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He started something like 12 of the first 14 games of 2019/2020 and proved to the world we needed to buy Bruno.
Okay say you’re right, but it doesn’t address my original point. He’s no where near the quality required at United but that doesn’t mean he cannot be effective for a team with different objectives.
 

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He’s not United quality is he? Have you played team sports to a reasonable level? If you have you’ll understand that your mind and body matures with the right support and experience. No reason why he can’t make an impact in a team with different ambitions.
We clearly have different interpretations of the word 'excel'. He could probably do ok for a lower half PL to upper championship club but I really don't care what he does as long as we get a half decent price for him.
 

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I’ll never understand Utd fans thinking we couldn’t give our players away. Lower clubs will always try to sign bigger clubs players.
if anyone dared mention we would be getting 35m plus (maybe) for Perreira and James they’d have been laughed out of the forum
 

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Good to see one of England's three biggest yo-yo clubs planning ahead for a season in the 23-24 Championship.
 

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He started something like 12 of the first 14 games of 2019/2020 and proved to the world we needed to buy Bruno.
How did he prove we needed Bruno? He wasn’t playing where Bruno plays? Lingard was and he proved we needed Bruno.
 

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How did he prove we needed Bruno? He wasn’t playing where Bruno plays? Lingard was and he proved we needed Bruno.
He played a lot there in the first half of that season, at least as much as Lingard. Over the entire season he played more league games than Lingard albeit a small number of them were from the right or deeper.
 

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How did he prove we needed Bruno? He wasn’t playing where Bruno plays? Lingard was and he proved we needed Bruno.
Well my recollection was he played a fair bit at AM during that run of starts and wasn't great so I just had a look and he was just under half the time at AM and about the same on the wing with one or two at CM. Let's say it was a joint effort.
 

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I’ll never understand Utd fans thinking we couldn’t give our players away. Lower clubs will always try to sign bigger clubs players.
if anyone dared mention we would be getting 35m plus (maybe) for Perreira and James they’d have been laughed out of the forum
Yep. The only reason we can't sell the others is the wages primarily.

Pereira and James would have been on low wages relative to us and manageable for most top-flight clubs.
 

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How did he prove we needed Bruno? He wasn’t playing where Bruno plays? Lingard was and he proved we needed Bruno.
They both did... He definitely had a spell as the no.10

Lingard got the first chance, until Ole finally dropped him after no goals/assists and then we had a run with the same front 6 - McFred & Pereira, with James, Martial & Rashford ahead (thank feck for Bruno).
 

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I’ll never understand Utd fans thinking we couldn’t give our players away. Lower clubs will always try to sign bigger clubs players.
if anyone dared mention we would be getting 35m plus (maybe) for Perreira and James they’d have been laughed out of the forum
I think the issue usually is the wages that our players are on, which, for the lesser profile players like your Dan James or Andreas, becomes something of an issue with respect to a buying club negotiating wages relative to the quality of the player, so even if there is interest there often is difficulty in finding a wage that suits the player relative to their United wage, unless they are dead set on leaving.

We have shown in the past with players like Lukaku and Di Maria, whose wages would not have been far off their actual worth as quality of players, that selling them wasn’t too hard. We have shown that we have difficulty in moving on our lower quality players, however.
 

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We still need to get Jones, Bailly, Tuanzebe, Telles, Williams, Wan Bissaka, Martial, Chong, and maybe a few oyhers off our wage bill. Then we might be able to bring in a few decent players.
 

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Do we really need Eriksen? On a free it's great and all, but we already have like 2 or 3 CMs that more or less fit his profile. What we need is a DM to play alongside De Jong and I'm not seeing any links whatsoever.
 

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Very, very advanced and want it done before 30th to likely to help Barcelona's accounts.
 

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Remember last week when folk wanted De Jong signed for £80m and Pereira sold for £4m... And accused the board of incompetence because of fans impatience :lol:
 

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Do we really need Eriksen? On a free it's great and all, but we already have like 2 or 3 CMs that more or less fit his profile. What we need is a DM to play alongside De Jong and I'm not seeing any links whatsoever.
Think Erickson is better then both Fred & McTominey. Games where we will have alot of possession Erickson can make creative passes and is more intelligent.
 

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So so true. Note how he's piped up just after a few big outlets have gone big on the story.

He's such a fraud and yet everyone thinks he's this inside info transfer guru.
Did Romano have sex with your girlfriend or something?
 

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So so true. Note how he's piped up just after a few big outlets have gone big on the story.

He's such a fraud and yet everyone thinks he's this inside info transfer guru.
I mean his Twitter picture is him on the phone, for what I'm sure is a very important piece of information. Seems legit.
 

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He started something like 12 of the first 14 games of 2019/2020 and proved to the world we needed to buy Bruno.
And we were around top 8. He is good enough for a club aiming to avoid relegation or aiming to be top 12. I don't know why people are so surprised that a PL team can offer 10 millions for a PL proven player in his best years.
 

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I mean we sold Nani and Van Persie for 4m I think so if we can 11m for this waste of space then bloody hell we’ve cracked the code. Even for 8m I’d snap your hand off.
 

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Hilarious how he was the absolute darling on the Caf at one point. Every manager was an absolute tool for not playing him. Now he’s considered the biggest waste of space ever.
Don't you know that players get closer and closer to elite level in the minds of some supporters the longer the stay on the bench? It happens everywhere
 

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And we were around top 8. He is good enough for a club aiming to avoid relegation or aiming to be top 12. I don't know why people are so surprised that a PL team can offer 10 millions for a PL proven player in his best years.
I was responding to someone stating he'd not been given a run of games. He was and he didn't do a huge amount. The surprise is because up until this point nobody seemed willing to take him off our hands for anywhere close to a reasonable price.
 

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Remember last week when folk wanted De Jong signed for £80m and Pereira sold for £4m... And accused the board of incompetence because of fans impatience :lol:
The majority of fans have 0 patience (which I understand). De Jong was never going to be a quick deal and he won't even join the squad until mid July, but more importantly the window has just opened. I get why fans are impatient having been burnt before, but jeez give the new guys the window to see what they can do. If at the end of the window or first game of the season we have DeJong, Antony and Eriksen, not getting them all on July 1st will not even be remembered.
 

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Happy for Andreas. He wasn’t good enough here but he tried his best. Would take someone with his attitude over Lingard every day of the week.

Glad he’ll move to Fulham and play in the PL. Needs to find a team where he can put his head down and kill it and I hope he does.
 

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The majority of fans have 0 patience (which I understand). De Jong was never going to be a quick deal and he won't even join the squad until mid July, but more importantly the window has just opened. I get why fans are impatient having been burnt before, but jeez give the new guys the window to see what they can do. If at the end of the window or first game of the season we have DeJong, Antony and Eriksen, not getting them all on July 1st will not even be remembered.
Agreed. But unfortunately, come 1st June 2023 when we've not signed anyone that window, people will forget any 'good' business we did this year and say "here we go again, drag our heels before paying what the club wants on deadline day. It's Fellaini all over again. Shambles"

It's so tiring.
 
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