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MEN: Manchester United step up transfer activity after Crystal Palace defeat
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Brilliant, everyone be prepared to move from monitoring to preparing for a bid.
Hahaha but it’s all the fans fault for being so negative. We know nothing about football and just want signings. We were about 2 months ahead of the club on this. Typically enough.
Annoying that it took an embarrassing loss for them to pull their finger out.
Let’s have a thread bumped after every defeat called ‘Predict the leak!’What a joke.
Is this the new “looking to appoint a DOF”?
Too soon to step up, right? Not even October yet. Relax Ed.
Essentially, yes.
They ain’t pulling anything out. This is just a vain attempt to appease the fans. It’s easy to see through.
Hahaha.... “United step up search for DOF incoming”
It's pathetic.
The lack of planning at this club is truly astounding. And i'm sure some people will say "oh but we we're probably going to sign these players anyway..." well then why the feck are they not here already?
How unpredictable
In talks FC
We knew a brief was coming. One always comes after a s-t result.
I don't think there's a lack of planning at United, I just think the people doing the planning lack the requisite sporting expertise to plan well. I think the suits at United genuinely thought, after last year's finish, that they didn't need to add much to the squad. Human factors like tiredness, boosting morale by bringing in new signings and showing ambition, they don't consider or even understand such things. It was only when they saw how deflated the team was on day one of our season that they woke up. Its one of the many reasons why we really do need a Sporting Director. The string pullers at United simply don't have any feel for football.
Nah mate they're saving that for the day after the transfer window closes. Once Dortmund have told us to go jump on our last minute bid for Sancho, and we've left it too late to file the paperwork to loan Perisic, the papers will start linking Monchi to Man Utd.
The MEN isn't a legit source?
Don't you know, man? Ed is a master negotiator who is waiting for other clubs to crap themselves and lower their demands for us.
All part of the genius...
I swear this is a trope at any club, and not just ours.
Spurs meekly lost last weekend, then the following days they’re getting Bale and Reguilon in, and looking at Lingard and selling Alli etc
But why it happens like that is anyone’s guess. You can speculate that a manager can sabotage it by purposely playing a shit team to show why they need reinforcements, or the playing hand so to speak in ongoing transfer negotiations is weakened due to a bad result and it’s basically “feck it, just pay the fee”
Spurs meekly lost last weekend, then the following days they’re getting Bale and Reguilon in, and looking at Lingard and selling Alli etc
But why it happens like that is anyone’s guess. You can speculate that a manager can sabotage it by purposely playing a shit team to show why they need reinforcements, or the playing hand so to speak in ongoing transfer negotiations is weakened due to a bad result and it’s basically “feck it, just pay the fee”
Absolutely embarrassing if true. So we’ll only start signing players after a bad defeat? Stinks of panic buying with no sort of planning in place. We only pulled the trigger on the VdB deal cause other clubs started sniffing about, if it wasn’t for that then that deal would probably still be dragging on right now.
Shame Woodwards dad didnt pull out.
The club continues to bullshit the fans with briefings.
Aren’t men shite these days? As in the newspaper
How come we all seemingly take this story from MEN seriously but whenever they tweet about players we say they are the worst?
Genuine question.
Genuine question.
So fecking predictable.
preparing, monitoring, considering, stepping up. Lovely. Now we just need the DoF thing and it's a Bingo.
every single United fan could have told you months ago what we need to do this window. To be in this situation on September 21 is maddening.
every single United fan could have told you months ago what we need to do this window. To be in this situation on September 21 is maddening.
Harsh but true.Scouting targets > Monitoring Targets > Pursuing/Considering Targets> Preparing a bid > Stepping up transfer activity > No value in the market infinity cycle.
Ban or warning points incoming in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1................
Can just imagine Ed wiping the cobwebs and dust off the fax machine as I read this.
I really don't understand what the aim of this is, if in fact it is a 'briefing'. Is it to highlight incompetence?
The club could have a point about twitter hysteria if talking about the types of people demanding we sign Neymar, mbappe and Davies as if its Fifa, but surely a professional football club doesn't even notice this drivel. Most critical voices have been fairly level headed, agreed on where we clearly needed depth, and can't believe that a club of this size seemed to make no real moves to address it.
And here we are, season already started, (so harder to buy) loss already in the bag and they're turning round going, 'hang on, we might need a couple of players.'
Maddening
The club could have a point about twitter hysteria if talking about the types of people demanding we sign Neymar, mbappe and Davies as if its Fifa, but surely a professional football club doesn't even notice this drivel. Most critical voices have been fairly level headed, agreed on where we clearly needed depth, and can't believe that a club of this size seemed to make no real moves to address it.
And here we are, season already started, (so harder to buy) loss already in the bag and they're turning round going, 'hang on, we might need a couple of players.'
Maddening
We've bought another computer monitor so more people can monitor?
Ed might go down with a pulled hamstring if he steps up our activity too vehemently.
we can monitor things that other clubs can only dream of.
To be fair the Spurs rumours for both started before their loss last weekend, and they probably would always have signed Bale regardless... But yeah it does happen at other clubs and more then it really should.
If one game makes you realise you need to buy players then you've fecked up somewhere along the line
The MEN are always churning out crap like that. Meaningless article.
The only thing I can think of is that we need to shift some players before buying more - but then why haven't we done that yet? I can't imagine it being that hard to get rid of some players. Clubs still sign players and our deadwood might do well elsewhere. Even subsidising part of their wages a la Sánchez is better than having them pick up the full amount here for doing nothing. Looking at you, Rojo and Jones.
A source close to United's market activity said there has been a 'shift' in their movement over the weekend as United's preference had been to make defensive signings next summer, as the MEN previously reported.
Interesting. So we wanted to leave signing a CB for next summer, but we are now thinking defence is a more pressing issue, because of one match, where we're in pre season form. We'll sign some defenders and say we left Sancho signing for the next summer.
Interesting. So we wanted to leave signing a CB for next summer, but we are now thinking defence is a more pressing issue, because of one match, where we're in pre season form. We'll sign some defenders and say we left Sancho signing for the next summer.
By waiting til the last minute, Ed's helped make the start of the season even more fractured and made it appear like whoever comes in is a panic buy. Top work Ed.
Because the club is trying to complete the most expensive signing in british football history in a market that sees income drop substantially from a seller that doesn't care about that. We don't have a Roman or a oil state as owners, we can't just throw all the money at everything. It's crucial that we don't overextend
A bit like our clubs twitter account then...
I don't like MEN, I like WOMEN.
Making it up as we go.
We've spent the summer flapping our wings and not getting enough real work done. Now that we've had a miserable defeat in our opening, we have no decided to "step up", as if we were all set to dominate English football a week back and didn't any any additions.
We've spent the summer flapping our wings and not getting enough real work done. Now that we've had a miserable defeat in our opening, we have no decided to "step up", as if we were all set to dominate English football a week back and didn't any any additions.