Quite honestly despite the mental wages would take him as he's experienced and has a proven record of scoring goalsAre Diego Costa and Cavani still looking for a club?
Yeah absolutely spot on and we can keep rolling out the COVID thing but I am afraid when others have spent (not including Chelsea) then the argument starts to fall down a bit I am afraid,as someone else said one of the biggest issue is the deadwood currently choking our wage bill
Surely even you can see we really to sign CB, RW, LB, DM over the next two windows. I am not saying we need to rip up the whole team but there needs to be significant money spent. I could make cases for other positions in term of depth too but will just focus on starters for now.
Yeah fair enough. I took a break there as I wanted to avoid the post-game toxicity. All hell seemed to have broken loose on the United forum.I don't particularly care for it, either, but I have seen a few of these comparisons that aren't really comparable - apologies if you think I'm picking/digging you out. Not the intention.
I think if you get told what is what, you can probably test that water a bit, but as the interested and persistent party, it's then time to pony up or go about your business instead of loitering like a bad smell whilst the homeowner () peers through their window wondering what they've got to do for you to leave them alone.
Further to that, of the two parties, we're the more desperate - less assured of even being a top 4 finishing side this season than Sancho of either maintaining or improving his level. We could very easily be prizing Sancho out of our own hands should we not get him this window, have a calamitous one whilst he goes on to cement himself as one of this generation's sure things. It's not a one-way street here where ceteris paribus means we just continue this merry dance next summer.
I think the wind is out of our collective sails today as what we've talked about is made tangible and we realise what the actual task ahead of us for the season is.Yeah fair enough. I took a break there as I wanted to avoid the post-game toxicity. All hell seemed to have broken loose on the United forum.
I also had to look up ceteris paribus so I've learned something from the exchange at least
I'm wasn't at all saying we haven't dragged it out too long or messed up the negotiation. It was the idea that we shouldn't have negotiated at all that I was disagreeing with.
New here? next you'll be thinking I've only just started supporting the club. I've been through thick and thin for 50 years. I agree that our getting top four depends on others not improving - that's how bad we are. And I'm damn angry and not willing to settle for it. You seem quite willing to think that's OK top accept 10th place. I am not. We were appalling yesterday - as bad as we were against Palace just over a year ago, We aren't bad, we are at risk at which a club die if we go on not strengthening
It wasn't click bait. Woodward seemed to be saying that there are financial repercussions from Covid (obviously) and that we have already signed DVB and Fernandes as well as some academy players. He even mentioned a raft of contract extensions handed out to some players as if that compensates for any new signings. It could be all smoke and mirrors of course and we could yet sign some players-who knows.
Disagree. We need a new left back as well a right flank attacker. Maybe even a left winger considering how bad Rashford has been since his injury. I'm not comfortable with us rushing him back especially considering the nature of his injury.
Unfortunately I don't think this is true.
Apologies-let me qualify that by saying I think we could get away with a centre back and a forward for this season to challenge for a top 3 spot, maybe top 2. City have managed with some questionable quality in certain positions (Otamendi anyone?) so Luke Shaw and Brandon Williams could be enough for us as LB. I don't disagree with you about RW-when I said forward I meant someone who could play RW or centre forward-doesn't matter.
Absolutely. I can’t believe how foolishly aggressive other English teams have been in throwing money around gambling that covid disappears right away.
Saudi Arabia’s current state budget requires the price of oil to be around $80 a barrel. It is currently half of that so they are at a 50% deficit.
You'll be seeing utd lift trophies in your retirement. The players that will be part of that team either are in nappies right now or haven't been born. You'll be telling your grandchildren stories about the fergie era.
Unfortunately, it won't be a one-off game as you're saying. We saw it happening at the end of the season after the break. We saw a glimpse of it against Villa, albeit with half the team missing. VdB will help a lof, but we need more quality from the wide areas as well. We also need a striker who is a cold eye assassin to finish off those crosses that do come in with no one in our box close enough to finish them off. We also need to move that ball much faster than we do/did. It felt as if the players were playing on the training ground.
What do you think we need to bring in before the end of the window because there is no way we can get through this season without signing at least a LB & RW, in regards to a CB think we definitely need one but since we missed the Upamecano deadline feel there is a distinct lack of quality options on the market.
We need a CB, DM, RW and LB. The priority has to be RW and LB for me as there are other options at centre back.
I think we're already there. We'll sign some bloke Ole's agent has on the books on the last day, you watch = Josh King.
apologies mate didn't mean to be a prick earlier.
fair play mate you have a level head where it is hard. things turned out okay no panic buying last summer as we got our man in the end... just a killer we never seem to get our man in good time, especially this summer when we have some momentum and positivity
We should just jettison them, seriously, I don't know what we're fecking playing at. We did it with Sanchez, boom gone.
Woodward would surely be interested in signing him for the revenue he would bring. Something we can all agree on maybe?
Telles maybe? But actually I don't think we'll get anyone.
Wouldn’t be surprised with Telles only, if at all, who will be on bench along with VDB. For me though we need first team players who walk straight in at RW, DCM and CB. However I will be happier than I am now. Sancho is not happening.
At this point I don't care anymore... everything was wrong yesterday, has been wrong for 7 years, and will still be wrong for a few more.
We'd need to spend big to even maintain what we did last season given the windows our rivals are having. We're being left behind in a big way.
Feels like it happens every window. It’s got to the point now though where we can’t even get them over the line.
Yeah, I agree. It's not as if we comfortably got third either...
I wouldn't be surprised with that. What I would say is that if we don't sign a winger of some sort we should just start planning for a fight for 6th. Shambolic as always.
