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#342131 Transfer Rumours 2016/17
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Looks like McNair and Love are off to Sunderland.
#342125 Transfer Rumours 2016/17
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City didn't let Sterling and Stones leave on a free 4 years ago


Tbh, I'm pretty happy with how its turned out. By sheer luck we'll have him for most of his best years. If he'd stayed then we'd be talking about his recent transfer to Real Madrid or more likely had a similar career path to Januzaj. Having been a club thats received a world record fee and now spent one, I can tell you which I prefer.
#342122 Transfer Rumours 2016/17
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When we appointed Mourinho I assumed Stones would be his choice to re-enforce our defence. I was at peace with us spending what it would take to get him then, and don't really see any problem with what City have spent. He had a bad season, we all know that, but I'm not even sure they've overspent. Who the fuck knows in this market? Probably about right. We just spent £30m on a CB no ones ever heard of.

Yeah weak effort like, you could have expected 'We didn't sign any dross from Southampton, they're all class players, especially that Ricky Lambert fella, he worked out well' from me.

Fair play to United tbf, feel the transfer is a way of showing their intent and that their still about. Was half doubting their pulling power with the last few years of Moyes & LVG, but they've gone out and broke the transfer fee record and also got in Ibra. Buying their way to the title Crazy fees about these days though.

See I always had faith in you.
#342055 Old Trafford Lounge
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As per Juve's statement this deal is nowhere near as bad as it came to be reported. They ended up spending more on Higuain than they will make off us, kinda incredible.
#341910 Transfer Rumours 2016/17
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Me? I've not spent a penny mate, I have no connection with the club in anyway especially in the transfer window. Thanks for your concern though


That the best you can do? Even Carroll would have done better

Also we're not paying £100m.
#341905 Transfer Rumours 2016/17
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Man United logic, lose a promising youth player by letting his contract expire...several years later buy him again for....wait for it....£100,000,000!


How much have you spent now buying dross from Southampton?
#341856 2016/17 Barclays Premier League Thread
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Would be surprised if we won. Our pre-season's been poor and we'll have to treat it as another run-out rather than a proper game (arguably it is anyway).

Be interesting to see if Mourinho plays what I'd consider his best team which I think is the side we picked against Everton in the first half with Mkhi in for Lingard.
#341701 Transfer Rumours 2016/17
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Not sure what the hell Klopp is doing in this transfer window, he's doing what i do in FM and only signing attacking players when we clearly need a leftback.


It's alright, on transfer deadline day he'll resort to desperately filtering the player search by LB and value and blindly bidding for 32 players, whilst scouting them at the same time, in the hope you get a bid accepted for someone half decent.

Or is that just me?
#341144 Transfer Rumours 2016/17
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It's not so much that I don't think you're a big enough club or can't afford it (although, can you afford £80m + wages + bonuses on one player?) its that I don't think Greizmann leaves to anyone, certainly not this window. Why would he? He's never going to get it as good as he's got it there, top earner and the most important player at one of Europe's biggest clubs its like Jamie Vardy at Leicester x 47. What attraction do Arsenal hold to him?

It just strikes me as one of those transfers where everyones sitting around going 'Why aren't my club in for him?' when the reality is, like everyone, they've sounded out his agent early doors and know whats up.

But that said, if he did leave, I don't see him going to Arsenal. We'll be looking to throw money at someone again next summer, PSG are desperate for someone to replace Zlatan, and Chelsea, and City would be in for him. Maybe he'll be like Sanchez and just decide he wants London, but, even then, I don't see what would draw him to Arsenal.
#341122 Transfer Rumours 2016/17
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On his day hes really very good, he's just not even remotely consistent... sounds like a great fit for Arsenal.

In all seriousness though... yeah it seems very grim at the moment for Arsenal fans transfer-wise. Especially with both Gazidis and Wenger coming out defending their transfer policy this week.


Thing is, he's not.

I like Jonny, and its a shame it didn't work out for him. But even when he was fit, he was bad, not just inconsistent, but outright bad, for at least three seasons before we sold him.

It sounds like he's found his level at West Brom and was their player of the season last season but I would have no faith on hm to replicate it back under the much more onerous surroundings of another big club.

And on the subject of Arsenal, you've got about as much hope of getting Messi as you do Greizmann.
#340993 Old Trafford Lounge
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Second half was pretty good. People running at players and taking risks in the final third. Refreshing to see. Only real worry looks to be the Rooney/Zlatan combo which seems inevitable.

Oh and Zlatan apparently just confirmed Pogba on Swedish TV.
#340952 Transfer Rumours 2016/17
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The money in general for Pogba is just absurd.

He isn't even Juventus' best midfielder but obviously he has massive potential


The money our club makes is absurd and I'd rather spend it on something tangible like players than it being hoarded by the Glazers.

I think as a percentage of income the transfer deal for Pogba would rank at about the same as yours for Özil so whilst the money is crazy, I guess its just a reflection of the financial juggernaut we've turned in to. As long as it doesn't completely block the path for players like Fosu-Mensah and Rashford to come through, and the club doesn't put itself at financial risk by spending the cash, I don't really care how much we spend on players.
#340597 Transfer Rumours 2016/17
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Di Marzio says Pogba to United will be done in the next 48 hours.

I hope so because I'm fucking bored of this now.


Same. I don't think I've ever cared less about a transfer saga involving us. I'd prefer we sign him, but if we'd told them to get to fuck after the free went north of €100m and signed someone else I would have been happy too. I think he's over-rated regardless of what happens.
#340263 International Champions Cup
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They play on worse in cup games.


