I know it's the 'in thing' to not want Garay this summer, but he is a very impressive defender. Would be an excellent signing IMO.
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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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I know it's the 'in thing' to not want Garay this summer, but he is a very impressive defender. Would be an excellent signing IMO.
Among the other 6 CBs, I feel it's overkill. Sure Rio and Vidic are getting old, but we've still got Jones,Evans,Smalling and Wootton.
We could have this discussion till the cows come home though, so lets just wait and see what happens..
I'd rate Keane as a better prospect than Wootton. Don't think Wootton has a chance of making it.
The entire medical staff at the hospital in Carrington where medicals take place now travel with the players? If it was indeed going to get sorted next week, the team leaving on preseason doesn't affect that.
Garay has started following @ManUtd_Es, an account that tweets Manchester United news in Spanish.Tweet
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I agree. I don't think it's a priority area.
United are willing to accept £17m buyout clause if Thiago doesn't play enough at OT.
Is it just me who doesn't understand what this tweet means?
I couldn't care less how many CB's we have to be honest. The two strongest will prevail. And it would be nice to not have a defensive crisis for one season.
Well that wasn't my point. If we want any new signings to play in the tour, it would be best to have them signed up completely this week.
Talks of Thiago's camp wanting a buyout clause similar to the one he has now with Barca, should he not get enough playing time with us.
It's just saying we would allow Thiago to have a buyout clause of £17m in his contract which would be activated if he didn't play enough games at OT - basically the same clause he's got in his Barca contract... Except we'll probably play him!
This is happening then.
He can join the Spanish speaking contingent with De Gea and Thiago, and he's a handsome bloke.
How do we know it's his Twitter?
This will be the start of us slowly slowly turning into future Spain. We should have hijacked Isco Berbatov style.
Figures it would be the one transfer we don't need that is becoming the most likely. 
I just hope to feck this is not a sign that Jones will be getting more game time as a CM.
I just hope to feck this is not a sign that Jones will be getting more game time as a CM.
Ain't no blue tick there. But he is following the account.
"Oficial". Doesn't that mean...erm....official? I know there's no blue tick - but you surely can't state its a fake account with all those followers. He even says "hugs" in his tweets, which is what many Spanish speaking players do Face it, he's ours.
I'm shocked - but excited and worried at the same time. What plans does Moyes/Fergie* have? Is something leaving?
*I mention Fergie because we were heavily linked with Garay a few months back and it does seem the link was concrete.
Face it, he's ours.I'm shocked - but excited and worried at the same time. What plans does Moyes/Fergie* have? Is something leaving?
*I mention Fergie because we were heavily linked with Garay a few months back and it does seem the link was concrete.
A few of his (verified) Benfica teammates are following that account.
Probably the winding down of Rio and Vidic minutewise, while we can't rely on Smalling yet and Jones may still be shunted about(CB/RB/CM/ManMarking). Last few seasons we've been caught out at CB despite being relatively stacked there.
Apparently he doesn't appear in their last few hundred followers, although he does follow them. He may well have been following for a while.
The thing is with the CB's is that there's nobody at their peaks. Jones and Smalling have massive potential, Evans is steadily improving and should be peaking in the next few years and realistically Rio and Vidic are on the way down, even if they're standards at the moment are still very high. Garay is 27 in October and should be nearing his peak in the next few years, by which time Rio and Vida should be gone.
Surely the point of signing players who haven't reached their peak yet is to give them plenty of playing time to enable them to fulfill their potential? I'd say having two older players like Rio and Vida is almost the perfect scenario to gradually blood the younger lads.
I'm slightly afraid this signing may be related to Rio's back problems and his overall condition/stamina level.
I still believe our most experienced defender can give us two seasons more, but risk still remains, there.
Moyes doesn't want to have his debut plan destroyed by injuries and I can understand that aggressive stance on overhauling the defense which I can't deny as many people here - It was our main problem and still may be.
I still believe our most experienced defender can give us two seasons more, but risk still remains, there.
Moyes doesn't want to have his debut plan destroyed by injuries and I can understand that aggressive stance on overhauling the defense which I can't deny as many people here - It was our main problem and still may be.
Aside from Ferdinand we have four other CB's though and someone like Keane should we need him. Signing a defender might make sense if he was of the very highest quality but signing a defender who isn't better than what we have seems strange to me
Maybe Moyes doesn't trust Smalling or Jones to fill in when necessary? Rio and Vidic will more then likely be starters, but both have been injury prone these last few years, and the same with Smalling who was basically out for most of last season. Evans is known to get a few injuries here and there as well, but nothing too much. How many times over the last 5-6 years have we been reduced to playing Carrick in defence, or wingers as fullbacks because of too many injury problems? Signing Garay kind of helps cover that position even more, especially now that Rio and Vida are another year older.
It doesn't matter how many centre-halves we sign, they'll definitely all be injured at the same point in the season anyway 
You never can't take away the possibility of Carrick playing as defender.It doesn't matter how many centre-halves we sign, they'll definitely all be injured at the same point in the season anyway
I think we should play Carrick the odd time as a CB while everyone is healthy, counter the jinx.
And why hasn't this level of forward thinking been applied in central midfield as well?
Best shot at making the squad although Ronnie has failed to impress in Brasil enough to warrant inclusion. Purchased for €68.5 million, 4 seasons & 29 goals later back to Brasil at a €15 million bargain - kudos to Perez
Maybe that's the Moyes plan, weed out all the ugly gits and sign some lookers. Fergie started it with RVP last season.
So Rooney's most definitely out then?Maybe that's the Moyes plan, weed out all the ugly gits and sign some lookers. Fergie started it with RVP last season.
Doesn't seem to matter how many CB's we have they all seem to get injured and we end up short.
So Rooney's most definitely out then?
Yep. Too ugly for this team. Unless he has a face lift.
Ain't no blue tick there. But he is following the account.
Woohoooooo! He's fit as a butcher dog.
Our transfer targets this summer are definitely a set of lookers. Would score at least a 19 each for Handsome on FM. Better than the days we were linked with Ribery, or put up with the summer-long Tevez saga.
He should keep his beard.
Baines doesn't fit into this category then.
He might if he grows a beard.
And chops off that greebo barnet he's got going on.
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