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So midfield options are

Ugarte/Casemiro
Mainoo/Eriksen/Colleyer
Bruno/Mount

We could also get Rabiot for free.

Leyqute:
Ugarte deal done.

So after wasting more than a month we still ended up paying Psg £51M asking price. This club is something else

maik99:
Fight for the league wey none of our attackers fit score 20 league goals
Issokay

Excuses upon excuses. How many of Arsenal attackers have scored 20 league goals over the last 2 seasons?

Arteta has spent £650 million since he came to Arsenal and he has them fighting for the league 2 seasons in a row and will do the same again this season. Erik has spent £550 with ugarte deal to be completed taking it to £600m plus in 3 seasons yet we have fans who are reducing the expectations to merely playing good football and fighting for top 4. He has been backed fully enough. Only chelsea has spent more on transfers since he came to United . We need to start seeing consistently league performance.

maik99:
Let’s leave public and delulu and banter..
You yourself dyu think we can win the league? 🫵🏾

Did you think Arsenal could fight for the league when they did last two seasons? Erik has been backed more than Arteta who is fighting for the league. What exactly is stopping him from fighting for top 2?

Joezinho:
Honestly, this Onana is just a bum.

Mf is full of unseriousness. Does this clown thinks he’s in a choreography class?

Onana is worse than David De Gea ever was for us Mhenn, it’s going to be a longgggg season!!!

Its called mind games to put off your opponent. Nothing wrong with that

Oasis007:
I hope we can find buyers for Sancho, Antony, McTom and possibly Rashford before end of transfer window.

Pelle should be kept this season instead of Antony or Sancho.

You want to sell Sancho, Antony, Rashford and replace them with who?

ChristoBam:
Like I said, based on different factors, you decide to pay high for a player and walk away from others. That's how it works.

And that one year one contract sh*t means nothing cuz we couldn't have gotten him for free next year.

This is just a cheap excuse that can be used to justify any signing. We were desperate and knew the only way to get him was to overpay which we did.

ChristoBam:
Lmao you even added an extra 10m for agenda.

When won't we spend on a new goalkeeper? Should've stuck to Degea till eternity then.

Onana was bought for 55m euros. Maybe in your book thats closer to 20m and not 60m. Its not about using De gea till eternity but being pennywise and pound foolish especially when the gk position was not a priority. De gea was even coming from a season were he was the best goalkeeper in the league and ready to take a massive paycut to extend his contract.

Jokerman:
🚨🚨🌕| NEW: Erik ten Hag is considering using Jadon Sancho and Bruno Fernandes as STRIKERS to help solve #mufc’s attacking issues. [@TheAthleticFC]

is Zirkzee injured or what?

ChristoBam:
At that point the massve paycut from 400k plus would still be massive. E no worth am at all.

So spending close to 60million on a new goalkeeper was worth it? Did Onana make any difference to our defense last season. De gea is gone. No need arguing over that issue again..

ChristoBam:
We paid what was enough to get him abeg.

And a lot of the fee is in ad-ons.

We massively overpaid for a player with one year left on his contract. We are paying 52million fixed and only 6million in add ons. Where are you getting your information from?

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c7209jxjn45o

ChristoBam:
Just seen how much Degea was earning at United and how much he's earning now. Can't believe some really wanted us to keep him and were dragging things here regularly.

Nice and loyal guy but he's past it and everyone knows it apart from a section of the fanbase. How do you pay someone no decent club wants 400k plus lmao.

De gea was ready to take a massive pay cut.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Na only Adam and Eve god created in the garden of Eden.... So how manage?

Adam and Eve had all the genetic traits embedded in them

Android17:
Mourinho was fired twice.

Mutual consent is firing. It is a euphemism for firing someone politely.

K

NinjaMetahuman:
have some shame. You are 6th

6thchester united always.

What position are you?

oliverano:


Only Anceloti is Pep's equal on that list. Rest are good coaches, not great.

Pep is the goat manager...QED!

The point remains the same. Great and good coaches gets sacked.

oliverano:
Pep is the goat 🐐 manager. E get why them never sack am since e start this coaching something while Hose dey chop sack left and right.

E even chop sack twice for him darling Chelsea...

He left Chelsea by mutual consent. Great coaches gets sacked and it doesn't diminish their achievements. Ancelloti has been sacked ditto Hansi flick, Conte, allegri etc

Ibime:
Kroos that can't win a possession battle against 20% of the teams he faces

Xavi midfield only went below 50% possession in one match from 2006 to 2014. That's 8 years undefeated in midfield work except for one occasion

Did Xavi career start from 2006? One played for Madrid that doesn't care about possession football while one plays for Barca. Swap both players and kroos will slot right in at Barca while Xavi will struggle at Madrid. Was he not about to be thrown away from Barca before Pep came in with his possession football that revived his career.

