When will we stop being crap?

[gaffs]

It's not as bad as you're all making out. Yes we're crap, no doubt about it, yes, we need some serious surgery, but we have a lot of the right pieces.

Our main issues are LB, ST and CM x2.

GK - Onana will do for now, but this summer or the next he should be replaced if he has not become a consistent player by then.

RB - This is Maz's best position, we should play him there, not shoe horn him to fit gaps elsewhere. Dalot can be a backup/Rotation/competitor or we can sell him and buy a replacement.

CB - De Ligt, Yoro and Martinez seem like a good back 3. Evans, Maguire, Lindelof will be off. Need to find another CB or two to help them out. Shaw could be a LCB next season, part time of course.

LB - Number 1 priority. Alphonso Davies should be our top target, chuck mega bucks at him, he's worth it. We ought to buy back Fernandez too. Move on Malacia and Shaw.

CM - Number 1 priority also. Ugarte is the only one who is a regular now. Mainoo is a work in progress in this system. Casemiro should be a rotation option only. We need 2 central midfielders this summer ready to go into the first team. They need to be hard working, defensively capable and creative. Zubimendi springs to mind, someone of that sort of calibre.

AM - We have Bruno, Mount, Amad, Garnacho, Rashford, Sancho and Antony for these positions. Sancho, Antony and Mount should be sold. if we can get buyers for Rashford he should be sold too. Amad and Bruno are first choice, Garnacho is a work in progress and I think realstically next seasons we will have Mount and Rashford too. What i'd love to see is us flog Mount and Rashford too and get in Kvaratskhelia the summer after next.

CF - the third number 1 priority. All three of our CF's are between rubbish, meh and promising on their best day. I love Marcus Rashford but for me he's a limited player and like a bad smell at times. He's inconsistent and in his prime years - this is as good as it'll ever get. We have Zirkzee and Hojlund, when we really needed a Kane or an Osimhen. Lets hope we get Gyokeres and he doesn't turn out to be another nearly man. In my personal opinion, we should sign Osimhen.

I think if we get these 4 players in the summer, we can challenge for top 4 if they work out, and if we can get 2-3 more next summer, (GK, Kvaratskhelia, another top CB), we could look to have a squad that would challenge for the league. No more West Ham/Spurs style signings.

Maz is not a wing back. Nothing like an Amorim wing back.

Kvaratskhelia - you want a winger when we Amorim wants 2x10s ?

Three number 1 priorities?

 

[Tallis]

Being "crap" is subjective. I think we will become more consistent and move into top 6-7 by the end of this season. Things can change quickly. Look at where Chelsea were 18 months ago.

Winning the league is another matter though.

 

[MancunianAngels]

When the Glazers all die of old age. Then we might have a chance

That might help but the club has always been something of a basket case. Fergie and Martin Edwards (for all his faults) stabilised a lot in the 90s but there was always loads of issues in the 2000s that were ignored because the team was doing well on the pitch.

As I said further up, we need a manager that can, on the face of it, run the team/club like Fergie did. More things might need to be delegated compared to 15 years ago but the club needs to go back to basics a little bit.

From the playing/coaching perspective, most of our issues are psychological. You need a strong manager to help with that. Whether Amorim can be that remains to be seen but I have my doubts.

Being "crap" is subjective. I think we will become more consistent and move into top 6-7 by the end of this season. Things can change quickly. Look at where Chelsea were 18 months ago.

Winning the league is another matter though.

We could win the league next season with even a modest 3 or 4 new signings. My prediction for the rest of this decade is one team won't dominants like city have done or like United did. We may even see another shhvj Leicester style winner.

That's ultimately going to open the door.

 

[Woziak]

Wow!

That all reads as insane to me, we've no money to bring players in so none of that will happen.

We’ll have money because as soon as we sell Rashford it’s pure 100% profit so the club can easily go spend £200m again, I’ll explain if you buy 4 young elite players for £200m on 5 year contracts it’s basically £40m on your book for PSR/FSP per year , so if we sell Rashford who cost us nothing for £40m , then your books are balanced, we won’t be paying £200m in the summer but more like £55-70m as all new players purchases will be on yearly instalments however we’ll have to pay £15-20m upfront in Agent Fees. If we sold Garnaucho and Rashford for £90m combined we could spend £300m providing we have at least £80-100m available for down payments and agent fees.

The bigger concern right now is the rolling three year allowance of £105/115m allowed as a net loss over a 3 year period, we are very close to that line so we will want players sold and payments up front, then try and buy on 3/4 year instalments plan.