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

Stats wise Amad was way better at RWB than R10 last year.

How many games did he play at RWB ?

Last season..

It's pretty obsessive given the % of posts in this thread about it over the last few weeks.

Obviously it's preferable to do business early, as I said in the post you quoted - maybe you missed that.

Another thing you're missing, or failing to understand, is that the club are close to the line on financial regulations due to years of mismanagement and are in the process of attempting to offload 4 senior players. Those two facts combined make transfer planning in advance extremely complex.

You know, that kind of thing 😀

I think Cunha and Bryan will be the headline signings and in that sense, we have done an awful lot of the business early.

It will be a small squad, there are young players to be promoted and getting rid of the players deemed to be a bad influence once and for all will improve the squad. Amorim not having to field questions about the carry on of Garnacho or Rashford and to just have a group of players all pointing in the one direction just has to be better.

If you think we'll sign 4 or 5 more players, you will be disappointed.

I probably did miss it in your post, didn't actually read it all.

Don't fail to understand anything about where the club is at from a financial perspective or why, or indeed how we have "levers" to use to help with that if needed.

My reply was to deal with some benefits or demonstrable positives to getting business done early.

We do this every year, it's very cyclical.

We need to hit the ground in the transfer market -> we still have lots of time don't panic -> pre season doesn't start for X more weeks don't worry -> look we aren't exactly far behind most other clubs in terms of business -> okay the first game is next week, not ideal but still time -> okay it's not been great that things have dragged on but the window doesn't close for another week

Rinse and repeat. You can definitely get good work done late, you can definitely encounter issues with your plan A, B and C. Doesn't take away from any of the self evident positives of managing to execute early business in terms of squad planning.

Will hopefully help get the Mbeumo deal over the line and maybe one other signing because as @JRant said I can see the unwanted players hanging around the club until late in the transfer window.

Chelsea didn't pay money to avoid signing Sancho. Chelsea wanted to sign him but couldn't agree on wages. They didn't pay us a loan fee to take him last summer so the £5M you could say was like a loan fee paid at the end of the loan rather than the beginning.

Our 3 most expensive outgoings last season (McTominay, Wan Bissaka, Greenwood) made us €73million and each of them went on to be stars at each of their clubs (McTominay and Wan Bissaka were their respective players of the season) while we had the worst season in 30+ years.

While players are hardly tearing up trees at United, we don't do a good enough job getting the best money for departing players.

Don't think it works like that. The clause will operate based on his value rather than the difference between the 2 players. Could be wrong, but that's what I read.

Link?

Well it had previously been stated that Mbeumo was due back to training with Brentford on Monday past, as he wasn't involved in the June internationals for Cameroon.

It appears though that he's been told not to come back til next week. No reason given but presumably it's due to the ongoing transfer talk.

Even aside from transfers in and out, the players should surely be getting more accustomed to Amorim's system. I would expect an organic improvement, even with the same players.

It will be a very interesting start to the season.

Last season we "wrote off" the league so could persevere with off-form players.

Reportedly that goof Rashford turned up to Carrington yesterday despite being told he wasn't needed. He trained alone.

If true, it's good that he's not being involved with the team but it can't make for a good atmosphere either.

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