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

di maria and rom i presume.

i dont think we get 60m euro, never mind pounds. prob 45m euro i think is the best we can do for him.

Good shouts. Quick Google says

Lukaku went for 74m. ( That's way higher than I thought)

Di-Maria was 44m pounds. About right for the time there and what was going on.

The club have said they want 60m for Garna so I'd guess a deal like 50 plus add ons.

(All in pounds btw)

Find it weird seeing Ronaldo lumped in with the others. I know he is deeply unliked nowadays but the others will be likely finished at a decent level before they are 30 due to píss poor attitudes, lack of professionalism and little desire to push themselves to the next level.

I don't see how that can be said of Ronaldo who is 40 and can probably still outperform those young bucks you lumped him in with.

Maybe I was a touch harsh including him alongside those lads. It was mainly because when he was signed again it was another big ego we had to appease. You can’t question Ronaldo’s professionalism and drive but you can see how his selfishness and single mindedness could be seen as a detriment to the overall cohesiveness of the team.

He shouldn't have done the interview and deserved to go for that alone.

But Ronaldo wasn't placing the individual before the team, his entire problem was that the standards in the team and the club were sub-standard. And he wasn't wrong.

The narratives around Ronaldo are just so bizarre.

Ronaldo rejoining was never the issue (hence him being the best player by a mile when he rejoined), the issue was that he had standards while the other players did not. This has been confirmed by Phelan and Solskjaer too I believe.

Unfortunately Ten Hag and his ego ruined that on his quest to make United rubbish.

The people blaming Ronaldo are basically just trying to be edgy by saying something which is complete nonsense.

Re-signing him was a massive mistake in football terms. Even Solskjaer admitted it unbalanced the team. He scored a few goals but the team became worse overall. Ragnick recommended that he be ejected from the club half way through his first season back because he was more of a hindrance than a positive addition to the first 11.

We were fine with Cavani and Martial as our CF options! It never made football sense to bring CR7 back at that time.

There’s not a bad player in Raz. You have to remember, when Viktor Gyökeres was Raz’s age, he was coming off poor spells with Brighton & Hove, Swansea, and an average loan stint at Coventry. It wasn’t until his second season there that he really took off.

Players like that aren’t bought, they’re developed.

There’s no reason Raz couldn’t follow a similar path.

The problem is he is regressing year on year rather than developing.

He "earned" two big moves because people believed he had the raw materials and could develop into a top class striker. There is very little actual evidence on the field at United or Atalanta that he can develop into a topclass striker.

It's a big scouting fail and a massive danger of buying potential rather than proven ability. It looks like we came out the other side with Amad, and even though Amad cost a staggering amount for how much senior game time he had, Hojlund cost double.

It was an utterly terrible transfer, the amount they wanted for a guy who had proven next to nothing on the field, United should've walked away instantly.

I agree. He might never make it but completely mismanaged last year and should never have been starting every match as his confidence was completely shattered.

Very unfair on a young player.

I know it gets mentioned here every so often, but my god Ragnick was spot on when he said open heart surgery was needed to get things going in the right direction.

At least it feels like that is finally happening.