Manchester United est. 1878, Season 2015/2016

[Fran]

@myboyblue

Man United today set plans in motion to completely overhaul their IT systems. If ever there was an admission of guilt in this whole set up…

And there we have it. We can just ignore any farcical story they concocted to try and save face now.

[anon25556527]

You need to hang onto your world class players as much as possible. They might not wanted to be there but one thing they’ve all got in common is the right attitude. De gea will mends asap and start performing especially with the euros in 2016. Fever won a league for a team he refused to play for 6 months earlier. Suarez wanted to leave the pool for arsenal but Liverpool held onto him and he nearly won the league for them. Bale stayed an extra season at Spurs and nearly got CL football. De gea staying is good news for United and anybody than thinks otherwise is a clown.

[carryharry]

Cheaters rarely win, Francis.

[Mullach_Ide]

@anon25556527

Surely it is better to look for marquee signings then shite ones? As most journalists in the know point out it takes probably 12 months to sign a bale or pogba. At least United are being ambitious and trying to pull these off.

They have to be attainable though. Woodward hasn’t been great in fairness, even the Fellaini transfer, he had a release clause, United delayed and ended up paying 4/5 million above that.

[myboyblue]

I’ve bookmarked this post.

[anon25556527]

He learned a lot from the first season. Shaw, darmain, delay and martial all have massive potential. Bastian for 6 million and Morgan for 25 will turn out to be astute too.

[Mullach_Ide]

@Rocko

@Mullach_Ide

I doubt very much that they will let him rot, but they at least have a bargaining tool with him.Do you think they should have played him in the 1st four games and then left him off and have to bed in a new keeper in a home game against Liverpool in a fortnight?De Gea wanted to leave before he was benched not because of it.

If they wanted to go through with the sale they should have done so. If they didn’t want it to go through they shouldn’t have dropped him. They’ve ended up in a high profile dispute with their best player.

I don’t think they should have dropped him regardless of whether they thought he would leave or not. And I certainly don’t think they should have dropped him just because he wanted to leave.

They wouldn’t go through with sale until Madrid made an offer that met their valuation, nothing at all wrong with that
In relation to leaving De Gea out, he put his house up for sale at the end of last season ffs, as far as he was concerned he was out of there. He did not expect to be at OT for pre-season.
A lot of clubs leave players out that are angling for moves, Southampton left Wanyama out, West Brom left Berahino out.
If Madrid waited till the last day to try to lowball United what are they supposed to do.

[carryharry]

Play him & flat refuse dealing with Madrid.

[Fran]

Only time will tell but United have played silly bastards here and it’s obvious they’ve been preparing for life without De Gea for a while now. That won’t have filled De Gea with much confidence. Liverpool on the other hand maintained that they needed Suarez and he was not leaving. That would have alienated Suarez but at least his confidence, self esteem and sense of importance was maintained.

[flattythehurdler]

Liverpool have always been shrude in the transfer market.

[Fran]

@flattythehurdler

Liverpool have always been shrude in the transfer market.

I wouldn’t say that flatty but they handled the Suarez thing well

[carryharry]

@Fran

@flattythehurdler

Liverpool have always been shrude in the transfer market.

I wouldn’t say that flatty but they handled the Suarez thing well

Really well in fairness.

[The_Most_Infamous]

He became a European champion and Liverpool slipped out of the top 4, Rodgers the spoofer then tried to replace him with the great Balotelli the rest is history,

West Ham last weekend wasn’t only a blip, it’s the future for a once great club. Defensively Liverpool are absolutely shocking, if a young lad did what Lovren did last weekend he would be dropped from the team for at least 3 games.

[Mullach_Ide]

@carryharry

Play him & flat refuse dealing with Madrid.

Then everyone would be claiming what fools they were to not sell him and allow him leave for free at the end of the season.
De Gea didn’t exactly help matters, rumours were that Madrid asked him not to sign a new contract and were offering him €10m signing on fee.

[Horsebox]

Yep. Finished 2nd and should’ve won the league, sold him, bought a load of shite with the money and then finished 6th. Textbook.

[carryharry]

The real crux of the issue here was after being their best player for 2 seasons, why had they not insured against this shit & extended his contract & upped the wages?

That was a serious fuck up unless he was privately told he could leave this Season?

[Fran]

@The_Most_Infamous

He became a European champion and Liverpool slipped out of the top 4, Rodgers the spoofer then tried to replace him with the great Balotelli the rest is history,

His mind was made up, he was leaving yet Liverpool managed to get him to sign a new contract, got an amazing season out of him and sold him for shitloads more 12 months later. Now much of their transfer dealings in the past few years have been fairly abysmal but you can’t say that the Suarez deal wasn’t a good bit of business.

[Fran]

@Horsebox

Yep. Finished 2nd and should’ve won the league, sold him, bought a load of shite with the money and then finished 6th. Textbook

Please refer to my post above you jerk

[Mullach_Ide]

@carryharry

The real crux of the issue here was after being their best player for 2 seasons, why had they not insured against this shit & extended his contract & upped the wages?

That was a serious fuck up unless he was privately told he could leave this Season?

They offered him more money than Madrid were offering, over £200k a week, he wouldn’t sign.
He wants to move back to Spain, his bird doesn’t like Manchester

[The_Most_Infamous]

@Fran

His mind was made up, he was leaving yet Liverpool managed to get him to sign a new contract, got an amazing season out of him and sold him for shitloads more 12 months later. Now much of their transfer dealings in the past few years have been fairly abysmal but you can’t say that the Suarez deal wasn’t a good bit of business.

It’s never good business pal, when you spend the money on a great player on 3/4 average players, I’m in agreement with you on Utd’s shoddy transfer policy over the last 2 years but I don’t think they did any wrong in the De Gea saga, if anything he should have shown loyalty to the club and produced a similar great year for the club that made him his name like Suarez.