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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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Showing ambition is a meaningless fan phrase.

You either improve how the team plays on the pitch or you don’t. Transfer window is one small part of that but there is a lot more that goes into it. Transfers are extremely risky and even huge expenditure by Man Utd and Chelsea (billions in a couple of years) hasnt led to great performance because you need to get the rest right. So far they haven’t.

People getting overexcited at Utd’s transfer business is like looking at someone’s photo to decide if they’ll make a good wife. You might feel some type of way but it doesn’t make it good.
True , but right now we are one fecking ugly photo of a prospective wife , sadly we have not got a cracking personality to compensate . Under ENIC we will forever be an old maid as the saying goes
 
Showing ambition is a meaningless fan phrase.

You either improve how the team plays on the pitch or you don’t. Transfer window is one small part of that but there is a lot more that goes into it. Transfers are extremely risky and even huge expenditure by Man Utd and Chelsea (billions in a couple of years) hasnt led to great performance because you need to get the rest right. So far they haven’t.

People getting overexcited at Utd’s transfer business is like looking at someone’s photo to decide if they’ll make a good wife. You might feel some type of way but it doesn’t make it good.
This is such an odd post. In a statement where you recognise quality additions are a facet of success, you then critique people for being frustrated at what we’ve done this window thus far in comparison to our competitors.

Not one person here is saying that the ONLY contributor of success are quality signings, but seeing as it’s:-

A) the summer where no games, players or tactics can be analysed and discussed
B) a time when the transfer window is open
C) the fucking transfer window thread…

What do you expect people to talk about? No one is complementing Utd because they love them as a club. What they see is someone who has thus far done some objectively good business (Cunha and Mbeumo are excellent signings, Sesko has question marks but is highly regarded).

You would hope and expect some obvious organic growth from our team, both in terms of player development and tactically, but we are a long long way behind where we want to be and most here don’t think that organic growth is going to bridge that gap.

We need more and there’s still time to do more, but venting at fans who’s team finished 17th last season and a cumulative 83 points behind their biggest rivals over the last 3 years is a very odd take.

There’s time to do more, but right now what we’ve done and where we sit doesn’t even begin to bridge the massive gap we have to where we need to be.
 
Then let's go get him!

My only other question though is that he seems to mostly play as a right winger. Is he really a through-the-middle player in the PL?
Monaco played 442 or 352 a lot this season so there’s been no room for a classic 10. He has played on the right.

In the previous season he played through the middle a lot more.

He was a second striker / 10 as a youth player.

Can he do it in the PL? Who knows.
 
Ha ha ...
"Ange's system is the Kane replacement" 😆

Fighting Cock gold 🥇
A bit of a weird one to bring up (talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel to find something), but since you did:

This was mentioned prior to Ange's first season in which, excluding the incredible 16/17 season, we scored the most goals ever in the league in the past 40 years. And those 40 years also included 42-game seasons.

Get your facts straight, will ya?
 
Why can’t we just get on the blower to Crystal Palace , see the guy you’ve got for sale think his last name is Eze ….how much you want 60 odd million is it? Well I’ll pass to our accountant and see what we can do….👍
 
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