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

Now mctominay looks set to stay, so likely no midfield purchase. Will be a disaster of a season, again, if things don't change

If he was worth more than that, we'd get offers of more than that for him. Or loads of clubs offering that.

That's not the way it always works in football. There were youth players going for 10's of millions earlier in the summer.

Galatasary aren't going to offer more. And they are the only two clubs to show any interest.

The only two clubs to show any interest haven't come near the value united have placed. So yeah, it looks like he's staying. There's no viable route out?

Just reading the thread here on our hopes and aims for top 4 next season and there being talk of Utd setting a target for Top 4 as unrealistic.

Couple of things for me that make me think CL qualification is very much a realistic target.

Villa had their best ever season in my lifetime last season whiles Utd had their worst and there was only an 8 point gap.

Villa opened the door to top 4 many many times but Utd and Spurs were both far too inconsistent to take advantage.

I would say had we not suffered the injuries we did last season to key players then ETH would have had a squad capable and he would have guided them to top4 imo.

That is one of the reasons I wanted him to get another chance. I don't think it's unreasonable to request that Utd close an 8 point gap. To record 8-10 more points this coming season over last year's point total.

That's before we get into the track record of the smaller clubs when they get into the CL and the toll it tends to take on their squads. Add in that this seasons CL will have more games and I'd be very very surprised if Villa didn't have a significant point drop off.

I think Utd will be battling Spurs and Chelsea for 4th spot tbh and not Villa. Barring another injury disaster I see no reason to not expect to out point those teams over 38 games either.

And should 5th end up being enough for CL football and we look like a side making progress over the course of the season I'll be happy with that as well.

We can play a direct hand in helping secure that 5th CL spot as well if we hold up our end in Europe this season.

All in all, I'd be disappointed to not get CL football through either the league or EL next season and I think it's a very fair target to set tbh

I understand we are mid-rebuild and there is work to do but I also think these players need to be set minimum targets that they should be reaching anyway in playing for Manchester United.

Thought it was just me 😅

Edit : Was quoting the broken forum comment.

Liverpool also chasing a no.6 going by their thread. Be interesting to see what happens with both us and them after a player in the same position.

Ahh...

New day..

New rumours..

Same old meltdowns....

Roll on September!

Berge vs Casemiro

I stole it from Reddit, I don't know the source.

Ornstein reporting that Liverpool are going after Zubimendi now.

Who needs Zubimendi when you can get Berge for €20 mill less

Didn't he turn down Arsenal? Can't understand why he would pick them over Arsenal who are the better side and have a Spanish manager.