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Perma injured Umtiti and Dembele and a washed up drunk in Vidal. I wouldnt take Rakitic on a free if Barca offered to pay his wages. Feck me Barca are going to struggle to shift that shit, they make our deadwood look half decent.
 

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Perma injured Umtiti and Dembele and a washed up drunk in Vidal. I wouldnt take Rakitic on a free if Barca offered to pay his wages. Feck me Barca are going to struggle to shift that shit, they make our deadwood look half decent.
Nah,their deadwood still have their moments,to be fair. And they will find interest in them compared to ours outside of Smalling,Mata and Lingard.
 

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Covid was always going to hit us hard this summer and I wouldn't be surprised if we don't sign anybody. If we can't bring in Sancho for a reasonable fee then I think we'll see the old 'no value in the market' line being trotted out again.
 

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I'm going to blow your mind... We spent EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLION POUNDS but... THAT'S STILL LESS THAN WE COULD HAVE SPENT!! And that's because of the leaches.

Plus it's not like we haven't sold players. All big clubs have big turnover of fees for players in and out. United should be able to spend every. single. penny. we can on transfers/stadium/academy. Just like our main rivals across Europe do. They don't have owners taking millions out of the club, we do. So I don't care how much we have spent, I care how much we could have spent.
Well said. Totally agree. The owners and Woodward have held us back. They’ve always operated poorly with transfers. Most recently Bruno and maguire.
 

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I mean, yeah. But don’t ruin my point.

It’s a weird one isn’t it? From the outside looking in we have spent an awful lot of money in the past however many years, but it doesn’t feel like we’ve properly gone balls to the wall with the actual intent of saying, “yeah, this year we’re competing”.
Yeah
Love think pieces like this.

It’s like your hatred for the Glazers has blinded you.

Our outlay since SAF left is...:wait for it....I’m gonna blow your mind.....


£850MILLION POUNDS.

Thats....

EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLION POUNDS

yes you read that right...

EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLION POUNDS

That’s only

£150M

....

ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLION POUNDS

Shy of £1Billion

That’s ....

ONE BILLION POUNDS


But yes let’s run with the narrative that both Ed and the Glazers are penny pinchers and don’t want to invest.....after all that’s makes for much better and juicier reading.
Listen I am not denying we have spent money in the seven years since Fergie left but far too much of that has been wasted on the wrong players.

I just feel that if the Glazers actually gave a shit about winning things they would allow the manager to spend whatever it takes.

Surely even you would admit that Fergie was badly hamstrung by that "No Value in the Market" stuff from 2009-2013". You look only have to see the players we missed out on in that period like Aguero, Silva, Sneijder, Benzema etc.
 

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Covid was always going to hit us hard this summer and I wouldn't be surprised if we don't sign anybody. If we can't bring in Sancho for a reasonable fee then I think we'll see the old 'no value in the market' line being trotted out again.
I think United will bring someone in if the Sancho deal doesn't come to fruition but I think that particular player would likely be a loan signing *cough* Dembele.

I also think the majority of transfer this window will be loan based,between the top and small clubs.
 

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I think United will bring someone in if the Sancho deal doesn't come to fruition but I think that particular player would likely be a loan signing *cough* Dembele.

I also think the majority of transfer this window will be loan based,between the top and small clubs.
Still hopeful we can get a cheap CB and some AM cover provided we can sell some defenders and attackers
 

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Christ, you were actually being serious :lol:

Obviously we could've spent more, but you'd have to be pretty fecking thick to believe that the problem is we haven't spent more money instead of what we've spent money on.

The past 5 years we've spent £140mill more than Liverpool and we've got feck all to show for it.
Well you've totally missed my point, so look in the mirror when calling people thick lad.

My point is a club of our size and standing should be on a level playing field from an ownership perspective with the likes of our biggest rivals in Europe. Rivals who will actually laugh now when they hear us call them rivals because in the absence of SAF this ownership has presided over our fall from grace whilst they fill their pockets.

Of course we could have done better with the money we've spent, that much is painfully obvious, but they make the appointments, it's their mess, and my point is they still take money out of the club that could be better spent in recruitment or any department for that matter.

Not only are they fecking useless they are money grabbing, if your happy with that then don't complain when we sack Ole and appoint another clown and waste another '850 MILLION'
 

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Remember the 'balls to the wall' summer under LVG.
God,what a fecking disaster that turned out to be.
 

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Here's the full article if anyones interested.
Article says we’ll still be amongst the biggest spenders as City and Chelsea aren’t going to add much more than what they have already this summer which is total nonsense. Much like everything Jackson writes it is merely his opinion.
 

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Left-field opinion here but cant we come to some pre-agreement with BVB for next season ,regarding the transfer of Sancho, and have this summer solely focused on enhancing the quality within the squad while continuing moving on the so-called deadwood ?
 

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Nah,their deadwood still have their moments,to be fair. And they will find interest in them compared to ours outside of Smalling,Mata and Lingard.
Most of ours know they're not up to the task and I suspect they'd jump at the opportunity for a move somewhere even half decent.

