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

To be fair I think for any incoming player we're all trying to cling on to any sort of positive performance from them. There isn't a poster here who's been 100% against any player from day one. We'll all praise a good performance in the hope it'll translate into a season. Hindsight is a great thing.

I'd be hopeful that the current transfer do far more due diligence on incoming players this time around

More a statement of giving d!ckheads with an attitude problem inflated wages.

Antony may have been stone useless, but I never felt the lad never tried or never wanted to do well the team. Had we bought him for 30m and little pressure for that price-tag, he might have done better for United. Once he wasn't banging in the goals from the off he was a goner, and confidence and form rapidly disappeared. At Betis though, the pressure is off and he's shown there's a bit of a player there, not at 100m player, but a handy player. And to be a handy player, you have to have a good attitude and work ethic. A disaster for United, but I don't think you could doubt his work ethic, the club was just too big for him to handle, especially at that level of scrutiny.

Contrast that with the attitude of Pogba, Rashford, Sancho, Lingard. All more talented, all shocking attitude.

Rashford the best of the three, but has been very average bar most of one season. Not sure where the ego has come form, he's not really done anything to deserve that sense of self importance.

Pogba you could get the arrogance of, World Cup winner, Serie A winner. Clearly had the talent and physical attributes to build a winning team around, unfortunately had the type of attitude that would struggle to build a Lego set around him.

Sancho. Without a shadow of a doubt, the worst signing United has ever had. You can only hope some desperate Saudi club comes in with an offer, being the money-seeking waste he is, Sancho would go and we'd be rid of him.

Lingard at least we got rid of.

The changing of managers not being up to the job is a problem, but the likes of them being there and not able to shift them is bigger.

Mod Edit: Warning issued

The only way a 2 man midfield would work is if one of them was prime Arturo Vidal/N'Golo Kante/Micheal Essien and basically had the work-rate and stamina of two men trapped in one body otherwise not a hope in hell it works.

looks like darwin might be off to napoli. that prob rules them out of going for any of our lads (unless maybe they sell rom?).

Vidal was with Pogba at Juve and they didn't have a 2 man midfield. Also all the creative burden was not placed on him from midfield either.

Pogba needed to be indulged and protected to shine - which is fine, some players need that.
We never had any intentions of doing that fully to the level needed, so I'm not sure why we thought it would work

I'm also not sure if the juice is worth the squeeze with Pogba due to other factors.
I'm not convinced at all you'd ever get a full 30+ PL games a season where he was at that level that could drag a team to something, no matter what conditions you put him in.

You'd get great performances out of him here and there. But not someone you can count on week in, week out, unfortunately.

Not because of his talent, just mentally. It's a long season to stay at that level.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. When we were signing Sancho, he looked like a great talent.

Yeah it all affects out ability to sell but as I said previously, we're going to just have to take the hit. If someone offered £40m for Garnacho now I'd take it. Would accept £25m for Rashford and half that for Sancho.

The downside of any of the 3 remaining is way more damaging than the loss of value by selling cheap.

They absolutely must go.

new mbeumo bid apparently. if true, the offer should be accepted tomorrow (else why spend the last 3 weeks negotiating?)

Never getting £100m from those 2 in the current circumstances.

Following on from the earlier Nkunku post....

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2025/06/23/chelsea-man-utd-nkunku-garnacho-transfer-news-maresca-deal/

Sounds like PSR trickery if true.

Jonny Evans to rejoin the club behind the scenes. He'll look after youth loans, helping place players at clubs, and offering them support through the process.

romano reporting mount is staying, despite reports recently he might leave.

Mason Mount, not planning to leave Man United despite reports in recent hours.

He’s focusing on staying fit, do pre-season work at his best and stay to work full season with Rúben Amorim.

he is also reporting on garna-nkunku swap. i'd be disgusted if we do that deal. garna needs to go, fine. but not for nkunku.

Chelsea and Man Utd discussed Nkunku-Garnacho last December, all parties informed but no club to club talks now yet.