Wot, no transfers? (2026)

IrwinwasbetterthanCarlos said:
It’s very dull, but I completely agree. We need dull. We need to be quietly competent. We can’t shed the reputation of the previous decade of utter nonsense overnight. Im glad we’ve walked away from deals. Glad we’re doing deals out of the blue.

For what it’s worth, I think it’s only this week that the entire market has started to heat up. Between the World Cup and market inflation (thanks Chelsea and Spurs) it’s been pretty quiet out there, but it’ll get busier now. We absolutely had to have 2 midfielders through the door ahead of the opening game, which we’ve done. A new left back, third midfielder or a forward? Not so much. We have Shaw, 3 midfielders and enough forwards to take us into September. There’s no panic or rush to do those deals.

I fully expect a left back and a forward player of some sort to arrive (I’d like Endrick on a loan to buy, because it’d be exciting and be nice to pull that shite on someone else) pending Zirkzee going (and probably Rashford too). I think a third midfielder has been scuppered by the Ugarte injury and we’ll have to make do and mend with Mount and kids as a fourth midfielder, but that’s just bad luck.
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If we're leaving ourselves short again, that's anything but quietly competent. It's loud and gross negligence, when we're supposed to believe, from the mouth of our own CEO, that we're aiming for a title challenge. We need Champions League football every season from now on to even have a chance of doing that in the next decade and jeopardizing it by relying in key positions on Mount and Shaw of all people, is the pinnacle of stupidity. It would also leave ourselves with far too much to do next year with the need of several center-backs, full-backs and god knows what else. But that's another story altogether.

I agree there's still time for now and we most likely don't need all our business conducted for the first two games due to our fortunate starting fixtures. But every day this radio silence and seeming inacitivity persists increases the chances of an inadequte transfer window and from a supposed best-in-class football operation that can never be the standard we as fans should be willing to tolerate.
Overhaul FC said:
The club have brought it's fans to their knees. Asking for Sander Berge and not actual world class players.

INEOS weren't worth it. If the Glazers had just overhauled recruitment we'd have probably been better on the pitch today.
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Jim and Ineos are already complicit. If there was never a real plan to get full control of the club, or some understanding, that the Glazers would, at least to some degree, get of their asses up and invest into the club for once, so that the actual sporting side of the business may act unimpeded and the stadium can become a reality, then what was this whole scheme supposed to be about? Besides saving the Glazers' blushes perhaps, after years of underinvestment and ever increasing scrutiny of their failing tenure as owners.

In it's current state we will stay severely handicapped for the foreseeable future and grand plans like Project 150, or whatever they're going to call the next iteration of it, once it becomes obvious how much of a pipe dream it always was, will just remain delusional PR spin amongst the reality of a terminally crippled football club.
 
Woziak said:
I’m not even frustrated by this window, INEOS under SJR is just not a guy that knows how to be a wining chairmen, he hasn’t got the urgency or desires absolute win at all costs that drive genuine success. Nice are an obvious example, that’s ok and he may have told his CFO, Roger Bell a clear instruction to make sure that Berada and Wilcox know that the last 2 to 3 transfers must be in the last few days of the window simply so United can save one months wages on 2 to 3 new players which could be a saving of £1.4 to £2m because he likes to look after the pennies and then the pounds look after themselves!

Jim’s words not mine?
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Just as I said; The Jim as you're describing him, should've never gotten involved in the first place. The Glazers alone have enough unambition and disinterest among them. We didn't need another blasé owner, who's more intested in the financial bottom line, rather than in actual sporting success. We won't compete in this modern football world with other big clubs, which don't have all sorts of different artificial restraints put on them. And I'm not even talking about just the clubs backed by a nation state.
Woziak said:
If we end up with Camavinga (£55m), Antonee Robinson(£30m) and Endrick with £5m loan and obligation to buy for £40m that would be a fantastic window from where we are right now !
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I'm quite sure nobody on this board would complain, if we end the window with that. Doubtful the club would be capable, or willing to pull it off.
 
sp_cgb said:
Just as I said; The Jim as you're describing him, should've never gotten involved in the first place. The Glazers alone have enough unambition and disinterest among them. We didn't need another blasé owner, who's more intested in the financial bottom line, rather than in actual sporting success. We won't compete in this modern football world with other big clubs, which don't have all sorts of different artificial restraints put on them. And I'm not even talking about just the clubs backed by a nation state.

