Gold again lamenting some unrealistic Spurs fans over the rate/speed of signings.
Worth reminding people that many PL clubs have yet to make ANY signings this summer, including ManU and Chelsea. My candid assessment of ManU's squad is it needs a lot more work than Spurs does - just looking at their striker options :
Ronaldo - unless every pass goes to Ronaldo he doesn't contribute much these days, goals but no pressing.
Cavani - now getting on, at end of contract unlikely to renew
Rashford - Badly out of form for 2 years for ManU and England
Greenwood - Not allowed into training ground, will he ever play for ManU again ?
Martial - At one time an excellent emerging striker, now hated by ManU fans for lack of effort. Been loaned out but no permanent move found for him
Lingard - Winger at end of contract, wants out
Shoretire - Dane Scarlett's main opposition in England year groups, but missed out of last E squad, just cannot compete with Scarlett's current run of 10 goals in 10 appearances for E u19's, not a great omen for Shoretire or ManU
IMO I don't know how ManU rebuild a forward line from here - other than buying forwards like going out of fashion and dumping all the above ?
Meanwhile Spurs have Kane, Son, Kulusevski and Moura (assuming Bergwijn's on his way) plus youngsters coming through (but probably to young for next season) ...... and its clear we are trying to sign other decent forward options to give us rotation without too much drop off from almost world class forward line. Yet some fans think we are in a bad place and need to do more.
I would hate to be a ManU fan facing a rebuild of our forwards - and they will be looking very enviously at Spurs options even without reinforcements.
Worth watching an interview with Nick Pope on his transfer from Burnley to Newcastle where he talks of the transfer taking 3 weeks (and BTW Bale from Spurs to Madrid took 6 weeks) to appreciate how long transfers usually take to do. We made our 3rd signing just a week ago .......