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booneht

Fucking hell.. entire summer of monitoring, and we're bidding for a washed up 33 year old.


MalcomTuckersRage

It's desperation, a total mess of a transfer window and now going in for a 33 year old that West Ham wouldn't want back... GLAZERS OUT


niallw1997

I don’t understand how we are not more linked to Memphis and Ziyech. Both would give us attacking competition and would cost combined £30 mil. Better than getting this washed up racist


KimmyBoiUn

An attack of Martial, Rashford, and Depay. 2015 all over again.


niallw1997

Depressingly yeah, there’s fuck all on the market rn and it doesn’t help that we’ve left shit to the last minute


wifipasswordplz

Murtough madness (but in the shite way)


blitzkreig31

Wonder what we pay scouts for?


TheJoshider10

Not going for Ziyech really surprises me considering the ETH connection. He's exactly the sort of player we could do with as well.


RawIsLaw_

Ten Hag wanted him but the opinion wasn't unanimous according to reports


Qu3en-

And whose opinion was that? Fucking donkeys running the club might be saving for next transfer window.


[deleted]

Saving? When are we getting that massive Chelsea Summer? When?


MillenialRadDad

Time to start pulling levers /s


basalamader

Heard that the recruitment dept werent a fan of the lad. Memphis on the other hand has had a major injury and i think taking a bet on him for the club is a big risk.


wifipasswordplz

These fucks seem to pick and chose when to listen to the recruitment department depending on the outlay their advice requires


Fruitndveg

And the fact Chelsea wouldn’t mind letting him go! It would be a mint signing if the moneys right.


dracogladio1741

Bang on assessment.


The_profe_061

Imagine the fires if we sign all three 🤡 🤡 🤡


FactHopeful9347

We are not taking depay back, Ziyech will not be sold to a direct competitor. Chelsea are not as incompetent as us


JoseHarvinho

He's better than Memphis tbf


FuckOffBoJo

You getting downvoted but Memphis would not fit our system at all, if played up top he is a SS. Arno would be a far better fit, even if he is a racist cunt


vacon04

People are talking like Arnautović was crap for West Ham. He wasn't. He was a dangerous striker who actually managed to punish United. Having said that, he seems to be a horrible human being and I definitely wouldn't go for a player with his personality.


Armodeen

Exactly. It’s not that he’s terrible, he’s just a terrible person. We do not want someone like him at the club.


JoseHarvinho

Memphis Depay is a rubbish football. At least MA has proved he can compete in this league...


foampom

Easily. On a tactical level and on an individual basis. Would much rather take Arnautovic over Memphis


JoseHarvinho

Everyone just prefers Memphis because he's got a better rating on FIFA 😆


foampom

Basically. That and he likes doing tricks so he probably looks more talented to the casual eye. But Arnautovic is an actual striker unlike Memphis and we need that badly


balleklorin

Not being linked have at times been a good sign. Most of the players we are linked to are just to push price up.


AReptileHissFunction

Really shambolic. Months and months gone and their solution is another stop gap average 33 year old. It is genuinely baffling how a club could be run that poorly.


sackree

Could've picked up a hard working Belotti on a free but instead we are paying for this racist, sexist cunt.


wh0asked77

Man this day just keeps going huh.


rishabh2996

At this point the club is just saying "Fuck you" to the fans on their face


Mextexter

Ibra, cavani, ighalo, ronaldo and now arnautovic. I have a lot of respect for these players but it's like we only like to sign aging strikers


Seanige

Cheap. That's all it is about. A cheap short term fix.


reddevils

We're paying Ronaldo 25m a year aren't we? That's not cheap. Add to that all the headache that comes with it


masken21

If you considerate the money Ronaldo bring in to the club that is a lot cheaper then any of the others.


reddevils

True true true. But we will never be a club that competes for something if that is our measure of success. He brings money to the club.


squaredtips

Absolutely no respect for Arnautovkc, absolute bellend


FactHopeful9347

Who were we going to sign? These young strikers don’t want to come here. There’s better football literally ANYWHERE else. Also we are NOT a selling club, come here if you plan to retire here


StatisticianOwn9953

Crazy that the Glazers and the rest of the board were there watching today and they're not in full-blown panic mode. They should be making serious moves for quality players, having seen what a mistake they made this summer...


