I like Donley a lot- think he could be a sneaky hit if handled right by the coaching staff. Love that Frank is keenly interested in youth development.
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Thread 2025
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I like Donley a lot- think he could be a sneaky hit if handled right by the coaching staff. Love that Frank is keenly interested in youth development.
I just never understood this fucking transfer at all. It’s not like he was some potential uber starlet, he was just your common as muck, big lump no.9 with absolutely zero special about him. There’s thousands of them in England. Dozens in our academy for free. Why go to South America, pay a few million and waste a non HG spot potentially?
Just nuts.
Veliz looked good when he first arrived, but the injury set him back and then a couple deflating loan moves appear to have broken him in some way. I definitely feel like we fumbled his development by not truly committing to his development in house- as with many others.
It’s not like the club owns teams in other competitive leagues where they can be reliably sent for development. I know we have partnerships, but something more concrete might be something for Levy to look at. City and Chelsea appear to be doing this very effectively in recent years.
Agree totally- would love to see them all get a chance here, or sent to serious loans.
There were reports with staff being underwhelmed by his ability very early on
I’ve no reason to start lying on the internet …. I’ve no agenda against the player personally
He then went out on loan where he didn’t get a look in and now he’s being sent home
So it’s fairly evident there was some truth in those commentaries
Eventually Man Utd will figure their shit out. They won’t stop spending. Hopefully some other opp will become similarly undone by the time they do.
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Sending him to La Liga onto a totally shit team was a horrible idea- he needed more time in champo with a real progressive tactics manager.
He prob left Argentina a season or two too early as well.
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Is it cynical to suggest that Levy was perhaps trying a bit too hard to procure more Argentine talent in order to continue maximizing on the Argentina-Spurs connection?
Maybe it was the best we could do ? Reasonable to suggest there weren’t too many takers and sending him to a Spanish team might’ve helped him settle… they were ‘a shit team’ yet still not getting game time is hardly auspicious
It does appear he just isn’t good enough … happens more often than not
What’s strange was paying so much money for him
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All we need is a versatile forward, a DM & a left back that's without knowing what formation frank will use
POK tbf to him said Veliz was League one standard and won't ever make it.
Bournemouth have sold a few players for big money, will be expensive
He gets a lot of shit but Pok is decent
Nah he's usually shite tbf but on that occasion he was correct.
Did well at Metz and Lyon. Flopped terribly at Ajax.
M'ikautadze
Last 10 signings Dragusin, Bergvall, Gray, Solanke, Odobert, Yang, Kinsky, Danso, Tel, Takei.
Don't be greedy. We don't wanna do a Leeds, Bury, Rangers...
Not 10th and an FA Cup though!
More likely we finish top half and no trophy in my opinion..
That's as things stand, squad-wise. I'll revise in line with incomings/outgoings.
You never know. If they get desperate enough later on in the window.
I could see Brentford signing Bamford and that’s who Levy aspires to be…
But for now at least, it’s satire.