Gareth Bale Welcome To Manchester

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Unfortunately mate it appears we gave the biggest warchest in the club's history to mental old dutch moron who wasted the vast majority of it.

How have you reached this conclusion?

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Unfortunately mate it appears we gave the biggest warchest in the club's history to mental old dutch moron who wasted the vast majority of it.

If we had bagged one ore two top players each season(2009-2013) instead of trying to do it on the cheap while city and chelski where stockpiling decent players we would not have had to throw money about like confetti(wasting most of it) playing catch up over the last few years

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Unfortunately mate it appears we gave the biggest warchest in the club's history to mental old dutch moron who wasted the vast majority of it.

Pretty sure big Mou has spent more on 2 players than LvG spent in his second summer... in fact, take Di Maria out and he spent on a fairly modest fashion, in keeping with the tight purse strings the Glazers insist on..

Romero - free
Darmian - £17m
Blind - £17m
Schweinsteiger - £6m
Falcao - £6m
Schneiderlin - £25m
Herrera - £28m
Shaw - £30m
Depay - £21m
Di Maria - £59m
Rojo - £17m
Martial - £35m

That about it? Reads like a remit to buy young up and comers or cheap options at a good age, marquees or old men on cheap deals... think we're seeing similar now, but the manager wants expensive, established players that don't fit the model in Matic and Perisic, that we know of..

Pretty sure LvG had a good few grumbles about not getting the players he wanted in certain (more expensive) areas.

It all spanks of the club needing greater imagination in their scouting and recruitment policy and more patience, to me.. the last 7 years are the clubs fault. Reluctant to spend in an efficient manner, saving a pound and ending up spending a tenner. £#%&!ing stupid.

Edit: this isn't a defence of LvG, it's comment on United as a club and their present approach.

Originally Posted by Red Al

If we had bagged one ore two top players each season(2009-2013) instead of trying to do it on the cheap while city and chelski where stockpiling decent players we would not have had to throw money about like confetti(wasting most of it) playing catch up over the last few years

Exactly this. Standing still in the transfer market for so long, continuing to depend on the top players, who were getting older and older, to drag us through, is exactly what £#%&!ed us.

Coming out of the first transfer window with just a Fellaini sealed our fate.

Selling clubs have had us over a barrel ever since.

Originally Posted by redhegemony

Could cash in on Planet of the Apes merchandising...

Sadly, we need this disgusting freak. Now.

A world class player to compliment Pogba.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

United don't want to spend any more money mate.

Who has told you this then??

Originally Posted by red in cumbria

Who has told you this then??

Well, i've read into the fact that they haven't signed any more players and the manager is moaning that they haven't signed any more players despite the fact he's asked them to sign more players, to mean that they don't want to sign any more players.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Well, i've read into the fact that they haven't signed any more players and the manager is moaning that they haven't signed any more players despite the fact he's asked them to sign more players, to mean that they don't want to sign any more players.

Perhaps they're sick of managers wasting money on mostly shit squad level players since 2008

Originally Posted by Ranier Wolfcastle

Perhaps they're sick of managers wasting money on mostly shit squad level players since 2008

Perhaps they should be more careful about who they employ as manager then the £#%&!ing clueless @#%&!s.

Originally Posted by puressence

Eden Michael Hazard has in principle agreed to join real madrid

til 'in principle' means "not"

Back pages running with this....

Feels a bit On'y

Where's it spring from.....wowWowWeeWaa

So they can string us along again all Summer before he re-up's and we miss out on Perisic.

I think Madrid are obsessed with £#%&!ing us over.

De Gea plus cash most likely, united dropping hints all summer, willing to let him leave, madriid not willing to pay the price.

Originally Posted by rebelcountyred

De Gea plus cash most likely, united dropping hints all summer, willing to let him leave, madriid not willing to pay the price.

Maybe this - not convinced they actually want Dave all that much, though

All the big dawgs in Europe have stagnated a bit and la liga is a piece of piss. With their attack they don't even need to worry about defending too much, and the defence is pretty decent anyway.

Originally Posted by Bunker Buster

Back pages running with this....

Feels a bit On'y

Where's it spring from.....wowWowWeeWaa

one day ill reveal my source bunk ..

Can't see the club giving this deal the green light tbh. Upwards of £80m for a 28 year old who's had a couple of injury hit seasons, no chance they sign the cheque on this one.

Originally Posted by redhegemony

Could cash in on Planet of the Apes merchandising...

they already have a deal with 20th Century Fox, missing a trick not having this on the touchline advertisment hoardings tbf

Originally Posted by AK14

Can't see the club giving this deal the green light tbh. Upwards of £80m for a 28 year old who's had a couple of injury hit seasons, no chance they sign the cheque on this one.

They won't or can't spend £48m on a 29yr old that Jose seems to really want so can't see this happening!

Originally Posted by The Stella Fella

They won't or can't spend £48m on a 29yr old that Jose seems to really want so can't see this happening!

Not quite the same thing, think of the marketing opportunities with a worldie like Bale, bet you woodie does.

Originally Posted by rebelcountyred

De Gea plus cash most likely, united dropping hints all summer, willing to let him leave, madriid not willing to pay the price.

That would be an awful deal for United.