Why Manchester United's status as a destination club is under severe threat

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    steveosnakeeye
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    Wonderfuel Gas
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    Oh fucking great, cheer us all up why don’t you?

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    steveosnakeeye
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    yeah im like the easter bunny me 🙂

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    steveosnakeeye
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    yeah im like the easter bunny me 🙂

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    MacGuffin
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    Seeing who had posted the link, I raced to that article like a whippet of the leash before it disappeared.

    It said nothing new, some of us have been saying the same for years. AND others here have been arguing its nonsense, in reality players are falling over themselves to come to us. * looks at happyhurling *

    Its simple really, top players want to be part of a great team. That means in with a good chance of winning the CL and playing alongside great players. If you think about it, in Fergies latter years and after his retirement how close have we been to CL final. And what great players would a top signing be playing with. You could point to the few veterans left in SAF final side but top players could see they were not the players they once were and would soon be leaving. And since SAF left what great players have we had. Unhappy ADM, final payday Zlatan, misfiring Falcao, embarassing Rooney etc.

    Money is the only attraction at the moment unless the Glazers do like City Chelsea and set aside a massive rebuilding warchest and convince players about our “project”. And I don’t mean the Disneyland project.

    But its not all doom and gloom, it could be worse, we could be Arsenal.

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    I’m not sure this has changed much recently, or that our approach should be constantly trying to sign big name players.

    In the last few years we’ve tried to buy our way out of trouble, bad investments and a lack of good players coming through the youth system have left us needing to. Also the role of agents and the media mean that everyday there is a story about someone turning down Jose or Man Utd, or about a player who wants a new contract being linked with a transfer then changing his mind to sign a new deal.

    We built all our success on academy graduates (ours or others), cherry picking the best domestic players (Rio, Rooney, Carrick, Sheringham, Yorke) from lower clubs, supported by a handful of foreign players, who most of the time weren’t star players before they came (Schmeichel, Solskjaer, Stam, Van Nistelrooy). In fact, most players that were “stars” before they came (Veron, Falcao, DiMaria) didn’t work out.

    I think if you look at most the serious targets we’ve been linked with recently (Alderweireld, Maquire, Perisic), they were all willing to come if we’d have agreed to the price asked).

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    redblood
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    United has never been a destination for the big players,like Barca,Real Madrid,and PSG.There are simply just not enough world class players available to go around,and far too many teams with loads of money,including those in China.That has resulted in players going for fucking stupid money-apparently we had a deal for Bale agreed in the region of £225m.When you see players like Maguire being talked in the region of £80m-you know you are fucked.Not even City and Chelsea are signing world-record breaking players anymore.i.e.Neymar,Mbappe,Coutinho,etc.Its all about developing young players now it seems,for most teams.

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    hatters
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    Maybe this thread should be named “Why steveosnakeeye’s status as a welcome poster on the Manchester United TT Page is under severe threat” no?

    @steveosnakeeye. Come on mate, don’t deny you were looking for a rise here and being a slight todger..

    In any case I don’t think many on this opinion board are under the impression that we are a “destination club”.

    Sure we are a famous club but we’ve never been the club of choice for world class players like Ronaldinho or Zidane to spend the peak of their careers when they make the “big move”.

    Nice try Stevie boy.

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    Ika
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    Hatters I agree we have never really signed world class players and the ones we did ie Veron/ADM/Falcao did nothing.

    United have made more stars than they have signed.

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    Wonderfuel Gas
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    Redblood…you can take PSG off that list you toe rag. Maybe you spelled Bayern Munich, Juventus and AC Milan wrong?

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    redblood
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    Tommy-All of them but PSG the last few years too.PSG paid £222m for Neymar and £180m for Mbappe just last year.

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    Wonderfuel Gas
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    Oh right I thought you were talking historically. In the which case add them blue cunts to your list.

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