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You've got Di maria, it's insane to sign a pretty cheap Blind and Vidal? I fail to see what is so insane about it, not least since there has been talk about signing three players.
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You've got Di maria, it's insane to sign a pretty cheap Blind and Vidal? I fail to see what is so insane about it, not least since there has been talk about signing three players.
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Go to bed dm, you're drunk.
You really think £55mil or so on two more players is insane? Considering the money Utd will miss out on if they don't improve and the complete lack in quality in central midfield, with literally no defensive midfield options currently outside of a unreliable(fitness wise) Jones.
I'd be very surprised if Utd don't sign at least one more pretty decent player and I reckon it will be Vidal and then add in Blind for £15-20mil to bolster anywhere he's needed. CB, DM, wingback, fullback, seems a no brainer. How much is currently being spent per year on transfer in terms of, fee's being paid in instalments and in terms of FFP/on the books, amortised the existing transfer including Di Maria you're probably looking at £40-50mil a year, two more players costing about £50mil in total on 5 year contracts would take that to £50-60mil a year, considering the increased sponsorship deals and the potential losses in losing out on champions league for another season or two, £10mil a year over 5 years is nothing to Utd currently. They can cover that relatively easily.
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1. I'm not even the one that said it was insane. Try reading again.
2. The 'That's an insane window' comment (by another poster, not me) I believe meant it was a good thing.
You seem to be skim reading posts then ranting again.
2. The 'That's an insane window' comment (by another poster, not me) I believe meant it was a good thing.
You seem to be skim reading posts then ranting again.
I would imagine they are more concerned with their finance and would rather sell Vidal than Pogba
I'd honestly prefer to have Vidal in a wheelchair on the pitch rather than Cleverley.
Yeah, it's just a shame we've spent our money badly/strangely over the past few years. We've got a squad that's a bit of a mess and will take another couple of transfer windows to fix.
Assuming we're allowed to conduct thorough testing on Vidal, and the deal has a fair few performance related clauses, I do think it's possible. It's clear LvG is a huge fan of his. He wanted to sign him when he was at Bayern, and mentioned him before the World Cup as Chile's outstanding player, then again the other day.
Juventus won't be keen to sell him but all things considered I think they'll do it if we can present a decent offer. Something like £25m~ + £10m~ clauses + Hernandez will surely tempt them. We can increase his wage by 50% and he still won't be among our top earners.
...or you know, they want to cash in while his stock is high and Manchester United are in a position of paying an inflated price
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Yes, oh well you missed the point I guess.
If you followed the responsed you'd realise what I meant. I don't think signing those players would be an insane window..... I've said since before Fergie announced he was retiring and everyone was asking why he wasn't spending. I think he was purposefully not spending to give a new manager a huge amount of cash to buy the team he wanted, not be stuck with the team Fergie left him that he bought pretty much the main transfer window before leaving.
I think Utd could and would have done this last year if Moyes wasn't such a chicken ****.
That is the midfield line up I can see being in place by the end of the window hence I mistook that as a weird line up(there have been more than a few weird line ups on here from Utd fans recently). Hence me responding as I did.
It's also not entirely insane to play Vidal as wingback purely because he's got the work rate to work the wing, defensive qualities to be effective and Di Maria is hard to fit into a 3-5-2.
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Yup, Italian teams simply can't afford the same wages Spanish/German/English league teams can.
Rossi is supposed to be top italian earner on 6.5mil a year, Vidal on about 5mil, euro's but still no where near the 200k that Vidal could get from Utd or several other teams.
Pogba is new enough to the club, young enough and hasn't show the multi year consistency that he can demand a 200k a week wage yet, so let Vidal go when you can't afford to match his wage demands and keep Pogba who you can keep for another 2-3 seasons before someone offers silly money and they cash in before they can't afford him either.
Ultimately with the Di Maria buy all the clubs have made their big summer purchases, it might even be next season someone goes big on Pogba.
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You're actually incapable of saying "I was wrong" aren't you? And you're still not capable of reading things even when I do it as numbered points. Try reading 2 again.
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Apparently signing 6 first team players for around 200 million in one transfer window no longer qualifies as noteworthy in the weird and verbose world of DM Manager 2014
If the club in the richest league in the world with the highest income doesn't spend for multiple years with the intention of a new manager coming in to build his own team, then no, 200mil isn't much.
50mil profit for 4 years, 200mil right there. 200mil in transfers, paid off in yearly instalments over 4 year contracts with 4 years of payments, goes down as 50mil a year in the books. It's pretty easy actually but, never mind.
Real Madrid, barca, Bayern do this, but Utd who make a broadly similar amount of money can't do this because......... wait I can't think of a single reason they can't do this.
Exactly why can't Utd spend 200mil in one transfer window, what actual sensible reason can you come up with apart from "we haven't done it before" because that isn't a reason.
WHy can all the other 350+mil revenue a year clubs spend 50mil a year or 200mil every 3-4 years but Utd can't?
I didn't say not noteworthy either, I just said, not insane and expected. I don't expect them to do it every year but I've said for a long time, as above that I believe Utd have been saving up effectively to have a big window to allow a new manager to build his own team.
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Yup, it's nuts of me to take that as a potential midfield 5, what with containing 3 players who will be part of that midfield. I should have recognised it as just a list of the people who may have signed for Utd by the end of the window..... except you know not including Rojo.... it was completely insane of me to interpret it as the midfield he might have hoped to field by the end of the window... completely nuts....
Because as a list of possible transfer it excluded one already made but oh well.
I would guess it would need to be more cash upfront, even in Italy £25m doesnt go far these days (and even if chicharito does go the other way) they still want another midfielder at the very least - even though they have quite a few.
No that still isn't a weakness it's just not a strength. The words are not even that difficult to understand. I quite clearly stated that he isn't BAD at anything but that doesn't mean he's a complete striker because he doesn't particularly excel at any of them either.
lol @ picking one example in one game of his so called strength and passing. Danny Welbeck played a nice pass to Ashley Young with the outside of his right foot on Sunday but passing certainly isn't a strength of his game. Anybody can have a good game it's over time opinions are formed. You aren't going to change my mind on the matter.
A lot of places reporting the De Jong / Vidal story as well as Blind. Has the same feel to it as the other signings made. Nothing concrete other than scattered reports and then everybody reporting the same thing. I hope it's true but if Vidal's knee is to some degree knackered then shouldn't take the risk. He's been one of my favourite players in Serie A for a while so to see him more regularly would be great.
It's the Blind one I don't get. He plays LB and DM but Shaw and Rojo have already been signed for the LB and LCB/LB slot. A fair bit of money (15m) for somebody unlikely to get an awful lot of game time.
It's the Blind one I don't get. He plays LB and DM but Shaw and Rojo have already been signed for the LB and LCB/LB slot. A fair bit of money (15m) for somebody unlikely to get an awful lot of game time.
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He is supposed to be able to play DM, CB and LB so he would be a useful cover player. Its hard to say because if we get someone like Vidal or another quality CM then we don't necessarily need cover there as we would have Carrick, Herrera and Vidal to fill 2 positions so you would hope that all 3 of them wouldn't be injured at the same time. LB / LWB we have Rojo and Shaw.
It depends on the formation we want to play I guess. Blind is a handy player from what I can tell but not brilliant.
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Very strange because we haven't bought a right wing bsck yet and already spent 45 mil on rojojo and shaw for the left and have already had to play lindgard at right back lol.
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