This is so on! #36k
Jadon Sancho| Staying at Dortmund for now
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
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Are you new to journalism? Especially sports journalism?
If you want to do some critical thinking, you can see who the journalist is who wrote that article and then see if they’ve published any on record quotes from United players in over the last 24 hours.
In Fab's update he said that the player wasn't the issue so it's only going to be the fee Dortmund demand that will stop the deal. I think we'll pay up eventually anyway for what it's worth.
More importantly, who could we possibly get as an alternative? The likes of Douglas Costa doesn't fill me with joy. Ousmane Dembele is injury prone.
Maybe a more under the radar option? Federico Chiesa? Viktor Tsyhankov?
I don't think I can handle watching Dan James, Jesse Lingard or Juan Mata stink up our right-wing again if one of the front three is tired/injured?
Alright. Thanks. That's something, I guess. Is it cocks out, then?
So, you're all telling me there's a chance.
This is probably what's driving Dortmund's demands. There is nobody remotely close to Sancho's talent and potential available in the market. I'd rather we spent the money elsewhere than fork out on a guaranteed dud for the right wing.
You are the greatest. You're worth more than Sancho.You wish is my command.
Completely agree with the point on squad depth, which is crazy considering not all that long ago we could basically put out two squads that could both have arguably won silverware. Demonstrates the slide that the club have been on.
Okay, here's another question since I need to absolutely spell it out. What person, regardless of whether the journalist in question is making this up, even believes that players would openly talk to journalists about transfers when on international duty? It's nonsense and not a question of how journalism works. I know how it works. I'm questioning what person would believe that crap.
Happy Sancho Day!
CFBayern and Jan need to be banned from this thread.
That’s the nature of off the record journalism, you never know if it’s true or not so it’s futile claiming you believe it 100% or dispute it 100%. In this case I absolutely believe it’s possible. Journalists build relationship with players all the time and it’s a two way street, they can leak a bit of info and in return they get favourable coverage at times that suits them, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if there was a casual conversation during an interview like:
Journo: Any news on Sancho, off the record of course...
Player: Nah we find out about the same time as you with transfers.
Journo: No clues? Not heard anything from Jadon or the coaches?
Player: Nah not really, I’m surprised we haven’t signed him yet though, everyone knows we are in for him and he wants to come, I don’t know what the hold up is though.
Something as benign as that can then make a headline “United players are privately surprised that Sancho has not yet signed for United”.
This one is very dead.
Ye it looks like that. Taken too long, nothing concrete coming out. I think we were interested, we did have some discussions with the player and his club, but we couldnt come to an agreement on the price, or how the price would be paid.
There is always something that the media come out with to delay, now its this clause about bonus payment
Whats going to be next?
Romano will just recycle the info (not that there is much more for him to do)... Personals agreed, United need to pay what Dortmund want.
It's not dead until United say it's dead.
Don't see why they would keep saying Sancho is the number 1 target over and over unless they were serious.
"Man Utd confident [vague, unverifiable statement], please give 3000 retweets" that basically covers every single hot update.
If we signed him, surely the club would sell a lot of shirts with his name and number on? Good revenue there
Bingo !!! That's Romano in a nutshell.
Hypothetically, let's say Dortmund decided to sell him to United at the last minute, where do you think you would stand in terms of the team? Would it create a massive hole or you already see someone stepping up to fill the void in case he leaves?
I'm not conspiring to kidnap but.... does anyone have a black bag I can borrow? I have plans to steal a certain player with a name beginning with S and ending with O from a certain German club. This hostage situation has gone on long enough and I'm willing to take one for the team
It isn't though is it...
He tweets news when he has it - It's not his fault that there are no new developments on this one.
Hope you’re not planning to pin it on OleI'm not conspiring to kidnap but.... does anyone have a black bag I can borrow? I have plans to steal a certain player with a name beginning with S and ending with O from a certain German club. This hostage situation has gone on long enough and I'm willing to take one for the team
This is becoming very, very tedious now.
Don’t get fooled into bagging his shit double who’s been playing for England latelyI'm not conspiring to kidnap but.... does anyone have a black bag I can borrow? I have plans to steal a certain player with a name beginning with S and ending with O from a certain German club. This hostage situation has gone on long enough and I'm willing to take one for the team
This has all the hallmarks of a classic Caf muppet heartbreak. There just isn’t enough sustaining it same as Sneijder and Vidal. A deal could still happen but all we have are these aggregator accounts like UtdReport trying to keep it alive and the same story that was about literally 5 weeks ago doing the rounds “agent fees, wages etc.”
Starting to think we’re going to buy someone out the blue.
Starting to think we’re going to buy someone out the blue.
Too quiet from us, and too little movement on other players for this to be dead yet.
That's Twitter journalism as an entity in a nutshell, really.
I used to play on the wing, as it happens!
If this transfer happens this forum will fecking explode.
You're planning to kidnap Werder Bremen's second choice goalkeeper Stefanos Kapino? Why ever would you want to do that, and why are you telling us this in the Sancho thread?I'm not conspiring to kidnap but.... does anyone have a black bag I can borrow? I have plans to steal a certain player with a name beginning with S and ending with O from a certain German club. This hostage situation has gone on long enough and I'm willing to take one for the team
Nah, the Glazers. It's all in the masterplan to remove them haha!
You're right, I'll wait till he's back on German soil then
Just now on the Athletic podcast they said it's a work in progress and the 10 of August deadline is pure BS. 50-50 if we make it work or not.
Funny the news Sancho signed an extension last season slipped him by then isn't it?It isn't though is it...
He tweets news when he has it - It's not his fault that there are no new developments on this one.
Didn't have a scooby about VDB either until Ajax coach spoke out. Then he start tweeting non stop about the deal like he knew all along.
Romano has you all dancing his merry dance my friend.
I so want this transfer to happen.
That said, it's becoming more and more obvious that this season is going to be an utter shambles from start to finish, with all teams a lot poorer at the end of it than they are now. I can understand United's reluctance to spend the money, but really don't understand why Dortmund aren't biting our hand off yet if we've made a decent offer. I think it's a massive gamble if Dortmund hold our for a better price next Summer.
That said, it's becoming more and more obvious that this season is going to be an utter shambles from start to finish, with all teams a lot poorer at the end of it than they are now. I can understand United's reluctance to spend the money, but really don't understand why Dortmund aren't biting our hand off yet if we've made a decent offer. I think it's a massive gamble if Dortmund hold our for a better price next Summer.
Just don't follow it every second of every day. If you want to last the distance in transfer saga muppetry you need to know when to take breaks and when to go all-in otherwise you'll burn yourself out.
Where does he claim to know about every transfer?
He tweets what he knows. Just because he doesn't hear everything doesn't mean he's never correct of anything?
Knowing EVERYTHING would just be impossible.
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