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MRTA7:
I wish ETH all the best of luck. He's about to learn a very harsh lesson.

if this guy turn out to have a very good season, he should just be knighted

Ellexy:
Erik ten Hag: "Harry Maguire is the captain. I have to get to know all the players, but he's an established captain and he's achieved a lot of success." #mulive

A lot of success? Has to be sarcasm

Ellexy:
So make we still continue abi make we move on?

Its probably too late. No midfielder dey outside again. Dejong or nothing

Leyqute:
Plus EtH is still doing continuous assessment.

They said ETH has his own list, and does not need any recommendation from anyone, not even Rangnick "the failure". We just found out ETH indeed had a list, but they're all made up of his former players

Ellexy:
Yes because the update then was he's very open about joining us, now that reports are saying he wants to stay you still want me to keep insisting?

Ah! It has been reported from day one that Dejong does not want to join this club. People are only hoping that ETH will use his influence to change his mind, but that has never changed one bit. If he leaves Barca today for Manchester United, its not because he wants to leave or even excited about a reunion with his former boss, but because Barca pushed him out. Well Barca president has come out to say Dejong is not for sale, so this makes it much harder

Ellexy:
Make e no be like say we wasted all this time just end up with a Di-Maria like scenario

Wait were you not the one insisting on Dejong or nothing the other day? You were not even ready to look at other options. Let's be patient, the transfer window still long. There's still time to get Dejong

TeslaFC:
Can’t help but applaud how United controls their media. They’ve successfully diverted attention to Ronaldo while still edging closer to deals.

Hope Ten Haag miraculously does well sha

It's working already. I really hope ETH does well this season. We can't afford another year of nonsense. It will be too difficult to catch up. If we're complaining about not being able to sign players, I wonder what we will do next summer if we end up not making top 4 again next season

hatakekakashi:
They're trying to manage the limited money they have by first making priority signings I think. I read Ten hag was given £200M and he's bent on spending £85M on de jong alone.

The plan might be to make Ronaldo the main striker then Greenwood if around or maybe Rashford second. I mean if 37 year old Ronaldo can score the 3rd highest goal in the league playing for a disjonted team, he should do better with more creativity.

Rashford and Martial scored almost same amount of goals in their recent past if I'm not mistaken. We should be looking at multiple players contributing to the goals, not depending on a striker/Ronaldo.

TrebleChamp:
He doesn't want Messi to take his records, both of them will retire same time ...

Oshi

Ellexy:
You need to understand that any striker we sign now will be willing to play from the bench because Ronaldo will definitely play majority of the games. So which top striker will be willing to do that? That's why with Ronaldo as the main striker which is not bad, the likes of Rashford, Martial or even Bruno can deputize in that striker role without much fuss unlike another top striker like Nunez and the likes.

So you're saying ETH won't have the balls to limit Ronaldo to fewer games, if he has another top striker? Or you're saying Ronaldo will out perform any top striker we sign?

And I'm not even interested in "top striker". This person does not need to be a known name. We shouldn't even be going for those ones that will cost that much

TrebleChamp:
It's called obsession, you can't stop when your greatest rival is still on the game. Pele, Maradona, Ronaldo De Lima, Ronaldinho, George Best Zidane, Roberto Baggio, to name a few didn't have this kind of rivalry during their time...

He can't win anymore Ballon D'or. I don't think Messi can do. I don't even think Messi can catch up with his UEFA goals. So what's the problem?

hatakekakashi:
The mistake he made was last season when he joined Man u instead of city though many of us were happy he did. I doubt any other top player would make that mistake.

Now what he should have done is to see how to help the team more. He could even win something with man u this season if all the players and coaching crew perform optimally.

If he really wants to leave, then he shouldn't throw tantrums about it. That's very bad and can ruin reputations.

I mean we can just forget about Ronaldo and focus on the club. How can a serious club be going into the season with a main striker that will be 38 years old before the season is over? And I'm told it was because Ronaldo is here that we didn't buy a new striker since 2 months ago. The jokes really do write themselves

hatakekakashi:
I've always argued against that even on this thread I think. He was our best outfield player last season.

If he wants to leave, he's free to, but now that he's still a player of the team he should join the squad and stop all this unnecessary drama. Imagine it was Pogba's that missed a week of preseason without any concrete reason. Everyone would've came for his head.

Everyone would've come for Pogba's head because he was hard to understand both on and off field. We never really got anything off him on field. We can't say the same for Ronaldo.

Ronaldo too should know when to stop. He's 37, he should not be afraid of taking the back seat. I don't know what records he still wants to break or secure

adebayo201:
This is my fear. But as someone opined, bringing in his former players might settle the intending or unforseen hullabaloo.

Ps:
I'd like us to judiciously follow the preseason tour. We need to assess these players not on their previous records. And from the look of things, it's showing a sign of positive progress even if it's minutes.

I have lost faith in a lot of them. I'm not expecting a miracle from these players. I certainly don't trust the preseason matches. Until season starts proper and we play like 10+ matches before I start to believe in the team or just give up on the season

adebayo201:
This is my fear. But as someone opined, bringing in his former players might settle the intending or unforseen hullabaloo.

Ps:
I'd like us to judiciously follow the preseason tour. We need to assess these players not on their previous records. And from the look of things, it's showing a sign of positive progress even if it's minutes.

My fear in Dejong insistence is that if for any reason ETH doesn't work out here, Dejong will immediately hand in a transfer request because he does not want to be here in the first instance. That's a lot of eggs in one basket. We have to only bring in players that believe in what the club intends to achieve and are ready to play for the club

ovoP:
ragnick bleeped this squad up, people keep shying away from it.. you can't come mid season and expect a team that has not played pressing football for years to start pressing immediately. I like were Carrick was doing, he was playing to the team strengths, which was surrender possession and Counter attack.. ragnick isn't a bad coach, but a bad manager..

