Completely agree.
Great then our statement end of next season will be no champions league and manager fired because we didn't have the balls to take the next step again.
It's not lack of ambition - it's just reality. I don't know how you can blame the club for lack of ambition when they spent upwards of 80m to get our primary CB target even when he is nothing close to that value. They paid Sanchez upwards of 400k to bring him here from Arsenal.
you mean the wrong step that we continue to take time and again?
Great post. We are the only club that other sellers seem to take the mickey out of in terms of demanding unrealistic transfer fees . City with their free money don't suffer fools like us yet everyone knows City have unlimited cash from their owners. We need to apply the brakes on this . I will say its more likely Ole being the sensible one and Woodward is benefiting from that. I think Ole doesn't want to be judged with transfers like Harry Maguire again who lets be honest has not justified his 80 million fee. The direction the club is going now is the right one. We just need to improve our scouting and recruitment which should allow us to pick up potential before it becomes a finished article . For example, getting Sancho before he went to Dortmund, or Getting Halaand before his move. We need an overhaul of our recruitment strategy. Employ seasoned negotiators not Matt Judge.
And should sell immediately as he will be a problem in the future
First two would be great even, if Sancho doesn’t happen.
First two would be incredible I would also like to See VdB . Sancho would be the icing on the cake
Unfortunately, if we sign sancho, I really doubt there will be more than one other signing, and even then, we’ll probably have to sell a few.
yeah I can't see many others if Sancho does sign . interesting question would we rather Upa and Thiago and possibly VdB or Sancho . I really like Sancho but I think I would prefer those other 3 . anyway lets see how it plays out
Fair question!
As with Di Maria, Pogba, and good old Sanchez of course.
you do realise that Manchester United has had more of its own academy players in its first XI than any other PL team, and for many years?!
I am not complaining at our Academy. I am complaining at our Scouting department who can only recommend 50m+ players, but not able to spot Davies or Gnarby. Neither were BM Academy. In fact, they fit into the same category as Salah or KDB. The only jewel that I can think of was Hernandez. And we end up with a bunch of "useless" bench warmers like Dalot, Tosic, or worse, expensive flops. Just 2 players are able to refresh a stale BM.
Yes let's blame the scouting dept who seem to change strategy everytime we have a new manager, rather than the actual managers who are behind that change.
No. If we go after a 50-100m player, I am sure the manager must have some input.
I'd say the team that "wins" the transfer market is the team that strengthens their positions that need strengthening.
Absolutely agree with this. No body needs a scout to tell you that Sancho is a great talent who costs 120m but you need scouting to find a similar player in Gnabry from arsenal. Ofcourse there will be risk in signing unproven talent but that is the whole purpose of having good scouts. Big signings are needed but you also need to find young players who can be good squad options or even be a starter. How much money Leipzig paid to have upamecano? Look at our squad, not a single option in bench and yet we are unable to find young talents from lesser teams.
.True. Pandemic or not, I never feel we're going to spend a war chest in this transfer window. The lack of ambition from the board is pretty evident.
