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aquarius moon Wrote:

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> > Not as far as I'm concerned. Who's going to

> give

> > them a run for their money? Certainly not

> Arsenal,

> > United, Liverpool or Chavs.

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>

> Swansea.

You know what, that would be so refreshing for the Prem, but I can't see it

Alan Medic Wrote:

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> > > Did you watch it am?

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> > Yes. Did you?

> I did and thought United played well enough to

> have won.

4 shots on target to each team, Monk deployed better tactics, Swansea scored more goals, their players performed far better than United counterparts and hence won the game. Time for LVG to spend the equivalent of a third world country's GDP to try and turn things round.

Parkdrive Wrote:

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> > > ETA: And I predicted 2-1! :)

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> Same here , wish I'd had a few quid on it now.



Me too.

Not quite half a billion though is it? That figure isn't the net spend either, which takes into account money received from sales. Yes Liverpool have spent a lot the past couple of summers, but they have also received a lot for Suarez and Stirling. I previously posted a link to this summer's current net spend table. So far Utd's net spend this summer is ?14.5m, although that's debatable as German papers reported that we bought Basti for ?6m, not the British press oft quoted ?14m. Add in the latest fee received for Evans and it's an actual profit. Of course that could all change in the next 36 hours...


NET SPENDS THIS SUMMER


1 Manchester City: ?66.5m


2 Newcastle: ?46m


3 Chelsea: ?29m


4 Crystal Palace: ?25.5m


5 Watford: ?24.5m


6 Leicester City: ?20m


7 Liverpool: ?19m


8 Bournemouth: ?18.5m


9 West Ham: ?16m


10 Manchester United: ?14.5m


11 Stoke: ?14m


12 Norwich: ?10m


13 Swansea: ?8.5m


14 Arsenal: ?8m


15 Sunderland: ?6.5m


16 Everton: ?5.5m


17 Aston Villa: ?4.5m


18 West Bromwich: ?3m


19 Southampton: -?12.5m


20 Tottenham: -?13m

Alan Medic Wrote:

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> United buy a 19 year old with potential for more

> than ?30M. Not sure that's what they need right

> now. Time will tell.


It's desperation, and when you're as desperate as LVG obviously is you pay way over the odds.

Didier Deschamps on Martial


"He's got a good combination of pace and power. He's a young player obviously, but he's got an interesting profile in an area where it's not easy to find players with both strength and speed.


"He's got good potential and I want to see how he does with the squad."



Lot of money for some potential, but hey, he might be a superstar...

Otta Wrote:

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> Whilst flogging a decent player in Javier

> Hernandez. I don't get it.


Me neither. So far we've let RVP, Falcao and now Hernandez go, all No. 9s, with no direct replacement(s). Rooney is no No.9, he even wears No.10.


In wide positions we've offloaded Nani, and bought in Depay, happy with that. But now Martial comes in and Januzaj is going out on loan to Dortmund, i.e. we loan out one promising young wide player and buy another for ?36m. Genius.

Oh, and we could've had Pedro for ?15m less.


And despite all this, we still need a fooking No.9!...

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> I'm really not surprised that Spurs are at the

> bottom of that table what with the new stadium to

> finance. I think that trend will continue for some

> years yet. More lean times for us I reckon.



Let's hope that's not the only table they are at the bottom off :)

Alan Medic Wrote:

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> United buy a 19 year old with potential for more

> than ?30M. Not sure that's what they need right

> now. Time will tell.


James Wilson, same age, came through the youth academy, so obviously LVG doesn't think he has potential? Even more mystifying Martial was offered to Spurs 7 weeks ago for 20 million euros, United now paying 36 mill, bargain, and not at all desperate or over the odds. And to think fans thought Moyes was clueless.

Otta Wrote:

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> It gets even weirder, De Gea sold to Madrid for

> ?29m.

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> So a top top keeper for ?7m less than a promising

> 19 year.

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> Strange goings on.


We were never going to get De Gea's full market value because he was into the final year of his contract. I actually think we did well to get that much, with Navas coming the other way, surely an upgrade on Romero. An interesting Tweet from Sky's man in the know in Spain, Guilem Balague, was that LVG put a stop to Utd offering De Gea improved terms back in the Spring because he wanted Navas instead. Brave decision if true.


PD's latest gem has come from a Stan Collymore Tweet...nuff said.

It was reported back in June that Spurs had a ?19m offer turned down for Martial. I reckon Monaco had no intention of selling him whilst there was a chance they could qualify for the Champions League. That ended last week when they lost to Valencia. As well as Spurs, Chelsea had been sniffing around him too, so there might have been a bit of a bidding war that upped his price. With all the money that's going to be sloshing around in the PL next season, foreign clubs will keep on demanding these silly prices...

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