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    Man U have no problem attracting top players, Pogba, Maguire, Wan Bissaka, Fernandes all huge money, they have an endless money pit to delve into.

    They're not successful at the moment but are always in for the top players and the top players want to come after seeing them being so successful for some many years.

    When you look at other clubs and how they go out and buy whoever they like you can't help but be envious, it sounds like we've got very little to spend, whilst Chelsea, Man U, Man City, Spurs and Liverpool will have plenty and they're all already better than us, even the likes of Everton will spend money no doubt.

    This self sustainable model is a shocker and really a prehistoric model nowadays unless you're successful, we wasted so much money and have allowed a lot to go down the pan thanks to failure to keep players contracted or sell them before they are worth next to nothing, when you're trying to be self sustainable that's really amateurish.

    Even last summers' spend was basically spread over several seasons (some of it all due next summer) so we've already hindered ourselves in future windows and with no CL to prop us up unless we somehow win the EL financially we won't have much.

    Just to add to that we've now employed a rookie manager with zero experience to try and get us out of this whole, what a shambles.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Globalgunner View Post
    United will keep bribing players with huge wages to join their rolling crap show. They can afford to keep throwing money at the problem. maybe Poch will drop in to save them
    like he 'saved' spuds by not winning anything and got sacked because they were on the slide?

    i'm happy for him to go there, where he will inevtiably fail and be shown up for the whining fake he really is

    anyway there is talk of Allegri going to Moan U

    that's yet another top manager we've let slip through our hands...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mac76 View Post
    like he 'saved' spuds by not winning anything and got sacked because they were on the slide?

    i'm happy for him to go there, where he will inevtiably fail and be shown up for the whining fake he really is

    anyway there is talk of Allegri going to Moan U

    that's yet another top manager we've let slip through our hands...
    Don't worry though, we've got Guardiola lite, he's the next big thing, that will fix everything.
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    Ziyech is only costing Chelsea between 30-40m.

    Seems like a bargain in today’s market really.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marc Overmars View Post
    Ziyech is only costing Chelsea between 30-40m.

    Seems like a bargain in today’s market really.
    Yeah not bad value, other clubs seem to be able to identify these guys why can't we. Instead we went and paid 72 million for Pepe (which apparently Lille were happy to accept because they thought he wasn't worth that much) and stagger the fee over who knows how many seasons.

    What's worse is that he hasn't settled at all and that we actually needed to spend money on defenders at the time, if we could have signed someone for the price Ziyech is going for (Ł33.3 million potentially rising to Ł36.6 million) we'd have had about Ł40 million to spend on a defender.

    The whole transfer policy is so flawed at this club, either we go too cheap and sign nobodies or if we do buy big we overpay for players that aren't worth the money, we don't even spend the money in the right places.

    We could have signed Ziyech last summer but had no interest.

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    i think the Pepe problem is partly down to the fact that Emery and Freddie were out of their depth and Arteta is a rookie who it seems is already being taken for a ride by the eternal teachers's pets such as Xhaka, Mustafi etc.

    he just needs coaching from someone more experienced and a consistent place in the team - forget all that sh*t about how hard he tries in training - anyone who can score two freekicks in ten minutes should get more backing

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    Quote Originally Posted by Özim View Post
    I think we'll struggle to sign players in the summer, we've got a manager who nobody knows and has no record, probably won't have CL football and probably won't have much moneyand will lose our best player Aubameyang (and probably will keep hold of Xhaka and Mustafi).

    So far we seem to be linked to a few lower league players and some ageing cheap players, if that's the way we're going to go are days as a club with any chance of challenging for anything are well and truly gone.
    Have you thought about seeing a therapist?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chippy View Post
    Have you thought about seeing a therapist?
    Maybe we can get a group rate...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mac76 View Post
    i think the Pepe problem is partly down to the fact that Emery and Freddie were out of their depth and Arteta is a rookie who it seems is already being taken for a ride by the eternal teachers's pets such as Xhaka, Mustafi etc.

    he just needs coaching from someone more experienced and a consistent place in the team - forget all that sh*t about how hard he tries in training - anyone who can score two freekicks in ten minutes should get more backing
    He’s too one-footed - that’s his biggest problem right now. He’s got all the skill in the world, but until he gets comfortable switching to his right foot when he needs to he’s always going to be predictable in open play. Hopefully he’s been working on it - could be a very good player if he does...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mac76 View Post
    Maybe we can get a group rate...

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