Manchester United Thread 25/26 - Teamtalk/Transfers/Gossip Mod Note in OP 12.02.26

What’s UTD fans hopes for Sancho this season? I watched him at the weekend, and he was beyond awful, hauled off at half time level of bad! Are UTD fans happy to see him crash and burn, or is there hope that he performs so he can either;

1. Prove that he’s of Premier League standard and can come back to offer something.
2. Prove that he’s of Premier League standard and someone might come in for him in the summer to recoup some of his fee.

I thought Sancho was as good as gone once chelsea finish above 13th.

One thing i will say about yesterday he was given a man to man job on Trent and was sprinting back at times to track his runs all the way back to cb even, where was this attitude when at united?

For me i still think he is in the trying to prove people wrong mood and this effort wont last but maybe he was had a change of attitude. But as you said he was in trents pocket, who was lauded for his defensive job for once which kinda shows how bad sancho was going forward

We should get Emery, Amorim, Xavi or Alonso in

I will be lambasted for this but I actually think Eddie Howe would do a decent job as the United manager.

Chelsea have a buy obligation if they finish above 14th or so, so he’s effectively as good as gone.

Did enjoy seeing a Chelsea fans tweet go viral the other night begging for Sancho to show a turn of pace. Chelsea will get rid of him within a year or two I reckon.

Ah Emery yes had a similar time at arsenal that ten hagg is having with us.

He's managing Aston Villa. Of course he would join United. How far do you think villa will be going long term...not very.

Sure why bother watching if its good to nna be rubbish forever?

Zero chance if things improving. Club doing nothing at all to try change. Oh well.

Not a hope of Emery even entertaining us now.

Might be a different conversation at end of this season

Huh?

Is your post not using th elast 10 years to say we won't go further?

TbF, they were barely a better side last season. We had an historcally bad season and they had an amazing eason… and we finished 8 points off them. The fact we are following up a bad season with a bad season is terrible, but I think makes it look like there is a bigger gap between the sides than there is.

I think if you put Emery in charge of our lot and EtH in charge of them, the positions would be easily reversed.

What would put off Emery now, imo, is that unknown element of United. Would he (or anyone) be caught up in the same mess. I think if United looked stable and 'ok' we'd immediately become a lot more attractive to any manager. Its a big think INEOS need to achieve - reach a point where it is generally felt that the manager or quality in a couple of key areas is the problem and not the structures or environment around them. My view would be INEOS haven't got there - keeping EtH being one indicator and then I also think they have created a mess/problem with Ruud and Haake, and I've no idea (to be fair) if their coaching makes it worth it. At Villa Emery would trust the environment (for good reason), at United we can have hope that Brailsford, Ashworth, Berrada, Wilcox will create a high performing structure, but we haven't seen it yet - so that will be a question mark for anyone.