2011/2012

PLAYER FROM FEE DATE

David de Gea Atl Madrid £18,900,000 29 Jun, 2011

Frederic Veseli Man City Signed 31 Jan, 2012

Nick Powell Crewe £4,000,000 12 Jun, 2012

Total: £22,900,000

PLAYERS OUT

Corry Evans Hull Signed 01 Jul, 2011

Nicky Ajose Peterborough Signed 05 Jul, 2011

John O'Shea Sunderland Signed 07 Jul, 2011

Wes Brown Sunderland £1,000,000 07 Jul, 2011

Gabriel Obertan Newcastle Signed 09 Aug, 2011

Owen

Hargreaves Man City Free 31 Aug, 2011

Darron Gibson Everton Signed 13 Jan, 2012

Daniel

Drinkwater Leicester Signed 19 Jan, 2012

Mame Biram

Diouf Hannover Signed 28 Jan, 2012

Ravel Morrison West Ham £650,000 31 Jan, 2012

Matthew James Leicester Signed 15 May, 2012

Ritchie de Laet Leicester Signed 15 May, 2012

Tomasz

Kuszczak Brighton Free 20 Jun, 2012

Total: £1,650,000

PLAYERS RELEASED

Edwin van der Sar 01 Jul, 2011

Liam Jacob 31 May, 2012

De Gea was the only player of note bought and still City won the league on the last day and by goal difference. Not necessary you splurge every season.

You proved my point, 1 or 2 headline players and a net loss..

Certainly wasn't a blow to his career as proven by the fact he is about to walk into one of the 3 biggest jobs in club football.

Yes but it's only because Manchester United are running out of options. They already tried Moyes and LVG before Jose and that didn't work for them.

Mourinho has only ever been about himself. Very good at manipulating media and fans at whatever club he is at to think he is "one of us", which he isn't.

 

Personally I think he has covetted the Man United job, ever since his Porto team faced United in the CL and he got his first look at their place.

 

I think he saw Chelsea stint 1 as a stepping stone, and I am sure he was gutted when he got overlooked for Moyes when Fergie left. With LVG struggling almost from day one, I think he saw his opportunity again to get the one job he really wanted and felt he deserved, and hence all sorts of strange behaviour for about a year before Roman inevitably had to pull the plug. And good riddance in my book. Who needs your football club to be embarrassed week in week out and turned into a bloody circus.

 

Now it's back to being all about Chelsea FC and the team, and how refreshing that is, regardless of whether we ever win any more trophies.

 

It will be absolutely hilarious if United do end up promoting Giggs instead :)

Mourinho has only ever been about himself. Very good at manipulating media and fans at whatever club he is at to think he is "one of us", which he isn't.

 

Personally I think he has covetted the Man United job, ever since his Porto team faced United in the CL and he got his first look at their place.

 

I think he saw Chelsea stint 1 as a stepping stone, and I am sure he was gutted when he got overlooked for Moyes when Fergie left. With LVG struggling almost from day one, I think he saw his opportunity again to get the one job he really wanted and felt he deserved, and hence all sorts of strange behaviour for about a year before Roman inevitably had to pull the plug. And good riddance in my book. Who needs your football club to be embarrassed week in week out and turned into a bloody circus.

 

Now it's back to being all about Chelsea FC and the team, and how refreshing that is, regardless of whether we ever win any more trophies.

 

It will be absolutely hilarious if United do end up promoting Giggs instead :)

 

Does that strange behaviour include winning the league?

 

I know people are looking for reasons why things went the way they did and that will invariably lead to conspiracy theories, and there's a chance you're right but if he was looking for a way out then why sign the new contract? 

 

I think the simple answer is that he was under pressure in his personal life and under pressure in his job, and he simply got frustrated and lashed out. He's done that before both here and at other clubs so it's not totally out of character.

