as the mbeumo transfer demonstrates, this united board are going to get absolutely taken to the cleaners trying to negotiate with brighton

think this has the hallmarks of buying first before selling one of their bigger players tbh

madness - he's barely worth half that

Palmer - will likely have a £10m price tag again and had a terrible FPL 2nd half of season (only one goal after January)

will look great in preseason, manage a couple of 1 pointers & then be out for the rest of 2025 by GW3

that fee is absolutely insane

what non-striker positions would you look to strengthen in the summer & who would you target for them?

Agree with you that direct club-to-club comparisons aren't as simple as I'm making out - but my point was more that there clearly were players out there in the market we could have bought - plenty of clubs did go out and strengthen and we were either naive or complacent not to do so

Any interest in Martinez? Considering Fabianski to him as it will give me another doubler without impacting blank in 29 at all (other keeper is Pickford) - seems nobody is really looking at him

Genuinely think this is sack-able territory for anyone involved in transfer decision making at the club. Villa & City both signed FOUR players (including a £50m backup to the best striker on the planet). We signed nobody despite losing Saka & Jesus and losing four attacking players in the summer.

Agreed - summer window should get more hate was incredibly complacent from attacking point of view...

Attacking players out in summer: Nketiah, Smith Rowe, Nelson, Vieira

Attacking players out in summer: Sterling

Dreadful

There wasn't a 'high bar' when VAR told the ref to go to the monitor to send Saliba off vs Bournemouth - funny that

sent off after full time. what a dreadful transfer he has been from start to finish - can't wait to transfer him out this week