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Transfer Tweets - Manchester United - 2023/24
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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?
He does tick so many boxes.
Ex-Chelsea, probably better on the left, doesn't score, doesn't assist, pretty patchy injury history, tall enough but can't win headers, and should have just enough enthusiasm that we should be able to visibly see it fade away from him after a reasonably encouraging first 45 minutes.
Are you thinking we shouldn’t buy any Italian players?
I think its a decent bunch. Udogie is really good and Vicario has been one of the best goalkeepers in the league. I get your point though. Scalvani was looked at a replacement for Kim at Napoli in the summer but the price was too high for Napoli.
Udogie is decent at best.
Always right to be wary. Over the years there has been some good ones though. I think it all correlates to the strength of the league at that specific time though rather than nationality per se.
I feel Italian football is at a high point at the moment having dipped significantly from the 90s and early 00s.
You asked for the last one to be a success. Two of them arrived in the last six month and at least one of them looks a very good signing. How much more recent did you want?
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Sancho late for training again….. who’d have thought it?!
You can’t claim them to be a success yes though can you?
I’m thinking last 10 years is a good shout cause I’m struggling to think of many. But really you could look even further back and only properly say Zola (Vialli, maybe. There haven’t been many successful Italians in the Prem full stop and they don’t tend to go to Spain, Germany or elsewhere do they?
Jorginho is the only one that sticks out as a success and he’s decent.
Please feel free to point to someone obvious I’m missing but I can’t think of many.
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I mean, I get it from the player's perspective, but does he really think he's justifying £340k a week when he's only fit 50% of the time?
It really depends on what your criteria for success is. Ogbonna, for example, has quietly had a decent career as first choice at West Ham, but if you want legend-level, then yeah there'll be far fewer players.
I think the 'Italians don't travel abroad well' thing is just a pretty old and lazy observation that, until very recently, you could easily say as well of the English. It's more that the good ones barely travel abroad at all.
In the summer gone, there were 3 Italian imports. One looks to be a really good signing, one is decent with potential, and one is looking a bit of a farce. I'd say that's a pretty regular spread regardless of player nationality.
Can't think of a better young LB in the league tbf.
Seems a little rash sometimes but "decent at best" doesn't really describe him, at least this season.
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It's irrelevant to the player though. We were stupid enough to offer him the contract terms.
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Please God let this guy be reliable
Saudi might wake up. Very good news either way if true.
I want to believe.
Is he terrible at putting the cones out as well ?
That would be a miracle. If it's true, there shouldn't even be any back and forth. Just take the money and run.
Fenerbahce couldn't afford his wage. Could they, really hope this is true. Really need this waster gone.
That's returning the favour after we bought their - allegedly shite - keeper for about the same amount.
The bar is admittedly low but a transfer window where all we did was got rid of Sancho and Tony counts as a success in my book.
bloody hell take the 7m and ship his arse out the door
He won’t have the same wage after Utd. He will be fortunate to get 80k from now on.
I think we all would gladly chip in to pay for his flight. hell, we might have enough support to fly him there privately.
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For 7mil I'll carry him to Turkey on my back.
I’d love this to be true. It would also show what the new guys are made of. The old regime would definitely ask for loads more and feck it up.
Takvim are incredibly unreliable. I wouldn't put much stock in them.
Just a throwaway speculative comment from Anka on a podcast. This mufcmpb account is consistently unreliable.
This
Exactly. What Anka mentioned isn't really news, but I'm not surprised; they tend to spam Tweets about United for the sake of keeping up the engagement.