the only worry is, we haven't strenghtened anywhere yet. There must be a reason, I can't believe their tactic was to do nothing.
I do wonder if we are waiting on Madrid to buy, and then sell Bale
I've already disproved that too. It's happened once.
So Mourinho's career
Benfica - Ended quickly due to a change in president when the club were on a good run
Leiria - Left due to getting the Porto job
Porto - Left as double winners due to the Chelsea job
Chelsea - Left on bad terms
Inter - Left as treble winner adored by players and fans
Madrid - Left due to falling out with Perez over the United saga
Chelsea - Ended poorly.
What exactly are you disproving here?
In an ideal world, we'd buy another 6 players and sell a few too but Mourinho should be getting more from this lot in my opinion. Shaw, Bailly, Lindelof, Pogba, Matic, Herrera, Martial, Rashford, Mata, Sanchez and maybe a few more all capable of playing much better than last season I feel. Mourinho needs to do his job and get more out of what he's already got.
The 3 year Mourinho myth only exist at Chelsea.
People always say he and Ronaldo had a fallen out and there were tensions between them but after Mourinho left Ronaldo had this to say
He later described Mourinho as the best manager he has ever worked with - more than father figure Ferguson - adding: "I would put him at the top, I always say that." Ronaldo wouldn’t say that if he thought badly of Mourinho
I don't think it's even a sell before buy scenario. I just don't think there are many players available in the positions we need, at the right price. Alderwereild and Willian both too expensive.
There’s no way the club are setting him up to fail. Or think he’s the wrong person. Unbelievable.
I think its the board finally losing patience, it must grate to spend over 600m pounds in the five years since Fergie retired and not see a credible title or CL challenge. Serve for Fellaini almost every player we have signed since then has been a shadow of the player we thought we were buying. Then Jose comes in and stabilizes us but he has spent 300m and still wants us to spend money on a CB when he has already signed a CB in each summer he has been here, tells the board that he wants shot of Martial and Shaw but the club made huge investments on those two believing that we'd be sorted for years. For example it seems easy to just play Sanchez on the right, Martial and Rashford alternating on the left but we drop the two, play Sanchez who isn't pulling up trees on the left and have to see Mata/Lingard stinking up the place on the right when they are at their best centrally. Its not my money but it pisses me off now imagine the Glazer siblings! Rather than a funds issue I think its a trust issue.I think replacing Carrick with Fred is strengthening the squad as Carrick wasn't really available last season.
My personal opinion is the lack of signings is down to a lack of funds the club has spent fortunes the last few years on players and got very little back from sales that money has either come from blasting through any cash reserves the club had or borrowing more money. Boosts in TV money and new sponsors will have helped but I doubt it would cover what we've spent on that squad.
In 2 of the last 5 seasons we haven't had CL football either which leaves a hole in the books.
My gut feeling is this summer is the summer the board might have turned the tap off in terms of investment certainly eased the flow and told the club if they want to buy they have to sell if you want a left back you need to sell a left back.
I personally think we are wasting our time with Bale if he wanted to leave he'd have said something by now my guess is he'll hold out for one more year and see how it goes without Ronaldo.
This summer prices have been crazier than every due to the impact of the Neymar deal last summer and the fact the PL decided to shut their window early every other league still has 6 weeks to sort stuff out whereas we only have 3.
If Mourinho wants both then he has to meet the board half way by selling off some deadwood. I doubt anyone with a bit of financial knowledge would countenance signing a sixth CB at 29 for the fees being touted about nor would they want to sign Sandro with the likes of Shaw and Darmian still stinking up the place. Mourinho should lood to sell Jones, Rojo and Darmian so as to raise part of the 120m outlay required to get those deals over the line and then look to promote youth like Tuanzebe to cover the gaps left by the departure of the former.My guess is Utd haven't been able to negotiate down the fees as much as they hoped on players like Sandro or Alderwiereld both selling clubs are sticking by their valuation at the moment same possibly for Willian these seem to be the 3 most heavily linked with Utd through the summer.
Now these clubs might panic last minute and decide to drop the price but equally they're hoping Utd panic and come up.
If Mourinho wants both then he has to meet the board half way by selling off some deadwood. I doubt anyone with a bit of financial knowledge would countenance signing a sixth CB at 29 for the fees being touted about nor would they want to sign Sandro with the likes of Shaw and Darmian still stinking up the place. Mourinho should lood to sell Jones, Rojo and Darmian so as to raise part of the 120m outlay required to get those deals over the line and then look to promote youth like Tuanzebe to cover the gaps left by the departure of the former.
What you say makes a lot of sense in that it takes three parties to conclude a transfer deal so its difficult to shift players on good contracts.I honestly don't think he's standing in the clubs way of selling deadwood players but the club can't attract offers it's not Mourinho's job to man the phones to sell players. Utd tend to use agents to do this because they don't have a sporting director but currently apart from Martial & Darmian I don't think there are guys desperate to leave the club. Mourinho I think has made it quite clear he'd happily sell Blind, Darmian, Shaw & Martial. I don't think he'd stand in the way of offers for the likes of Rojo, Smalling or Jones or possibly even Mata & Herrera but the reality seems to be the offers just aren't coming in for these players so he's stuck with them. The club seem reluctant to sell Shaw & Martial given what was invested in them when we bought them as long terms targets despite the manager seeming to have little interest in working with them.
Without players going out it's hard to make room for new guys to come in the squad is already at maximum capacity personally I'd sell Shaw & Martial if it meant we could get a left back & CB in then I'd force one of the current players out by telling him he's not in the first team squad even if it was just a loan move.
The longer this goes on the more it just makes me feel Utd need to get some sort of sporting director in place to manage this because modern managers aren't equipped with the skills to do it and Woodward certainly isn't which is why we've ended up with a squad that's a complete mess and players on contracts that give them a very comfortable life.
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