Kostov
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This is also on Amorim, absolute incompetence to still not introduce our new 20m GK while persisting with a guy who’s rubbish to even be a deputy at this level. Managerial blunder of the highest order.

We don't, that's absolutely rubbish and just another thing to moan about with absolutely no clout to back it up.He's not even starting at Celta. Useless loan, we must have the dumbest sporting analysis department for loans in europe we always manage to get the shittiest loan deals.
Weird complaint.He's not even starting at Celta. Useless loan, we must have the dumbest sporting analysis department for loans in europe we always manage to get the shittiest loan deals.
If you've got to whinge about something, what the 4th choice keeper is or isn't doing on loan at Celta Vigo is at least creative. His own mother must struggle to give a toss.He's not even starting at Celta. Useless loan, we must have the dumbest sporting analysis department for loans in europe we always manage to get the shittiest loan deals.
Weird complaint.
1) its been 2 games.
2) we didn't loan him out because we want him to get gametime. We loaned him because hes shit.
I doubt the club really cares all that much if he plays or not.
I guess you're talking about Hojlund. In that case, that "loan" was basically a sale. There was a mandatory buy obligation if he played a certain number of minutes.We don't, that's absolutely rubbish and just another thing to moan about with absolutely no clout to back it up.
We've literally just sold a player to a club who had him on loan....
Unless the plan is to loan him every time until he contract runs out instead of selling him we should very much care about his game time. If he doesnt play his value will only decrease, specially for a GK.Weird complaint.
1) its been 2 games.
2) we didn't loan him out because we want him to get gametime. We loaned him because hes shit.
I doubt the club really cares all that much if he plays or not.
You think he has any real value?I guess you're talking about Hojlund. In that case, that "loan" was basically a sale. There was a mandatory buy obligation if he played a certain number of minutes.
Let's analyse our loans over the last three years and see which ones you think were successes and which were failures.
25/26
Onana -Trabzonspor: We couldn't sell him, so he went out on loan again.
Rashford -Barcelona: We couldn't sell him. He came back even though he's not really wanted at the club.
Sancho - Aston Villa: His contract expired.
Amass - Sheffield United: Played around 1,800 minutes, then moved to Norwich, where he played only 16 minutes. Came back without really challenging for a place in the squad.
Vitek -Bristol City: Established himself as their starter and was eventually sold for a good fee. Success.
Collyer - West Brom: Played around 250 minutes, then moved to Hull, where he played around 100 minutes.
24/25
Rashford - Aston Villa: Came back and was loaned out again the following season.
Sancho -Chelsea: Came back despite clearly not being wanted at United.
Antony - Real Betis: Performed well enough to be sold. Success.
Malacia - PSV: Played around 600 minutes before returning to United.
23/24
Sancho - Dortmund: Returned to United and was subsequently loaned out again.
Greenwood - Getafe: Became a regular starter and was eventually sold, although for a relatively low fee.
Hannibal - Sevilla: Played only around 100 minutes.
Pellistri - Granada: Played around 1,200 minutes.
Van de Beek - Frankfurt: Played around 360 minutes.
Brandon Williams - Ipswich Town: Played around 1,000 minutes.
Looking at the last three seasons, there don't seem to be many clear-cut successes. The main ones I'd consider successful are Vitek and Antony, while Greenwood is more of a mixed case because, although the loan itself worked reasonably well, we ultimately sold him for a low fee.
A lot of the other loans either failed to generate enough playing time, failed to develop, failed to increase the player's value, or simply delayed the same problem for another season.
Unless the plan is to loan him every time until he contract runs out instead of selling him we should very much care about his game time. If he doesnt play his value will only decrease, specially for a GK.
He's definitely not a good enough keeper for us. He may not be Premier League level, but he's a Turkish international, was even called up for the World Cup, and he's 28, which is a good age for a goalkeeper. At the very least, we should be able to get £5m for him.You think he has any real value?
He's got 1 year left on his contract with a 1 year option, we aren't getting anything for him and we're probably saving money by not paying his wages
I was actually talking about Collyer,I guess you're talking about Hojlund. In that case, that "loan" was basically a sale. There was a mandatory buy obligation if he played a certain number of minutes.
Let's analyse our loans over the last three years and see which ones you think were successes and which were failures.
