Flipping hell. He is being SARCASTIC.
January Transfer Window
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He just paid 25million for matic. A reasonable amount for a midfielder he needed. It's not like he spent 40miliion plus for him. So can't use the cash excuse here as well. People are making a fuss because we could have gotten fellaini for cheaper. It's a perfectly fine reason to laugh at moyes about.
He was? Oh...errr...I get it now.
Well they'v splashed ridiculous money on Willian I would say. If not one big number then money split between Matić, van Ginkel ( although his fee was the lowest ), Schürrle and Willian was around 70-80 mln pounds, that's some money if you ask me.
But obviously yea, it's not just the money, what I was heading at was that Mou doesn't have to be 1/100 as cautious as Moyes when spending money.
Don't be silly... There spending has been far from irrational. We spent £15m on Ashley young and that didnt stop us spending £16 on Jones and buying De Gea.
Nothing stopped us from selling our best player for 80 mln quid and then spending money gained from him on those players either.
Ah only saw that now. Sarcasm can be lost in text.
That's not true is it? Woodward along with Moyes and whoever else at the club have made it clear we have money to spend, enough of it, so much so we went after Fabregas which would've eventually cost us well north of 30m if he was keen.
Also Chelsea have spent 70-80m on what 4 players? I wouldn't say that's 'some money'. All those fees were well within our reach so it's not as if they spent outlandishly on a player. And as has been pointed out by Mainoldo we've spent similarly in the past.
You see, that's the difference, you could see Ferguson saying that we've got all the money we want to spend, you've got Moyes claiming he's got all the financial support from Glazers' side yet it's us fecking around with transfers under two managers and Chelsea don't make any claims about 'rescue kitties', 'warchests' and other shit but they just spend. Yea, those you've mentioned were within our financial reach, no doubt, but as I've said already, there's less pressure/risk whatever on Chelsea's transfers compared to our transfers.
And I'm guessing you think buying Jones and De Gea was a mistake then?
Thats true... Well maybe we can use some of our sponsorship money to pay for our new set of players.. Our wait for Madrid to spunk millions on Januzaj so we can spent 17m here and there on 4 players.
No never said that and i don't get what it had to do with my argument?
Has Bruce bought Jelavic and Shane long....if so not bad at all.
True, I can agree that Chelsea have less risk as shown by the sell Matic buy Matic back for 10x the price you sold him for. But it doesn't excuse our sluggishness on getting things done. Moyes and Woody need to step up their game if we're ever going to get the players we need to get ourselves sorted again.
This is the most boring window in history. Shite levels of muppetry.
I'd be one to say the normal muppets are busy.. August could be better, but we'll have to wait see.
clearly Matic wanted to join Chelsea as soon as it was apparent they wanted him. Not sure if they had a clause from before in terms of price but certainly United wouldnt have picked him up for the same price
We had real reports from Germany that we are in for Gundogen and still no frenzied activity.
Nice summary from MEN
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co...hester-united-transfers-special-squad-6514521
United bosses clock up air miles as squad strengthening efforts intensify
16 Jan 2014 12:17
MEN Sport analyses Manchester United's transfer progress at the midway point in the January window, with issues bubbling in defence, midfield and attack.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co...hester-united-transfers-special-squad-6514521
United bosses clock up air miles as squad strengthening efforts intensify
16 Jan 2014 12:17
MEN Sport analyses Manchester United's transfer progress at the midway point in the January window, with issues bubbling in defence, midfield and attack.
Our muppets turned pessamistic
MEN know feck all. They've just plucked names and thrown them all into an article.
It's pretty much all what we already know here given the games we know Moyes and the team have scouted so the names are probably pretty accurate. Like I said, it's a summary rather than brand new information.
The though though that Juve would sell Vidal and Pogba together for £50m made me chuckle.
Right on, sister.
The fact he's jetting out to watch players NOW, two weeks before the window shuts when we've been in obvious need of signing since the summer, is a bit infuriating tbh. The reason why clubs conclude business early is because they spend Sept-Dec doing work behind the scenes. I expected us to tie up deals early this month rather than be at the 16th and still at the 'scouting' stage.
The last month should be spent haggling over the end detail not jetting off to see who you might fancy.
At what point up to this week has there been time for Moyes to go on scouting missions?
£50m for Pogba and Vidal?
I'd drive to Italy and bring them back here myself for that.
I'd drive to Italy and bring them back here myself for that.
At what point has he been too busy. Fergie used to get his arse about everywhere during the season. Why has Moyes got time to do it now but didn't have time a few weeks ago? Nothing has changed. We don't play every night. There aren't evening training sessions. You see plenty of managers scouting players overseas during the season. There's no reason why he's got time now but didn't in, say, October.
Anderson's already left on a plane to Fiorentina. Ya could have gone on a roadtrip.
MEN is garbage
Well we have a week between games now at a time that the other leagues are all playing. In the last few weeks we've been playing 2-3 games a week so time has been tight.
Who's to say he wasn't gone scouting in October? You seem to be making a massive assumption there based on the fact that you don't know something.
*Tumbleweed*
True... believe it or not one of the best sources of united transfer news is Daily Mail.
So many targets. So little action. I see for an interesting 23:59 deadline day.
To be fair Moyes is getting shit for signing Fellanini regardless of price because he is shit.
Moyes wasn't filmed watching matches overseas in October. He's basing his argument on the only hard evidence available.
He's pretty much explicitly saying that Moyes wasn't scouting games before this week. Basing that on the fact that he happened to be photographed at a game this week is nonsense. There's no photographs of me taking a shit yesterday, but would you make the assumption that I didn't take one?
Did I just hear something on SSN about Rene trying to sign Nani?
Well, the successor to Fergie became automatically a recognizable and interesting figure around Europe, so I doubt he could be at a game without being spotted by the cameras. The absence of photographs suggests he wasn't there. Nothing to say he wasn't reading scouting reports and looking at video, of course.
No it makes me think that Chelsea have no interest whatsoever in complying with FFP. Or that they've heard it won't be a problem. Because they just posted a £50m loss, and are following that up with buying someone they sold for £4m for £23m, and potentially spending another £20m on a left back. And that's before the elephant in the room - they will spend and spend big on a striker at some point.
Since Roman took over, I'm not convinced a single youth product has made an impact on the first team. Not one. It's spend today to win today. And if Roman is allowed to do that, much like City we simply can't compete.
So True. Our only hope is Putin having a go at him :lol