United squad and transfer targets circa 2004

Originally Posted by Serenity Now

State of that

Alan Smith our only attacking transfer target

Originally Posted by Serenity Now

Good to see they couldn't even be arsed to spell Kleberson's name correctly.

I guess if we had picked up Kompany we wouldn't have gone after Vida.

Originally Posted by ZiggyStardust

State of that

Alan Smith our only attacking transfer target

Didn't we buy Rooney?

Originally Posted by dunk

Didn't we buy Rooney?

Wasn't planned. Fergie said we only moved because he was going to Newcastle.

Idea was to leave him at Everton for another year apparently

i like how dong is marked as an 'unkown quanlity' (sic)

also, interesting counterfactual: we sign kompany and city don't win the league in 2012.

Originally Posted by taff

i like how dong is marked as an 'unkown quanlity' (sic)

also, interesting counterfactual: we sign kompany and city don't win the league in 2012.

We sign Kompany and we've to listen to his bullshit and look at his odd shaped head. As seen over the last few seasons, he has a habit of losing his head too

No thanks.

Originally Posted by Serenity Now

No midfield targets

Originally Posted by Serenity Now

State of that youth 'potential'.

Also, shocking that we had no goalkeeping targets despite the four clowns in the squad.

Tbf 7 of those prospects have had very good careers.

Originally Posted by Kaos

Good to see they couldn't even be arsed to spell Kleberson's name correctly.

It seems to have been complied by a Geordie.

Originally Posted by dunk

Tbf 7 of those prospects have had very good careers.

What happened to David Jones, btw? I remember when quite a few raved over him

Originally Posted by sa7

No midfield targets

Yep, the guy's a £#%&!ing joke. (ferie not sers)

Originally Posted by sa7

No midfield targets

Disgusted at the lack of Nolan, Barton, Gravesen, Senna, Duscher, Vogel, Debuchy and Bodmer

If it's real, then it's horrendously short-sighted.

Originally Posted by dunk

Tbf 7 of those prospects have had very good careers.

Nowhere at the level of a club like United though. Not a single one of them turned out to be anything close to even a shit squad player for us.

When's the last time we actually bought through a top-class, regular, first-team starter from the youth system?

Originally Posted by Neo

Nowhere at the level of a club like United though. Not a single one of them turned out to be anything close to even a shit squad player for us.

When's the last time we actually bought through a top-class, regular, first-team starter from the youth system?

Does it have to be a first-team starter at United?

Originally Posted by Neo

Nowhere at the level of a club like United though. Not a single one of them turned out to be anything close to even a shit squad player for us.

When's the last time we actually bought through a top-class, regular, first-team starter from the youth system?

Not recently enough by any stretch, but bringing through 7 players at once who all had/have decent premier league careers is still pretty good tbf, much better than most in this league.

Originally Posted by Neo

State of that youth 'potential'.

Also, shocking that we had no goalkeeping targets despite the four clowns in the squad.

Think Howard won player of the year for us the season before tbf....