Sorry, I misread your post. I thought you meant if we don’t sign anyone it will cost us 100 - 150m. My fault matey.
Is signing nobody a possibility?
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We do need signings to close the gap between us and the top teams but I'll understand if we don't sign any significant players all things considered.
This is one fallacious and logically inconsistent myth that never refuses to die for want of both a coping mechanism and a scapegoat on here. People really need to decide what they want. You can't both criticise Woodward and by definition the glazers for being tight and also.whine that we don't have a dof who will help us recruit properly because we are wasting too much money.
I would argue that.. I would give you last summer.. But there have been 14 windows since Fergie's retirement.
It is if we keep on chasing lost causes . This window is like a flashback of Moyes's pursuit of Fabregas where we kept going after one player who didn't want to play for us and never seemed to have any plan b
I doubt it's a possibility, but what would be more plausible is that we end up getting none of our top targets and end up with a panic buy, similar to Fellaini in the summer of 2013.
Either scenario is a complete disaster I think. We're in arguably our best shape post Fergie. We've a young, talented team finally finding some consistency in their game, some real leaders finally on the pitch, and it feels like we've finally built up some momentum as a club again.
Not strengthening the squad would completely erode that momentum and undermine all of the great work the management team and the players did since the introduction of Bruno. We've secured CL football, and the cash influx that that brings. Now is the time to invest once more and hope to close that gap even more. Not doing so is condemning the club to another disappointing season.
Either scenario is a complete disaster I think. We're in arguably our best shape post Fergie. We've a young, talented team finally finding some consistency in their game, some real leaders finally on the pitch, and it feels like we've finally built up some momentum as a club again.
Not strengthening the squad would completely erode that momentum and undermine all of the great work the management team and the players did since the introduction of Bruno. We've secured CL football, and the cash influx that that brings. Now is the time to invest once more and hope to close that gap even more. Not doing so is condemning the club to another disappointing season.
Don’t dwell on the past matey, if you look at only the last two windows, ignore the other 12 then it’s been very successful
which I'm sure we are looking to do, but we don't want to spend just for the sake of signing someone as we have a MASSIVE squad, we don't need squad players, we need players who are going to at least be in the conversation for a first-team place.
Finding players, in that vein who aren't in the unrealistic money in this financial crisis bracket, who are going in improve our first team, is not easy, and this isn't the summer to gamble on maybe they will come good.
What we don't want to this summer is just buying because other teams are making some signings we need to make signings if they are the right players at the right price.
Spending across football is going to be a fraction of what it normally is and fans need to get their heads around that.
Don’t dwell on the past matey, if you look at only the last two windows, ignore the other 12 then it’s been very successful
that's the spirit.yep but our squad is still massive
De Gea
Henderson
Romero
Grant
Wan-bissaka
Fosu-Mensah
Dalot
Lindleof
Bailly
Jones
Maguire
Smalling
Tuanzebe
Rojo
Wiilliams
Shaw
Matic
McTominay
Fernandez
Pereira
Pogba
Fred
Greenwood
Mata
Lingard
Rashford
James
Martial
Ingalo
And thats even before you start talking about youth players who need game time!
We aren't suffering from the fact we are short of numbers, in a lot of positions we have 3 players. We really need to sell players, especially centrebacks and goalkeepers. And only bring players in if they are a long term upgrade on what we have and that simply may not doable in the current climate.
Didn’t Woody say that we would be well placed in the current situation to take advantage of the transfer market?
No its not a possibility - but what is a possibility is that we will panic and sign players we shouldnt have
Would be stupid to make big deals now, there will be another lookdown during this winter, you could get discounted players next year
ok mate. The fact that Thiago is better than Matic, Fred, mctominay irrelevant is it?And the same professionals making the decisions are the ones who brought in Sanchez and countless other transfer failures?
In that case, we have 21 league titles.
Reading posts at the Cafe and “experts” elsewhere, I came to conclusion that a huge factor is kinda overlooked. Everyone is focused on intra-industry problems such as fans admission and TV rights money.
But there is a factor as big. The world in the middle of the deepest economic crisis since...ever? I doubt that US Economy fell by 32% even during Great Depression. GDP in major nation down by tens of %.
Demand is lower, so advertising budgets should be cut globally. This will affect everyone in football: FIFA, UEFA, national federations, and the leagues.
Wages/transfer will be affected in the long. Business owners are aware of the scenario. They just don’t want to commit to the long term deals now.
Thus, market is almost dead. Transfer activity is hampered by uncertainty. It’s almost impossible to sell. If you can’t sell, you can’t budget your wage exposure and future cash flow.
A “No transfer” window is unlikely, but it looks like United will avoid big buys and wages.
But there is a factor as big. The world in the middle of the deepest economic crisis since...ever? I doubt that US Economy fell by 32% even during Great Depression. GDP in major nation down by tens of %.
Demand is lower, so advertising budgets should be cut globally. This will affect everyone in football: FIFA, UEFA, national federations, and the leagues.
Wages/transfer will be affected in the long. Business owners are aware of the scenario. They just don’t want to commit to the long term deals now.
Thus, market is almost dead. Transfer activity is hampered by uncertainty. It’s almost impossible to sell. If you can’t sell, you can’t budget your wage exposure and future cash flow.
A “No transfer” window is unlikely, but it looks like United will avoid big buys and wages.
Buying any player has been a challenge for us in recent times. And who is the right player? No one can really tell. If it was us who had signed Ziyech and Werner would they not have improved our team?
Who would Werner play in front of?
No.
Ed will sanctioned a deal for at least a player at the last minute, just so the fans won't riot
Ed will sanctioned a deal for at least a player at the last minute, just so the fans won't riot