I think you have to factor in wages for their deadwood too along with the apparent expectations they have. Where exactly does Rakitic think he's going to end up? And Umiti, whilst decent, makes Phil Jones look reliable, fit and healthy. The less said about Vidal the better, his moments are waaay behind him, he's a parody of himself these days in that he just wants to come on and look for a fight when he gets on the pitch and is usually blowing out of his arse after a few minutes.

The only one with any prospects is Dembele and he's known for being troublesome and injury prone, he's also on £240k pw before bonuses. For a lad that hasn't proven himself at any kind of level and who people still talk of potential with... no thanks.
 

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Left-field opinion here but cant we come to some pre-agreement with BVB for next season ,regarding the transfer of Sancho, and have this summer solely focused on enhancing the quality within the squad while continuing moving on the so-called deadwood ?
Adding Sancho not only adds a starting right forward, but also a back up to Rashford on the left forward spot or alternative at #10 to Bruno. If Ole doesn't trust the likes of Mata, Pereira, Lingard or James, then it might still be a thin squad but the options are still much better.
 

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Covid was always going to hit us hard this summer and I wouldn't be surprised if we don't sign anybody. If we can't bring in Sancho for a reasonable fee then I think we'll see the old 'no value in the market' line being trotted out again.
No chance Ole will be able to continue this rebuild next season then if that happens
 

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So we were told Manchester United are in the strongest position post covid due to our Revenue. Looked like Sancho was nailed on to join and that Ed was going to back Ole to get in a capable squad which has now become:

We have no money. We won't get Sancho. If we do get him somehow there won't be anyone else of quality coming in. It's more likely we'll dick around trying to get Sancho, not get him and by that time all of the better priced players will have been picked up. This is classic Woodward and we see it every season. Meanwhile Chelsea and City pickup 2-3 players with ease since they have a capable recruitment team.

What we should do is take that 120million and split it across 3-4 players and improve our squad quality. There's no reason we couldn't get players the ilk of Douglas Costa, van der beek, a left back and centre back. Instead of looking at overpriced players like Grealish we should be picking off the clubs in the foreign market who have been hard hit and need cash. You can get an absolute quality player in this climate for 30-40mil.
 

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Covid was always going to hit us hard this summer and I wouldn't be surprised if we don't sign anybody. If we can't bring in Sancho for a reasonable fee then I think we'll see the old 'no value in the market' line being trotted out again.
That's very different to the narrative and briefings during peak covid19 lockdown, that Manchester United would 'benefit' from a temporarily discounted covid19 football economy.
 

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So we were told Manchester United are in the strongest position post covid due to our Revenue. Looked like Sancho was nailed on to join and that Ed was going to back Ole to get in a capable squad which has now become:

We have no money. We won't get Sancho. If we do get him somehow there won't be anyone else of quality coming in. What we should do is take that 120million and split it across 3-4 players and improve our squad quality. There's no reason we couldn't get players the ilk of Douglas Costa, van der beek, a left back and centre back. Instead of looking at overpriced players like Grealish we should be picking off the clubs in the foreign market who have been hard hit and need cash. You can get an absolute quality player in this climate for 30-40mil.
The only trouble with that is Bruno apart Ole doesn't really seem to trust the European transfer market.

I would like to sign Jack because just something about him just makes me think he will flourish here, however we certainly need to look outside of Britain for LB/DM/CB options.
 

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If you would rather go back to your home country and got an opportunity at the last minute to do so, after agreeing to start a new job somewhere else - why the hell would you go through with something you'd rather not do.
Well if he'd rather not do it, why agree to it in the first place? He should've been more patient in the first place. D**k move from David.
 

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Well if he'd rather not do it, why agree to it in the first place? He should've been more patient in the first place. D**k move from David.
I meant rather not do it versus going back to Spain. When Spain wasn't an option, I'm sure he would have. I also didn't know he just aired them after agreeing and pitched up at Real, so that is a dick move if true.
 

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A mate of mine reckons another reason for not much cash this summer is because of Tampa Bay spending it all on Tom Brady and their stadium to host a future Superbowl
 

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A mate of mine reckons another reason for not much cash this summer is because of Tampa Bay spending it all on Tom Brady and their stadium to host a future Superbowl
Your mate should post that on Muppetiers, they'd lap that sh*t up all day. Tampa Bay and United are two separate entities, we're not paying anything towards Brady, the only way would be the Glazers taking more dividends out than usual, I'd like to think that's not the case.
 

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A mate of mine reckons another reason for not much cash this summer is because of Tampa Bay spending it all on Tom Brady and their stadium to host a future Superbowl
A mate of mine reckons 99.99% percent of "a mate of mine" stories on the internet are horse shit.
 

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I've recently been thinking about the following -

Would you rather get Dayot this summer than Sancho?

Dayot & Grealish is probably possible for a similar fee to Sancho alone.

Dayot after his performance the other night would be seen as a scoop nearly as good as Sancho in my opinion.

I've changed my mind and would now choose Dayot and Grealish.
 
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