20 Aug 2014 21:06:50
Here is some food for thought, maybe signing top level internationally renowned players is not the way forward. Let's be honest before City signed kompany and zabaletta, very few of us rated them. Who had really heard of freddy ljunberg, viera, petit. Cristiano who? Henry? There are gems out there if you take the trouble to scout players properly. Hummels was cast aside by none other than van gaal at bayern.

Look at Dortmund, they basically almost went bust, so invested in scouting and youth and assembled a squad capable of winning the league and challenging in Europe.

Athletics madrid played good football, have won the Europa league and the league by assembling a balanced team. Don't forget that this is a team the consistently has lost their best players. To the top teams.

There are bigger issues at united and just buying £50m players in not necessarily going to fix them. Albeit getting rid of Woodward, Anderson, cleverly and young would be a good start.

1.) 20 Aug 2014
Right now, I would be very happy if we added, carvalho, clasie and depay to the 3 we already have.

no world class stars but potential wcs in the making. and would cover the areas we need too.

2.) 20 Aug 2014
Finally some sense. Good post

3.) 20 Aug 2014
We had been watching kompany for quite a while before city got him.

4.) 21 Aug 2014
21 Aug 2014 05:11:58
Pacho, I did not say we did not know about kompany, I said we as fans did not rate him. We also scouted henry when he was at juventus. The point is we did not sign them.