Manchester United Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2016

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Giggsy11 is far to quick for you lads lol

Great signing. Brilliant start

Trigger

DiMarzio saying City close to Aubamayang... ****in hell.. would have loved us to get him..

Must have been what Fjortoff was spunking over earlier

Edit: Fjortoff just tweeted that thats not who he was talking about.

Double Edit: he has now deleted the tweet saying no

v3ttel

Good ol' Bayley. I hope he can become as much of a club legend as Chickarito

Liam McPoyle

v3ttel wrote: »

Good ol' Bayley. I hope he can become as much of a club legend as Chickarito

IamtheWalrus

Ibra's wait-and-see games remind me of Hazard's nonsense before he joined Chelsea.

bucketybuck

I'll freely admit I know nothing about Bailly but the profile of this signing sounds good to me.

Young but not a kid, already plenty of senior experience with both club and country but still most of his career ahead of him, a big fee but not a record breaking fee, no ****ing about or any silly games during the transfer and no competing with other clubs for his signature.

This is the type of player we should be targeting instead of looking like idiots trying to get unattainable players like Ramos. These are the type of players that in a few years become the next Kompany or Vidic, its encouraging that this is the first signing.

brinty

Bailly and Daley
Interesting

adox

brinty wrote: »

Bailly and Daley
Interesting

Tried and failed with this.


See a few days ago.

GSPfan

Sky now reporting Aubameyang to City deal. Looks like he's going there on his way to Real Madrid.

Rayne Wooney

Will be píssed if City get Aubameyang

jayo26

Lvg is cracking his head off the wall looking at the bailey transfer and shouting HE IS NOT LEFT FOOTED!

adox

Sky now saying he has passed a medical at Utd.

https://twitter.com/skysportsnewshq/status/740267265744994304

Juan8

I seen Bailly about 6 or 7 times last season he looked solid enough every time but Villarreal were a solid unit as a whole tbh, Happy enough with the signing from what I've seen of him anyway and I'm looking forward to seeing how he does, I've read things about him before too and he's very highly rated, Jose can spot a defender so I'm not worried.

adox

BBC also reporting that Smalling will continue training as normal despite leaving with ice pack on knee.

Cypher_sounds

I have seen somewhere about Bailly last season in something like 25 appearances he has 9 yellow and a red card to his name.

Sounds like we are signing a mad man :pac:

Trigger

Cypher_sounds wrote: »

I have seen somewhere about Bailly last season in something like 25 appearances he has 9 yellow and a red card to his name.

Sounds like we are signing a mad man :pac:

Thats just the league, in 35 Games total he had 12 yellows and 1 red.. :pac:

jayo26

astradave wrote: »

Thats just the league, in 35 Games total he had 12 yellows and 1 red.. :pac:

That makes it better

jimmytwotimes 2013

Bailly not booked in his final 13 appearances so he's a learning machine.

bangkok

City looking to sign both Laporte and stones as well.... if they sign aubameyang and those 2 along with gundoggan it would be hard to see anyone else win the league next season apart from city

ElChe32

Augero and Aubameyang is a pretty frightening attack!

bangkok

ElChe32 wrote: »

Augero and Aubameyang is a pretty frightening attack!

Supported by de bruyne, silva as well, scary alright

DM_7

bangkok wrote: »

City looking to sign both Laporte and stones as well.... if they sign aubameyang and those 2 along with gundoggan it would be hard to see anyone else win the league next season apart from city

I think they are looking at the Champions League as the priority.

GSPfan

bangkok wrote: »

City looking to sign both Laporte and stones as well.... if they sign aubameyang and those 2 along with gundoggan it would be hard to see anyone else win the league next season apart from city

I'm less worried about other teams and who they sign and more worried about ourselves. City can overload themselves with as many high profile signings as they like as long as we get whoever we want. With two equal teams, Jose becomes our trump card.

