Manchester United Thread 2024/25 - Teamtalk/Transfers/Gossip Mod Note in OP 26.09.24

Fairly idiotic post imo. I think most people realise that pre season tours are essential on the commercial front, at a minimum. It's the shoe horning in of 2 additional games before the US tour that is rightly questioned when you look at the likes of City, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea who all play their first pre season game at that US Tour.

Yoro would be off to Madrid in a few years even if he does pick us now. We'd only be developing him for Madrid. I'd much rather MDL.

Yoro clearly wants Madrid, we shouldn't be chasing a player who's heart isn't in it.

While it has been nice to see us seemingly working on a few different deals at once and possibly playing one deal of the other... the focus on CB's in this is more than a bit strange imo.

We've lost a promising young CB due to it imo. I think Willy rightly didn't sign a new deal as it seemed clear his development wasn't a priority. That's hard to take when we're chasing another young CB for 4 or 5 times the fee we got for him, and that player doesn't seem to really want to come to us.

Chasing all these CBs also leaves us in a fairly weak position in terms of trying to sell the likes of Lindelof and Maguire. Other clubs know we will need to get rid of one or two of them if we do sign a couple more.

All that against the worrying backdrop that we don't have a LB at the club who we can stay fit and signing a much needed 2nd striker, who doesn't score many goals.

Plenty of potential positives with the Zirkzee deal I know, and Ineos can only really be judged at the end of the window, but I'm not getting too excited just yet.

Is it an option to but Todibo but not play him in Europe?

I don't believe so. One of the conditions that allows us and Nice to play in the same competition this year is no transfers I believe.

Like a new signing.... just not a very good one.

Maybe playing with the likes of Zirkzee will help show us a little bit more from him. Let's not hold our breaths.

And likely get significant fines from Uefa, as well as possible company law issues for club management, for constructing false deals to subvert regulations.

Haha get fecked Mayor 😂

Not sure who he prefers but for a potential €62m signing with one year left on his contract, he would want to have a great season. You’re paying to have him now and not risk fighting with others in January to get him on a free (stop me if you’ve seen this one before, Mason Mount) but as others have said, if he would prefer to play for someone else then what’s the point.

I’d be disappointed if we scrap the de Ligt plan to get him. The plan is reportedly to sign two but apparently not both Yoro and MdL so I don’t know. Are they going to break the bank for Branthwaite later on?

Regarding Yoro, irrespective of him preferring Madrid if we sign him he will act professional play to his potential and if he does we will get a few years out of him and Madrid will come calling then. I'm sure Ronaldo always wanted to play for Madrid when he signed and we got a number of successful years from him in a red jersey first. You never know he might like Manchester and stay for his whole career.

Probably isn't a single player in the current squad that wouldn't have their head turned if Madrid came knocking.

I wouldn't stop persuing him because he really wanted to go to Madrid but definitely a deadline needs to be put on it. Over a week since the bid was accepted I think. He needs to decide soon or move on. I'd imagine the current board have a deadline in their heads if they haven't told Lille yet.

Yoro is a funny one, does anyone know if he's actually any good?

Are we just trying to sign him because we see Madrid interested and we're presuming he must be good? Nothing would surprise as we've made that mistake in the past.

£52 million+ seems a lot of money for an 18 year old defender who will be free next season.If he really wants us over Madrid then why not wait for next season when he's free?

Wednesdays Fart

THE TELEGRAPH

Manchester United will be entitled to 50 per cent of the profits of any future sale of Mason Greenwood as part of his proposed £26.6m transfer to Marseille.

Fulham had a bid for Scott McTominay rejected earlier in the summer as they look for midfield reinforcements following the departure of Joao Palhinha for Bayern but no one has yet met United's valuation of up to £30m.

DAILY MAIL

Manchester United would be "highly unlikely" to swoop for Gareth Southgate - even if the club were to endure a disastrous start to the season and part ways with Erik ten Hag.

Manchester United are believed to have had a £52m offer for Lille's Leny Yoro accepted by the player's club, according to reports.

DAILY MIRROR

Erik ten Hag has broken his silence on mending his feud with Jadon Sancho - but refused to say if the winger has a future at Manchester United.

THE SUN

Galatasaray's vice-president has revealed they are interested in signing Manchester United star Scott McTominay and Tottenham man Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg.

DAILY STAR

Gareth Southgate wants the Manchester United job leaving Erik ten Hag having to prove Sir Jim Ratcliffe wrong.

If Utd are willing to spend that much on Yoro is there not an argument to be made for Braintwaithe who is at least acclimatised to the PL so there would be no bedding in period with him.

Zirkzee's weekly wage is supposedly in the £55-60k range. In the past United have been throwing £100k at any new signing without any consideration.

Claiming that every bit of tabloid fodder means Ineos are no different to the last regime is pure timewasting nonsense.

Looks like it’s happening then

I wouldn’t say it’s a Glazer/Woodward philosophy as it’s a €50m up front signing of supposedly one of the best young talents around. Someone who could be sold on for a healthy profit a number of years down the line, which is the opposite of a Glazer/Woodward signing. It looks like smart business from a financial POV compared to Varane for example so definitely not something that would have been a way of the past.

He played a full season for Lille last year so he’s probably capable of doing that for us this year. No idea how good he is as I’ve not seen him play - wouldn’t expect anyone here to have either really but we’ve heard the stories of how we never took the chance on signing these really good youngsters that were identified by the scouts and they’ve went on to do well at other clubs so it looks to be a change in that regard.

Wow that's happened quickly! I'm agree with Mitch that MDL is more of a right now signing but I'm not gonna complain over us signing potentially the best young CB in world football according to those who'd know

Yeah I agree. Not something to complain about at all and if we got both it would be great but it seems that the second CB is going to be left footed. Which makes sense. I was just really excited for de Ligt 😅

Wow I'm shocked, I was convinced he was Real bound!

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de ligt deal most likely off. i still think we need a starting CB cos i dont think yoro is ready to start yet.