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In hindsight should have tried a deal of moise Keane and cancelo for lukaku
Keane? No. Cancelo maybe. We have several young forwards trying to break through to the first team unless it's for established talent, it wouldn't make sense to sign another youth player of similar profiles.
 

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If it's true; then thank goodness it's over. Now, let's target players who would be happy to play for us. It was deffo another AdM signing in the making. Glad it's over, now, let's focus and drive on.
 

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Well it was fun while it lasted lads.

Onto the next one..
 

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Is anyone disputing that?

The anger is that we have wasted time on this shit when we could have fecking well addressed the issues in our squad by targeting players who wanted to play for us.

If the club cares so deeply about not having mercenaries playing for us then why did we entertain the Dybala nonsense in the first place?

We are run by incompetent fecktards.
Wasted time? Come on the 'saga' lasted a week. Hardly a big deal in a 3 month transfer window
 

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On the right wing of 4231, offensively would he be worse than Valencia during his best years? Or 352 with Bissaka as the right sided centre back and cancelo as the wing back, anything were we can get rid of lukaku and for a good deal
Cancelo as a winger is not the answer to our problems.
 

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Disappointed but don't want another Di Maria situation, or just him not being as good as needed when it came to it, which felt quite possible to me.
 

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And none of them actually made noises about leaving publicly to actually show their interest. Wonder where Mitten saw the “desperation” from these players.
Pobably just made it up as it sounds good with the angle of his story, James probably was as he wasn't even a top player in the Championship and suddenly he's moving from Swansea to Manchester United, he likely couldn't believe his luck.
 

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Thank feck for that. Bullet dodged, if you ask me.

Hopefully lukaku is still going.
 

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We have a few young lads who could be every bit as good as he is, his coming into the club could have eaten away at their oppurtunity.

Slabhead, Axel, AWB, James, Greenwood,
Gomes and Chong is enough of an injection of new blood.
 

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We've not spent that long on the Dybala deal have we?

It's been a few days at most.

We didn't know if he wanted to come before negotiations started and it was such a great potential deal we probably stuck at it hoping we could convince him but once it was clear he was a mercenary we dropped it.

I think we've done the right thing.
I think it's precious time wasted so near the end of the window. Astonishing that we have done so little throughout the summer considering the club was originally getting most if not all of our business done before we went on tour. We are already a laughing stock and this sort of rubbish just adds to it. We should never have been wasting our time on Dybala because it didn't address the major issues in our squad. Just by wasting time on it kind of proves that the club has learned nothing.
 

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I'm hoping maybe we have pulled back to see if he then comes back to us seeing as Juve clearly want him gone, gonna be a mess if we don't get this done as 4 days to sell a player no one else can afford and buy a quality player to boost our shite attack is going to be difficult.
I’m quite surprised we’ve done it like this, myself.

I’d have thought we’d maybe have tried to draw Inter into a bidding war first, and squeeze a bit more out of them.
 

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In fairness IF it went down like this I agree with the club, but was holding out the hope that he’d want to come and prove Juve wrong
I'm just gutted that we seem to have put all our eggs in this basket. The press reports this evening clearly indicate to me that the club doesn't intend to do any more business.

Wan Bissaka, Maguire and James just isn't going to push the needle.
 

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We were jilted at the last minute. Blaming high wage demands is very likely a press release.

Inter might now get Lukaku on the cheap.
 

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We have a few young lads who could be every bit as good as he is, his coming into the club could have eaten away at their oppurtunity.

Slabhead, Axel, AWB, James, Greenwood,
Gomes and Chong is enough of an injection of new blood.
Greenwood and Gomes are the only ones from the attackers that look good enough to even have a chance of making it, and they wont get Dybala's minutes, it'll be Lingard and Mata, so no difference just shit players instead of a good one in their way.
 

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Dunno how someone in their right mind would think that a player of Dybala's quality would come to us.

I know that loving a club has an effect on people thinking straight, but c'mon, these type of quality players don't come here to play for top 6, be coached by an unproven manager and be captained by Ashley fecking Young.