I'm quite sure nobody on this board would complain, if we end the window with that. Doubtful the club would be capable, or willing to pull it off.
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I Genuinely think the board have not learned their lesson from the wild goose chases from previous trips to Barcelona and Madrid, Wilcox and Berada may have gambled their whole window on the premise that Rhodri is off to Madrid and Tchouameni is available but not until Rhodri is through the door, however what happens if Tchouameni is given a new contract then Madrid will try and force out Camavinga.

The problem is Camavinga doesn’t want to leave, let alone set his heart on joining United which is now a pre requisite for the current board!

Carlos Baleba wants to join United, the wages are great, the problem is Brighton still want £75-85m and there is no value in that transfer right now. Plus he’s nowhere near as good right now as Santos, Mount, Tielemans or Mainoo?

Only Tchouameni and a fit Camavinga are possible upgrades and would merit big transfer fees and high wages.

What we saw in the CL during the last two seasons was the best midfield unit of three, not the best players and they won back to back Champions Leagues.

What we learned in the World Cup was something very similar that the best Midfield collective not the best players won back to back International trophies.

Arsenal have strengthened however are we all sure that Bruno, Rice and Odegard move the needle to be able to best Vitina, Gomes and Ruiz?

I’m not so sure, PSG keep certain players in peak condition by only playing in CL matches when you get to the key matches.

Would a United midfield three of Santos/Tielemans and Bruno be effective in CL and PL?

Could Mount, Mainoo and Lacey/Cunha be an alternative midfield 3 in PL and domestic Cups.

This is why the United board are dithering and waiting, only time will tell if their policy works? They either get the player they’ve planned for all summer or they get nothing at all!

Most of fan base know unequivocally that with out a mobile dominant physical
defensive Midfielder like Tchouameni or Manu Kone, United will have a glaring weakness that will be exposed as soon as the season starts to unfold, we also know not having another elite left back to get the most out of shaw is just going to see him coast through matches!

Every other position we can wait on and make a decision in the winter window however failure to make those two critical signings must cost Wilcox and Berada their jobs, simply because the so called “Best in Class” would never continue to keep briefing the Media on targets like Semenyo, Anderson, Fernandes, Tonali, Lewis Hall, Manu Kone, Camavinga, Tchouameni, Ollie Watkins, Alex Scott Only to not be competent enough to sign any of the above list whatsoever!

When did the club stop being Manchester United?

Under INEOS I feel that they’ve made fans feel that our club should be happy that we are simply afloat, can pay the bills and should be seen as a level below Arsenal, City, Liverpool, Bayern, PSG, Chelsea, Real and Barcelona!

Currently this is Sir Jim’s Man United Legacy.

If the owner’s ambition is that of a dead beat, penny pinching tap in when Successful /tap out when the pressure is on then the team will never show genuine ambition to climb back to the footballing summit!
 
Blood Mage said:
Forget about the midfield, the fact that we're going into a season with Luke Shaw as our only LB is a fecking joke.
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Totally agree, it’s such a blatant derelict of a football directors job that Jason Wilcox should be sacked on the day that the window closes if no elite left back has been signed!
 
Woziak said:
Totally agree, it’s such a blatant derelict of a football directors job that Jason Wilcox should be sacked on the day that the window closes if no elite left back has been signed!
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We could always shift back to the proven 3-5-2 formation playing Cuhna as left wing back and Maguire as a forward.
 
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Well we're likely to win the "have not overspend" trophy this summer, that's for sure. Our owners are desperate to stay in pole position I'm this imaginary race.
 
IrwinwasbetterthanCarlos said:
It’s very dull, but I completely agree. We need dull. We need to be quietly competent. We can’t shed the reputation of the previous decade of utter nonsense overnight. Im glad we’ve walked away from deals. Glad we’re doing deals out of the blue.

For what it’s worth, I think it’s only this week that the entire market has started to heat up. Between the World Cup and market inflation (thanks Chelsea and Spurs) it’s been pretty quiet out there, but it’ll get busier now. We absolutely had to have 2 midfielders through the door ahead of the opening game, which we’ve done. A new left back, third midfielder or a forward? Not so much. We have Shaw, 3 midfielders and enough forwards to take us into September. There’s no panic or rush to do those deals.

