Chelsea owns like 60% of the playing population under 18 in South America …. Was starting to lose count
De Jong is nowhere near the best. Same for Raphina.
True. Clubs have found ways around that rule.
We should sign the next Jesus. The omnipotent deity, not the emoji-faced Arsenal player.
He has the power to create regens, so that's player signings taken care of. He can heal the sick, so that's Luke Shaw back on the pitch. He can turn water into wine, so that's a fortune saved on hospitaility. Good with tech, pretty much invented tablets.
On the downside, doesn't always respond well to orders. Strong dislike of crosses. May think he's bigger than the club
He has the power to create regens, so that's player signings taken care of. He can heal the sick, so that's Luke Shaw back on the pitch. He can turn water into wine, so that's a fortune saved on hospitaility. Good with tech, pretty much invented tablets.
On the downside, doesn't always respond well to orders. Strong dislike of crosses. May think he's bigger than the club
It's not without its risks though. About 20% of the players @Bluelion7 mentions will probably get some kind of injury that details them by the time they join, while roughly 97.8% will be full blown crocks once United sign them from Chelsea as a PSR solid.
We will talk about it, that's for sure.
We must hope for another busby babes or class of 92. Or get lucky like the Rooney and Ronaldo signings.
Superstars don't want to come here. Cold and damp. No yachts and crazy clubs. No oil money.
Superstars don't want to come here. Cold and damp. No yachts and crazy clubs. No oil money.
We must buy the next “We must buy the next…” thread.
We should also buy the next Ronaldo and the next Messi.
Imagine this trident:
Next Ronaldo/Next Messi/Next Yamal
We would be unbeatable.
Imagine this trident:
Next Ronaldo/Next Messi/Next Yamal
We would be unbeatable.
Let's not blame bad luck or geographical reasons for where we are at right now in terms of player quality.
Don't think it's only luck back in the day with Rooney and Ronaldo. Fergie usually got it right with at least 1 of 2/3 transfers. That's not luck it's just doing a great job.
Also superstars would come here, if only we would have a good team again and compete for major trophies every year.
We bought and have Garnacho, no?
Excellent stuff Horsey, you almost had me.
For those who are scratching their head, behold this thread from nearly a decade ago
Nearly perfect replica word for word:
For those who are scratching their head, behold this thread from nearly a decade ago
Nearly perfect replica word for word:
So you'd be fine if we sold the next Jaap Stam?
Haven't read the ten pages, but the sentiment is correct, which is why I like our recruitment this summer. No amount of money is getting the very best players out of Real, Bayern and Barca - so it's either settle for inferior squads or catch them early.
It's a shame that, while we had at least traditionally been at the top of the queue for British talent that can reach that level, the last two that moved in Bellingham and Palmer have gone elsewhere.
Despite the hundreds of millions we have spent recently to try and return to the top, I still think our route back will be through the longer game of watching Zirkzee, Yoro, Mainoo and Amad grow into top players. Of course there are others too, and some of those cost good money anyway, but my point is it is a longer game that will work for us, perhaps as it always has.
It's a shame that, while we had at least traditionally been at the top of the queue for British talent that can reach that level, the last two that moved in Bellingham and Palmer have gone elsewhere.
Despite the hundreds of millions we have spent recently to try and return to the top, I still think our route back will be through the longer game of watching Zirkzee, Yoro, Mainoo and Amad grow into top players. Of course there are others too, and some of those cost good money anyway, but my point is it is a longer game that will work for us, perhaps as it always has.
We already did that, but luckily Super Jonny Evans came back.