Because we have a ton of players in his position, need to spend dosh in other areas of the side and don't have unlimited funds anymore.
What do you mean by ‘speed up United’?
A Murtough masterclass
Not even close
I do think Eriksen lessens the need in midfield a little bit and if Martinez is a defender who presses forward and starts play from deep then that will help progressing the ball forward as well. Hell I can even see 3 at the back with Martinez in a CB /DM hybrid role.
The only thing we can tell from this is someone at United wants this version of the truth out there. I doubt Ten Hag knows Robson or is feeding him stories. I'll be interested in the Telegraaf account of our transfers when it comes. That may give us a better window into Ten Hag's views.
If he is, he is a bit deluded. City and Liverpool will be up there obviously, but Chelsea, Spurs and Arsenal are all going to be competitive and our squad will be weaker than last season.
Club briefing to try and picture that they’re blameless in this situation and the buck stops with ETH. However, our new structure was meant to prevent from accepting stupid requests from the manager that might derail our season? They’re as much to blame from my perspective.
But thats the thing, a lot of the Chelsea stuff has been speculation and the sorts from the journos part. Because de Jong and his team have said nothing at all, it makes any information difficult to verify.
Well yes, but speculation by pretty good sources, while the most recent 'pro United' stuff is speculation by lesser sources.
For a central midfielder? I'm dryer than Ben Shapiro's wife.
That's my suspicion too.
Chelsea have a better squad, show more ambition in the market, are in the CL and are in a better position to win trophies than us overall. If we take off the red tinted specs it's a no-brainer to pick Chelsea.
ETH having numerous demands and wanting a lot of power and influence before signing for us would somewhat contradict that
That's disgusting! It's bad enough that they haven't backed him properly in the market, but to simultaneously point the finger at him and absolve themselves of any blame?
Romano has no clue about this particular deal, he was consistently behind other sources
Well yeah, but speculation is speculation. With what Romero has said, i'm pretty sure all the Chelsea stuff is being driven by Barca and not by Chelsea.
I agree, but it does sound like your new owner is playing real life FM and wants to make statement signings, beating united to their main target is a big statement.
I think that but he’s also heavily misquoted/mistranslated
If this all fails, you realise we're in this mess exactly because they were backing the manager to the fullest, right?
So Frenkie is pulling out?
So true!
Before this transfer window started Chelsea did not have a better squad than us and were not in a better position to win trophies hence why Tuchel went on a meltdown. They’ve shown far more ambition though - I’ll give you that - and seem to want to back their manager.
By failing to get his no.1 target then hanging him out to dry with press briefs!? What world are you living in?
How has he not been backed? We’ve spent all summer chasing his targets and forgetting about the previously planned ones. I support the new manager, but to act like he wouldn’t take some of the blame here is bonkers.
I won't mind him being behind just seemed a lot more certain with him when he said at the time of our bid going in that the deal was far from close unlike Romero and his 95%