I fully expect a left back and a forward player of some sort to arrive (I’d like Endrick on a loan to buy, because it’d be exciting and be nice to pull that shite on someone else) pending Zirkzee going (and probably Rashford too). I think a third midfielder has been scuppered by the Ugarte injury and we’ll have to make do and mend with Mount and kids as a fourth midfielder, but that’s just bad luck.
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The debt of 1.3 billion is not quite factual. What we have is 750m debt caused by the Glazers but put that they’ve never paid off and let’s be honest they won’t until they’ve sold it. They have zero intentions otherwise they would have. The other £500 million is transfer fees owed. This part is pretty normal and likely the same at Arsenal, Liverpool, ManCity etc.. any club that buys players pays over a period of years.

Utd is a sleeping giant we used to have the second highest turnover in football and we can do again IF we are successful. Real Madrid turned over more than a billion dollars ($1.3) last year just short of a Billion pounds. A league win in the next few years and Utd can become a commercial juggernaut again. It unfortunately won’t help the debt as there needs to be desire to pay this back.
 
Maybe my standards have lowered, but I can't believe we signed 2 midfielders who can actually pass and in the same summer, so as long as we get an LB, I won't be particularly disappointed in the summer, but it does feel like the team feels has a real ceiling and we need a big signing in attack (probably LW) or

Sort of personified by the Tielemans, Cunha and Mbeumo signings, which were a million times better than the Ugarte, Sancho and Antony ones at their positions previously, but hard to see either making another leap. They've probably peaked. Solid players, good enough to be the weakest starters on a title winning team, but we don't have the stars to carry them like Arsenal have in defence and City in attack.

We don't have a world class striker/winger unless Sesko has a breakout, so I think we have a real ceiling as a team, but I never really thought we'd have the guts to spend big on a young player and try that to address that this summer, and we just haven't earned the trust of already top players like Vini Jr to even be used as a credible option when negotiating.

I'm talking myself into Yoro having a strong season somewhere in defence, which could give us a 2nd defensive starter I think is good enough since I'll count Licha and De Ligt as one player combined.

We don't have the same massive holes we have had basically every season post-Fergie (and some before but he made it work) except at LB since Shaw can't play 45-50 games, but we really do need Sesko and Yoro to come good. The midfield can finally pass, we have some B+/A- attackers around them and a star in Bruno, and I think Sesko does have potential even if he's not been truly prolific yet (the size and speed over long distances aren't going anywhere anytime soon, he will get a little stronger in his mid-20s and he seems to have a good attitude), but we probably will be mid-table quality in defence.

A Santos injury would be a massive problem unless we sign another DM.

I think we've done a good job of ensuring we won't be bad and finish 8th or something, but I'm not sure I see how we really compete for the title without a defensive upgrade.

TLDR: I hope the window ends with a young LB, an attempt at finding a star at LW (probably straight from a non-top 5 league before someone gets him like Napoli did with Kvara) and I dunno magical elixirs for Licha and De Ligt. I also don't really like our right backs.
 
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Transfer muppet here. Now officially starting to panic.

Window started great. Hope it ends well too.

Don’t want us to leave it too late though.

Really do need to get in 2-3 players (CM, LB, backup striker) in order to compete for top honours this season.

Hope the management really meant the 2028 target of winning the league.
 
Steve 007 said:
The debt of 1.3 billion is not quite factual. What we have is 750m debt caused by the Glazers but put that they’ve never paid off and let’s be honest they won’t until they’ve sold it. They have zero intentions otherwise they would have. The other £500 million is transfer fees owed. This part is pretty normal and likely the same at Arsenal, Liverpool, ManCity etc.. any club that buys players pays over a period of years.

Utd is a sleeping giant we used to have the second highest turnover in football and we can do again IF we are successful. Real Madrid turned over more than a billion dollars ($1.3) last year just short of a Billion pounds. A league win in the next few years and Utd can become a commercial juggernaut again. It unfortunately won’t help the debt as there needs to be desire to pay this back.
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I was living at 12 Sir Matt Busby Way in 2005; we had an anti Glazer banner the full length of the house front. I’ve been vehemently opposed since day one.

