Ah, I didn’t realize he was rated that highly. But then again, £30m for a 16 year old speaks volume. I guess that explains why it is harder to sign him under this administration.What? He’s one of the most promising young players in England.
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I love when people post without knowing anything about the topic at hand.I'll have to take your word on that. He's always on the money when it comes to mendes related stories, otherwise he's all over the place.
Wouldn’t blame the kid if true.
Mendes and the president of Valencia in Barcelona negotiating Rodrigo's transfer.
No agreement yet.Valencia want 60m€
No agreement yet.Valencia want 60m€
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Barca get an injury to Suarez and then snatch for Valencia's best striker; we get an injury to Rashford and we're looking to bring in Leicester reject, Slimani.
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You cant be serious? The one thing wr do is play youngsters and give them scope to improve.
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That's the ace up our sleeve? Christ, we should be offering him a chance to win silverware - 75% of premier league teams could offer him playing time, and a few German teams too, along with CL football and a possibility of silverware.
We're in serious trouble if we can only offer players a chance to play football...
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That's the ace up our sleeve? Christ, we should be offering him a chance to win silverware - 75% of premier league teams could offer him playing time, and a few German teams too, along with CL football and a possibility of silverware.
We're in serious trouble if we can only offer players a chance to play football...
You left out the bit that they want to pay 60 m whereas we may well be after a short term loan with a longer term target in summer
Id argue all young players have improved under solskjaer. Everything else, not so much
Longer term forward target? But isn't this transfer only a means to cover for Rashford? When he's back, that necessity won't be there, unless you're talking about a RW purchase, but then this limits Greenwood's minutes as he's competition for James on the right atm.
Think thats his point.
Anything new on Marcos Llorente? We were supposed to be pursuing a loan deal for him weeks back.
This looks like finally the end of the saga for this window and seems to be heading for the same result as last summer, god knows where our creativity is going to come from until Pogba comes back but obviously Utd aren't bothered about that at all.
Mate , you could've just said he is shit at his job.
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Looks nothing like he's Dad, scoring record isn't as good either. His dad was a bit of a late bloomer IIRC
Manchester United are the only football club where winter transfer windows are taken so seriously and used to spin narratives. While it's fair to argue that we have a desperation that is greater than others due to the imbalance between our stature and league peformances, at the same time, January windows have historically been treated as 'bonus windows' with any additions therein being seen as 'bonus signings'. With us, majority of this forum as well as many journalists seem to see this window as a 'must invest bigly' one, which is odd. It would be nice to get in a short term cover for Rashford but we should operate with a long term vision rather than knew jerk ism and out of desperation. Also, anybody that counts winter windows to analyse transfer activity dislays an agenda.
It's 6 signings in 2 summers which is perfectly reasonable. Would have liked more of course (Grant doesn't really count) and much better quality than those 6 (not a single transformative player) but it's not woeful either.
Said narrative exists because we've invested nigh on billions in wages and transfer fees over the space of 6 years with nearly nothing to show for it. Juxtapose that with all the teams immediately around us over the same period of time and you might be able to see why everyone is so fixated on our transfer activity, especially this window where a bunch of injuries have magnified how poor our recruitment and overall footballing infrastructure has been since SAF retired.
Now combine all of this with our status as arguably the biggest, most popular and successful club in the biggest, richest, most successful domestic football league in the world and ask yourself again why so many people care about what's happening at Manchester United.
5 signings in 2 summers and januarys, which lets be real it pretty much is, is pathetic and woeful for a club trying to get back to the top.
It's not spectacular but isn't pathetic either. Had those been players who transformed the team wrt their particular positions/roles it would have been decent. Of course everyone would like to see more ala the 6 LVg got in one summer.
To be fair, I think the criticism of said transfer windows stems more from the positions we decided to buy in rather than the number of players we bought. The number of signings were a problem for a lot of us, too, of course, because our squad is that poor, but I think people would be more understanding/lenient in regards to the criticism of previous windows had we brought in players who were more varied in terms of their positions.
Like, I guess I'm fine with all three signings in the summer, but what made that window poor was that we spent pretty much everything on defence when our attack and midfield were just as in need of reinforcements.. I get the defensive signings because we were conceding goals left, right and centre last season, but not signing a proven player in attack or midfield was crazy. Everyone knew we needed reinforcing there, and James alone was never going to be enough.
When Ole initially got the job full time I'm assuming he decided fairly quickly that Fellaini, Alexis and Lukaku weren't going to be in his plans, and that he knew Herrera was off, but two windows later and we've signed no central midfielder and a kid from the Championship in attack. That's pretty poor, imo.
Ugh - he's their best player and yet again Valencia will sell to Barca it seems. Can't believe no Premiership team was interested.
We need more depth in attack. Most people can see we need a 4th forward/striker
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Top class professionals we have at the club.
Who is this Augustyn lad??
Beaten to a signing by Championship club Leeds, couldn't make it up.
Why would Leicester let him move to us?
Think he is a young French striker from RB Leipzig. Rapid, good dribbler but quite young I think.
Fred.
"We can do things that others can only dream of..."
The reason this winter window is important is because getting top 4 is the easiest it has been in a while.
If we sign a few players to cover our deficiencies like a no. 10 and a striker we should make top 4 and make our summer window easier. Players are already rejecting us with Ole at the helm, even the players like Halaand who he coached and is on good terms with. We need CL so that they don't have another reason to reject us.
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