Manchester United Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread - Mod Notes in OP,22/7

Larry Wildman

redbaron_99 wrote: »

I'm sorry in advance for posting this.

Sir Alex Ferguson on BBC 5live: "The club is working on bringing a familiar face back to OT next season."

People assume that it's Ronaldo.

It's probably Gary Neville.

redbaron_99

I think we have enough of the class of 92 around. And reading quotes from Paul Scholes lately, doesn't make me want them hanging around too much.

MagicIRL

René Meulensteen?

Will I Amnt

Does anybody truly believe Fergie would be giving little teasers like that to the BBC?

Trust nothing this time of year, join me on the cynical side, where your hopes shall never be raised therefore never be crushed. Join me and my indestructible hopes.

RobbingBandit

zorro2566 wrote: »

A few Irish lads there!

Some hairdo on Paul McGrath up the back.

Deiseboy01

Al Capwned wrote: »

Alistair Ferguson just retweeted this...

Mike Keegan ‏@mikekeeganbbc 6m
They don't do kit launches like they used to at Old Trafford

We used to have one of them stereos bottom right.

This is my era. Someone put me out of my misery, who's the bloke in between Gibson and Albiston?

Thats the two lads front row right for you whipper snappers!

Ed The Equalizer

Deiseboy01 wrote: »

This is my era. Someone put me out of my misery, who's the bloke in between Gibson and Albiston?

Thats the two lads front row right for you whipper snappers!

At first glance I thought Peter Barnes?

And Gidman, not Gibson I think

Rubber_Soul

redbaron_99 wrote: »

It's going around like wild fire. F*cking social media. Impossible to trace the origin!!

Pretty easy actually

https://twitter.com/Keith_Russell/status/486225732025454592

https://twitter.com/Keith_Russell/status/486226370209386498

umop.episdn

Deiseboy01 wrote: »

This is my era. Someone put me out of my misery, who's the bloke in between Gibson and Albiston?

Thats the two lads front row right for you whipper snappers!

Crap, it's Peter Bodak I think

Corvo

Reuters reporting that Nike are pulling the plug on the kit deal, which means Adidas are due to step in.

Yay! Better jerseys!!

HaveASnickers

Corvo wrote: »

Reuters reporting that Nike are pulling the plug on the kit deal, which means Adidas are due to step in.

Yay! Better jerseys!!

I'd rather more money for more players.

The_Kew_Tour

Can we get more money and better kits, please.

HaveASnickers

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Can we get more money and better kits, please.

I think the new kit is pretty nice, apart from the big badge. The chevy logo is pretty nice...it's growing on me.

The button isn't great either though.

n32

That kit launch picture from the 1980s makes you realise that they dont make managers with ron atkinsons sense of style anymore. Cream suit, jewellery, sunglasses and a year round tan, what a man!

Deiseboy01

umop.episdn wrote: »

Crap, it's Peter Bodak I think

Thats some call. I would never have got that, never even heard of him.

Toak, yes Gidman. My bad, its been 30 yrs tho!

IvySlayer

redbaron_99 wrote: »

I'm sorry in advance for posting this.

Sir Alex Ferguson on BBC 5live: "The club is working on bringing a familiar face back to OT next season."

Scholes is coming out of retirement :pac:

redbaron_99

StarshipPooper wrote: »

Pretty easy actually

https://twitter.com/Keith_Russell/status/486225732025454592

https://twitter.com/Keith_Russell/status/486226370209386498

Oh, the cheeky chappy! Oh well, at least it was a brief moment of excitement on an otherwise mundane Monday.

Ed The Equalizer

Never heard of Peter Bodak either... my time started 85

HaveASnickers

Looks like Liverpool are getting 75m pounds for Suarez. What are Barca thinking. They badly need a defender to replace Puyol and a midfielder to replace Xavi.

Transfer fees are gone crazy. I remember years ago when Abrahmovic first came to Chelsea...SkySports News broke a story that an English club had bid 35m pounds for Nesta. That was HUGE money back then. They said only two clubs could afford that at the time...Man Utd and Chelsea. How times have changed. How long before we see 100m pounds being broken?

Mr_Red

Manchester United's Nike kit deal set to end as sportswear giant questions 'commercial sense'

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/manchester-uniteds-nike-kit-deal-3825680#ixzz36oslFXFX
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Rayne Wooney

I'd take 4th right now, with a big improvement in the way we play. It's so important that we get back in the CL after last season

Chelsea and City will be the front two, Arsenal if they add 1 or 2 with Sanchez and don't have their annual injury crises I'd have them level or just a bit behind. Liverpool losing Suarez is great for us and their additions so far aren't worrying at all for me.

redbaron_99

HaveASnickers wrote: »

Looks like Liverpool are getting 75m pounds for Suarez. What are Barca thinking. They badly need a defender to replace Puyol and a midfielder to replace Xavi.