However, whilst the debt and how they’ve purchased us is abhorrent, I don’t think it’s the biggest reason for our decline. Those leeches bought a club was best in class, but to stay best in class requires investment and innovation, and they did… nothing.

It’s been a slow rot under their leadership, Old Trafford falling into disrepair being the most obvious physical manifestation but it runs deeper. I spoke to guy I know that works in sports science a few years back. Told me how The Etihad was rigged with cameras to create 360 degree images allowing City to track and measure every single data point on every player, the flight of the ball on every pass etc. The setup at Old Trafford was not far off a Sharp ViewCam on the halfway line.

Part of the reason for my patience is that I understand the scale of what needs doing and it can’t be done overnight. We’ve been so badly run, absolute negligence, for so long, that’ll it’ll take a long time to turnaround. Are INEOS amazing? No. Has there been signs of improvement? Yes. The first stop on the path to a title challenge is to stop being the embarrassment of European football. A sensible summer and I think we’ll have achieved it.
 
We actually have the same number of signings to City, Arsenal & Liverpol.

City vs United vs Arsenal vs Liverpool

Anderson, Charles, Monga, Detourbet

Tielemans, Santos, Thompson, Darlow

Tzolis, Bruno, Messier (Hincapie officially joined this season)

Munoz, Jacquet, Ndukwe


The Only teams that have spent significantly more are Tottenham & Chelsea who were clubs that were nearly relegated & an European club that finished 10th. Do fans forget we finished 3rd last year, we don't need to act like we need this massive overhaul that Tottenham and Chelsea did.

When was the actual time we had a bad transfer window with minimal signings being made due to a lack of organisation? We've had bad signings, but thats different to not buying anyone at all - majority of the fans wanted Onana, now we look back this solely as the clubs mistake and not ours.

I've been on forums and this narrative that we don't buy players, that we are panic buying has been there since 90s when the Internet blew up.

Does anyond remember how many Deadline day transfers there were under SAF. If that happens now its looked like a lack of organisation within the club but to some it looks like 2 clubs negotiating the prices until on deadline day one club usually folds (normally us to pay a high price) if we haven't found a good alternative.
 
IrwinwasbetterthanCarlos said:
I was living at 12 Sir Matt Busby Way in 2005; we had an anti Glazer banner the full length of the house front. I’ve been vehemently opposed since day one.

However, whilst the debt and how they’ve purchased us is abhorrent, I don’t think it’s the biggest reason for our decline. Those leeches bought a club was best in class, but to stay best in class requires investment and innovation, and they did… nothing.

It’s been a slow rot under their leadership, Old Trafford falling into disrepair being the most obvious physical manifestation but it runs deeper. I spoke to guy I know that works in sports science a few years back. Told me how The Etihad was rigged with cameras to create 360 degree images allowing City to track and measure every single data point on every player, the flight of the ball on every pass etc. The setup at Old Trafford was not far off a Sharp ViewCam on the halfway line.

Part of the reason for my patience is that I understand the scale of what needs doing and it can’t be done overnight. We’ve been so badly run, absolute negligence, for so long, that’ll it’ll take a long time to turnaround. Are INEOS amazing? No. Has there been signs of improvement? Yes. The first stop on the path to a title challenge is to stop being the embarrassment of European football. A sensible summer and I think we’ll have achieved it.
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100% I’m actually a fan of what Inoes have done so far, I do wish SJR would shut up about political issues in public but last summer proved they have some nous. I know this isn’t an overnight process and I’m not saying we should pay £80 plus for anyone. I’m saying a £50m left back and a £60m centre mid could catapult us. If we have Kone agreed at 50 and lewis skelly at 35 to 40 it sounds a no brainer to do it.
 
I think we'll sign a couple more players.. Would be very surprised if this is it.
 
The transfer narrative this summer has been a hilarious moving goalpost: First, the current midfield signings were just appetizers for a marquee arrival. Then, "actually no big midfield signing(or one at all), we're saving the budget for other positions". Now, we won't pay up for a left-back. Or a forward either. So... where exactly is this money going?

