8 days to turn the season around

This season isn't worth saving. Think of the future.

Spend the same 60m on Zaha and get Jovic or Piatek or Mertens on loan/ transfer.
We can at least save the season. No guarantee that Sancho will come to a mid table club anyway. So no point in waiting for him .

Bruno and Jovic on loan could be good.

With Jovic is was probably more to do with Haller and the Bundesliga though but I think he can be strong player up front for us.

By the time they get used to the PL and our squad it’ll be too late to change our season.

They wont sign anyone. They will use the fact the squad is depleted to give Ole another season.

We’ll sell Pogba in the summer and use the money to make a few signings to appease fans.

Ole will eventually get the sack and it will be rinse and repeat

Unless it's a world beater of a talent like Sancho who every manager would love to have, I'd prefer we save funds for the next manager rather than straddle him with Ole's choices.

It's so sad we are just 6 points behind a very average Chelsea side yet that gap will still grow even if they are not in full gear because we are horrible in every aspect.

Adam-Utd said:

If Ole or Woodward have a small desire to turn this horror show around, they could make a few simple investments in January to help out the squad.

Cavani - Experienced striker, knows where the back of the net is on the floor and the air. Works very hard and is a warrior. Would improve us immeasurably, available for 20m.

Bruno Fernandes - We all know what he can bring to the table - DO IT

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Bruno would come but the money men don't wanna spend. They have the Lukaku money and somehow that's not gonna be invested in the squad.

Cavani would not come to United unless he was offered silly Sanchez money. The money men at United are not gonna make that mistake again. In fact I honestly believe the on going cost of the Sanchez deal is one of the reasons United are not investing in the squad.

I don’t think there is much chance of turning our season around even if we did bring one or two players in before the transfer window closes. Realistically it is unlikely we will win anything this season and we have no chance of finishing in the top four. Things are really dire and there are no short term solutions.

Ever the optimist @Adam-Utd , even if Bruno is signed and another player, the season was over the moment we started it with OGS.

kouroux said:

Ever the optimist @Adam-Utd , even if Bruno is signed and another player, the season was over the moment we started it with OGS.

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Can still be saved now it’s not too late with Chelsea struggling. The issue we have is if Roman decides to wake up and replace Lampard. Would be crazy if they sack their rookie manager before us and hire Potch too to rub salt in the wounds.

Bojan11 said:

Can still be saved now it’s not too late with Chelsea struggling. The issue we have is if Roman decides to wake up and replace Lampard. Would be crazy if they sack their rookie manager before us and hire Potch too to rub salt in the wounds.

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Mark my words, we'll not finish ahead of them, even if they're pretty crap themselves. Very soon we'll lose a "major" player too

Continuing our policy over last few windows, we will sign no one.

maybe ask yourself do any decent players really want to come play under ole??? hardly doubt anyone is coming and if they do , the motivation will be money , not the tactical genius of ole

Adam-Utd said:

If Ole or Woodward have a small desire to turn this horror show around, they could make a few simple investments in January to help out the squad.

Cavani - Experienced striker, knows where the back of the net is on the floor and the air. Works very hard and is a warrior. Would improve us immeasurably, available for 20m.

Bruno Fernandes - We all know what he can bring to the table - DO IT.



2 experienced attacking players that we desperately need to give this squad a hand. Will we do it? I very much doubt it. Stick the money in the bank.

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They don't want to come here

8 days??..you think 8 days will be enough to send out scouts to watch the so called potential targets and then decide whether they we are interested, if we are then start discussion, if things go well, consider bidding and the list goes on.......that need at last three months.

And don't start thinking " but we are already in advanced talks with some targets" because they are all just gossips we have no idea what's going on behind the curtain but surely can't be good.

Might as well make piece with the fact that no one is coming this window because to have an significant window this month with the current injuries and players being out form, we'll need at least players, Bruno alone isn't gonna cut . We are struggling to land a player we are supposedly to have began discussion since summer what makes you think these 8 days will make any difference?

I'm going to get crucified for this, but I'd get on the phone to Florentino Perez and get Bale in here on a 6 month loan. He gets a chance to play regularly since he's ostracized by Zidane; they get some exposition for a player with a big wage that can maybe result in a better sales price come summer.

We have little to lose at this point, and considering the dross we have in the squad, he can hardly do worse.

Best thing for us long term would be no new signings and a 10th-14th place finish. The club needs to be sold. People need to wake up and realise it's over. There's no money left. We still owe about £200m on players we've recently signed too apparently.

sparx99 said:

With Pogba, Rashford and McTominay out and no new signings I could see us losing every league game until April.

Chelsea, City, Everton, Spurs, Sheffield, Wolves and Watford.

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That would be tragic and hilarious at the same time. I am thinking of not watching any more of United's games this season.

Cavani (32 years old, 33 in under 1 month) is a short term fix who is past his prime, who will be commanding a fortune in wages. This is Sanchez 2.0/Falcao 2.0. Einstein's theory of insanity comes to mind.

