Ole isn't shrewd. Cantona, Evra, Vidic, Schmeichel, Ronaldo, Hernandez were all shrewd buys. None of ours has been. They've all been solid though.Semi seriously, I feel like Solskjaer's shrewdness and ruthlessness in the market is quite reminiscent of getting stuck in on Championship manager, he's already said he used to be obsessed with it in his playing days. I wonder how much of doing that has helped him in real life in the same situations
James is a shrewd buy, Ighalo is a shrewd buy. I would even argue AWB is a shrewd buy. Yes it cost 50m but for a 21 year old who has been superb, it really looks like value for money.
If he ever comes near the lvl of Marcelo in his prime i'd say the transfer was shrewd.
I'd argue that Bruno looks very good value for money too.
Eh? Bruno and Ighalo were very shrewd, especially in a January window.
I guess you're right.
That was in a different era. you can spend £30/40m in the current market and still be shrewd business.
Yes Bruno for 47m is a shrewd business. Btw found it funny how the commentator yesterday kept on inflating Bruno's price to 68m.
They all do that when it is a United signing. We may never have to pay the full amount if he doesnt win the CL and Ballon Dor anyway.
I would say the 11 years he played under SAF and how he saw him have to constantly re-freshen and rebuild that team had a huge effect as well. Ole was there for the late 90's, Early 00's and still around for the 07-08 version. he emulates SAF, he knows what he wants from players and he knows what types of players will give him what he wants.Semi seriously, I feel like Solskjaer's shrewdness and ruthlessness in the market is quite reminiscent of getting stuck in on Championship manager, he's already said he used to be obsessed with it in his playing days. I wonder how much of doing that has helped him in real life in the same situations
Yeah most likely a bigger factor
Well, when Bruno proves
himself to be the Second Coming, he'll be right.I could care little then.Well, when Bruno proves
Ronaldo wasn't shrewd, he was being looked at by a lot of other big clubs. We were just lucky to play him in the friendly and buy him straight away.
The OP is suggesting that Ole acquired his managerial skills from playing a computer game, rather than playing under the best footballer manager ever to walk the earth and learning from him in the process.
I wouldn't say Cantona was shrewd he had just helped Leeds to a division 1 win the season prior and Peter Schmeichel had won the Euros with Denmark.
He found Daniel James by adding a min 20 max 20 pace and acceleration filter on football manager 2018.
Well I guess it depends on what the definition of shrewd is. Fergie's assistant exclamied about Cantona "Has he got a broken leg or what?" when he heard how small the transfer fee was.
Maybe you should have taken that article with a grain of salt
Oh, I see, you're on a WUM - a well-disguised one at that.
Wasn't de bruyne one of the most highly rated players not at a big club at the time and cost 50 million? Pretty much the opposite of shrewd really.
A lot of clubs buy football managers data. Thr in game stuff has been edited to be slightly random but their raw unaltered data is the biggest and best scouting network in the world. Clubs would be foolish not to use it in some way.
Fair, he was good business then. £50m for him is a steal really in this market.
This market didn't apply to De Bruyne, City signed him 5 years ago, that was before the PSG effectively exploded the market.
This place.
It just depends how you definte shrewdness
I can’t even really be bothered replying to this, but As others have said James, Ighalo, AWB to some extent with his age and ability.
Hes only had one summer window FFS!
You expect more than 2-3 shrewd signings on top of the more expensive acquisitions?
It’s quite literally at the point on here where anything below goat level prowess from Ole is unacceptable and not worthy of praise.
So it's only worldies who are shrewd buys then? I take it Dele Ali, Vardy, Robertson, - not really all that?
James, too early to tell, not a starter. Besides, we desperately needed a right winger/forward to make us better, this never happened. Ighalo? Why? Again, we need a star striker to challenge for the CL and PL, Ighalo is... not going to make a big difference for us. AWB is a solid professional and defender, but huge question-marks over his attacking ability. We all know by now that attacking full-backs are paramount if you want to win trophies, we have none. And Maguire? Solid, good header, but extremely slow and poor on the ball, again, unlike the modern model where pace is so important. Playing a high line with him is dangerous, which again pushes us down and makes us concentrate on counters.