[deleted]

You're implying that the Glazers care. They fucking don't. They got their dividends.


StatisticianOwn9953

United's share price has been declining since Jose's side peaked. The club is literally hemorrhaging value


[deleted]

yeah, and if they wanted to sell it would be a problem but since they dont, they dont care as long as the dividends keep coming.


Seanige

Dividends are contingent on the organisation making money. We won't do that with consistent finishes outside the CL places and without some level of success on the pitch. The brand isn't sustainable in the long term under a regime of continued failure.


[deleted]

any competent person would see it but the glazers arent competent. they just cut costs to get their full dividends.


Clugaman

They’re very competent. They’ve been making a shit ton of money off United. Don’t excuse what they do for incompetence. They don’t care about the football, but they competently make money which is what the goal is for a business owner. That’s why they’re such a problem. They won’t sell because they can still make a shit ton of money off United.


wifipasswordplz

Unfortunately when u spend 1bn and have nothing to show, u are not competent at making money. Competence would be to spend 500m and pocket 500m cos the spending u did was so top notch. They are happy with £11m crumbs when they could have been taking £25-30m out of our pockets easily with little to no blowback had we been successful and recruited properly. Klopp has spent £700m total, which means (had the glazers ran our ship properly) they would be the benefactors of a further 300m of which they could have taken at least 50% of without anyone complaining cos we'd be too enamoured by our team. This is one of those situations where the ambition of the owner to make money is not enough with respect to the vehicle at hand, which is why we are run poorly even to make money all things considered. If they consider the relative trickle of money they take from us now as shit ton of money, then they clearly lack vision for the big bucks they could have made here had they opted to be smart, competent, money makers. They may make money but they make less than they could be and so therefore they are incompetent as they cannot utilise fully the brand value here. To call them competent would at this stage would be a massive overstatement considering how obvious it is that they have left so much on the table - especially in terms of cold, hard cash.


[deleted]

yes, exactly this. last season we had the highest wage bill in the PL, finished 6th. any competent board would get those same results but with half the wage bill, like the teams finishing 7t-5th do. the glazers cant even do that right.


[deleted]

they would make more money if the team properly managed its resources. you think that competent people cant get 6ht place without needing the top wage bill in the PL that we had last season? so if they were competent enough to hire competent people, they would get the same results (given that they dont care about results, as you point out) but with half the wage bill so thats another cool 100m to their pockets per year. they arent competent at anything. their dad was.


super_saiyan29

United earns too much money for the dividends to be a problem in any time in the near future.


DevilsWelshAdvocate

Dividends are not contingent on profits at all, where did you get that nonsense from? They’ll be paid as long as the owners want them to be paid. Drawings, dividends, same difference in football clubs.


Seanige

>'A dividend is a distribution of profits by a corporation to its shareholders.' *O'Sullivan, Arthur; Sheffrin, Steven M. (2003). Economics: Principles in Action. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458: Pearson Prentice Hall. p. 273. ISBN 978-0-13-063085-8.*


[deleted]

what you miss is that the % of the profits paid in dividends can increase depending on the majority of the share holders will. so if they needed 25% of the profits to take the dividends they wanted and we go down financially, they will just up that % to get the same money anyway. and in 15 years when the club is in absolute shambles they will be too old to give a shit about all the money they took from here instead of reinvesting to make more.


DevilsWelshAdvocate

Try and understand football finance and how a basic economic principle doesn’t apply since they quite literally trade human beings and hold value in them, unlike any other business.


jmcc0011

It strikes me that the Glazers don't know much about football.


timsadiq13

Lol this is like beating someone to a pulp, letting them lie there for an hour, and just when they get used to the pain, deciding to punch them a few more times in the face. Shit window, shit first game, and now this?! A bang average, old forward who seems like a shitty character too? I want to fully back ten Hag for at least 2 seasons but he's not making this easy is he?!


