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Manchester United Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours 2019/2020

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,797 ✭✭✭✭Headshot




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,843 ✭✭✭GSPfan


    Headshot wrote: »

    That’s been rumoured a few days now and it’s bizarre if true. United must be fully sure he wants to join them if they are playing that game. Such a weird clause too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,947 ✭✭✭0gac3yjefb5sv7


    GSPfan wrote: »
    Such a pity that Sancho seems out of reach this Summer. I’d suffer another season with no right winger though and hoping Greenwood surprises us by filling that gap ahead of others if we just signed a decent Centre Half.
    I’m almost certain at this stage that we start the season with Smalling and Lindelof.

    Surely we will get at least at CB. It's the most important, ahead of CM and definitely RW.


  • Posts: 14,734 [Deleted User]


    I think its good transfer news has now turned from mostly lies into creative writing.

    I can't wait for JK.Rowling to get involved so I can finally find out Harry Potters Quidditch xg numbers


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 42,954 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lord TSC


    https://twitter.com/CroSports_/status/1145816799243571200

    Apparently they are pretty reliable for Croatian news.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,797 ✭✭✭✭Headshot


    Lord TSC wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/CroSports_/status/1145816799243571200

    Apparently they are pretty reliable for Croatian news.

    A very impressive U21 championship


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 42,954 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lord TSC


    Can apparently play 9, anywhere in CM or as a right winger.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    Lord TSC wrote: »
    Can apparently play 9, anywhere in CM or as a right winger.

    A right winger? What's that? It's been so long since I saw one at United I can barely remember what a dedicated right winger is.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 872 ✭✭✭mamax


    Lord TSC wrote: »
    Can apparently play 9, anywhere in CM or as a right winger.

    A new and improved John O' Shea :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,213 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    Gomes is now 28 (from 47). Greenwood is no longer 54 but havent seen his new number yet.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭el Fenomeno


    pjohnson wrote: »
    Gomes is now 28 (from 47). Greenwood is no longer 54 but havent seen his new number yet.

    I really hope Chong, Gomes, Garner and Greenwood get some decent gametime this year. Should be automatic starters in the Europa League and Carabao IMO.

    That's not including Tuanzebe and Henderson (if they stay around) who I think should be in the matchday squad anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,526 ✭✭✭All_in_Flynn


    Sky reporting united have made 70m bid for Maguire


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,473 ✭✭✭Adamcp898


    What has the ****ing world come to


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,790 ✭✭✭Bret Hart


    Toby Alderweireld is now available for £25,000,000.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,473 ✭✭✭Adamcp898


    Bret Hart wrote: »
    Toby Alderweireld is now available for £25,000,000.

    Nah, too cheap. Ed Woodward is the type of man who always buys Avonmore milk when he goes to the shop because he's convinced paying the extra 50 cent means it has to be better.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,128 ✭✭✭KH25


    Maybe Alderweireld has told United he’s not interested?


  • Posts: 19,923 [Deleted User]


    Alderweireld is approaching the latter part of his career. If he's motivated by money he'd move to United but for all footballing reasons he'd have no reason to.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,369 ✭✭✭Rossi IRL


    At this stage I would be happy enough with Maguire

    It's way too much money but I can't go another season watching Smalling and Jones kick the ball off their own faces and falling over themselves....... Maguire is better than both.

    I reckon Alderweireld has said no to us


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 42,954 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lord TSC


    Given our targets and purchased this year, Alderweild doesn’t seem to fit the philosophy we are aiming for.

    Young, home grown. Driven by a desire to see United return to the top, rather than just cash.

    Toby is just about to pass his prime. And would be moving from CL finalists to us, which should inidicate his motivations imo.

    70m is too much for Maguire. BUT it’s not massively overpaying in the current market. He’s British, PL proven, one of the best defenders in the league, coming from a club who will struggle to replace him, and there’s been s bidding war with us and City.

    We paid 50m for AWB, who is less experienced. Paying 70m for Maguire isn’t a massive step up in that context. Ultimately, I’ve never seen much of him so can’t massively comment, but it’s pretty obvious the United scouting department has made him a massive priority.

    And he would have to be an improvement on what we have now. So it’s a case of if he’s the one chosen, so be it. Get him in and let’s check that position off the list.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,797 ✭✭✭✭Headshot


    Sky reporting united have made 70m bid for Maguire

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 768 ✭✭✭damowill


    Sky reporting united have made 70m bid for Maguire


    Maguire would be a great signing. he is a Leader and a very good defender, comfortable on the ball, good passer that can play out with the ball, good in the air, and scores goals. He is English and 26, still a good age so i think he would be worth 70m, and would be a big improvement on what we have.

    what boils my blood, is we could have gone for him last year, but Ed Woodward wouldnt sanction it. I mean Woodward isnt qualified to make those decisions. Sure we had bought Bailly & Lindelof, but going for him now, shows he was wrong.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,526 ✭✭✭All_in_Flynn


    damowill wrote: »
    Maguire would be a great signing. he is a Leader and a very good defender, comfortable on the ball, good passer that can play out with the ball, good in the air, and scores goals. He is English and 26, still a good age so i think he would be worth 70m, and would be a big improvement on what we have.

    what boils my blood, is we could have gone for him last year, but Ed Woodward wouldnt sanction it. I mean Woodward isnt qualified to make those decisions. Sure we had bought Bailly & Lindelof, but going for him now, shows he was wrong.

    Agree with most of this. 70m is a lot of money but I think he’ll improve us. I’d be worried about pace though if partnered with Lindelof.

    Have to say, I’m encouraged by the player profile Olè wants. Think it bodes well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 768 ✭✭✭damowill


    Agree with most of this. 70m is a lot of money but I think he’ll improve us. I’d be worried about pace though if partnered with Lindelof.

    Have to say, I’m encouraged by the player profile Olè wants. Think it bodes well.


    he has some weaknesses. He isnt Cannavaro but all other options arent cheap either.

    Koulibaly is 28 but would cost 90-100m.

    Issa Diop looks very good, only 22 and improving but again he'd probably cost 50m plus. L'Equipe are saying we are preparing a bid for him this week. So id imagine its either Maguire or Diop

    https://www.teamtalk.com/news/man-utd-set-to-launch-big-money-approach-for-west-ham-defender


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,411 ✭✭✭✭Father Hernandez


    https://twitter.com/sistoney67/status/1146005502926700544

    Looks to be true alright, I know the market is madness and it's not our money these days but £70million is outrageous money for Maguire

    He's 26 and at relatively the same age as the best defender in the world, Van Dijk when he was signed. Are they as good as one another?

    Surely Ndidi would go for similar money and we could get Toby Alderweireld for £25mil?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,790 ✭✭✭Bret Hart




  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,529 Mod ✭✭✭✭Trigger


    Adamcp898 wrote: »
    Nah, too cheap. Ed Woodward is the type of man who always buys Avonmore milk when he goes to the shop because he's convinced paying the extra 50 cent means it has to be better.

    You mean it's not????


    :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,835 ✭✭✭Falthyron


    We should offer £75,000,001.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,473 ✭✭✭Adamcp898


    astradave wrote: »
    You mean it's not????


    :)

    As head milkman I believe it would be more beneficial if we were to pursue cheaper alternatives Mr Astra Woodward, sir.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,297 ✭✭✭Deise_2012


    As soon as we had been reported to have been ahead of City, our bid was rejected. We’ll have to pay another 10m I reckon, which, if we’re paying 70, we might as well go an extra 10m more. Getting a CB on board is crucial, get it done Woodward


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,213 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    Ah the nostalgia it honestly feels like this time last year we were debating signing Maguire.


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