Your favorite summer window post-Fergie?

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And you don't have to consider the actual results of those transfers in the end. I'm talking purely about the level of joy and hope you felt in a summer window (Without the power of hindsight).

Which summer window got you the most excited after Fergie's retirement?

I got quite excited with the prospect of Pogba coming home in 2016. Having Zlatan, Pogba, Mkhytarian and Baily arriving all in 1 window felt like we were finally gonna have a solid spine for our team. Ole's last summer window also got a lot of buzz due to Ronaldo coming back, on top of Sancho and Varane.
 
The window where we signed Di Maria and Falcao and a couple other guys was the most exciting for me. As far as I remember, that was the first summer where we really started throwing the money around. Signing the best player from the CL final for a then club record. Signing a striker who I thought would recover his form and become one of the best around again. Herrera was exciting. Shaw was exciting and the heir to Evra. It all looked so promising. I remember thinking "Rooney, RVP and Falcao. Man this is something special" Maybe a part of that is at that time I was less jaded by the constant let downs and false dawns of the last decade that continued to follow. I feel like, if I was the same person for both transfer windows, I would have been more excited, or at least equally excited, with the Varane/Ronaldo/Sancho window, but it just didn't feel the same.
 
When we signed falcao - that was epic. the season didnt go so well though.
 
2021. Ronaldo, Varane and Sancho. Should've been the signings to take us to a new level.
 
Both summer windows with Van Gaal. Di Maria & Falcao especially in the first season.

Then second, Schweinsteiger and shortly after, Schneiderlin - remember highlights of him dominating City and was adamant he'd be perfect for our midfield :(
 
Last season, really. As I was already excited by the manager appointment, and really liked the key signings - especially the surprise of getting Casemiro!

Before then, probably 2016/17 and 2017/18. As I'd been gutted to see Pogba leave and achieving such success elsewhere, so was delighted to see him back. I'd also always been a fan of Sanchez even before he played for Barcelona and Arsenal, so was really hoping he'd be a success with us. Both proved major disappointments. :(

Also very excited when we signed Zlatan. And liked the signings of Lukaku and Mkhitaryan - at least until reading an article about how the latter was a quiet, shy person and there were some doubts as to how he'd take to life at a huge club like United - which proved valid.
 
Pogback.

It ended horribly but why do people forget he was world class at one point.
 
RedDevilCanuck said:
It ended horribly but why do people forget he was world class at one point.
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Because people are dumb. I don't particularly rate Pogba, but you'd be a fool to not recognize his talent in his younger days. Young-ish Pogba and Zlatan in the same window is pure hype.
 
At the time the one where LVG signed 6 years players. Felt like we meant business and it was exciting to have so many shiny toys. In reality it was shit of course.
 
When we signed Ibrahimovic, Pogba and Mkhitaryan. I genuinely thought we had turned a corner that summer with Zlatan being (to a lesser extent) the second coming of Van Persie, Pogba the next Keane-Scholes combined and Mkhitaryan the newest shiny toy from hipster Dortmund. The season that follows still remains as my favourite post-Fergie, too.
 
In the context of the time of the window, signing Sancho, Varane and Ronaldo after finishing second the season prior felt like we were moving back towards competing and the fact that we'd signed 3 top class players. obviously that season ended up being one of the worst post-Fergie seasons.

In the context of my favourite window after the season had finished, last year's was pretty unreal. Martinez and casemiro are top class operators and real fan favourites. Eriksen is a solid player. Malacia and Antony are decent prospects who can be relied upon to play now and make an impact, whilst also having big futures ahead of them.
 
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Really tough one because Zlatan and Schweinsteiger were two of my favourite players before we signed them so I dunno who I was more excited about.
 
Fav at the time was 2015 which turned out the worst. Looking back the best was last Summer.
 
tentan said:
2021. Ronaldo, Varane and Sancho. Should've been the signings to take us to a new level.
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that window was borderline criminal though

signing those three when kept McT as first choice was shocking management
 
Kopral Jono said:
When we signed Ibrahimovic, Pogba and Mkhitaryan. I genuinely thought we had turned a corner that summer with Zlatan being (to a lesser extent) the second coming of Van Persie, Pogba the next Keane-Scholes combined and Mkhitaryan the newest shiny toy from hipster Dortmund. The season that follows still remains as my favourite post-Fergie, too.
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Yep was gonna say the same, and that season thought we were onto something
 
Kopral Jono said:
When we signed Ibrahimovic, Pogba and Mkhitaryan. I genuinely thought we had turned a corner that summer with Zlatan being (to a lesser extent) the second coming of Van Persie, Pogba the next Keane-Scholes combined and Mkhitaryan the newest shiny toy from hipster Dortmund. The season that follows still remains as my favourite post-Fergie, too.
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Same
 
At the time – Pogba, Zlatan, Mkhitaryan and Bailly for sure. A significant improvement in every line & a good mix of youth and experience.

