If you see United games, the midfield is often easily punctured by the opposition. Too soft, a lack of creativity. Perhaps S.A.F. wants to make sure the replacements are right there. Are we skint? What about the bid by the Red Knights? A busy summer.
Your Predictions of Ins and Outs this Summer...
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I can't really see us making any big name signings in the summer - we dont have the money!!!
Gourcuff, Villa, Silva, Hamsik etc are all out of our budget.
Signing Smalling, Hernandez, Cole etc isn't really good enough is it. We need to buy world class talent, but we cant afford it.
Gourcuff, Villa, Silva, Hamsik etc are all out of our budget.
Signing Smalling, Hernandez, Cole etc isn't really good enough is it. We need to buy world class talent, but we cant afford it.
joe cole really?
Joe Cole is 28 years old and not good enough for the Chelsea team, so why do we think he's good enough for us?
Are Chelsea a cut above?
Are Chelsea a cut above?
But do we need this revolving door of a half dozen players? We're 2 ref mistakes and a moment of brilliance away from double contention.
If you ask me
In: Common sense
Out: Spastic activity
Worth a punt for free?
Just as much as Owen was worth a punt, Joe Cole on a free (depending on wage demands) would be as good if not better an investment.
Damn right, it's a position we're really potentially going to be lacking in, that is if Tosic, Obertan, Welbeck, etc don't make the cut and Giggs moves on soon... It's not our weakest by any means with Valencia and Nani coming to fantastic form as of late, but Joe Cole would add dimension and hopefully we see a revival of his former self.
Wage demands are the barrier, if it's even a lick like the Owen deal (Nothing a week plus incentives) we should give it a real go.
And our owners lke "Free"
In: the red
Out: of cash
Out: of cash
In:
Gourcuff
Smalling
Hernandez
Rodwell
Gourcuff
Smalling
Hernandez
Rodwell
To the people who think we're going to bring in Rodwell, Gourcuff, Villa, Hamisk et all - how the feck do you expect us to pay for it?
The same way we always have. With cash. That's how we paid for Valencia, Smalling and now Hernandez.
I fully expect the Glazers to spend a bit this year. Even if long term it means less signings, spending money this year would appease the green and gold campaign a bit, as a few fans would be won over by the short term buys. Especially as they'll probably make about 25 million in sales this summer.
Very witty plech, if I hadn't just been in the general election poll thread I'd think you a smart young man.
What cash? we aint got any
Comparing signing Smalling & Hernandez to the likes of Villa, Hamsik, Gourcuff is a bit daft isn't it?
Yeah we can buy a few cheap players, but the type we need cost mega money.
with money.....
what i think needs to happen, not necessarily what will.
out:
berba
macheda (loan)
welbeck (loan)
in:
Smalling
Mexican pea man
central midfielder, hopefully that french bloke, he looks pretty good
I think giggs scholes and nev will all stay for another season. They have all been used heavily in the run in and can definitely still play at this level. They may not play as much as before, but they will be hugely influential on the youngsters coming through. I expect at least two of them to stay on as coaches when they do retire.
We are short of options up front, and if berba leaves that will leave us with Rooney, Owen and then some unproven talent. I can see another striker coming in if Welbeck and Mecheda leave on loan.
The central midfield area lacks creativity so i can see gourcoff ( i know i cant spell his name) coming in IF we dont think anderson will be filling that role.
I can also see Joe Cole or a cheap winger coming in. If either Nani or Valencia are off form like earlier in the season, we become to predictable... more options can only help this. That said hopefully Obertan starts maturing and gets more starts next season.
Last but not least i think Gibson will stay. his performance at Bayern was great i thought, and I think he will become a nice little player ( with a hell of a shot)
Dude what is daft is people claiming we have no cash when we spent 11 million on an Unknown like Smalling. Broke people don't do that.
If we can gamble a whole 11 mil on an unknown. Surely we can gamble almost twice that on a more proven player
We must have paid 11 million for Smalling in I.O.U's then.
It makes sense, yeah. But I just cant see us spending mega money.
I hope so though. I think we need to invest BIG time.
You don't almost win the league and do well in the Champions League if you need big investment.
Chelsea need much more investment than us.
