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22 Jul 2024 07:56:56
Links with ricardo Rios at palmeiras, I know absolutely nothing about him! Anybody know if he's any good?
1.) 22 Jul 2024 08:55:59
Dunno whether it’s a slow day for transfer rumours but reports also about PSG being interested in Sancho and Bruno Fernandes….
2.) 22 Jul 2024 09:12:08
Ugarte or Simons swap for Sancho. Job done.
3.) 22 Jul 2024 09:29:48
Tim_99, I’ve watched a couple of 3 minute video compilations of him since I first heard of him yesterday and can confirm he’s probably the best CM in the world currently.
4.) 22 Jul 2024 09:49:19
Not a clue, although with my skepticism cap on I strongly suspect this is one of those occasions where an agent has thrown our name out to try and drum up interest in their client.
The initial report says that United are "considering making a bid", which is just the kind of line used to justify printing something they know isn't true.
If we think about it logically how would any reporter/ journalist know what the clubs intentions are?
No one at the club with any real power or insight would speak to a journalist or anyone about what the plans are.
Journalist/ reporter's can only accurately say what has happened, or quote someone, not what might happen, or what a club/ businesses intentions are.
If the report said the club had scouted a player, or had a meeting with a club/ agent about a player, then that sounds more accurate. They are reporting what has happened without adding any conjecture to it.
When they simply say "X club is maybe, possibly, considering making a bid for X player" you can pretty much write that off as click bait.
In the case of Richard Rios, he is a player whose recently turned 24, hasn't been seriously linked with any major European clubs previously. He's had a decent Copa America and I expect his agent is trying to drum up interest while the irons hot so to speak.
Expect to see him go to a mid-tier club in Spain or Portugal in a few weeks time.
All that said, with INEOS now pulling the strings there is a slim chance that this might have a slither of truth in it. Yet I highly doubt it.
5.) 22 Jul 2024 11:58:25
Ideally they sign sancho and Bruno. That should be a dream scenario imo.
6.) 22 Jul 2024 12:30:58
Sancho and Bruno out, Ugarte and Olmo in?
06 Jul 2024 22:36:13
Donny off to Girona for 500k apparently. Meagre fee but it's clears the wages off the books and gives him the chance for a fresh start elsewhere. Lots of poor signings now needing cleared up by INEOS but we are getting there. Be interesting to see if there's anything on greenwood or sancho this week.
1.) 07 Jul 2024 06:52:18
Do you think if we hadn't been paying huge wages to attract players, it would have been easier to offload everyone?
2.) 07 Jul 2024 07:42:16
That's pretty embarrassing. He has been our worst signing in terms of quality imo in the last 10 years. No idea why we bought him and what we saw to convince us to buy him.
3.) 07 Jul 2024 08:24:44
From Romano:
Small initial fee, easy add-ons up to €4/ 5m and then more add-ons up to €10/ 15m.
In all honesty I'm delighted we are getting anything for him after going on loans that he failed to shine on.
4.) 07 Jul 2024 10:37:55
Girona and Donny might actually work out!
5.) 07 Jul 2024 11:00:16
I really feel for the guy, he is a talented player but for one reason or another it's all just gone wrong for him.
Several injuries and no clear idea of how to play him or where meant that he never got a chance to play a run of games and settle into the team.
His loans have seen similar issues where he has had niggling injuries and failed to play a run of games.
Personally I think a big part of the issue is that he plays best as a second striker, playing more advanced and with more freedom than a traditional No.10. Unfortunately very few teams play with such a player so he's often forced to play a more restrictive role.
In terms of position/ role he is similar to his father-in-law Dennis Bergkamp (obviously not on the same level in terms of quality and technical ability) or Eric Cantona.
He is best suited to a withdrawn striker type role, where he's not a lead the line striker, but he's more advanced than where any of the midfield would play and isn't a midfielder either.
The most similar player currently playing I can think of is Thomas Muller. That player who doesn't have the raw pace to play wide, isn't striker or a midfielder, but plays as the link man between the two, floating around to find pockets of space to facilitate quick one twos to play through a defence. With him often then being that late runner into the box to score.
It's a fairly unique role and really requires the team to be set up around such a player. Yet with Bruno at United he was never going to get to play in such a role.
I wish him well, and we all move on. Hopefully learning the lessons of scouting players for a specific role rather than signing good players because they are available.
6.) 07 Jul 2024 12:10:00
Not sure what we saw to convince us to buy him Ahmed? Simple, he was great in that Ajax team, can’t be denied.
7.) 07 Jul 2024 13:41:38
That team was really a one session wonder. None of them have gone on to excel anywhere. None as bad as dvb though it has to be said.
