Rate the Transfer Window

It is an 7/10 so far. With a potential to be 7.5/10 should we also manage to sell Onana till Saudi/Turkey window closes
 
Captain Barnacles said:
Cunha & Mbeumo are instant upgrades, and both had good starts hopefully more to come, Sesko hopefully will get up to speed after the international break and gets a few 90 minutes and Lemmens, I don't no much about him but at this point anyone is better than what we got, i'll go a 8/10 for incomes

As for the outgoings i'll give it a 5/10, purely because we couldn't get a fee for Rashford or Sancho, we should've got more for Garnacho. Now this is where the rating tanks, we've made a £110 million loss on Antony and Hojlund, two players bought only 2/3 years ago, add a possible Onana sale you're looking at more like £140 million, that makes me sick, Malacia not getting sold isn't a massive issue, his salary isn't high and his orginal transfer fee is small
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6.5/10 for me.

Positives

- Only positives for the Cunha transfer - acted quickly and got him at a good price all things considered. +2
- Mbuemo - mostly positive, I think we could have got him cheaper if we put in a higher bid earlier (wasn't our original bid like £40m or something?) - but then I think we ended up getting payment terms so yeah. Ultimately it's a fair price too considering what everyone else went for this window. +1.5
- Rashford loan. Barca covering all his wages was about as good as we were going to get - nobody was going to buy him.
- Hojlund - that's actually a really good deal (Even if I there's part of me that still thinks there's a player in there).
- Lemmens and not Martinez.
- Sesko I'll put in the positives as I think it'll work out. Fair whack of change but that was the going rate for strikers.

Negatives

- I find it baffling that the club needed us to play games this season before realising we needed a new keeper. That should have been sorted long before a ball was kicked. Just speaks to incredibly poor planning and we've lost 1 PL game and are out of one cup thanks largely to poor goalkeeping.
- We didn't buy a midfield. Speaks for itself really. We've bought 4 midfielders in 7 years. Liverpool have bought 5 in 3....
- Garnacho price. Some factors were out of our control (i.e how much of a prat he is) but when you consider his age and stats, the fact that we got less fro him then Elanga or Noni Madueke can't really be seen as a positive.
- Sancho out on loan. This one really isn't our fault - he had good offers from Chelsea and Roma and we can't force him to move. But the fact that he's still on our books and we didn't get a fee for him isn't a positive (even if him not being in the club is)
- Antony... again mostly not our fault as he only wanted Betis and Betis were being arseholes... but still, we had offers of 40m for him, so even if it isn't our fault its still a negative that we sold a player for less then he's worse. Also I don't think we'll ever see anything from that 50% clause.
- Alvaro Carreras - I feel like this goes too under the radar, but we sold a 50m Euro defender without ever giving him a shot for 6 million and only had a 15% sell on (so in total we made about 13m off him).

So yeah, its an OK window thanks to some good signings - but the hole in midfield is bordering on negligence, as was the planing around our goalkeeper position. Also we lost out on a lot of money on outgoings - mostly not our fault (you could argue it was a bit with the Garnacho one) - but there is an alternate world where we made an extra £50 from Sancho/Antony/Garnacho this summer.
 
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8/10 for me

Solid window after last seasons shambles and no European competition. Would have been a 9.5 if we managed to get a midfielder in.
 
7/10 for me.

The fact that we were in for a midfielder and never got anyone is a real bummer for me. Very short in that category this year, hopefully we don't get burnt there.

If all our new signings kick on, will be a fun season, should be aiming for Top 6 at least.
 
8/10. We all know the rebuild was not going to be done in one window, so I like the fact that we have gone and bought very strong players who improves us instantly and also has room for growth, as opposed to signing 7-8 players for the same money spent, but with less quality to take us to fighting for the title in 3 years.
 
Annihilate Now! said:
6.5/10 for me.

Positives

- Only positives for the Cunha transfer - acted quickly and got him at a good price all things considered. +2
- Mbuemo - mostly positive, I think we could have got him cheaper if we put in a higher bid earlier (wasn't our original bid like £40m or something?) - but then I think we ended up getting payment terms so yeah. Ultimately it's a fair price too considering what everyone else went for this window. +1.5
- Rashford loan. Barca covering all his wages was about as good as we were going to get - nobody was going to buy him.
- Hojlund - that's actually a really good deal (Even if I there's part of me that still thinks there's a player in there).
- Lemmens and not Martinez.
- Sesko I'll put in the positives as I think it'll work out. Fair whack of change but that was the going rate for strikers.

