Smirking_Saint

Got to agree and is how I see it The signing of taider for me just confirms we are losing a cm somewhere, which makes the signing all the more pointless as I find Cork, Vic and Morgan to be of better quality.

Its not just there alps, we must be atleast 4 players of quality short, quite how they are aiming to integrate them within 2 weeks is another matter Also, we have been told that we are looking at spending the entire 70m (minus average wages so around 50m fees) on playing staff. If we bring in schelotto and taider on loan then are we going to buy another two players at an average value of 20m ? Its not going to happen is it ?

I think he would be a decent signing personally..... But not at a reported 14m

Id struggle to find a better connected thread to our lack of swiftness in the transfer market then the transfer thread TBH Odd that you would choose to quote what I said.

Well Im certainly not indebted to them for the predicament we find ourselves in. You cannot integrate 5-6 players in 4 weeks.

Im still going to give them until the end of the week to attempt to get some decent incomings. However trying to placate us with ultimately poor squad players or even worse more outgoings for me will signal just how poor a position we are in right now.

You cant handle the truth........!!! That said it was a hilariously OTT reaction

Um..... It kinda does

TBF if it were one of them Id of skipped it !!

Its hardly laughable, he barely played in a floundering utd team that had Rooney and RVP out for most of last season, also struggles to get regular action for Mexico right now. As much as he is an excellent poacher that is about all he has in his locker, build up play and hold up is virtually non existant. Now, potentially he could play off pelle but that IMO would be incorperated into the 433 and so wont be as effective. Besides, we'll already have J Rod for that. Id much rather pay for a natural wide man and another CF who can play the system rather than spend 15m and god knows how much a week on a bloke that happens to be half decent on fifa

Could've bought Forlan for 300k, instead we sunk 3.2m into ecuador

Just said this on the transfer thread. Its looking bleak for cork, which is a shame

Taider looks a good prospect, but it worries be a tad, surely it spells the end for Cork or Schneiderlin. We are hardly in need of midfielders right now. Do inter not have any reasonable CBs or strikers ?

So has javier though

Id of said guarin was just the player utd needed right now

If this were the continent Id be more worried due to the 3rd part ownership ban that happens over here. Abroad I suppose there is nothing wrong with providing a top class academy and skinming off a percentage of transfer fees. Again that would have its issues as to how it would be run in reality with player registrations etc Ultimately I agree, its fantasy. Plus if you wanted to sell the club surely you would want to offer the highlight as part of the package to raise the price, and if you wanted to just make constant profit then you would keep the academy running. Its madness, but my point was it 'could' happen, as unrealistic as it was

Still not enthused about the hernandez link, but will be reasonably happy should it get over the line dependant on the package we offer. It gives us another option, I just dont find him fitting into the 433 system we will employ. And anyway, surely a deal for hernandez wont be far off a package we could put together for Bony ? So why arent we sniffing around him instead ?

Dont see why not, it would be massively contraversial and I cant remember a situation like it but there is no rules against the purchase of a facility as far as Im aware

Think you have missed my point a tad pal. Generally the media and especially an outlet like itv news are going to at the very least check the legititimacy of their stories. There are plenty on here from both sides of the arguement, both positive and negative that are happy to grab one and completely dismiss the other from their agenda spectrum. Personally Im trying to piece things together from what I hear in the media, what I hear from staplewood and what I read on here. I dont see the point of needlessly attempting to cling to one area of info. From what I have pieced together the boardroom has struggled to keep up with the changes that have occured since the dwarf dissapeared, they could have handled situations better and now are slowly exiting the other side. There are still issues there, but I agree, unless something seriously sinister is going on we wont be selling the training ground

This However its clear he will get there in the attacking sense, more shots on goal and more dribbles then any other PL lb last year. He isnt the complete package yet but he certainly will be. Still, we didnt have much of a chance keeping him. Unlike the other 3 he is/will be world class

Ive not actually read it, but does seem a running theme at the moment. Can bet your house on anything negative being labelled immediately as crap and anything positive as guaranteed truth. Fact is, truth is likely to be somewhere in the middle. Obviously the training ground will not close, we've just spent 30m on it. But to say there isnt an issue at the club is dillusional (though we are now moving out of it)

Its negative so its obviously crap.... We need the positive stuff, always true that

Poch as a coach is outstanding, personally, feelings aside, koeman has a lot to do for me to consider him to be at the same level. The way poch set a team up to trigger the press so effectively was a wonderful thing to watch from someone who is currently trying to coach pressing into players. I think, given time, he'll get Spurs into the CL again. And eventually end up at a top club

Only 20 posts before this is regarded as crap

If we hadn't made multiple changes to personel Id say definately, right now Im saying likely