How do you work that one out?
Southgate is actually good at dealing with young players as shown with England U-21's, which maybe why we are going to look out for younger players to turn into superstars. Of course they might also just keep ETH who is also used to developing unknown players at Ajax.
I missed out Dalot.
Missed him from what? Porto’s academy?
I think it sounds like the beginning of a blueprint for a future title challenge. He's right - this squad needs upgrading in so many areas, which won't be fixed by an expensive star signing or two. United doesn't have the finances anymore to do both that and restructure the squad. Salient fact; last year we had record high revenue, and also ran a loss. With the seriousness of FFP sanctions, racking up losses just isn't something you can sustainably do. And the fact we ran a loss even with record revenue clearly shows we're overspending.
The only big fee signing I think we might sign is neves and that's down to his talent and his age
He just batted away another dumb question about Mbappe mate it's not that deep.
No he's saying it's a bad way of doing business, and he's right.
Doesn't happen with City.
Mbappé I agree, but you think signing Bellingham would've been bad business?
Signing him now is, he would be too expensive, and the most expensive players never prove to be worth it.
We easily could've afforded Bellingham and it would've been worth it.
We didn't even overpay for Pogba and Maguire. Antony is the only blunder, but that was apparently initiated by the Glazers in panic, after we lost the opening two PL games of the season.
Do wish he had said "We cant do things in the transfer market that other clubs can..."
Before he went to Madrid, he's at Madrid now. We can't now.
Yes, but not anymore...
You do realise we tried really hard to sign Bellingham, and he said no, right?
Hard to say exactly, because at the time we didn't know how well he would do, and you gotta look at this risk reward against other possibilities.
Ratcliffe and the person you were replying too weren't though.
Because it was a done deal he was going to Madrid? Even Liverpool who had been tapping him up for the best part of two years didn't move for him because he was always going to Real.
We have pretty much all been moaning about splurging money wastefully on players, so regardless of the reasons I am fully on board with signing players and developing them, it is more satisfying over all, Ratcliffe has to deal with the financial mismanagement of the clubs over the last decade plus, that is not going to change overnight, I also like to think that maybe we will maybe be able to reduce the Man Utd tax if we are actually shrewd in the market for a while.
He probably didn't want to come here at the time. If he'd come to England it would have been Guardiola or Klopp that convinced him to return
I acknowledged it in this thread earlier that we cannot attract every generational talent right now. We couldn't even do that at our peak in the late 2000s.
It's just a pipe dream of mine right now, but if Bellingham wants to come to the Premier League one day, we'll probably be in pole position to sign him, if Ineos will have returned us to the elites by then. The guy's only turning 21 in a few months. I don't see him never playing in Premier League, and all we have to do is just be a top team by the time he leaves Madrid. 2028, maybe.
