• Wintermute7@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    I wonder if Gary Neville will lead the charge into investigating the sales, if they happen. The same way he did with Chelsea selling 2 players to the Saudi League.

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    1 year ago

    Varane is injury prone but to say that Casemiro is washed up is hilarious. Can’t be a stand out when the whole team is under performing especially in a spot light defensive mid. Feels like Casemiro is in no man’s land with no help and they expect him to stop everything on his own.

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    1 year ago

    Wow MUFC got a huge life line

    However they missed out Kim and Rice

    What’s the plan now ?

    • PhD_Cunnilingus@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      There are rumors about Antonio Silva. But Benfica tend to sell for high, so the wallet is gonna bleed.

      Absolutely no idea about DM.

    • peeforPanchetta@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      I dunno if this makes me (and any other Utd fans) feel any better, but we were never getting either of those two. Rice was a pretty long shot all things considered, and Kim would never have chosen us over first team football at BuLi champs Bayern.

      It’s a sad state of things, but United have not been serious contenders for ages now. We shouldn’t be trying to lure in big names with even bigger wages. Our wage structure is already fucked up beyond repair, and we only seem to be making it worse.

        • peeforPanchetta@alien.topB
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          1 year ago

          Kane would’ve only gone to people not in direct competition with Spurs i.e City. Levy wouldn’t have ever sold Kane to a PL rival. It was more wishful thinking on our end. And looking at how shambolic our team currently is, in retrospect it was a great decision by Kane not to come to OT.

          • zackaria00@alien.topB
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            1 year ago

            The problem wasn’t money 100-150m

            But people questioned his age 29, this a guy who is never injury and doesn’t relay on athleticism

            Could play till 38-40

            • PuntoPorPastor@alien.topOPB
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              1 year ago

              The problem was that United wouldn’t get him if Levy could decide it (so this summer) and then they would still’ve been in a hard competition with Real, Bayern and other clubs (if he would’ve gone on a free).

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      1 year ago

      I hope we start from scratch, similar to Arsenal and Liverpool. Just start building a team for the future even if we finish 8th or 10th or whatever. That’s the only way to ensure a stable future.

  • axeunleashed@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Casemiro goes to Saudi I think and Varane is genuinely good enough for any other team in Europe.

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      1 year ago

      Decent bit of money? Who would buy a CB who is almost always injured and a midfielder who is old and fouls like a son of bitch?

    • cGilday@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      Because he clearly took the job after being told to clear out the high earners in the squad. It’s not a coincidence that the 5 top earners when he joined (Ronaldo, DDG, Sancho, Casemiro, Varane) are all either being sold, exiled or terminated

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        1 year ago

        Bollocks, there’s no agenda to get rid of the high earners without obvious season.

        Sancho is SHIT. Lazy, underperforming and did nothing for his entire time here. And his attitude clearly stinks.

        De Gea did not suit any modern team and it’s shown by the fact he’s still without a club.

        Ten Hag repeatedly said he wanted to work with Ronaldo but with no pre season he rotated him, Ronnie didn’t like it and went crying to Piers Morgan. Ten Hag didn’t push him out, Ronnie jumped.

        Case is 31 and having a bad season. Varane is 30 and injury prone. Not exactly ground breaking to be thinking about potential exits for these players

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          Right, it’s just a complete conspiracy that the Glazers who want to save money employed a manager who allowed his best players to be sold at Ajax for profit and are having him replace all the high earners with lower earners. This is all just one big coincidence to you is it?

          It’s crazy how our fans shit on the Glazers while supporting every action of theirs lmao. If it’s just about performance why aren’t Antony or Rashford being pushed out? If it’s about injuries why isn’t Shaw being pushed out? If it’s about having a “bad season” why are all the players on lower wages getting away with it?

          If you think any serious club keeps McTominay and Maguire only to sell Varane and Casemiro then I just don’t know what to tell you at this point

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        1 year ago

        Because he doesn’t know how to man manage at a level beyond the school playground. Management is all about push and pull but he seems to have an approach where he wants everyone to be a little boy. Compare how he manages to how Ancelotti gets the best out of his players. Pep and Klopp are both annoying demanding fuckers but seem to avoid falling out with their best players

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          1 year ago

          Not a single good source has said anything about then falling out btw. People on here just like to talk out of their asses, just like you

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            1 year ago

            Casemiro and Varane mysteriously being left out of his teams for “tactical” reasons, and now they are going to leave. What do you think happened?

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              Have you not watched Varane this season? He has not been up to par. Evans has outplayed him at the age of 38. He was benched for being below standard and Maguire and Evans have stepped up. This is not a slight at EtH’s man management, but an exhibition of it

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                Yes, he has been terrible, especially that Copenhagen game. Many Man U fans were questioning Ten Hag’s decision to leave him out of the starting XI before that though. I think Casemiro was the more puzzling omission, but maybe that was due to him not being fit?

                I’m not saying it’s Ten Hag’s fault, but it does seem like there is something going on there. Maybe I am talking out of my ass but I wouldn’t be surprised.

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      Ten Hag doesn’t want to play him or Maguire on the left side. Maguire’s been in reasonable form so he’s benched Varane. Getting dropped in big games for Evans prob hurts Varane.

      But all that being said it’s just speculation, not long ago we heard reliable stories saying Varane accepted Ten Hag’s decisions to not play him, now the gutter stories saying he was fuming with it.

  • shaka_bruh@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    I got mobbed when I said that the Casemiro transfer was just another shortsighted transfer that United overpaid for, that fee was unjustifiable.

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    1 year ago

    Wouldnt surprise me at all if Case and Fab was 2-3 years older than they say they are… ;-)

    • Spruce-Moose@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      He’s fantastic (Varane and Martinez is comfortably our most comfortable CB partnership) but his fitness has been a significant concern.

  • thatguyad@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    United keep trying to create their own Galacticos but always end up with the Wish equivalent.