seems to be easy for other teams though. City and pool are irrelevant to us at this point it’s the fact our other top 6 rivals are improving their squads.
It's not that easy though. I don't think anyone wants to sign any of the players they're signing anyway, they just want us to sign someone.
Really don't think that's the real issue at all. Clubs never bid for players before making sure they're interested. By now the club should have a list of targets that we know are happy to come, and players are always happy to join as long as they're getting high wages. We wouldn't be negotiating with Barca without getting the green light from FDJ for example. The issue is that the club is always slow to close out deals, which means we're missing out on other targets as well. FDJ might be happy to join now but if another top club joins the mix and is happy to pay Barca it's over. We've been bad at this for a long long time.
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For me, worrying starts when pre-season starts if we still don't have incoming players
Pre season should never start without most if not all the new players in place for a so called big club aiming for a so called rebuild under a new manager hoping to implement a new philosophy so as to start a new trend called winning trophies.
What else can be expected when we have Fergie's insider Fletcher and a nobody like Murtough running the show. United is still Mates United with absolute clueless owners to boot.
And has pre-season started?
Jog on with your endless drivel
How is it not abnornal? Spurs, City, Liverpools have all gotten well into their business. Arsenal will wrap up 3 signings to completion very soon in Jesus, Viera and that Brazlian winger.Abnormal!?
They're trying to get De Jong over the line. United have a finite budget and he'd be more than half of it. It's quite difficult to take decisions on smaller deals until you know how much headroom you actually have. I'm sure they have a deadline in mind (probably sometime next week), after which we walk away and focus on progressing the other deals.
The word “abnormal” is such an exaggeration, that’s why i called you up. 14 PL teams have yet to make a signing so how is it “abnormal”?
They are not the barometer of how we should be conducting our transfer business. I don't think youve successfully called me out when our rivals are well under way and we aren't (yet again).
Have something better to do in life.
Assuming we finally are putting a decent / competent backroom staff in place, its bound to take time for them to start getting things done right. Looking at the way City gets their signings done makes me depressed but we have to accept our reality. We need a LOT of on field and behind the scenes work to catch up to them. Hopefully with a stable backroom, competent negotiators and long term manager we can start identifying targets well in advance and start the process before the TW opens
Doesn’t matter If he’s ETH main guy the fact is he doesn’t want to leave Barca and has given us Zero indication he wants to come to united. I mean it’s been weeks now and there’s still no advancement on “in talks”. If Barca are playing hardball then just tell them to feck off and move onto the next one.
I don't see the de Jong deal like that, but we'll see soon what, if anything, happens.
I think it’s a complete over exaggeration
Who me?
Oh but they are. They are half of the top 4 who we are working toward breaking well into.
Tell me, even when fergie was manager did we always arrange our buys early?
Yeah. The same ole same ole same ole. Lots of talk no action. On and off the pitch. We really do suck to high heaven.
Yep and they paid more than they needed to as well.
How comes with compete or even, out perform City and Liverpool in revenue generation, wage bill but we don't compete with them on on-field success and recruitment?
Was the landscape remotely similar? When Fergie was manager he can just buy whoever was doing great in the PL. Smith, Rio, Rooney etc.
