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Giggs: I told the club to sign Mbappe and Jesus
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We're discussing football here. If you wish to discuss morals of a player take it somewhere else.
When Pele or Maradonna say something dumb people Here will rightly criticize them. Giggs said something dumb here.
Sweet Jesus, spare me the holier-than-thou moral bullshit in here. He made a tit of himself in his private life but why that has to be the focal point of every FOOTBALL related Giggs conversation is beyond me.
Okay. will. do. Pal.
It's true. Football fans are all the bloody same. If you can't respect a legend like Giggs what can you expect.
I need Giggs to run my Ultimate Team
He was also bigging up Ashley Williams as a top 4 player....
I don't really envy City for Jesus though. He's decent, but he's being made to look really good by the service he gets in that team.
I don't really envy City for Jesus though. He's decent, but he's being made to look really good by the service he gets in that team.
Desperately tryna earn that Swansea vacancy.Let the first man cast a stone.
The difference between (Mbappe + Jesus) to (Rashford + Martial) is not enough to justify any regrets.
This.Giggs sounding a lot like Wenger here
99% of talented player don’t live up to the hype. Stating you “could of signed player x for a few quid when they were 16” doesn’t help anyone really.
Hindsight is a wonderfully useless thing!
Imagine we still had WelBeck & Evans in the team.
Monaco weren't interested in selling Mbappe at all back then. Only reason they sold Martial was because of the failure to qualify for the CL.
Jesus, perhaps, could have been done but I imagine they'd have wanted more but they would have wanted way more than 5m.
Is Giggsy in that scout thread? Ask him who we should sign now.
Very, very solid interview.
Mentions the fact that the Liverpool game was killer and we should've gone for it as they weren't in great form. Speaks like a fan.
Any red which disagrees with a word of it is letting their personal dislike of Giggs the man clouding the interview.
So did I.
Yeah, I remember reading that (us asking about Martial and Mbappe at the same time) after Mbappe broke out and we were told no chance.
Bizarre but:
This Keeps reminding me of part of Eminem’s lyrics in Without Me
And Moby? You can get stomped by Obie
You 36-year-old baldheaded fag, blow me!
You don't know me, you're too old, let go
It's over, nobody listens to techno
I think it’s how Eminem says the bolded bits that strike a chord, After 3+ years of ‘give it to giggsy’.
Mods: in case some muppet reports: Not the other lines, just those bolded bits.
This Keeps reminding me of part of Eminem’s lyrics in Without Me
And Moby? You can get stomped by Obie
You 36-year-old baldheaded fag, blow me!
You don't know me, you're too old, let go
It's over, nobody listens to techno
I think it’s how Eminem says the bolded bits that strike a chord, After 3+ years of ‘give it to giggsy’.
Mods: in case some muppet reports: Not the other lines, just those bolded bits.
Everyone and their mother was rating Mbappe, Arsene Wenger even tried to sign him. As for Jesus, there's no possible way to get all the young talents in the world and horde them, we got Martial and then Rashford emerged. Signing Jesus makes very little sense.
So if that was the case, then I don't get what Giggs is saying exactly. If we really enquired about both as was reported, then how can he say the club ignored his advice to sign Mbappe?
I highly doubt giggs is watching an epl matches on his leisure time let alone u17 in brazil
I said we should sign Bale for 30m when he was at Southampton...
Sometimes you get 'em right and the club gets 'em wrong.
Maybe Giggs has a point though, our spending the last 5 years has been utterly woeful really.
For what we've spent we should have 2 GREAT forwards, at least 1 Top Class 10 and at least 1 more top midfielder.
Sometimes you get 'em right and the club gets 'em wrong.
Maybe Giggs has a point though, our spending the last 5 years has been utterly woeful really.
For what we've spent we should have 2 GREAT forwards, at least 1 Top Class 10 and at least 1 more top midfielder.
I told the club via television that Utd should sign Messi!
We paid 7 or 8m for Bebe, and you think we could have snatched Mbappe for 5m? Make it 50m and we start talking.
Hmm I never mentioned the proposed price. I have no idea what his contract situation was back then.
This is what I have been saying for a while.
Giggs was either terrible at explaining to LVG that he was going to get fired if he kept playing boring football. OR, he wanted to allow LVG play boring football, get fired, so he could take his job.
In both cases, Giggs is not the sort of guy I'd want managing MUFC.
Similarly, it seems that Giggs lacked the ability to convince the powers that be, that we should sign certain players.
Jose came in and immediately convinced our club to break the World record transfer fee and sign Pogba.
Even Moyes convinced our club to break our own transfer record, when we bought Mata.
Giggs on the other hand can't seem to convince anybody to do anything.
What were his thoughts on Memphis Depay? We'll probably have 11 left sided players with more hindsight.
The real question here is, how many other players he suggested signing, that remained unknown.
This is a strange post. Giggs wasn't given the big job so therefore he was never in a position to convince the club to make any signings in the first place.
It was reported at the time that giggs was the one doing the scouting on martial. Don't see why people would think he's making this up
Yep. Most likely they were in a much longer list, and we couldn't sign all of them.
Our transfers dealings in the recent years before Mourinho (including SAF) were hardly world class so this coming from Giggs isn't surprising. Youth recruitment was especially poor outside the UK and Ireland.
God, ffs. We should have signed Mbappe before and sell it to PSG for 160m and spend 160m on top of 150m annual budget to strengthen the first team overnight 
Gabriel Jesus and Kylian Mbappe did not come out of nowhere. They were both hyped for years in their countries and were known by top clubs for a long time. Even if he told the club to sign them there was never a time they could have been had for 5m.
Our youth recruitment for foreign youth has been nothing short of abysmal. That seems to have been addressed now with the overhaul to our scouting network and hopefully we'll see the efforts bare fruit very soon.
Don't disagree with that, I disagree with the assertion that giggs is now pulling out of his arse that these were players he recommended signing. He has very much become a lightning rod for people who carry a lot of messed up emotions about the time the club was really struggling,
These were innocuous comments but it's as if he can't open his mouth without offending somebody's sensibilities. Some claim he has no right to talk about getting any managers jobs when it seems they really want to be saying he shouldn't speak about football at all.
Exactly. These are the same people on this site that literally wank over pictures of Scholes.
Giggs is our most decorated player. Show some fecking respect. Yes he's a flawed human being and its disgraceful what he did. But we're talking football here and that man gave us all more fun times over the long career he had with us (and only us) than anyone. He produced magical moments probably only Best or Ronaldo could provide,. For two decades!
Reel yourselves in.
Giggs the man is for another thread.
Giggs the player is second to none!
But Giggs did get us Martial.