As a singular transfer it has to be Di Maria. That entire window was quite good on paper as well – Rojo aside who I knew from his time at Spartak Moscow... and maybe Falcao, I really didn't get why people expected him to be at his best.
 
Tarrou said:
that window was borderline criminal though

signing those three when kept McT as first choice was shocking management
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I wasn't very happy with the window either. I was sure we would get Sancho and a mid. Especially when Ole had started playing Pogba at left midfield.
 
The summer of 2019. Got married, went on honeymoon to France. It was a grand old time.
 
The summer when we got Zlatan, Pogba, Bailly and Mkhitaryan. It felt like the perfect window. We addressed our creativity issues with Pogba and Mkhi. Got ourselves a goalscorer and a young CB.
 
Blind, Di Maria, Falcao, what a window, can't believe that was almost 10 years ago.
 
You look at the names listed each window and it’s more striking than ever that we haven’t once gone out there and addressed our weaknesses with any real conviction.

We’re always playing catch up from the summer before, until we have new problems and have to go out and solve them.

Even this summer will be the same. We’ll bring in Onana and we should also bring in a striker, but the squad still has holes.

A year down the line and we’re still going to need a right back, and genuine alternatives for Casemiro and Varane.

It’s frustrating.

Anyway, back to the actual point of the thread, I’m going to say the Schmidfield summer. Those signings made a hell of a lot of sense on paper. We were finally buying the right sorts of profiles, apparently. It shows what we know, I’d say…
 
Right now it’s shaping up to be this one. The manager showed last season that he had a clear plan and has evolved us considerably. We are getting deals done quickly and early (despite usual Caf rumblings), and most of all we are signing players to address clear deficiencies in the squad and the players the manager wants. Think both Onana and Mount will be transformative in the way we play, especially with regards to playing out from the back, playing a high line, and pressing aggressively from the front. For some reason this excites me more than any other window in a long time, because it feels that more than names, we are buying to a clear plan.

Of course, we have to sign a striker to bring it home. So much depends on that. So I’ll reserve judgement for now. Give me any of Hojlund, Ramos, Felix, or Vlahovic and I’ll be happy.
 
All of them :wenger: but definitely the one with Pogba and Zlatan.
 
2013 when we targeted Fabregas, Thiago and Baines and ended up buying the great felliani paying more instead of trigging his buy out clause. What a brilliant window that was.
 
As an interested outside observer I thought the Reds near me were most giddy about the summer when Ibra arrived.
 
Probably last summer’s window, as it was the most coherent in terms of what the manager wanted and how the signings adjusted to ten Hag’s playing style. The rest have been a scatter gun approach of pushing star players or other inferior targets on to managers.
 
Varane, Ronaldo, Sancho and Lee Grant awoken the sleeping muppet in me.
 
2016 was my favourite. The signing of Ibrahimovic was class but to get Pogba back was pretty epic after a whole summer of stories about whether we were signing him or not. I’m then a bit town between the summers of 2017 and 2021. 2017 was great as we were back in the champions league and thought we could have a good run in the window, we got Lukaku while he was hot property which was great at the time. 2021 saw Varane, Sancho and Ronaldo arrive which felt amazing and might give us the extra edge to challenge for the title but the season was an utter disaster thereafter.
 
Cloud7 said:
"Rooney, RVP and Falcao.
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Hindsight is a wonderful. But by that time I already felt that Rooney was, while still good, a bit of a hindrance. I suppose the best way to describe my view of Rooney, I’d say from even earlier than that was how many view DDG now. The game had evolved and he was no longer suitable for it at a top team. RVP was already past 30. So I didn’t see those 3 being a great combination.

But I was very excited by Falcao’s arrival and thought he’d edge them out under LVG system. While the injury undoubtedly effected his ability, I think he was very unlucky and a lot of it was more about confidence. I remember in his first 3-5 matches he hit the post or cross bar in almost every match. After that he seemed to drop off. Who knows if a few of them went in, things might have ended up differently.

The most disappointing window for me was Ole’s last window. Because it had so much potential to be a great window. Diallo, Varane, Sancho, all we needed was a CDM. But then we signed Ronaldo and I just knew how that was going to end. Again because at 36, while still a goal scorer, he had become the DDG of strikers.

Most exciting window I think Mourinho’s first year felt complete. Bailey, Mkhitaryan, Pogba , and Zlatan while ETH first window gave a sense of eagerness and anticipation to see
 
Most exciting for me was summer 2016. Mkhitaryan, Ibrahimovic and POGBA.

I followed Pogba closley in the youth teams, watched him live a few times, had earmarked him as a dead cert for the first team.

To bring him back after his spell at Juventus I was as hyped as the next fan! that Stormzy announcement video too!!

I thought he would be world class for us and a driving force in our midfield for years to come.....How wrong was I :lol:
 
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