Decomposing In Paris
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Times like these I always remember being devastated the summer of '95 when we sold Hughes, Kanchelskis and Ince... but that turned out ok!
Yeah about that. .It does feel weird. I cant remember a pre-season tour finishing this close to the Prem opener, AND a tour that was missing pretty all our first choice 11. Maybe it was the same after the last WC, but this does feel like the worst prep for a crack at the title for a long time.... My optimistic view is that Mourinho said at Christmas not to expect many summer signings, and that he pretty much now had the squad he wants - so despite his dour press conferences so far, I'm hoping he actually has a plan and the pieces are about to fall into place. We certainly cant afford a slow start to the Prem, as we have a lot of winnable (confidence building) fixtures to open with... in Mou we must trust right?!?
Not happening.If you think it’s bad now, wait until we’ve flogged Pogba and Martial later in the month.
But back then we already had a great team. So it wasn't a problem. The following season, like you mentioned, we started to destroy that team.No. Moyes summer was the worst. SAF had just retired, we got Moyes and the only transfer he made was Fellaini.
The 09/10 season being really bad. We sold Ronaldo and our transfers in were Valencia as his replacement, Owen on a free plus Diouf and Obertan. There wasn't much optimism for that season.
The season before also had people in frantic motions. Zoran Tosic and deadline day signing of Berbatov.
Anybody saying taht Summer 2018 is worse than Summer 2013, probably did not support MUFC 5 years ago.Summer 2013 was worse. By far. SAF retired, Moyes in and only transfer was Fellaini. Depressing.
Doesn't matter what the existing team is like, people will always clamour for transfers and that summer was noisy on here.But back then we already had a great team. So it wasn't a problem. The following season, like you mentioned, we started to destroy that team.
Right. That was the worst.You lot have short memories. The Moyes summer was worse, we actually thought we could get both Baines and Fellaini for £28M when Fellaini had a £23M release clause and we had already failed with a £12M bid for Baines. We turned down the chance to sign Thiago then the whole deadline day mess where we put a panic bid in for Khedira, we apparently sent officials to secure a deal for Herrera or did we I'm still confused, failed to sign Coentrao on loan and ended up over paying for Fellaini.
Simple solution, ban the American's they're too divisiveThe caf is becoming more and more divided.
Similar to USA...
It has everything to do with the part of your post I highlighted.What has that got to do with anything?
Just watched it. Don't think he is wrong though. Spot on in many areas.ON another note. If you all are already depressed, you best not watch Phil de Brun's periscope from earlier. End of days stuff.
On what earth were the likes of Lindegaard and Cleverley 'serial winners' or part of the 'leadership group'?What do you mean, what winners? All of them that had won trophies that LVG bummed out of the club for literally no reason. Then farcically replacing them with youngsters who had played a handful of senior games when you bundled them all together.
Fletcher, Evans, Cleverley, Van Persie, Lindegard, Hernandez and so on and so on. Literally gutting the entire stable leadership group out of the club in one transfer window. Leaving Mourinho with in the farcical position of having to bin off players like Powell, Wil Keane, McNair etc etc.
I mean, it is nice that we've begun to rebuild by signing some big hitters like Pogba, Sanchez, Matic, Lukaku who might soon grow into some semblance of a leadership core. But the place was absolutely void of leadership when Jose took over. I have absolutley no idea how you instill the leadership down on this group of players who are mostly overpaid and comfortable in their role at the club and able to switch off when we lose and go crying to their social media telling their fans it will be alright, only to have them turn around and proclaim that Jose is the problem.
There is definitely more than meets the eye here.
Yeah there was uncertainty but then we won the community shield and our first game of the season and things were looking up. All went downhill afterI get the feeling it's mostly revisionism to say that 2013 was the worst ever. Sure, some people knew Moyes would be a disaster, but most had some hope. We had just won the league and were linked to exciting players. The real disappointment came during the season.
We shouldn't bother even expecting Jose to win the league because Pep is managing City? Why? What's the point of Jose then?It has everything to do with the part of your post I highlighted.
ON another note. If you all are already depressed, you best not watch Phil de Brun's periscope from earlier. End of days stuff.
More than a few if they go abroad... :-(Could become worse, right? Still a few days to sell Martial and Pogba.