The Manchester United Thread

Problem with a lot of people is your believing everything that the media, ITKs etc are tweeting. The fact is no one knows who we will really sign or who was on Jose list. The window hasn't benn open long at all yet. No need to panic what so ever. Apart from City signing Silva and Stoke signing Fletcher no one has signed anyone of not yet.

Dont see how we can say it's gonna be a mess of a Summer again. Last Summer was fantastic and all the players signed improved us and were arguably our best players. Don't worry folks!
 
Theatre of dreams said:
Problem with a lot of people is your believing everything that the media, ITKs etc are tweeting. The fact is no one knows who we will really sign or who was on Jose list. The window hasn't benn open long at all yet. No need to panic what so ever. Apart from City signing Silva and Stoke signing Fletcher no one has signed anyone of not yet.

Dont see how we can say it's gonna be a mess of a Summer again. Last Summer was fantastic and all the players signed improved us and were arguably our best players. Don't worry folks!
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Fair point, I just don't want this to become a summer of what we have done before where we chase unrealistic targets such as Bale all summer and it messes our whole transfer window. A bit like what happened under Moyes when we chased Fabregas endlessly, realised he wasn't coming which was obvious from the start and then scurried to try and get whatever we could... Fellaini turns up on deadline day.

In many ways Griezzmann making it clear now that he's staying at Atleti may be a blessing in disguise for us as we can move on to other targets. But not if we suddenly think that getting Bale is a possibility, because that's not a realistic target. It's just a player we'll waste time on.
 
zzeezzy said:
Fair point, I just don't want this to become a summer of what we have done before where we chase unrealistic targets such as Bale all summer and it messes our whole transfer window. A bit like what happened under Moyes when we chased Fabregas endlessly, realised he wasn't coming which was obvious from the start and then scurried to try and get whatever we could... Fellaini turns up on deadline day.

In many ways Griezzmann making it clear now that he's staying at Atleti may be a blessing in disguise for us as we can move on to other targets. But not if we suddenly think that getting Bale is a possibility, because that's not a realistic target. It's just a player we'll waste time on.
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Yeah understand your point. But as Mourinho said from dot, is that he will give Ed a list of targets not urealistic, hard but not unrealistic. And other options if these are going to drag on an become unrealistic. Since his arrival I've never been so relaxed in our Summer dealings, since before the latter years of Fergie signings.

Mourinho has been here a season now. Knows the squad, its weakness/ limitations. And we're to target in the market and take us to that next step. Of coarse no manager is perfect in the market. But he is a serial winner and knows how to build title challenging teams, especially second season.
 
Mourinho pretty much built both Real Madrid and Chelsea teams, so I have no doubts this window.
 
zzeezzy said:
Fair point, I just don't want this to become a summer of what we have done before where we chase unrealistic targets such as Bale all summer and it messes our whole transfer window. A bit like what happened under Moyes when we chased Fabregas endlessly, realised he wasn't coming which was obvious from the start and then scurried to try and get whatever we could... Fellaini turns up on deadline day.

In many ways Griezzmann making it clear now that he's staying at Atleti may be a blessing in disguise for us as we can move on to other targets. But not if we suddenly think that getting Bale is a possibility, because that's not a realistic target. It's just a player we'll waste time on.
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We did pretty well last summer tbh
 
The major highlight of the testimonial will be a match between Manchester United 2008 XI and Michael Carrick All-Stars to be played at Old Trafford on Sunday 4th June 2017. The list of players confirmed for each team so far:

Man Utd ’08 XI:
Manager: Sir Alex Ferguson

1 Edwin van der Sar

2 Gary Neville
5 Rio Ferdinand
27 Mikaël Silvestre
3 Patrice Evra
15 Nemanja Vidić
6 Wes Brown

16 Michael Carrick
18 Paul Scholes
11 Ryan Giggs
24 Darren Fletcher
13 Park Ji-Sung
4 Owen Hargreaves

10 Wayne Rooney
9 Louis Saha
9 Dimitar Berbatov

Michael Carrick All Star XI:
Manager: Harry Redknapp

1 Shay Given

26 John Terry
23 Jamie Carragher
18 Phil Neville
2 Míchel Salgado
3 Éric Abidal
11 Joan Capdevila

11 Damien Duff
6 Gaizka Mendieta
8 Steven Gerrard
8 Frank Lampard
10 Clarence Seedorf
14 Richard Garcia
17 Marcos Senna

10 Michael Owen
22 Eidur Gudjohnsen
10 Robbie Keane

Live on MUTV (13:30 BST) & ITV (14:00 BST)
 
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nice to see no 1 is losing here **** about who we may or may not be geting
 
Cheers guys!

Looks like I was wrong. This is still a level above Rooney.
 
Paul Scholes could be an OAP, and he could still put the ball on a 20p piece from anywhere on the pitch.
 
Theatre of dreams said:
Problem with a lot of people is your believing everything that the media, ITKs etc are tweeting ......
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You've been killed telling everyone Greizmann was a nailed on certainty for months so you're as guilty for buying into what tweets you post as anyone.

And no, I still don't believe he was leaving before CAS upheld the ban.
 
i was certain griez was arriving but certainly not as much a blow as it could have been ie much later in the window
 
Scouseinthehouse said:
You've been killed telling everyone Greizmann was a nailed on certainty for months so you're as guilty for buying into what tweets you post as anyone.

And no, I still don't believe he was leaving before CAS upheld the ban.
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Not really I don't believe the tweets at all tbh. I'm pretty sure if not for CAS Griezmann would be here by now!
 
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