** Official ** Summer 2010 Transfer Thread - Signings, Sightings and Rumor's in Here
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Indeed, they've outdone their main competitor (financially) over the last 5 years in a way I wish we'd done to UTD earlier on in Wenger's era.
I understand the loyalty to fergie, he's very very good in the premiership, I do think he's buys and tactics have held Manu back from dominating the champions league for a spell. Sometimes when Manu get knocked out in europe you are left wondering WTF Fergie was thinking.
His domestic record is really beyond scrutiny but I always feel he's really underachieved with the resources and players/teams he has had in europe. He really should have won it 4 or 5 times or more with the teams he has assembled multiple times over.
Exactly and then the times when they actually unleashed when they had to you were left wondering why they didn't just tear the team apart like that from the beginning instead of looking like they were trying to get to half time 0-0.
You had teams that played in the premiership at 100 mph with stupidly fast counter attacks all of a sudden playing as though they were trying to nick a 1-0.
lol I missed all the Tom Cruise puns a page back... shame on you all! 
I hope and pray to everything that is holy that he isn't good enough to get in our team, the constant flack we'd take for it he was playing...unbearable to even think of.
I hope and pray to everything that is holy that he isn't good enough to get in our team, the constant flack we'd take for it he was playing...unbearable to even think of.
I agree entirely mate but by that rational Real Madrid should have dominated it for years.
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lol I missed all the Tom Cruise puns a page back... shame on you all!
I hope and pray to everything that is holy that he isn't good enough to get in our team, the constant flack we'd take for it he was playing...unbearable to even think of.
True, I bet years ago his parents were happy naming him Thomas. Oh how they wish he wasn't banged on the head and went over to scientology.
...but now imagine he ends up class.
Honestly I feel that united have been punching about their weight for a few years now. I have supported them my whole life and I dont think the side is in a bad way, the competition has just got much better.
Look at the premier league, look at the number of times the big sides get beaten these days. Chelsea and Man City's spending has brought a lot of great players to the league but it has also cleared out 2 teams full of upper half of the table players into other lower teams in the league.
We need to get some better players if we want to win anything in europe next season. I dont mind if we take a few seasons of rubbish if we end up with a great squad of young players but a lot of people seem to feel that united should just buy their way to the title.
Look at the premier league, look at the number of times the big sides get beaten these days. Chelsea and Man City's spending has brought a lot of great players to the league but it has also cleared out 2 teams full of upper half of the table players into other lower teams in the league.
We need to get some better players if we want to win anything in europe next season. I dont mind if we take a few seasons of rubbish if we end up with a great squad of young players but a lot of people seem to feel that united should just buy their way to the title.
both quotes say the same thing in different words
Either way it proves Utd have shown interest in the player that you stated Utd were not interested in
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Fact of the matter is we could have put bids in for those players and they chose to go elsewhere, I don't know if we did and neither do most fans.
i reckon we do make approachs to clubs for a lot of players
but when ya think about it, if you were say Sneijder and you had the choice of leaving Madrid for Man Utd (Rainy Manchester Estates) or Inter Milan (Sunny Italian Villas) which would you choose?
id be happy enough to stay in England but ive not had the experience of living in luxury in a Hot country, be difficult to adjust to life in a british city
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Spurs have sealed league shirt sponsorship from Autonomy in a deal worth over £20m over two years.
Nice one Levy. Now get a cup sponsor lined up.
Nice one Levy. Now get a cup sponsor lined up.
didnt you say it was a company we would recognise
Good deal though
No disrespect to Chelsea (or any other EPL club) but I would think a top player like that has a better chance of winning Club titles etc in Manchester than in Madrid (Milan is a totally different call though, but then the weather isnt as nice as Madrid either.....probably far better than Manchester undoubtedly though lol)
very quick edit......unless they go to that other club in Manchester, in which case they are after money and nothing else hahaha
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i reckon we do make approachs to clubs for a lot of players
but when ya think about it, if you were say Sneijder and you had the choice of leaving Madrid for Man Utd (Rainy Manchester Estates) or Inter Milan (Sunny Italian Villas) which would you choose?
id be happy enough to stay in England but ive not had the experience of living in luxury in a Hot country, be difficult to adjust to life in a british city
Right, so you're agreeing with me then
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Right, so you're agreeing with me then
Yes Gimp I am agreeing, but giving a reason possibly behind why we don't get all these so called stars arriving at Man Utd.
You know, expanding upon conversation.
both quotes say the same thing in different words
Either way it proves Utd have shown interest in the player that you stated Utd were not interested in
Nope 1 says he believes that there's interest the other says there's a bid
Of course he's going to big up his player by saying something along the lines of 'I'm sure they are interested because he's a good player' but that and actually saying we've put in a bid are two extremely different things
Like I said no where that I've read has quoted him as saying he's received a bid
In Europe you cant play a game of we'll score more than you
I agree that if we play like we do in the Premiership that a lot of teams in Europe wont be able to live with us but do you sacrifice letting in a few if it all goes wrong?
For the most part we've either been unlucky or simply beaten by the better team, I can only think of once in recent memory when we really let ourselves down in Europe (other than the shambolic elimination at the group stage when in Fergie's defence the team was in the middle of a major rebuilding process)
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The interest from Manchester United in Sneijder is real, but I haven't found it tempting," said Inter owner Massimo Moratti."I’m following him at the World Cup and I think I’ll do the same also at Inter for the next few years.”
To me that states an offer has been received by the club, but the owner isnt tempted to look at it, dont know what everyone else thinks but its blindingly obvious to me
To me that states an offer has been received by the club, but the owner isnt tempted to look at it, dont know what everyone else thinks but its blindingly obvious to me
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Even if you had bid for him and the owners accepted that bid why would he want to move? Given how good Inter have become over the last few years it would be a step backwards.
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