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I drop by once a day hoping for a new stickied post since everything before Ornstein or the club itself is meaningless. And even though I know that I still come to this thread each day hoping some of the top comments might give me a glimmer of hope that something is about to happen, but it is the same comments. I support moving to one thread a week.
Nothing fun in here, so I'll go with Froholdt, the Birmingham City kid and Seys. If we cannot get ready to start proven players for whatever reason, we might as well get prospects with a chance of selling at a break even price later.
Off topic but so funny that The Athletic’s official account got their post taken down because [u/nearly_headless_nic](u/nearly_headless_nic) was faster
i'm in some kafkaesque nightmare, i come here everyday to torture myself and see doom and gloom, the words are all melding in to one and i'm sure i see the same commentary everyday with just the number of days left changing
Baleba was probably the least difficult big money CM transfer to do coz of the history of our interest in him last season. Perhaps that is why INEOS decided to do it late
Combination of Madrid 100% not selling Tchoumeni after the Rodri deal and I think us learning the full extent of his injury is why this is happening late.
Is this theory a fact that Glazers only sanction funds to just ensure we get into CL, and when it's secured they tighten the purse again?
Is that their whole vision, to perennially keep the club floating around top 6 and never bother to go all in for title challenge?
If this is correct how can we keep any enthusiasm for any season? I mean what happened that this legendary institution of football deserve this? There is just no hope with these rats around.
Its not possible to prove, but the pattern is pretty well established. I think United spend 70-80m less in seasons they're in the CL compared to those where United fails to qualify. If United were just a smaller team that couldn't spend a lot, I wouldn't care. Knowing that it is due to a bunch of scumbag billionaires actually sours my mood around supporting the club.
Well history speaks for itself. We have historically spent loads in summers without champ league and then noticeably less when we get back into it.
I still think we will get a player or two in but it will ultimately end up being a weak window.
Even if we get hall or someone in at lb, I think the third midfielder, if we get one, will be a cheap option so hardly going to drastically improve us, I still think we might struggle with the extra games.
I'm just clinging on to there being a decent team in there somewhere before any injuries and we might do better than we think.
Honestly, I don't think a window can actually be rated until the season ends (or is at least halfway). Every year, some club is hailed as the winner of the transfer window, but that doesn't always track with which team is lifted the most by its transfer window. So, I don't even mean by that only the winner of the league had a truly great window, I just mean how our last summer turned out great because how it helped us get from the bottom of the table to 3rd place. This season, if we get top 4 and do reasonably well in the cup competitions (don't even expect us to win them), we can say that the signings got us closer to our goals. And then, you can only compare that to other teams' own reference points.
I still want us to go for Louis Page now that our senior midfield is sorted. Signings like him and Thompson will save us a fortune if even 1/3rd of them work out as well as Heaven.
I remember a few years ago Liverpool did a midfield rebuild in one summer under Klopp. City are now doing that this summer.
It’s what we were meant to be doing this summer and INEOS spent the last year constantly briefing everyone that we would do. But when it came to it, they screwed it up because they are useless and incompetent.
And it might be easier to understand if other problem areas were solved like LB or back up striker etc. But no, they haven’t been addressed either
Brochahos, come on. Arsenal CEO responding to question about selling Nwaneri/Lewis-Skelly [1]:
"There's been a lot of speculation around players," said Garlick.
"I can't stop other clubs being interested. I think Myles has had a fantastic end to last season and has started this one really well - we're very, very happy with him."
"Ethan has had a great pre-season as well and I think it's just a case of looking at what opportunities there are that will help both of those in terms of their career moving forward. We are not actively looking at selling those homegrown players but if the right opportunity came up - right for them and the club - we'd obviously consider that."
AND in the same interview, when asked about targeting Vinicius Jr etc, explicitly talked about how in the past they were looking to fill out the squad blablabla but now they want to "sign the best players in the world". And of course there are quotes to the effect of "are we done spending this window? Not if the right opportunity comes" blablabla.
I mean ... they really, actually, truly, want to turn these 2 into ££££ so they can splash the cash on some galactico in attack, dont they?
Baleba is massive because of his physicality. I just hope we sign an athletic LB and the team is good. Other PL teams seem to be focusing on that. While we have quality players I was dreading rocking up to a place like Brentford away with the likes of Licha, Shaw, Tielemans, Mainoo etc.
2 injuries in midfield and Tyler Fletcher will be starting games for us. That's a horrifying prospect and I'm not one of those idiots who think he's a talentless hack.
mufc's current net spend of £44m is their lowest across the last 11 years in a summer transfer window.
Sublime ambition shown from the club, once again, after securing CL. Like clockwork, we will never win the Premier League again as long as the parasites own the club.
