It's done.

Mistake.

Wow, Santos and Tielemans? Man Utd are really targeting their problem position.

With that idiot Maresca at Man City and Arsenal not really being that good they might win the league.

stupid.

1 hour ago, PloKoon13 said:

Wow, Santos and Tielemans? Man Utd are really targeting their problem position.

With that idiot Maresca at Man City and Arsenal not really being that good they might win the league.

Don't really know how to read into this, can't figure if you are serious about it, or just taking the piss.

If anything, these are average at best transfers that won't improve them at all. Guess their pull on big names is fading away for the moment if Andrey Santos and Tielemans are the ones they can attract with UCL football.

The talk of United suddenly back in for the big trophies is laughable, people forget they were the only big club in Europe that started 2026 with only one competition to play in having been knocked out by Grimsby in August and knocked out in the FA Cup very early in January 2026. They even had a three-week break from mid March to mid April because of that, when others were playing every three or four days.

Let's watch them this season when the pressure is on and the matches pile up.

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18 minutes ago, petre ispirescu said:

Don't really know how to read into this, can't figure if you are serious about it, or just taking the piss.

If anything, these are average at best transfers that won't improve them at all. Guess their pull on big names is fading away for the moment if Andrey Santos and Tielemans are the ones they can attract with UCL football.

The talk of United suddenly back in for the big trophies is laughable, people forget they were the only big club in Europe that started 2026 with only one competition to play in having been knocked out by Grimsby in August and knocked out in the FA Cup very early in January 2026. They even had a three-week break from mid March to mid April because of that, when others were playing every three or four days.

Let's watch them this season when the pressure is on and the matches pile up.

They're in Europe, they're adding squad depth. Obviously.

13 minutes ago, dermott said:

They're in Europe, they're adding squad depth. Obviously.

Casemiro is gone.

Mainoo, Mount, Santos, Tielemans and Ugarte their central midfielders.

That really is a bang average midfield.

It's not like they qualified for Europe having had a congested season. They had the most favourable schedule a club can ask for.

36 minutes ago, petre ispirescu said:

Don't really know how to read into this, can't figure if you are serious about it, or just taking the piss.

If anything, these are average at best transfers that won't improve them at all. Guess their pull on big names is fading away for the moment if Andrey Santos and Tielemans are the ones they can attract with UCL football.

The talk of United suddenly back in for the big trophies is laughable, people forget they were the only big club in Europe that started 2026 with only one competition to play in having been knocked out by Grimsby in August and knocked out in the FA Cup very early in January 2026. They even had a three-week break from mid March to mid April because of that, when others were playing every three or four days.

Let's watch them this season when the pressure is on and the matches pile up.

They don't have the quality of manager, and they don't have the funds to spend big. They wanted Anderson, Tonali etc. but couldn't get the money. Santos is someone they identified 12 months ago as a player they wanted, and they've reverted back to that despite him not showing he can deliver in the PL. They are gambling.

They'll be there or there abouts in the top 4 race, but won't challenge Arsenal.

We might have a freak season where we do, it depends on us making the quality transfer at CB and CM we need, and our players clicking without Europe.

Stat padding Bruno is going to regress as well when he doesn't have 7 days' rest like last season.

Absolute madness. Yet we keep Lavia

1 hour ago, Andy2461 said:

Absolute madness. Yet we keep Lavia

I guarantee if Man United wanted to spend 40m+ on Lavia we'd have sold him. They don't. No one does.

Ffs!!!!! We easily have 8 players that we should be cashing in before Santos. 50m is the bare minimum you could sign him for. I really hate this club.

I am not as fussed about this one as some are.

There are certainly a lot of other players who i would rather see leave before Santos however I'm not convinced he is going to develop into anything over and above a good but not a great player. I feel £50m is probably about right and, given our self inflicted, financial challenges was an offer we had to accept.

36 minutes ago, KonaKai Blue said:

Ffs!!!!! We easily have 8 players that we should be cashing in before Santos. 50m is the bare minimum you could sign him for. I really hate this club.

They are just not capable of conducting these deals. Cucurella and Santos left the club despite these fking morons not because of them. I have no confidence that these idiots are capable of selling anyone. The only players they can buy are kids taken out of their environments which we overpay for with promises of bright lights, big city

Someone, anyone, convince me that these f**kwits aren't deliberately trying to kill Caicedo.

12 hours ago, DarkMata said:

Predicting Madueke and Jackson are to be sold, come on mystic Bob I wanted them both gone having seen them play for a month. Cucu basically came out saying the club is a shambles and he wants out. No doubt from me he'd still be here if that's what he wanted, not exactly forced out for profit.

Have any of our best player been sold or have they all been deemed not good enough? Selling Juan Mata was a million times worse than this.

It looks like blue co is right after all. Some fans like this.

It is rare for a big team willing to sell srarter/key rotation player. But under blue co we have constant player turnover every season and I see fans like this.

2 hours ago, KonaKai Blue said:

Ffs!!!!! We easily have 8 players that we should be cashing in before Santos. 50m is the bare minimum you could sign him for. I really hate this club.

2 hours ago, KonaKai Blue said:

No we don't. Santos is arguably our most sellable asset.

1 hour ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Someone, anyone, convince me that these f**kwits aren't deliberately trying to kill Caicedo.

I may have got it wrong, but what I get from that is that by August we'll have signed some players from the "plan" and will have a squad able to compete. Surely that means a new partner for Caicedo and I do think he's not really counting on Enzo staying even though he's mentioned they've talked a bit.