Most exciting transfer window?

[Schmeichel's Cartwheel]

For me it has to be 2007. We were already PL champions with a great team, bringing in Tevez & Hargreaves, two proven top players, and Anderson & Nani, two wonder kids who were both tipped for superstardom, the hype was off the scale. I remember going into that season expecting us to win the CL (and we did)

2001 with Ruud & Veron and 2014 with the van Gaalacticos is up there too.

what about you?

 

[Regulus Arcturus Black]

It's 2007 for everyone surely.

 

[svn]

I remember my friend describing Nani as "exactly the the same as Ronaldo, but on the other wing" and I was so excited.

 

[Nero]

2009

What a time to be alive.

 

[El General 1994]

2009

What a time to be alive.

Oh the pain...

'Don't worry lads...even if we sell Ronaldo, we will replace him with a superstar in the making called Benzema'.

Err...no.

 

[Schmeichel's Cartwheel]

I was really excited in 2015 too. I thought we’d signed the new Henry & Ronaldo in Martial & Depay, I expected Schneiderlin & Darmian to be excellent signings to. And then there was the Ramos links... I was never too gassed about Schweinstiger though. I remember at the time thinking he looked fat when he joined.

 

[ClaytonBlackmoorLeftPeg]

It's 2007 for everyone surely.

without a doubt. It was insane.

2001 was good with RVN mad Veron, but we all know Rudy was coming and essentially he was budgeted for the year before.

2007 was pure excitement.

Tevez seemed such as obvious transfer, he’s a player I wasted the club to sign even before there was any media about him - so that added to the excitement.

then the Nani transfer was announced. And either later that day, or the next day we announce another £19m signing in Anderson.

just brilliant.

 

[The Cluck]

1996 was pretty exciting, getting Jordi and Poborsky after the Euros. The possibility of Shearer coming was brilliant as well, even if he went to Newcastle in the end. I'd no idea who Ronny Johnsen, Raimond van der Gouw, or Solskjaer were, although Ole scoring on his debut was class, and he had a terrific season.

1998 was another good one. Getting Stam felt like United wouldn't concede any goals, and getting Yorke felt like they wouldn't stop scoring. Blomqvist was decent too.

Hard to beat 2007 though. Hargreaves, Nani, Anderson, and Tevez were all brilliant that year.

Edit: Honourable mention to 2016. Zlatan, Pogba, Mkhitaryan, and Bailly wasn't a shabby window. Plus Jose. Things seemed like they were back on track.

 

[Jippy]

without a doubt. It was insane.

2001 was good with RVN mad Veron, but we all know Rudy was coming and essentially he was budgeted for the year before.

2007 was pure excitement.

Tevez seemed such as obvious transfer, he’s a player I wasted the club to sign even before there was any media about him - so that added to the excitement.

then the Nani transfer was announced. And either later that day, or the next day we announce another £19m signing in Anderson.

just brilliant.

Ruud and Veron was a great summer, even if it was a shame it didn't work as well as hoped for Veron.

Yorke and Stam in the summer of 1998 was excellent business. What we'd give for a world class striker and CB now.

 

[ClaytonBlackmoorLeftPeg]

Ruud and Veron was a great summer, even if it was a shame it didn't work as well as hoped for Veron.

Yorke and Stam in the summer of 1998 was excellent business. What we'd give for a world class striker and CB now.

Blomquest (sp), was also exciting. Thought he did that year (I mean we did win the treble…), and thought he would kick on and be something quite special. Shame about the injuries.

deffo shame about Veron - but at the time we had just bought one of the worlds best players, very exciting.

 

[Tom Cato]

2007 yep.

But: 2021 is genuinely exciting as well. Sancho so far. Looking at Varane, Camavinga who could turn out to be generational. For once we actually got the big one over the line before gameweek 35 the following season.

 

[Jippy]

Blomquest (sp), was also exciting. Thought he did that year (I mean we did win the treble…), and thought he would kick on and be something quite special. Shame about the injuries.

deffo shame about Veron - but at the time we had just bought one of the worlds best players, very exciting.

Blomqvist was quality. People forget how much Giggs was injured that year and he stepped in brilliantly. Yeah was a shame his knee basically collapsed.

 

[GueRed]

1996 was pretty exciting, getting Jordi and Poborsky after the Euros. The possibility of Shearer coming was brilliant as well, even if he went to Newcastle in the end. I'd no idea who Ronny Johnsen, Raimond van der Gouw, or Solskjaer were, although Ole scoring on his debut was class, and he had a terrific season.

