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I've heard he's 5 times better than Anderson was. Buy him.
Good ladI've heard he's 5 times better than Anderson was. Buy him.
GTA taught me roman numerals - thank got they made it to V...I've heard he's 5 times better than Anderson was. Buy him.
Only half as good as Xanderson, though.I've heard he's 5 times better than Anderson was. Buy him.
What a massive statement signing he would be. Every big club wants him. Getting champions league football and playing good football will be massive in securing players like this.
In other words, we left things so late, and were so ill-prepared for the summer window despite ample time to get into position that we ended up overpaying for a few targets owing both to people like myself learning on the job and the owners eventually expanding the budget due to external pressures having originally set an obviously too limited a budget for what was needed, but we all managed to have a good laugh about it later.
"We borrowed money from next year's budget and spent it this year"
code talk for we are broke and wont be buying any cnut in January
Van Der SonHis name sounds both Brazilian and Dutch at the same time
IndeedVan Der Son
That's ridiculous, they immensely overpaid so refuse to spend anymore but they will sure as hell take divdends out while the debt rises, clueless honestly
In the interests of fairness, I'd have been surprised if were planning to go out and sign 5 players to slot straight into the first eleven in any of the upcoming windows.
Foresight, something we haven't had in a long while and something we clearly still don't have.
Need another £200m window or two IMO
We could spend another 1 billion and people would moan. Its kind of our thingWhy are people moaning about lack of spending in January weeks after we spent 220m fecking quid in the summer? We spent over 100m last year and had the highest wage bill in PL history at a crazy 383m per year - and we’ve just posted 120m losses. And we have less revenues this year without CL. No shit there’s no money in January. The amount of money we spend is not and has never been the issue. We spend absurd amounts. We absolutely do not spend it smartly though.
They clearly spent over budget this summer and are reluctant to release any more for the future. Sigh. The timing of this stadium development has really screwed us given the amount of investment that is still required to get us back to the CL. This team as currently constructed cannot withstand 2-3 years of relative transfer inactivity (which will be the case once the work on the stadium begins.)
Makes sense. No way we could spend the same amount next summer nor should we really have to.
Football Manager generation.Why are people moaning about lack of spending in January weeks after we spent 220m fecking quid in the summer? We spent over 100m last year and had the highest wage bill in PL history at a crazy 383m per year - and we’ve just posted 120m losses. And we have less revenues this year without CL. No shit there’s no money in January. The amount of money we spend is not and has never been the issue. We spend absurd amounts. We absolutely do not spend it smartly though.
That is surely offset by the 25% reduction in wages because we aren’t playing in the Champions League.And we have less revenues this year without CL.
Then just do an ever bigger protest. Not supporting Ten Hag further would be stupid. If they dont want to spend, sell the club to Ser Jimmy our saviour.
I hear he is a distant relative of Son Heung-minVan Der Son
yes that’s why we need to start being smarter in the transfer windows. Not all good signings need to cost 50mil plus. Eriksen and malacia cost a combined fee of 17million euros. Smart business, we need more of these signings across the board. We should be looking at young up and coming/free transfers/ players near end of contract.We still need a striker, a midfielder and a full back at the very least in the next window. Potentially a De Gea replacement.
That wont be Jan of course, but if we don't get that at a minimum next summer then I don't see how we compete at anywhere near the highest level.
So there is most certainly a need to add 4 players next year.
I'd be delighted with more players of the profile of Malacia.Football Manager generation.
We have spent so much money that it is absurd. Just as you said. We have spent them so wrong and mostly, we overpay pretty much every player. To pay for Antony or Sancho that kind of money is stupid when you can find equal talent for 1/3 of it. I hope that they really are worth that money in longer run but I don't like the odds. And don't get me started on DeMaria, Pogba and those previous "big" transfers. We just need to be smart and buy right players. Better to buy hardworking players like Valencia or Park instead of overated players like those mentioned and lot more.
Not to mention Park for £4.5 million almost 20 years ago, or Irwin and Schmeichel for a combined fee of £1.2 million - about half of what we paid for Pallister the season beforeI'd be delighted with more players of the profile of Malacia.
The key is, as you say, spending money the right way. Yes we spent big on the likes of Rio, Rooney etc etc. But we also brought in Vidic and Evra for reasonable fees and they went on to be absolutely ridiculous. Imagine what those two might fetch in their mid 20s these days?
As ETH has said over and over its about getting the right fit. It's obvious that we are nowhere near where we need to be in personnel....but the time for that is probably the summer unless something utterly ridiculous becomes available.
Definitely bud. Amazing really...Not to mention Park for £4.5 million almost 20 years ago, or Irwin and Schmeichel for a combined fee of £1.2 million - about half of what we paid for Pallister the season before
Imagine paying 4.5 million for Park while Barça paid only about 1 million for Cruijff...Not to mention Park for £4.5 million almost 20 years ago, or Irwin and Schmeichel for a combined fee of £1.2 million - about half of what we paid for Pallister the season before
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It's also been widely reported that we are looking for a De Gea replacement, yet you post about Chelsea looking for another goalkeeper.@Sassy Colin Some United news for you:
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Barcelona, Juventus, Atletico Madrid, AC Milan, and Roma are all monitoring Dalot. Reminder: Dalot's in the last year of his contract, but his contract has a 1-year option to it.
Nope, I posted about Chelsea putting themselves in the Bellingham race; the GK situation is secondary to it but was also covered by Matt Law in the same article, hence why I posted the Tweet that referred to the GK situation as well.It's also been widely reported that we are looking for a De Gea replacement, yet you post about Chelsea looking for another goalkeeper.
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