CSF

bangkok wrote: »

City looking to sign both Laporte and stones as well.... if they sign aubameyang and those 2 along with gundoggan it would be hard to see anyone else win the league next season apart from city

Unless Stones learns to defend over the course of the summer he probably isn't one to worry about. He'll fit into the Guardiola style of football with his ability to work the ball out from the back but that only counts for so much if you're error prone.

GSPfan

Buying Laporte and Stones while having Otamendi Kompany and Mangala doesn't sound too realistic. They'll need to move at least one on and hope the others want to stick around to be rotated.

I'm gonna enjoy next year so much if Guardiola struggles. When I say struggle I mean not winning any trophies and not being in contention for trophies come the last month of the season.

Blatter

ElChe32 wrote: »

Augero and Aubameyang is a pretty frightening attack!

Pep doesn't play 4-4-2 and neither of Augero/Aubameyang are overly suited to playing out wide.

I'd say if Aubameyang signs he'd be mainly used in rotation with Augero, which isn't a bad idea as Augero misses a lot of football.

But I think the 'OMG, Auby + Augero gonna kill PL defenses' is a bit premature for now. But they are going to kill in FIFA, that's for sure.

CSF

Blatter wrote: »

Pep doesn't play 4-4-2 and neither of Augero/Aubameyang are overly suited to playing out wide.

I'd say if Aubameyang signs he'd be mainly used in rotation with Augero, which isn't a bad idea as Augero misses a lot of football.

But I think the 'OMG, Auby + Augero gonna kill PL defenses' is a bit premature for now. But they are going to kill in FIFA, that's for sure.

Aguero would be very good as a number 10 aswell.

Lord TSC

Twitter chatter about Griezmann, saying we have offered €55m and they want €70m

Juan8

Laporte has a broken leg and Gundogan won't be fit for them till around December, I wouldn't be too worried yet that they'll walk the league next season

Blatter

CSF wrote: »

Aguero would be very good as a number 10 aswell.

He'd be well able to play there but you'd be losing out on one of the best features in his game; running off the shoulder of the last defender and stretching defences.

I think Pep generally prefers his #10 to be closer to a CM for more control, rather than a forward capable of playing deeper.

In saying all this, Pep changes his team's formations and rotates like crazy, so who knows what he has planned.

CSF

Blatter wrote: »

He'd be well able to play there but you'd be losing out on one of the best features in his game; running off the shoulder of the last defender and stretching defences.

I think Pep generally prefers his #10 to be closer to a CM for more control, rather than a forward capable of playing deeper.

In saying all this, Pep changes his team's formations and rotates like crazy, so who knows what he has planned.

I'd be very surprised if either one of them is going to be sitting on the bench too often. With Toure on the way out, and Silva in decline, and De Bruyne probably to play in a wider position, I'd expect there to be plenty of games where Aguero plays behind Aubameyang. Whether you call it 4-4-2 or a very attacking slant on 4-5-1 is down to your own views I guess.

Trigger

Lord TSC wrote: »

Twitter chatter about Griezmann, saying we have offered €55m and they want €70m

would tie in with this, Bailly, Ibra, Griezmann and Pogba?

https://twitter.com/MikeKeegan_DM/status/740289105888743424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

GSPfan

Lord TSC wrote: »

Twitter chatter about Griezmann, saying we have offered €55m and they want €70m

I'll believe that when I hear it widely reported but I just dont want to get my hopes up.

yabadabado

a front 3 of Martial ,Zlatan and Griezmann would be class.Rashford would also get plenty of game time .
Problem is with Rooney in that set up not sure if he fits in,I suppose he would play No.10 behind those 3.

Unearthly

Nice start to the window. Just wish Zlatan gets finalised now

jayo26

astradave wrote: »

would tie in with this, Bailly, Ibra, Griezmann and Pogba?

https://twitter.com/MikeKeegan_DM/status/740289105888743424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

First 2 good possibility, griezman a long shot i think it would take an awful lot of money to persuade club and player and pogba i dont think will ever happen it would be extremely embarrassing for club i think but hey im usually wrong.

