Manchester United Thread 25/26 - Teamtalk/Transfers/Gossip Mod Note in OP 26.09.24

Manager's position clarified and put to bed,

New coaching staff in place.

Upgrades to Carrington underway.

Ashworth finally in place, new transfer gur ( can't recall his name) and Berrada due next week(?).

Transfers in and out starting to happen, and there seems to be a plan in motion for the incoming transfers.

Ineos look to have scraped off the rust and oiled up the machine behind the scenes. It is also encouraging they can manage several of the above at the same time, something sorely lacking the last decade.

If they can effect half as much change on the pitch this coming season, then we will definitely be heading in the right direction.

How about the scouts and recruitment team at united then?

Still so much debt left, damn those Glazers!

Can;t see Olmo being a realistic target. IMO we would need to selll Bruno to have a reason for it, and no way we are selling Bruno within the next 8 days.

Kadiolglu would be a good target if we are to sell AWB, but nothing seems to be happening with him.

Fully agree about the Glazers but it's great to see another positive step being taken by the new regime. It hilarious that some people were saying that INEOS/Ratcliffe was just a Glazer 2.0. It's fantastic too see the impact they've been having behind the scenes in the space of 4 to 5 months.

Injury record, and his stats, would be somewhat of a worry alright. When he plays he looks very good. But i don't know how well it transfers to effectiveness.

Still people dislike Bruno cause he plays too many low percentage passes, so swapping him for someone the opposite of him, including availability, might appeal!

probably, in terms of immediate and actioned interest.

but I wouldn't doubt that Olmo is on a list of players for United to looks at if Bruno was to leave, and that is a list that should have been drawn up for this summer with the possibility of Bruno leaving being quite real - even if it turns out to just be the agent trying to pressure us.

“I think we did well. We achieved what we wanted to achieve, but we can’t sit still,”

Yep, totally on board EtH. We certainly did well last season. Absolutely nailed those aims.

4th and the CL.

The club aims are ALWAYS CL football, as we need it for budget/sponsors.

Making it through the group stage of the CL is always a budgetted aim too.

Finishing last in the CL group, and missing out on CL football are certainly not the aims the club had going into last season.

He could have said last season wasn't good enough. He has said it before.

Its not that difficult.

Saying it was good, that we acheived our aims, is absolutely laughable.

He said this in May:

"It was a very tough season for us,” Ten Hag said. “We know it's not good enough, by far. Simple. There are reasons but, at the end of the day, it doesn't matter. It's United. You have to finish higher and this is not good enough.”

Honestly, what is wrong with that? What is wrong with saying that, again?

How does: 'You have to finish higher and this is not good enough' tally with 'I think we did well. We achieved what we wanted to achieve'.

But, to be fair, I could be reading what he has said today completely wrong. IMO (especially with the 'but' bit at the end) it reads as a comment on last season and the changes we are making (we did well, but we can't sit still).

it COULD be that it is directly talking about the hires. 'We did well (to hire Ruud and Hake). We acheived our aims (of getting in two quality coaches'. And the 'But' is maybe supposed to be 'because' or something like that.

As I say, to me it read as a comment on last season, but he may have meant something completely different.

I DON'T CARE WHERE HE SAYS IT.

He is communicating to the fans, and this is the message he gives them. that 8th and the FA Cup was good, was our aim.

IMO, the only way forward under EtH is for him to recognise his own culpability in what happened last season. Comments that indicate things went well, or the reasons for it going wrong were all external or bad luck, don't give me any confidence in him.

I'm pretty sure the way forward for ETH is to work with his new bosses which he is doing. The two new coaches coming in and MVG and Benni leaving would indicate that's what he is doing.

I'm not saying you have to like it, you're entitled to have and share your opinion, but reading into every detail of what ETH says will drive you crazy. Last season wasn't great but we won 1/4 trophies available to us. Sadly based on the last decade that's an achievement that doesn't happen regularly for the club. ETH repeatedly saying last year wasn't good enough (you've linked him saying it, you know he's said it already) won't achieve anything.

ETH and the club have moved on from last season and are focusing on the coming season. As Gato says there's been numerous positive moves made already and plenty of positive noises. If this coming season in any way begins to resemble last season then I'm sure INEOS won't hesitate to get rid of ETH.