Chairman Steve
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A much more fitting move compared to being thrown into the deep end of being a United left back.Tweet
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A much more fitting move compared to being thrown into the deep end of being a United left back.Tweet
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By my reckoning we would have needed 8 signings to complete the squad in this window so it was a tall ask:Tweet
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I think it's actually pretty decent window could have been better had we not overplayed our hand on Maguire and Mctominay transfers .Sum people on this forum I'm pretty sure two weeks or so ago people were saying this was a good window.
Im curious on this too. Did we go for the loan with Amrabat because we’re completely skint or are we just trying to give ourselves some flexibility.Anyone know what our financial situation will look like in January/the summer? Will we have to swallow the FFP excuse again assuming the glazers are a still here?
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Henderson & Bayindir are done deals.In the next 30 hours we seem to do (complete) deals for:
* Henderson (out)
* Bayindir (in)
* Reguilon (in)
* van de Beek (out)
* Amrabat (in)
Heck a lot to do.
And absolute silence on Bailly front.
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Yeah definitely overplayed our hand thereI think it's actually pretty decent window could have been better had we not overplayed our hand on Maguire and Mctominay transfers .
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Yeah that was a poor decisionImagine in hindsight we'll be regretting turning down £30m for McTominay next summer.
The definition of insanity is ....Imagine in hindsight we'll be regretting turning down £30m for McTominay next summer.
Balance for what? I'm sorry, for what McT provides (hopefully as a sub at most), you might as well just try Hannibal there . All the tenacity but he'd still give away fewer fouls and make himself available for the ball as well as moving it on more effectively. Scott's...taller- and allegedly the 'pet' of one or more senior figures who champion his cause and that's it. Not selling him is a waste of a FFP 'home-grown' opportunity. Just another indication of how much we need an outsider top-bracket DOF to come in and lead on reshaping our squad's technical profile as well as on pathways into the first team for promising youngsters...Tweet
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Amazing answer about more signings : "Maybe, yes, maybe, no."Tweet
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https://www.redcafe.net/threads/sof...-at-rock-paper-scissors-and-he’s-ours.474403/Why was there never an Amrabat thread in the Transfer forum?
Scotland fans maybe?its like people do not watch football other than united matches, but even then how can anyone rate fecking Mctominay?
Should try and sign Gift Orban if Mason goes,thought Spurs would be in for him but looks like they were all about JohnsonAmazing answer about more signings : "Maybe, yes, maybe, no."
TBF, we did agree a price for Maguire. We just couldnt get rid of him. Part of me is thinking im happy we didnt get Pavard (if he was the choice).Yeah definitely overplayed our hand there
Maybe he is considering him as defender as well now we didn’t sign an extra defender.Balance for what? I'm sorry, for what McT provides (hopefully as a sub at most), you might as well just try Hannibal there . All the tenacity but he'd still give away fewer fouls and make himself available for the ball as well as moving it on more effectively. Scott's...taller- and allegedly the 'pet' of one or more senior figures who champion his cause and that's it. Not selling him is a waste of a FFP 'home-grown' opportunity. Just another indication of how much we need an outsider top-bracket DOF to come in and lead on reshaping our squad's technical profile as well as on pathways into the first team for promising youngsters...
Emergency defender if we move to a back-3, late in games maybe. I'm not a huge fan of that approach anyway because of the amount of pressure it invites on and the risk probabilities, but if we were grinding out a one goal margin win at Anfield or Emirates or Etihad etc then, maybe. Though you might as well just throw Harry on in that scenario, since we're not getting shot of him either and he's...generally alright as a deep-lying defender in a compact back 3 (still should have sold him though and brought in Tolibo or whoever for similar money).Maybe he is considering him as defender as well now we didn’t sign an extra defender.
I believe so. The quoted price for months has been €25-35m.10m will be taken into account with purchase price I hope.
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Yup. He'll probably play a minor role these next two seasons and then leave on a free. Even if you're of the belief that he can be moderately useful as a squad player, the FFP ramifications of getting 30m for him would've been tremendous for us.Imagine in hindsight we'll be regretting turning down £30m for McTominay next summer.
Steady! Let's try to dominate a game first without our midfield melting away like butterAmrabat makes this a much better window.
I think we are well placed to fight for 2nd place with Liverpool and arsenal.
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We already made that amount from selling two academy players, so pure profit in FFP terms. Didn’t seem to make much of a difference in our spending.Yup. He'll probably play a minor role these next two seasons and then leave on a free. Even if you're of the belief that he can be moderately useful as a squad player, the FFP ramifications of getting 30m for him would've been tremendous for us.
You do know that's just standard talk right? No manager or club goes out to say "hey this players are absolutely of no use to us we're looking to sell".All the noises out of the club were that Maguire and McTominay were considered useful members of the squad that we were happy to keep on the bench, unless somebody could pay enough to change our minds. Just because half the transfer forum was desperate to get rid of them, that doesn't mean the manager was.
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Most of the report's fluff, but the first sentence is the key here. Basically, clubs like Lazio that were interested in Greenwood are no longer pursuing the players after the negative reception they got over the links on social media. We'll see if there are still any interested clubs at this stage, but time's running out.Another report with nothing in it from Luckhurst, I would demote him to tier 3 after this window.