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

Norgaard is a cracking player. Wouldn't mind if we had someone like him being an option for us in midfield. Damsgaard is another one of their midfielders that's very good.

They are selling their best player so will want the best offer, their manager also left during this period and I very much doubt Arteta woke up this morning and chose this lad. Obviously they’ve worked on it in the background for weeks and the deal is €11m not the €60+ for Mbeumo that Brentford want. United get abuse with both ends of the stick I think, we bid to high then we are getting rinsed, we take our time with a deal then its dithering.

I would say Ruben and his staff know that they need to have a better season and they can push for whoever they want it’s not up them to decide prices etc so they like us have to wait and see when the deal is agreed

they deserve the criticism. its the same **** every summer. like, there's a happy medium between dithering and paying whatever straight up. i dont think we are in that happy medium.

re mbeumo, of course its more complicated than norgaard. it'll depend on the structure of the deal and when he's signed how i feel about it (not the player).

ruben needs more than a better season. while i might make a small allowance if the signings take ages, if this season doesn't show drastic improvement i'll prob want him sacked.

context of course….if we dont get a proper striker, create a **** ton of chances but cant score then i'll direct that towards the brains trust.

What recent defensive signings would you consider crap in comparison to Lindelof? I think he's been a pretty poor signing overall and very much out stayed his welcome at the club (not his fault of course). Not doubting he's been a good professional but he's never been good enough.

Mazraoui was 26 when he was signed though and Norgaard is 31. Probably the wrong age profile for United right now in midfield considering Casemiro is still there too. And Bruno is also 30.

I agree that Maguire has been a very poor signing as well in terms of value for money. Crazy sum of money for him (still the most expensive defender of all time I think which is nuts).

But in saying all that he's still been a better player than Lindelof for United. And also been a very good professional by all accounts too. Just don't think Lindelof has ever offered United a whole lot.

Lindelof is a leader, one of the most vocal players we have when on the pitch. Physically not up to it in the league and at top level but his vocal ability and organisation of the back line at times was very good.

Suffered a lot playing next to Maguire, who fair play has had a bit of a renaissance and shown real character (that I didn't think he had) but at times Lindelof really suffered carrying his water.

Other than that his body, back specifically was always letting him down. He asked to leave on at least one occasion to go play football and couldn't get out due to lack of cover I believe. Wish him well wherever he goes

Must admit, as much as I'm trying to be patient I'm getting a bit fed up with the Mbeumo saga. I don't doubt that it'll happen but when it seems like we're going to pay £65m including extras which is exactly what Brentford were seemingly demanding at the start, what exactly was all the faffing about for?

I'd be happy to spend weeks haggling if it saved us some decent money. But it seems like the negotiations consisted of us offering £50m, them saying £65m and then us creeping up £500k a day until we ended up on exactly what they asked for in the first place.

I think it's more than a little naive to believe that. A rival manager congratulating us on the signing... These top managers are egotistical and extremely competitive, they're not going to congratulate a rival for signing a player they wanted… I wonder if he managed to keep a straight face while saying that.

I'm fairly sure City have encouraged us to pull our pants down on more than one transfer just by feigning some interest.

Unfortunately when it boils down to it I never had any faith that Lindelof wanted to win badly enough. A true journeyman who forgot to journey on somewhere else.

Have a day off lads regarding Lindelof 😂 a terrible CB for United, good riddance to him.

100% always has this feeling,

waiting till it goes through, cos until he signs on the dotted line there is always a chance his (short term) greed will get the better of him.

100% He was so easily bullied in the air, could never handle the physical side of it and its amazing he lasted so long