So players are publicly saying it now, makes you wonder about the unrest behind the scenes if its getting to this point
Luke Shaw says Manchester United need signings
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Good man. Goes to show how desperate we are.
We definitely need a LB Luke, to give you a boost, the way you played yesterday.
It’s affects the players more than it affects us as fans when we are seemingly being left behind.
It sends a clear message about what the club is truly aiming to achieve and undermines any goals the manager has gotten the players to buy into (ie success / trophies.)
It sends a clear message about what the club is truly aiming to achieve and undermines any goals the manager has gotten the players to buy into (ie success / trophies.)
Come come, he's doing everyone a favour here by pointing to the elephant in the room. Very happy with this from him.
Was he standing in front of a mirror while doing said pointing?
Never good when players start coming out like this. And i dare say he won't be best pleased if we sign his replacement.
Must be draining mentally for players when they only see one new player come through the door, especially players who were over relied upon last season as we didn't have adequate back up.
Definitely. Players sign for Man Utd to win trophies. When they see the club stagnate it can't help but leave them disillusioned. If you are Pogba would you sign a new deal seeing how unambitious the club's ownership is?
Good. Put pressure on the board and the owners. Maybe they'll pull their finger out.
Over here some posters will try to turn this against Shaw.
The manager said it yesterday so it will be a shared feeling in the dressing room. i doubt he will be getting punished for it on this occasion
Yeah it's ridiculous.
Good lad.
Good lad. The more pressure heaped on Woodward and co the better, bunch of incompetent feckwits!
Need more than him saying it.
Need our captain, need bruno, pogba, our key players saying it
Need our captain, need bruno, pogba, our key players saying it
Maybe he knows that he can have injury problems and being over worked will not help.
I think it’s absolutely bonkers. We were top of the form guide from January last year, got to the semi-finals of three competitions and had the youngest squad in the league. Yet they’re going into the season defeated unless we spend 200m. The whole club is a fecking soap opera designed to get clicks on social media. No other club seems to have a permanent cloud of crisis over it quite like this one.
Good man, Shaw!
Watching the Amazon Spurs show this isn’t a surprise. The players watch SSN and keep up to date on Twitter for news as much as us.
Good he said it for sure, he needs competition for his position. Not sure it will make a difference now what players say.
Ole and Shaw are saying the same thing so you can see it’s not Ole being the problem and very much the owners and Woodward dragging their heels or penny pinching so they can pay themselves bigger dividends.
We’ve been tracking Sancho as our number one target for two years and now can have him but won’t pay the fee whilst we’ve apparently according to two tier one journalists agreed terms with Telles but haven’t agreed a fee, simply put Woodward and Judge are awful negotiators and struggle working on agreeing deals with other clubs because they’re NOT football men.
We’ve been tracking Sancho as our number one target for two years and now can have him but won’t pay the fee whilst we’ve apparently according to two tier one journalists agreed terms with Telles but haven’t agreed a fee, simply put Woodward and Judge are awful negotiators and struggle working on agreeing deals with other clubs because they’re NOT football men.
Already been happening. Shaw knows that LB is one of the positions that we've been looking at. He could have easily just said nothing at all but still spoke out.
Whilst I agree with what he is saying he must know that his place will be one questioned if we do bring players.
Also we have a huge squad, if I were one of his team mates I'd be straight to him on Monday saying go on then, who isn't good enough and why do you think you are good enough.
It's not his place to say that at all, the more this pre season rumbles on the huge support I had for Ole is slipping. He should be banging the drum about lack of signings not the fecking players, Ole needs to get Shaw in line, Sir Alex wouldn't have had a player speak out like that if he wasnt performing himself. Roy Keane got forced out for being negative about his team mates, okay he was a bit more cutting but the sentiment is the same, your questioning whether your mates are up to it.
Also we have a huge squad, if I were one of his team mates I'd be straight to him on Monday saying go on then, who isn't good enough and why do you think you are good enough.
It's not his place to say that at all, the more this pre season rumbles on the huge support I had for Ole is slipping. He should be banging the drum about lack of signings not the fecking players, Ole needs to get Shaw in line, Sir Alex wouldn't have had a player speak out like that if he wasnt performing himself. Roy Keane got forced out for being negative about his team mates, okay he was a bit more cutting but the sentiment is the same, your questioning whether your mates are up to it.
Don’t take shots at the guy, he knows the club is looking at another LB and yet he still realizes that if the club wants to improve, they need reinforcements, even if he ends up losing his spot. That’s a good team player right there.
Yes. We saw this exact thing play out in Jose’s last year with the lack of needed transfers. It’s demoralizing to the club.
OGS is the last manager the Glazers can hide behind. Once he gets sacked the most of the attention falls on them and this club isn't the Tampa Bay f... Bucs
Yeah most likely the same ones who back the granny lover rooney when he did it and humiliated AF in public doing it according to some quarters.
Agreed that they’re not football men, but they don’t seem to be very good business men either, at least when it comes to negotiating. Not really sure what the hell they’re good at.
The whole squad needs to come out and say it. That would put massive pressure on the Glazers and Woodward to strengthen the squad. It would also be very difficult to fine / suspend the whole squad. Might give OGS some backbone also.
Hopefully we get someone in to replace him, an absolute joke of a left back.
I don't see how anyone can rate him, been a nothing player since his leg break.
I don't see how anyone can rate him, been a nothing player since his leg break.
You can tell Ole is fuming, it wouldn’t surprise me if he gave Luke the green light to say that.
This coupled with the team selection yesterday, he’s sending Woodward a pretty clear message.
This coupled with the team selection yesterday, he’s sending Woodward a pretty clear message.
Is he saying that a bunch of his teammates aren't good enough?
Anyway. It's a good message but poor timing after that performance.
Anyway. It's a good message but poor timing after that performance.
Yes, yes he is
What message? "Yeh, give me more money, because I couldn't manage to beat Palace at home with these players".
I'd close the door, if I were Ed. You invest on winner, not loser.
Not half as bonkers as your post.
It's clear as day that this squad isn't good enough to compete at the highest level, and it's it seems pretty obvious that the ambition of the club as displayed by the owners is frustrating everyone but...well...the cnuts in charge.
Our form at the end of the season was utter wank...we got by. The last time we played anything like cohesive football was the second half at Villa.
And who is talking about 200 million? It's crazy to think we can't significantly improve this squad and even first 11 with a decent budget.
We could have backed the positivity feeling of last season by showing some actual intent on improving...
Yesterday was about alot more than that though which is where I think you have a point.
The more pressure put on the board the better, especially when it's coming from senior players.
Good man.
Good man.
How long until we see a Rooney moment where a top player publicly questions the club's ambition and requests a transfer?
While I agree with the point, I don't think that a current player should make that type of statement mainly because there is a finite amount of spots in the squad and that he is essentially making the point that some of his teammates should be jettisoned. How is the locker room supposed to take it and it's even worse when it comes from a player that shouldn't be a guaranteed mainstay. But there is one positive about it, we now know without doubts that this football club doesn't have strong leadership at the managerial level which includes both Woodward and Ole.