Zatman Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 Cavani done, ship 6 goals and bring in a past it striker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 Their transfer team Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HongKongVillan Posted October 5, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted October 5, 2020 44 minutes ago, Tomaszk said: Their transfer team Sounds like a fun place to work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhan_Zhuang Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 (edited) Read something earlier that well-run clubs do not get involved in the last day of the transfer window. The likes of Manure and Arse left it late because they aren't run well. Manure in particular are still trying to get rid of players from Fergie's era. Edited October 5, 2020 by Zhan_Zhuang 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GENTLEMAN Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 Can’t tell you how enjoyable this is. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 23 minutes ago, Zhan_Zhuang said: Read something earlier that well-run clubs do not get involved in the last day of the transfer window. The likes of Manure and Arse left it late because they aren't run well. Manure in particular are still trying to get rid of players from Fergie's era. Yes, maybe can bolster the squad or bring in the odd late transfer but bad clubs do a lot of business on deadline day. You rarely see City or Liverpool get involved in such a mess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannedfromHandV Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 Desperation, not even heard of the other signings they made aside from cavani and I don’t see him pulling up trees. United seem in a bad way, hilarious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zab6359 Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 Did I read somewhere 200k a week for Cavani? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhan_Zhuang Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 3 hours ago, zab6359 said: Did I read somewhere 200k a week for Cavani? Surely more than that, isn't De Gea on about a billion per week? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 (edited) 5 minutes ago, Zhan_Zhuang said: Surely more than that, isn't De Gea on about a billion per week? Was going to say the same, he took a pay cut then... Probably on a decent signing bonus and stuff thrown in for goals too He's not actually that bad a signing, they need a proper out and out striker, the worry for their fans must be that apart from telles they weren't really even linked with a CB, they are seemingly happy with what they have there They've also made themselves look like idiots with sancho Edited October 6, 2020 by villa4europe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhan_Zhuang Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 I like Cavani, surely a few good seasons left in him. Pity it's for them as I won't like him anymore. Solksjaer is on borrowed time I think; gone by Christmas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 He will score goals if he can stay fit, that's a big IF thou. 19/20 groin strain Jan 13, 2020 Jan 30, 2020 17 days 5 19/20 Muscle Injury Dec 17, 2019 Dec 30, 2019 13 days 2 19/20 Ill Dec 12, 2019 Dec 16, 2019 4 days 1 19/20 Calf Injury Dec 6, 2019 Dec 10, 2019 4 days 1 19/20 Fitness Sep 19, 2019 Oct 17, 2019 28 days 5 19/20 Hip Injury Aug 26, 2019 Oct 17, 2019 52 days 8 18/19 Rest Apr 29, 2019 May 1, 2019 2 days 1 18/19 Fitness Apr 5, 2019 Apr 5, 2019 0 days - 18/19 Muscle Injury Mar 10, 2019 Apr 4, 2019 25 days 4 18/19 Hamstring Injury Feb 10, 2019 Mar 3, 2019 21 days 6 18/19 Hamstring Injury Oct 26, 2018 Nov 4, 2018 9 days 2 18/19 Muscle Injury Jul 1, 2018 Aug 21, 2018 51 days 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 5 minutes ago, Zhan_Zhuang said: Solksjaer is on borrowed time I think; gone by Christmas? He might be gone before their next game if you believe the gossip about Pochettino. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amsterdam_Neil_D Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 5 minutes ago, Zhan_Zhuang said: Solksjaer is on borrowed time I think; gone by Christmas? Hope not, he and the current backroom staff, I would want them to stay for years and years and bankrupt the plastic palace. Their fans will move on to other teams so it's no bother for them. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozvillafan Posted October 6, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted October 6, 2020 9 hours ago, Zhan_Zhuang said: Read something earlier that well-run clubs do not get involved in the last day of the transfer window. The likes of Manure and Arse left it late because they aren't run well. Manure in particular are still trying to get rid of players from Fergie's era. Here's one such article: https://www.foxsports.com.au/football/premier-league/Premier League-transfers-2020-manhcester-united-deadline-day-gossip-rumours-jadon-sancho-edinson-cavani-latest-every-done-deal/news-story/1225ac549581e08be1a5c6e4fc369443 Quote How Utd’s promise to ‘exploit’ transfer market was undone by own single-minded arrogance Sir Alex Ferguson once said that the best run clubs in the world sit back and watch the chaos of deadline day from afar. On a day where Manchester United signed four players, just 24 hours after losing 6-1 to Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League, his words have never carried more weight. This is no longer a well-run club. Back in April, as football ground to a halt globally, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer confidently predicted that Manchester United as “one of the biggest, and the biggest, financially well-off” could “exploit” other clubs’ financial difficulties to sign whoever they wanted in the transfer window. “I’m sure we are capable, when we get back to normality, that we can do the business that we want to,” he had said. In the same month, executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward said the club would remain “highly competitive” during the window despite the lockdown as the club were linked with Harry Kane and Jadon Sancho. Yet as the hours and minutes ticked away and the 9am (AEST) deadline quickly approached, United were frantically announcing the signings of a 33-year-old who has not kicked a ball for seven months and has been without a club for four and £36m 18-year-old who has only played three senior games and was signed too late to get a work permit for before January. Meanwhile, Liverpool, Manchester City, Chelsea and Tottenham were sitting back and watching the chaos unfold from afar. Now, both Edinson Cavani and Amad Diallo may turn out to be successful signings for the club, but neither are what they needed to address the immediate slump the club is in. Signing a right-winger is of the upmost importance was the brief at the beginning of the window, with an emphasis on transfers fitting the profile of young, hungry and British. Jadon Sancho fit all three perfectly. Manchester United had been negotiating the move since January, when they got ahead of Chelsea and Real Madrid to earn a clean run at signing the England international. Sancho was keen to move and Dortmund named their price. All United needed to do was pay it. Yet United didn’t like Dortmund’s price. They wanted to “exploit” the market and get a deal. They wanted to banish the idea that Woodward and chief negotiator Matt Judge were incompetent on the football side of things. They wanted to bully the Germans into a deal because they are Manchester United. They refused to meet Dortmund’s £109m valuation and the Bundesliga side’s August 10th deadline came and went without even a bid. United wanted to put pressure on them to sell by waiting until late on in the window and submitting a far-lesser bid. It is genius if it works, arrogant and flawed if it doesn’t – and it didn’t work. They were so confident that their negotiating tactics would work that no other target was considered until days before the deadline. And then it was too late. They were completely outmanoeuvred by Dortmund and undone by their own single-minded arrogance. What made it worse was that tactic was actually being used against them in the sale of Chris Smalling, who moved to Roma with one minute to spare of the window, at the price which the Italian side wanted. And that’s before you even begin to start weighing up whether selling arguably your best centre-back after conceding six goals in one game is really a good idea or not. After Alexis Sanchez’s sale, Smalling was one of a number of squad players Solskjaer was keen for the board to ship out, but as the deadline passed only he and Andreas Pereira and Diogo Dalot, who had left on loan for Lazio and AC Milan respectively, were gone. Phil Jones, Marcos Rojo, Juan Mata, Jesse Lingard and Sergio Romero, whose wife hit out at the club on social media on deadline day, all still remain on the payroll. It’s not Solskjaer’s fault, he had a clear vision which wasn’t implemented for him by those above him, even if he will ultimately be the one who pays for it. The one positive was that Manchester United weren’t coerced into panic buying Ousmane Dembele, whom they wanted on loan for the season before they had another go at signing Sancho, by Barcelona. The Frenchman has only managed 52 appearances in three years at the Camp Nou and would have cost around £60m if the club and player had got their way, although congratulating the club on avoiding a stupid decision on deadline day is the slimmest of positives. But this is Manchester United now, a club run like the ones that Ferguson used to mock as he sat back and laughed at the chaos of others. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amsterdam_Neil_D Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 They set themselves up for this by throwing silly money at a defender > 80 M. They moan becasue prices are high but they skew the market. If it was the other way around, they would do the same (RE Sancho). words removed. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannedfromHandV Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 4 hours ago, zab6359 said: Did I read somewhere 200k a week for Cavani? I’d imagine his agent is getting that much alone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 6 hours ago, zab6359 said: Did I read somewhere 200k a week for Cavani? If so I think it’s good value if that’s all they are paying. I expect there’s lump sums to player and agent to consider also. Saying that, they might have dropped considerably as it was deadline day. As @sne said though, he’ll score goals if he stays fit and that’s all good. He’s also going to generate money and exposure for the club too which helps offset the outlay. I don’t think it was a bad bit of business tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zab6359 Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 1 hour ago, Genie said: If so I think it’s good value if that’s all they are paying. I expect there’s lump sums to player and agent to consider also. Saying that, they might have dropped considerably as it was deadline day. As @sne said though, he’ll score goals if he stays fit and that’s all good. He’s also going to generate money and exposure for the club too which helps offset the outlay. I don’t think it was a bad bit of business tbh. 9 Mil a yr deal apparently so 175k a week ish. Quote Manchester United Wages Revealed With Edinson Cavani Agreeing A Two-Year Deal https://www.sportbible.com/football/news-man-united-wages-revealed-with-cavani-agreeing-a-two-year-deal-20201003 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amsterdam_Neil_D Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 3 hours ago, zab6359 said: 9 Mil a yr deal apparently so 175k a week ish. Needs to hit the ground running so to speak The Prem ain't for everyone and I hope it's not for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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