No, they counted him as a transfer of last season. If he was bought this season, he would've cost less according to data (which means that the prices last year were more inflated than this year, most probably due to the Mbappé and Neymar transfers.
Backed how? By getting EVERY player he wants? No coach gets that otherwise every team will have Messi and Ronaldo. Pep didnt get Alexis, Fred and Bonnuci, Klopp didn't get Fekir, Werner
Id understand if he was requesting Ronaldo for 100mil. But denying him Alderweireld for 30mil?
It was 17 million.
Surely you can see how that’s different? Those players didn’t join those clubs due to the player choosing to go elsewhere. The board was ready to sign off on the deal but the player signed for someone else. In our case the story goes that Jose wanted certain players, and Ed straight up refused to even sanction a bid because he wasn’t convinced they were right for us. That is a case of not backing your manager, and just as weirdly, letting an accountant decide who is and isn’t a good enough footballer over someone whose job it is to assess footballers.
Why is it that when its Mou thats when we try to differentiate board signing from coach signing? Most of those signed were approved by Mourinho. We heard what
You realize Fekir, Bonnuci and Werner stayed at their clubs
How can you say Mourinho wasn't backed when he bought Fred and Dalot ??
They're all Mourinho signings. There was evidence that the board vetoed some of the players Jose wanted but not that they picked the players.
Pep has people who's job it is to research and sign the correct players for him. United lack that infrastructure.
United don't have scouts?
I thought we had 56 of those by recent reports?
We don't have a DoF.
Hilarious, it was their research that made them kick out Joe Hart, sign Bravo from his former club,and when that backfired sign another keeper with great passing accuracy from Brazil, they also must have done crazy research to find Mahrez, or Sane who Pep knew from his time in Germany etc. Like what the feck does the post even mean, that we didn't do enough 'research' on Pogba,Matic,Sanchez or Lukaku?
Are you implying that if City had a different or no DOF Pep would have signed a different set of players?
Pep is a coach, his job is to prepare his team for each match. He doesn't have much time to go deep into research about players by looking at tapes, going to games or wondering how feasible they are to purchase (think how long it took to buy Herrera for example). He has a man (Txiki Begiristain) who's sole job is to make sure that his wishes are fulfilled. He's not Ed who's thinking about shareholders whilst also being the guy who's signing players. His interest is football and football alone. A United boss has to buy players he already knows about himself or trust that the scouts are correct on finding a player that matches your ambitions. Look at our signings under LvG. They were for the most part awful. Look at the signings City made before they DoF who knew what he was doing. Horrendous waste of money.
Sane for 69m Euros? Come on really?
What? He was bought for 50m back then which would be roughly 70m in today's market. It's not his current value, but simply means that a 50m transfer in that season would be equivalent to a 70m transfer currently.
You are deluding yourself if you think Pep or any top manager relies on someone to research on players for him. City ,like us go after players their manager wants, and like us have wasted a lot of money on crap, till they got lucky with Pep. Are you saying City stopped signing duds as soon as the Tixi dude came on board? And you make it sound like City are signing unknown gems or something,they like us are signing reknowned players,we even managed to beat them to Sanchez and Fred. We signed Serie A's best player, Arsenal's best player, Mourinho's former midfielder, Bundesliga's best player at some point, one of the PL's best young strikers and they've ALL gone to shit and you're pinning it on 'research'. So when Jose said he wanted Matic and Pogba our scouts/DOF should have done some 'research' and told him they thought one of the world's best midfielders and and Jose's most trusted general were crap and told him no or something?
That can happen with plastic clubs. They can't bother much when things go south.
Yeah. Never Pep's fault if his teams under achieve. Never mind the super squads he has had under his disposal at all of his clubs.
This. Most were convinced that he could turn a paper bag into Iniesta in his prime. It's ludicrous really. He needs players with supreme technical quality and man for man domination on the pitch.
Manchester United will be looking for a new manager in May.
It's like how Moyes' sacking put the kiss of death on Rodgers and Liverpool
They could be closer to us than to Liverpool if the Scousers beat them.
They need a holding midfielder as cover for fernandinho, Foden is attacking.
