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

There's only one Bruno….. or maybe two:

https://www.reuters.com/sports/soccer/man-united-move-guimaraes-real-madrid-interest-clouds-talks-2026-03-19/

Guimaraes & Camavinga ( supposidely looking to leave RM) would solve our middle of the park issues

Only played 1098 minutes in the league last season, or roughly 12 full games out of 38.
He's surpassed that with 1142 so far this season to be fair.

For the 24/25 season, 2 hamstring injuries keeping him out for close to 100 days
A seperate knee injury keeping him out for 45 days

So far this season

So that's the hamstring, knee and ankle all keeping him out for good periods over the last 2 seasons

Not the kind of player we need to bring in

I'm not sure if it is still the case now but I know a couple of years ago the YouTube algorithm changed to "favor" videos over 10 minutes long. It would push them over shorter videos into people's feed.

More views. More money.

A lot of content creators at the time made jokes about having to drag their videos out over the 10 min mark. Seems to be what is going on here. Howson loves to waffle anyway so it's no work to him. He'd stay on for another hour talking.

Well done big Ben

I do think our top priority CM is going to be very well known, and likely a pl player. We can't afford to miss with that signing. Even a second CM signing kinda needs to be a lock too.

But if we are looking at a 3rd cm signing? I would expect them to show some more nous from the scouts tbh.

I would have concerns over his age, cause he ain't gonna be less than 70m imo.

But I also think there is a good argument for signing an older, experience CM, especially a leader when come summer our starting point in midfield is going to be Mainoo and Ugarte. We cant just add a bunch of younger players in, imo. Similar to how I think Cunha and Mbeumo were signed as 'now' experienced players cause we had to replace the players that should have been in that bracket (Rashford, Antony, Sancho)

I'm not so sure. His contract expires in 2 years, and his last extension was 3 years ago. Newcastle need to be talking to him now and they won't want a repeat of the Isak messing around. If he quietly says he wants to move on, then perhaps they decide its best to be professional and come to a solid agreement with United. He will still command a big fee, but it doesn't necessarily have to be a stupid fee.

But thats the skill of negotiation I guess, lets hope that United have gotten better at it.

The problem is that Newcastle seem to see Utd as some sort of rival.
I can't see them doing a reasonable deal with us say in the same way they might do with City or Pool.

I'd be very impressed if our guys managed to negotiate a deal with them for 50/60m but I wouldn't hold out much hope and I certainly would not want much time spent on it to the detriment of other deals.

What is it?

That Sander Berge guy we were linked with previously but ended up at Fulham, looked right good against us recently. Might not be a bad shout, he seemed to have good presence in the middle of the pitch. Very tall too for the set piece element we will lose with Casemiro going.

Fernandez would be the one I would push for. Think he is going to be a star.

Tonali is a cracking player but you would have to have doubts about his personality….could turn out as a disaster waiting to happen.

I wouldn't bother dealing with Newcastle. Like Isak and Liverpool they would take us to the cleaners. In relation to De Ligt, he was very injury prone at Bayern too. We definitely need another CB in the Summer because Martinez can go the same way.