Lol because of 2/3 matches?

Tell me how the club was going to get a honest assessment of the team from that?

ovoP:
relax, nobody just gets up and start running. They've maybe not been doing training of that intensity, and it takes time to build your fitness level to the stage he wants them too.. with time they'll adjust. It's like playing football after a long time, you easily get fatigued after more games, you build your fitness level to be able to play 90 mins

That's if they don't turn on him first as they did with Rangnick after they have guaranteed their place in the team

ChristoBam:
Did you know Nunez or Vlahovic last summer?

Why can't we go for those ones "you" don't know this summer? We have till September, what's the club excuse?

Or those ones we don't know now will appear by January?

ChristoBam:
No one's ever called Rashford a CF. Whether he picks up or not, we go in for a CF in January or next summer. Everything else is out of our hands. Except we want to spend 60m+ on one of the average strikers available rn.

Who is the striker you want to go for in January that you can't go for now?

ChristoBam:
If he had been threatening it'd have been reported in the news since then. What he has been doing for months is discussion with other clubs by his agent.

Which the club didn't take as an issue cuz Ronaldo said he was excited to work with Ten Hag.

Ronaldo is not quitting on ETH, if that's what you're implying. He's protesting against the lack of ambition by the club in the transfer window. Everyone is also frustrated with the club. Are you saying you're excited and satisfied about the way it's currently going?

Ronaldo is 36/37. He has earned the right to move as he pleases. Channel your frustrations elsewhere, he's not the problem here.

In fact let's say Ronaldo dropped the transfer request 2 months ago, what would have happened? We would have bought Haaland?

ChristoBam:
It's not a big deal to me. Every discussion I've had about it is about the reaction from some of you Ronaldo fan boys.

The only problem to me is probably the handing in of a transfer request few days before preseason starts. Season ended like 2 months ago.

Btwn, David Orstein tweeting that Ronaldo is in talks with Chelsea is not tranfer rumor. Should probably learn about different journalists and their reliability.

But your same reports said he has been threatening to leave since 2 months ago if certain conditions aren't met. Or that didn't happen?

ChristoBam:
He isn't?

Let's even leave all these transfer rumors, whether true or not.

Why is Ronaldo leaving such a big deal? Let's even pretend that you're not a Messi fan boy?

ChristoBam:
Trolling United and throwing laughing emojis at the thought that martial will be our starting 9 next season. While exhaulting Ronaldo, praising him for 'calling the board out' while he's actively in talks for a move to our premier league rivals.

Traits of a United fan or Ronaldo FC?

Actively? I love reddit.

I really like that Lamptey guy. He can be a menace in that RW. But looks like he gets injured every now and then

MRTA7:
I hope you enjoy it over there.

LMAO we're back to real fans and fake fans

Ellexy:
I mean he played with the unserious team and saw first hand how unserious they were. Did it just dawn on him few days to preseason these lots are unserious? Can't challenge for CL and PL?

You quoted and agreed with this post

ChristoBam:
You're talking like you believe Mendez has not been in discussion with other clubs for a move for months.

Dem no fit scam me sha.

He can't stay for the beginning of a rebuild process (that might fail). He can't play in the Europa league. This is why he's leaving.



So if we've signed Malacia, Dejong and Erikson. He'd stay? Or that's not the calibre of signings he wants? Lmao

Ellexy:
Cristiano Ronaldo has asked to be allowed to leave #mufc should the club receive a satisfactory offer in the transfer window. He is driven by a desire to play in the Champions League for the remainder of his career #mulive [@DuncanCastles, @TimesSport]

This is the original Castles report that first broke out yesterday but no it's not about CL

What if he does not see the team as serious enough to bounce back to the champions league next season? I mean other teams around are doing business and we're still edging closer to a deal

Ellexy:
So it was a mistake signing him afterall?

Were we doing a rebuild last season?

Not every player we even sign today will be here next 2-3 seasons. Dejong may come in today and still leave next or a couple of seasons after, but they'll serve their purpose in the team. What's the mistake there?

ChristoBam:
You're talking like you believe Mendez has not been in discussion with other clubs for a move for months.

Dem no fit scam me sha.

He can't stay for the beginning of a rebuild process (that might fail). He can't play in the Europa league. This is why he's leaving.



So if we've signed Malacia, Dejong and Erikson. He'd stay? Or that's not the calibre of signings he wants? Lmao

It's taking one month to plug much visible holes in the team. We're not even sure of Dejong and Erikson. Tell me you feel confident this club is going to get Dejong?

Why should Ronaldo even be in a discussion for rebuild? He shouldn't be anywhere near teams trying to rebuild. He's asked for improvements in the team and he's gotten nothing. This is months now

TrebleChamp:
I chose to concern myself with his displeasure at the board for not signing players so far, if it was about CL Ronaldo would have bought himself out his contract and move when season ended. It's been 2 months since the window opened, and United is yet to confirm any new quality signing.

I don't know whether people think Ronaldo just realized we're not going to the champions league next season. He's most likely disgusted by the lack of ambition by the club which is the same for every other person including the ones castigating him now

ovoP:
he never really hit form.. besides was pushed to the right too often cause sancho was perceived better on the left

So Rashford didn't push Sancho to the left then? You just said he was perceived better on the left

Ellexy:
So that was me blaming Ronaldo for last season's failure?

ok