19 Aug 2015 19:22:44
Dwight Yorke on Bein Sports and saying he finds this whole Saga unbelievable especially when the United Chief Executive flies out to Barcelona just days ago.

It is quite a bit of mismanagement of the situation and a PR Shamble that comes with it for a publicly listed company whether you rate the player or don't and whether you think we need him or not.

1.) 19 Aug 2015
19 Aug 2015 19:34:18
Sharahm, that was the point Danny was making earlier, which I agreed with. Think we've been lumped in with the chicken licken brigade, tho :)

As regards whether or not he is good enough, personally, for the money involved, I think he would have been a good addition to the squad. But I'm not going to lose any sleep over not getting him.

2.) 19 Aug 2015
19 Aug 2015 19:39:04
Now that is a reasonable argument to have mate! Losing your rocks on missing out on Pedro is not lol.

3.) 19 Aug 2015
19 Aug 2015 19:39:09
Well said! I'm not as bothered about it for not getting Pedro. Its more it puts the club in a bad light!

4.) 19 Aug 2015
19 Aug 2015 19:40:10
Exactly GCU. It's not about whether we think Pedro would improve us, the fact is LVG does. It's a massive PR embarrassment with Woodword flying out and coming back without the player, and all this talk of LVG pulling the plug and bids for Muller and Mane (players we won't sign this summer) is designed to save face and placate naive supporters who desperately want to believe that we must have something else in the pipeline.

The truth is our spend this summer is pitifully low (especially considering the money we shifted from the wage bill) for a team supposedly intent on challenging for a title. Now we're going to have to scramble for players like two summers ago, or pretend that we already have a title winning squad.

5.) 19 Aug 2015
19 Aug 2015 19:54:06
Completely agree, we are quick beco,I got a laughing stock. We wanted Otamendi but were haggling over the price so City breeze in and take him. The fact Ed flew to Barcelona only to lose him is ridiculous. As I gphave said many times, if we have a strategy we are keeping it well hidden. I suspect we will see a stupid panic buy on deadline day

6.) 19 Aug 2015
19 Aug 2015 20:18:46
Noucamp

I am not losing sleep over it either and agree he would have improved us.

Danny

Our spend this year net is under 20 million pounds which is lower tier PL teams expenditure, so it is a bit of a puzzle and stuff like today makes you wonder as AJH says is there even a strategy in place and who is making decisions. the manager said the process as he calls it started in January so bewildered how we can do some of this stuff lol.

Just bizarre and by any measure we are the biggest or second biggest club in the work and you never see stuff like this happen to Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern.

A lot of senior people in the corporate world will get sacked for stuff like this as the pr shamble is not acceptable to large organisations. I worked for one and everything you do is well thought trough because of the possible media exposure and damage to the brand.

Dread to think what we will do in the next 10 days lol.

7.) 19 Aug 2015
19 Aug 2015 20:11:26
But didn't Ed01 say he had no real desire to come to united? Maybe Edwood saw this and thought 'you know what, jog on'.
Who knows?.

😒

8.) 19 Aug 2015
19 Aug 2015 20:24:08
There are reports that we gave up our interest in Pedro last week. I don't know if that is true but if it is then Woodward was not in Spain sorting a deal for him and may have been doing other business. If that is true then the only reason we look bad is due to the press reporting. Let's not get too down on the powers that be.

9.) 19 Aug 2015
19 Aug 2015 20:36:15
Shahram, my money is on Charlie Austin

10.) 19 Aug 2015
19 Aug 2015 20:56:22
AJH

LOL some might actually believe you and you will start a riot. My money is on ska estories off bale, muller and now griezeman and rues reappearing but before that i think Gaitan will be the key story:)

11.) 19 Aug 2015
19 Aug 2015 21:18:28
To my food friend god created. So you would have us spend 150 million on duds like falcao and a snieveling weasel like adm. Or would you rather spend decent money and bring in some players who actually want to and will play for the club. And with regards to Pedro we were not his first choice apparently so screw him mate. Because with januzaj and perriera in the wings we have plenty of cover on the wings.So, stop moaning .Had we missed on a marquee player the whining would be sensible but its not a bale or areus its Pedro. So, stop worrying I'd rather not have a player whose first preference is not us. Look at where it led to when signed Mr weasel