Are you happy?

[Jev]

It's hard to complain too much in a summer when you've kept De Gea and signed Depay, Darmian, Schweinsteiger, Martial and Schneiderlin.

But I think our attack is still lightweight and I can see it continue to disappoint, which is a shame.

Still, that is a lot of players in one window.

Keeping DDG is not an achievement. It's a simple matter of turning down bids.

It would be cause for celebration if we had managed to motivate him. Instead, it's very likely that LVG's handling of the situation and this deadline farce has done exactly the opposite and we have, for one more season, a sulking, unmotivated goalkeeper who will leave us for free next summer.

 

[Ixion]

I'm not sure we'll be any closer to winning the league this season than we were last, I expect City to stroll to the title and we'll battle for 4th. Last year was supposed to be Van Gaal settling in and this year we'd challenge but I'm very skeptical. Van Gaal is gambling everything on Rooney and from what I've seen in the first four league games it's not going to pay off.

 

[Judas]

Can't see us as challengers for the title, so honestly I can't say I'm that happy.

 

[amolbhatia50k]

Keeping DDG is not an achievement. It's a simple matter of turning down bids. It would be cause for celebration if we had managed to motivate him. Instead, it's very likely that LVG's handling of the situation and this deadline farce has done exactly the opposite and we have, for one more season, a sulking, unmotivated goalkeeper who will leave us for free next summer.

Did I say it was an achievement? He's a great keeper and we have him as part of our squad regardless. Fergie couldn't keep Ronaldo motivated so I'm not sure why you have an issue with regards to De Gea's motivation levels. Also, "farce"? Whose farce? Real Madrid's where they couldn't get the keeper they wanted? Continue having digs for the sake of it I guess.

 

[lem8sh]

We'll reap the rewards of this window next year, whether LVG is here to see it is another matter.

 

[Mr Anderson]

Content enough. Worried if Rooney doesn't find his form or gets injured, where out main goal threat is. We are a bit thin also in terms of depth. If Smalling gets injured that is another big concern.

Defence is ok. Fullbacks are great and give us a good shape usually. Midfield is solid enough, as mentioned above forwards is an issue for a proper goal scorer who will get 25+ if Rooney doesn't show up or gets injured.

Time will tell. Hope Louis goes a bit easier on training sessions.

 

[Von Mistelroum]

We'll reap the rewards of this window next year, whether LVG is here to see it is another matter.

I'd go along with this. I am really excited about the futures of Martial and Memphis and I think Schneiderlin will get even better for us too but this season will be rough.

 

[prath92]

in the squad list that Damien posted,


weak forward line,
wide players are weak,
Midfield is sound,
Keeper is sound if De Gea plays,
Defence is just ok but injuries and we would be in trouble

With injuries anybody would be. Doesn't mean we can for instance buy 4 more CBs in case one happens to be injured. We have 5 CB options including McNair. If you look at all PL sides, they have less than that. It's a competitive CB line.

 

[noodlehair]

Based purely on the players we've brought in, I'd be fairly pleased. They are not random computer game signings like last year. They all offer something the squad needed.

But...when you add in the players being sold, forced out, forced out but then not sold, isolated but not sold, put in the first team and then sold, sold and then not sold, etc. Then it degraded into somewhat of a farce that makes the club look like it's run by a bunch of maniacle crackheads. We've created as many problems for ourselves as we've solved.

We have no right winger, no goalkeeper, no centreback, and when Rooney gets injured our back up is a teenager who regardless of how good he is, wont be ready for that level of responsibility. All of these problems were somewhat solvable, at least in the short term, with players who we already had at the club.

 

[Summit]

Goalkeepers
1. De Gea
20. Romero
50. Johnstone

Defenders
CBs:
4. Jones
5. Rojo
12. Smalling
17. Blind
33. McNair

LB:
23. Shaw (+ Rojo/Blind)

RBs:
25. Valencia
36. Darmian

Midfielders
Central:
16. Carrick
21. Herrera
28. Schneiderlin
31. Schweinsteiger

Wide:
7. Memphis
8. Mata
18. Young
35. Lingard
44. Pereira

Forwards
9. Martial
10. Rooney
19. Wilson
27. Fellaini

Not bad, hopefully we'll see a lot more of Lingard this season as well. When you list the team like that it's clear we do have options, but my concerns were always the CB's. We have let a couple go and I feel we are going to leave ourselves short when the inevitable injuries hit us. Put it this way, we had Carrick filling in last season when we had Evans and Blackett on our books.

 

[Stookie]

Glad the deadwood has gone including Januzai. If he turns t to be a world beater we can get him back. Think we've been dry bummed in the last signing. He's gonna have to be pretty amazing to prove otherwise. Overall 5/10.

 

[prath92]

2 short for me.

Desperately needed a striker as it is obvious he doesn't rate Wilson, unless we have someone else in the reserves?

