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

thelad95

thelad95 wrote: »

I'm in no doubt that Herrera will be a Manchester United player next season but I'm just worried that this turns into a summer-long saga meaning Herrera gets no pre-season with us. This could ramp up the pressure on him as he may end up coming in cold to league games ala Fellaini. Also, I'm not sure how well Woodward will be able to juggle other transfer dealings if this keeps dragging on.

Headshot

hmm just wondering does Herrera have any English?

kryogen

Lukker- wrote: »

United for the same period:

68m spent 1m recouped
63m spent 11.9m recouped
53m spent 15m recouped

All those players you listed will either go onto either feature in the team or be sold at a profit. One or two possibly may be sold at a loss.

Chelsea's net spend is about 30m more or so in the same period, yet I think Chelsea's squad was in a far healthier position last year.

This was too long ago to really get back into, I just want to clear one thing up

You simply cannot even make up a figure of 30million net spend over 3 years where your net spend was

2011/12 - 63.2m
2012/13 - 72m
2013/14 - 53.059m

I am sure if you add those three figures you will come up with more then £30m

/

Jimmy Iovine

Headshot wrote: »

hmm just wondering does Herrera have any English?

We'll have to sign more Spanish players to counteract this problem.

TheTownie

Headshot wrote: »

hmm just wondering does Herrera have any English?

Dude on reddit says he studied journalism in school. Will have to wait on see if he speaks English.

Antibac

Headshot wrote: »

hmm just wondering does Herrera have any English?

Yea he does. With so many squad numbers vacant who do we reckon will get what? I reckon Van Persie will take 9 and Adnan will get 11. Not sure about the others. Will Evra keep 3 or will he be moved for Shaw(if he does sign)?

Vic Vinegar

UnitedIrishman wrote: »

Shaw, another CM and a winger and I'd be happy. Especially if we move on the deadwood.

No CB required, you reckon?

Headshot

You say he can speak English, any video to back it up?

Im just wondering thats all. De Gea will of course help him out but im just curious all the same

RobertKK

Bombleswizzum wrote: »

No CB required, you reckon?

There is talk of de Vrij.

bucketybuck

Headshot wrote: »

You say he can speak English, any video to back it up?

Im just wondering thats all. De Gea will of course help him out but im just curious all the same

Forget speaking English, I just want to know if he can pass the ball forward.

kryogen

Delighted both with the signing, and for the more hysterical lads here. You know who you are

Enjoy!



Yes, it had to be that big.

Edit: Oh and well done Mr Woodward. Came through in speedy fashion and kept it quiet as long as possible

Copper_pipe

Vidal next please

Lukker-

kryogen wrote: »

This was too long ago to really get back into, I just want to clear one thing up

You simply cannot even make up a figure of 30million net spend over 3 years where your net spend was

2011/12 - 63.2m
2012/13 - 72m
2013/14 - 53.059m

I am sure if you add those three figures you will come up with more then £30m

/

United's net spend in that period was around £167m
Chelsea's was about £185m

Difference in net spend is £18m, so less than I quoted, so thanks for pointing it out.

EDIT: Think you misread my post, I didn't say Chelsea's net spend was 30m I said it was about 30m more than United's. It was in fact less, only about 18m.

brinty

Antibac wrote: »

Yea he does. With so many squad numbers vacant who do we reckon will get what? I reckon Van Persie will take 9 and Adnan will get 11. Not sure about the others. Will Evra keep 3 or will he be moved for Shaw(if he does sign)?

1. DDG
2. Rafael
3. Evra
4. Jones
5. New CB Signing
6. Evans
7. New Attacking signing
8. Mata
9. New Striker/Welbeck
10. Rooney
11.
12. Smalling
13. Lindeegaard
14. Chico
15. New Left Back(Shaw)
16. Carrick
17. Nani
18. Young
19. Welbeck
20. Van Persie
21. Herrera
22. New CM signing
23. Cleverly
24. Fletcher
25. Valencia
26.
27.
28.
29.
30.

have i missed anyone

Varela, Janko, Lawrence, Adnan, Amos, Wilson etc to be assigned numbers

Whoops forgot Fellaini and Kagawa

TheTownie

bucketybuck wrote: »

Forget speaking English, I just want to know if he can pass the ball forward.

Yes he can.

WhoScored.com ‏@WhoScored 2h
Ander Herrera: Only Cesc Fábregas (48) attempted more through balls in La Liga last season than @anderherrera8 (41) #Athletic #mufc

Christy Browne

So that begs the question, would people be happy if this was our only transfer activity?

A team of...

De Gea
Rafael - Jones - Smalling - Shaw
Herrera - Fellaini
Mata
Rooney - Van Persie - Januzaj

Looks good on paper and is good enough for top 4 in my opinion

Maximus Alexander

The shame of it. I'm a foolish fool.

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

Don't do it to yourself Mitch, you know this transfer is not going to happen now.

Lukker-

Christy Browne wrote: »

So that begs the question, would people be happy if this was our only transfer activity?

A team of...