Hopefully if we do sign de ligt he will buck the trend of expensive moves with the clubs getting little or no return from any of them.
8.) 07 Jul 2024 23:02:37
Donny always tried and must curse the day he signed for us. The guy undoubtedly has talent and most of us were excited when he arrived. Bad managers, teammates who didn't put the requisite effort in and sometimes even deliberately did not pass to him plus his injuries meant he really had no chance to shine. I don't recall him complaining. Can't we just wish him well.
9.) 08 Jul 2024 07:50:07
I wish DvB all the very best at Girona. But we can dress it up and make excuses all we like, fact is, he was rubbish.
{Ed025's Note - i have to agree Fireman, he came on loan to Everton because we were god damn awful mate....and he actually made us worse!!..
10.) 08 Jul 2024 09:47:30
Salford, I like him and wish him well. But that's a lot of excuses for a guy who didn't take his chances when he got them. I can't remember one game where he stood out in any way.
01 Jul 2024 08:46:48
Dan Ashworth is our first signing of the window. Looks like we are working behind the scenes on lots of things. Could be a busy few weeks.
23 Jun 2024 14:44:40
Rumours RVN has been approached to be part of Erik's coaching staff, also been linked with Burnley job so will be interesting to see if anything happens there and if he comes what exactly his role is.
1.) 23 Jun 2024 16:41:41
Easy to get sentimental about possible appointments like this. Best out and out striker signed by Sir Alex. Absolute class especially considering the injury he recovered from. If he can coach as well as he played then some career awaits.
2.) 23 Jun 2024 18:26:07
He's proven himself to be a very good coach, and if he can work with EtH then he could bring something to the team.
Rumours that EtH's assistant Mitchell van Der Gaag isn't well liked within the club and that he's upset many people both players and management staff.
Supposedly the club want to replace him, they looked at Gary O'Neil, and now at RvN.
Without knowing exactly what is going on inside the club it's hard to know how much truth there is the these rumours and whether someone like RvN would benefit the team. Like I said he's certainly a good coach.
3.) 23 Jun 2024 19:15:55
Ask Ahmad he will know.
4.) 23 Jun 2024 20:15:50
Now there is a discussion, best striker signed by Fergie maybe McClair, Yorke, Cole, Ole, Ruud, VP or Berbatov. No wingers or player makers who converted.
5.) 23 Jun 2024 20:52:55
He comes in, and ETH doesn't do well.
He will be interim by Xmas ?.
6.) 23 Jun 2024 20:53:15
Ruud all day Grim.
7.) 23 Jun 2024 21:14:38
Grim,
I never really rated Berbatov that highly.
8.) 23 Jun 2024 22:21:31
I agree, it's Ruud easily for me.
As for Ruud as a coach, I would have thought he would be in line for a manager job somewhere, so would have thought it most likely he takes up that position somewhere. Seems to think highly of ETH though from comments he has made.
9.) 23 Jun 2024 22:37:33
Gnev
I ma actually in the UK at Coworths park for an engagement party and races and had a few united people here.
IF RVP is coming in and being considered for a role he may be a replacement for McCarthy, who is useless and stealing a wage and contrary to the bs you read not liked at all by the striker group.
Shappy
Van der Gaag is not going anywhere and will be renewed as part of the coaching staff and said it all along a while ago ETH was never begging or lying down to save his job and he was very clear as far as he saw things. The manager is the least of our problem and Mclaren and the rest had no interest to continue if he went.
10.) 23 Jun 2024 23:19:24
Grim I’ll answer that and for me it’s ruud. He had everything and unlike Cole he was clinical. Absolute menace to defenders, both feet, good in the air and had a decent amount of pace. Brilliant brilliant player.
11.) 24 Jun 2024 17:43:28
Cheers ahmad, i thought it was to replace mvg as the players and him don’t get along.
12.) 24 Jun 2024 17:52:35
Can I count Rooney among the best strikers? He's be my pick.
13.) 24 Jun 2024 18:06:22
Was Rooney bought as a striker or No.10, think his first game he played behind Ruud.
14.) 24 Jun 2024 18:11:41
What nonsense that the striker group doesn’t like Benni, you can see for yourself in videos and there’s video of Bruno glowing over him.
15.) 24 Jun 2024 18:12:52
Bit ignorant of me but can someone fill me in? What was Ruud like as manager? I didn’t see any of his reign in the Dutch league. What would he bring to the table?
And to answer your question Grim, Ruud was the best natural goal scorer but Cole is my favourite. Always questioned during his time and will always be remembered for the misses against West Ham when Blackburn won the league. One of the best in that era though.
