The Manchester United Thread X

What about David Moyes?

Playing for Fergie=/=Playing for Moyes...

What makes people think that the clear winners of the prem last season are gonna finish outside the top 3?

Only Chelsea and City are challenging us this season. Who have Arsenal signed? They're laughing at us trying to get Fabregas, but what have they actually done? Apart from made a failed bid for Suarez?

Also, Liverpool? Your best player wants to leave ffs! You ain't finishing inside the top 4 next season, I'm fairly confident of that.

If we finish outside top 3, it's a bad season.

brb celebrating finishing 4th

Playing for Fergie=/=Playing for Moyes...

Real Madrid have apparently bid 100 million euro for Bale! (Source ESPN) That is a crazy amount of money! He's good but no way is he worth that much.

Guardian reporting it as well, but its been rejected, bloody hell spurs have some ambition for rejecting such a huge amount. If they keep hold of Bale and get Soldado, with AVB in his second season they could challenge for the title with City, Chelsea & us. Paulinho looks good as well, no wonder why Arsenal are going after Suarez, if spurs had Soldado instead of Adebayor last year they would've been at least 4th.

Playing for Fergie=/=Playing for Moyes...

You can talk about the quality of the manager if you want, but Chelsea have signed plenty of world class players with caretaker managers, whereas Arsenal have had the same respected manager for years and haven't really signed anywhere near as many world class players

Havent had the cash at Arsenal really to match Wenger's predigre. But i'd say any player would relish playing for Wenger given his ridiculous track record for improving players and the opportunities he offers. And Chelsea just stick 30k on top of the players wages to attract them.

Not saying players wont want to play for Utd of course, but it would be in spite of Moyes not because of him. Lots of big clubs about with great managers to choose from.

Problem for Utd(and AFC) right now is the severe shortage of available quality players with PSG/Monaco/City skewing the market severely.

This doesn't matter though since Arsenal have that £180m in cash reserves?

It doesnt mean Wenger cant sign players, it means he might not want to at current prices. AW could have got Higuain for 34m too but didnt think he was worth more than 24m so value is important.

If PSG were going for Suarez theyd have already paid 55m but Wenger refuses to pay over the odds so things get complicated.

It's shaping up to be an epic season

Yep, Wenger's biggest fault

The thing is with Chelsea getting Jose back, City spending 100mil, Spurs making crucial signings, all 3 of them have move forwards, whereas we have gone backwards in terms of SAF to Moyes, I'm unsure about Arsenal as even if they do sign Suarez, the lad is such a nut case that he could cause rifts in the side and miss a significant part of the season and leave them stranded. The positives for us is that De Gea finished the season brilliantly, Kagawa looked to have settled in the PL at the end of last season and was showing us what Klopp was talking about, and Nani, Valencia and Young can only move forwards from last season. I'm very excited to see what Moyes does with Nani if he gives him a chance. If we get Fellaini though it'll help our midfield out.

There's a reason why he has 180m in the bank, he doesnt get ripped off.

He also doesn't win anything - it's just modern football that you sometimes have to pay slightly more than you really want to.

Depends on the signings. I refuse to believe that we go through this window and don't sign a midfielder (we really need two), but we need some quality. If we're going to sign an average midfielder, then there's no point in bothering. I keep seeing people say, "Who would you prefer: Average player A or B?" People are trying their best to see the positives in signing somebody that would barely improve us. It's sad.

If we made at least one decent midfield signing, I'd have more hope for next season.