Transfer fees are gone crazy. I remember years ago when Abrahmovic first came to Chelsea...SkySports News broke a story that an English club had bid 35m pounds for Nesta. That was HUGE money back then. They said only two clubs could afford that at the time...Man Utd and Chelsea. How times have changed. How long before we see 100m pounds being broken?

Insane money for a player who is one rash moment from getting a year long ban IMO. But I don't mind too much; it means Barca have blown their load on one player and aren't competing with us for signings like Carvalho, Vidal, etc.
And Liverpool look to be squandering the money on very average players.

A waste of money all round.

Blatter

I expected the team to be either challenging for the league or on the cusp of it next season.

Plenty of talent, proper manager, nice set of opening fixtures for the initial bedding in period and no Europe.

Headshot

Suraez and barca deserve each other....

tupac_healy

Headshot wrote: »

Suraez and barca deserve each other....

The way things are going at Barca I agree with this, so proud of their academy, yet they need to spend obseen amounts on a player that has no business on a football pitch if he cannot assure the opposition of safety outside the normal paramaters of what happens within the game....


They are heading down the 'galactico' route with Suarez and last year Neymar... Not saying they have not splashed the cash before those 2 but they did brag about their academy so much, these 2 contradict & I'm not a fan of this new direction....

Vic Vinegar

So are those Fergie quotes fake then?

Augmerson

Headshot wrote: »

Suraez and barca deserve each other....

One of the best clubs in the world with one of the best players in the world? I agree.

Insect Overlord

Augmerson wrote: »

One of the best clubs in the world with one of the best players in the world? I agree.

They won't have him or Neymar available for ages though!

redbaron_99

Bombleswizzum wrote: »

So are those Fergie quotes fake then?

Fake. I fell for it and posted it.

Headshot

God they are like blood hounds at this stage.

redbaron_99

An File wrote: »

They won't have him or Neymar available for ages though!

Suarez will be available very soon.

Iused2likebusts

Headshot wrote: »

Suraez and barca deserve each other....

Ye it's no surprise them and real always go after and get the current best player in the world as Utd spurs and now Liverpool have realised.

Augmerson

An File wrote: »

They won't have him or Neymar available for ages though!

Well nobody saw that Neymar injury coming but there is bound to be an appeal once Suarez joins Barca. There won't be a complete reprieve but I think a reduction in the ban is likely.

RichFTW

tupac_healy wrote: »

The way things are going at Barca I agree with this, so proud of their academy, yet they need to spend obseen amounts on a player that has no business on a football pitch if he cannot assure the opposition of safety outside the normal paramaters of what happens within the game....


They are heading down the 'galactico' route with Suarez and last year Neymar... Not saying they have not splashed the cash before those 2 but they did brag about their academy so much, these 2 contradict & I'm not a fan of this new direction....

It's not just Barca though, look at us. Have a tradition of bringing youth through yet we are spending 27m on a 18 year old left back. No big club can really afford to bring the youth through consistently in the modern game when their rivals can just go and buy the superstars that make the team instantly better.

Most fans are impatient and wouldn't wait for the youth players to make the mistakes necessary to progress with big clubs. Clubs like Southampton & West Ham have no choice but to play the younger players plus their fans have less expectations than a United, Barca, Real etc fan would so they can get away with doing it.

bucketybuck

Billy86 wrote: »

Not saying Cleverley would ever be as good as Schweinsteiger, but people often forget that he was a complete laughing stock until Louis changed him from a winger to a CM and made him revamp his game about five or six years back.

Do you want to elaborate on this? Because my recollection is that Schweinsteiger was anything but a laughing stock when he played on the wing.

At 21 he was on the wing for the Germany team that reached the semi-finals of the world cup, when exactly was he this laughing stock?

redbaron_99

RichFTW wrote: »

It's not just Barca though, look at us. Have a tradition of bringing youth through yet we are spending 27m on a 18 year old left back. No big club can really afford to bring the youth through consistently in the modern game when their rivals can just go and buy the superstars that make the team instantly better.