25/26
Onana -Trabzonspor: We couldn't sell him, so he went out on loan again.
Rashford -Barcelona: We couldn't sell him. He came back even though he's not really wanted at the club.
Sancho - Aston Villa: His contract expired.
Amass - Sheffield United: Played around 1,800 minutes, then moved to Norwich, where he played only 16 minutes. Came back without really challenging for a place in the squad.
Vitek -Bristol City: Established himself as their starter and was eventually sold for a good fee. Success.
Collyer - West Brom: Played around 250 minutes, then moved to Hull, where he played around 100 minutes.
24/25
Rashford - Aston Villa: Came back and was loaned out again the following season.
Sancho -Chelsea: Came back despite clearly not being wanted at United.
Antony - Real Betis: Performed well enough to be sold. Success.
Malacia - PSV: Played around 600 minutes before returning to United.
23/24
Sancho - Dortmund: Returned to United and was subsequently loaned out again.
Greenwood - Getafe: Became a regular starter and was eventually sold, although for a relatively low fee.
Hannibal - Sevilla: Played only around 100 minutes.
Pellistri - Granada: Played around 1,200 minutes.
Van de Beek - Frankfurt: Played around 360 minutes.
Brandon Williams - Ipswich Town: Played around 1,000 minutes.
Looking at the last three seasons, there don't seem to be many clear-cut successes. The main ones I'd consider successful are Vitek and Antony, while Greenwood is more of a mixed case because, although the loan itself worked reasonably well, we ultimately sold him for a low fee.
A lot of the other loans either failed to generate enough playing time, failed to develop, failed to increase the player's value, or simply delayed the same problem for another season.
Unless the plan is to loan him every time until he contract runs out instead of selling him we should very much care about his game time. If he doesnt play his value will only decrease, specially for a GK.
He's out of contract next season, unless we stupidly take up the 1 year extension. We just wanted his wages off the books.I dont get your angle here. If we think hes shit then we want him to play so that either the club hes at, or another club wants to sign him. We dont want him back from the loan to have to find a new club all over again. If we don't think he's shit and do want him to improve so that maybe eventually he could be used for some lesser games, then we want him to play. So either way a loan where he doesnt play doesnt make sense.
I don’t think you understand the Saudi market.It's weird you'd think at least some middling Saudi team or something would have given him a transfer and let him fight it out with the other keeper there. Surely he's starting quality for a league like that?
It's not like we are going to be asking a lot for him in relative terms. Strange one
This is exactly the reason,He's out of contract next season, unless we stupidly take up the 1 year extension. We just wanted his wages off the books.
Amass was a starter until he was moved to Norwich, got injured, and we had to bring him back.I was actually talking about Collyer,
Amass, Vitek, Gore, Ennis, Wheatley, Williams all had good loan spells just last season.
But it's fine, you can cherry pick the unwanted senior players who we needed off the books as proof that our loan system doesn't work.
He's out of contract next season, unless we stupidly take up the 1 year extension. We just wanted his wages off the books.
No one is offering £5m for him are they? If they had we'd have sold him, he's on the last year of his contract, no one is paying a fee for him when they can pay nothing in a yearHe's definitely not a good enough keeper for us. He may not be Premier League level, but he's a Turkish international, was even called up for the World Cup, and he's 28, which is a good age for a goalkeeper. At the very least, we should be able to get £5m for him.
Saying he has no value is nonsense. Being happy just because we're no longer paying his wages is a pretty mediocre way of looking at it.
I'd be absolutely astounded if that happens.I'm sure we did, but that doesnt mean we'll be happy to let him leave for free. We may well take up the option to look to get some of our money back from signing him
Absolutely clueless..Amass was a starter until he was moved to Norwich, got injured, and we had to bring him back.
Vitek, as I already said, was a good deal.
As for the rest, I wasn't cherry picking. The discussion is about United's piss poor loan strategy, and I didn't bother listing every youngster whose situation is already painfully obvious. But since you've brought them up, let's go through them.
Gore and Ennis are 21. Wheatley is 20. All three were loaned to League Two clubs. Williams is 20 and was off to the Scottish Premiership. And somehow we're supposed to look at that and conclude United are doing a good job developing young players?
Come on.