De Gea
Rafael - Jones - Smalling - Shaw
Herrera - Fellaini
Mata
Rooney - Van Persie - Januzaj

Looks good on paper and is good enough for top 4 in my opinion

Back 4 is far too weak to challenge for top 4 like that. CM offers absolutely no cover either.

KevIRL

Jan starts for Belgium tonight

Rayne Wooney

Any formation with all three of RVP, Rooney and Mata seems like a big compromise, I don't know if they all will fit in

kryogen

Oh yeah, and though its the sentiment and mentioned in many posts I havent seen it yet so here is the song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CPlF-IEkXQ

Delboy5

Herrera and Shaw, how many more players are we likely to sign?

Antibac

Headshot wrote: »

You say he can speak English, any video to back it up?

Im just wondering thats all. De Gea will of course help him out but im just curious all the same

I don't have any video. I've seen it around in a few places. He apparently tweeted Rio a while back

Rayne Wooney

..................DDG..............
Raf...Smalling...Evans...Shaw
..........Ander......Carrick.......
Mata.........Rooney........Januzaj
...................RVP...................


We have some of the same problems we had last season, little to no pace, Mata shunted out on the wing, and Rooney tasked at creating chances for others

UnitedIrishman

Delboy5 wrote: »

Herrera and Shaw, how many more players are we likely to sign?

I've a feeling Van Gaal will want to add a couple of others with him. I'd be over the moon with two or three of Depay, Strootman and Martins Indi.

Think there's definitely a couple left to be done though.

brinty

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

..................DDG..............
Raf...Smalling...Evans...Shaw
..........Ander......Carrick.......
Mata.........Rooney........Januzaj
...................RVP...................


We have some of the same problems we had last season, little to no pace, Mata shunted out on the wing, and Rooney tasked at creating chances for others

Would ye ever cheer up...

Cookiemunster

SSN and BBC both reporting the Shaw medical news now. Some finish to the week!

seligehgit

Just how good is Herrera?Not overly familiar with him......

Rayne Wooney

brinty wrote: »

Would ye ever cheer up...

Just speculating that one of the bigger players may have to be dropped!

Professional Griefer

Mail saying Shaw having his medical atm..

brinty

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

Just speculating that one of the bigger players may have to be dropped!

It could be you Rayne!!!! :eek:

RichFTW

Lukker- wrote: »

United's net spend in that period was around £167m
Chelsea's was about £185m

Difference in net spend is £18m, so less than I quoted, so thanks for pointing it out.

EDIT: Think you misread my post, I didn't say Chelsea's net spend was 30m I said it was about 30m more than United's. It was in fact less, only about 18m.

Difference in net spend was more than £30m according to this:

http://www.transferleague.co.uk/premiership-transfers/chelsea-transfers.html

Net (£)
Chelsea 188,259,000.00
Man Utd 155,950,000.00

Difference 32,309,000.00

Robson99

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

..................DDG..............
Raf...Smalling...Evans...Shaw
..........Ander......Carrick.......
Mata.........Rooney........Januzaj
...................RVP...................


We have some of the same problems we had last season, little to no pace, Mata shunted out on the wing, and Rooney tasked at creating chances for others

Dont think Carrick will be a starter next season. Also I think he will play Mata or Kawaga in the middle. A winger with pace is required. One of Sanchez, Di Maria or Depay would fill the gap on pace

Kylo Ren

CM signed and Luke Shaw medical imminent...

Headshot

Id love to watch mutv......

Larry Wildman

Reports that Shaw's medical is in the morning...deal agreed with Southampton...

dor843088

Rooneys future is in midfield imo for both club and country . Simply too much accommodating has to happen when he plays for england or united . And with england losing Gerrard it might be the only position hell get a game .

Cookiemunster

Man things are happening fast today!

Sky Sports Football ‏@SkyFootball 1m

BREAKING NEWS: Manchester United have agreed a fee in region of £30m for Southampton's Luke Shaw.

ElChe32

How Soon Is Now

Holy moly! That all happened out of no where!

kryogen

Lads, just fully caught up with the thread now, and I gotta say reading the last 20 pages or so has been fantastic for a change

I have a semi with how the day has gone

Liam McPoyle

I been grinning like a school kid all day due to happenings elsewhere but to get Herrera in the bag and with it looking like Shaw is in the bag too, this could be the best summer from a United pov in a long long time.

dahat

Where's Ed now??????


Signing up all the mutha****in players he can.....

Get Vidal done now Ed and you can have a statue!!!

Whatsisname

Exciting pacy winger like a particular Alexis Sanchez and we would be in dream land

redbaron_99

Sky Sources: Man Utd agree £30m fee with Southampton for Luke Shaw. Medical tomorrow. #SSN

irishfeen

Here we go on MUTV with the interview.

redbaron_99

Jaysus, I'm feeling very giddy today. All negativity has been washed away by the big wave of transfer goodness!

RichFTW

redbaron_99 wrote: »

Sky Sources: Man Utd agree £30m fee with Southampton for Luke Shaw. Medical tomorrow. #SSN

sob1467

Looks like a really good film about Roy:

http://balls.ie/football/watch-trailer-new-roy-keane-film/

irishfeen

Jaysus Ander's English is very good - "Best team in the world" - gwan d kid