1998 was another good one. Getting Stam felt like United wouldn't concede any goals, and getting Yorke felt like they wouldn't stop scoring. Blomqvist was decent too.

Hard to beat 2007 though. Hargreaves, Nani, Anderson, and Tevez were all brilliant that year.

Edit: Honourable mention to 2016. Zlatan, Pogba, Mkhitaryan, and Bailly wasn't a shabby window. Plus Jose. Things seemed like they were back on track.

Pretty much this really...

2001 was pretty exciting too but was offset right at the end of the transfer window when Fergie got shot of Stam.

The chase for Ronaldinho in 2003 was really exciting. Was gutted he chose Barcelona in the end. Was convinced he was the man to unlock defences in Europe for us...imagine him playing behind a peak Ruud Van Nistelooy!

 

[2 man midfield]

2007 surely. Tevez was the leagues most exciting player outside of the top 4 - it would be like us signing Grealish now. Hargreaves we’d been chasing for ages, and Nani and Anderson were two of the most exciting talents in Europe, I think Anderson had won European golden boy not long before. It was the right mix of youth and experience, and we were strengthening whilst at the top as well which felt great. Most importantly it worked, we won the league and CL 9 months later.

 

[LawCharltonBest]

Summer of 2017 is underrated.

Not many people will look back on it with extreme fondness now. But we signed Lukaku from Everton out of the blue for £75m when he looked Chelsea bound. Matic who was in his prime and a PL winner. Both in positions we were crying out for. (Then added Alexis Sanchez in January, who at the time was considered the best player in the PL by many) - We also had the Morata and Griezmann sagas too.

It's a shame none of that worked out as well as we hoped, because they were all huge signings from PL rivals.

The summer of Schmidfield was exciting too at the time.

 

[fergosaurus]

2007 was the best.

2012 was also very exciting with RvP, Kagawa and Zaha.

 

[GueRed]

2007 was the best.

2012 was also very exciting with RvP, Kagawa and Zaha.

Zaha was 2013

 

[RC89]

For me it has to be 2007. We were already PL champions with a great team, bringing in Tevez & Hargreaves, two proven top players, and Anderson & Nani, two wonder kids who were both tipped for superstardom, the hype was off the scale. I remember going into that season expecting us to win the CL (and we did)

2001 with Ruud & Veron and 2014 with the van Gaalacticos is up there too.

what about you?

2007 for me too! I remember the Nani and Anderson transfers being very quick too.

 

[tomaldinho1]

Genuinely think it’ll be this summer. Covid has been a real blight on the world but it will be a great help to United - very few clubs can afford to resist us financially right now and the La Liga and Serie A powerhouses are in complete disarray economically. If you’re a player looking to make a move, we are one of very few options right now.

Sancho, Varane, Grealish…a boy can dream.

 

[Freak]

I enjoyed 2001. Veron brought such excitement when we got the deal done. And Ruud.

 

[fergosaurus]

Zaha was 2013

Ah, that's right. Still 2012 was brilliant because we got a clinical goalscorer in RvP and a creative no. 10, who at the time looked just what the team needed to go to the next level.

 

[Lelouch geass]

Evra, Vidic and Carrick, They all joined on 2006 right?

 

[Alfie092]

The 2007 window with Tevez, Hargreaves, Nani and Anderson is still my favourite along with 2012 when we signed RvP and Kagawa. We was close to getting Hazard too and if we got him them 2012 would have gone down as our best ever window!

If we sign Sancho, Varane and Camavinga that's brilliant but as a massive Pogba fan who I absolute love (yes I know he has a love-hate relationship with many fans), if he leaves and we don't adequately replace him, which I am fearful we won't, it would take away a lot of the excitement from me.

If we keep Pogba and then also get in a RB (unless we keep Dalot which I don't mind) as we need a more attacking RB for competition with AWB. This could very well become our best ever window imo.

 

[11101]

1998 with Stam and Yorke.

2007 for obvious reasons. We also cleared out a lot of deadwood that year.

2008 was supposed to be up there. Berbatov and the Brazilian twins, and for some unknown reason I was also really excited about Adem Llajic and Zoran Tosic. I was convinced they were going to be the next big things.

 

[kopviolator]

2021 - with Sancho, Varane, Camavinga and all the other guys. Best by far.

2007 was okay too.

 

[The Cluck]

1998 with Stam and Yorke.

2007 for obvious reasons. We also cleared out a lot of deadwood that year.