 

You say it's back to being about 'Chelsea and the team' and I'll be honest, I'm finding less and less to identify with each week. A few years ago we had Drogba, Lamps, Ashley, Petr, JT etc. and we had Jose too. I disagree that he wasn't one of us because his personality was so important to creating Chelsea in the post-Abramovich era.

 

This 'Chelsea and the team' feels more soulless than at any time I can remember and that will continue when we lose JT. I totally understand if you don't agree because I'm speaking only about myself, but I think you're being a bit hard on Jose because he's probably going to a rival.

Why sign the new contract ? Er .. maybe the potentially huge pay off ? LOL

 

It's ok .. I know I am in the minority when it comes to my opinion of Mourinho.

You proved my point, 1 or 2 headline players and a net loss..

Then same this season (if Pedro can be counted as headline) and of course a net loss ;)

Why sign the new contract ? Er .. maybe the potentially huge pay off ? LOL

 

It's ok .. I know I am in the minority when it comes to my opinion of Mourinho.

 

Did he get the pay-off? I heard reports that he didn't and the usual thing is for us to pay them up until they get a new job. If that's the case and he was looking for the United role then it's not really an issue.

 

I don't know if you're in the minority, but there's other theories that Roman wanted Guardiola which is why he weakened Jose's squad and even sold Cech against his wishes to a rival. 

Mourinho has only ever been about himself. Very good at manipulating media and fans at whatever club he is at to think he is "one of us", which he isn't.

 

Personally I think he has covetted the Man United job, ever since his Porto team faced United in the CL and he got his first look at their place.

 

I think he saw Chelsea stint 1 as a stepping stone, and I am sure he was gutted when he got overlooked for Moyes when Fergie left. With LVG struggling almost from day one, I think he saw his opportunity again to get the one job he really wanted and felt he deserved, and hence all sorts of strange behaviour for about a year before Roman inevitably had to pull the plug. And good riddance in my book. Who needs your football club to be embarrassed week in week out and turned into a bloody circus.

 

Now it's back to being all about Chelsea FC and the team, and how refreshing that is, regardless of whether we ever win any more trophies.

 

It will be absolutely hilarious if United do end up promoting Giggs instead :)

 

 

Why sign the new contract ? Er .. maybe the potentially huge pay off ? LOL

 

It's ok .. I know I am in the minority when it comes to my opinion of Mourinho.

  

 

In other words, you are saying that one of the most talented and proud managers in the game intentionally appeared inept and incompetent so he could chase one of the most desirable managerial positions in the entire sport? As if that has somehow helped his chances of getting the MUFC job.

 

Why throw the season and put yourself in a weak position to seek the MUFC job when, if Mourinho truely had the backing of the board, you could win very likely win back to back titles and go after the job from a position of huge strength getting not only better compensation, but an ironclad right to demand complete autonomy given how poor MUFC has been?

 

You think his new contract would of stopped such a managerial transfer if he was dead set on it and MUFC, after nothing but disappointment since SAF,  would not have payed whatever it took to get the man who makes SAF's BPL titles won to BPL seasons managed ratio look poor?

 

It's never a good strategy to get fired for incompetence in order to try and get a move to a dream job.  It tends to kind of draw attention to why you shouldnt get said dream job, they probably dont want to hire someone incompetent.  So even if Mourinho truely wanted that MUFC job, I think its pretty clear he isn't stupid enough to go after it in that manner.

 

and I am sure he was gutted when he got overlooked for Moyes when Fergie left.

 

       

 

Tell us another one

 

damn forum wont let me use more laughing faces so I can't adequately express my amusement at this 

Edited February 12, 201610 yr by Stim

Jose FC out in force tonight ... LOL

i would have thought all you Jose fans would have preferred the idea of Jose being intentionally incompetent rather than unintentionally incompetent :)

Why sign the new contract ? Er .. maybe the potentially huge pay off ? LOL

.

Jose actually didn't care much about that payout. He's geo is too big.

What did he got.. around £9.5mil? His ego is much bigger than £9.5mil.