16.) 24 Jun 2024 22:00:32
Berbatov was a class player. Just watch the videos of him. Brilliant. Did he reach the peak he shouldn’t have? Perhaps not.
17.) 25 Jun 2024 02:13:11
Rvn was the best goal scorer I've seen in my 50 years supporting. Brilliant finisher only scored once from outside the box in his whole united career. Hold up play was second only to mark Hughes imo.
Rooney and Cantona I don't count as strikers as they were much more influential in other areas than a traditional striker.
His instinct and timing was near perfect in the box.
Like someone said above I've not followed his coaching career but I've no doubt he will improve rasmus and all our wide players.
Ruud has always said Beckham was his dream player to play with because if he made a run he knew the ball would be there. If he can get our wide players crossing the ball I'm quite sure we would score more goals. Improve our delivery into the box with effective coaching and our goals output will improve. I'm not sure what his role will be so it will be interesting to see what he will bring to the party.
The fact he knows the epl and the club will be helpful to the whole team and add another new dynamic.
Hopefully it happens and works out well.
18.) 25 Jun 2024 10:12:13
Forget him as a coach, I'd put him in the XI!
19.) 25 Jun 2024 18:28:48
Berbatov was a magician on his day, very underrated. His 1st touch was different level.
21 Jun 2024 23:15:46
SJR confirming what I was asking yesterday that UEFA won't allow us to sign todibo due to their multi club rule and both clubs membership of the Europa league next season. Really unfair on the player if u ask me but there u go! There's probably a loophole somewhere which I'm sure city or Chelsea would find but I guess we will just move on. Ironically if we had lost the FA cup final we could have signed him no bother. ??♂️.
1.) 22 Jun 2024 08:38:30
Utterly ridiculous if you ask me. Surely the concerns with the multi-club model is either that they buy/ sell players between clubs with unrealistic transfer fees either on the cheap or overly inflated as a way to pass money between the clubs to meet financial rules. Or that there could be questions raised over sporting integrity if both clubs faced eachother in a competition.
If they are allowing both clubs to compete in the same competition then they must be satisfied that it won't impact the sporting integrity of the competition.
So then it just comes down to potential financial issues.
Yet those financial issues do not change depending on whether the clubs are in the same or different European competition.
Why is it acceptable for a transfer to happen with one in the UCL and the other in the Europa league, but not if they are both in the same competition (Europa league)?
It makes no sense.
If they said both teams can't compete in the same competition I'd understand.
If they had a blanket ban on transfers between clubs linked via a multi-club model, then I'd understand.
But this decision makes absolutely no sense. I also wonder whether it would actually stand up to legal challenge. You can't restrict someone's right to work without an exceptional reason. By refusing to allow Todibo to move to Manchester United they are restricting his right to work where and for who he wants.
I'm not saying the club should pursue legal action, just that if it was I'd be intrigued to see on what basis UEFA tried to justify the violation of article 23 of the human rights convention.
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12 Jan 2025 22:14:16
Still trying to work out how deligt cleared that off the line. And his reaction. brilliant! Think we are now starting to see him show his form, really pleased for him and Harry 2. Both been excellent the last 2 games.
1.) 13 Jan 2025 01:49:10
He was very good today. You could see how charged he was.
10 Jan 2025 14:31:21
Bayindir in goal Sunday, against the best set piece team in the country ??♂️??♂️Let's hope he doesn't repeat his spurs performance from the other week. big big risk!
1.) 10 Jan 2025 17:18:45
Or gives him a chance at redemption and motivated to put in an improved performance, he did the same to Zirkzee.
2.) 11 Jan 2025 18:34:48
Problem is that Arsenal are the best at corners and he didn't seem particularly strong or. Confident at dealing with them on his last appearance. R A will look silly I we concede from a corner due to the keeper.
07 Jan 2025 23:51:25
Just watched the Sir Alex Documentary on the BBC. the nostalgia is hitting me hard lol. Times aren't great now but this club will rise again and the good times will be back! I'm sure of it.
05 Jan 2025 19:36:13
Amorim post match interview was ? he gets it and he addressed the mentality issue as one of our biggest problems. give this guy time and the tools and I fully believe he will get us going in the right direction.
1.) 05 Jan 2025 20:33:46
I totally agree, he was right he should be mad because why can we put a shift in today and it be missing all those other weeks.
I like hearing him talk, it isn't about systems or him getting time with the players. Firstly it's about effort a commitment and desire to win, that's the basic starting block. As he always says you have to suffer and today the players did and they got something out of a game no one was expecting.
2.) 05 Jan 2025 20:48:18
Shh Tim don't let the others know he's been doing more interviews. They'll lose their minds.
3.) 05 Jan 2025 22:59:14
3 interviews in a day, he should be training! xD.
