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

The match is UTV later

Ya a few players now have had some shock after leaving united on a free, lingard, martial, degea and even pogba to a degree I'd say were certain they would have better offers from bigger clubs then they got, I'd say degea definitely regrets stalling on that contract offer he had

Leaving beautiful San Sebastián for Liverpool would have me doubting things as well. But yeah we don’t need any more Di Maria’s, that was a nightmare. He’s still talking about his hatred for United 🙄

I didn't say they didn't have offers just they ended up at clubs a few notches lower then they expected when leaving.

Lingard turned down west ham due to money took the short deal at forest and couldn't make the team. Gambled on standing out there and lost massively.

Pogba I'm sure expected a top champions league team ended up at juve who were mid table the previous year on less money then united offered him

And degea now ended up at a mid table Italian club after a year of looking for a club on a fraction of what he was offered with us no doubt.

Here we go

Let's gooooo, great news!! 🤩

Deligted with that

What's the problem with that? We're buying from a European team and (hooefully) selling to an English team.

Reckon we are going to hear shaw is out for a prolonged period very shortly. I think the awb out and bayern lads in became a bigger priority in the last few days. I had heard Shaw was just not fit, similar to maguire, zirkzee, but have since read he's properly injured again.

Not overly sure on the two bayern guys. De ligt is a similar style to maguire, though maybe that bit more comfort on the ball is a key difference.

Mazraoui looks like an injury crock, so while in theory he provides cover and options both sides, it seems like he is going to spend as much time on the treaement table as the pitch.

It also makes me wonder what vivel is doing, when the two options we come up with are former ajax and ETH players. Could mean ajax just had really good players but also makes me wonder if we ate still leaning too hard on 'players ETH personally knows and likes' which isn't a sound long term strategy.

I also worry that we've now spent about 120m on defence and still have the disaster of casemiro as first choice dm and Collyer as second choice? We hear funds are tight, so can we actually afford a decent option at cm now?

Nope, read it on a restricted (Patreon) discord. A few united accounts in twitter were hinting at it yesterday too.

@Mitch Connor

No hassle. I'm sure we will find out in the next few days.

I thought he was still working up to fitness after his break after the euros and given his injury record, utd are correct not to rush him back for a friendly.

But maybe he is injured and Utd are getting better at keelping stories quiet from the press.

Looks like Licha will start at LB. Interested to see how that goes

Amass not even on the bench. Extremely odd decision imo, with martinez at lb, Evans at cb I can't understand not having him ( or any defender) on the bench. I'd think it likely we'll have to sub Evans or martinez but off, and we've given ourselves no options. What was the point in bringing him on tour if he's not ready fir the bench in such circumstances?

Maguire and Evans at CB, Martinez at left back. Not good. Not one defender on the bench, no sign of Shaw FFS. Looks like we're doing the 4-2-2-2 again.

Maybe you're right about Shaw and they're minding him now or he might have picked up a late knock. It's definitely strange though.