Should have kept Adnan, can't believe he has gone after being a main starter since Villa.

Can thus squad honestly compete when the games come thick and fast, our bench was already short of options, thought we would take a punt on Pato.

If we had a no suspension / injury cheat we would be fine but I suspect at some point this season, our line ups are going to look odd.

If he didn't rate someone he would have gone. Wilson started vs Liverpool. He is rated.

 

[0161_UNITED]

Well, I can't say I'm unhappy, but it was a strange, strange window. The midfield reinforcements were amazing, Darmian has put Valencia firmly on the bench. Depay looks the business. Except for Valdes and De Gea we've moved on those who aren't wanted or don't want to be here. Keeping DeGea is weird. It could go well or be a catastrophe. I love the Martial signing - I don't think Rooney needs a strike partner, so much as United need a long term replacement.

Agree that our squad is thin, though. These must be the players that LvG thinks he can work with now (Valdes excluded). It's definitely his team now. There's ample opportunity for the youth, sorry Juice, to make an impact.

Ultimately I'm happy because I think this is the squad that LvG wants. I'll be livid though if he starts whining about not having balance now, or moaning about not having Bale or Muller, or the like. Whether you love or loathe Woodward - it's a big ask to extract those 2 or Lewandowsky. It's damn near asking the impossible - we can't force a club to sell.

I see it as being LvG's team now. No excuses anymore. No more lack of balance in the team. No more talk about the lack of balance or selection defining his tactics. The philosophy needs to be put to the test. I want results and performances now.

 

[Eyepopper]

Overall yes, we finally have a midfield.

Can't help but feel we will suffer from not buying a CB - although I think LVG rates McNair very highly - injury to Smalling and we're in trouble.

Also would have liked to have seen a right winger come in.

I just hope we know what we're doing because on first glance we look light in a number of areas.

 

[Sam]

Based purely on the players we've brought in, I'd be fairly pleased. They are not random computer game signings like last year. They all offer something the squad needed.

But...when you add in the players being sold, forced out, forced out but then not sold, isolated but not sold, put in the first team and then sold, sold and then not sold, etc. Then it degraded into somewhat of a farce that makes the club look like it's run by a bunch of maniacle crackheads. We've created as many problems for ourselves as we've solved.

We have no right winger, no goalkeeper, no centreback, and when Rooney gets injured our back up is a teenager who regardless of how good he is, wont be ready for that level of responsibility. All of these problems were somewhat solvable, at least in the short term, with players who we already had at the club.

 

[Will Absolute]

No. The job wasn't done. We made a good, if unspectacular, start; then it all turned to shit.

After the first batch of signings, LvG himself said we needed to strengthen in at least 2 (which means 3 in my book) positions. I don't believe he meant a crap goalkeeper on a free, and a super-expensive 19 year old. Unsurprisingly, Woodward failed to deliver.

Starting from a better position, City made 3 top quality acquisitions. I'm not sure any of our purchases are of the highest calibre (Martial may be in the future, but that won't help us compete for the Premiership in the coming season).

Surely, even looking through the most rose-tinted spectacles, we haven't made up much, if any, ground on City. If not this window, when?

 

[Irrational.]

It's been a good window. Once our signings bed in and Rooney returns to form, we'll wonder what all the fuss was about.

 

[acnumber9]

With Fellaini and two 19 years olds as back up to an underperforming Rooney. Not at all happy. As if the team wasn't struggling to score goals already. This season is going to be a long, hard slog.

 

[Ixion]

If he didn't rate someone he would have gone. Wilson started vs Liverpool. He is rated.

How many games did he start after that?

 

[NK86]

Come to think of it, the happiest would be Rooney. No more competition for his starting place in the line up. I cannot believe we sold Hernandez and bought in just a teenager who is unlikely to make an impact this season.

Wonder what is it that LVG discusses with Rooney?

 

[hobbers]

Schweinsteiger
Schneiderlin
Depay
Darmian
Martial
Romero
Keeping De Gea

Ignoring fees and reputations, if someone had said that would be our summer I'd have bitten their hand off.

On the other hand, De Gea and Rojo have been shafted and we can't afford for that to continue as they both make up our best eleven. Blind has been adapted to a position in which he is completely unsuited. Januzaj has been shafted as well and all I'll say about that is there had better not be a fecking buy clause in that loan deal. Rooney also seems untouchable despite 3 shit performances as the lone striker.

 

[Roman Bellic]

Yes, we have removed the deadwood and managed to sign players that fit perfectly into our system.

Now the system MUST work.

 

[RedRonaldo]

Overall I am happy

Schweinsteiger, Schneiderlin, Darmian, Depay and Martial (De Gea and Romero)

A mix of world class experience, top performer, solid and great potential too

 

[shivab]

250m spent. one look at the squad and only one world class player is on it and thats De Gea. Something is very wrong there. We need attacking players that striker fear in the opposition. At the moment we dont have that.