I know football fans struggle with thinking long term. However, going after someone like Werner (23 years old, 24 in just over a month) in the summer is a much better move for the long term.

golden_blunder said:

Don’t think they will back Ole financially now

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Cavani and Bruno would be good siginings for any manager. We have to improve the squad no matter who the manager is. If a manager cannot use world class players like Cavanni or Bruno, he shouldn't be hired in the first place.

Why would someone still think transfers can help us at the moment? I mean aren't you sick of countless failed transfers? Aren't you sick of the same shit which happens every year? We buy 3-4 players and as soon as the season starts we realize we need another 3-4 players. And this goes round year by year. Why would someone still hope on Glazers and Ole to fix this mess if the board failed to do that last 7 years? The reality is much worse then you could fancy. If the board has no proper organiztion, overpays average players, interfere with manager's transfer desicions and doesn't back him on the transfermarket just to throw him then under the bus and hire another poor fellow why would someone believe anything's gonna be ok somehow "just give Ole time and another 3-4 players"? The club has become a laughing stock and the lowest point still to come.

If only if, we manage it right. Bring in new manager and some decent signings we could compete for the Europa League title. So season is far from over, we are in 3* cups and running for Europa League spot in the league.

I honestly think finishing in the top 4 is beyond this squad of players for reasons most on here can grasp. The Europa League should be the top priority now because it'll reap the bigger reward, the FA Cup should be sacrificed because we clearly haven't the squad to keep us going in all competitions with the amount of fixtures that would come with being in the FA Cup. League Cup next week well that could be even worse than this week.
Like i mentioned the Europa should be top priority now because it'll get us into the Champion League which will obviously help with attracting players in the summer.

I'm genuinely shocked many seem to think that signing surnames is going to change the fortunes of Ole being a rancid manager and somehow that players coming from abroad will make an immediate impact as if it doesn't take any time to adapt to the league.

The moment a club starts putting emphasis on buy this and buy that to get out of problems it's just a massive highlight that the given manager is failing considerably. Fans need to ascertain that it's the buying process that has caused us to be where we are improper planning. We have no DOF and yet fans still want us to sign a multitude of players only for Solskjaer to likely be sacked within the next 24 months and all the players purchased are deemed surplus to requirements of any potential future manager.

Klopp is the perfect example to build a team in a financial astute manner. Jürgen didn't have to write off short term objectives in favour of his long term vision, he still maintained a code of ethics in the summation of his teams performances which gave them the foundation to progress. Did Liverpool / the fans have to projectively assess finishing 5th, 6th 10th due to the circumstances when selling Mignolet, Sinclair, Toure, Ibe, Allen, Solanke, Skrtel, Balotelli, Benteke, Can, Coutinho as a result ? In fact when they sold Coutinho they actually improved and became a better team as a result. Since selling the likes of Lukaku etc have we improved as a team under Solskjaer ?

Adam-Utd said:

Werner isn't available now, and I don't think he will end up being much different to Martial anyway. He's the type that needs 5 chances to score, but gets plenty for Leipzig.



We can take Cavani on a 6 month loan from PSG for a small fee, then if he performs talk about it in the summer. I'm not talking about giving him a 5 year contract.



Perhaps, but if we put together a decent run 4th place is still possible. If we don't reinforce the squad then we can kiss that idea goodbye. It seems Ole and Woodward have moved the goalposts again and said this season is a "young and learning" year.

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No we can't take Cavani as he wants to go to Atletico.

Sandikan said:

It's not a dumb argument at all. We've just seen a total set of different managers who have then axed or struggled with another manager's players.

Signing a totally unproven in a big league player isn't a guaranteed "strengthening" anymore it was when we bought Fred for 50m. Remember him? Still has it to prove

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I watched footage of Fred and could see all his weaknesses before we signed him. They are still very much apparent.

There are few noticeable weaknesses in Fernandes's game. Striking a ball well doesn't change no matter where you are, similarly vision and ability to ping a pass. Yes maybe more pressure and less time to pull off shots/ passes, but what makes Fernandes great is the speed of transistion. He does things quickly and that will translate. Not like a Darren Gibson where he lines up for his shots a week before so can be easily blocked!

RightSaidFredTheRed said:

I watched footage of Fred and could see all his weaknesses before we signed him. They are still very much apparent.

There are few noticeable weaknesses in Fernandes's game. Striking a ball well doesn't change no matter where you are, similarly vision and ability to ping a pass. Yes maybe more pressure and less time to pull off shots/ passes, but what makes Fernandes great is the speed of transistion. He does things quickly and that will translate. Not like a Darren Gibson where he lines up for his shots a week before so can be easily blocked!

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I'd take someone in midfield scoring 3-4 block busters a season right now, wouldn't you though?

Well latest on the media is that Joel Fecking Adams Glazer has blocked a revised structured deal. Says it all really if true but hey Joey take the 19m dividend.

Get real Utd fans - need to ramp up the pressure. We are all being duped by the pish that the Glazers are.