Forget big signings, I'm seing takes like we dont even need a third midfielder, or we dont need a left back, which is baffling to me. Is it some sort of pre-emptive expectaction setting so you dont get disappointed later? I dont get it.
 
Steve 007 said:
100% I’m actually a fan of what Inoes have done so far, I do wish SJR would shut up about political issues in public but last summer proved they have some nous. I know this isn’t an overnight process and I’m not saying we should pay £80 plus for anyone. I’m saying a £50m left back and a £60m centre mid could catapult us. If we have Kone agreed at 50 and lewis skelly at 35 to 40 it sounds a no brainer to do it.
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I agree. I think we’ll sign the left back come what may, and I expect a forward if/when one or both of Zirkzee and Rashford leave.

Not sure about a third centre midfielder though. We were obviously planning to offload Ugarte and chances are, given the length of the injury, we might well be stuck with him for at least 18 months. Decent chance he leaves for nothing or a pittance now.
 
briansy said:
The problem with the "we have no money" argument is on what basis is that claim being made? Show me the hard numbers? We're in the champions league next season, ticket prices have gone up, shed loads of cuts have been made in the organisation as a whole. I appreciate we have debt interest issues but to claim our finances are in complete disarray - show me the hard data and I'll believe it. We're acting like we're Bournemouth. I also accept we did some really poor business in recent years but none of them were absolutely massive transfer fees - bar perhaps Antony which was an absolute joke I'll concede. The problem with all of these conversations is it seems to be too complicated a picture for any journalist to accurately report on - given United is a publicly listed company, I can only assume nearly all of this info is in the public domain in some form or other? Or not?
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That’s why I’m asking the question, because it had been reported that we now need to sell to fund a signing over £60m, which implies we now have a limit.

I don’t know a lot about our finances so can’t really comment, but I do know that we have had to pay a considerable amount of money out in payments owed on previous transfers just recently. And I do also know, based on what has been reported, that we have been extending and extending a credit facility to fund transfers over the last few years.

Obviously there is a limit to what we can do, I’m just wondering if we’re at that limit or close to it. We’ve walked away from a lot of our main targets over money. Some will want to dress it up as just smart decision making, which it is if we’re tight on money, but it’s not often you see a club do this so many times in one summer. In fact, I don’t recall any club testing the waters on so many of their primary targets to walk away from all of them.
 
Mr. Burns Tuchel said:
We actually have the same number of signings to City, Arsenal & Liverpol.

City vs United vs Arsenal vs Liverpool

Anderson, Charles, Monga, Detourbet

Tielemans, Santos, Thompson, Darlow

Tzolis, Bruno, Messier (Hincapie officially joined this season)

Munoz, Jacquet, Ndukwe


The Only teams that have spent significantly more are Tottenham & Chelsea who were clubs that were nearly relegated & an European club that finished 10th. Do fans forget we finished 3rd last year, we don't need to act like we need this massive overhaul that Tottenham and Chelsea did.

When was the actual time we had a bad transfer window with minimal signings being made due to a lack of organisation? We've had bad signings, but thats different to not buying anyone at all - majority of the fans wanted Onana, now we look back this solely as the clubs mistake and not ours.

I've been on forums and this narrative that we don't buy players, that we are panic buying has been there since 90s when the Internet blew up.

Does anyond remember how many Deadline day transfers there were under SAF. If that happens now its looked like a lack of organisation within the club but to some it looks like 2 clubs negotiating the prices until on deadline day one club usually folds (normally us to pay a high price) if we haven't found a good alternative.
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I don't mind buying players late in a window, as we should be OK to survive the opening games. What worries me is targets disappearing from the table because of many different factors. Hall for example is unlikely to move at the moment imo. And there is no alternative that would make much sense imo. Midfield is different because we did well using Fernandes budget to buy 2 players, still leaving us one short of being "healthy". Left Back is just one player that needs to be a specialist to replace Shaw. We've been a bit too patient here for my liking.

We finished 3rd because we were lucky to avoid Shaw injury and were able to play Casemiro all the time (because of low number of games. 1/10 season in my opinion. This benefit of low games volume is granted to Chelsea now, and Chelsea have better squad than we do probably. So I'm not confident about finishing top 4 at the moment at all.