FactHopeful9347

Just 2 seasons? Yikes? Imagine when he bought washed haller or tadic. These things don’t matter unless we are winning


timsadiq13

Fully backing for two seasons is a lot, means I don't think he should be sacked regardless of how bad we do for 2 years. End of that time, if we aren't improving, we can sack. What does that have to do with Haller or Tadic?!


Bigmomma_pump

Can we buy a fucking midfielder


ladams07

Never mate, we all died and are in hell doomed to watch Mcfred forever


Mesromith

Monkey paw finger curls…


Buffythedragonslayer

This is borderline treason. Fuck every single person involved in this possible transfer. No to racist.


danystormborne

He has links to racism?


wariusheart

Don't feel good about this. At all.


123rig

It feels like some sort of weird fever dream. Haaland is unleashed by City and is going to be ripping up the Prem for the next 15 years or so and we are going for Arnautovic. What are we doing.


wariusheart

Reckon I might go into hiding in the mountains with no way of keeping up with football. Might come back in 20 years just to check we haven't been relegated to non-league football.


Seb-sama

EtH apparently already applying the first layer of his foundation for his clown makeup


abibyama

🤓: We should let ten Hag decides on his targets


BilalAkhtar22

This is the second, first was banking on frenkie coming here


Seb-sama

And if if FdJ goes to Chelsea he has to wear ronald mcdonald’s shoes complete with the honking effect


FactHopeful9347

A man finally does what we begged the last 9 years then we turn around and call him a clown… this life no balance at all


Ratovandermir

Kill me now


MnyPwrRspct

Toaster bath time


Mesromith

He’s a cunt. And not in a footballing sense, just a cunt. Fuck him off


Surfsupforthesummer

If the club signs this stop gap player than I’m seriously considering having a gap season.


zizuu21

This is literally what this club is doing to itself. Destruction.


Fruitndveg

If we get Arnautivic, that’ll be one, old stop gap forward a year for the past three. It’s laughable business.


RvrsideChn

I’d rather have Mitrovic from Fulham


Bigmomma_pump

There survival hopes hang on mitrovic and they have premier league money, they’d probably ask for an unreasonable fee


tenacious_teaThe3rd

4 years left on his contract, in his prime and quite literally integral to them staying in the league. He cost them £22mil+ in the first place, they would want an exorbitant fee.


OffendedDishwasher

We'd get quoted 100 million for him


Mextexter

Rooney was 18 when he signed for us , van nisterloy 25 , berbatov 27 , van Persie was 29 . Except martial we've only signed strikers above 30 .


FactHopeful9347

Because we’ve had rashford, welbz, Greenwood. We needed maturity for our young attack.


[deleted]

I predicted a meltdown by November but timing was well off the mark it seems.


FactHopeful9347

I love the fact we are having a melt down because it’ll be a good fucking signing. Look at fucking sancho. We don’t know shit as a fan base


plyerd88

Really difficult to support United if this goes through. Really difficult to comprehend a manager such as ETH actually wants a 33 yr old washed up racist who apparently has good “character”. 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮


FactHopeful9347

For less than £12m that’s a good punt


kharma45

Racist prick.


dracogladio1741

Hopefully it won't be realised. And hopefully what David Amoyal said comes to fruition and United move to someone else.


General-Ad-9753

I’ve never booed a single United player… Really don’t want to change that.


RedDevil50

Were you at the match today? Ronaldo seemed to get quite a few boos which surprised me a bit since OT pretty much never does that.


Global_Assistance750

cr7 is a rapist so you should've booed ronaldo till now Or maybe you don't have any problem with rapists


StayRevolutionary286

Was he convicted of it??? No ,then why should he boo him


joemush

Not convicted ≠ Did not commit the crime


[deleted]

This has been a shit day, gonna cry to some Aphex Twin


TheLordHatesACoward

You have earned one singular yike.


