So depressing. But feck it, if any team other than us were to really challenge for the top 2 I'd rather it be Spurs.
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
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Well, we're not signing Mandzukic.
MY BODY IS NOT READY 
United should be interested in him in next window.
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I'm somewhere in the middle of the views on here.
The club has been shockingly ran, if we spent the amount of money that has been spent on transfers, wages, agent fees and the poor sales we make smartly we would be in a far better position. Think how well Wolves, Leicester and Spurs are run.
I think Maguire and wan bissaka are two good deals. They will play for the jersey. We are left in the hope that young players like greenwood and Gomez cut the mustard and that last year's purchases such as Dalot and Fred improve like lindelof last year.
I think the owners are settled on us being a top 4 team. We won't compete for the title for a long long time.
I am behind the team but the glazers and Woodward need to be targeted for the sheer pilfering of our club.
The club has been shockingly ran, if we spent the amount of money that has been spent on transfers, wages, agent fees and the poor sales we make smartly we would be in a far better position. Think how well Wolves, Leicester and Spurs are run.
I think Maguire and wan bissaka are two good deals. They will play for the jersey. We are left in the hope that young players like greenwood and Gomez cut the mustard and that last year's purchases such as Dalot and Fred improve like lindelof last year.
I think the owners are settled on us being a top 4 team. We won't compete for the title for a long long time.
I am behind the team but the glazers and Woodward need to be targeted for the sheer pilfering of our club.
I disagree, there is now a back 5 that is much higher quality, the young players are a year older so the expectation is they will step up. I would also hope for a better season from Fred as he is now settled, perhaps Ole has seen enough of him to say we don't need another midfielder. Sanchez will be now or never, he's not 34, there's still a chance there. The players are fitter. I would expect this to be a better squad, despite the personnel changes.
The only place I really couldn't argue it is in the loss of Lukaku and no-one to replace him.
Can we all wrap our heads around the fact that solskjaer isn't going to come out on the eve of a new season and say he's unhappy with the business and the squad at his disposal. If for no other reason than out of loyalty to his players.
When you've grasped that, you can get on with your life without sounding like a keyboard bashing nutjob.
When you've grasped that, you can get on with your life without sounding like a keyboard bashing nutjob.
Imagine I told you ten years ago that not only were Tottenham players turning us down but that our targets are turning us down to join Tottenham.
More likely that he just doesn't want to play for a Europa League club under an unproven manager. Spurs offers CL football, a top class manager and a much more settled team not to mention living in London. No brainer.
In your OPINION! Personally I think losing Fellaini and Lukaku improves our midfield and attack.We have strengthened defence while weakening midfield and attack. Rebuilding is going perfectly I see. Winning something is obviously not our target, Ed & Co managed to lower our expectations so much that now TOP 4 would be seen as an achievement. And you are OK with that? Then the same people like you dare to call us "the biggest club in the world"More like biggest laughing stock in the word.
Finished above us in the league, CL finalists, have a well-regarded manager, based in London. Think a lot of United fans are finding it difficult to accept there’s very little appeal to joining us except for money.
I'm meant to be off to the gym, but I don't seem to be....
How exactly are spurs doing one over us if they sign Dybala? He didn't want to come, the club didn't agree to his (and his agents) demands, so he's moved on.
Would people rather we sign a player who's not committed and sell him on in a season like Di Maria?
Would people rather we sign a player who's not committed and sell him on in a season like Di Maria?
Cause at least half of our fans like you have still buried their heads in sand.
Spurs? Really? Unbelievable Ed... but well, if he doesn't suit us, he doesn't.
It's incredible isn't it. The hysteria online is outrageous. It's incredibly difficult to have a balanced conversation these days. It often feels like people care more about transfers than the actual football.
Indeed. If you were neutral, not a Utd fan, who would you chose at the moment? I'm sure we were after him, but got rejected the moment Tottenham were in for him.
Wow Spurs pulling off Dybala. And Sessegnon. Possibly Celso too? That would be a pretty ambitious window and statement made by them. Reckon it will well and truly put a large gap between us and them, and put them in the next tier.
Would really show us up no matter how we spin it really. We're trying to close the gap while it's managing to widen.
I wanted to to sign more players but believed we've made progress this summer as long as we're actually well managed. But obviously one of the teams you're chasing racing ahead in their transfer activity is a problem. Especially when they could sign a player who seemingly rejected us.
Needless to say I hope they only get Sessegnon.
Would really show us up no matter how we spin it really. We're trying to close the gap while it's managing to widen.
I wanted to to sign more players but believed we've made progress this summer as long as we're actually well managed. But obviously one of the teams you're chasing racing ahead in their transfer activity is a problem. Especially when they could sign a player who seemingly rejected us.
Needless to say I hope they only get Sessegnon.
I don't even know what to reply to that one. It's your opinion I guess...
I think the team needs alot of work. Defence, midfield and attack. We have sorted the defence, even more so if we tie down DDG. Sadly the CM and forward hasn't materialize so we are relying on players such as Mctominay, Fred, Rashford, Martial and dare I say it Sanchez to get some consistency.
I don't like what ifs so undoubtedly we are a top signing short in my opinion.
That said we all know it's not getting sorted in a season. We are feeling the repercussions of not getting top 4. If we can get it this season, or win the EL, then next summer could look totally different.
With his Argentinian mates. Like I said earlier, it's actually understandable that he would choose Spurs over us. We are a joke, the only positives are the youngsters and that Ole tries to implement a positive football philosophy.
It is going to very interesting. Wouldn't have liked it to get this far without signing the necessary players but Woody please pull off some magic last day!
It's all hope though isn't it. This player might step up, that player might step up. It's the hope that kills you. How is Sanchez going to be good? He hasn't even had a pre-season so we won't be seeing him for a while.
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Are Spurs really willing to ruin their wage structure over Dybala?
Yeah I nearly strained something while reaching with that one.
I would assume that Dybala has reduced the demands he made in negotiations with us, in order to get his move to Spurs. Looks like we have fully fallen down the pecking order now - the word is out, we are a shambles.
I thought it was image rights in the end, which are owned by a third party company.
Cant understand how this going to work when he wanted to be one of our top earners yet Spurs wage structure is £200,000 per week
Bold Prediction: Coutinho panic stopgap loan to give us a fighting chance this season unless the kids deliver.
Fair fecks Spurs - that's an unbelievable window if you pull these off
Blocking people on social media and announcing a new toilet paper partner i reckon.
Reduced his demands. He wants to join Spurs, he didn't want to join us. There's no other way they could have afforded the deal.Cant understand how this going to work when he wanted to be one of our top earners yet Spurs wage structure is £200,000 per week
I’d rather players with a first touch who want to play football on the ground. No more direct Mourinho football.
Why didnt we cough up for him? It's an absolute shambles that a player of his quality is going there considering their wage structure and how frugal they usually are in the market, and the quality they already have.
That's 3 teams that are so so far ahead of us in terms of quality it's laughable. We needed this signing far more than they did but guess what, they have more ambition.
That's where we are isn't it. What have they done to us?
He'd never agree to join us.
They still have won nothing though. And we are still a global brand in Manchester United.
But yeah that would be a snack in the face for Woodward if it happens.
I made a comment about this in another thread yesterday explaining the short version of the Dybala fiasco:
https://www.redcafe.net/threads/let’s-face-it-united-are-a-has-been-club.449540/page-2#post-24518629
I would rather that as well but I don't see how losing someone who scores 1/4 of our goals without any replacement improves our team.
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