Checked TM to see if I missed something. Thought for a bit that Durga wasn't official yet. But turns out, we signed a forward (as in the case that LM and LB are two separate positions, most of his games were as RW)
Which Forward will we sign or loan today? (Deadline Day)
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Great post, except for the fact it's 0% factually correct.
Now there is a smart post
No one gives a feck about some summer transfer rumor
Thanks for your reasoned response
Starting to feel very lord of the flies in here.
Surely we will sign Bebe?
or Wout Weghorst?
or Wout Weghorst?
There’s a French guy playing in Greece that might be worth a look too.
We are at 13th place, our strikers can't score goals, we are very light upfront, and that was before we loaned two forwards and brought no one to replace them
Do you really care about some rumor surrounding an 18 year old kid we might or might not sign in 6 months time? How many RBs do we need? No one gives a feck about us signing Grogu, Dooku or whatever he's called and he was signed now.
Actually a loan from any of the kids Real it's not using isn't a bad idea if Real does not fear to loose them or do not care to loose them...they should have at least give a try, nuthin to loose
It’s not about what I want. From their position I’d have left the “we are planning for the summer” story for tomorrow as it takes some heat off
You folk are getting annoyed at tiny things lately
He is right though. A rumour about some 18 year old right back wouldn't change anything.
surely Iheanacho is better than noone?
Bring back Greenwood. Ended up being better than the 120 million+ spent on the other forwards since.
The answer seems to be no one.
What are Manucho & Dong Fangzhou up to these days?
Well I’d direct both you and @devilish to his thread from a few days ago when Ornstein did the story. People were excited. Would have been better timed tomorrow, that’s all. Nothing controversial
None of the forward players we are paying to play for other clubs - Sancho, Rashford and Antony- are being replaced. Our squad right now is as weak as I can ever remember it. And weaker than when he began the season. Meanwhile other clubs, even Tottenham and West Ham are doing business. A survey was done amongst all football fans from all clubs asking who needs a good January transfer window most. The number one answer was United. And yet we have done next to nothing. I am beginning to wonder whether putting Mainoo in as a false nine was Amorim sending a message to the board. If it was, it hasn't worked.
RVP at his age now would be better than our attackers.
Well at that point we didn't know we wouldn't bring in a single striker option which was an absolute necessity. Right now the talk about a young right back joining in the summer isn't exactly calming to the huge feck up not going for a striker.
The frustrating thing is that we've had all window knowing we were short on goals, low on attacking numbers, and planning to offload two or three others.
We should have had a good list of options, and been spending the window getting into a position to activate the loans when we (finally) managed to start loaning players out.
Many are now downplaying Tel - 'the club were right to pull out of a deal for a raw 19 year old, struggling for goals and games, and who we'd only be helping develop for Bayern', etc. That's all fine - I agree he's a player we probably shouldn't have targeted. However, what that ignores is that we seem to have spent all the window with him being named as one of the two only options (along with Nkunku) that we were considering!
Why the hell spend all that time of the window coming to the conclusion that Tel was the right choice to go for, when most are now saying - probably rightly - that the club did the right thing not going for him as he wasn't the answer to our problems. The club seemed to have spent the window thinking he was, until coming to the same conclusion on transfers deadline day - and then the line is any alternative addition would be a 'panic buy'.
It wouldn't have been if we'd moved on from Tel ages ago and considered more appropriate options earlier in the window and got negotiations started, ready to proceed as soon as we could.
That sounds incompetent. Though, personally, I suspect there was never actually any intention of bringing another attacker in anyway and it was all just half hearted stuff before backing out and hiding behind the 'not making mistakes of the past' line.
We should have had a good list of options, and been spending the window getting into a position to activate the loans when we (finally) managed to start loaning players out.
Many are now downplaying Tel - 'the club were right to pull out of a deal for a raw 19 year old, struggling for goals and games, and who we'd only be helping develop for Bayern', etc. That's all fine - I agree he's a player we probably shouldn't have targeted. However, what that ignores is that we seem to have spent all the window with him being named as one of the two only options (along with Nkunku) that we were considering!
Why the hell spend all that time of the window coming to the conclusion that Tel was the right choice to go for, when most are now saying - probably rightly - that the club did the right thing not going for him as he wasn't the answer to our problems. The club seemed to have spent the window thinking he was, until coming to the same conclusion on transfers deadline day - and then the line is any alternative addition would be a 'panic buy'.
It wouldn't have been if we'd moved on from Tel ages ago and considered more appropriate options earlier in the window and got negotiations started, ready to proceed as soon as we could.
That sounds incompetent. Though, personally, I suspect there was never actually any intention of bringing another attacker in anyway and it was all just half hearted stuff before backing out and hiding behind the 'not making mistakes of the past' line.
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Posting here due to the Tel thread being locked prematurely without reason despite nothing being finalized yet...
So you're saying there's a chance?
Levy is a slimy character though and I doubt Bayern will take that kindly at the 11th hour...
So you're saying there's a chance?
Levy is a slimy character though and I doubt Bayern will take that kindly at the 11th hour...
He had absolutely no right to score that goal at the minute mark.
What a fecking player he was.
I find it really tough to watch old clips of United. Or read books that talk about the times when we were good.
Just gets me down.
Only time I could do it was when we’d just signed Varane, Sancho & Ronaldo (was that after we finished 2nd in the league too and started the next season on fire?) because I was convinced we were going to start challenging again.
I am optimistic that we will become title challengers again down the line. It’ll be easier then to look back.
What a feeling when you immediately realize our brand new signing is the best player in the team. Been a while.
Oh feck off
Apparently it’s always been the plan to sign Craig Noone from Warrington Town today….. wait *squints* …… sorry it says no one. We are going to sign no one!
Shambolic but then again so is the whole state of the club and it's owners
So we didn't get the buy option with Tel, but Spurs did.
Sounds like were cowboys. The scouting and recruitment team clearly wanted Tel, so we fecked up on the negotiation side here.
Sounds like were cowboys. The scouting and recruitment team clearly wanted Tel, so we fecked up on the negotiation side here.
Nobody is reporting that Tottenham got an option. Romano claims that Spurs wants one, doesn't mean Bayern will agree to it. They're much more likely to tell Levy to feck off with that idea, just like they did with United.
Apparently they accepted...
He already had his medical done and was in London when they insisted on changing the terms last second and Bayern uncharacteristically went with it after ending talks with us for requesting the exact same type of deal they accepted in the end.
They can feck right off in the future
Pretty sure we've agreed a buy option with Bayern
Personally I think we need to spend big and bring in Isak. I don’t know what our budget is but even if he costs 150mil. Sounds crazy but I think he’s the one.
Why was the Tel thread locked again?
I guess he would have to sit at the 18 yard box and wait for us to get there.
And we signed Cavani so this doesn’t make much sense
Yeah don’t think anyone with a sane mind would be satisfied with that.
That’s amazing to have.