United thread 2020/21

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vincent said:
BBC headline: The remarkable rise of of Man United’s Fernandes... FFS he isn’t even that good.
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I prefer this one.

It felt like an impossible job to fill the gap left by Fernandes when he joined Manchester United in January 2020 for an initial £47m. Much sooner than expected, however, the Lisbon club seem to have struck gold again with the summer signing of Pedro Goncalves, a 22-year-old attacking midfielder who had an unsuccessful spell at Wolves but already looks a steal at £5.6m.

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In the first half of the current season 'Pote', as he's also known, contributed 14 goals and two assists in 15 league appearances, a slightly better record than his predecessor, who had eight goals and seven assists in 16 matches at the halfway stage of the 2019-20 campaign.

Unlike Fernandes, though, all of Goncalves' goals have come from open play.
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Psychedelic Casual said:
How can there be people still spouting this shite about being bankrolled?

The majority of our squad has been bought during these years:

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(only Agüero, Fernandinho and Foden were on the books before 2014-15)

TV revenue alone would have paid for our signings each season.

We had a net transfer spend of:
£65.05m in 2014-15
£126.68m in 2015-16
£161.69m in 2016-17
£203.54m in 2017-18
£18.89m in 2018-19

And for last year, our revenue was £474.35m with a net transfer expenditure of £79.67m.

United have had a transfer expenditure of £1.084bn (Net= £745.98m) since Ferguson left them and they haven’t won or even challenged for the title once, while City Chelsea Leicester and even Liverpool have won titles and even Spurs have challenged for one.

That’s more soulless and hollow than what we’re doing! We’re actually doing something with the money we earn, they’re doing fuck all. They’ve not won a trophy for nearly 4 years. They’re having a soulless and hollow existence of winning fuck all.

I’d go and get a banner made but I’m not a sad ****!
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Excellent research..

However, if I may, I take issue with you regarding your assertion that 'they are doing f-all' with the money that the financial behemoth that is Manchester United generates year upon year?

They are doing plenty with that moolah. Why, they are the very model of financial safeguarding and probity, given that they send so much of it to the warmer climes of Bermuda each and every year! And not forgetting, of course, the additional visits they personally arrange to New York's financial district; those educative spells spent on Wall Street are solely to encourage those ackers to develop into upright, well-rounded resources for the future. And all simply to ensure the benefits will be applied to United's squad, with the sole aim of developing it's performance to even higher levels than those stellar ones being achieved right now.

They look after and care for their money. We certainly could learn from The Glazers and doing things the famous 'United Way'.. we certainly could..
 
Inter Me Nan said:
Can somebody explain what a 'Soulless & hollow club' is?
Because I prefer it to being shit!

They are a great team with a great coach but their club is souless and hollow. Anyone can succeed with a Sheikh bankrolling them. It's like playing video games with cheat codes. Where's the achievement?
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Its like someone, somewhere used the phrase "cheat codes" recently...now EVERYONE has read that post and just regurgitating the same old shite
 
BlueSkinz said:
I think we've found action man

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Fatty Howson, got to be.
 
Lmao they spend as much as we do, difference is they buy guys like Maguire, Wan Bissaka, Pogba and countless other duds, the Lisbon rat is the only big money signing that's worked for them since Ferguson left. look at Chelsea too, how much did they spend on Kepa, Werner, Ziyech, Havertz ? we just spend smarter. sorry about that rags, dippers, and every other moaning fucker.
 
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The bit I find weirdest is their obsession with us buying defenders, as if that is somehow different to buying attackers and not allowed? They bring it up all the time, it's properly weird. Their defence wasn't exactly cheap either, but why on earth would you differentiate between what position you spent money on? It's really odd
 
BigOscar said:
The bit I find weirdest is their obsession with us buying defenders, as if that is somehow different to buying attackers and not allowed? They bring it up all the time, it's properly weird. Their defence wasn't exactly cheap either, but why on earth would you differentiate between what position you spent money on? It's really odd
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The way I look at it is they need to spend a shit loads more money on their defence. So we haven’t done to bad.
 