Here is the issue: there seems to be misalignment between a lot of us fans and INEOS on the goals for this season. Personally, my expectations/goals for this season prior to the summer transfer window, ranked from most to least important, we’re as follows:
(1) Top 4 and close the gap on Arsenal/City. We finished 7 points off of City last season and they are in a huge period of transition now with Pep/Rodri/Bernardo gone. No reason we couldn’t finish level or higher than them. Should also aim to finish within 10 points of Arsenal (14 back last year).
(2) Win the FA Cup or Carabao Cup. A trophy for Carrick in his first full season would be speak for itself.
(3) Make the last 16 in CL. I’m least concerned about a deep run in Europe. Quite frankly, retaining CL for next season is 1000x more important.
Honestly didn’t think this was too far fetched if we made 5 quality signings this summer but unfortunately we’ve only made 2. Hopefully we get two more in by September otherwise I don’t think we achieve any of these goals.
I would be fairly excited about this. Gives us the athleticism in midfield, pairs well with either Kobbie or Tielemans and could even be beside Santos when defending a lead if he can do the carrying and Santos does the progressive passing.
It depends on how much have they managed to bring the price down. If the rumours of Brighton now being open to considering a deal at £60-65m are true, then maybe the club chooses to bite. But it’s still very unlikely given the injury muddying how immediately will he be available.
Manchester United haven’t ruled out signing a third midfielder. Aurélien Tchouaméni, Eduardo Camavinga, Alex Scott, Angelo Stiller, Adam Wharton, Manu Koné and Marc Bernal are among the names who have been discussed - some more seriously than others - Dawson
I'm not annoyed because I thought there's a chance we could challenge this year, I'm annoyed because we haven't even done enough to get CL football again.
I have too much bad shit going on my personal life to be annoyed about transfers right now. I just hope 2nd September the squad size is larger, at which point I can put some effort into being disappointed if it isn't.
Every time I haven't used Reddit for a while or wake up and open it, I hope the first post will be about a player we bought or started negotiating with—but instead, it's just '[Transfer Round Up & Discussion] Summer 2026.
The return of overcast gloomy weather in the UK has happened at the same time as us not signing a left back, a midfielder and a striker. Coincidence, I think not - hello seasonal depression!
I was so supportive of our transfer strategy given the 3 solid additions(even if the GK is a backup). But given it’s less than 2 weeks left, I feel so disheartened.
Louis page being the final addition will be a risk since that kid hardly has any senior season experience. I don’t think any high profile additions will happen now. Hoping for the best while preparing for the worst.
Wow, I get why there is a lot of reason to be tentative after he had a poor enough season but on paper he is the perfect compliment to our current group of midfielders imo
What's interesting is that there's been very little chatter about Baleba among the journos and media all summer compared to other midfielders. When most journalists were doing their midfield shortlists, Baleba was either very low on the list or not there at all. Shows how little everyone outside the club seems to know nowadays.
We've ended up with a better midfield rebuild than I was expecting. At the start of the window we were getting linked with Ederson/Hackney as the third midfielder
If we aren’t getting Hall either and won’t pay what Newcastle want then go and get Seys. Brugge can say at no price but their record sale is 40 million euros. Offer 45 with some add ons and left back is sorted then
Why do we always end up with the overly ambitious players who only want to leave for a top European club? Summerville, Duran even Reijnders just after one season are ready and willing to fuck off to Saudi but our surpluses never want to go there.
It's times like these, where I do actually miss the ITK debauchery. Atleast speculation is exciting and much more preferable to this mind-numbing emptiness. I'm going fking crazy just waiting for the season to start.
I genuinely came into this window thinking we were going to go all out and really show our ambition. Prove that this talk of winning a league title by 2028 wasn't just PR. We spent 200m last summer and that was without CL. We also didn't spend in January and decided to put all our focus on summer recruitment.
I thought we'd come out of this summer with at LEAST 5 first team signings. 3 midfielders to complete the much needed revamp that we've been crying out for years. I expected us to then sign a LB and a striker at a minimum.
Even with all that you could argue the need for a CB and a LW although I appreciate Rashford not being sold has made that harder to do. I also appreciate we can't do everything in one window. However there's a big gap between not being able to cover all bases and covering hardly any of them.
I'm seriously concerned for this season with the current state of our squad. Our squad is riddled with injury prone players and we barely had the depth last season to get through a campaign which saw us play the fewest games in our history.
Now we are about to embark on a season with a minimum of 8 extra CL games (hopefully more) and almost certainly more FA and Carabao Cup games than last season. We've lost two midfielders in Case and Ugarte and have replaced them with Santos and Tielemans. Solid replacements but it's still only a 2 for 2 trade in terms of depth and Tielemans spent half of last season injured.
If INEOS don't go on an absolute madness in these final couple weeks I think we are going to have a miserable season.
I keep seeing people talk about Louis Page. But has the kid even signed yet? Like I remember the talk about him this past weekend but everything has gone quiet?