Chelsea look to have the league in the bag. We need to invest so we dont feck the CL & league again next season.
And is 'almost winning the league' and 'do well' in the CL good enough?
No.
Have we actually been linked with Gourcuff?
Course it is. Leagues are won and lost on injuries and referees. We've had bad luck this year. We'll be up there or thereabouts again next year, whereas Chelsea have about 7 key players over 30, and no really young players looking to break into the first team./
IMO I'm convinced we will spend big on at least 1 player next summer. Maybe two if we sell one of our more established stars.
We are not that badly off mate. Seriously.
Do we actually know what we paid? It would be installments not cash as well in other words I.O.U'S
Yes. By our fans
His fee wasn't a secret. I'm sure we could find the exact amount on the net. From memory alone I believe it was about 11 million. Which was way high to pay for an unknown if one is broke.
Infact. I was wrong by about 3m. According to some of the articles I've found on it. Still though. That's alot to pay for a total unknown IMO.
tried to make sure this was Not a transfer muppet thread....but certainly can see some seeing it as that.
of course not, but he's french, has a cool last name and does neat stuff with a ball so we should definetly blow some cash on him.
we look to need another game winner and creative midfielder... he looks like he could do the job.
Nani - Rooney - Valencia
Gourcuff - Hamsik
Fletcher
Evra - Vidic - Ferdinand - Rafael
Van der Sar
Gourcuff - Hamsik
Fletcher
Evra - Vidic - Ferdinand - Rafael
Van der Sar
Muppet out.
Nani - Rooney - Valencia
Gourcuff - Hamsik
Fletcher
Evra - Vidic - Ferdinand - Rafael
Van der Sar
Muppet out.
-----------VDS--------
----Ferdinand--Vidic-----
Rafa-----------------Evra
-----Fletcher-Hargo*------
----------Hamsik--------
Valencia--------------Nani
----------Rooney--------
Subbers: Akinfeev,Evans,Anderson, Park, Milner, Benzema, Chico.
Reserves: Amos, Smalling, O'Shea, Brown, De Laet, Giggs, Scholes, James, Obertan, Cleverley, Diouf.
Loan: Fabio, C. Evans, Eikrem, Possebon, Welbeck, Macheda.
Out: Heaton, Foster, Tommy K, Cathcart, Gibson, Neviller, Carrick, Tosic, Berbatov, Owen.
Total spend circa £75million
Total recouped circa £30million
----Ferdinand--Vidic-----
Rafa-----------------Evra
-----Fletcher-Hargo*------
----------Hamsik--------
Valencia--------------Nani
----------Rooney--------
Subbers: Akinfeev,Evans,Anderson, Park, Milner, Benzema, Chico.
Reserves: Amos, Smalling, O'Shea, Brown, De Laet, Giggs, Scholes, James, Obertan, Cleverley, Diouf.
Loan: Fabio, C. Evans, Eikrem, Possebon, Welbeck, Macheda.
Out: Heaton, Foster, Tommy K, Cathcart, Gibson, Neviller, Carrick, Tosic, Berbatov, Owen.
Total spend circa £75million
Total recouped circa £30million
Red cafe probably needs a second server before the season starts.Nani - Rooney - Valencia
Gourcuff - Hamsik
Fletcher
Evra - Vidic - Ferdinand - Rafael
Van der Sar
Muppet out.
Out: Berba
In: Tevez
:Posted from my hot tub time machine.
In: Tevez
:Posted from my hot tub time machine.
I never said that we need a revolving door involving half a dozen players.
I simply stated that it is obvious that we need to improve. Hardly spastic activity saying that.
That's more or less it, as far as I'm concerned.
I simply can't imagine where the optimists are getting their hope from. As far as the Glazers are concerned, qualifying for the Champions League is enough to keep their business model afloat.
As much as I love Sir Alex, he's got no power to speak of anymore when we're talking transfers. Be prepared for many 'Owens' (old, washed up players we might get on a free, and might hope to revive) & 'Obertans'.
I'm as far from a transfer muppet as it's possible to get, but I'm just beyond depressed about the current situation.
As long as the Glazers are in charge we won't invest in the squad as we ought to. We'll just try and keep decent enough not to drop out of the top 4.
Not just you mate, not at all