INEOS means business which is a good sign.

raumdeuter:
Everyone overpays for players. Its when the players don't deliver that it becomes an issue

80% of Pep signings under the same Berrada were considered overpaid until they delivered. Did anyone ever think Dias, Laporte, Stones, Ake, Grealish, Bernado Mendy etc were worth that amount paid for them? But when they deliver no one cares how much was paid

20M for a flop is overpayment, 100m for a hit is underpayment. In hindsight, 100m for Salah would have been a bargain while 15m for Antony would have been an overpayment

Signing players that are not good enough are also signs of usage. Do you think Man Utd intentionally went to sign bad players? All the bad signings were doing well and some were snatched from their destination clubs

If Alexis and Magure had gone to City do you think we will be calling them bad signings?

In most cases the coach point to the profile of players they want and the board gets it for him. You think ETH did not ask specifically for Onana and Antony and the board just dropped them on his laps?

The problem is not the CEO, A CEO in most cases knows next to nothing about technical football beyond being a fan

Perez is the greatest CEO currently, and left to him, he wants to flood every position with galacticos. Perez bought David Beckham a right winger when he already had Figo and told the coach to fit him somewhere. Beckham a RW ended laying CM, DM and even RB for Madrid. that is a CEO in action

Was this Berrada not there when Man City was buying Wilfred Bony, Nastasic, Savic, Fernando and many players who flopped

You keep typing one nonsense after another. First was saying woody worked under Ferguson as CEO ,to City managers were not successful before Pep now you don't even know the actual CEO of City. This guy is something else.

nitrogen:
Lol una go explain tire. Watch them shift the goal post soon. Fact is, the manager is the most important in a football club. We just need to continue to hire and fire until we get someone that works for us. That’s how things are at top clubs.

Management exists for the commercial and administrative stuff. We don’t need a football person as CEO or CFO to win trophies.

How does hiring a new CEO stop us from sacking a manager that's underperforming and getting a new one ? Do most of you just post for posting sack.

raumdeuter:
Yes na me say make United by Anthony and na me say make Chelsea sign Emzor

You really shouldn't be here crying over something that doesn't concern you.

patrickmuf:
🤣🤣🤣

Once you see that guy against any decisions taken by United or Chelsea just know it's the right one.

raumdeuter:
This Omar Berrada we will see what he achieves

Na so Rangnick, Ten Haag and others came with big talks "Aspire to perspire"

Na here we go dey to see how his regime will pan out

It's really not your business. You shouldn't be here crying and lamenting over something that doesn't concern you. This one is here typing like he wants the good of United.

MRTA7:
I disagree slightly. I know it's wishful thinking but I feel only the top 3 is certain. 4th spot is open and there might be a 5th champions league spot due to the PL's coefficient. I think there's enough football to play if we can get the right loan attacker to get the 5th spot if it's a CL position. I know it's me being overly optimistic but why go through the season being so pessimistic.

Fight to get into champions league, get top 4, then proceed to get embarrassed in the champions league group stage then spend the entire season fighting for top 4 again. It's the same merry-go-round season after season. Aren't you tired? Getting top 4/5 will only hide our problems.

Leyqute:
He didn't score or even make an assist today.

Dude was terrible at Utd. Was dragging scoring shot with Rashford that day after that one don dribble finish.

If he was still at United, he'd be worse than Antony. Small club mentality

He was the one who assisted the winner.

Elanga is actually spot on. He wasn't given consistent minutes and game time. This is his first season of consistent game time for a premier league team and he has the goals and assists to show for it.

Until you create a system that allows our attackers to thrive all of them will suffer greatly especially the wingers. Why do think Hojjund will go away on international duty and bang in goals then come back and still have zero league goals till now.

Android17:
Who born City to get Haaland over Real Madrid? Have you looked at Chelsea recently? They are celebrating Carabao wins against minnows nowadays because they barely win anywhere else.

All your points are laughable.

Android17:
RM have won their league 5 out of the last 20 seasons. City, if I am not mistaken, just overtook Chelsea's achievements of the last 20 years in terms of the total. I know CFC have won the UCL twice vs City's once.

So that's how those clubs reputation have been ruined?

Android17:
You don't want to have the reputation of a football club that sacks its managers willy nilly. The stats back me in concluding that, a majority of those who are categorized as top performers in their RnRs will testify that, their achievements were corollary to gaining cognate experience on-their-job. That means learning from failure or is it failing forward they call it - will fall under that group - because there will always be downtime. That is how the bell curve goes.

My point is, don't sack Ten Hag during his bad patch. Other good managers will take note to avoid you because they know that a 2016/17 for Pep, 2022/23 for Klopp or his final season with Dortmund and so on can and will happen to any and every manager. It is part of continuous improvement. City gave Pep that chance and see how he is rewarding the club. Word is, he is going to extend his contract to stay beyond 10 years with the club. But I digress.

Suffer with Ten Hag and show him that he earned your trust because of last season. There is a good manager in there. We saw it with Ajax FC and with United just this past season. Otherwise, you will hire another manager of a lower quality unwittingly and repeat the vicious cycle.

How has sacking underperforming coaches damaged Madrid and Chelsea reputation.

ChristoBam:
Sebi na Shaw get injury now?

You'll understand the meaning when Casemiro gets injured.

So Shaw Injury that happened suddenly is the gapping hole?