Negatives

- I find it baffling that the club needed us to play games this season before realising we needed a new keeper. That should have been sorted long before a ball was kicked. Just speaks to incredibly poor planning and we've lost 1 PL game and are out of one cup thanks largely to poor goalkeeping.
- We didn't buy a midfield. Speaks for itself really. We've bought 4 midfielders in 7 years. Liverpool have bought 5 in 3....
- Garnacho price. Some factors were out of our control (i.e how much of a prat he is) but when you consider his age and stats, the fact that we got less fro him then Elanga or Noni Madueke can't really be seen as a positive.
- Sancho out on loan. This one really isn't our fault - he had good offers from Chelsea and Roma and we can't force him to move. But the fact that he's still on our books and we didn't get a fee for him isn't a positive (even if him not being in the club is)
- Antony... again mostly not our fault as he only wanted Betis and Betis were being arseholes... but still, we had offers of 40m for him, so even if it isn't our fault its still a negative that we sold a player for less then he's worse. Also I don't think we'll ever see anything from that 50% clause.
- Alvaro Carreras - I feel like this goes too under the radar, but we sold a 50m Euro defender without ever giving him a shot for 6 million and only had a 15% sell on (so in total we made about 13m off him).

So yeah, its an OK window thanks to some good signings - but the hole in midfield is bordering on negligence, as was the planing around our goalkeeper position. Also we lost out on a lot of money on outgoings - mostly not our fault (you could argue it was a bit with the Garnacho one) - but there is an alternate world where we made an extra £50 from Sancho/Antony/Garnacho this summer.
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On the playing games before realising we needed a keeper thing. Isn’t that just the nature of the transfer window? Loads of players change clubs after the season starts. This isn’t because their clubs only realised they needed them at some point that week.

Besides, didn’t we start negotiating with his club a good month before the season started?
 
5.5 / 10

Spending £215m but failing to strengthen midfield (in fact, it's weaker now than it was last season) is an absolutely baffling decision by the club - we'll be suffering the consequences of that all season.

I wasn't particularly pleased with any of the deals in isolation - I think we overpaid for each of Cunha and Mbeumo (they are both good players who will go a long way to making United 'decent' again, but I don't think either of them ultimately gets us where we want to be in terms of challenging for titles). I believe that it should have been possible to improve our options in both midfield and the #10 position for the £130m outlay on these two players.

We were terrible in both boxes last season and had to strengthen at GK and #9, but Lammens and Sesko are both big gambles in areas of the pitch where I suspect Amorim would have preferred known quantities with more experience. That being said, I do like that the ceiling for both players is sky high - it might be a year or two before we really know if either of them will be any good at this level, but if they do achieve their potential, they could be among the best players in the league in their positions in the coming years.

I am a little bit worried about our depth in attack - basically, if Sesko is out for any reason then we're playing some guy who isn't a #9 at #9. But you can't do it all in one window. The Hojlund deal was a pretty good one for United, so I can understand why the club felt they had to let him go.

It's a pretty mixed bag overall. The midfield weakness will hold us back all season, but if the Lammens and Sesko gambles pay off as we all hope then we'll probably look back and think this window was decent.
 
If you offered me at the start of the summer we would get these transfers in and got rid of the ones we did then I would have taken it straight away.

We only had so much money to play with and getting rid of the difficult characters was always going to be tougher than expected.

I'd give it a 7.5 and would expect us to really improve the midfield either in January or next summer.

Quite a few big earners will probably leave next summer so its probably the end of the old regime and the next phase of the new re-build.

Cannot all be done in one summer.
 
5.50/10

* 2 AMs when CM needed to be addressed. We have what 5-6 AMs now?
* GK not at all addressed. Hit and hope move with Lammens. I feel for the guy and hope he turns out ok.
* Striker problem addressed with another project signing. Let's see how it goes.
* Wing backs not addressed. Guys like Frimpong moved. But wasn't expected in this window so ok.

**Kudos for buying Cunha and Mbuemo who can be used even if this coach/formation does not work out.
**Kudos for showing ambition in trying for Baleba
**Kudos for getting uncut gems such as Leon. Keep it up. We will strike gold in these deals soon.
** Congrats on clearing up the squad. Even San-effin-cho!!!
 
Pogue Mahone said:
On the playing games before realising we needed a keeper thing. Isn’t that just the nature of the transfer window? Loads of players change clubs after the season starts. This isn’t because their clubs only realised they needed them at some point that week.

