Manchester United thread

[jod23]

Yeah now that the noisy neighbours have taken the title, and your horrible showing in the CL. Might be time to invest heavily. But will the money be available. I guess we will see.

 

[moomba]

At the same time, we have won the league a few times and made the final of the Champions League. There hasn't been the need to buy superstars and with the spending power of City during the period, it did inflate the prices. So if there's no desperate need to buy in a bloated market, then the money won't be splashed.

£32m on Rio, £29m on Rooney, £28m on Veron, £30m on Berbatov tells me that transfer fees were out of hand long before we started in on the act. £50m for Torres, £35m for Carroll, 7p and a Mars bar wrapper for Bebe tells me that it's not just City that are paying big money relative to the players being bought.

It's an easy excuse to say that City have inflated transfer prices. It let's the Glazers get away with spending **** all and blaming it all on the noisy neighbours. I do love how Fergie and Gill are trying to re-position themselves as a club that doesn't believe in spending big money on players. It's a total re-writing of history.

 

[Hawthorn United]

I like to think that we were going after both Hazard and Kagawa, and not finalising Kagawa because Hazard was going to Chelsea. We're still getting linked with Modric but definitely a defining transfer window this one.

 

[jod23]

£32m on Rio, £29m on Rooney, £28m on Veron, £30m on Berbatov tells me that transfer fees were out of hand long before we started in on the act. £50m for Torres, £35m for Carroll, 7p and a Mars bar wrapper for Bebe tells me that it's not just City that are paying big money relative to the players being bought.

It's an easy excuse to say that City have inflated transfer prices. It let's the Glazers get away with spending fornicate all and blaming it all on the noisy neighbours. I do love how Fergie and Gill are trying to re-position themselves as a club that doesn't believe in spending big money on players. It's a total re-writing of history.

Lots of truth here.

 

[Hawthorn United]

Wasn't directly having a go at City buying players, but just that there was another team out there bidding big as well at the same time so naturally, we'd have to spend as much or match to get the players.

 

[moomba]

Wasn't directly having a go at City buying players, but just that there was another team out there bidding big as well at the same time so naturally, we'd have to spend as much or match to get the players.

I think Berbatov is the only one where we've pushed the price up for you by our presence. Can't think of any others that we have been in for an you have got.

What the fornicate is this fornicate word substition by the way. Do not like.

 

[SupportMe]

I love how Moomba goes back to 2002 to illustrate our big spending. Times have changed, man.

 

[moomba]

I love how Moomba goes back to 2002 to illustrate our big spending. Times have changed, man.

In a discussion about inflating the market it's important to point out that the market has been inflated for many years dont you think?

I could have also pointed out that United spent over £50m on Young, Jones and De Gea just last summer.

 

[beev]

Signed Nick Powell

 

[DREAM TEAM BUFF]

Hope he can replace Ravel Morrison.

 

[DREAM TEAM BUFF]

Nick Powell with David Gill

 

[jod23]

Powell looks over the moon. With that expression it's almost as if he is a big Man City or Liverpool fan. Hahah

 

[manureid]

He has just seen the shirt for the first time clearly....

 

[A Bit High]

Powell looks over the moon. With that expression it's almost as if he is a big Man City or Liverpool fan. Hahah

Even Liverpool fans don't openly admit their big fans anymore

 

[Hawthorn United]

Officially signed!

 

[mojito]

Wonder what number he's getting?

 

[Magma]

surely it's 7

 

[moomba]

Bit rude to make him set out the tablecloth on his first day at work.

 

[jod23]

That truly is a horrible shirt, Im not just hating on Man U as I usually do, im just speaking the truth. Who thought that was a good idea? Crazy marketing people...

 

[mojito]

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/st...united?cc=5739

Manchester United's new Japanese midfield signing Shinji Kagawa has talked of his excitement at joining the Red Devils, confirming that he turned down the chance to wear the club's famous number seven shirt.

Kagawa, 23, flew into Manchester on Friday to complete a medical and sign terms on four-year deal at the club, but wants to make his name at Old Trafford before possibly stepping into the iconic shirt worn by the likes of George Best, Eric Cantona, David Beckham and Cristiano Ronaldo.

"I've just joined the team and haven't accomplished anything yet," Kagawa told journalists in Japan after his 12-hour return flight. "I want to make a name for myself [at United] on my own terms."

Kagawa added that he had asked for a number "with personal meaning", leading to speculation in the Japanese media that the player could wear the 8, 26, or 29 as he did at Cerezo Osaka, or the 23 shirt he donned at Dortmund.

"The contract was as long as I'd expected from a club [like United]," Kagawa added. "When I was at [Old Trafford], I thought about how incredible it would be if I could score there."

Kagawa follows countrymen Junichi Inamoto, Kazuyuki Toda, Hidetoshi Nakata and Ryo Miyaichi into the Premier League, following two seasons in the Bundesliga with Borussia Dortmund, where he scored 21 times in 49 league matches.

 

[A Bit High]

Happy he turned it down.

Should not have been offered it IMO.

 

[Coledinho]

I still have a feeling he will take a year to settle in and that his ability to link with Rooney will be the sole definition of his failure and success at the club. He doesnt strike me as the type of player whose going to take you to title contenders on his lonesome.

You need 2 more midfield signings, IMO you cant win the title until you sort out the DCM situation with a world class player that can not only defend but add a few goals to boot. Not many of those around though. Much more important then getting a bloke like Modric in

 

[A Bit High]

Martinez please!

 

[DREAM TEAM BUFF]

New young players

Ben Barber - Defender
Callum Evans - Midfielder
Ashley Fletcher - Forward
Joshua Harrop - Midfielder
Andreas Pereira - Midfielder
Nicholas Ioannou - Defender
Ryan McConnell - Defender
Matthew Willock - Midfielder
James Wilson - Forward

U17 Academy Student:
Kieran O'Hara

http://www.manutd.com/en/Players-An...ed-first-year-academy-intake-of-scholars.aspx

 

[Hawthorn United]

Fabio has joined QPR for a season long loan.

A season too late as he would've been desperately trying to stop that Aguero goal...