Good thing is I don't believe our owners see top 4 as a certainty either, so I remain calm and fully expect another 2 incoming transfers.
 
City and Arsenal going for thr top players and we try to get things cheap whilst being very passive. Strange take by the club, really incompetent and dangerous as well
 
Escobar said:
City and Arsenal going for thr top players and we try to get things cheap whilst being very passive. Strange take by the club, really incompetent and dangerous as well
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Is Youri Tielemens not one of the best players in his position?
 
prateik said:
I think we'll sign a couple more players.. Would be very surprised if this is it.
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Yeah we will - as I have said before. We start the season playing Hull and Ipswich - if we don't win those games, it certainly isn't because of lack of transfers. So basically - we can wait until the end of the transfer window to get players in. Other seasons we have played 3-4 tough games before the window starts, getting players in early was really important then - this season, it isn't.

In addition - with the sales of Vitek and Højlund + the clause in Greenwoods contract, we are down to a net spend of about £30 millions. We may not have the best finances around - but of course there are more money to spend.
 
Highfather_24 said:
The transfer narrative this summer has been a hilarious moving goalpost: First, the current midfield signings were just appetizers for a marquee arrival. Then, "actually no big midfield signing(or one at all), we're saving the budget for other positions". Now, we won't pay up for a left-back. Or a forward either. So... where exactly is this money going?

Forget big signings, I'm seing takes like we dont even need a third midfielder, or we dont need a left back, which is baffling to me. Is it some sort of pre-emptive expectaction setting so you dont get disappointed later? I dont get it.
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Yeah that is a big point. You don't go from "we want Anderson" to "actually 2 midfielders on a chunk of Anderson cost is fine" in terms of narrative / communication.

The money are definitely a problem (because of no sells).However, I don't believe for a second it's THAT much of a problem that we can't get another midfielder in and either a backup striker/backup LB.

I'm also pretty sure the club thought we'll get Farnandes and Hall for 80m together. The market hit as like a ton of bricks and we're recovering now.
 
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Lennon7 said:
Is Youri Tielemens not one of the best players in his position?
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He is a very good player. But it was the club who said they go for a marquee signing and seeing that City go for the best midfielder in the country and Arsenal for one of the very best wingers shows a different level of ambition
 
Highfather_24 said:
The transfer narrative this summer has been a hilarious moving goalpost: First, the current midfield signings were just appetizers for a marquee arrival. Then, "actually no big midfield signing(or one at all), we're saving the budget for other positions". Now, we won't pay up for a left-back. Or a forward either. So... where exactly is this money going?

Forget big signings, I'm seing takes like we dont even need a third midfielder, or we dont need a left back, which is baffling to me. Is it some sort of pre-emptive expectaction setting so you dont get disappointed later? I dont get it.
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Yep coping mechanism is my guess. Seen it by a portion of fans ever since our historic downfall. It's either that or delusion
 
Escobar said:
He is a very good player. But it was the club who said they go for a marquee signing and seeing that City go for the best midfielder in the country and Arsenal for one of the very best wingers shows a different level of ambition
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Look at the list of players actually signed by other clubs a few above by @Mr. Burns Tuchel - and take a minute

No one has signed Vini. We don’t know who we’re going to sign next - but marquee signings don’t always work

There’s shocking value in this current market. Can’t think of many we should be going OTT on
 
prateik said:
I think we'll sign a couple more players.. Would be very surprised if this is it.
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Same. I’m a little disappointed we haven’t made more signings at this point, and at the radio silence. But, I’m fairly confident most will be generally pleased with the business done when the window closes.

I don’t normally caution patience and can be a bit of a muppet/doom monger on occasions, but we move fast when we do move these days. This situation is likely to change rapidly when it does.
 
I really think Camavinga is a no brainer at this point as he covers both positions of need LB and CDM/CM and he can raise your floor.

Unsure as to why we're not hearing anything about him when it feels like Real are trying to offload a CM. Get him in for 50-60m and you probably okay until Winter Break to re-evaluate.
 
I think although it's frustrating to see a perceived lack of transfer activity over the last month or so, it's important to apply some perspective or where we are at this stage of the transfer window, and season.

The first point to make, and the one that frustrates me the most, is that unfortunately we live in a time now where the influx of social media means that there's a million 'football influencers' out there whose job it is to create content around football. As there are no games of football happening to create content around, the only thing there is to talk about is transfers.

