The Manchester United Thread X

The only deals United really care about doing at the moment is signing new sponsors. That global profile building strategy of breaking down its partnership sales by region is only going to continue and keep expanding and they seem to be pumping all the effort into that as it brings in a lot of money. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be reinvested in the team very well.

Maybe United need a director of football to oversee the transfers since the people who are supposed to be responsible for those dealings - the corporate side of the club - couldn't care less about the team on the field.

The will care when the team stops producing the results, because they failed to strengthen it properly.

Money is only going to keep pumping in if the results are good.

United and the board are not stupid. They know success in the field leads to success in the commercial side/business.

One things for sure, the press/fans have temporarily forgotten Man Utd's handling of the Thiago trasnfer saga and has focused their attention on a new saga.

I think we already have the players to do what we need to in England anyway and we don't seem to be making an effort to keep in line with the top European teams.

Possibly, but I'm not even sure we have a team capable of winning the league now. Sir Alex got this team through matches, even when we looked like we wouldn't get a result. Now he's gone, I don't know.

In Europe, we're not even close.

I think we could win the league again with this team. We stormed it last season. This season we would have Vidic for the whole season (he completely transformed our defence with his return) and Kagawa is going to improve significantly. Plus we have many young players who are only going to improve. Obviously this is assuming RVP/Carrick don't get injured. If one/both of them get injured, then yeah we're going to struggle. As for Europe, we could still win the CL without any summer signings (our team now is better than the one Chelsea/Inter had when they won it). I'm not saying we would be the favourites to win the CL, far from it, but it's certainly possible. I think there are only 4 teams who are certainly better than us; the two German clubs and the two Spanish.

Logically, the Fabregas transfer shouldn't happen for so many reasons but we all wrote off RVP to joins us before he eventually did but this one's different.

Barcelona's management must be seriously drunk if they sell Thiago and Fabregas in the same summer. The former was more keen to go having said he wanted to gain gametime ahead of the WC so that was an expected transfer. They spent so much energy getting the latter to return home that it seems ludicrous they would sell considering Xavi getting on in age. Cesc doesn't seem keen to leave, surely he knows that Xavi won't be around for ever and he started 30 leagues games apparently so he should stay. However, if Barca accept a bid then that would send off alarm bells for him and I'm not even sure he'd want to join us ahead of Arsenal. If Arsenal pursue Suarez for £40m, will they have the cash to spend £25m on Fabregas? Not so sure. Their midfield wouldn't say to Cesc but the striking department is a priority for them.

The clause inserted in Cesc seems just as confusing as Thiago's. Not in terms of scenarios but this has to happen for this happen, for one thing to happen, this has to happen yadda yadda yadda.

I can't see this happening. I'd rather we go for Eriksen (who seems ready to leave Ajax) and for Strootman (although it seems he is Roma bound).

I just can't see Fabregas being sold the same window as Thiago unless Barcelona have some secret plan that no one knows about