Besides, didn’t we start negotiating with his club a good month before the season started?
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But anyone with eyes could see we needed a new goalkeeper long before the first game of the season. The fact that the club thought they wouldn't need a keeper and they told Onana we wouldn't be buying one... I dunno, I find that baffling.
 
Annihilate Now! said:
But anyone with eyes could see we needed a new goalkeeper long before the first game of the season. The fact that the club thought they wouldn't need a keeper and they told Onana we wouldn't be buying one... I dunno, I find that baffling.
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I think this is unfair. Most clubs use the summer for a bit of a reset. Players can get into a rut of bad form during the season and like to give the players the benefit of the doubt during the summer. Give them chance to have a holiday and reset their heads, get them in on the training pitch and drill the hell out of them. Especially as GK, trying to get them in tune with the defenders is a big thing and if both sets are playing with confidence it's possible.

There were clearly players that needed to be sold no matter what this summer. There were others that I'm sure the club wanted a fresh look at.

Whilst not great in preseason neither of them looked as bad as in the first four games of the season. Onana thought he'd got a pass by injuring himself (he never looks amazingly fit to me anyway).

I'm not defending either of them - I want both of them gone and regen VDS/Schmeichel in goal. But you can clearly understand the decision making the club has made in the window.
 
I think shifting all of Rasmus, Rashford, Anthony and Sancho out with only Rashford coming back is a minor miracle. Noise will be made over how much we've lost on some of these... but you can only deal with the hand you are given and drawing a line under things is massive. We should now have a squad that's all pulling the same way with a small question mark over Mainoo but will need to monitor.

Considering where we were in march and not getting any european football to get the quality upgrade in our front three is immense and being able to attract these in a competitive market still shows the strength of our pull, and the good work INEOS and Amorim did to sell the vision. Still yet to see the best of them - need to be doing extra training sessions on crossing and finishing. Sesko arrived late and unfit but should be solid and gives us a long ball and crossing option.

Getting a new keeper they've been looking at for a while is also good. His metrics are really strong and we've clearly done a lot of work to pick him as our choice for future. I'm sure he'll be great in the long term, but introducing him to the team in the short term without insane pressure is going to be interesting. It feels like INEOS really wanted a player they could bed in and solve the position for years to come, rather than Martinez or other that is looking for big fee and we're stuck with when they decline in two years.

I get why midfield wasn't the priority this year. With Casemiro going next year and Ugarte still present and potentially surplus to requirements next year there is only so many players you can have in the squad that won't even make the bench. I also understand keeping Bruno (Amorim spoke to him and assured him that he was still central to our plans). I've spoken to friends who are fans of other clubs and their view was without Bruno we could easily be relegated. We need to team to click and get our best players on the field. If all the players we've signed click, then perhaps Bruno is less crucial to our success next year. In terms of project 150, it's unlikely Bruno is still going to be the lynchpin of the team then.

i would say its an 8.5 - if they had got a CDM it would have been higher. Given the context of no CL football, our financial situation and how badly we played for a large part of last season anyone who's giving less than a 7 is being a bit naughty.
 
Interesting piece in the Athletic this morning on the transfer window.

A few bits;

The club felt Hojlund represented an example of the old regime overpaying for players and thus felt it best to move him on as he was tarred with that after last season.

We had interest again in Welbeck if we went down the experienced striker route but it would have been a 2 year deal taking him to age 36 and the club felt 1+1 was better. In the end Sesko was pursued and no offer was made.

Martinez had talks with Amorim in June and July and really wanted to come. Seems he was Amorim’s first choice. In the end financials made it impossible, he has a contract until 2029, earns more than Onana and Villa wanted £30m plus.

Onana came back to more season asking for a new contract still sulking over the 25% reduction for not being in the CL. Didn’t impress Amorim.

Donnarumma wanted £13m per year net, apparently significantly more than Fernandes. This was therefore a non-starter from the get go.

Interest in Baleba still there and expected to go back. Club felt they could not justify the price Brighton wanted this window.
 
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Annihilate Now! said:
But anyone with eyes could see we needed a new goalkeeper long before the first game of the season. The fact that the club thought they wouldn't need a keeper and they told Onana we wouldn't be buying one... I dunno, I find that baffling.
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But they did think we needed a new keeper. Hence they started talking to Lemmens’ club in July? If they thought we didn’t need a keeper why did that happen?

I don’t know anything about what they told Onana, mind you.
 