In the last month Manchester United have made zero signings. So ergo the only narrative that can be talked about regarding United is negative, as there's no current activity to talk about. Rewind a month and the feeling of signing Tielemans and Santos was mainly a positive one, it's the period of time since then that has made the window feel more and more negative.

If we're sat here after the window has closed and we have made no more signings then of course we all know that we will be ill equipped to deal with a Champions league campaign. But we still have a month to go in this transfer window, and it happens this way every season. Lots of activity as the window opens, big lull, and then activity in the last few weeks. It's just the way it works for all clubs.

Reasons to be positive currently - we finished 3rd last season playing some great football. We've upgraded Casemiro and Ugarte to Santos and Tielemans. We have more first team players playing a full pre season than most of our rivals, so will be in a good position to have a strong start to the season against two newly promoted clubs.

I urge everyone to ignore idiots like Mark Goldbridge who you have to remember is not a Manchester United fan. It's his job to create negative discussion around the club, as this drives more hits and interactions for him to pay his bills.

My final point is that you can't 'win' the transfer window, look at Liverpool last season - won the league, and added some huge transfers. The whole narrative before the season started was that they would now dominate the league for years to come. Create a dynasty etc etc. They finished extremely lucky to get in the Champions League. That exact narrative is going around with Arsenal now. 'Dynasty', 'Domination for years'. That's not how football works. Each season starts again fresh on the pitch. And we'll be right in the mix come the end of the season.

I'll finish by reiterating, and I'm giving myself this same advice, chill out now, let's reassess where we are at the end of the window. Of course if we're still short then we can all slag off Ineos to our hearts content. But for now I'm keeping the faith, and looking forward to the season starting. As soon as we win on the first day of the season, transfer talk is all forgotten.
 
Lennon7 said:
Look at the list of players actually signed by other clubs a few above by @Mr. Burns Tuchel - and take a minute

No one has signed Vini. We don’t know who we’re going to sign next - but marquee signings don’t always work

There’s shocking value in this current market. Can’t think of many we should be going OTT on
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That’s the main reason I’m calm. It’s been really quiet generally. Look at our most hated rivals. They’re currently on to start the season with a back four of Szobzslai, Gravenberch, Van Dijk and Kerkez.

Meanwhile City have bought Anderson, but they’ve lost Pep and look like losing their midfield talisman, former Balon d’Or and Golden Ball winner.

I’m pretty sure the fretting and handwringing is being had on most club forums.
 
briansy said:
The problem with the "we have no money" argument is on what basis is that claim being made? Show me the hard numbers? We're in the champions league next season, ticket prices have gone up, shed loads of cuts have been made in the organisation as a whole. I appreciate we have debt interest issues but to claim our finances are in complete disarray - show me the hard data and I'll believe it. We're acting like we're Bournemouth. I also accept we did some really poor business in recent years but none of them were absolutely massive transfer fees - bar perhaps Antony which was an absolute joke I'll concede. The problem with all of these conversations is it seems to be too complicated a picture for any journalist to accurately report on - given United is a publicly listed company, I can only assume nearly all of this info is in the public domain in some form or other? Or not?
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We don’t see the CL money until the following season.
 
Kramer said:
Transfer muppet here. Now officially starting to panic.

Window started great. Hope it ends well too.

Don’t want us to leave it too late though.

Really do need to get in 2-3 players (CM, LB, backup striker) in order to compete for top honours this season.

Hope the management really meant the 2028 target of winning the league.
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Don’t be putting all your hopes on it

I think they’ve miscalculated how much work is actually needed to get to that stage and how much more money it would take to get the right players
 
This constant need for a shiny new toy is incredible, all I see on the TL is people complaining about a lack of transfer activity.

Social media has done more harm than good to the fan base, constant clamouring for news, so people like Fabrizio et al, have to regurgitate news and use words like monitoring because they’re constantly hounded for “have you got any news” like the news yesterday won’t magically change to today, & if there was they’d report it.

Be concerned at the end of the window, not when there’s 3 and a half weeks left. If anything it’s a good thing we hear nothing, better than constant leaks which could drive the price up for players.
 
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