Summer transfer joy and happiness

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Honestly don't understand the transfer strategy at this club.

Liverpool show us how to get back into the top four and to even get to a CL final on low wages ...... identify & invest in a lot of talented 20 - 22 years old, a few 25 year olds in key positions and perhaps the odd 28 year old +. Huge upside and if a player comes good then you can if necessary sell him for mega bucks and reinvest that money to improve the squad (Coutinho).

We've seemed to have gone for the complete opposite approach and so if we don't get top four next season we're going to be lumbered with a lot of old players on big contracts and with no CL football. Dumb strategy from Sven/Unai/Ivan.

[Özim]

From what I can see we're being linked to free transfers and cheaper players, many of those of course are older players.

Bernard is one we've been linked with, he's a winger, youngish and free so would be worth a punt IMO. Some of the others I'm not sure about, if we do go for a few olders players I do agree it would be odd as we'd need to replace them in a couple years which will cost money, we also can't build a team by signing a lot of older players, we've already signed Auba and Mkiti who are both in their late 20s.

Not sure who we're going to get right now though, there seems to be number of players we're allegedly about to sign but none of them have signed on the dotted line yet, so who knows.

[Marc Overmars]

Fellaini???

I’m willing to give the new regime a chance but jeez...

[I am invisible]

Anyone got a problem with stringing fellaini along all summer and then withdrawing the offer? Leave the c*** without a club?

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Anyone got a problem with stringing fellaini along all summer and then withdrawing the offer? Leave the c*** without a club?

The only way this will be a master stroke is if this causes Mourinho (who loves Fellaini) to increase Utd's contract offer for Fellaini to 200k a week or some absurd figure meaning they spunk all their money on him, leaving us free reign to get a better & younger CM ahead of them.

[I am invisible]

The only way this will be a master stroke is if this causes Mourinho (who loves Fellaini) to increase Utd's contract offer for Fellaini to 200k a week or some absurd figure meaning they spunk all their money on him, leaving us free reign to get a better & younger CM ahead of them.

It would almost be worth offering him a 200k/week contract just to freeze him out of the side and end his career.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

A top Right back, a top CB and a top CM....... and we don't even have Wenger to thank for this.

Whoever's repeatedly pressing snooze you can stop now....

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Signing the Premier League runners-up best outfield player.

Seriously though, WTF is this?

Nzonzi is fine, Fellaini barely qualifies as a footballer.

[Cripps]

Honestly don't understand the transfer strategy at this club.

Liverpool show us how to get back into the top four and to even get to a CL final on low wages ...... identify & invest in a lot of talented 20 - 22 years old, a few 25 year olds in key positions and perhaps the odd 28 year old +. Huge upside and if a player comes good then you can if necessary sell him for mega bucks and reinvest that money to improve the squad (Coutinho).

We've seemed to have gone for the complete opposite approach and so if we don't get top four next season we're going to be lumbered with a lot of old players on big contracts and with no CL football. Dumb strategy from Sven/Unai/Ivan.

We're signing experienced solid players. Players that slot right in and make a difference right away. That's the strategy. And what's bizarre is after years of buying young players that's led us to absolutely nowhere, we are now buying ready made players but fans are still moaning

One thing we've learnt is we probably shouldn't believe a word the media says, everything is for clickbait. The second thing is we should probably trust SASIE.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

We're signing experienced solid players. Players that slot right in and make a difference right away. That's the strategy. And what's bizarre is after years of buying young players that's led us to absolutely nowhere, we are now buying ready made players but fans are still moaning

One thing we've learnt is we probably shouldn't believe a word the media says, everything is for clickbait. The second thing is we should probably trust SASIE.

No experienced solid players would be in the 25-26 age bracket. We're signing old players in the last throngs of their careers who are looking for one last payday. They have zero resale value and so will be difficult to replace in a few years when they fall off a cliff or in the case of Fellaini that point is already here.


And because Wenger failed with some young players we shouldn't sign young players is a dumb argument. We actually have a coach now who can improve players and make them better by giving them guidance. We should be signing the best 22 - 24 years around and giving Emery the tools to work with them to make them into world superstars.