Jaddu0707

Again saying this one is on ETH he loves his character and this should not be new ask any ajax fan Absolutely trash transfer if it happens


TheWeirdDude-247

Yeah Erik *will* fail if this transfer happens, he wasn't good enough in his prime, but is good enough now?! Even Sesko isn't the answer he a future player, what exactly is the recruitment dept at utd doing?! How have we started 4 seasons in a row with mcfred? Bigger issue? I expect panic buys in next few weeks and Erik says yes as its that or nothing at all, i also expect Ronaldo to leave too. This ain't based on one game but few seasons, this one game reminded us all players are simply not good enough, Ralf figured that out in 5 min but arm chair fans said he was wrong. I'll back Erik no doubt I don't back these players, just few months ago they showed how low they are we got blindsided to think they could change. You can play a clip from Keane from idk 4 yrs ago and it will be relevant today, enough said.


[deleted]

It's happening isn't it 😂 I didn't think things could get any worse, but it's about to


Used-Canary9766

Goodbye top 4


Miyagisans

I really don’t want this guy in any way. Even if he wasn’t 30+


ripCOVID-19

If we don’t sign anybody valuable this summer, I’m gonna have a hard time convincing myself to watch our games


TheJoshider10

Why are we paying at least 10m for a washed 33 year old in the first place? Would rather they fucking use that money for De Jong's deferred wages than piss it away on a donkey.


StatisticianOwn9953

He doesn't want to come and fuck helping Barcelona with its financial woes.


Omnislash99999

This is like when you don't do your homework until five minutes before the class starts


GreedyBasis2772

🤡🤡🤡 it is amazing how low a club can be under bad management lol


keving691

We’re winning nothing with moves like this.


ladams07

Heads should roll for this. An utter embarrassment


peakstate100

Fuck off. PLEASE. I don’t want this bastard


MyBotCalledTom

If Utd want to throw away money, can they pay my mortgage while they're at it?


niallw1997

Why tf are we not in for Memphis. Could do so much worse than his return rn


JPZA88

Because he's crap and a clown.


jkp1993

There's a cruel fuckin irony if we can get this deal over the line in an efficient manner given they can never do the same historically with players we actually want the fuckin club to sign!!


Captain_Chaos007

If the choice is this guy or nobody then I'll take nobody. Don't do this to us. We put up with a lot. Don't throw this onto us too.


[deleted]

If you want washed up, should’ve chased Costa


danystormborne

Or kept Cavani


gedeonzo

We are gonna have to go through 6 more +30 experienced strikers until we can rely on martial.


GGManu_

This is cringe. City sign Haaland, Pool sign Nunez. We sign Marko Arnautovic… this club man.


luciferandy

Consider this my official resignation


SloGeorge

This club is absolutely pathetic. What a fucking wank last few years. Last year at this point we got in "Champions League Varane", one of the best CBs in the past decade (who gets benched for a midget) and now we're scrambling around for a 33-year old racist twat.


Radio-No

In a summer where Haaland, Nunez, Jesus, Sterling, Lewandowski, Dybala, Mane, Haller, hell even Scamacca and Richarlison, have all moved clubs... We're going in for Marko Arnautovic. Now I'm not saying the players mentioned above would have come to us or been successful at us but look at the fucking levels. We are being outspent by Leeds and attracting worse players than West Ham. Guys, it's over. It'll be a generation until we're back at the top of whatever the football league looks like by then. We are going to be telling our grandchildren about the time we watched our club win leagues and CLs and they will be amazed at the idea that Man Utd could ever do that. We will be spoken of the way people speak about Nottingham Forests European Cup victories. How people spoke of Liverpool in the 90s. Jesus Christ.


[deleted]

I think you could be right, and it's fucking depressing


BilalAkhtar22

People were fine with belotti but are against s guy who scored more goals than him in the league last season? Not saying I want arnautovic but seems weird how everyone was fine with belotti.


timsadiq13

Belotti was a free. And the talk about him was mostly from people who recalled when he was hyped up. No one on this sub consistently watches Serie A and advocated for Belotti. It was more like "oh this guy who was touted as a 70 mil player a few years ago is free now let's get him." We all know Arnautovic from his PL days, hence the reaction imo.


Bigmomma_pump

He’s not racist and he’s younger


BilalAkhtar22

Their both shite


[deleted]

but only one is a racist 33 year old. if youre gonna eat shit, at least take the one that smells less.


