The Manchester United Thread

zzeezzy said:
So you think I should be happy with anyone? A club with the amount of scouts we have and we come up with Josh King on deadline day..... if it doesn't scream anything other than incompetence, then you're in cuckoo land! Most sane fans think the same anyway.... I've read loads of people not happy with King and this leaving things until deadline day once again.

Joshua King has a whopping 3 league goals this season so far..... :LOL:
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Come on then name all these players available that would come in a play a number of positions and provide some experience while be happy to be on the bench more often than not.
 
Theatre of Dreams83 said:
Come on then name all these players available that would come in a play a number of positions and provide some experience while be happy to be on the bench more often than not.
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Maybe we want different things, I thought that we needed a striker equally for now and the years to come. I'm not convinced by Martial as our main man and think we need someone better sooner rather than later, I don't really think King is that guy.
 
zzeezzy said:
Maybe we want different things, I thought that we needed a striker equally for now and the years to come. I'm not convinced by Martial as our main man and think we need someone better sooner rather than later, I don't really think King is that guy.
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I don’t think we want different things mate tbh. But we ain’t getting that so called STR now to be our No1 for years to come.

I’m not 100% sold on Martial either even though he’s been great when had the service especially early on this season.

King either on loan or a transfer would provide good cover in a number of attacking positions for our wafer thin attack without needing the adaption time for the league. He’s not even old just turned 28. And apart from this hamstring injury his record ain’t that bad. Far better than Martial who I’m sure will get a knock soon.

In no way would this be my first or even 5 choice lol. But it would not be a bad transfer either. It’s weird how he has a good gl record for Norway compared to Bournemouth. Maybe a player or system thing.
 
Theatre of Dreams83 said:
I don’t think we want different things mate tbh. But we ain’t getting that so called STR now to be our No1 for years to come.

I’m not 100% sold on Martial either even though he’s been great when had the service especially early on this season.

King either on loan or a transfer would provide good cover in a number of attacking positions for our wafer thin attack without needing the adaption time for the league. He’s not even old just turned 28. And apart from this hamstring injury his record ain’t that bad. Far better than Martial who I’m sure will get a knock soon.

In no way would this be my first or even 5 choice lol. But it would not be a bad transfer either. It’s weird how he has a good gl record for Norway compared to Bournemouth. Maybe a player or system thing.
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Lets see Martial has an opportunity to impress now with Fernandes here... see if he can do better in the remaining months of this season!
 
steveorobbo said:
The club (business) is worth billions. The differnce between playing in the Europa League and the Champions League is 10's of millions plus sponsorships. Even more when Adidas pull funds. So what they haggled for is peanuts in the grand scheme of things. Especially when it turns out he's supposed to be on 70k a week when almost anyone would have thought at least 150k after what we have been paying **** players recently. The wages alone have save millions a year on expectation. The club behind the scenes is a shambles. The few million we have haggled for Bruno will be made up next season when Ed signs our new official Chinese bog roll sponsor. Its a joke.

If we are haggling that much for a few million then its down to the Glazers and what they will allow us to spend. We have one of the highest turnovers/profit in world football so we should be able to match any club in the world for spending. We cant because of the money the Glazers take out. 2 summers ago promoted Fulham outspent us on net spend. How? The reason we are haggling now is because we had to pay for Maguire upfront rather than spread it out. But after selling Lukaku our net spend was still **** all compared to the rest of the top teams. So where is the money? Even adding the upfront Bruno fee on to the summer spend its still not as much as some clubs spent in the summer. Now we are scraping about for a loan striker. Its embarrasing. All down to the Glazers lining their pockets.
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Talking about grand scheme, almost every transfer influences the next one. They potentially saved millions and millions of dollars for not accepting the offer. That way they've shown improvement over some other overpayed players like Di Maria, Lukaku or Maguire. They've sent a message how strong United negotiating is. Thats from business perspective .
From football perspective, I agree with you. Bruno should have been signed in first week of January to give him more time to adapt ( or get injured, ya know, the United way© ). Unfortunately, Glazers have shown many, many times that they think Manchester United is a business and nothing else .
 
United U23 line up at Norwich
Fojticek. Puigmal. Mengi. Taylor. McGhee. Garner. Galbraith. Levitt. Barlow. Traore. Gomes



Subs.
Ramazani. Carney. Helm. Wellens. Mejbri
 
1-0 to Norwich after 2 and a half mins

Strange line up with 8 CMs in the starting 11

1-1 nice ball inside from Puigmal at RB to Gomes who slots a love dunk ball through to Barlow who chips the keeper.

1-2 Utd. Great play by Puigmal from RB. Rides a couple of challenges then cuts a great ball back to Aliou Traore who puts it away.
 
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