Of course City and Chelsea can get a deal done quickly. They have bottomless pits of money they can throw at any deal to get it done. We have a bunch of accountants who pore over every detail.
FFP has been abandoned and these cheat clubs are free to spend as much as they like. We cannot compete with that, even without the Glazers hampering us. Fans delusions won't change that and the Premier League is set to be a very uneven playing field for the foreseeable.
In the last 12 years Chelsea has not been ''bottomless'' In fact Chelsea became very well run after Marina Granovskaia was brought in as Abramovich rep in 2010. They have managed their wage structure amazingly and transfers are always very efficient. Whether they sell or buy they always get the deal done and seems like always at the price they want or are willing to sell/buy. But you are wrong in your next part also.
First of all FFP was done after amazing Glazer lobbying. FFP was never about saving clubs, it was created so leeches like Glazers won't ever have to spend more than 100 mil per year on transfers of our clubs money. Our club has spent 2 billion pounds to finance Glazer ownership. Our turnover has been 6 billion in that time. Now what is more likely 1) we would never have been able to compete with City and Chelsea or 2) 2 billion would have given us a good chance at doing that?
If you think City/Chelsea are not far more efficient and less of "ditherers" in the transfer market compared to us, I dont know what to say.
Numerous examples where both teams took ages to complete transfers where they had a free run. No one does a quick deal for that kind of money with Mino involved.
Hellhunter i won't even ask you to go back 10 years. Just go back a couple of years and see how efficient they have been. Last year they bought Sarr, Silva, Mendy, Ziyech, Chilwell, Werner with pretty much 0 minutes wasted and then they went and added Kai Havertz. They bought Chilwell from Leicester City, with whom we haggled for 3 years for Maguire and still got rinced. All the while when we added ________ to our starting lineup last year. Now you will say that we added Cavani. Yeah, a panic buy in the last day of the transfer market and who was never supposed to be starting 9 for our team. I like him, but he wouldn't get into the first 21 in Chelsea, City, Liverpool or Tottenham.
Our club has turned into a mockery when dealing with transfers.
The pessimism in this place is off the charts!
Do you read everything that’s not about United and believe it?
I bet an article could come out that we’re in discussions with Haaland about a move and it’ll be passed off as some bold PR move to save face with the fans (another gem of a line from the CAF)
Seems as though every transfer window is an opportunity to shit on our transfer business by supposed United fans. Whilst on the other hand praise and fawn over othrr clubs business.
The mind boggles.
My mind boggles that after all we still have guys like you who refuse to see the facts. When was the last time our club got anybody that our manager really wanted? Lets see you cry your eyes out when Chelsea buy Haaland, City buy Grealish/Kane and Solskjaer has to come out to first game of the season and say that Cavani was like a new signing for us.