Really good window. Attack was the biggest priority and we smashed it. Managed to sneak a keeper in at the end too. Really difficult situation with the sales, but we got decent fees for the players we sold, given the context. Other players have left on loan, so big wages off the books and loan fees.

The only thing we could possibly have done differently is told Bruno that we were going to accept the Saudi offer for him and reinvested that money on the midfield. However, that hasn't happened and I'm glad that we haven't panicked and just signed a midfielder for the sake of it. This isn't a 'one window fix all' situation, so I'm happy to see us wait until next summer for our number one midfield target or targets.

It has to be a 9 or a 10 out of 10.
 
ThanksBoss26 said:
Interesting piece in the Athletic this morning on the transfer window.

A few bits;

The club felt Hojlund represented an example of the old regime overpaying for players and thus felt it best to move him on as he was tarred with that after last season.

We had interest again in Welbeck if we went down the experienced striker route but it would have been a 2 year deal taking him to age 36 and the club felt 1+1 was better. In the end Sesko was pursued and no offer was made.

Martinez had talks with Amorim in June and July and really wanted to come. Seems he was Amorim’s first choice. In the end financials made it impossible, he has a contract until 2029, earns more than Onana and Villa wanted £30m plus.

Onana came back to more season asking for a new contract still sulking over the 25% reduction for not being in the CL. Didn’t impress Amorim.

Donnarumma wanted €13m per year net, apparently significantly more than Fernandes. This was therefore a non-starter from the get go.

Interest in Baleba still there and expected to go back. Club felt they could not justify the price Brighton wanted this window.
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That Donnarumma salary demand...! He was asking for £407k per week!
 
The good parts

- We are slowly but surely getting more assertive. No more buying the manager's pets for ridiculous money
- We spent realistic fees and we gave decent salaries
- We got rid of most of the bomb squad.
- We have shown early signs of being able to negotiate multiple deals at one go. We were even able to put two clubs against one another (Villa vs Royal Antwerp) and get the player we wanted

The bad parts

- Bruno should have left. Getting 100m for a near 31 year old player was a home run. If Amorim complained then he should have been told to follow him to the door
- two no 10s were overkill especially since we retained Bruno
- we are still struggling in getting rid of players we don't want. That's also down to Amorim whose 'airing the dirty laundry' strategy had turned the player's prices into mush
- I would have loved to see us buy more Lammens type of signings especially surrounding CM.

I'd give it a solid 6. Yet I still fear that the season will be fecked and that's down to us retaining Bruno instead of investing that money in CM
 
Annihilate Now! said:
6.5/10 for me.

Positives

- Only positives for the Cunha transfer - acted quickly and got him at a good price all things considered. +2
- Mbuemo - mostly positive, I think we could have got him cheaper if we put in a higher bid earlier (wasn't our original bid like £40m or something?) - but then I think we ended up getting payment terms so yeah. Ultimately it's a fair price too considering what everyone else went for this window. +1.5
- Rashford loan. Barca covering all his wages was about as good as we were going to get - nobody was going to buy him.
- Hojlund - that's actually a really good deal (Even if I there's part of me that still thinks there's a player in there).
- Lemmens and not Martinez.
- Sesko I'll put in the positives as I think it'll work out. Fair whack of change but that was the going rate for strikers.

Negatives

- I find it baffling that the club needed us to play games this season before realising we needed a new keeper. That should have been sorted long before a ball was kicked. Just speaks to incredibly poor planning and we've lost 1 PL game and are out of one cup thanks largely to poor goalkeeping.
- We didn't buy a midfield. Speaks for itself really. We've bought 4 midfielders in 7 years. Liverpool have bought 5 in 3....
- Garnacho price. Some factors were out of our control (i.e how much of a prat he is) but when you consider his age and stats, the fact that we got less fro him then Elanga or Noni Madueke can't really be seen as a positive.
- Sancho out on loan. This one really isn't our fault - he had good offers from Chelsea and Roma and we can't force him to move. But the fact that he's still on our books and we didn't get a fee for him isn't a positive (even if him not being in the club is)
- Antony... again mostly not our fault as he only wanted Betis and Betis were being arseholes... but still, we had offers of 40m for him, so even if it isn't our fault its still a negative that we sold a player for less then he's worse. Also I don't think we'll ever see anything from that 50% clause.
- Alvaro Carreras - I feel like this goes too under the radar, but we sold a 50m Euro defender without ever giving him a shot for 6 million and only had a 15% sell on (so in total we made about 13m off him).

