Did we waste €200 million this summer?

[Captmfla]

It's a good window because you get Hojlund, great striker with high potential and Onana, one of the best keepers around.

I’m watching Kudus destroy Brentford at the moment, and thinking how he was nearly half the price of Mount. Comfortably a better player, and a better player than Bruno too for my money.

In the end, Brentford destroyed Kudus actually (based on the verb you used)

 

[lex talionis]

There is the argument that Levy would never, ever have sold Kane to another PL club, which I have no evidence to refute.

But IF 120m would have pried Harry loose from Daniel, that money would have been vastly better spent than the 200m Antony, Mount and Onana over the last two summers.

 

[MetoTTT]

Hojlund is a excellent buy (maybe we've overpaid) but he could be a complete elite striker imo, Onana will do the job (replace aging Dave on massive wages was needed)...just can't get the Mount deal.

 

[Offsideagain]

Yep

 

[Andycoleno9]

One is responsible for us being out from CL, second is yet to score a goal in PL, third is injured since we signed him (and with questionable role in team) and fourth is downgrade to Fred.

I don't know what future brings but at this moment this window looks as complete debacle.

 

[Red Star One]

every week it's more and more clear - this will go down as our worst transfer window in ages

 

[JohnnyKills]

One is responsible for us being out from CL, second is yet to score a goal in PL, third is injured since we signed him (and with questionable role in team) and fourth is downgrade to Fred.

I don't know what future brings but at this moment this window looks as complete debacle.

It's still early to judge all three of them.

Personally, I can see the logic in Onana. If he cuts out these clangers, he may end up being an upgrade on De Gea. We couldn't go on with a keeper who couldn't pass (or leave his goal-line).

Hjolund has got five in the CL and looks like he has all the tools. No worries about him at all.

Can see Mount being a solid squad player or a hard-working 8 if/when we get good again.

It's last year's signings that are going to screw us. Anthony was decent tonight but has been woeful over all, and Casemiro was just too old.

 

[NotoriousISSY]

When was the last summer where money wasn’t wasted!?

 

[JohnnyKills]

When was the last summer where money wasn’t wasted!?

2010 - when we sold Ronaldo and spent about 12p on new players.

 

[Big Ben Foster]

It was pretty obvious from the start of the window that it was going to be another directionless disaster.

 

[PoTMS]

This idiot should think about joining the Tory government. He'd be excellent at pissing away money especially to his buddies.

 

[edgecutter]

When was the last summer where money wasn’t wasted!?

Hargraves, Nani, Anderson and Tevez from 2008 was fecking mint

 

[Siorac]

2010 - when we sold Ronaldo and spent about 12p on new players.

That's 2009.

 

[Big Ben Foster]

Hargraves, Nani, Anderson and Tevez from 2008 was fecking mint

2007. That was such a brilliant summer. Nani & Anderson being announced on the same day

 

[OverratedOpinion]

Idk

If possible with 200m I would have preferred us to sign a top class central midfielder and a really reliable quality striker.

Have no idea if they were available and wanted to come here so it is hard to say. Mount is a good player, Hojlund is a talent and Onana could turn it around.

A lot of ifs as Mount doesn't really have a space in the starting 11, Hojlund needs to come good and Onana needs to cut out the mistakes.

Basically I have not answered the question.

 

[Godfather]

Hargraves, Nani, Anderson and Tevez from 2008 was fecking mint

only 15 years ago too I mean what more do we want

 

[Andycoleno9]

Hargraves, Nani, Anderson and Tevez from 2008 was fecking mint

Long term 2005/06 proved as great. Vida, Evra, VDS and Park

 

[Kopral Jono]

One is responsible for us being out from CL, second is yet to score a goal in PL, third is injured since we signed him (and with questionable role in team) and fourth is downgrade to Fred.

I don't know what future brings but at this moment this window looks as complete debacle.

And it could have been one Harry Kane. I will never, ever get tired of saying this.

 

[Bwuk]

If we’d kept De Gea and only signed Hojlund & Regulion on loan, we’d be better off this season.

 

[Woziak]

One is responsible for us being out from CL, second is yet to score a goal in PL, third is injured since we signed him (and with questionable role in team) and fourth is downgrade to Fred.

I don't know what future brings but at this moment this window looks as complete debacle.

This window looks like it will get the manager the sack !

 

[AFC NimbleThumb]

Instead of signing Kane, Utd pissed away £129m on the magnificent duo Antony and Onana

Fecking marvellous

Because Kane can collect the ball off the goalkeeper, spray it to himself on the wing then get on the end of his own cross. . .

The fact people can rightly recognise we spunked away money on Antony but still act like Kane would cure the many ailments of this team astounds me.

Would we be better with Kane? Of course.

Would Kane cover up for some issues? Of course.

Are we a team in the right moment to sign a 30 y/o striker when we are years away from competency? No.

The squad needs a tear down & fans need to stop looking for a white knight to come in to save us.

 

[Reapersoul20]

AFC Nimblethumb is right, we need to start looking at the African market

 

[AFC NimbleThumb]

AFC Nimblethumb is right, we need to start looking at the African market

I wasn’t being racial, White Knight - Cambridge Dictionary

Next time have the balls to @ me & stopped being so damn thin skinned (see what I did there. . .). African Market

 

[NoPace]

It does feel like we've have been better off doing what we did with Hojlund and just picking 2 more 20 year olds we rated at positions of actual need (a physical #8 and a CB) and grabbing a keeper on a loan or free like Nubel from Bayern.

Or even guys in their mid-20s but who fill holes in the outfield positions probably woulda worked better. Plug in I guess Matheus Nunes or Edson Alvarez in midfield and say Pau Torres, to pick some realistic names, and we're better off:

We'd be better off with this squad:

Hojlund/Martial
Antony/Diallo
Rashford/Garnacho
Bruno/Eriksen/Hannibal
Nunes/McTominay
Casemiro/Mainoo
Shaw/Reguilon (Malacia)
Dalot/AWB
Maguire/Varane
Lisandro/Pau Torres/Lindelof
Loan Keeper/Bayindir

I don't think we'd be a ton better, but we'd be in a better situation going forward, just needing to replace Martial, Varane and Casemiro and find a keeper, instead of needing 2 midfielders, replacements for Varane and Martial.

Basically it was weird we bought Mount without selling Bruno for 80M and using that money elsewhere. There's no real evidence that Mount and Bruno could play together based on either's career, and we have other needs. If we were moving to 3 at the back than buying Mount would have made more sense, but we aren't, so it didn't.