Recent content by Lebowski

Yeah, the FFP excuse doesn't really make sense. The most likely 2 options are therefore either 1) there literally wasn't enough cash in the bank for anything close to the up-front fee a decent quality midfielder would cost to buy outright. The most recent accounts showed the cash in the bank was...

Fair point - I have no idea how reliable the £17m figure was. It could be that Fiorentina were accepting lower bids as the deadline approached knowing the player was essentially on strike and the prospect of losing him for nothing in 12 months drew on, but it's at least equally likely that it...

You're entitled to your opinion and obviously I hope he goes on to have a great season for us despite it looking like a deadline day desperation deal. Put it this way though, if he was a top target for us since June, then don't you wish the club had got him in on a permanent deal months ago...

Agreed. It's a strange idea for a topic when looking at Murtough in isolation is both difficult (because we don't know who is precisely responsible for what at United nor what is expected of him), and also seems pointless (we're supporters of United not members of the John Murtough appreciation...

Nunes and Paulinha were highly rated players who went for £30-40 million on permanent transfers. Amrabat is a player who has been desperate to leave all summer and available for about £17 million who we have signed on a deadline day loan due to having a midfield crisis and being skint. They...

What you're describing are still money issues though. It doesn't free up space for a signing a January unless the limiting factor for a signing in January is FFP / cash, which obviously both fall into the 'money issues' category. It isn't as if there's a rule limiting your January transfer...

The break clause was money-related though. We didn't want to pay a player wages for the whole season that we may only need until January, so instead we went with our cheaper backup option. If Ten Haag's first choice was Cucarella (which seems likely since we've been after him for the last...

I doubt they'll care mate. If they accepted the break clause and United cancelled the loan in January when Shaw was fit, they'd have to pay him for the rest of the season anyway. Plus Boehley doesn't seem like the sort to lose sleep over a few extra weeks wages anyway!

All good points and I'm basically 50/50 between them. Odegaard is obviously less of a rotation risk and he also had a habit of pulling in big hauls last year compared to Martinelli. He also just seems like the heartbeat of that team and a 'safer' bet until we see exactly how they line up...

Think I'm settled, aside from leaks pre-city match. Very template but fairly happy with £1m in the bank to attack fixtures: Onana (Turner) Estupinan Stones Gabriel (Chilwell) (Baldock) Bruno Rashford Saka Odegaard Mitoma Haaland Pedro (Mubama) 1 mil spare.

What you're describing is still sportswashing. Sportswashing and financial doping aren't the same thing: United being owned by a member of the Qatari royal family and being intimately linked to the Qatari state means we'd be a sportswashing project for Qatar. It'd be different in nature as...

Give us Ferencvaros - I fancy a March trip to Budapest.

I wouldn't be surprised if Maguire is chosen over Lindelof given the aerial threat of Scammaca etc and how physical West Ham are. It'd be harsh on Lindelof as he's deserved his spot as first backup, but I can understand Ten Hag preferring slabhead for this game.

Only if you're very brave

Wildcard team: Pickford (Ward) Cancelo White Zouma (Dalot, Trippier) Salah Foden Rashford Martinelli (Andreas) Haaland Mitro Toney Done!