Manchester United Thread 25/26 - Teamtalk/Transfers/Gossip Mod Note in OP 12.02.26

Yeah that's still nonsense as far as i'm concerned though.

Think every player should have competition for places, Lammens hasn't got it because of the other 2 lemons (sry) on the books.

Vitek is doing well which is obviously good to see. GK position is a hard one to get right so maybe a but of competition next season will be good. With European football next season (hopefully) there should be enough games with competition and game time to give.

How long is left on Onanas and Byandir contracts?

I actually don't think Bruno's interview is that bad.

Of course it's logical that if you get an offer of £100m for a player in his 30s, any club has a duty to seriously consider it.

But these players all have huge egos, so I'd imagine it hurt Bruno to even imagine that the club would sell him.

It's good that he prefers to stay at United and fight than to take the big bucks and semi-retire in Saudi.

Fuller piece in Guardian on bruno comments

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/dec/16/bruno-fernandes-hits-out-at-manchester-united-directors

Andy would have been written off by half the posters on here as a busted flush in his first year.

He was signed by Newcastle from league 2 Bristol City in 91/92 at the time.

2 years at Newcastle and came to Utd, absolutely smashed the Premier League at both clubs.

The story of himself and Keegan is brilliant.

Cole should of been picked way more for the his national squad.

So underrated by their own imo.

The good, The bad, The football isn't bad. Love Butt in it, hes very good and far and away from other utd players in the scene now that used to play in that era.

Has hadsome good players come in for a chat.

Yet he got the majority of the blame for us not winning the league!

Yeah also remmeber the stick Cole got. He got bettered said he needed ten chances to score and all sorts of crap.

I always felt Cole played better without cantona in the team at the time. When he came into the team, first he played beside Hughes and then when cantona retired

He missed 2 sitters against West ham on the final day that cost us the league.

Yoro has only just turned 20. His development curve is fine for a CB.

Ruben Dias was 23 when he signed for City.

Van Dijk was 26 when he signed for Liverpool.

Varane only became a regular at Real Madrid at 22 (they signed him when he was 18).

Ferdinand was 23 when Utd signed him.

The list goes on really. Very few CBs perform consistently at the highest level at age 20! I honestly don't know where the expectations of Yoro are coming from tbh.

There’s no suggestion he won’t someday be good enough, and as you point out, it could be several years away. It doesn’t help us compete right now that he might be good enough in 3-6 years. I said earlier I think he could probably do with a loan. CB at United is a tough place for a 20 year old to learn the ropes under such pressure.

I disagree that his development has been fine though. Still loads and loads of time for him but he has arguably regressed since he joined, not improved.

Think Amorim has said himself. He’s too in his own head. When (if??) all our CBs are ever fully fit I expect he will be 5th choice after De Ligt, Maguire, Shaw and Martinez. Maybe Maz too.

Perhaps that’s not a bad thing to manage his exposure but I’d have thought a regular start at a smaller club would be better for his development.

It is extremely rare for any 20 year old at CB to be the finished article and I’m sure he wasn’t bought to play every game.

We are not always going to buy 25/26 year old premiership proven players so any new players especially very young ones from other leagues have to be allowed scope to gain confidence and experience to express themselves.

My only issue with Yoro is the fact that £52M was splashed out on him to be a long term project when other signings were needed more. Berrada's pursuit of Yoro stank of Woodward vibes.

He's young he'll come good but Mazraoui is keeping him out of the team who was signed as a £15M squad player to cover Dalot. So unfortunately he's going to cop a lot of flak when a ton of money was spent on him and bigged up as a generational talent while the defence is leaking goals and could do with two first choice CBs being signed.

Nah, the Woodward style signings were the likes of Sánchez, Di Maria, Falcao etc. Would never have classed Yoro as a Woodward type of signing tbh. Yoro cost a chunk but he has plenty of time on his side to come good.