Manchester United Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2018 pt3

Drumpot wrote: »

United finished 2nd in the league.

Picking out their points gap to city and refusing to awknowledge the points record is just selective cherry picking of facts to suit the narrative you want to push. City broke the records, accept that fact on its merit, no other team ever matched their stats....

But that's what United have to beat now. It really doesn't matter how many seasons last year's total would have had United in the race. Current day, it isn't good enough.

I think it's probably unlikely City will have another 100 point season as hopefully teams figure out what not to do against them but it's better to assume they will keep up that standard and try to beat that target.

Cotts72 wrote: »

Shes looks very serious about her story

Darmian going the other way probably swung things in United's favour.....If the transfer happens.

Cantona's Collars wrote: »

"United consider a £65 million bid for Harry Maguire". The Mail.

Consider it lads and forget about it. £65 million is insane.

For an extra 10m we can get Alderweireld.

Hococop wrote: »

Crazy how if a player wants out with us we have to drop the price, with spurs the price skyrockets haha

Well it depends on demand/quality. If DDG wanted out you can bet your arsé we'd be demanding £100m.

So in short the club are playing chicken with Spurs & Levy over Alderweireld?

Risky move that..

I doubt there'll be any major movement in the Alderweld transfer until the final week of the window. If there is interest from us it's just a game of bluff until that week. It's a high stakes game with potentially upwards of 20M at stake. Spurs look like they won't need a replacement for him so if it goes ahead expect it to happen ala Dimitar Berbitov. Levy must be an absolute nightmare to deal with I'd say

astradave wrote: »

Tbf he can think that all he wants but the facts of the matter is that if he doesn’t sell him he either has to give in and give him a new improved (he’s asking for high wages) contract or lose him for 26m next summer.

Oh I know that. Is he even on £150k there?

https://twitter.com/JamesRobsonMEN/status/1020788558444007424

I find it interesting how so many seem to have little issue with how our transfer window is going. All of the usual cries of "you don't know what is happening behind the scenes", "there is time left", "other clubs haven't done anything either", "there are reasons for it all I tell you".

I am no chicken little when it comes to transfer windows but seriously lads, it seems pretty damn obvious to me right now that the club is sleep walking into a big problem.

6 months ago everybody knew we needed 6/7 players, that we badly needed two full backs, a right winger, both a Modric type midfielder and more depth in midfield, a back up striker and then also better quality at center back. We knew this from a long, long way back. We also needed rid of a laundry list of useless characters that had let us down time and again.

Less than 3 weeks remaining in the transfer window and we have Fred and a kid with effectively zero senior experience.

Lads, anybody who thinks we will be sorting all our issues in the next 2 weeks needs their heads examined. And don't tell me I can't say that because I don't know what is happening behind the scenes, shove that because we have all seen dozens of transfer windows, we know how they play out and can usually recognise what way the wind is blowing. And right now the wind is blowing directly at a disappointing window that is going to dictate our entire season.

Regardless of what people want or think we need, we were never going to sign 6/7 first team players. 5 would have been great but 4 is probably realistic.