All quiet on the MUFC transfer front
Article by Red Phil
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Let’s look at the situation with a clinical eye! We are now about half-way through the transfer window with nothing happening on the welcoming front and, it appears more-or-less the same in the departure lounge as well.
We need one or two good players to try to repair some of the damage this season has already caused to our hopes and expectations and, in order to both provide much-needed cash and to provide the boost that only a couple of new faces can achieve, we need to move one or two on. Granted, Suso looks as if he is off to Milan and it is disappointing that he is leaving without having had many opportunities to shine but, as they say, that is football. We wish him well.
The way I tend to look at this transfer window, and the remains of the season, is to suggest that, half-way through the window, we’ve lost out to City in the chase for Bony – so that is one of the very best potential incoming transfers that won’t be happening – and, as we are now about fifteen days into this period we have lost the chance to play new arrivals in two or three valuable games played during this month so far.
So, one or two of the better players NOT coming here and fewer games for anybody who does arrive to play in . . . so we lose out in BOTH ways! Do we hang about until almost the end of January, potentially losing Berahino and Delph to late bids by other clubs, or do we grasp the nettle NOW and get one or two players in whilst we’ve still got a few more games still to play? Would you rather any new players had about 18 league matches to play in or 15?
These are two supposedly seriously good young players who would barely register on the ‘gamble’ stakes . . . so let’s get them NOW! We seem to have a Masters Degree in prevaricating when a couple of bits of transfer action might just turn our season around. The recent improvement in form – not losing for quite a few games now – cannot disguise the fact that we can’t stop other teams scoring and us hitting the net at the other end is still far harder than it should be.
The dreaded outcome of this transfer window would be to find that all of the really interesting players are snapped-up by Spurs – who always go for the players we want! – or other clubs who have their cheque-books already out and ready to use, leaving us with players to go for, in the dying embers of this transfer window, who are no better than the ones we’ve already got. Do we hang back in the hope of saving a million quid by getting a ‘bargain’ in the last few minutes of the transfer window and come up woefully short again because of that hesitation?
I again bring your attention to a couple of years ago when Asmir Begovic was telling the press he couldn’t wait to meet his new colleagues at Anfield . . . only to then find that we’d ditched that deal and got Simon Mignolet for about £2m - £3m less. As ‘bargains’ go that one didn’t exactly set the world on fire, did it?
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Let’s look at the situation with a clinical eye! We are now about half-way through the transfer window with nothing happening on the welcoming front and, it appears more-or-less the same in the departure lounge as well.
We need one or two good players to try to repair some of the damage this season has already caused to our hopes and expectations and, in order to both provide much-needed cash and to provide the boost that only a couple of new faces can achieve, we need to move one or two on. Granted, Suso looks as if he is off to Milan and it is disappointing that he is leaving without having had many opportunities to shine but, as they say, that is football. We wish him well.
The way I tend to look at this transfer window, and the remains of the season, is to suggest that, half-way through the window, we’ve lost out to City in the chase for Bony – so that is one of the very best potential incoming transfers that won’t be happening – and, as we are now about fifteen days into this period we have lost the chance to play new arrivals in two or three valuable games played during this month so far.
So, one or two of the better players NOT coming here and fewer games for anybody who does arrive to play in . . . so we lose out in BOTH ways! Do we hang about until almost the end of January, potentially losing Berahino and Delph to late bids by other clubs, or do we grasp the nettle NOW and get one or two players in whilst we’ve still got a few more games still to play? Would you rather any new players had about 18 league matches to play in or 15?
These are two supposedly seriously good young players who would barely register on the ‘gamble’ stakes . . . so let’s get them NOW! We seem to have a Masters Degree in prevaricating when a couple of bits of transfer action might just turn our season around. The recent improvement in form – not losing for quite a few games now – cannot disguise the fact that we can’t stop other teams scoring and us hitting the net at the other end is still far harder than it should be.
The dreaded outcome of this transfer window would be to find that all of the really interesting players are snapped-up by Spurs – who always go for the players we want! – or other clubs who have their cheque-books already out and ready to use, leaving us with players to go for, in the dying embers of this transfer window, who are no better than the ones we’ve already got. Do we hang back in the hope of saving a million quid by getting a ‘bargain’ in the last few minutes of the transfer window and come up woefully short again because of that hesitation?
I again bring your attention to a couple of years ago when Asmir Begovic was telling the press he couldn’t wait to meet his new colleagues at Anfield . . . only to then find that we’d ditched that deal and got Simon Mignolet for about £2m - £3m less. As ‘bargains’ go that one didn’t exactly set the world on fire, did it?
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