The only incoming was an incoming dividend to the Glazers pockets
Where are the United incomings?
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Shaping up to be a glorious window for us…
Glazer’s business idea. Buy a few players for a lot of cash. Since they were very expensive they must be good. Block all outgoings and renew all contracts because it’s cheaper than buying new players.
We were never signing anybody.
No permanent manager, they are not giving an interim manager any money.
No permanent manager, they are not giving an interim manager any money.
Isn’t he supposed to be upstairs though after this to help shape the future of the club? Then what’s the point if he can’t identify and sign players that he feels will work for the club in the long term (and let’s face it, will probably be here longer than the next manager anyway). I thought the whole point of Ralf was to get some structure and stability up top with the view of forward planning regardless of who the manager is currently.
All the board members have now clocked off for the night and are at Ed's leaving party.
Maybe it'll be like the party Alan Partridge had when he left the hotel
gotta be a big summer now
Ed is giving those party bags out as we speak. Badges with his face on them. Smell my cheese
Sure it is…
We are woefully short in CM. Fred and McTominay are borderline not good enough, Pogba doesn't want to be here and is not disciplined enough to play CM and Matic is well past his sell by date and we have now let DVB go out on loan. Absolutely shocking that the team has been allowed to get in such a state.
Yet we have 4 keepers on the payroll. 3 of which will almost never play. Top teams in the league who already have better squads are strengthening. What a joke.
Yet we have 4 keepers on the payroll. 3 of which will almost never play. Top teams in the league who already have better squads are strengthening. What a joke.
Absolutely pathetic from the club once again. We've basically forfeited this season. There's always an excuse ready to be rolled out. It'll take a miracle for us to finish top 4 now. It'll be even more annoying when we miss out on Ten Haag in the summer.
Oh but it sounds like Lingard is staying.
Great.
Great.
Time to get the spin machine going and leak a load of rubbish tomorrow.
Something like "MUFC decided to wait till the summer as no long term targets weren't available. United are expecting a big window in the summer with Rice,Bellingham,Haaland etc all on their radar".
Something like "MUFC decided to wait till the summer as no long term targets weren't available. United are expecting a big window in the summer with Rice,Bellingham,Haaland etc all on their radar".
You joke but I’m desperate for him to be given a run.
Utterly woeful that we haven’t signed at least 2 midfielders , no direction at the club whatsoever , the worst times ever never seen it so bad , it doesn’t matter if we are waiting for a new manager we need to keep up the league for champions league place and the current midfield is not good enough that why the lack of goals and chances created
So am I! But it shouldn't be at the expense of midfield reinforcements which we desperately need, especially now
So why not loans then? That way we get the reinforcements we need to give us best chance of top 4. But the new manager isn’t lumbered with anyone.
Wouldn't mind Carvalho from Fulham he looks great, another steal for the scousers.
Reminds me of Sessegnon. Decent punt for an already strong team but not what we need.
100%. We are absolutely clueless. If we don’t get top 4 the only way we’ll get our big 4 targets is to overpay them. Which is the whole reason we’re in such a mess to begin with. Absolute amateurs. So sick of our board and our parasite owners.
100% followed by "Newcastle have inflated the market and we couldn't do the deals we had planned to do a shop it would be irresponsible"
I’m not fussed about bringing in shiny new toys.
Just improve on what we already have with coaching and try some of the talented kids.
It’s obvious to everyone that United need a CM but I’m sure Ralf can cope without a new one for a few months.
Just improve on what we already have with coaching and try some of the talented kids.
It’s obvious to everyone that United need a CM but I’m sure Ralf can cope without a new one for a few months.
Genuinely think its more important to sort out outgoings at the moment. But we have done nothing but loan players. Puts them in the shop window I guess, but if they dont perform even harder to sell.
Still, surprised we havent signed ANYBODY. Consider by the summer there may be no Henderson, Bailly, JOnes, DAlot, Williams, Tuanzabe, Pogba, Mata, Lingard, DeBeek, Cavani, Greenwood, Martial, Pereira, Matic.
Now obviously for different reasons with some of those names, wouldnt be adverse to any or all of them leaving and our squad needs cuttign down so not all of them need replacing and the majority of them havent been very good.....but thats a hell of a lot to do in one window. Seeing the likes of Zakaria, Aubameyang moving on free transfers, surprised nothing soter, Kamara would have been good
Still, surprised we havent signed ANYBODY. Consider by the summer there may be no Henderson, Bailly, JOnes, DAlot, Williams, Tuanzabe, Pogba, Mata, Lingard, DeBeek, Cavani, Greenwood, Martial, Pereira, Matic.
Now obviously for different reasons with some of those names, wouldnt be adverse to any or all of them leaving and our squad needs cuttign down so not all of them need replacing and the majority of them havent been very good.....but thats a hell of a lot to do in one window. Seeing the likes of Zakaria, Aubameyang moving on free transfers, surprised nothing soter, Kamara would have been good
Glazeritis alert. Mild outbreak. Should improve with summer weather
I never expected any. I don't know who people thought we were going to buy in January that would significantly improve the team, especially while we have no permanent manager.
I'm not going to get annoyed we haven't signed players the majority here hadn't heard of until the nonsense links this month.