Jose FC out in force tonight ... LOL

 

LOL, you're the one who thinks that MUFC and SAF actually picked Moyes over a Mourinho desperate to join MUFC.

 

The only world that makes sense is the one where SAF intentionally wanted to further secure his legacy by ensuring the manager after him didnt start winning titles.  Because from a football perspective, Mourinho is a guaranteed winner (something the MUFC model has relied on) and Moyes is no closer to the "MUFC way of playing football" as Mourinho is, they are both rather pragmatic defence first managers. 

 

So go on, honestly tell us you think they picked Moyes over a Mourinho who was desperate to manager MUFC. Then carry on with your laughs, there will be a chorus of them to go along with.

i would have thought all you Jose fans would have preferred the idea of Jose being intentionally incompetent rather than unintentionally incompetent :)

To be fair, if this club didn't enjoy the success under Mourinho it did, the club probably wouldn't have as many fans like you.  So Im surprised you're so anti-Mourinho.

Id like to point out Jose didnt take a dime of his payout this time around.

i would have thought all you Jose fans would have preferred the idea of Jose being intentionally incompetent rather than unintentionally incompetent :)

 

 

The fact that Ferguson himself has rubbished this picking moyes over him thing makes me wonder whether it is you being intentionally incompetent.

I'm wondering how many PL titles we would win without Jose in the last 15 years.

Then same this season (if Pedro can be counted as headline) and of course a net loss ;)

However the positions Jose wanted to make competitions for werent addressed as we can clearly see. Our problems this season have stemmed from midfield and defense.

Fergie wasnt signing headline players to fill position they had covered, he was upgrading places his squad was weak

I'm not a big fan of Jose to be honest. All that I'm one of you, beating his chest nonsense. Sexyfootball is spot on. It's all about him. He's a manipulator. He says what people want to hear. If/when he goes to manure will be a massive kick in the teeth to those who idolise him. He then should never be regarded as " one of us"

It was widely reported in Spain that Jose was crying when United passed him over. I don't recall anyone getting sued about that either.

 

I did notice the guaranteed winner falling over his little horse in his first season here, winning .. er .. nothing .. (i.e. even worse than bloody Benitez the previous year !!) ....  or our "winning" first half of the season this year which requires no further embellishment from me I hope! Akin to Charlie Sheen's school of "winning" I guess ...

 

Granted he won the title in his second season with us, but my view is that was more down to Hazard/Fabregas/Costa et al playing their way in the first half of the season, until Jose and his "tactics" stifled the life out of us after Xmas as we limped over the line.

My word that's one massive pile of sh*t you've just written.

My word that's one massive pile of sh*t you've just written.

 

Pretty factually accurate actually.

 

Were we or were we not going very well in that first season until Jose started talking about "someone will beat" us and "little horses". All of a sudden gave all our opponents confidence and we start losing. Terrific !

 

Did he win anything in Season 1 ? Nope

 

Did Benitez win a trophy with us ? Yes

 

Did our form completely fall off a cliff after Xmas last year when JM amped up his negative approach ?  Most with eyes would say yes ...

 

 

sh*t .. as you say ... :)

You're an idiot.

You're an idiot.

 

Wrong again ! Becoming a habit !

LOL, you're the one who thinks that MUFC and SAF actually picked Moyes over a Mourinho desperate to join MUFC.

 

The only world that makes sense is the one where SAF intentionally wanted to further secure his legacy by ensuring the manager after him didnt start winning titles.  Because from a football perspective, Mourinho is a guaranteed winner (something the MUFC model has relied on) and Moyes is no closer to the "MUFC way of playing football" as Mourinho is, they are both rather pragmatic defence first managers. 

 

So go on, honestly tell us you think they picked Moyes over a Mourinho who was desperate to manager MUFC. Then carry on with your laughs, there will be a chorus of them to go along with.

 

Bobby Charlton has just as big an influence at united as Ferguson, he is widely known to be anti Mourinho ...