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Tbf to Liverpool they've done a ridiculously good job in terms of the fees they've gotten for some absolutely rotten players.
Find it strange that we "only" offered 150k\week, with our fecked up wage structure he'd easily be a 200k\week player. Likely his last big contract as well so we should have pushed out the boat, would have been great to have a leader at the back again.
I'll reply this one last time, because you're just talking nonsense now.
I compared it to my job, after you started saying you work in sales, so I compared my experience to that of yours
Negotiations break down all the time, regardless of how good the negotiators are, if a club isn't willing to move on price it isn't necessarily because the buyer is a bad negotiator, again without knowing all the facts, it is impossible to apportion blame.
They're not strawman arguments at all, that is literally how the majority of the caf responds. There are very few if any that respond how you outline, just because you wrote it, doesn't make it true.
No that line of reasoning can't be extended to Moyes, he is judged on tangible results, like how far we go in cups, and our league position. They weren't good enough so he was sacked.
Ed is judged on what he does for the finances of Manchester United, which are better than they've ever been.
You can't judge him on negotiations for footballers that you have zero facts about.
I'd say his agent quoted a number that Atletico could match, got a yes and off he ran.
Atletico might have called his bluff if he asked for more.
Utd and nearly every other fecking prem did too then....
It was a general statement aimed at the same people my original post was for.
Over £20m for Ings. Wow.
One of the 10 final deal sheets to squeeze over the line:
https://www.watfordfc.com/teams/first-team/official-quina-makes-deadline-day-move
West Ham fans a bit bemused they've let him go, but he thought he'd get first-team football sooner here.
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https://www.watfordfc.com/teams/first-team/official-quina-makes-deadline-day-move
West Ham fans a bit bemused they've let him go, but he thought he'd get first-team football sooner here.
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Amazing isn't it? While the likes of Liverpool manage to sell their useless players like Ings who has scored like 3 goals in 3 years, we struggle to sell Argentina and Italy NT first choice players like Rojo and Darmian.
I miss the time when you signed players like him and Florent Pingpong Pongolle
Is the window officially over in England by now then ?
Southampton would be within their right to pull the plug next summer if thing doesn't work out, right?
Yeah. One more signing - Zouma to Everton - to be confirmed I think.
Yep.
Well, at least no more rumors is the only positive thing I guess.
Edwards is doing pretty well. Wonder what we'll get for origi and Mignolet
Rumours of outgoings, there will be
We're not going to sell any important player that we can't replace, so it'll be just the useless deadwood.Rumours of outgoings, there will be
Have we just been Ramos'ed again?!
Nice of him to only waste 20 minutes of our time in that case. Could have milked the better part of the summer.Have we just been Ramos'ed again?!
Jim White knows jack shit!
If you've ever heard him on the radio, then you'll know he's just the biggest WUM ever.
Don't want to open a new thread just for this, so I'll ask here: What's the deal with all these loans with obligations to buy? Some sort of strategy as a consequence of Financial Fair Play?
Pretty much yeah.
Talk about burning bridges...
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Martial is staying. That's good.
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Are you sure?
Not 100 percent sure. Do you have some info?Are you sure?
I only know teams from other leagues can still buy players. Still possibility for naughty stuff to happen.Not 100 percent sure. Do you have some info?
You could make an excuse for every one of Moyes' failures. Just as you're doing for Woodward.
But if you look at Moyes performance as a whole, you'll see it wasn't good enough. Just as it isn't with Woodward.
Occam's Razor is a fine thing. But when you have a trend of failures and corroborating evidence over the course of transfer window, it's the trend you use as the base evidence.
Your appeals to what-about-ism don't wash.
You're shifting the goalposts by praising Ed's handling of our finances. This discussion is about his failures in player recruitment.
The facts I have are that only 2 out of 5 signings were completed. Same as the facts you have.
Your points are all over the place and you're switching tack with every sentence. I've been consistent in talking about results over the course of the window. They're not good enough, regardless of any excuses you make about individual transfer dealings.
Incidentally, you know nothing about the contexts of the individual negotiations either. So by referring to them, you're being hypocritical. The only thing you do know about, is about the results of those individual negotiations. Overall, they've been poor. 2 out of 5: that's way below what a club would expect. Woodward has failed by the metrics of the average Chief Exec/Chairman. There's no disputing that.
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"Jose Mourinho was told by Manchester United that the club would only sign a world-class defender of the calibre of Real Madrid’s World Cup winner Raphael Varane rather than compromise with a lesser light, despite the manager’s demands otherwise. United would have paid £100 million for Varane but the World Cup winner was never available and as the options were put to them over the course of a transfer window there were too many good reasons to ignore them."Tweet
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So even when it's over, we are still getting linked with basically every CB on the planet? Was that a list of targets or simply a list of the CBs of every team that Jose handed Ed?
Mourinho wants the right player. Woodward wants a galctico. In other words, the money was there, but the decision was made above the manager's head.
United are on a hiding to nothing.
United are on a hiding to nothing.
"United have the money to do big deals. They were prepared to do exactly that to get a top player, which Varane undoubtedly is.Tweet
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Executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward would not have flinched had Real Madrid told him to write a cheque for £100m for the Frenchman"
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