I'm not going to get annoyed we haven't signed players the majority here hadn't heard of until the nonsense links this month.
I don't understand this whole panic here.
We have Matic for now as a DM, and have Scott as his back up. We have Pogba coming back from injury. Bruno is almost never injured(knock on wood) and he has been instructed to play deeper. We have Hannibal who will offer cover to our 8's.
So far we have Matic/Fred/McTominnay/Bruno/Pogba/Mejbri for 3 midfiled spots. It's literally 2 players per spot. How much more cover do you need?
As for why "we didn't loan anybody?" Who? Who can we loan that will actually improve our starting 11? As of right now, there are no players that can be loaned and be better than Matic/Scott/Fred at the DM spot.
Why not buy someone then? Why? So the new manager that comes in does a DVB on him if he doesn't like him? We already have one DVB, we don't need another.
As things stand out board is being very tight and stingy and for good reason! We just lost Greenwood. We are losing, Lingard, Cavani and possibly Ronaldo and Pogba. We're not City. We need to save as much of our transfer kitty as possible. If we spend 25 million right now on a dud, that's 25 million we won't have during the summer.
The new manager will need a new DM, CM, CF and possible Wing Forward just of the top of the head. He will need every pound available to build his team.
We have Matic for now as a DM, and have Scott as his back up. We have Pogba coming back from injury. Bruno is almost never injured(knock on wood) and he has been instructed to play deeper. We have Hannibal who will offer cover to our 8's.
So far we have Matic/Fred/McTominnay/Bruno/Pogba/Mejbri for 3 midfiled spots. It's literally 2 players per spot. How much more cover do you need?
As for why "we didn't loan anybody?" Who? Who can we loan that will actually improve our starting 11? As of right now, there are no players that can be loaned and be better than Matic/Scott/Fred at the DM spot.
Why not buy someone then? Why? So the new manager that comes in does a DVB on him if he doesn't like him? We already have one DVB, we don't need another.
As things stand out board is being very tight and stingy and for good reason! We just lost Greenwood. We are losing, Lingard, Cavani and possibly Ronaldo and Pogba. We're not City. We need to save as much of our transfer kitty as possible. If we spend 25 million right now on a dud, that's 25 million we won't have during the summer.
The new manager will need a new DM, CM, CF and possible Wing Forward just of the top of the head. He will need every pound available to build his team.
Stop talking sense. Lets just complain to complain.
Those three barely get minutes. Why do you think they need to be replaced? So we can have another 3 players on the bench whinging about not getting minutes?
A miracle?
last time I checked we were already in the top 4?
have a sit down and breathe into a paper bag man
Very well written
So if we spend 25M now, it will be on a dud and if it is in summer, it will be on an actually good player. I understand that we need not make any panic buys on last day, but that doesn't mean we should not have shopped at all in this window.
If we go to summer and blow away 100M on the likes of Rice, then there would have been no use of "saving our transfer kitty".
But if that 25mil dropped on a panic buy player now means we don’t have 100 mil to drop on rice, we’ll be right back at square one
You are right. We are not City. We are not as good as them or as rich. Probably we will never catch them. Panic buying now won’t help.
But if you think any sensible person is going to be reassured by your list of midfield options (“don’t worry we’ve got Matic”, for a start) you’re clutching at straws somewhat.
You might as well have said “let’s write this season off”. And no-one could really argue with that.
I am not recommending panic buys, but there was so much time to plan out 1-2 transfers for the winter.
Except Pogba is still injured, and Mejbris readiness for PL is essentially speculative. We have 4 midfielders for 3 slots. Also, we have 3 wingers for 2 slots. Unless you'd plan on playing Lingard or Mata.
There's no excuse for not getting a loan or two in.
Pogba is already back in training. He is about 2-3 weeks away.
Also that's Mejbri's role. He is supposed to be cover in case everything goes tits up. Till then he will get small cameos.
It would have been nice to get just one central midfielder but it’s understandable that we haven’t bought anyone. If new guy doesn’t want him then we clearly haven’t learned from our mistakes. We need to find a style of play and system(s) that suit our squad and in the long term, it will dictate the players we should buy.
Thats what Liverpool have done and that’s why Diogo Jota slots in effortlessly and does well. Jota was purchased for a fairly modest sum by todays market prices and they didn’t go out and buy some obvious excellent individual talent like we do for a marquee price and then seemingly wonder how we fit them into the side. In terms of Solskjaer, it felt like he was trying to shoehorn in as much individual talent into a starting XI as possible and thought individual brilliance will trump over a playing system, because Ferguson did it 10 years ago.
I do like that we’ve cleared the decks though. Hopefully a big summer of activity awaits us.
Thats what Liverpool have done and that’s why Diogo Jota slots in effortlessly and does well. Jota was purchased for a fairly modest sum by todays market prices and they didn’t go out and buy some obvious excellent individual talent like we do for a marquee price and then seemingly wonder how we fit them into the side. In terms of Solskjaer, it felt like he was trying to shoehorn in as much individual talent into a starting XI as possible and thought individual brilliance will trump over a playing system, because Ferguson did it 10 years ago.
I do like that we’ve cleared the decks though. Hopefully a big summer of activity awaits us.