2008 was supposed to be up there. Berbatov and the Brazilian twins, and for some unknown reason I was also really excited about Adem Llajic and Zoran Tosic. I was convinced they were going to be the next big things.

I was at the Spurs game at Old Trafford when Tosic made his debut, and I felt so privileged to be there for the start of what would surely be a glittering United career. Not quite. Can't believe he's 34 now!

 

[Crashoutcassius]

I was really excited in 2015 too. I thought we’d signed the new Henry & Ronaldo in Martial & Depay, I expected Schneiderlin & Darmian to be excellent signings to. And then there was the Ramos links... I was never too gassed about Schweinstiger though. I remember at the time thinking he looked fat when he joined.

Yes this window was the most fun is recent history

 

[VorZakone]

I was really excited in 2015 too. I thought we’d signed the new Henry & Ronaldo in Martial & Depay, I expected Schneiderlin & Darmian to be excellent signings to. And then there was the Ramos links... I was never too gassed about Schweinstiger though. I remember at the time thinking he looked fat when he joined.

Many were excited about Schneiderlin. What a letdown he turned out to be.

 

[El-Manos]

Di Maria & falcao whatever year that was. I was genuinely excited.

 

[OverratedOpinion]

Evra, Vidic and Carrick, They all joined on 2006 right?

Evra and Vidic were in January 05/06 and Carrick in the summer before 06/07

 

[lysglimt]

2007 was special yes - but I think I will pick 1989 even if we didn't have transfer windows then. Neil Webb, Mike Phelan, Paul Ince, Gary Pallister and Danny Wallace

It was the first time in my time as a United-fan that United really flexed their financial muscles. To have a net spend of over £6 million back then was insane. Most other clubs rarely spent more than £1-2 million. We went out and bought Norwich' captain, possibly the best midfielder in England the season before, 2 huge talents in Ince and Pallister - and a good winger in Wallace. It was the first time I genuinely believed I would see United win the league - but it took much longer than I thought.

 

[Luke1995]

2005 was a great one if you knew about Van Der Sar and Park for a while. Two players who came ready to make a massive impact and they exceded expectations.

 

[Cascarino]

2007 yep.

But: 2021 is genuinely exciting as well. Sancho so far. Looking at Varane, Camavinga who could turn out to be generational. For once we actually got the big one over the line before gameweek 35 the following season.

I’ve not got an emotional connection, but as a neutral I agree this window looks very exciting. Sancho looks a superb signing, Varane is great, I don’t know much about Camavinga but looks like a great profile.

I think Trippier would be a really smart signing too, him and AWB are different players and I think they’re both useful for different occasions, AWB can shut down a flank and Trippier can replicate the play making Shaw offers but from the right against teams United will have to break down.

Exciting window!

 

[slored1]

2014 was mad. When we signed Falcao I thought we can win the league. Sadly, I forgot we had to play Blackett and McNair in defence

 

[GueRed]

Ah, that's right. Still 2012 was brilliant because we got a clinical goalscorer in RvP and a creative no. 10, who at the time looked just what the team needed to go to the next level.

fair enough.
Van Persie was kind of like our galactico signing.

 

[RedRonaldo]

In terms of excitement and hype, has to be 2007.

This year has potential if we added Varane and Camavinga

 

[GueRed]

2007 was special yes - but I think I will pick 1989 even if we didn't have transfer windows then. Neil Webb, Mike Phelan, Paul Ince, Gary Pallister and Danny Wallace

It was the first time in my time as a United-fan that United really flexed their financial muscles. To have a net spend of over £6 million back then was insane. Most other clubs rarely spent more than £1-2 million. We went out and bought Norwich' captain, possibly the best midfielder in England the season before, 2 huge talents in Ince and Pallister - and a good winger in Wallace. It was the first time I genuinely believed I would see United win the league - but it took much longer than I thought.

yeah 89 was exciting lots of comings and goings.

 

[Zlatattack]

The one with Falcao and ADM. I thought we'd smashed it.

 

[GueRed]

I was really excited in 2015 too. I thought we’d signed the new Henry & Ronaldo in Martial & Depay, I expected Schneiderlin & Darmian to be excellent signings to. And then there was the Ramos links... I was never too gassed about Schweinstiger though. I remember at the time thinking he looked fat when he joined.

Same i thought he was done.

His early performances in the United shirt confirmed this

 

[Motorman]

People saying 2007. Who could translate that to today, who would those signings be in today's market, i.e. Same position etc, to generate same hype and buzz?

Nani =
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Hargreaves =
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