01 Sep 2023 16:40:34
Redseven,

If I am honest I am not too bothered regarding Rice. He's a good player and yes I wanted us to sign him, but Amrabat is a good player too and far cheaper.

Onto my next point. With Amrabat being cheaper, could we not have went all out for Kane. Forgot Mount and Hojlund? Idk, personally yes, but not sure if it was possible.

But for me Kane was a no brainer and just a clear example of our penny pinching. Five years of Kane, his goals, the confidence and respect he would have commanded was the way to go.

But he was expensive. His overall package was expensive. I hope Mount and Hojlund work out to be great signings, but we missed a trick here and it's the first time being a United fan that I feel short changed.

We wanted Kane, he would have likely came to United. We missed out. That's so unlike Manchester United. He had Manchester United written all over him.

1.) 01 Sep 2023
01 Sep 2023 16:56:23
Think Kane was more an issue of how much Levy would have wanted from a premier league side and his wages meant the whole package was too much. Can all agree he would have been great for us for 2-3 years and possibly won us the league but we have to be a little sensible paying so much for players at his age.

2.) 01 Sep 2023
01 Sep 2023 17:05:25
Daniel Levy would've made it so difficult for us to sign Kane. From a spurs point of view, Bayern is the best place they could sell him as he had to be sold.

Would they really want their talisman going to a competitor in the same league? I'm not even sure that it was a possibility for us to sign him.

I'm sure an unlimited amount of money would solve the problem but, we're not that club anymore.

The business done this summer has been okay considering the restrictions. Let's hope the new faces settle quickly to help us improve on last season.

3.) 01 Sep 2023
01 Sep 2023 17:07:24
We all wanted kane but transfer fee plus wages over term of his contract would have been something I imagine we couldn’t justify at the moment unfortunately!

4.) 01 Sep 2023
01 Sep 2023 17:40:50
Chris not “all of us wanted Kane”. I for one didn’t.

5.) 01 Sep 2023
01 Sep 2023 17:47:03
Is this a response to something I posted a few weeks ago or something? I have a vague recollection of saying (or at least thinking) that we’d have been better off signing Rice, Raya, and Kane rather than Mount, Onana, and Hoijlund, but it certainly wasn’t anytime recently.

Fwiw, I don’t disagree with anything you’re saying here, though barring some miraculous flurry of activity in the next few hours, I can’t help but feel that this has been yet another failed window.

6.) 01 Sep 2023
01 Sep 2023 17:59:47
Sorry Redseven, I meant United-Stand.

7.) 01 Sep 2023
01 Sep 2023 18:12:50
Haha. No worries. You had me worried that I was going senile for a second there.

8.) 01 Sep 2023
01 Sep 2023 18:42:59
I’m really not sure anyone can mention Rice and Amrabat in the same breath! Or did Ten see something no other manager did?

9.) 01 Sep 2023
01 Sep 2023 18:57:01
Rice is completely over rated and over hyped. Good player but not the be all and end all particularly for the moment he was bought for.

Amrabat could be a much better signing.

10.) 01 Sep 2023
01 Sep 2023 19:08:09
Who knows Trafford, but we certainly couldn't afford to spend 100m on rice.

11.) 01 Sep 2023
01 Sep 2023 19:10:40
I love Rice, I see him getting better amd better at a 'big' club. I wasn't sold on Kane but get how he would have made a difference in the short term, whereas Rice would have been around for years.

12.) 01 Sep 2023
01 Sep 2023 19:39:39
Rice is an exceptional player, even Pep would have jumped at Rice if Rodri was leaving anytime soon, will make any other team better, strong, physical, good football brain, can see a pass can stroll a game, makes everything look so easy, never flustered hardly ever caught out of position, makes everything look simple.
Kane another exceptional player, goes to new country, new culture new league, bang 3 goals 2 games, don’t need all the settling in crap that’s used.
Buying them two and no one else would have certainly improved our team beyond all recognition and not even a gamble, we spent a fortune and everyone of them is a gamble and questionable even if they perform to top of there ability they make us any stronger.