So yeah, its an OK window thanks to some good signings - but the hole in midfield is bordering on negligence, as was the planing around our goalkeeper position. Also we lost out on a lot of money on outgoings - mostly not our fault (you could argue it was a bit with the Garnacho one) - but there is an alternate world where we made an extra £50 from Sancho/Antony/Garnacho this summer.
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Good shout on Alvaro Carreras, he's class. He's been solid and taken the level really quickly everywhere he's been too, so it was hardly a surprise he turned into an excellent LB. I wouldn't lay that at current managements door though, it was done before the takeover was completed.

On goal keeper, I don't quite understand what the hold-up was on Lammens. I'm sure we could have sorted that deal before DD. Maybe we hadn't quite decided between Dibu and him, and wanted to see what we could achieve on outgoings to understand if Dibu was even financially feasible?
 
devilish said:
The good parts

- We are slowly but surely getting more assertive. No more buying the manager's pets for ridiculous money
- We spent realistic fees and we gave decent salaries
- We got rid of most of the bomb squad.
- We have shown early signs of being able to negotiate multiple deals at one go. We were even able to put two clubs against one another (Villa vs Royal Antwerp) and get the player we wanted

The bad parts

- Bruno should have left. Getting 100m for a near 31 year old player was a home run. If Amorim complained then he should have been told to follow him to the door
- two no 10s were overkill especially since we retained Bruno
- we are still struggling in getting rid of players we don't want. That's also down to Amorim whose 'airing the dirty laundry' strategy had turned the player's prices into mush
- I would have loved to see us buy more Lammens type of signings especially surrounding CM.

I'd give it a solid 6. Yet I still fear that the season will be fecked and that's down to us retaining Bruno instead of investing that money in CM
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As much as I adore Bruno, I have to agree here. The prudent financial move is to take the hit and move on. I can understand why it wasn't done, I'd be terrified of going into the season without Bruno. He's carried us for the better part of 5 years now and is still among the top 5 players in the league for me. I'm guessing that was one risk too many for the team.
 
I remember thinking our window in summer 2010 was awful. We then went and won the league and reached the Champions League final.

Rainy nights in Stoke said:
As much as I adore Bruno, I have to agree here. The prudent financial move is to take the hit and move on. I can understand why it wasn't done, I'd be terrified of going into the season without Bruno. He's carried us for the better part of 5 years now and is still among the top 5 players in the league for me. I'm guessing that was one risk too many for the team.
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On this. There remains one point. The only real interest was from Saudi. What if he didn't want to go there? That was the issue. Had he wanted to go, I think we'd have let him but clearly, he didn't.
 
devilish said:
The good parts

- We are slowly but surely getting more assertive. No more buying the manager's pets for ridiculous money
- We spent realistic fees and we gave decent salaries
- We got rid of most of the bomb squad.
- We have shown early signs of being able to negotiate multiple deals at one go. We were even able to put two clubs against one another (Villa vs Royal Antwerp) and get the player we wanted

The bad parts

- Bruno should have left. Getting 100m for a near 31 year old player was a home run. If Amorim complained then he should have been told to follow him to the door
- two no 10s were overkill especially since we retained Bruno
- we are still struggling in getting rid of players we don't want. That's also down to Amorim whose 'airing the dirty laundry' strategy had turned the player's prices into mush
- I would have loved to see us buy more Lammens type of signings especially surrounding CM.

I'd give it a solid 6. Yet I still fear that the season will be fecked and that's down to us retaining Bruno instead of investing that money in CM
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On Bruno - he didn't want to go, not like we could force him?
 
Second worst in the entire league, according to Geoff Stelling. It’s actually quite incredible how seemingly neutral football fans view United.
 
devilish said:
Bruno said that he would leave if the club needed the money. Well the club could have told him that they needed the money
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Did his wife not inform him she did not want to move the family there? If that is true then the move is simply not possible.
 
KStandBarmyArmy1993 said:
I remember thinking our window in summer 2010 was awful. We then went and won the league and reached the Champions League final.



On this. There remains one point. The only real interest was from Saudi. What if he didn't want to go there? That was the issue. Had he wanted to go, I think we'd have let him but clearly, he didn't.
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He didn't seem thrilled by the prospect, but I'm not sure he would have dug his heels in either. He was quite clear in press conferences over the summer that he would have gone if it had been the wish of the club, and hinted that if the money had helped the club he'd "take one for the team". Amorim came out just after and said we didn't need the money from the Bruno sale [that much, at least not enough to offset the pain of losing him].

