Transfer Tweets - Manchester United - 2024/25

Andycoleno9 said:
Article is behind paywall. Any other link to it? Seems very interesting
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I can sum it up here:
  • Ashworth will oversee everything on the football side (men's & women's); he's basically the top dog in the football club and will report to the CEO, Omar Berrada.
  • United's scouting operations is built on TrackerMan, a large scouting database.
    • Scouts take their individual reports and converse over them with each other and Steve Brown, who is responsible for assigning matches to the scouts rather than judging the targets.
    • Some scouts say that TrackerMan's reports are too verbose and not concise enough.
  • Vivell may have joined on a short-term basis for now, but there's a view to making him join permanently.
  • Vivell, Berrada, Wilcox, and Ashworth will all have a say on potential signings.
    • Ten Hag's opinion will also matter [hence Whitwell's point on ten Hag retaining his "veto"].
    • Every other name mentioned in the point above will also have a veto, so ten Hag won't completely have his way like he may have in the past.
  • Brailsford is not going to be involved in the football operations; he'll just oversee United's overall direction.
  • International youth scouting is now the responsibility of the first-team staff.
  • Andy O'Boyle has a more prominent role after being on the periphery under Murtough.
  • Matt Hargreaves (director of football negotiations) has a bigger role with the agents nowadays.
These are the key bits. The rest are about historical scouting and transfer operations involving our missed targets, and those are more appropriate for another thread.
 
Dr. Dwayne said:
Oh boo hoo, are they illiterate? Learn how to summarize. Hopefully Sir Jim sacks those who complained.
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I forgot to add this originally, but this was something that Murtough encouraged as he wanted the scouts to be as expressive as they can be and not hide anything. FYI, Joel Glazer used to read those scout reports as well, which is crazy to me!
 
mazhar13 said:
I can sum it up here:
  • Ashworth will oversee everything on the football side (men's & women's); he's basically the top dog in the football club and will report to the CEO, Omar Berrada.
  • United's scouting operations is built on TrackerMan, a large scouting database.
    • Scouts take their individual reports and converse over them with each other and Steve Brown, who is responsible for assigning matches to the scouts rather than judging the targets.
    • Some scouts say that TrackerMan's reports are too verbose and not concise enough.
  • Vivell may have joined on a short-term basis for now, but there's a view to making him join permanently.
  • Vivell, Berrada, Wilcox, and Ashworth will all have a say on potential signings.
    • Ten Hag's opinion will also matter [hence Whitwell's point on ten Hag retaining his "veto"].
    • Every other name mentioned in the point above will also have a veto, so ten Hag won't completely have his way like he may have in the past.
  • Brailsford is not going to be involved in the football operations; he'll just oversee United's overall direction.
  • International youth scouting is now the responsibility of the first-team staff.
  • Andy O'Boyle has a more prominent role after being on the periphery under Murtough.
  • Matt Hargreaves (director of football negotiations) has a bigger role with the agents nowadays.
These are the key bits. The rest are about historical scouting and transfer operations involving our missed targets, and those are more appropriate for another thread.
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Thanks, man.
 
mazhar13 said:
I forgot to add this originally, but this was something that Murtough encouraged as he wanted the scouts to be as expressive as they can be and not hide anything. FYI, Joel Glazer used to read those scout reports as well, which is crazy to me!
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That may well be what Critchley/Whitwell/United staff have been told, but given the number of reports that would get done throughout the week, the supposed 'eloquence' of them, and what we know about the Glazers, there is no way in hell that Joel was pouring through a hundred or so scout files every Monday morning.
 
GwilDor said:
Really a nothing article. Absolutely no thing in it. Save yourselves the click…
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I clicked on a link earlier for another story and by Christ that website is horrendous. Havent been on it in a while but dont remember it ever being that bad for pop ups and ads.
 
There’s £7m left on his value so you’d hope we’ll cover that at least. Anything on top will be an unexpected bonus at this stage.
 
I wonder what went wrong with Van De Beek - he was a good player at one stage
 
Gordon S said:
He couldn`t leave much of an impact at Everton and neither at Frankfurt. Superb is a bit of a stretch.
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He got immediately injured at Everton. Only played 7 games for them. And only 8 at Frankfurt. Cant judge him on that.
 
FujiVice said:
He got immediately injured at Everton. Only played 7 games for them. And only 8 at Frankfurt. Cant judge him on that.
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That does not help of course. Injury is a big issue for him. Still maintain that technically superb is a bit of a stretch.
 
Dannn411 said:
Still baffled as to why it did not work out. Thought he was a sure thing. Such a shame.
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Still remember a certain Mark Goldbridge bragging about how clever he was - because he had been going on for ages about how United should drop their pursuit of Grealish to sign v.d Beek who was the same quality at 1/3 the price. And when United did sign V.D.Beek who was convinced we have a world beater on our hands. Well - not quite
 
DomesticTadpole said:
Problem for him was he came in to Ole, who hadn't a clue what to do with him. He lost confidence as well.
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If that is the case - he must be the softest footballer ever to play - because that has happened to thousands of footballers and they don't lose their ability to play because of it. Or more likely - you are wrong!
 
DomesticTadpole said:
So what is the problem then?
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Physicality I think, he doesn‘t have a lot of intensity. Some players aren’t the same after injury, maybe that’s it.

Remember, he was on ballon d‘or shortlist and Real Madrid wanted him. Mental.
 
Robertd0803 said:
Wasnt this reported already as the fees Kia J was charging Milan because of the bad blood between them? And would be less for anyone else?

If not then sod that plan.

I hope a day comes when paying an agent is the players responsibilty and not clubs.
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When or how the feck did this ever be allowed to happen?
Surely if he's your agent you should pay the cnut not the club!

kaku06 said:
How does he still has transfer veto is beyond me.
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I hope for our sakes it's 99% less of a veto than the pillock had before otherwise we're fecked.
 
spwd said:
When or how the feck did this ever be allowed to happen?
Surely if he's your agent you should pay the cnut not the club!



I hope for our sakes it's 99% less of a veto than the pillock had before otherwise we're fecked.
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You all need to chill out. Both he and the recruitment team (presumably Ashworth, Vivell, and whoever else sits in those meetings) have veto power. It literally says in the tweet itself. If we sign someone, rest assured it's because they all agreed to sign, not just because they are Dutch/played in Dutch League/worked with ETH before.

 


Source (Tier 3): Correio da Manhã

Chelsea and Arsenal are also interested, but United's the only PL team to put in a bid for the player. Whilst Rui Costa considers the player to be vital to the team, he's still open to receiving more offers for the player.
 
Official: United trigger the one-year option in Erik ten Hag's current contract, taking it now until June 2026


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