Luke shaw

[Gabriel]

I take it van Gaal has been watching plenty of PL football to sanction this move?

I think it will be a club move anyway, Shaw is one of the brightest English prospects out there and most if not all the top 4 would want him in their side, plus he is homegrown.

Get the impression Ed Woodward is the one doing the buying, with Moyes having identified the players to purchase.

 

[chris85mcfc]

I take it van Gaal has been watching plenty of PL football to sanction this move?

I think it will be a club move anyway, Shaw is one of the brightest English prospects out there and most if not all the top 4 would want him in their side, plus he is homegrown.

Get the impression Ed Woodward is the one doing the buying, with Moyes having identified the players to purchase.

I'm pretty sure Moyes was given the boot a few weeks ago mate

This would definitely be a 'club' purchase regardless of who is in charge

It wouldn't surprise me if GPC had his eye on him from last season

 

[Gabriel]

I think it will be a club move anyway, Shaw is one of the brightest English prospects out there and most if not all the top 4 would want him in their side, plus he is homegrown.

Get the impression Ed Woodward is the one doing the buying, with Moyes having identified the players to purchase.

I'm pretty sure Moyes was given the boot a few weeks ago mate

This would definitely be a 'club' purchase regardless of who is in charge

It wouldn't surprise me if GPC had his eye on him from last season

Age hasn't completely dulled my senses, thank you. :-)

I read somewhere that Moyes had already agreed a list of targets with Woodward before his departure, and that despite his leaving, the board was quite happy to follow through on their priority deals, and quickly. Should they make a string of signings in the coming weeks, I'll be paying close attention to see whether or not they have a 'Moyes stamp' about them.

 

[chris85mcfc]

Get the impression Ed Woodward is the one doing the buying, with Moyes having identified the players to purchase.

I'm pretty sure Moyes was given the boot a few weeks ago mate

This would definitely be a 'club' purchase regardless of who is in charge

It wouldn't surprise me if GPC had his eye on him from last season

Age hasn't completely dulled my senses, thank you. :-)

I read somewhere that Moyes had already agreed a list of targets with Woodward before his departure, and that despite his leaving, the board was quite happy to follow through on their priority deals, and quickly. Should they make a string of signings in the coming weeks, I'll be paying close attention to see whether or not they have a 'Moyes stamp' about them.

Only winding :)

If they had it in their mind that they were going to sack Moyes I cant imagine they will have sat down with him and discussed his ideas for transfers

If its true about Van Gaal coming in then he will want to be in discussions in signing new players

I would say that signing Shaw is a no brainer, irrespecitve of who is in charge, He's a talented young Englishman so ticks all the boxes.

 

[Gabriel]

I'm pretty sure Moyes was given the boot a few weeks ago mate

This would definitely be a 'club' purchase regardless of who is in charge

It wouldn't surprise me if GPC had his eye on him from last season

Age hasn't completely dulled my senses, thank you. :-)

I read somewhere that Moyes had already agreed a list of targets with Woodward before his departure, and that despite his leaving, the board was quite happy to follow through on their priority deals, and quickly. Should they make a string of signings in the coming weeks, I'll be paying close attention to see whether or not they have a 'Moyes stamp' about them.

Only winding :)

If they had it in their mind that they were going to sack Moyes I cant imagine they will have sat down with him and discussed his ideas for transfers

If its true about Van Gaal coming in then he will want to be in discussions in signing new players

I would say that signing Shaw is a no brainer, irrespecitve of who is in charge, He's a talented young Englishman so ticks all the boxes.

As I said, I'll wait and see who else they sign, but Moyes' strength was identifying young players, and Van Gaal will likely be there for a maximum of 2-3 years, so his input might not have been that significant. The guy Woodward is now the head man, so the decisions being taken are his. If we seriously wanted Shaw, Lallana, or Barkley, then we would have them lined up, but the only boxes they tick are being young and English.

 

[Grieffymcfcctid]

this is one lad i thought we would be in for, class for his age,pace,power,good left foot on him, an can defend too and english.

 

[chris85mcfc]

Age hasn't completely dulled my senses, thank you. :-)

I read somewhere that Moyes had already agreed a list of targets with Woodward before his departure, and that despite his leaving, the board was quite happy to follow through on their priority deals, and quickly. Should they make a string of signings in the coming weeks, I'll be paying close attention to see whether or not they have a 'Moyes stamp' about them.

Only winding :)

If they had it in their mind that they were going to sack Moyes I cant imagine they will have sat down with him and discussed his ideas for transfers

If its true about Van Gaal coming in then he will want to be in discussions in signing new players

I would say that signing Shaw is a no brainer, irrespecitve of who is in charge, He's a talented young Englishman so ticks all the boxes.

As I said, I'll wait and see who else they sign, but Moyes' strength was identifying young players, and Van Gaal will likely be there for a maximum of 2-3 years, so his input might not have been that significant. The guy Woodward is now the head man, so the decisions being taken are his. If we seriously wanted Shaw, Lallana, or Barkley, then we would have them lined up, but the only boxes they tick are being young and English.

Are you honestly saying that Woodward could possibly go ahead and sign a player that has a 'Moyes stamp' on it when the new manager coming in might not want him?

Any signings they make before the new manager comes in would be 'no brainer' signings like Shaw, Barkley, Lallana etc these are players that any manager wouldn't mind having at their disposal

Add in the fact that they tick the young English boxes, oh and the fact that their all very good footballers that would improve any PL squad

 

[Eds]

If Shaw goes to the rags I would percieve that as a backward step. At Southampton he is in a young side with a young manager that plays good football. Goes to the rags he is in ageing squad playing shit football with shit players...

 

[LoveCity]

If Shaw goes to the rags I would percieve that as a backward step. At Southampton he is in a young side with a young manager that plays good football. Goes to the rags he is in ageing squad playing shit football with shit players...

Ready to spend a fortune though, Shaw is the first of 5 or 6. And the lunatic Van Gaal will get more out of a few players like Mata and Van Persie.

FFP in effect here, Southampton selling to United (and Lallana to Liverpool) after building a tidy team that could have gone places. If Cortese was still around, though, it might be different.

At least Reus is staying at BVB, United really wanted him.

 

[Jimfv1]

If Shaw goes to the rags I would percieve that as a backward step. At Southampton he is in a young side with a young manager that plays good football. Goes to the rags he is in ageing squad playing shit football with shit players...

Ready to spend a fortune though, Shaw is the first of 5 or 6. And the lunatic Van Gaal will get more out of a few players like Mata and Van Persie.

FFP in effect here, Southampton selling to United (and Lallana to Liverpool) after building a tidy team that could have gone places. If Cortese was still around, though, it might be different.

At least Reus is staying at BVB, United really wanted him.

Can't see them buying 5 or 6 at this sort of price unless they sell quite a few too.

Good news on Reus though he is a great player, would love to see him at City in the future.


Hopefully we can use Utd as our feeder team instead of Arsenal in the future and if Shaw keeps developing maybe we'll see him at City in the future.


On another note it's good to see another homegrown player at the swamp, another boyhood utd fan who has come through the ranks and will play for them for free. Is it true that we have spent less than utd on each of our left backs but we have bought the league ? This doesn't make sense does it ?