Chak19 said:
Lmao they spend as much as we do, difference is they buy guys like Maguire, Wan Bissaka, Pogba and countless other duds, the Lisbon rat is the only big money signing that's worked for them since Ferguson left. look at Chelsea too, how much did they spend on Kepa, Werner, Ziyech, Havertz ? we just spend smarter. sorry about that rags, dippers, and every other moaning fucker.
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Di Maria, £59.7m for 32 games; Depay, still only 27 and only played 53 games for them; Lukaku, £75m (plus £15m add-ons) for 96 games and he’s still only 27; Sanchez, £30.6m and £350k/week (which they were still paying him for a year while he was at Inter) for 45 games.

They were all good players. A good management team would have integrated them into their squad and kept hold of them. They might moan less about how “big” City’s squad is if they’d been running their squad properly.

But United are a sacking club now and they’ve not found a management team good enough to integrate them in their, what is it?, four managers since Ferguson left?
 
BigOscar said:
The bit I find weirdest is their obsession with us buying defenders, as if that is somehow different to buying attackers and not allowed? They bring it up all the time, it's properly weird. Their defence wasn't exactly cheap either, but why on earth would you differentiate between what position you spent money on? It's really odd
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Our current first choice back four (Cancelo Dias Stones Zinchenko) cost £171.54m, whereas United’s (WanBissaka Maguire Lindeloff Shaw) cost £193.05m.

Yes, we’ve got another £58m defender on the bench n’all in Laporte. But if United stopped wasting money on the likes of Di Maria, Depay, Lukaku, Sanchez, (and you could bring in Maguire and Pogba to the conversation for overinflated wasted money n’all!) for a total in transfer fees of ~£380m!, they’d have the opportunity to buy eight £47.5m players to get some strength in depth!
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Di Maria, £59.7m for 32 games; Depay, still only 27 and only played 53 games for them; Lukaku, £75m (plus £15m add-ons) for 96 games and he’s still only 27; Sanchez, £30.6m and £350k/week (which they were still paying him for a year while he was at Inter) for 45 games.

They were all good players. A good management team would have integrated them into their squad and kept hold of them. They might moan less about how “big” City’s squad is if they’d been running their squad properly.

But United are a sacking club now and they’ve not found a management team good enough to integrate them in their, what is it?, four managers since Ferguson left?
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Youre forgetting “give it to giggseh”. So 5

dont forget , sacking managers isnt the united way.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Our current first choice back four (Cancelo Dias Stones Zinchenko) cost £171.54m, whereas United’s (WanBissaka Maguire Lindeloff Shaw) cost £193.05m.

Yes, we’ve got another £58m defender on the bench n’all in Laporte. But if United stopped wasting money on the likes of Di Maria, Depay, Lukaku, Sanchez, (and you could bring in Maguire and Pogba to the conversation for overinflated wasted money n’all!) for a total in transfer fees of ~£380m!, they’d have the opportunity to buy eight £47.5m players to get some strength in depth!
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Also it really does have to be mentioned that our current back for only cost £171m due to incredibly obvious figure fudging, unless we are really supposed to believe Benfica paid £20m for Otamendi and Juve paid £30m for Danilo. Valuing Otamendi at even £5m is probably generous, while Danilo probably wouldn't have had any takers at £20m.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Di Maria, £59.7m for 32 games; Depay, still only 27 and only played 53 games for them; Lukaku, £75m (plus £15m add-ons) for 96 games and he’s still only 27; Sanchez, £30.6m and £350k/week (which they were still paying him for a year while he was at Inter) for 45 games.

They were all good players. A good management team would have integrated them into their squad and kept hold of them. They might moan less about how “big” City’s squad is if they’d been running their squad properly.

But United are a sacking club now and they’ve not found a management team good enough to integrate them in their, what is it?, four managers since Ferguson left?
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Sanchez is on closer to 600k a week when you factor in the signing on fee that was built into his weekly wage. For 4.5 years, On a 29yr old, that they spent 35m signing.

But City are ruining football by signing D Silva for 24m and 10 years service.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Di Maria, £59.7m for 32 games; Depay, still only 27 and only played 53 games for them; Lukaku, £75m (plus £15m add-ons) for 96 games and he’s still only 27; Sanchez, £30.6m and £350k/week (which they were still paying him for a year while he was at Inter) for 45 games.

They were all good players. A good management team would have integrated them into their squad and kept hold of them. They might moan less about how “big” City’s squad is if they’d been running their squad properly.

But United are a sacking club now and they’ve not found a management team good enough to integrate them in their, what is it?, four managers since Ferguson left?
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And spent around £50 million paying off the contracts of their failed managers. Could have bought another Wan Bissaka with that money.
 
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