The Manchester United Thread

Theatreof Dreams said:
Fixtures changes confirmed until end of September

The dates and kick-off times for Manchester United fixtures for the opening two months of the 2015/16 season have been confirmed.
The Reds' first match will also be the opening game of the whole campaign - at home to Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday 8 August, KO 12:45 BST. It will be screened live on BT Sports.
Next up for Louis van Gaal's men will be a Friday night trip to Villa Park to take on Aston Villa on Friday 14 August, KO 19:45 BST, which will be shown live on Sky Sports.
United's next match, at home to Newcastle United, will take place on Saturday 22 August, KO 12:45 BST and will be screened live by BT Sports, while the away trip to Swansea City has put been back 24 hours to Sunday 30 August, KO 16:00 BST.
The Reds' clash with Liverpool at Old Trafford will be on Saturday 12 September at 17:30 BST, with the visit to St Mary's to take on Southampton, originally scheduled for Saturday 19 September, now taking place on Sunday 20 September, KO 16:00 BST.
The Swansea, Liverpool and Southampton matches will be on shown live on Sky Sports.
The only one of United's matches not to move in August and September is the meeting with Sunderland at Old Trafford, which will take place on Saturday 26 September, KO 15:00 BST.
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Hope our pre-season gonna be successful 'cos as far as our fixtures concerned August and September will be a pain in the ****** ***.
 
razielioux said:
Hope our pre-season gonna be successful 'cos as far as our fixtures concerned August and September will be a pain in the ****** ***.
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Dont think our start is to bad tbh. Spur at home. Villa,Newcastle,Swansea then Pool at home. Saints away will be tricky, but our other 2 tricky fixtures Pool and Spuds are at home.
 
GMP are having a laugh .....

Utd- Liverpool at half 5 on a Saturday ..... SERIOUSLY?!

All day drinking, not to mention the disruption to your average Manchester Saturday night .....

That one has complete carnage written all over it. Stunned the bizzies have sanctioned that.
 
Everything is eerily quiet on the United transfers at the moment, anyone would think the window isn't even open. The media have probably ran out of names to link us to already.

Hope we at least wrap up a few before pre-season, bit disappointing at the moment only having Depay in.
 
zzeezzy said:
Everything is eerily quiet on the United transfers at the moment, anyone would think the window isn't even open. The media have probably ran out of names to link us to already.

Hope we at least wrap up a few before pre-season, bit disappointing at the moment only having Depay in.
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TBH apart from Liverpool it been quite for everyone.
 
I know this should be in the Transfer Forum. But just found this on a Barca Forum.

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La Masia @Youngcules Cadet A's Iñaki Peña has still not decided whether or not to accept Barça's renewal offer or Manchester United's offer.


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La Masia @Youngcules
Iñaki Peña has been offered to skip Juvenil B and join Juvenil A for next season, but United offer him a better deal, economically.






 
Theatreof Dreams said:
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SocialRMadrid@SocialRMadrid Jugones | Real Madrid will only pay 25M for De Gea as his contract ends next summer.
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Just pinching the above from the transfer rumour thread:

Can't argue at that.

Utd have boxed themselves into this corner by letting the contract run down. (And I know they tried last year. But that's now looking like a year too late.).

It's a win/ win for everyone bar Utd.

No way are Madrid going to offer more than the bare minimum they deem acceptable to get him a year early. And nor should they. They'd be beyond stupid to pay more for a player they'll get for free in a year at still only 25.

No way will De Gea sign a new contract extension. Nor should he. He wants to go home, and if Madrid have no fee to pay, the chances are he makes even more money out of the switch. So he sits and waits a year. If he did extend, and cost himself money, more fool him.

And then there's Utd, who find themselves in a real bind. They hold out for more, they run the very probable risk of getting nothing. Which I don't care how profitable your brand is, to jut let that amount money go is ridiculously stupid business. And there's absolutely NO guarantee he'll be the same difference maker next season as he was this in terms of the argument that he get's Utd back into the Champions League, he's balanced out the transfer money loss and then some.

I can only see this going one way and that's Madrid and the player winning out with what they can now more or less dictate the fee to be paid within the next few weeks. All of Utd's own making.

Principles are great and all, and credit to you for playing hardball and testing Madrid's resolve to this point; but the bottom line is Manchester United is a major World wide business and they (surely) aren't going to let all that money walk out of the door for nothing.

Harsh lesson learned.
 
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Scouseinthehouse said:
Just pinching the above from the transfer rumour thread:

Can't argue at that.

Utd have boxed themselves into this corner by letting the contract run down. (And I know they tried last year. But that's now looking like a year too late.).

It's a win/ win for everyone bar Utd.

No way are Madrid going to offer more than the bare minimum they deem acceptable to get him a year early. And nor should they. They'd be beyond stupid to pay more for a player they'll get for free in a year at still only 25.

No way will De Gea sign a new contract extension. Nor should he. He wants to go home, and if Madrid have no fee to pay, the chances are he makes even more money out of the switch. So he sits and waits a year. If he did extend, and cost himself money, more fool him.

And then there's Utd, who find themselves in a real bind. They hold out for more, they run the very probable risk of getting nothing. Which I don't care how profitable your brand is, to jut let that amount money go is ridiculously stupid business. And there's absolutely NO guarantee he'll be the same difference maker next season as he was this in terms of the argument that he get's Utd back into the Champions League, he's balanced out the transfer money loss and then some.

I can only see this going one way and that's Madrid and the player winning out with what they can now more or less dictate the fee to be paid within the next few weeks. All of Utd's own making.

Principles are great and all, and credit to you for playing hardball and testing Madrid's resolve to this point; but the bottom line is Manchester United is a major World wide business and they (surely) aren't going to let all that money walk out of the door for nothing.

Harsh lesson learned.
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No harsh lesson learned. And we wont sell simple as.
 
Theatreof Dreams said:
No harsh lesson learned. And we wont sell simple as.
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Glad I'm not a shareholder if that does prove to be the case.

And if you don't learn from this with contracts, which shouldn't be a lesson to be learnt anyway today (Arsenal keep running the risk with Walcott as well twice down to his last year which is beyond ridiculous); Woodward or whomever oversees these things wants firing.

Love it or hate it, it's a MAJOR business now.
 
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Players earn so much nowadays, I think in the future we will see more teams letting key player run the contract down, instead of selling for minimal profit.
 
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Jason Burt
✔ @JBurtTelegraph My understanding is that Man Utd are not looking to sell RVP but he can go if he wants. Otherwise he will see out last year of deal


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Jason Burt

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Man Utd want to play 4-3-3 next season so one central striker. Rooney first choice. Then RVP 2 if he stays.



Maybe why we are not being linked to any STRs anymore. Rooney,RVP,Hernandez,Wilson,Henriquez and Williams and Rashford coming through.
 
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✔ @JBurtTelegraph Man Utd want Pogba but he didn't want to return to England. Southampton will sell Schneiderlin for 25m. Utd bid 20m so far still ongoing. Still want Schweinsteiger
 
Theatreof Dreams said:
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Jason Burt
✔ @JBurtTelegraph Man Utd want Pogba but he didn't want to return to England. Southampton will sell Schneiderlin for 25m. Utd bid 20m so far still ongoing. Still want Schweinsteiger
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Just pay the extra £ 5 million already. Geez.

If money is no object this window as we're lead to believe, what's the issue?
 
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