 

[prath92]

Did I say it was an achievement? He's a great keeper and we have him as part of our squad regardless. Fergie couldn't keep Ronaldo motivated so I'm not sure why you have an issue with regards to De Gea's motivation levels. Also, "farce"? Whose farce? Real Madrid's where they couldn't get the keeper they wanted? Continue having digs for the sake of it I guess.

Is that guy blaming van gaal for the transfer not going through? Wow.

 

[MyOnlySolskjaer]

On paper we've had one hell of a Summer.

 

[Summit]

With Fellaini and two 19 years olds as back up to an underperforming Rooney. Not at all happy. As if the team wasn't struggling to score goals already. This season is going to be a long, hard slog.

It doesn't matter if they are 19 tbh, if they are good enough and produce what's needed, that's what matters.

 

[SammyUnited_83]

If he didn't rate someone he would have gone. Wilson started vs Liverpool. He is rated.

Genuine question, where has he been this year? Injured?

Just strikes me that LvG doesn't have too much faith in him.

 

[Burrow]

Very happy! We corrected the gaps in the squad we've been talking about all last season and got great players in. We got two of the most exciting talents in the world, though I dont really care about the fees that we're paying. Shame to see Rafael leave, though Darmian is proving to be a great purchase. Schneiderlin has been great, and BFS will be one of the true leaders in the squad.

I could do without getting hyped by the "we got bigger things than Pedro lined up" or whatever it was leaked that Woodward was saying, but there is just way to much behind to scenes to know whats actually going on. Hopefully our thin squad means that Louis wants some of our youngsters to be given a shot, and that we'll play with an establised first XI most of the games.

 

[acnumber9]

It doesn't matter if they are 19 tbh, if they are good enough and produce what's needed, that's what matters.

That's true but how many 19 years olds can do what we require them to?

 

[Lewis.no.9]

Us not buying a RW and someone better in defence will probably be the "reason" given at the end of the season when we dont win anything.

Griezmann should of been purchased ontop of a CB and we need to get tough with Rooney. None of which happened so I predict another frustratingly poor season

 

[Summit]

That's true but how many 19 years olds can do what we require them to?

We have witnessed a couple at United, so don't rule it out.

 

[shivab]

Us not buying a RW and someone better in defence will probably be the "reason" given at the end of the season when we dont win anything.

Griezmann should of been purchased ontop of a CB and we need to get tough with Rooney. None of which happened so I predict another frustratingly poor season

we might end up buying one of those players in jan

 

[Annihilate Now!]

It doesn't matter if they are 19 tbh, if they are good enough and produce what's needed, that's what matters.

If they're good enough already then that's fantastic obviously... but if they struggle/need time to grow, we can hardly criticise them either... but yet, we're sort of relying on them too produce right now.

 

[prath92]

Genuine question, where has he been this year? Injured?

Just strikes me that LvG doesn't have too much faith in him.

You can play 11 players. We play with one striker. We probably were willing to let him go on loan to develop himself if we got another striker but we didn't and he is here. Don't see where you get the 'he doesn't rate him' part.

 

[hobbers]

Also looking at Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal's summers makes ours look even better. Arsenal have had a mare. Liverpool have made more Brendan-esque signings and Chelsea have failed to significantly improve.

City have paid big money but all three of their signings have big question marks. Sterling went missing a hell of a lot last season. De Bruyne could just as easily be the next Kagawa. Otamendi was never regarded as a top defender until last season, and La Liga to the Prem is one hell of a step up for a defender.

 

[Bugzy]

Imagine saying it was a good window when no CB was signed, our #1 was Sampdoria #2 who got released and we have Juan Mata on the wings.

 

[Castia]

Started off great with Darmian, Schmidfield (sorry) and Memphis. We also sold the right players, I'm not sad to see any of our players leave but what we failed to do is replace them, our squad is incredibly light that's what worries me. If we could have got Otamendi and Pedro it would have been incredible but we are taking a risk with such a small squad.

 

[Hed Zitin]

I'm very pleased with the players we bought and a massive bonus De Gea is still here.

We need a CB, just like we did last season. As soon as Smalling is injured we are weaker.

Depending on where Martial plays, wide or up front, we are left short. I don't like Mata out wide. I find it frustrating watching him be incapable of taking anyone on and getting in behind a defence. So if he plays up front we need a winger and we need a striker obviously if he doesn't play up front.

Not great Januzaj went and Hernandez without another player coming in.

I don't think we have enough goals in the side, but we have a big rebuild ongoing and that Moyes window has really cost us and set us back.

 

[Cina]

We finally solved our midfield problems and then proceeded to rip our attack to shreds and make that a massive problem area instead, all the while fecking about with our goalkeepers.

Not particularly, no.