And that I agree with.
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Can't believe I've seen a post pointing to inter, the club who took young sanchez and lukaku, as an example. My god. They're exactly the type of quickfire thing we should stay away from
Because getting in 3 players worked so well?
Ideally we should look for a balance of experience.
If you think about it this is his 3rd window.
He has done well to get rid of alot of players, but its easy to say I dont want xyz, well who will replace these players?
He keeps saying we have to identify the right player, his attitude etc.
How long does it take to identify a Midfielder, RW, CAM, ST.
Then we see reports that we are Maddison, Sancho are our top targets, but it is not rocket science to identify the 2 best performing players?
How were Van Gaal's signings over the hill? Daley Blind, Matteo Darmian, Marcos Rojo, Ander Herrera, Morgan Schneiderlin, Memphis Depay, Angel Di Maria and Anthony Martial were all young or mid-twenties. Only Falcao (loan) and Schweinsteiger (cheap) were older players.
It didn't work out for a lot of them but it wasn't because they were old.
Yeah it's hilarious to have moved on the deadwood from the squad and to promote players like Williams and Greenwood to prominence.
This is the way.
Lets be honest, none of them were given proper time to settle into a team? Di Maria was gone in a year, Memphis was gone, Herrera looked decent and Schneriderlin never played.
We have seen with Fred it takes a while for players to settle into English football.
It's not either 3 or 14.
Besides Lukaku's price which was rightly set, Inter won't be price gouged by many teams. It's a different story for us.
If we wanted to buy Buffon, who's like 45 years old, Juve would demand at least £25 million from us.
I fear rebuilding for us may take more transfer windows than any manager will get.
In fairness even with hindsight looking at those signings they looked good . Funny how things work out
3rd window is a bit of a stretch.
He was only in the door as caretaker last year.
I agree on the targets we're linked with though. It's hilarious they can claim to have this amazing scouting network and the whole world can see those guys are good and expensive.
They're not unearthing any hidden gems, are they?
It's a shame depay and di maria didn't work out. Especially di maria is a brilliant footballer. Never really wanted tobe here though.
One thing you can't say about LvG is that his rebuild consisted of short term old player solutions. He gave a ton of youngsters their first chance.
We haven't replaced a number of players who have been sold though.
Darmian Out - In AWB
Young Out - In Williams
Smalling Out- In Maguire
Herrera Out - ???
Fellaini Out - ???
Sanchez Out - In James
Lukaku Out - In Greenwood
Valencia Out - In ???
You can argue that AWB and Maguire are upgrades. Otherwise, it is clear we have been significantly weakened in the last 12 months. That's not rebuilding its just dismantling.
Well, 3rd will be in summer then? in a rebuild to have 3 players in so far. One of them is a squad player rather than first team in James.
Exactly, It's not as if they have signed a Mane, Salah for £30m and they are tearing it.
A year in charge, it shouldn't take that long to assess the squad and figure out what we need.
Can't do it all in one go. Stevie Wonder can see this the the first ever direct effort to adjust the balance.
Not only that but to have moved all the deadwood onto the club he’s actually using as an example of how we’re doing it wrong!
It’s actually astonishing.
Who's to say that he hasn't assessed the squad, given a list to Woody/Judge but it's them that's causing this problem? We all know Ole wants more players, so it seems unlikely to be him that's the problem.
So you’re criticising Ole for not have purchased any players in next summer’s transfer window then?
Seems a bit harsh, holding him accountable for what he hasn’t yet done six months in the future.
I agree. I just it difficult to excuse not getting a midfielder. They sold Fellaini in February. We knew Herrera was leaving early in the summer.
They had ample time to sign at least one central midfielder. Having failed to do so last summer it’s beyond belief we didn’t line up a January move right away.
I think that, in general, we can agree that managers probably should not be blamed too harshly (nor praised too fulsomely) for what the club does/doesn't do in the transfer market.
We don't really know the breakdown of responsibilities re recruitment and our problems in that area have spanned seven years and four managers. The one commonality has been Ed Woodward and the United Board, who have failed to make sufficient improvements in this area. I'm inclined to lay most of the blame at their door.
Arguably its his 2nd, I personally wouldn’t count January as a “window” - Nothing ever happens - personally, I think Jan transfer window should be scrapped and Summer transfer window extended by a week
Edit: A month* haha
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Well it seems he has assessed the squad very well, that's why he doesnt know who his starting 11. He wants to build a team around Pogba who wants out.
I agree the problem seems to be Woodward and the board.
Why wouldn't January be counted as one? Nothing ever happens?
I will name a few for your information.
Laporte, VVD, Suarez, Alexis, Aubameyang, Haland, Dani Olmo
Extending a summer window by a week would make no difference at all.
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full page of people waging an perception war.
There are other threads for this.
Can a mod remove these comments and can we focus on tweets?
There are other threads for this.
Can a mod remove these comments and can we focus on tweets?
Not going to happen, Arsenal would never sell him this transfer window or the fan base will go ape shit.
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Guessing this just slipped everyone by, from Orny.
cant believe we have not brought anyone in. Woodward is completely hanging Ole out to dry here!
He is and I doubt we will see Ed for a long time.
Valencia Out - In Dalot
Considering the size of our squad, our injury list, our position in the table and the Europa league coming up, this transfer window has been criminal. Even for Woodward, this is a horrendous new low.
Like Cavani
Isn't utdreport the account that flat out makes up quotes? Should be taken with a pinch of salt.
He’s very good, but he’s been very injury prone in the past year or so. A subsidiary move like this makes sense.
Mate, he shifted 2 x senior midfielders and didn't bring in one player. Leaving us with a completely makeshift midfield that is one injury away (Fred) from being on it's arse. It's a completely negligent 'rebuilding' effort. You don't throw inexperienced kids into a starting 11 lacking leadership, drive and a winning mentality.
I read Ornstein's Monday article there and he didn't mention United once.
Cant wait transfer window to finish.
I can guarantee you we will win the championship faster than Inter Milan will win Serie A.
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