Signing Pogba and Lukaku for those amounts invalidates your point. We could have achieved top 4 far more cheaply.
Because the ones we have aren’t that good? All decent but no more. I think Lindelof can improve with games though.
The optimist in me says this (and again, this is the rose-tinted optimist, who is trying to enjoy summer, not get too worked up about football, one who is enjoying the single life, etc....): this off-season could be 2006 all over again. A sensible, if unglamourous midfield signing to boost a squad with a number of young players ready for lift-off, and a veteran or two poised for comeback years.
So for Carrick, read Fred; Rooney/Ronaldo, read Pogba/Lukaku (by far the most rose-tinted aspect of this); Vidic/Ferdinand, read Lindelof/Bailly; Scholes/Giggs, read Sanchez/Mata; Brown/Evra, read Valencia/Shaw (ok, that is actually the most unrealistic part!)
I have a hard time really believing any of that, but what's the point of a new season, if you can't get excited about it (rose-tinted specs or not)? There are few days more glorious than opening weekend (followed by the blue-balls of international week...)
And maybe, just maybe, Mourinho is playing possum about the whole thing, and Woodward is refusing to allow United to become a transfer-market patsy, one that pays an inflated premium just by virtue of being United. And maybe, we are going to run away with it, and do to Pep, what SAF did to Mourinho, back in that glorious season (by far my favourite as a United supporter.)
Then again, this could just be the first step in our becoming Arsenal. For Lukaku, read RVP; for Pogba, read Diaby....
I was so excited when the WC finished I was thinking “here we fecking go” floodgates will open, we’ll make some big signings like we have the last two summer windows, but bam nothing. Can the board/manager see we are crying out for new full backs and a fecking right winger? I bet even lukaku was begging for some service from the right.
Anyone else feeling that we might have a hectic (and not necessarily successful) transfer deadline day ? I have the day off work
Exactly!
Now, if you and I can work this out, why does Woodward have difficulty understanding this?
He should've tied up all the deals before the WC, even it meant paying an extra £5M. If he buys now, he'll probably need to overpay by £10M+.
The other way of thinking is that maybe we did complete all our business before the WC
Yes .We don't create enough chances and we don't score enough goals. Under Fergie we were a free flowing attacking team but in recent times the football has become unwatchable because we suck at putting the ball in the back of the net. We needed wingers this season to help with creating more chances. Not only a RW but also LW too. There are NO wingers in this team. Mata and Lingard are not good enough and lack understanding of the role. Martial and Rashford have the movement and instincts of strikers. They can't create but need other players to create the majority of chances. Sanchez tries to create but he's not that good at it. Lukaku is our best crosser and I'd suggest if we aren't going to buy wingers to put him on the RW as a stop gap option otherwise we aren't going to score the goals we need to catch up with Man City and even Liverpool. Our strike force is the weakest of the top teams imo. I'm not sure where the goals will come from.
He'll be finished by then. Hopefully he doesn't stay that long if he arrives. It's a short term signing.
There aren't only two alternatives being either signing players past their peaks or additions to the youth academy. Barcelona have signed Arthur, Lenglet and Malcom for around 90 million pounds or so. Liverpool signed Salah last season for relatively small fee. Arsenal signed possibly a very good player in Torriera for a decent fee.
As opposed to right wing and left back where we don't even have decent.
