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

Also that you need to wait that extra season or two, trying to buy a striker before they're ready is not a good strategy. You don't save that much money either.

Isak was what 22 and scoring regularly in a top league. Rasmus was 20 and barely a regular never mind regular scorer.

Edit: There were people in here advocating to spunk nearly 100m on Evan Ferguson and now he's looking for a loan. And maybe we will buy him in a few years for a 100m when he's ready!

One he certainly hasn't made that many this season you are certainly exaggerating, two you thinking your limiting viewing of him translates to all his performances is of course nonsense,.and three there is nothing he does bad you don't see every week from some keeper or just doesn't get highlighted much outside united.

Onana another lad who suffers from a few high profile errors getting amplified on social media and people thinking no other goalkeepers similar because they don't watch other games or see it on social media because it doesn't get the same traction.

And thinking he is the worst of the worst.

The lad was the best goalkeeper in the champions league before he joined us, had an awful start for us and was super solid for over a year then.and now another few errors in a few games

This is why I'm surprised a highly successful and sought after manager like Amorim accepted the job at this time. Surely anyone looking at the salaries and contract lengths would realise the club is hamstrung from making major moves for several years since no club in their right mind would offer comparable wages to sign those players so any potential transfer would collapse?

What United need for the next few seasons is a transitional manager who can make the most with what they have to keep heads above water until those contract expires and they can make major transfers again.

I get the impression a lot of fans don't understand this and will call for Amorim's head when their desired "clear out" doesn't materialise in the summer.

I think Amorim needs to settle on a preferred starting team now and play them together as much as possible. The chopping and changing was understandable but he's had enough time to assess what he has to work with now and some results are badly badly needed.

Yoro should start playing instead of Martinez who is now a problem.

Ugarte needs to start as much as possible too and Eriksen and Casemiro can never start together again. Black mark against Amorim that he thought that could possibly ever work.

Mount is a big loss from an energy and pressing point of view but can't be overly surprised by his loss either.

Badly need a couple of players in January but hard to know what will happen there.

Not a lot to be optimistic about at the moment unfortunately as you wouldn't fancy us against literally anyone right now.

Against an out of sorts Chelsea side. I'd fancy Palace to also beat them at the weekend. Which will mean Utd dropping even further down the table.

6 defeats in December is some kind of record

The league defeats is a new record

The poor recruitment of the last few years is really starting to show now. Casemiro for example world class in a 3, got away with it in the double pivot but exposed now in a two. Why was he signed when a 3 was impossible with Bruno ?

Anyways I'm not having this "transition" shite we are been fed since the new manager came in. We do not have the players needed to play this shape. A manager should come in and adapt to what he has.

It's not acceptable the system does not work with this group and FFP means we need to raise serious funds to get the players needed.

I fear for the Liverpool game.

Even though he didn't play tonight, I actually found myself disliking Bruno even more given how well his namesake played for Newcastle. What I would give to swap our Bruno for their Bruno…