Manchester United Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread - Mod Note in OP, 13/8

I have seen some strange comments floating about like, "a week to go and nothing has happened"

For anyone who has missed the summers goings on and is under the impression the club has been totally dormant

* David Moyes has left the club, along with many of his coaching staff
* Louis Van Gaal, a very well respected, experienced manager with an ego to handle the job has been appointed.
* Ryan Giggs has been made assistant manager, to help with LVG understanding the club maybe, no idea why else.
* Older players like Vidic, Rio and Evra have moved on
* Buttner has been sold
* Valencia has signed a new contract
* The hottest young left back talent in England has been signed with the potential to be world class and sort that position for a long time.
* A brilliant central midfielder has been signed and looks to be slotting straight in
* A system is being tried and tested which will theoretically get the best out of Mata, Rooney and RVP (thats a good thing)
* A new kit deal has been signed which is ****ting all over any other clubs sponsorship to the tune of £750m
* Some under performing players like Young have shown they may be useful in the new system.
* The team played some attractive football and stayed unbeaten while winning its pre season tournament against some good teams.
* The manager has said he wanted to look closely at his squad on that tour and will make decisions on who will stay and go quickly now he is back.
* He has openly stated the need for defenders regardless of anything else.

So, as you can see, some stuff has been happening, the club did not just go on one long holiday over the summer. The bullet points are by no means that exclusive goings on of the summer, but they give you enough to see that "something is happening"

Relax, the manager knows what he is doing, he has been around the block a few times with the top teams. He is not David Moyes, he is not possibly in over his head with this, he will get the players in or he will have seen something he likes and wants to place faith in from the younger guys at the club, like Blackett, like Keane for example. That is something he has done in the past at clubs, look at the likes of Muller, Badstuber etc. The fans of Bayern would surely have been demanding bigger names and more experienced players for their team, but the manager decided a course of action and it paid off.

While I would be worried about going into the season with the current squad, for sheer lack of numbers at the back if nothing else I would also be excited to see what Van Gaal can get from the squad. I also dont think we will be going into the season with the current squad, it seems pretty clear there will be a couple of departures and a couple of additions.

Im out of steam and Ray Donovan is calling.

Cypher_sounds wrote: »

Blind and Cuadrado by this time next week I hope.

Blind on
Cuadrado off
Hummels in
Kagawa out
Vidal god only knows