Manchester United

[Chazza]

Who let you in here

The barriers are down

[Rich]

Mail reporting a Chelsea £30m bid for Rooney.

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He's their one game changer.

[RichC]

He is but under a year and half on his contract I can't imagine they'll let him just run it down.

[BigChief]

Thank you indeed DBF THANKYOU!

Just needs the fans shirt to be photo shopped to an LFC one.

[Leyton388]

IMO he will leave either this window or the next as it looks like he has no intention of signing a new contract and why would he? They are finished with a lot of players either leaving in the summer or out of contract. Fergie has left them in a right mess and Rooney is too good for that team.

[Robbie-9-Fowler]

They have too many key players that are injury prone in RVP, Rafael and Jones.

Added to that Evra and Rio look finished with no quality cover and to top it all off they have spunked £27.5m on Fellaini and still look 2 CM's short as Cleverly and Anderson are **** and Carrick is 32.

Oh and the players they do have that could make a difference are far too fancy for Moyesasaurous. Kagawa, Nani and to a certain extent Fabio who can't get a game over the likes of Smalling or Valencia at RB.

[Chazza]

David Moyes has admitted that Manchester United will sit out this month’s transfer *window – angering fans who have seen the champions slip tamely from the title picture, writes Steve Bates in the Sunday People.

Moyes has endured a nightmare initiation to his Old Trafford *reign – with his side stuttering to their worst *top-flight start in 51 years, missing out on a string of top targets and *over-paying for midfield flop Marouane Fellaini.

And he said this week he could not guarantee Wayne Rooney would stay at Old Trafford if they do not finish in the top four.

Now he has confirmed the fans’ worst fears – United will soldier on until the end of the season without reinforcements, even though bookies make them odds on NOT to qualify for the Champions League.

Asked if he would be making any signings, Moyes said: “I don’t think so. I think most of the business will be more towards the summer rather than January.”

That is disturbing news for United fans who believe either Moyes thinks the current squad is strong enough – or there is no January transfer kitty at Old Trafford.

The Scot confirmed that Italy midfielder Daniele de Rossi was among the men who got away last summer.

Moyes revealed: “We did certainly think about bringing him in the summer time. I don’t think it went as far as a bid.”

United talisman Rooney is out of contract at the end of next season and there are growing fears he will jump ship if Champions League qualification slips through their fingers.

But the good news is that the striker’s injury fears have eased, with Moyes ruling out an operation on an abductor problem.

Instead Moyes says a two-week rest will be enough for the England ace.

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[Leyton388]

They are well and truly ****ed

[ChesterDave]

"The Scot confirmed that Italy midfielder Daniele de Rossi was among the men who got away last summer.

Moyes revealed: “We did certainly think about bringing him in the summer time. I don’t think it went as far as a bid.”

2 points David

i) You're the ****ing manager and you don't know if you made a bid or not?
ii) He was one that got away if you didn't make a big any more than Beyonce was the girl that got away because I never asked her out.

[Exiled_red]

I'm not sure I believe that though, United always say stuff like that, although it was usually Ferguson.

I would assume however if that is the case the Glazers aren't giving him any money, as surely even Moyes can't believe that the squad they have is good enough. What worries me is that they are saving the transfer budget for a new manager in the summer

[Leyton388]

After Moyes those scum fans will be crying out for Hodgson to steady the ship.

[greenbloodred]

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mickeza said: ↑
I do think half the CAF are in denial about how much 'trouble' (relatively speaking) we're actually in. Before the Tottenham defeat we still had morons thinking we were in a title race despite only having beaten a bunch of relegation contenders and the numbers suggesting we'd need to win 17/19 games. Now we have yet more delusion, about our ability to attract players without Champions League football. We couldn't attract our main targets with Champions League football so how the feck people think we're going to be able to this summer is a mystery to me. Moyes has already come out and said Rooney might not sign a new deal if we don't finish top four, I'm certain RVP won't be sticking around, add Vidic, Evra and Ferdinand to that list and suddenly things look quite bleak. Carrick also looks a shadow of his former self, so that's Rooney, RVP, Vidic, Evra, Ferdinand and Carrick who need replacing, our most important players, all without Champions League football. How do we think that's going to work out? We can't compete for the best players, and we certainly don't have the best manager, that doesn't really sound like a recipe for success to me.

Now we come to getting back into the top four, which will be very difficult. Let's presume Liverpool finish fourth as expected, Suarez stays, they become more attractive to prospective players and they actually have money to buy some top quality to go with Suarez. They will only get stronger, whilst it looks like we're only going to get weaker in the short term. We're already miles behind City so we won't be catching them, if Arsenal sign a top striker we're miles behind them too (they also have the best manager in the league) and Chelsea will only improve under Mourinho. Not only does it look unlikely that we'll finish top four this year, it looks bloody difficult next year too, and the longer you're out of it the harder it gets to get back in, Liverpool signed Suarez who has become one of the best players in the world, we'd need to do something similar, but signing top players is difficult, as we've seen with our transfer record in recent years.

Some clever person will probably say we're turning into Rawk with posts like this, this is the total opposite of Rawk, they're a deluded bunch who think they're winning titles when they have no chance, like some on here, this is just realism with a pessimistic slant. As funny as the Neviller insulting anyone who dares to criticise Dave is, we need to be honest and admit he's done an absolutely turgid job thus far (him picking the right team when we lose yet another home game doesn't really cut it for me, I'm quite old fashioned and think managers do more than just pick sides and make subs), and this was the easy part, finishing top four with this squad, because if he doesn't finish top four he's got a tough job just getting us back into the top four, let alone competing for titles. Hopefully he is the manager Sir Alex and co thought he was, because if he isn't we're definitely in danger of doing a Liverpool.

[Exiled_red]

[fah-q]

tur·gid (tûrjd)
adj.
1. Excessively ornate or complex in style or language; grandiloquent: turgid prose.
2. Swollen or distended, as from a fluid; bloated: a turgid bladder; turgid veins.

Why has this word suddenly crept into the football lexicon? It's never used in the right context.

[G]

are you Shaggy in disguise?