Something a bit iffy about these Muriqi rumours I reckon. I don't believe them.
We need another forward this January
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Don't believe it. Don't believe the Slimani rumours too. This club follows a pattern when recruiting. I guarantee you a Kosovan and an Algerian are not on the agenda.
More likely we are pursuing Cavani, Werner, Milik or planning on converting Fernandes into a false 9.
I'm not going to argue with you mate, just putting it out there. No one know what way this club is going atm, so expect the unexpected.
If it’s from the Turkish media then it can be pretty much ignored.
Yes you're right. Suppose there's always a chance we're desperate enough to do something out of the regular.
I'm just bracing myself for no activity. Think inaction at this stage is the worse route for us.
He is also pretty good. He could actually lead the line for us and would provide a bit of toughness.
No he's not... not in the premier league anyway
Exactly we didnt sign him as they wanted more control on his release clause like 51M, what we lose if we get him for 20 mil and sell him for 51M after few seasons? Atleast we could have got a striker who can straight away walk into our starting line-up.Haaland was a big miss in this window. It was an absolute steal at 20Millions.
I dont understand how people still believe it was up to us? Haaland wanted to go to Dortmund because he would be more or less guaranteed a starting spot (and they get CL each year as a bonus) . All the people close to him said this the whole time. Here he would have to compete with Martial and it is a tougher league as well.
The clause was just United’s excuse when he didnt want to come.
He said no to Juve and went to RB Salzburg , that shows what his priorities are.
Last season he scored 11 goals in 37 appearances for a terrible Fulham side. And I always thought he lead the line well and would at least battle upfront.
I think he’s a player who would show a lot of growth in his game if he went to a big side
Hmm I was actually thinking the opposite, that he'd choke in a bigger side with bigger expectations. On loan I'd have no issue but 25m? Shoulda just paid that for Ben Yedder..
We need another forward this January, we need another two CM's this January and a new roof on the stadium.
Yeah but they missed that boat and multiple others. The alternatives..
He doesnt come across like a player really worries about competing with someone like Martial. He knows he can get a lot of minutes at UTD but its more down to his advisor Riola in this case.
I would want us to sign anybody apart from Werner, Dembele and Osimhen for these 5 months only, even if it is Cavani.
Well, playing time was his most important criteria, and he will get more in Dortmund than he would here. Their other no.9 is already on his way out.
Much better sign noone than the dross being mentioned in this thread now.
Zero signings
We can get Mariano Diaz from Real madrid on loan. Fast, can score goals and best of all, he is not playing for Real so I guess he really want a move
Just listened to the Athletic podcast - said that we could have gotten Ben Yedder in the summer, but because of our disorganized, indecisive and faulty recruitment team he went to Monaco instead.
How good wouldnt it be to have him now, instead of our current best scenario as of now to get a washed-up striker on loan. Makes me quite irritated.
And i would assume, Solskjær as well. He must clearly feel he is obstructed by the club itself.
How good wouldnt it be to have him now, instead of our current best scenario as of now to get a washed-up striker on loan. Makes me quite irritated.
And i would assume, Solskjær as well. He must clearly feel he is obstructed by the club itself.
We didn't get a Lukaku replacement in the summer because his transfer fee was needed to cover Maguire, not because the board didn't think we needed one and not because of Mason Greenwood.
Hence the last-ditch attempt to get Mandzukic on loan or on the cheap. We did need one and Ole did want one, but the money simply wasn't there. As it isn't now.
Hence the last-ditch attempt to get Mandzukic on loan or on the cheap. We did need one and Ole did want one, but the money simply wasn't there. As it isn't now.
Sold our main striker in the summer, our 2nd striker is injured, still we arent buying anyone. The incompetance is staggering. In a decades time folks would be studying Man Utd on how not to manage a football club. Ridiculous.
It almost feels like intentional sabotage at this point. How can you feck things up this badly? We're in top 3 most recognisable sports brands (not just football) on the planet and we're being ran like a sunday league part time club. It's incompetence at levels I have never witnessed before.
Things will get better again but not under these parasites. Can only pray they are thinking of selling soon or things will get much worse.
Be so funny if nothing materialises in this TW for us after I was rather confident we'll get atleast 2 good deals done.
