i read that as "waaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh mammy mammy the bad computer wont let me sign the players i want waaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh"
Agree we have never dropped 50/60 million for Zidane's or Figo's of this world, though we have generally been up there when bidding for the 2nd tear of top players. It is my fear that we are no longer in for these other worldclass players, and not my FM Manager stat c*nt.
In the context he was speaking in, it's Citys....without the apostrophe.
I was stuck there for a while as well. Concluded he meant missing instead of lost out and defender instead of midfielder (i.e. reiterates Vidic point).
Well then stop paying for the goddamn ticket. You are more of a glory hunter than the people "locals" supposedly complain about. Get a grip.
Ah ok lad, so me and my mates who follow the team all over europe and attend as many games as we can fit in each season, should just sit there and fecking clap irrespective of how team plays or how club operates. Get the feeling i am taking flack from a f*cker who's wife brought him a stadium tour for his birthday, and who splashed out on a replica t-shirt.
I agree with that - presumably Fergie identifies his targets and looks to go about doing deals as quickly and as quietly as possible.
As in Pogba presumably - although the club did pinch him from a club further down the pyramid.
Says the guy who doesn't as a rule start sentences with a capital letter, doesn't capitalise club names or countries, and seems to think there are more than one Chelsea FC whilst including Bristol City, Coventry City and Birmingham City etc. in a conversation about marquee signings?
In the past 5 years we've won 3 EPL's, 1 CL, made the final a further 2x and spent far more than the Arse. Your post just doesn't make any sense
Brilliant reply. No, I don't think you should sit and clap irrespective of how the team plays. However, being depressed at a team that finished second on goal difference AND played some great football smacks of you being spoiled. I won't drop to your level and resort to curses, but you sound like a 10 year old who started supporting the team in the 90s, and is pissed we didn't win a trophy last season. Poor boy, go sit and cry in the corner, or go support Chelsea. I don't care where you went to support the team - if a season like last makes you whine that much, I doubt you will be around much longer once SAF retires. Good riddance too. I hate the Glazers as well, but I support the club. If you can reply without resorting to insults do so. Otherwise won't bother, as I won't even read it.
Show us your ticket
theres a difference between bitching (when appropriate) and coming across as a spoilt tw*t regardless of whether you have a ticket or not
Agreed, i would rather us look at someone like Iker Munia from Athletico Bilbao than pay stupid amounts for Modric at Spurs.
The other problem is the signings are not the ones Fergie wants most. e.g. Nasri, Benzema, Ozil, Sanchez, Hazard... Any of which would have been superstars here.
to compare hazard with those 3 is a little silly.
totally different player but agree with the sentiment.
You're the one who started with the glory hunting insult.
But we apparently played all this 'great football'.
me arse. Sporadic at best...and no before any smart arse feels they need to wade in. I don't expect to play fantastic football game in game out...Did anyone else pick up on this?
maths and that.I agree for the most part. I think the fact that now City have joined the big boys financially it just gets peoples backs up more. Also. as has been said, United was more or less the place for young talent to come. Now we're in a line of clubs kids want to play for in this country.
In all of Fergie's years he hasn't been one to go out and spend large. He covets the surprise signing over the Hollywood one. Veron bombed, Rio has done well, Berbatov failed only because he was benched after his best ever season.
Fergie doesn't have time to deal with egos and if you're talking playing over forty million pounds, you're talking ego. Fergie would much rather work with the Fletchers and Parks and Giggs' than the Tevez' and Torres' and the like.
Yes, we have broken the bank a number of times to get players, but the lads on here moaning about the end of the world really don't see the bigger picture which is that Fergie has never been in a Mancini or Jose-type manager. He's a Wenger-type manager: Buy youth, find gems. He's better at it than Wenger, thankfully, but the two are identical in styles.
Sure, being City at the moment or Chelsea in the past would have been great. But we don't need to covet that because while they are imploded and aged and struggled, we were winning with a solid team. We are a family that stick around, not a bunch of escorts who get shipped out after a season of use and abuse.
I'm very optimistic. Kagawa is in and make no mistake about his deceiving price, he's worth far more than that. We're a team with a few holes left to fill - back up LB, DM, and a striker - but the reason we don't go out buying ten players in a FM-style transfer period is because we actually have a club filled with good players who stick around.
I'm proud we don't need to spend to win. We develop and nurture and discover. I'd take a Hernandez surprise over an expensive flop or primadonna any season.
The only worry I have is that this is Fergie's team and there isn't a manager alive who can do what Fergie does with the players we have. Fergie has a style and a type of player that most don't. The big worry isn't Corporate Fergie, it's Retired Fergie.
what an idiotic thing to say
We're never going to get those targets if the 2 clubs in spain and the 2 oil clubs here are involved so we have to be more realistic and I dont think we're doing a bad job really.
Brilliant post! Couldn't have summed up my own feelings better myself. Kudos.
In all of Fergie's years he hasn't been one to go out and spend large. He covets the surprise signing over the Hollywood one. Veron bombed, Rio has done well, Berbatov failed only because he was benched after his best ever season, Keano of course was legendary. But the main reason we don't go out buying every transfer period is those type of truly special players are extraordinary rare. Most players get over-valued after a good YouTube compilation or one season or a tournament. We need more consistency, less flair in a player.
Fergie doesn't have time to deal with egos and if you're talking playing over forty million pounds, you're talking ego. Fergie would much rather work with the Fletchers and Parks and Giggs' than the Tevez' and Torres' and the like.
Yes, we have broken the bank a number of times to get players, but the lads on here moaning about the end of the world really don't see the bigger picture which is that Fergie has never been in a Mancini or Jose-type manager. He's a Wenger-type manager: Buy youth, find gems. He's better at it than Wenger, thankfully, but the two are identical in styles.
Sure, being City at the moment or Chelsea in the past would have been great. But we don't need to covet that because while they are imploded and aged and struggled, we were winning with a solid team. We are a family that stick around, not a bunch of escorts who get shipped out after a season of use and abuse.
I'm very optimistic. Kagawa is in and make no mistake about his deceiving price, he's worth far more than that. We're a team with a few holes left to fill - back up LB, DM, and a striker - but the reason we don't go out buying ten players in a FM-style transfer period is because we actually have a club filled with good players who stick around.
I'm proud we don't need to spend to win. We develop and nurture and discover. I'd take a Hernandez surprise over an expensive flop or primadonna any season.
The only worry I have is that this is Fergie's team and there isn't a manager alive who can do what Fergie does with the players we have. Fergie has a style and a type of player that most don't. The big worry isn't Corporate Fergie, it's Retired Fergie.
All well and good, many of us agree but it's fergies decision.
Of course. He's got more of them right than I have so it does feel strange complaining...but as I said I think folk are on edge at the thought of being left behind by City. That mixed with two of our top young prospects leaving has led folk to question whether United is quite the same draw it once was I suppose.
Can you name all those big targets that have rejected us?
