From 81 points to 18th place: The Other Teams Thread Vol. V

Seriously....


And to think of all that wasted money.

I see LVG and mou gone end of the season

 

Who did they sell??

 

What everyone really wants to know is where Man Utd's transfer departures XI would finish in the PL. pic.twitter.com/EGYXctBLKW

— Cristian Nyari (@Cnyari) August 31, 2015

 

Found this in the ManU forums:

Nobody respond / provide information to @MatthausSammer unless he gives his word that it'll be auto repped. We need to be appreciated too, dammit!

 

A tad ironic that two of our touted targets ended up at City for a combined. €137m

Were we ever going to spend that much in one transfer window you wonder?

 

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hahahaha Gala pulled a Madrid

 

De Gea 100% sure staying at Man Utd now. hahahahahaha

 

You would think 2 billion dollar clubs would have handled this more professionally..

Sometimes it's really like amateur hour in Europe

 

Monaco's trsnafer season:

 

Schweinsteiger praising the city of Manchester.

Schweinsteiger on Manchester: "It's not as bad as you think." #MUFC #GERPOL

— DW Sports (@dw_sports) September 1, 2015

 

That was him trying to convince Ana Ivanovic..

 

On a side-note, I read Arsenal are the only club in a top5 league to not sign a single outfield player this summer. Pretty incredible stuff from Wenger. I have a lot of rewpect for him but was there really not a single suitable striker on the market to replqce Giroud?

 

The David De Gea transfer Saga / Farce / Fiasco update:

Real Madrid's official ten-point statement reads as follows:

1. Manchester United did not agree to open any negotiations over the federative rights of David de Gea until yesterday morning.

2. Real Madrid, despite the difficulties entailed in carrying out a deal of these characteristics on the final day of registration, agreed to initiate these talks.

3. When Manchester United agreed to negotiate yesterday morning, they made it subject to reaching an agreement with Real Madrid’s Keylor Navas for the player to join the British club from this season, and stated that it was in contact with the aforementioned player’s representatives.

4. Real Madrid and Manchester United quickly reached an agreement for the transfers of both players. Following the drawing up of the relevant contractual documentation required, and with the purpose of proceeding with enough time to process both FIFA’s Transfer Matching System (TMS) and the registration with the Liga de Fútbol Profesional, Real Madrid sent Manchester United the contracts at 13.39 Spanish time.

5. Manchester United sent their remarks regarding the aforementioned contracts eight hours later, at 21.43 Spanish time, including minor modifications. As these modifications were not significant, they were all accepted immediately by Real Madrid, with the intention being able to register the player on time both via TMS and with the Liga de Fútbol Profesional.

6. Real Madrid, having obtained the signatures of the players De Gea and Keylor Navas, sent the British club the aforementioned signed contracts at 23:32 Spanish time, before waiting to receive the final documents signed by Manchester United.

7. Manchester United reached a final agreement with the representatives of Keylor Navas at 23:53 Spanish time, and it is at this point that the contracts were sent to the player to be signed.

8. Manchester United entered the details of the David de Gea deal, not those of Keylor Navas, at 00:00 Spanish time, simultaneously sending Real Madrid the signed transfer contracts. Real Madrid received this complete documentation at 00:02 and attempted to access TMS, but it was now closed.

9. At 00:26 Spanish time, FIFA’s TMS invited Real Madrid to fill out the details of the player David de Gea, as the period of registration in England remains open until today. Real Madrid, in view of the possible eventuality of an administrative dispute over the player’s transfer, decided to send the contracts to the Liga de Fútbol Profesional, despite the knowledge that the deadline had passed.

10. In short, Real Madrid did everything necessary at all times to complete both transfers.



Of course ManU had to reply. Here's their statement:

Manchester United did not seek contact from Real Madrid for the sale of David. David is a key member of our squad and the club’s preference was not to sell.

• No offer was received for David until yesterday.

• At lunchtime yesterday, Real Madrid made its first offer to buy David. A deal was agreed between the clubs, which included Navas being transferred to Old Trafford. The deals were dependent on each other.

• In the last several hours of the process, with Navas at the Real Madrid training ground, Real Madrid were controlling the documentation processes of David, Navas and Real Madrid. Manchester United was in control only of the documentation of Manchester United.

• Manchester United sent transfer documents for both players to Real Madrid at 2042 BST. David’s documentation was returned by Real Madrid to Manchester United without the signatory page at 2232 BST.

• At 22:40 BST, minutes before the deadline, major changes to the documentation came through to Manchester United which immediately put the deals at risk.

• Only at 2255 BST were the documents that are needed to cancel David’s contract received by Manchester United from Real Madrid.

• At this point Navas’ documentation was still not returned by Real Madrid.

• At 2258 BST, the transfer agreement was sent back by Manchester United, uploaded onto TMS and accepted – all before the deadline.

• It is our understanding that the deals couldn’t happen because:

• Real Madrid didn’t upload David’s documents onto TMS in time (Manchester United did)

• Real Madrid didn’t upload David’s documents to the Spanish league in time, per reports it seems some 28 minutes after the deadline • The fact that Manchester United filed the papers on time was acknowledged by the Football Association, who offered to support that claim in any discussions with FIFA. The Club offered this assistance, as well as its own timestamped documents to Real Madrid but they have chosen not to go down this route.


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It's simply absurd. All credit to Wenger for being able to make it to the CL year in and year out by grinding out results without buying players, like he's challenging himself to win some sort of achievement in FIFA; but at some point, Arsenal needs to move forward with some ambition. Arsenal's squad is no where near as complete as Barca's, Real's, or Bayern's, and yet they refuse to buy players because 'the right players are not available in the transfer market'. The players are there, even for a good price.

Is Wenger only looking to strengthen his squad if Leo Messi is available for 10 million euros? Such an unsound model for a football club with European/Championship ambition.

 

Arsene is a smart man, If he buys, fans would expect titles but as it is now, Fans would take anything aka top 4 given that he didnt buy

 

They just don't want to take part in the transfer fee madness that is allm why people think that is smart for the club or coach is beyond me

 

Barcelona who is on a transfer ban has more summer transfers then Arsenal

 

RSL

 

I've been there. The people are very friendly, almost as friendly as the people in Minga. I even went to their version of Oktoberfest. It was strange seeing the Mancs stuff their faces with Bratwurst & German Bier. Good times! But their fussball clubs are shite!