I think its also interesting to point out that Arnautovic was met with horror when he was suggested and off the field issues proved a useful get out, the guy is second top scorer in Italy and could have come in for £10m and I suspect with hindsight would have done a decent job for us in a similar way to how we are now looking that Weighorst. I think its quite possible that Ten Hag may actually know what he is doing and has a bit of a plan for various budgets and situations - a welcome change for us.
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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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People who write this off as underwhelming, it seems don't seem to understand football tbh.
It's January, we are being sold, we have tight owners, who do we expect to land? Kane? Mbappe.
He will be fine, a decent addition to the squad
It's January, we are being sold, we have tight owners, who do we expect to land? Kane? Mbappe.
He will be fine, a decent addition to the squad
He'll score more than Aubameyang this year.
While I agree with you, I don't think it's fair to classify posters who say WW is underwhelming as ignorant. It's their opinion.
Laugh it up. You're tenth in the league mate. Fulham have won more games than you.
I've read just 2 replies and it's already making me regret logging in 2 minutes ago
1. Ten Hag spent 250m on 5 new first team players last summer, how is that not backing him?
2. Can you all please forget about Félix? He's not a proper #9, he's closer to being a #10 actually. Pointless signings are probably worse than no signings at all.
1. Ten Hag spent 250m on 5 new first team players last summer, how is that not backing him?
2. Can you all please forget about Félix? He's not a proper #9, he's closer to being a #10 actually. Pointless signings are probably worse than no signings at all.
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At the end of the match yesterday
Beggars can't be choosers.
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was probably told Burnley and MUFC had a deal. i'd imagine any hold up is the on the other end.
It's quite clearly a short-term signing to get us to the summer and see us through the change in ownership. Another Ighalo, in other words.
I'm fine with it tbh. Rely on Rashford and Martial for the league and bring Weighorst in for cup ties and close-out missions at the end of league games.
I'm fine with it tbh. Rely on Rashford and Martial for the league and bring Weighorst in for cup ties and close-out missions at the end of league games.
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It wouldn't be a United transfer if there wasn't some complication
Didn’t realise how big he is!
197 cm
true,
but i'd imagine Besiktas are probably negotiating a pay out with Burnley. All these clips of him post-match would suggest his agent has told him MUFC-burnley agreed a deal.This is believable, he’s a big character but he has matured and became popular with the Dutch squad after initially a few years ago not fitting in well.
There is a video of chances set up by Bruno that we’ve fluffed this season. It’d be an idea for people to watch that and consider how many of those chances Weghorst would have finished. There’s are a few in the last couple of games(header’s especially) that would have been goals had it not been Martial on the end of them. I’m quite excited to see how he does should we bring him in.
10 inches apparently
Besiktas trying to act tough in front of their supporters.
WW wouldn't say good bye if it wasn't done deal
WW wouldn't say good bye if it wasn't done deal
Yes he’s not good enough and not a long term option but will he add an extra dimension to squad and add cover yes. I’m fine with it and he will probably score a few goals given quality of delivery with with Eriksen and Fernandes.
You do realize we will be broke in the summer too if a sale hasn't happened
Well at least he's a striker so it's a better signing than Felix on loan, yes he was shit at Burnley but look what Ten Hag did with Haller after he failed at West Ham
The Dutch Kieffer Moore!!! This signing makes so much sense, I can't believe no-one called it here in the cafe.
Yeah I'm 100% buying that "summer planning" bs after witnessing their masterclass during the last one.
No commitment yeah, but also I always thinks it's a bit daft to do a loan and not have a buy option in there. What if he scores say 30 goals!? Would be annoying for us to add $$$ to his value but not reap the benefits ourselves.
Wow so simple.
Why can’t Burnley just recall him? You’d think they’d be able to tell besiktas to suck it
I agree with you that it will be a waste of money, I also trust the manager's judgement and if he sees a place for Felix in the squad, we shouldn't really doubt him.
The days of square pegs into round holes are hopefully behind us when we had Ole and Jose as our managers who had no clue on how to buy players.
I think any time a team pays a fee for a loan, the player can't be recalled (unless it's specifically put in the terms).
It's why we can't recall Henderson for example.
Half of people here moaned like crazy about the Casemiro signing (too old, too expensive, even too average), so it's no wonder that people start compalining again. Just give ETH a target man. Playing Maguire as a target man is embarrassing, for both ETH and Maguire. If United had signed Arnautovic, it would have 5 more points by now, I guess. A classic target man, even an average one, will make the ten Hag ball even more interesting.
Wonder if we’ll make him get the jab
We did pay a loan fee for Dubravka, right?
Yes, but Newcastle had an option to recall him. Was also reported at the time. Would expect that we got half of our loan fee back though.
First of all, not his fault that the club managed to buy £180m worth of players for £250 million. He also shouldn't be the one solely responsible for choosing and picking players, that's not his primary job. He also had to deal with Ronaldo issue and now doesn't have money to spend on players going into this window while having as in top 4 with 4 points behind City.
I think Weghorst is a solid option and could be a good stop-gap solution. so am all for this, but let's not pretend Ten Hag is in some ideal position here. He had a lot of things going against him and still has. Even with Weghorst we are one injury away (Rashford, Bruno, Martial) from a potential crisis in attack if Sancho doesn't return.
Aye, so I imagine either a) there was an agreement they could do that or b) they put in a request to recall and we said yes 'cos we didn't care. Either way, Newcastle almost certainly will have had to pay us half or all of that money back.
No thanks.
Would rather give Hugill or McNeill a chance if it came to it.
Would rather give Hugill or McNeill a chance if it came to it.
This is nonsense. He insisted on Antony and Martinez - Ajax knew that - and took us to the cleaners hence why we overpaid. I love ETH but I’m getting sick and tired of this notion that everyone above him is incompetent and haven’t supported him. Firstly, they hired an interim to wait until the summer to get the right man when everyone in the media was screaming for Conte and then they hired him over Pochetino - they also absolutely backed him to the hilt in the summer - too much in many ways as the FDJ pursuit went on too long and we had Casemiro simmering all summer - but he insisted. The people at the club deserve some credit.
On the plus side, he'll be used to Dutch training methods etc.. so should be able to hit the ground running.
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