Summer 2018 Deadline Day

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Aug 10, 2018 11:23:38 GMT tsaba said:

Aug 10, 2018 8:53:00 GMT Tatty said:

Yes. Because that's exactly what he's done in England, Spain and the European Cup for the last 7 years. FFS!

Please stop being a mong of a WUM.

Toby??? you serious? for 7 years? In which European cup did he build a solid defense against top clubs? can you give me an example of 5 such matches?
A bench player at Atletico and Spurs? A sub to Davinson Sanches? 

There was no time in history Toby Alderweireld was in the top 25 defenders in the world and it will never be such time. 

Moaning about not signing Toby is very strange, he is an average defender by any measure. and he is getting OLD

Oh dear 🙄

[Deleted]

Alderweireld average?

Not sure how to resct to that so I'll settle with this...

[Deleted]

Fair play to Villareal, it's different

[RAZ]

Aug 10, 2018 12:02:25 GMT Paul said:

Fair play to Villareal, it's different

is he stroking that thing?😆

[Rustin Cohle]

www.football365.com/news/the-2018-premier-league-transfer-window-the-losers

Manchester United

Jose Mourinho may be annoying, but it doesn’t make him wrong. Not always, anyway.

Signing a player called Fred the Red is very correct even if he turns out to be bobbins, which he probably won’t. But United are playing a serious game of catch-up and have failed to back their manager.

There are plenty of possible reasons for this, none of them good. The first – and the speed with which the apparent Ed Woodward post-window briefings made it to press suggests this is the one – is that the United board don’t particularly trust Mourinho. It’s understandable. This is his third season and he is being very grumpy.

Seasoned Mourinho watchers – and, bless us, that’s all of us now whether we like it or not – will be sensing a pattern repeating. Even if it’s not naked mistrust of Mourinho’s long-term commitment, there is clearly a disconnect between the board and the boss. At its simplest is the fact that Mourinho (and the players, and the fans) want to win titles while the board want to make money. United have reached a point of such financial might that on-field performance is now all but irrelevant.

However, the board’s financial concerns can marry with on-field concerns. They are clearly far more reluctant to cast out relatively young players – Anthony Martial being the most striking example – on Mourinho’s whims when the next manager may be able to get the best from him. And the fact that two of the centre-backs Mourinho currently deems unsuitable were signed by him might be an argument against the strength of his own position but again doesn’t necessarily mean that his assessment right now is awry.

And it’s disingenuous to suggest that Mourinho’s wish-list was unreasonable for a club of United’s vast wealth. Toby Alderweireld has been one of the best, if not the best, Premier League centre-backs of the last four years. He was available, albeit at a hefty price befitting that status, and is 29. Alderweireld may not have had much sell-on value for the balance sheet, but nor is he over the hill. Injuries are a concern, but it’s not outlandish to think that in the position he plays Alderweireld’s best years could be ahead of him.

Manchester United had the means to get him, or any other centre-back to improve on their current flawed options. What they lacked was the will.

[alt]

Could we still sign someone on loan?

[Karma]

Aug 10, 2018 13:07:38 GMT alt said:

Could we still sign someone on loan?

Only transfers out I think now?

[Stew]

Aug 10, 2018 13:07:38 GMT alt said:

Could we still sign someone on loan?

Nope.

Which makes the decision to loan both TFM and Axel quite bizarre, considering how brittle our CBs are.

[Karma]

Aug 10, 2018 13:44:19 GMT Stew said:

Aug 10, 2018 13:07:38 GMT alt said:

Could we still sign someone on loan?

Nope.

Which makes the decision to loan both TFM and Axel quite bizarre, considering how brittle our CBs are.

Brings in ££££ though.

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Aug 10, 2018 12:02:25 GMT Paul said:

Fair play to Villareal, it's different

Fucking hell that's some real Spinal Tap shit.

[Tatty]

Can we bring in unattached Freebies? Yaya, for example?

[Stew]

Aug 10, 2018 14:55:52 GMT Tatty said:

Can we bring in unattached Freebies? Yaya, for example?

That’s actually a good question. I’d imagine that we can.

[Stew]

Going to lock this shitshow up once the real stuff begins tonight.

[unitedsotex]

Aug 10, 2018 12:45:30 GMT RAZ said:

Aug 10, 2018 12:02:25 GMT Paul said:

Fair play to Villareal, it's different

is he stroking that thing?😆

Thought the exact same thing.... He is jerking that tube off and out pops Santi!



I'm ok with falling out of the big spenders list.... We shouldn't have to spend huge money every season. Fuck that race right in the ear!

We really needed a defender that doesn't come with his own person encapsulation suit, so he doesn't break when the wind blows in Stoke. Selling these brittle ass defenders would have been my first act of business. Keep Rojo, because he can play Central and on the Left. If we had bought a Varene type defender and spent 70mil+ I would have been ok.... I preferred Tody because he is Premier League tested, but overpaying every season has got to stop. Fergie didn't play that game and look where it got us while he was here. He is gone, but the culture of this club shouldn't change.

PS... Fuck off to whoever said he is average and getting old! You Wum....

[Stew]

Right lads. This one is in the books. There is a transfer thread for the European stuff in general football.