Most fans are impatient and wouldn't wait for the youth players to make the mistakes necessary to progress with big clubs. Clubs like Southampton & West Ham have no choice but to play the younger players plus their fans have less expectations than a United, Barca, Real etc fan would so they can get away with doing it.

But three or four years from now shaw will be in his early 20s and his value might well have increased
Suarez is 28 in a few months. Four years from now he will be 32 and will only fetch a mere fraction of what barca are paying for him.
Is that Suarez fee confirmed? I find I that to believe any club would pay that much for him. The mind boggles

Liam McPoyle

On the Indo website it's saying that the fee is around £63 million. Still far too much for a liability such as him but meh, whadda ya gonna do, just glad I won't have to look at his mush next season.

RichFTW

redbaron_99 wrote: »

But three or four years from now shaw will be in his early 20s and his value might well have increased
Suarez is 28 in a few months. Four years from now he will be 32 and will only fetch a mere fraction of what barca are paying for him.
Is that Suarez fee confirmed? I find I that to believe any club would pay that much for him. The mind boggles

Oh I'm delighted Shaw signed and I think he will be well worth the money. But I think if he came through the United academy, he wouldn't have got the chance to play regularly for 2 seasons in the premier league and wouldn't be the player he is now. United wouldn't be able to afford him possibly making game losing mistakes so they just go out and buy someone at his stage of development.

Suarez is an unbelievable player and is going to be even better with quality players around him. Look at what he could do playing with a slightly above average Liverpool team. In four years, Barca will have won a load of trophies with Suarez and won't care what he is worth then.

The money is crazy though. Footballers already get paid way too much and clubs are paying stupid amounts as well. Where does it end.

Will I Amnt

Business Cat wrote: »

just glad I won't have to look at his mush next season.

I don't think there has been a more annoying face in the history of faces.

Liam McPoyle

Will I Amnt wrote: »

I don't think there has been a more annoying face in the history of faces.

I dunno man.



This one always screamed young offenders home to me, like "Tinhead" off Brookside. Its the beady eyes.

RobertKK

Fake rumour site: Caught Offside (CO) on Saturday went with Ronaldo to United citing it is to pay for the transfers of James Rodriguez and Falcao to Real Madrid.
They claim with Ronaldo being 30 years old next year, this is the best chance for Real Madrid to cash in Ronaldo for a high price. His age and injuries being a concern for RM.
The story by CO goes that Falcao had to take a scenic route if he wanted to play for Real Madrid as Atletico wouldn't sell directly to their city rival. I think they said the two transfers would cost a combined £120m to £130 million, I forget the exact figure they gave, and the sale of Ronaldo would help finance this.

I will believe it when I see it.

Billy86

tupac_healy wrote: »

They are heading down the 'galactico' route with Suarez and last year Neymar... Not saying they have not splashed the cash before those 2 but they did brag about their academy so much, these 2 contradict & I'm not a fan of this new direction....

Don't forget Villa cost €40mn, Zlatan cost something like €50m PLUS Eto'o, and they see the around a combined €25mn on Henrique and Kerrison. If you are wondering who those two attacking players are, well... so is everyone, to be honest.

Billy86

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Ye it's no surprise them and real always go after and get the current best player in the world as Utd spurs and now Liverpool have realised.

That's the advantage of having private TV deals, I guess. I still don't agree with it, even though Man Utd would financially benefit more than any other team in the world from doing so, if they chose to.

xtal191

Corvo wrote: »

Reuters reporting that Nike are pulling the plug on the kit deal, which means Adidas are due to step in.

Yay! Better jerseys!!

I wouldnt be surprised if its Warrior and not Adidas :mad:

DARK-KNIGHT

xtal191 wrote: »

I wouldnt be surprised if its Warrior and not Adidas :mad:

Jaysus dont even say that ugh lol

ShaneU

@JanAageFjortoft

Local paper,„Wolfsburger Allgemeine“, is reporting that Man UTD have made a bid for 21 year old Swiss left-back, Ricardo Rodriguez

Quality player, Evra replacement?

Insect Overlord

Ricardo Rodriguez!? :eek:



:pac:

Will I Amnt

ShaneU wrote: »

@JanAageFjortoft

Local paper,„Wolfsburger Allgemeine“, is reporting that Man UTD have made a bid for 21 year old Swiss left-back, Ricardo Rodriguez

Quality player, Evra replacement?

Just spent the guts of 30m on an Evra replacement.

ShaneU

Shaw was a Buttner replacement

Need two left backs though

Will I Amnt

ShaneU wrote: »

Need two left backs though

Can't see Evra going anywhere TBH.