There's videos of it as well. I've never seen us play on a worse pitch (and if the Dortmund game is anything to go on it will start cutting up from the first kick) .

Besides, there's an obvious difference between unavoidable obligations of a cup game and avoidable fixtures on an unfit pitch in China. Our pre-season schedule is short anyway (Mourinho reportedly forced the club to tack on the game against Wigan because he thought it was really bad) so I can't imagine anyones delighted about this.
#340257 International Champions Cup
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No one following this then? Plenty of drama. Mourinho cancelled his press conference yesterday as the press room was overcrowded and topping 40 degrees, eventually had a make-do press conference on the pitch.

Now, they've cancelled the Manchester Derby game that was meant to happen today. United say the officials cancelled it due to the state of the pitch and imminent bad weather. Ssn say that they've spoken to the officials and they wanted the game to ahead but the Manchester teams colluded and said the pitch was not good enough for then to play on. Sky reporter there was pitch side, and whilst it made the pitch at Bloomfield look luxurious, it was still playable and the excuse of rain was practically laughable.


'Playable'




I wouldn't want an under 11 team playing on that, let alone multi-million pound footballers playing a meaningless pre-season friendly.
#340097 Old Trafford Lounge
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Zlatan said "I chose the number 9" as well. Phenomenal way to piss off quite possibly one of the best strikers in 5 years time because of some egocentric 36 year old bellend


Zlatan's had different numbers at different clubs so I doubt its anything he demanded, rather the club just being colossal morons.

All in all its nothing I think, a marketing guy will get his wrists slapped and we'll apologise to Martial offering to pay for his new branding or helping him out with it (we already do that for Rooney), he'll then keep 11 for as long as he's here and Rashford will get 9 when Zlatan goes. It's just stupid to piss of your best player for nothing and the lack of communication is criminal.
#340052 Old Trafford Lounge
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So Martial's unfollowed the club on instagram and Twitter, and changed his profile picture to something with AM9 in it (a.k.a the number he just had taken off him) because no one in the club bothered to tell him we were giving it to Zlatan.

This club sometimes man.
#339961 Transfer Rumours 2016/17
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€94m for a 29 year old...

Jeez. I'm not even sure Higuain is that good (I know he had a good season in Italy, but still).
#339669 Transfer Rumours 2016/17
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Pretty sure Klopp could have convinced him. My point is more the players were signing.


I don't think Klopp has anywhere near the pull Liverpool fans hoped/expected he would.

If you look at his transfers at Dortmund though thats not really surprising, it was always a case of getting more out of players than was expected rather than attracting players that Dortmund should not have been able to and the signs have been reasonably encouraging with your lot on that front already. If he can get Mane to perform consistently he'll be one of the best players in the league, I reckon. Similarly, whilst I don't think Wijhnaldum is a particularly inspiring signing, I don't think anyone questions his ability, more his attitude.

The big problem is that Dortmund continued to sign those sort of players after Klopp left, whereas your transfers so far strike suspiciously of the rubbish ones you made under Brendan. I guess we'll find out this season how much of it was down to Klopp at Dortmund and how much was down to the team of people tasked with signing players. Were they simply very good at spotting hidden talent that would have come good anywhere or was it down to Klopp working miracles with them? We'll see.
#339597 Transfer Rumours 2016/17
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L'Equipe saying its done.

Christ, surely not?
#339595 The England National Team
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See you in a few years when he's sacked.
#339406 Transfer Rumours 2016/17
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Italian Press seems to be running hard with Pogba to United.

Still not convinced its not bullshit, but at least its movement.
#339345 Transfer Rumours 2016/17
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Some gimp on Bluemoon said we're after Jason Denayer now some cunt from the Sun has wrote a story up

This is a geezer who got Cruyff turned by Hal Robson Kanu for fucks sake


blue moon have some hilarious ITK (I think it might be the site owner) called tolmie who they all believe, even though he A) doesn't post this things that he definitely knows until after they're in the papers B) is so vague about everything he can pretend to not be wrong and C) is still wrong.

Have a look through some of the shit he posts, its great: http://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/search/9905670/
#339279 Transfer Rumours 2016/17
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Surely you can do better than Wijnaldum though?
#339213 Transfer Rumours 2016/17
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On the subject of weird Madrid signings, whatever happened to Royston Drenthe?
#339081 Transfer Rumours 2016/17
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Would be a pisstake if we let Giroud go after the Euros he's had, even more so if it's meat for the Higuaín deal, he's worth more than that.

And we'd be absolutely fucked if Higuaín doesn't adapt well to England and start banging in goals, the fans will turn against him after what he'll cost and we won't have someone to tide us over.


Seems like bollocks anyway:

http://sportwitness.co.uk/napoli-radio-higuain-will-go-arsenal-club-associate-station-says-deal/

My money is Napoli trying to press Juve to pay up.
#338515 2016/17 Champions League
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#338349 The TV Thread
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Chris Evans is leaving Top Gear. Might actually watch the next series, might.

Did anyone here actually watch the new series? I watched the first episode and thats it.


Aye, watched em all in the end.

They were alright, Chris Evans got a bit less annoying as it went on and when Rory Reid and Chris Harris started doing segments (episode 3 onwards I think) they started to make some good stuff. If you liked the car reviews in Old New Top Gear then they're well worth watching.

It wasn't great, but then neither was Clarkson, May and Hammond's Top Gear by the end but it was watchable.
#338346 Euro 2016 tournament thread
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I'd say that's a fair team - Bale was on fire in the groups but then faded.


Could make much the same argument for Payet in fairness.
#338207 Euro 2016 tournament thread
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Baring 15 goal bonanza in extra time can anyone remember a worse tournament than this?