Man United transfer news: Ins, Outs & I Wants

A bit flummoxed to be honest. Are the Glazers planning to sell the club   and therefore spending minimum funds ? We can but hope

The window was a strange one but what positives can we take:
Defense now seems top drawer
All 3 signed players know that it rains in Manchester more importantly they want to be at the club and will slog their guts out for the shirt
We do have some young gems that can be blooded at home and not loaned out surely that’s the biggest carrot they could ever dream of

On the other hand:
Midfield depth is a disgrace ..... an injury or two and we are well and truly stuffed. 
We already had a goal drought so now with Rom gone Tony and Marcus have to play beyond any known stats they have ever produced The gauntlet is down for them ....it’s  men or mice time

DDG needs to sign his contract and Pogba has to stay...... if they let him go after that window well it would be the final nail on the season

It’s not down to Ole and it probably wasn’t down to Maureen  either

Ole has his hands tied, for the presser he can only say the right things happy with his squad, great pre season and promising youngsters etc etc  He will do this with good grace ..... which Maureen could never do.

Top 4 ......well an opening match and 6 pointer against Chelsea would be a good one to win. Unfortunately our final position is based on luck .... no injuries, youth performs, Rashers and Martial find their shooting boots and break records on all their previous campaigns and just maybe Alexis can prove that he is still a footballer.

Thursday night football and how long we want to take that seriously may be the key for the league campaign.

I’m thinking 5th .......... and zero business in January 

Don’t really know what it would take for the Glazers to ever see the beginning of the end .... happy as pigs in shit milking our club.

The latest briefings from HQ:


Manchester United will turn their attention to appointing a technical director now their summer transfer window business is complete.

United's initial intention was to make an appointment before Jose Mourinho's successor as manager was confirmed.

But for this window, boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer operated within the existing recruitment structure.

The club spent £140m on the signings of defenders Harry Maguire and Aaron Wan-Bissaka and winger Daniel James.

When Solskjaer was given the job on a permanent basis on 28 March, club insiders said the role would be filled by the start of the season.

Former players Darren Fletcher and Rio Ferdinand spoke to executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward a number of weeks ago.

Although it is understood there has been no further face-to-face contact, Woodward has kept the pair in the loop over changes to the timescale for an appointment.

No offer has been made and it is thought the role would not involve negotiating with or signing transfer targets.
Social media unrest

Not everyone thinks United have had a good transfer window.

In particular, many fans on social media feel United made an error in not attempting to sign midfielder Bruno Fernandes from Sporting Lisbon.

It was also suggested their interest in Argentina forward Paulo Dybala was used as a smokescreen given they have been unable to sign an additional forward, as it had been obvious for some time that Romelu Lukaku would be leaving at some stage.

At one point on Thursday, #WoodwardOut - calling for the executive vice-chairman to leave his job - was trending in the UK with more than 50,000 tweets, second only to #DeadlineDay in terms of football-related tweets.

United have failed to mount a sustained Premier League title challenge in the six seasons since Woodward replaced former chief executive David Gill.

Fan @stevecapes94, who has just over 100 Twitter followers, said: "If you're in charge of the world's biggest football club and haven't come close to a league title in your six-year time in charge. You have to look at yourself and admit you can't do your job." This tweet has been liked more than 1,500 times.

The Glazers Out movement, which is trying to generate enough support to unseat United's owners, called the club's transfer window business "abysmal".
United 'need time'

United regard their summer outlay as significant and believe, after last season's sixth-placed finish, 32 points behind champions Manchester City, it was always known it would take more than a single window to rectify their problems.

They also point to a number of new contracts - those for Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial which have already been done, and David de Gea's, which is due to be completed in the coming weeks - as proof of a rebuild.

In addition, they feel the performances of 17-year-old striker Mason Greenwood in particular during the club's pre-season tour of Australia and Asia offers hope for the future and underlines their continuing commitment to developing first-team players from their academy.

What a shit window on our front. We've signed three players and lost Herrera who we haven't replaced and now we no lukaku replacement unless they're absolutely sure that Rashford can start and get 15 odd goals this season as a starter.

Useless. we're barely above mid table this year cause Woodward and the Glazers are incompetent idiots. I hope their are a ton of protests this year that force the Glazers to sell and get Woodward to bugger off back to the corporate world.

Everybody, including me, laughed at Ogden at the start of the window when he said the Glazers only had a 100m budget.

They've spent 75m net.

Now we know he was talking overall transfer budget. He's a piss taking cunt and been at it for quite a while, using it as a stick to poke with, came out with one the other day..