4.) 06 Jan 2025 05:47:46
He was trying to address the million dollar question that has been evading this team/ club for years.
How can they give this level of performance today and then not care tomorrow?
The argument that these players are not good enough doesn't cut it.
Will over skill every single time.
Good on them last night, but let's see them do it on a consistent basis. Here's hoping RA can have success where so many others have failed.
5.) 06 Jan 2025 09:01:19
I don't get the hate over the interviews.
Personally I think his interviews are a breath of fresh air, he's honest, clear, but he doesn't shirk responsibility and he doesn't throw players under the bus even when critiquing the team performance.
He's able to say that a player has made a mistake, while also not pining the result on that player. He takes the responsibility for the result and the performances.
He doesn't whine or complain, even when saying about the challenges he is facing, he doesn't use them as an excuse. Just that he and his coaches are learning and adapting, and that the aim is to keep improving.
He totally gets it from a fans perspective, he knows what we want to see and what he and the team need to do to get the fans on side.
He is also clearly very astute and has picked up on the issues this team has had for a long time. The mentality issue, the need to be challenged and to rise to that challenge, the need for leaders and for the players to take responsibility and gain resilience.
He knows what he needs to do, and I think he knows how to do it. What he needs now is time and support from the club to rebuild this team.
I'm confident that he is the right man to take us forward and get us back to where we need to be.
He ticks every possible box.
Tactically intelligent, tick.
Enigmatic, tick.
A leader, tick.
Good record with developing young players, tick.
Plays good football (ideally with wing play), tick.
Good with the media, tick.
Can handle the pressure, tick.
Track record of winning things (and rebuilding a fallen top club), tick.
This is the guy, and with INEOS now running the football side of the club he might have joined at the right time.
Let him cook.
6.) 06 Jan 2025 09:03:23
Given the time and backing RA is the man to define our future.
7.) 06 Jan 2025 13:01:01
Angel,
I do agree, it doesn't make much sense how we can go from turgid one week to really good the next, although I think far too much was made of the Newcastle game to be honest, we played without our 3 best midfielders and conceded 2 really soft goals, Newcastle were fantastic in the first 25 minutes but after that when we put Mainoo on we were the better side but couldn't create anything as always happens when Bruno isn't on the pitch.
What I would say is that we have had some ok results in recent times against top teams but I don't remember us being the better side too often to be honest. Maybe Liverpool just had an off day yesterday, maybe they expected to win easily and underestimated us, or maybe we played our best 11 and stopped them from playing, time will tell as to whether we can now kick on.
05 Jan 2025 15:57:58
Sat hoping for a Fulham equaliser against Ipswich. strange times lol.
17 Dec 2024 22:24:56
Wont be too sorry for either…talent maybe but mentality is a massive issue for both. We all knew something like this needed to happen and if it takes some so called fans too then so be it. Ragnick said this club needed open heart surgery, looks like now’s the time.
10 Dec 2024 14:27:57
Never fulfilled his talent and quite honestly his head is up his a***. If we can find a buyer then great, it’s not like he’s a massive contributor on the pitch and saving his wages and setting a precedent is well worth it. No point being ruthless unless we apply it to the biggest culprits…the players.
05 Aug 2024 21:40:17
Our midfield options are eriksen, Casemiro, mctominay, kobbie, Bruno and mount…. we are screwed. Awful other than kobbie and Bruno, mount no idea where he plays and the others are woeful. Teams running free at our back 4 again next season.
17 Jul 2024 20:51:11
Madrid are for putting a new bid in apparently. He’ll end up there, get the feeling all the noise today was to speed them up and give them a prod to get moving. It’s clearly worked.
25 Jun 2024 23:31:11
Bid rejected out of hand apparently. Duno if we will go further or what’s happening!
12 Jan 2025 22:59:32
He’s only in phase 5…. give him time! ?.
12 Jan 2025 22:16:04
Doubt it Eric, probably planning his next interview or Pr piece. He may be talented but quite honestly he’s not worth the hassle with the attitude he has.
08 Jan 2025 12:15:21
Be glad when he’s gone, albeit likely just a loan. Just don’t get it with him, application and desire massively lacking but an ego the size of greater Manchester. We will definitely need someone brought in but none of the names floating about fill me with much optimism, we shall see.
03 Jan 2025 19:54:28
Not sure how he fits going forward especially as he loses even more pace, however unlike others he works hard and hasn’t complained. Seems like a good personality and god do we need more of them. We have so many holes to fill it’s going to take some time to get this squad in shape so keeping Harry makes sense.
03 Jan 2025 17:14:41
The worst by some margin is Michael Owen ‘it only takes 2 headers to score a goal’ ?.