Sadly our issue is not the club, it's the squad. Our only world class players are DDG and Paul and that doesn't really convince other WC players to come here.
This might be a bit of a rant, but put yourself in Dybala's place and look objectively at the situation. You're coming to play for an unproven manager, to a club that has won nothing meaningful in the last 6 years and that still has no real quality at: ST, DM, LW, RW, RM, LB. Without some magic wand or 300-400 mil we're in no position to compete with City and the scousers.

As it stands, we're not an attractive side for very good players, we surely are a great club with huge history, but not an attractive team to play in for the Neymar's, Dybala's etc.
 

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Thought for sure Dybala's only option was to move to United. What's his agent advising him I wonder?

I mean Juve management are clearly forcing him out. Sarri doesn't play with a 10. Neither Sarri nor CR7 came out to voice their displeasure at how he was being treated.

He and his agent must really believe they can end up at PSG/Real/Barca I guess.
 

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Wasted time? Come on the 'saga' lasted a week. Hardly a big deal in a 3 month transfer window
It's a big amount of time so close to the end of the window. God knows what we have been doing the entire summer. It's obvious we were not going to do anything beyond Maguire but then the Dybala / Mandzukic swap presented itself and the club chased after a stupid deal which we have now pulled out of because it doesn't fit the ethos - could have fecking told them that a week ago. It just smacks of us not aging a proper plan.
 

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feck off anyone saying they’re ‘happy’ or ‘glad’ this happened. you’re all pissed, just accept it like the rest of us. Dybala would have been bloody amazing. he’s a little bastard wanting to stay playing for a club and manager that doesn’t want him.
 

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Good for us, glad we’ve learnt our lesson. It’s disappointing because he would have been a class addition to our squad, but maybe this means we’ll get the chance to truly see if Greenwood and Gomes are ready to step up this year.
 

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Fabrizio Romano sounds like it is not over yet, but it is unlikely Dybala decreases demands now. Maybe only if Sarri says he will be in reserves entire season, probably on reserves’ bench
 

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Interesting that the English media was briefed on this by the club, but the Italian media hasn't been saying much. This is most likely over, but I'm wondering if it is a negotiating tactic by us.
 

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I’m quite surprised we’ve done it like this, myself.

I’d have thought we’d maybe have tried to draw Inter into a bidding war first, and squeeze a bit more out of them.
Yeah, strategically it doesn't make much sense as I don't see how Lukaku suddenly comes back into the squad, so Inter have leverage to offer lower fees.

It's all gonna be over very soon. A lot of our fans are stressing themselves over nothing
By over very soon you mean the window will be closed and we'll have no midfield and a crap attack? Or over as in you think this is a move that will still happen?
 

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I wouldn’t read it word for word. Don’t think he meant it like we are still considering.
The problem is, we're getting different stories.
If we briefed, did we brief to force Dybalas hand, are we genuinely done?
If it's a case of everyone using the Telegraph as their source, whats happening?
Reporters in Italy saying we're upset with Dybala and considering dropping out
Others saying the negotiations are at the hottest point
Di Marzio is quiet at the moment.
 

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Fabrizio Romano sounds like it is not over yet, but it is unlikely Dybala decreases demands now. Maybe only if Sarri says he will be in reserves entire season, probably on reserves’ bench
I don't think it's really a matter of money. From what we know he really want's to stay and he's yet to speak with Sarri isn't he?
 

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I agree with this but don't at the same time. Football is different now.

Aguero and Silva didn't sign for City because they grew up watching them play at Maine Road etc.

Top players expect to be paid top money which is fair enough, by all accounts Dybala doesn't want to leave Juventus despite us offering him massive money, doesn't that make him the opposite of a mercenary?

The actual truth is probably closer to players just don't consider us to be in the upper echelons of football anymore.
It’s a different situation, they would have viewed City as a new challenge in a new league. With Dybala we were literally trying to convince someone to leave when they didn’t want to. Sergio Aguero was not desperate to stay at Atletico.
 
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