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

I just don't see how we sell any of them. Who is going to come in for them, due to the same reasons we want to sell them?

Martinez i think is out of contract in 27, so we probably don't need much for him to not make a loss, but is selling him simply to not make a loss worth it?
MDL not sure his contract is, but he's missed 3+ months. No one is going to touch him til he can prove his fitness.
Mount… he's on big money AND misses most of the season most of the time.

I think Martinez and MDL create a big problem here as well on this. I think we will struggle to sell them, and if we can't then we have a defensive set of MDL, Martinez, Yoro, Heaven and maybe Maguire? Can we afford to add another 100-150k wage defender when we are paying 5 senior players as is? If they are still here we have to plan on using them, really.

Very messy.
Very difficult to solve.

Easy to say sell and replace, hard to do it practically.

I really hope INEOS don't ignore the defence this summer like they did with midfield last summer. Both midfield and defence need strengthening. We'll be thrown to shreds next season if we're relying on the same defence to get us into knockout territory in Europe and top 4.

Saw a comment on reddit last night, last time OT witnessed a knock out CL goal was Lukaku's consolation against Sevilla in 2018. Thats shocking.

That knockout win over PSG in 2019 the main UCL highlight since Ferguson retired.

We've only made it past the Round of 16 in the UCL twice since Fergie left, and the first time was the year after Fergie retired. Hopefully we can get back to those nights in the near future.

Was about to ask the same question. Id fancy Arsenal to get through but City, Liverpool and Spurs all on the brink of going out. What does that mean for the top 5 and Champions league places

Liverpool will qualify I feel.

I reckon we will still be in the market, but just not for a first choice. I reckon Bayindir goes back to Turkey and I assume we want to get rid of Onana, so we will need a back up. Vitek will get pushed for that, but I think that would be a bad move for both us and him. If he returns here he won't get many games which will stunt his development, and that harms us for a value perspective and him from a playing perspective.

I reckon we will try to sign Sam Johnstone.

Decent keeper, experienced, and would count as a club trained home grown player for us. It just makes so much sense from our side. But he might still want to push for first team football somewhere and may not have an interest in being a back up.

Ye and with Villa, Palace, Forrest all still in European competitions it should be nearly certain that England will get another place due to the coefficient.

UEFA treat all their competitions equally for coefficient points.

We definitely need to sign an experienced keeper. Lammens getting injured has to be the biggest fear in the run in.

Marcos Senesi should be an even bigger no brainier of a transfer this summer. PL proven and a free agent.

Our approach is to spend big a year before the contract expires because nobody else will…

Half joking there of course, but yeah good players available on a free have the pick of a lot of big clubs, and for most good players, Man United is not top of their list.

The summer signings were good players, but there was no big competition really. It’s nice knowing Mbeumo only wanted us, but the alternatives were Spurs and Newcastle. Champions League football next season boosts our attractiveness of course. On the overall though, we won’t have shaken off the unstable, inconsistent perception from the last few years with a CL qualification this season. How we fare next season will be a lot more telling of where we’re at.

My only hope is that there are enough football people at the club to understand that IF they do make it back to CL football, that it takes significant investment to stay in it.