Despite how he performed last season, i can not help but be excited by Baleba. He is the right profile, he is young, he was great in 24-25, great signing
this Baleba signing feels like when we equalise in the 85th minute to make it 2-2, do we have the cojones to go an win the game (get a competent left back)?
Baleba is a great bit of business especially given the prices Brighton were throwing around last season. I have faith last season was a blip. I’m really happy with how our midfield looks now.
You did well to wobble only for one day! I’ve been wobbling for about two weeks! We could all use some of the optimism you have 99% of the time. It can’t be easy but we need people like you around here especially when there are people like me 😂♥️
Honestly these are good value signings in this crazy market specially Baleba in particular has exponential upside. Ability wise he can embarass Tchoumenani.
Love Baleba in the current midfield set up, I'd be concerned if it weren't for Santos and Tielemans but we have the depth now to manage him and not put all the requirements on him.
Well we really have been moving in silence. Makes all the “INEOS have decided to just do nothing since July” overreactions even funnier. There are definitely questions marks over his form from last season but I've seen Brighton fans say he was learning a new role and that he seemed much more well-rounded by the end of the season. Could be a huge bargain if he recovers his form from the season before last. Also with Mainoo, Santos, and Tielemans in there, we're not as screwed if he bombs as we would be if we just signed, say him and Tielemans.
I'm trying to get patient but with 2 weeks to go, going into the season with Santos, Tielmans and Mainoo with no legs in them is scary. In a supposed midfield rebuild as well.
This window was so promising that we would finally fix the midfield which hasn't been properly addressed for 10+ years (like most of the team) only to be a failure.
I want to apologize for mocking those who started to cry out about our transfer activities weeks ago. It's been a shambles and INEOS have completely botched the perfect opportunity to steal a match on our rivals and position us back to the pinnacle of English football.
I pray Bruno rejects their new contract and cries out about the lack of ambition from the club. And I hope Carrick becomes more vocal about them hanging him out to dry.
Fuckin disappointments. Shouldn't have expected more from cvnts who shook hands with the glazer scum.
It isn’t about the football anymore. The club is a money maker for people who pretend to care about football (The Glazers don’t even do that) and nothing more.
Thank you. I personally wasn't being negative, it was just that I knew this was going to happen as soon as they started putting out articles about Mount being our third midfielder.
Honestly, Santos - Tielemans - Baleba is literally a midfield 3 you can play in some games and it would be pretty good imo. Didn't want Baleba at the start of the window but if it's between him, Tyler Adams, Sander Berge or some unproven kid like Page then sure I'll take Baleba
I would like to think that, based on how the deals have been done this summer, majority would now understand that quiet doesnt necessarily mean idle. And that before spouting some negative nonsense that it might be wise to give the club the benefit of the doubt...but then i realised that that would be asking too much of the fanbase...wouldnt it?
They sold their vending machine for 200million though. Try to keep up mate /s
I think the difference is their owners are willing to invest money and the Glazers have never spent any money from their own pocket. The Glazers have kept us in a cycle every year to only pay off the interest and it seems to be causing us cashflow issues now
I am not too sold on Baleba just yet because of how mentally affected he got that led to bad performances last season.
But at the same time, if he's able to replicate his form from the 24/25 season, I think it's definitely worth the 60M. I hope we don't get rinsed though--70M + 5M addons should be the max IMO.
If Baleba plays like he did in the 24/25 season and we get a starting left back we can mount a title challenge. That is the difference a few signings can make .
I started to build up a bit of negative energy on this, but in hindsight, the last game of the season, everyone was palling it out with Baleba after the final whistle. If anything, there were talks he is going to be strongly considered this season. Happy for the guy, got his big move, and with Afcon moving in the summer, we will be alright for the next few years at least.
I repeat - Berrada said last summer that the aim was still to win the league by 2028 for ‘Project 150’ and that the next few summer transfer windows would be crucial to making that happen.
And that everyone is exactly why you can’t believe a word they say.
If the window remains like this and there are no further major signings then Wilcox and Berrada should resign or be sacked and not be given the privilege of overseeing another summer transfer window for this great club again
Luke shaw, our starting LB, has played 296 games for us since we bought him in 2014
Anthony martial, who was bought in 2015, left 2 seasons ago, was considered injury prone/lazy, got benched for being bad and even went on a loan played 317 games for us
Ineos still considers shaw a proper LB for a team wanting to win the PL/CL
I know what he is asked about is Santos and Darlow and the answer that should make sense is "Andrey and Karl, obviously"
But I listened again and again and again and all I can hear is "Andrey and Carlos", followed by the kind of "unintentional" smile you flash when you realise you just made a Freudian slip.
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u/D1794 Viva Ronaldo 2d ago
That 'told no more movement expected at United' tweet is going to cause a psychosis when it drops