Manchester United Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread - Read Mod Warning in OP 7/1/15

I do agree that when we play with 4 the back there's a massive lack of balance in the squad. Do people not remember Leicester?

Rumour is Adidas wants Messi out of Barcelona, after studies show most fans associate him with Nike rather than Adidas. Adidas pay him €18 million a year so that is not good.
Rumours is Adidas would incentivise the club who bought him, whether that be United, Chelsea or Bayern Munich.

With big money being involved, I wonder if Adidas would want to keep sponsoring Messi if he stays at the Nou Camp and for most people to associate him with the Nike logo.

United went Spanish speaking and we seem to be linked with Argentinians all the time now.
Messi has been involved in either goal scoring or assisting in over half of all of the goals Barcelona scored this season.

Most outrageous prediction for me this year for United: United sign Messi with a huge fanfare by Adidas of how they are the brand who sponsor Messi, they are the brand who have the biggest sponsorship deal in the world with Manchester United and how these combined to bring (in the supposed words of Adidas) all this together to bring Messi to United.

We all suspect Adidas will want the sponsorship of United to be making headlines to justify their three quarters of a billion sterling sponsorship.

RobertKK wrote: »

Rumour is Adidas wants Messi out of Barcelona, after studies show most fans associate him with Nike rather than Adidas. Adidas pay him €18 million a year so that is not good.
Rumours is Adidas would incentivise the club who bought him, whether that be United, Chelsea or Bayern Munich.

With big money being involved, I wonder if Adidas would want to keep sponsoring Messi if he stays at the Nou Camp and for most people to associate him with the Nike logo.

United went Spanish speaking and we seem to be linked with Argentinians all the time now.
Messi has been involved in either goal scoring or assisting in over half of all of the goals Barcelona scored this season.

Most outrageous predicition for me this year for United: United sign Messi with a huge fanfare by Adidas of how they are the brand who sponsor Messi, they are the brand who have the biggest sponsorship deal in the world with Manchester United and how these combined to bring (in the supposed words of Adidas) all this together to bring Messi to United.

We all suspect Adidas will want the sponsorship of United to be making headlines to justify their three quarters of a billion sterling sponsorship.

My concern is that I can imagine a future were Messi signs for United for a record breaking fee, whipping every single fan and pundit up into a frenzy for the entire summer until we're sick of hearing about it... and then completely flops.

RobertKK wrote: »

Rumour is Adidas wants Messi out of Barcelona, after studies show most fans associate him with Nike rather than Adidas. Adidas pay him €18 million a year so that is not good.
Rumours is Adidas would incentivise the club who bought him, whether that be United, Chelsea or Bayern Munich.

With big money being involved, I wonder if Adidas would want to keep sponsoring Messi if he stays at the Nou Camp and for most people to associate him with the Nike logo.

United went Spanish speaking and we seem to be linked with Argentinians all the time now.
Messi has been involved in either goal scoring or assisting in over half of all of the goals Barcelona scored this season.

Most outrageous prediction for me this year for United: United sign Messi with a huge fanfare by Adidas of how they are the brand who sponsor Messi, they are the brand who have the biggest sponsorship deal in the world with Manchester United and how these combined to bring (in the supposed words of Adidas) all this together to bring Messi to United.

We all suspect Adidas will want the sponsorship of United to be making headlines to justify their three quarters of a billion sterling sponsorship.

Sorry that just all sounds like bullshít lifted from the Sports bible or Bleacher Report.

thelad95 wrote: »

Sorry that just all sounds like bullshít lifted from the Sports bible or Bleacher Report.

It was from AS in Spain, but they have him going to Bayern Munich.

If I had to put real money on this myself, I would take the safe option and place my money he stays, if I had the use of someone else's money I would say he leaves

zerks wrote: »

Will Valdes get a game Friday night?

I wonder if we'll also see the dreaded 3-5-2 as we try to nullify Cambridge:rolleyes:
Now he has everybody fit,there's no reason why we can't play 4-3-3,LVG says it's his preferred formation so there's no excuse to not employ it.

It would be no harm to give him a game, hopefully lessons learned on Saturday...

Gowlasauras Rex wrote: »

That's some insane tin foil hattery Robert.
So crazy it might just work.

It just sounds like one of those stupid sport bible articles though.

No its a stupid AS article, I just replaced Bayern with United as I preferred my made up piece :pac:

RobertKK wrote: »

They might be ready to offload for a mountain of cash after the presidential elections.

They might be getting fed up of each other and Barcelona are no longer delivering Ballon dors to Messi...

One of the main points for the Presidential candidates for Barca is keeping Messi. The front runners will be and are promising how they will keep Messi at the club.

Smacks of Ronaldo coming back, and how all these theories started surfacing of how it will be financed etc.

And as outragous as this would sound, I think we could do better for the squad putting "Messi Money" into the actual team, rather then signing Messi.

for the money you'd pay for Messi you could get the likes of Reus, Muller, Gotze, Hummels and Robben. Just some names of the top of my head.

**** this, I'm not even going to subscribe to this debate, these MEssi stories are outragous

Arsenal and Liverpool are circling around Falcao according to some papers.

We'd be nuts to let a player of his calibre go after we have gotten him in the door.

Make him a centre piece attacker and give him a bloody long run in a team playing a normal formations ffs. They guy will deliver and then some in that scenario.

I'll lose my sh1t if he leaves to another EPL team after one season of mis-use in a fcuk1ng 5-3-2!

from what I saw, Falcao was excellent at the weekend. Should've had at least a hat-trick, but I don't think any of your other strikers would've made the runs that he did.

i'd love if he didn't stay on with United.

SlickRic wrote: »

from what I saw, Falcao was excellent at the weekend. Should've had at least a hat-trick, but I don't think any of your other strikers would've made the runs that he did.

i'd love if he didn't stay on with United.

Seemingly the club are going to go back and revisit the deal that is in place, from early in the season. Everything was done and dusted, with United having the option to enact the deal end of loan.

Obviously with injury, form and return, it's wise that the club revist the original deal, which at present doesn't look to be much value.

Your Airbag wrote: »

Arsenal and Liverpool are circling around Falcao according to some papers.

We'd be nuts to let a player of his calibre go after we have gotten him in the door.

Make him a centre piece attacker and give him a bloody long run in a team playing a normal formations ffs. They guy will deliver and then some in that scenario.

I'll lose my sh1t if he leaves to another EPL team after one season of mis-use in a fcuk1ng 5-3-2!

While I agree that it is too early to cast him aside I don't think it's fair to say that the only reason he hasn't shown his qualities is because of Van Gaal's system. He has had about ten clear cut (some verging on easy) chances that he has failed to put away so far in his Utd career which have had absolutely nothing to do with any systems. Plain and simple poor finishing. He needs to sharpen up his finishing. He's had a decent run lately and on Saturday he was still missing git edged chances.