Manchester United Teamtalk/Transfer/Gossip 23/24 - [New Thread Available]

Where are you getting £150M of centre backs from? Are you seriously valuing Phil Jones at £90M? 😀 Varane and Maguire are both out this weekend.

That said, I would also say it's not an excuse. Leicester have defensive problems of their own and have been leaking goals this season. Fofana is a long term injury and Evans has played very little and is a doubt again for Saturday. We should be well capable of getting a result.

If anything happens Bailly or Lindelof though.....well I'd be less confident!

Great that the international break is over & we are back this weekend. Sink or swim time during the next 6 weeks.

Mary Lou wearing her favorite Utd jersey today..

Does anyone know when the PL fixture days/times are updated? Looks like we know up until the Arsenal match (30th November, 8pm) at the moment. Everything after that is still listed as 3pm Saturday kick offs.

Hoping to go to the Southampton game on 12th February but have a wedding on the 11th. Probably won't be announced until near/after Christmas? TIA.

Screamer.

Truth bombs from Carragher.... who refused to stick the boot into his mate Lampard and said as much himself. He can jog on with those hypocritcal truth bombs.

Carragher is a hypocrite but he is right.

I'm looking forward to see if he sticks the boot in on Gerard when he gets the Liverpool job. I predict he'll go even easier on him than Gary has on Ole.

But regardless of that, Ole is out of his depth and the knives should already be out to be honest.

One thing I constantly hear Ole praised for is "he's made good signings" (even if he doesn't have a clue how to use some of them)

That's fine but if you're going to give Ole credit for signing players, than he should be called out for the frankly utterly insane decision to splash £73m on another winger instead of prioritising a holding midfielder, which should have been the no.1 priority over Sancho, Varane or Ronaldo.

So if Ole gets credited for bringing in players, than the massive hole in midfield is on him.

I'm not sure I can really remember Keane going in on a manager as pundit, has he? My overriding memory of him is that he tends to side with the manager and blame players moreso regardless.

Neville, yeah he's given Ole a soft ride - as many have both here & in the media, I guess a large part of that was down to how many people wanted to believe he was the man. Wanted him to be the right guy because we do all love him from his playing days.

Of course I could say its been plain as day for a long time he was never the man, but he definitely had a purpose and did well as a caretaker for the most part. Its not his fault ultimately that he isnt good enough, but a lot of things are within his control and his fault. But in terms of hitting the mediocre targets that were set for him by the owners he did what he was asked and he got his new contract on that, again the issue is with how the decisions are made at the club more than anything else there. Will cost the club more now when it comes time to pull the trigger but sure hey, thats what we do.

Ultimately I think Neville and the others in the media are like a lot of the fans who just wanted to believe that Santa Claus was real. I think it will hurt Neville to have to cut him down, they are humans at the end of the day and its hard to distance yourself from people you shared a dressing room with and had success with.

Drives me nuts of course when I hear him making tired excuses but I do understand it, same way I'll understand it when Gerrard rocks up at, and fails at, Liverpool and his former teammates in the media will be very slow to criticise and look for a long time to make excuses for him. It is what it is.

Can't agree with that.

Greenwood and Amad (who cost us £40m) as 1st and 2nd choice RW are far better options than what we have in the midfield. We have a plethora of options on the left.

Having a strong midfield is also much more important than having a world class RW.

If we needed a RW so much, the guy we spent £73m on to solve that issue would be playing on the RW. The fact that he's playing on the left proves that it wasn't as important as it's made out to be.

If we had signed Rice in the summer, he'd have gone straight into the midfield, no questions asked. That's where the Sancho money should have gone.

People forget that Rashford/Martial/Greenwood outscored Liverpool's front 3 the year they won the league, and we then added Cavani to that. And we've known for 2 years that Matić's legs were gone. Yet we're still neglecting the midfield and signing more attackers.

Under Ole, us fans have been conditioned to believe that we need to buy player X to fill *enter specific role here*, and until that happens we can't compete. When in reality, our attacking options before Sancho were more than good enough to go and compete and the real weakness was in midfield.

Ole has got exactly what tools he wanted and right now he's failing with them

Greenwood had bad form last season because of personal issues. But he's infinitely more effective in his role than either of McFred are, and a good coach would get better performances from him.

Since 2019/20 we've gotten CR7 and Cavani, so we don't even have to use Martial. Those 2 certainly aren't frauds.

I get that Sancho is one of the best young players in the world. But that's not the point and I never argued against that.

The lack of attacking imagination comes from the coaching, not lack of players. We have all the attacking talent in the world, but no system.

The attack is good enough, it's just poorly coached.

The midfield is just sh*te, regardless of who the coach is.

He also doesn't work back enough, its madness having him Bruno, Pogba and Ronaldo in one team.

How anyone could think anything other than having two workhorse type midfielders to try to cover for that front four is beyond me.

You take McFred out of the team and we are a worse team for it, this has been shown time and again. Do I think McFred will win us the league? Of course not, but thats a different argument.