GSPfan

astradave wrote: »

would tie in with this, Bailly, Ibra, Griezmann and Pogba?

https://twitter.com/MikeKeegan_DM/status/740289105888743424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Thats the most generic tweet ever. Absolutely no knowledge of anything needed to make that guess.

Trigger

Griezmann links are coming from a known spoofer.. Sports witness have practically debunked it on their page

ElChe32

astradave wrote: »

would tie in with this, Bailly, Ibra, Griezmann and Pogba?

Mitch Connor

bangkok wrote: »

City looking to sign both Laporte and stones as well.... if they sign aubameyang and those 2 along with gundoggan it would be hard to see anyone else win the league next season apart from city

Because they are well ran and back their ambitious words. Hopefully United follow their lead.

bangkok

Blatter wrote: »

Pep doesn't play 4-4-2 and neither of Augero/Aubameyang are overly suited to playing out wide.

I'd say if Aubameyang signs he'd be mainly used in rotation with Augero, which isn't a bad idea as Augero misses a lot of football.

But I think the 'OMG, Auby + Augero gonna kill PL defenses' is a bit premature for now. But they are going to kill in FIFA, that's for sure.

There's no way city are breaking the British transfer record to buy a player that will be in rotation with aguero. Can see city playing 4-3-3 with aubameyang aguero and de bruyne the front 3

v3ttel

Mitch Connor wrote: »

Because they are well ran and back their ambitious words. Hopefully United follow their lead.

Well run? Can you imagine the outcry if we signed 3 players and 2 of them were injured. The thread would be a nuclear reactor of emotion for months

Trigger

2 or 3 outlets with same story

https://twitter.com/Matt_Law_DT/status/740299240187035649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Lord TSC

Yeah, looks a bit like a briefing.

Mr.H

bangkok wrote: »

There's no way city are breaking the British transfer record to buy a player that will be in rotation with aguero. Can see city playing 4-3-3 with aubameyang aguero and de bruyne the front 3

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Hart
RB

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Laporte----Stones

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LB

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DeBruyne---Gundogan---CM
aubameyang

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Aguero

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Sterling


A couple of full backs and another center mid and that team would be full of pace and creativity. Maybe Pogba in the center to add a bit of steal?

RobertKK

astradave wrote: »

2 or 3 outlets with same story

https://twitter.com/Matt_Law_DT/status/740299240187035649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Yes but it also says: Mourinho also wants to sign Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba, who shares the same agent as Ibrahimovic.

RobertKK

Mr.H wrote: »

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Hart
RB

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Laporte----Stones

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LB

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DeBruyne---Gundogan---CM
aubameyang

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Aguero

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Sterling


A couple of full backs and another center mid and that team would be full of pace and creativity. Maybe Pogba in the center to add a bit of steal?

It was in the MEN that City were no longer pursuing Pogba but United are.

Mitch Connor

v3ttel wrote: »

Well run? Can you imagine the outcry if we signed 3 players and 2 of them were injured. The thread would be a nuclear reactor of emotion for months

Personally I would take a long term view and hope the players show worthy of the money over 5 years rather than worry about a couple of months. If city feel these are the right players to build a future on, then forgoing them for the sake of short term injuries would be stupid.

Trigger

https://twitter.com/MullockSMirror/status/740285951730196480

https://twitter.com/MullockSMirror/status/740286034022436864

Cypher_sounds

^^ Same guy said -

https://twitter.com/SkelMCFC/status/740305242949050368

I laugh at all of this transfer rubbish. I don't look into what a nobody from the daily mail or the sun or whatever says unless it comes from the player or agent.


Anyway back to United. One thing that struck me about the Ibra stuff which I am hopefully wrong on. When he is questioned he says keep making your stories I am enjoying reading them etc...the only stories seeem to be that he is coming to United. His reply suggests to me that he isn't coming here at all and is finding it funny how people are somehow certain that he is gonna sign for us.