Summer transfer window 2025

Is Amad being sold? Mbuemo plays right side forward. Amad plays right side forward. He can play in a front 2 alright, but I don't think Mbuemo is an out and out CF.

Mbuemo is a top player to be fair, but I would have thought that other positions were more pressing for Man Utd.

Amad will play RWB.

Yep he does get backed in the market alright, like most of the managers at the top teams, in the most part though he tends to deliver in this department with the recent purchases been the exception rather than the rule.

I reckon Ait Nouri will get done for less than 50 but i think livramento will prove too dear and wont get done esp now with Newcastle getting cl. Not sure who the second choice is.

I think pep has been quite good reinventing players to full back, this season alone Nico O Reilly(AM) played a chunk at left back(he will stay as back up), Gvardiol id argue isnt a left back but had at least played there before. Mattheus Nunes did one game at left back(the derby…) and played predominantly right back. Hes another centre midfielder. Then zinchenko, sergio gomez, fabian delph all examples of pep reinventing players to play different positions(full back in particular). He is actually criticized heavily by city fans for NOT playing players in their natural position.

I think you are getting your RB and LB mixed up, Gvardiol is an ok left back but potentially an elite CB. Rico Lewis is a RB and a very poor one at that, i suspect he will leave this summer. Benjamin Mendy is the only actual left back Pep has bought in ten years at city and city have a history of never having a good one(Terry Phelan one of the best since the prem started and he wasnt as good at city as elsewhere tells its own story) so a signing like Ait Nouri well overdue.

That was 1 game, he's played RWB a lot this season.

Deco has come out and said that Barça are now a well run club and no longer need to sell to buy

On the same day Luis Díaz is rumoured to be in talks with them and rejecting a Saudi move. Barcelona is his dream and his father said sp last year. Hopefully this means Barcelona now have the money for this as I think it will happen and could be a decent move for all parties if the fee is high enough [edit: rumours of talks are apparently not true now - apologies I may have jumped the gun on a poor source - but sounds like he'll either be sold for a high amount or sign a new contract if valuation is not met]

Sounds like there's also a real possibility of a cross-Merseyside transfer, the first in over 20 years, and the first Liverpool to Everton transfer since the Premier League started in 1992 - Ben Doak is a target for Everton and David Lynch (respected local journalist) suggests that he could go for a bit less than the £25m Liverpool said they wanted for him last year

I think £15m gets Doak to Everton and would be a good move for the lad to go work under a Scottish manager

Bruno has said he is staying at Manchester and not moving this summer.

Good news for United fans.

If they get a striker now that’ll totally change things at the club and it will be deemed a good summers business.

Will be interesting to see Bruno playing deeper as you’d imagine that Cunha will become the playmaker now.

Edit - they’ll buy a new Gk too obviously

Bruno's a top player but as a non United fan I've never rated him as a captain. It's kind of like how I viewed Aubameyang as Arsenal captain, I saw a couple of games (likely against Liverpool) where he just fell short of what I'd expect from a captain in a big game to drag them through and although I don't watch much United I've gotten that same sort of feeling from Bruno.

I don't think it really matters either way but I'd likely lean towards hoping they keep him if he's continuing as captain as I just don't rate him to drag the team up to his level like a Keane/Ince/Robson

someone on a podcast recently said cunha would be a strange signing as he's not really one for tactical instruction, idk. what would two of them starting be like?

What's he like though? guy was giving the impression he just does his own thing really

He scored 2 of the 3 goals in that game from WB. the third was as a 10. His higher output in terms of goals and assists have come as a WB, and (imo) his best games. He gets on the ball more, influences the game more. He gets disconnected at 10 imo, as he did in the final.

Since he came back from iinijury prior to the final started or came on at WB in multiple matches.

Amad has also shown ability to go the outsied from the WB position, and tbf the inside run of the WB is a key weapon of an Amorim side.

And, if Amad is not the WB of choice now, we need to sign one because we need to WB to be a proper offensive threat - the WB in the system can't be a fullback (imo) cause the attacking threat of the side is then too low.

But it does need to be proven that is what Amorim wants to do - its what he did at Sporting, but Sporting is not United. Even when Amad was fit prior to the injury we saw Mazraoui a lot at RWB. It can be argued that is because the options in midfield and attaack dictated Bruno at 8 and Amad 10, but its speculation maybe based hope!

Instructions : Go out and score....Sounds good to me!

Chelsea not taking up the option on Sancho, will pay 5m to united.

That’s probably in and around what the likes of Salah are on. If Saudi keep this up they’ll be hard to stop as ultimately they’ll try and gain access to the Champions League as well for 4 of their teams.

I enjoy watching Brentford, Flekken has spilled the ball a few times and got lucky he recovered.