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

wait till ye see mctominay goal there now 🤣🤣

Just so happy for the guy. We were in naples few weeks ago for a few days and the amount of pictures and life size cut outs and scarfs of him over there is crazy. Great to see he deserves it.

He hasn't been great for the youths anytime I've watched him. The spin is that they're developing his overall all round play.

with the recent speculation on Semenyo, it will be really interesting to see if we make a push for anything in january. Talk he is available for 65m in January, maybe 50m in the summer. Talk we are also looking at Gomes at Wolves.

If we are in with a shout of CL football come January, I have to think Amorim will be pushing for us to be very ambitious. He will only have 12 months on his deal at the end of the season, so imo the reality is that he has to prove himself over the next 7 months or there will be some very difficult quesitons for the club to ask and answer at the end of the season.

If we would look to sign Semenyo on the summer, spending the extra 15million in january (if we can convince him to join) could very plausibly be the nudge we need for CL football and everything tht comes with that - and earn Amorim a new contract.

Gomes I would be less sure on, as I don't know if he is good enough to be first choice going forward and while i could argue for 3 CM signings being needed before next season I would be surprised if we did sign 3 CMs, especially not two better (and a lot more expensive) than Gomes.

14 goals I think in the calendar year for a wide player for Bournemouth is pretty good going in fairness. As a LWB though I don't know.

I 100% think we want to and will get in two midfielders before the start of next season. I don't think buying Semenyo should or will impact that plan. Because we also need a LWB/more attacking threats and Semenyo offers all of that.

I don't think we can get any of Anderson, Wharton or Baleba in January (but I do think we should bid for them). The speculation is ideally we want two of that three but I can't imagine that so I do think if we assume one of those as the first choice signing and the other signing we make in CM is a cheaper, better, squad player/rotation then I think we should be looking to buy that player in January. Gomes, for example, linked. I think he would be a better player for us to bring on or bring in than Ugarte, even if he isn't the guy we want to be first choice beside Bruno next season instead of Casemiro.

I think Semenyo is one of those rare market opportunities that we shouldn't pass up. We do lack wide players since selling moving on 3 wingers in the summer. Not only can he play the WB role on either side but could also be deployed in the 2 no10 spots. He's clearly a player Amorim rates having met him during the summer.

I'm fully in the camp of needing a CM but do believe if there is money there in January United could look at Gomes as the cheaper CM target who would add athleticism to our midfield or someone like Gallagher would be available on loan.

By summer time Bruno and Casemeiro could be on the way out so arguably 3 CMs would be required at that stage which wouldn't rule out going for 2 of baleba/Anderson/Stiller/Wharton. If we make Europe there's plenty of room for rotation with increased fixtures

It can be triggered at any point up to the contract expiring.
Mainoo's current deal runs to 27, with a +1 so we can extend it to '28.

I certainly wouldn't trigger the extention on Casemiro's deal, but if Mainoo is getting sold and if we do/try to sell Ugarte - i would not be against Casemiro staying on vastly reduced terms - even if we signed Baleba and Wharton for eg, that would still mean we only have those two and Bruno/Casemiro if he stays - plus maybe Kone as a limited minutes player?

Would agree on Gallagher, he's not what we need, even if the loan terms were favourable.

Shaw has been very good this year surprised he didn't get a call up to the england squad at any stage to even be looked at, think tunchel has a little hate for united, hasn't looked at Harry either and started the whole shite with mainoo too, also mount could have been looked at possibly but they are fairly stacked where he would play