Home
Blog
Careers
Forums
Downloads
FM24 Real Name Fix
FM23 Real Name Fix
FM24 New Leagues
FM23 New Leagues
FM24 Tactics
FM24 Data Update
FM Database
FM Guides
FM Shortlists
FM24/25 Update Wonderkids
FM24/25 Update Free Players
FM24/25 Update Bargains
FM24/25 Update Players to avoid
FM24/25 Update Club Budgets
FM24/25 Update Club Facilities
Graphics
Installation Guides
Records
Prediction League
Fantasy Football
Search
K3V0
If Smalling gets injured we'd be fucked.
ianbaker
Poe
Still need 3 then.
Would like us to sign a pair of full backs and Abdennour but I don't think we'll get the full backs.
Could finish 10th if we do though which would be alright. Still far off challenging for Europa League/winning a cup though.
SpinSwimScream
Crane
*Chelsea
Sam
A good point. We need a striker more than we need Pedro.
Carroll.
Poe
So he needs replaced as well as a centre back and full back cover.
Hmmm
Ninja
The fact that we apparently pulled the plug on the deal ourselves and the now reported interested in Saido Mané makes it even more frustrating. The fact that we clearly briefed our interest after doing so, apparently proud of the fact that we want to spend more money on an inferior player is even worse.
He's better than Willian so yes.
Based Jorge
Ninja
Thankfully/sadly we've left it too late and they won't even sell for that.
SpinSwimScream
Poe
Fingers crossed we don't sell anybody and we buy a centre back.
What a window we'd have had then.
Ninja
Our options there are Depay, Mata, Young, Januzaj. Young's not good enough to be a starter for us, and the other 3 are as likely to be used at number 10 as on the wings.
Not only is there a huge amount of pressure on two young players, but we're also short of numbers. I'd say its a huge worry, regardless of Rooney's current form.
Sam
LvG obviously sees a lot in Young, especially with his new deal. Add the others you mentioned then add Pereira and Lingard and we don't need Pedro. A lot of attacking midfielders: with Mata, Adnan, Depay, Young and Lingard as choices on the wings we're fine there. I'd rather we focus on the upcoming players, Pedro is 28 - not ancient but getting on.
£22M better spent elsewhere. Despite Smalling's brilliant start we need a CB and we need a striker - badly. Rooney is shit, he isn't going to get 20 goals this season at this rate.
Carroll.
SpinSwimScream
I agree with that, we could definitely do with another high quality winger. I just don't think it takes precedent over a striker and high quality a centre-back. All of our centre backs have been consistently inconsistent as well as fairly injury prone. Rooney hasn't made an encouraging start and behind him we are incredibly thin. Wilson clearly isn't ready and who knows how up for it Hernandez is after a couple of seasons of basically being ignored.
Eric Portapotty
Quite surprising still that this transfer has actually gone through, thought that he'd stay at Valencia anyway after United lost interest.
Dan
I'd say it was pretty much spot on!
Love to see United missing out on pedro and now cornfield otamendi signing for city.
Sure United fans will claim they didn't need either but hey!
K3V0
Nowhere in the article did it say he didn't want to join United
Otamendi isn't worth £32 million so glad we haven't signed him.
Ninja
Well we only 'missed out' on Otamendi in the sense we miss out on anyone we don't want to sign.
Dan
bmg033
Ninja
Right, but we clearly didn't.
We're after a ball playing centre half, preferably a left footed one, we were never interested in Otamendi for that reason.
Whether we should have been interested in him or not is a completely different question, to be honest I have no idea whether he'd be a good signing or not, I've not seen anywhere near enough of him to make a judgement, but the clubs been denying stories from Spain about it all summer, the fact that the only people stupid enough to run a story about it are the likes of the Express/Mirror/Mail/Sun tells you all you need to know.
Eric Portapotty
(For fuck's sake Ninja please don't take this piece seriously)
Dan
That is brilliant!
Carroll.
Edit: Won't edit it now that Eric corrected me /o\
Eric Portapotty
use the [img] Carroll.
Sam
Hopefully we get a CB and a striker before the windows closes, but tbh I can't see us getting anyone.Not the end of the world if we don't, providing we don't have an injury crisis like last year.
EDIT: Oh, Pedro being reported as an Abramovich signing, lol. Relationship good Jose? Losing Cech and now this.
The Platypus
Hahaha, you bitter fuck.
Mourinho called Pedro personally to convince him to come here.