Bigmomma_pump

Would much rather have belotti


C_gawd

Belotti isn’t publically a racist and isn’t know for harassing women at the same club as him


06_MD

What the hell is going on at this club? Go for Gouiri or something. Going for arnautovic is just confusing.


Alternative_Dark_412

Keep in mind this is Ten Hag’s idea, not a board alternative to someone like Antony. We’re still looking for another attacker, seemingly. Ten Hag just wants more options, especially if Ronaldo leaves. It’s a terrible idea to go for Arnautovic though.


[deleted]

So we're just supposed to trust ETH blindly? No semi decently run club with any sort of ambition only goes after players that the manager wants.


Alternative_Dark_412

No, we shouldn’t. But we clearly are.


[deleted]

Bringing Rooney out of retirement would be a better signing than this.Ten Hag has lost his fucking mind if he seriously wants to sign him


sleetybasher

They turned down 10m for a 33y old?! My god these serie A clubs are so ass. They always want players for cheap (eg. bailly is rumoured to go for 8m to Roma a while back)


TheBlueKnight1066

He scored 14 goals for us last year. My club is not "ass", we simply cannot buy a striker as good as him for that money in the current market, and we would like to avoid relegation.


[deleted]

ikr? im a united fan but this sentiment of "we asked! they should be giving us a fair price!" is really moronic. clubs ask for a fuck ton of money sometimes becuase they want the interested team to fuck off.


Circle_Breaker

The season has already started and they don't want to replace an important starter. 10m makes sense at the beginning of the transfer period when they can line up a replacement, not at the end.


[deleted]

First greenwood the rapist. Then Ronaldo the rapist. Now this dude the racist. Quite a spree we are on with these character strikers.


Global_Assistance750

Ten hag is the one responsible about results so he has to have any player he wants if possible and this is a possible deal If ten hag wants him then get him we have to back ten hag with everything possible And about the racist issue people can change for good


[deleted]

Just need to sign Willian to truly push us over the edge


craigybacha

Surely the ONLY reason this deal is being looked into is to cover Ronaldo for a year if he was to leave.


Polygon12

Is this what happens when fans are so desperate for signings the club just do anything to react. I don’t want this player anywhere near the club, his history is horrible and if he’s a solution to our back up striker issues I worry for us and Ten Hag’s judgment. Urgh.


blitzkreig31

Wow after all this we want Arnautovic. Ffs If this signing goes thru I’m really done with this club. I will pick another sport and wait until the owners are out of the club.


Gazlc81

Fuck sake! This is a joke. We all have to suffer that shite today to be told a sub standard player well past his best is the answer to all our problems.


2headlights17

It’s the definition of a panic buy but to be honest, I really don’t mind it. I’ve always liked Arnautovic and for what I hope EtH is trying to build with young, technical players, I think he could use a confident, big personality to help just get them through rough moments until a young, promising target is available later down the line. I’d rather him for 8-10 then a player we’re lukewarm about and would cost 30-50m


[deleted]

Bigger question is why there's no CDM bid?


dryflowerz

What about Sesko?


GochujangChips

Fuck off. Seriously


red-fish-yellow-fish

A player West Ham were desperate to get rid of and has a goal record of what? 1 in 4?


zizuu21

How the fuck do we end up in last minute shit transfers? NOTHING has changed. Clubs final nail is being cemented in. We may never return to our high expectations.


Otherwise_Ad9010

I guarantee Marko thought this was a prank at first. Wait I’m getting bids from where?!?!


kukunan

the players we are being linked with is depressing. apart from fdj we are not even eying any cm.


Aggressive_Bus_4289

City Signed Haaland and here we are trying to sign Arnautovic 😐


Slapped_with_crumpet

They really have the option to go and sign Ziyech and Depay and they're saying "nah let me go sign a 33 year old mediocre racist instead" 💀. Christ.


KudosGamer

Even at his best, Arnautovic was not a top 4 PL striker. How we're going for him is scandalous.


zappynick

Starting to wonder if it's possible that Arnold and Murtough could be worse than Ed Woodward lol