At 20–21, if you genuinely believe a player has a realistic future at Manchester United, you need to be putting him in an environment that actually prepares him for that level. If he's not ready for United, fine send him somewhere where he'll be properly challenged. Instead, we're effectively dumping these players down the football pyramid and calling it development.
And then you point to them doing well at that level as evidence that the loans are successful. Successful loans for what exactly? So a 21 year old can dominate League Two? Brilliant. I'm sure that's going to prepare him brilliantly for Premier League football.
This is exactly the kind of lazy thinking that has allowed United's loan system to be so mediocre for years. A loan isn't automatically a "good loan" because the player gets minutes and scores a few goals. The whole point is to develop the player and increase his level and value.
If a 20/21 year-old United prospect is being sent to League Two or the Scottish Premiership, that's not evidence of some brilliant academy pathway. It's evidence that United haven't found a better development environment for him.
And if you genuinely think these loans strengthen your argument, you're actually proving mine United's idea of loan management seems to be "find them somewhere to play" rather than "find them the right level to develop."
Yep - might well have done under Woodward. Almost certainly won’t now.I'd be absolutely astounded if that happens.
Still you dont give any specifics I provided specific example where most are loan failures yet you still generalize without arguments. Let's leave it there no point in discussing like this.Absolutely clueless..
Not every loan is going to be for a player the parent club feel is going to make it ...that's at a premium for all clubs not just United...
They are primarily to see if that player can make it, of there's something to work with, if they can develop.
Most loanees go back to the parent club to be sold on or sent back on loan.
We sent Dalot out on loan, that changed him as a player,
Garner went out on loan, Pellistri, Chong, Henderson, Hannibal, Diallo, Alvaro, Tuanzebe, Pereria.....etc etc
But yeah, our loan system is crap....
What makes a loan a success?Still you dont give any specifics I provided specific example where most are loan failures yet you still generalize without arguments. Let's leave it there no point in discussing like this.
One where the player develops substantially, either by improving their performance level or increasing their market value.What makes a loan a success?
+ gaining experience by playing in senior level competetive gamesOne where the player develops substantially, either by improving their performance level or increasing their market value.
So the names of players who have been on successful loans that I've mentioned in that post are not proof enough for you no?!Still you dont give any specifics I provided specific example where most are loan failures yet you still generalize without arguments. Let's leave it there no point in discussing like this.

Neither happen often, most loans are for young players who won't make it.One where the player develops substantially, either by improving their performance level or increasing their market value.
You just throw out names without providing any specifics. You're going back several seasons to bring up the likes of Pellistri, Chong, Henderson, Hannibal, Diallo, Álvaro, Tuanzebe, and Pereira.So the names of players who have been on successful loans that I've mentioned in that post are not proof enough for you no?!![]()
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You live in a bizarrely mediocre world where apparently any loan counts as a success. I agree that most youngsters won't make it, and many of them will be loaned out to the bottom of the pyramid simply to give them a chance to build a career in football when it's already clear they won't make it here.Neither happen often, most loans are for young players who won't make it.
Other loans are for senior players who want out and need to be off the books,
Other loans are for genuine development purposes..
You live in a fantasy world where every loan is to improve a player or turn them into a money making machine, that is a tiny proportion of loans.
It's fine, you are just cherry picking information and changing the main point of the conversation to try and prove your point, which quite frankly isn't working very well for you.You live in a bizarrely mediocre world where apparently any loan counts as a success. I agree that most youngsters won't make it, and many of them will be loaned out to the bottom of the pyramid simply to give them a chance to build a career in football when it's already clear they won't make it here.
That's precisely why I didn't mention the youngsters who were never highly rated in the first place. Yet you threw them into the discussion as if their existence somehow proves we had successful loans, only to then turn around and say that most of them won't make it.
That's poor logic.
I think this was a petty power play by Amorim. They didn’t sign the keeper he wanted (Martinez) so he stubbornly refused to start the keeper they did buy until he had no choice.This is also on Amorim, absolute incompetence to still not introduce our new 20m GK while persisting with a guy who’s rubbish to even be a deputy at this level. Managerial blunder of the highest order.
He's not even starting at Celta. Useless loan, we must have the dumbest sporting analysis department for loans in europe we always manage to get the shittiest loan deals.