Silly me.
Silly me.
It really does feel like intentional sabotage. Everyone on the caf saw our problems coming no way Woody and Ole were caught unaware. Our future looks bleak at best, we are still churning out enough cash for the Glazers, cant see them selling us for at least 3-4 years.
Woodward was supposedly an Arsenal fan as a kid I'm sure I read once. Bastard trying to bring us down from within. Hahahaha
Still vital we get one in.
we should get Olivier Giroud, he could get more starts at utd than at Chelsea.
If the money wasn't there, loaning out Rojo to a team that wanted him would have covered a loan fee for an out of favour but talented player. If we were competent we would have at least brought in Dani Ceballos or Perisic or someone like that who went on loan to another big club and would have helped us (Ceballos as our #10 keeping Pereira and Lingard on the bench or Perisic playing out wide opposite James and more of a 4-4-2 to again keep Pereira and Lingard on the bench).
complete rubbish. It keep on peddling it if you want.
It isn't. A lot of our income goes into operating costs, one of which includes the high wages which we pay players.
Just need one decent forward, and I'd be pretty confident about the rest of the season.
Giroud would be worth a punt imo. Decent established Premier League striker. Would happy to be on the bench and contribute when needed. Plus he's dreamy.
We should go for Giroud or Cavani. As it’s short term, we don’t want average players, we need some class and experience to see us through. Both players are well past their best but they would fit a mould similar to Larsson when he was here. For all you could say about Cavani’a finishing or Giroud’s work rate, they are both class acts who can do the basics such as control and passing and decision making to top class levels.
We don’t need the likes of Slimani who couldn’t even do it at Leicester or Monaco.....
We don’t need the likes of Slimani who couldn’t even do it at Leicester or Monaco.....
Slimani has 7 goals and 7 assists in 13 league games for Monaco
Barcelona make €80m offer for Monaco forward Wissam Ben Yedder - report
https://www.fourfourtwo.com/news/barcelona-monaco-wissam-ben-yedder-transfer-interest-move-offer
Just had a quick read of The Times back page tomorrow on Fernandes from the BBC gossip section and certainly doesn't sound like we are anywhere near close to signing a striker on a short term basis, maybe we are destined for a Falcao out of nowhere type of deal to gather pace on Thursday night but not going to hold my breath on that one.
I think we would have been much more interested in Cavani if the wage demands weren't so high and his injury record wasn't so much of a worry, yes I realise at 33 he is probably considered too old by many but still a class player, however looks like he has his heart set on joining Atletico.
Can see why people think Giroud could be a good short term option but looking at Romano's tweets suggests that Spurs are much closer to signing him than we are but as we have seen earlier today things can change very quickly in this transfer window.
I think we would have been much more interested in Cavani if the wage demands weren't so high and his injury record wasn't so much of a worry, yes I realise at 33 he is probably considered too old by many but still a class player, however looks like he has his heart set on joining Atletico.
Can see why people think Giroud could be a good short term option but looking at Romano's tweets suggests that Spurs are much closer to signing him than we are but as we have seen earlier today things can change very quickly in this transfer window.
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Who remembers Andrea Belotti? 
He's not having the best of seasons, and his stock has dropped as a result, but he's the joint 7th top goalscorer in Italy with 9 goals, and I believe he has 20 goals already in all competitions.
He loves an overhead kick! Reminiscent of Andy Cole
He's not having the best of seasons, and his stock has dropped as a result, but he's the joint 7th top goalscorer in Italy with 9 goals, and I believe he has 20 goals already in all competitions.
He loves an overhead kick! Reminiscent of Andy Cole
Who remembers Andrea Belotti?
He's not having the best of seasons, and his stock has dropped as a result, but he's the joint 7th top goalscorer in Italy with 9 goals, and I believe he has 20 goals already in all competitions.
He loves an overhead kick! Reminiscent of Andy Cole
16/17 season I was very excited by Belotti and one of Torino's Midfielders at the time (can't remember his name for the life of me). Not heard much about him and don't have time for much football outside England recently. But hard to imagine he has lost his finishing ability and knack of finding the right spaces. Could be worth a look into, but makes too much sense for our recruitment unfortunately.