The BBC are reporting that Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson insists he is not prepared to buy in January unless it is the right player. SAF said "I am perfectly happy with the strength of our squad in terms of depth, quality and age range. MAN UTD INJURY LIST Nemanja Vidic (knee) Darren Fletcher (illness) Rio Ferdinand (foot) Michael Owen (thigh) Anderson (knee) Tom Cleverley (ankle) Fabio (hamstring) Phil Jones (jaw) Ashley Young (knee) He goes onto say "I will not be swayed by endless tweets and blogs urging the club to get busy in the transfer market next month." He isn't saying no, but I wonder who he would like? Also look at that injury list. So many first team players out and still second and in striking distance of City. How funny would it be to overtake them despite all that money and those signings! I'd pee myself laughing!!!!
Massive contradiction of yourself there mate. All this City buyng the league bollox. Now we see evidence that good management and organisation will keep you in there with an inferior spuad in part. If money bought you titles and success alone Real Madrid would win La Liga and the CL every single year since the? 70s, since it began?. Goes to show that money isn't all it takes, Chelsea have spent more than City in total and they have never played football as nice as city do at times. And most people see ye lot catching them, if the last decade is anything to go by, Fergie knows how to play a full prem season more than most if not all but the biggest thing for me is that he manages to consistently get points from the lower teams, Chelsea lost 2 0 to QPR LFC lost to Fulham and ddrew with a host of others, Arsenal ditto, only City and spurs are showing similar consistency
He isnt going to come out and say that we desperately need someone, for a start it will push prices up and then it will be saying to our potential new signing that our season depends on them hitting the ground running, which would take broad shoulders to deal with especially as it will most likely be a foreign player coming to a new country, which will have demands of its own. Secondly, say for whatever reason the signing we want doesnt come off, what message does that tell our current lot?We`re not good enough without reinforcements? Fergie knows what he is doing and deserves our trust.Whether the truth is we have no money to spend or he indeed doesnt fancy anyone who is available, one thing is for sure, whatever decision SAF makes it will be in the best interest of Manchester United.
yes , no matter what crisis he met in his carrer , he can go through at last , i also think he will do well this time ! please log in to view this image
Noone can 'buy' a league you fktard, its like saying all you have to do is buy the ingredients and you have a cake The right players have to be bought, right plan, correct tactics and training, ye spent how much on Rio a CB? which cost more than the most expensive signings of most of the other clubs in the prem, not bought? offering higher wages than anyone else too? Not bought? For you to think that money has had nothing to do with United's success, well, I won't even bother
Wait a minute you say no one can buy the league, then say "For you to think that money has had nothing to do with United's success, well, I won't even bother". You accuse me of contradiction. Utd have spent money yes. Only an idiot would argue otherwise. Where did I ever say they hadn't? But look again at the figures, city have way outspent Utd. Gary Cook defended such spending to close the gap between city and Utd as well as obtain a CL place. If anyone can buy their way to success (apart from Blackburn) it's city.
Some of it may be down to if clubs know we are interesting in a particular player then they add a premium to that player's value because its United. Saw today a rumour that we're interested in Modric. It's 99% crap but hypothetically speaking, with Chelsea offering what was it £35m? What would Spurs sell him to us for? £40m? £50m? There's no way we'd do that. Not out of some Wenger misguided philosophy of maintaining principles or behind the scenes reasons at Arsenal but it's not something we'd done generally. We've paid lots of money for players, £30m for Rooney, Berba and Rio. But it can be argued that these represented good value (considering what they have achieved at United) and weren't far from their true values anyway. For me, the thought that SAF doesn't have money has never crossed my mind. We spend the best part of £40m in the summer on two teenagers, nearly £20m on Young who can be argued isn't a genuine first team player yet so that argument bears no weight with me. Personally, I don't think the Glazers are half as bad as some people would have you believe, I don't like some of the stuff they've done but it's bloody hard to argue with the results since they've been at the club. The thing is, we do have to invest in the squad. The fact is we are missing Fletcher for the foreseeable future, Vidic is out for the season and Giggs (even though is talking about a contract extension) may only be with us for another 18 months. Whether that investment comes from within i.e. our youth- we've seen Fryers do well and he has been in a few PL squads so we may see him as further cover in the full back area. Pogba and Morrison have started to play first team games (albeit CC games so far) and we have Anderson and Cleverley coming back in the new year. The trouble with buying a player, especially a midfielder, people are saying we need a world class midfielder, so where does that leave Ando and Cleverley when they return? So I think if we do bring in a midfielder, then it needs to be a squad player, someone who isn't going to get upset at the rotation policy that SAF has had on our midfield for a number of years.
I am saying United used their clout in the past city are doing it now, I am not damning UNited for doing it then or City for doing it now, it is you saying they buy the league, expecially when 17 games gone only and just because they are ahead and playing better football, jealousy mate, thats what your problem is, they were Noisy Neighbours till they hammered you at OT now they are contenders and the bitterness you claim of all other fans comes right to the fore, not all mancs but you in this case yeah I have always been of the opinion that if he had a different manager then ye'd have had nowhere near the success regardless of money, Fergie has been the underlining factor over the years, not cash but please fkn admit it helps and helps only
Yes we spent money but that money came from winning trophies and City are buying with some Arabs oil money.
Incredible someone is actually attempting to compare the spending of Utd over the years to that of city even in the same period. City by their own admission spent the money to close the gap and achieve CL football. No 2 ways about it, city are buying success.