This isn't really a relevant question unless it's for big money from Saudi, no one else is paying £100m for him, and at that point his worth to us would far exceed what anyone else would be willing to pay for him. In my opinion at least.
 
If you had told me that we were going to sign all of Sesko, Cunha and Mbeumo as well as a new keeper whilst moving on - albeit temporarily in some cases - Antony, Garnacho, Lindelof, Eriksen, Rashford, Sancho and Hojlund after finishing 15th and losing a European final to Spurs I'd have thought you were barmy.

Add to this the additions of Heaven and Dorgu since Amorim joined, it makes for the below reading in squad moves:

In: Sesko, Cunha, Lammens, Mbeumo, Dorgu, Heaven, Leon

Out: Antony, Garnacho, Eriksen, Evans, Lindelof, Hojlund, Sancho, Rashford

I think that's fairly solid backing whilst removing some very obvious weak spots and issues in the squad.

Reckon this window hovers around the 7.5 mark - would be higher with a CM and natural RWB added imo, as well as more guaranteed permanent sales. Also - some of the big clubs have changed the goalposts in what is achievable across one window. Had we had our current window a few seasons ago, you're probably looking at a 9/10.
 
Great window.
We brought in some real talent and got rid of some not so talented.
 
devilish said:
Bruno said that he would leave if the club needed the money. Well the club could have told him that they needed the money
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Fair enough, there was the quote that Amorim didn't want him to go and the club said they don't need the money, forgot about that. Then again, there's also been reports he didn't want to go Saudi at this stage of his career etc.

Can't really judge the decision yet though, let's see how many times Bruno saves us points this season first.
 
Posh Red said:
Did his wife not inform him she did not want to move the family there? If that is true then the move is simply not possible.
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Consistent rumors state that Bruno will move to Saudi next year and that he preferred not to move now because its the WC year. Let's be fair if Bruno didn't want to go to Saudi then they wouldn't pester him year after year for the past 3 years. The Saudi's might not be everyone's cup of tea but I think that we can all agree that they aren't morons.
 
Only time will tell. As far as first team is concerned, we seem to have (roughly) swapped:
- Rashford for Mbuemo
- Garnacho for Cunha
- Hojlund for Sesko
- Onana/Bayindir Lammens
- Malacia for Leon

Other than that, we've got rid of a bunch of dead weights who were contributing nothing but adding to the wage bill:
- Lindelof
- Evans
- Sancho
- Antony
- Eriksen

I will honestly miss Garnacho as a player and I wish he'd stayed. Other than that, the movements we've made look logical.
 
6/10 for me.

It may seem a bit harsh, but in the end we did nothing for the midfield, which is a huge weakness, and the goalkeeping situation was addressed with a very unproven player for the future. I have really high hopes for Cunha and Mbeumo, and I think Sesko can deliver in time. But some of the same flaws we have gotten used to are likely to persist.

The outgoing business has been good though.
 
Rainy nights in Stoke said:
Good shout on Alvaro Carreras, he's class. He's been solid and taken the level really quickly everywhere he's been too, so it was hardly a surprise he turned into an excellent LB. I wouldn't lay that at current managements door though, it was done before the takeover was completed.

On goal keeper, I don't quite understand what the hold-up was on Lammens. I'm sure we could have sorted that deal before DD. Maybe we hadn't quite decided between Dibu and him, and wanted to see what we could achieve on outgoings to understand if Dibu was even financially feasible?
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Oh yeah, absolutely not on the current management at all - I think if I was scoring INEOS specifically this summer it would be a higher score (as the stuff with the outgoings is also largely not their fault) but yeah, just scoring the window as a whole thing.
 
devilish said:
Bruno said that he would leave if the club needed the money. Well the club could have told him that they needed the money
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People say a lot of things to the media. At the end of the day it’s your own life, family, and career and no footballer is going to simply go along 100% with what the club he works for wants. His own ambitions and the wants of his family will also come into it. Bruno still feels he has what it takes to do it in Europe, and given his form last year, he’s right. Saudi can wait a year (or two). Ultimately it’s his life, he will do what he wants. I also really don’t like the idea that the club should have pressured him into leaving, would be pretty shitty behaviour towards our club captain, and would have created a potentially messy situation if he resisted it.
 
TouchdownTommyWingo said:
I would give it a 6 or maybe a 7. My chief issue is the lack of midfield additions. Swap any of the 3 attackers we signed for a midfielder of equal value and it would be an 8 or maybe a 9.
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Would you have been happy going into with an £80m midfielder but no option up front other than Zirkzee though?
 
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