Cant believe how the moaning brigade have forgotten that we signed 10 players in this window!

[Gavlar]

I think it'd fair that we are concerned about a thin squad. Last I heard we were possibly going to sell Anell and Trusty. That would leave us ludicrously short at centre half. The championship season is 46 games not including the cup. We are very light currently and probably need to get promoted to keep players.

 

[Ndiayewillalwaysloveyou]

Probably isn't 20, I just mentioned 20 because that's what everyone else was saying.

I think its 17. 18 if you count Curtis going out on loan and soon to be 19 if Trusty leaves.

There weren’t 20, but I agree, most of them we were glad to see the back of, and the squad was bloated with a lot of dead wood.

10 have come in.

20 have gone aka left the wage bill. Fact. (Not counting youth loans out)

Wes
Amissah
Bogle
Baldock
Basham
Holgate
Egan
Trusty
Lowe
Larouci
Osborn
Norwood
Slimane
McAtee
Jebbison
Osula
Traore
Archer
BBD
Mcburnie

 

[Nick Jansky]

Wilder can now successfully play the siege mentality card with a squad of young, hungry, athletic, dynamic bastards and i only hope he proves the majority of the fan base wrong!!

I don’t think it’s anything like the majority of the fan base. As in most aspects of life, the whiny fuckers tend to be the loudest.

 

[Keen Blade]

I wonder what Anel , Souza & Hamer will think of another relegation battle ?
Can you imagine their faces when we're settled in the bottom half ?
Just not enough quality in the striking dept to deliver many goals.
Burnley , Leeds , Sunderland , Watford will be uncatchable.
Strikes me there is no takeover and the Prince is not risking any expenditure

 

[CirenBlade]

I don’t think we do, but I do feel we are a few short and it remains to be seen how many. Plus it’s about quality more than quantity for me. The season will tell us whether 10’s enough. As it stands and where we look short, I doubt it

I agree that quality over quantity is what we seem to have gone for. However, if we have spent our budget, to bring more players in we would have to have gone for quantity over quality. As the aim is promotion I'm comfortable with the gamble we have made.

 

[Tom Bott]

This reminds me of how inflation has gone up over 20% since 2020 but the goverment are quoting only 2.3% from last year

10,000 % since 1950 though.

 

[Slim Man]

Burnley, Leeds and Luton (our biggest rivals on paper) have all had to sell their best players, the Blades have managed a significant rebuild without losing our biggest saleable assets in Hamer, Anel, Souza (yet…..)

You are absolutely unbelievable lol

 

[scouseblade]

I wonder what Anel , Souza & Hamer will think of another relegation battle ?
Can you imagine their faces when we're settled in the bottom half ?
Just not enough quality in the striking dept to deliver many goals.
Burnley , Leeds , Sunderland , Watford will be uncatchable.
Strikes me there is no takeover and the Prince is not risking any expenditure

Did you honestly hand on heart believe we'd be anywhere this season? Relegation battle - dont make me laugh but we'll be easily middle of the road. The club was run as a shambles and let too many players contracts run down to zero. The rebuild is on a budget. Did you think any real money coming in would be reinvested? That the wages saved would be reinvested? The club is skint (How?) The takeover is a joke and I for one dont believe it was ever on the cards. Lets Leeds, Burnley, Sunderland et al battle out to finish in the bottom 3 of the PL

 

[ATL Recs]

Is it really paper thin? Dont be silly!

It’s paper thin

 

[ATL Recs]

Sai Sachdev and Ryan One, come on down!

Ffs your taking the piss right?

 

[ATL Recs]

Amen brother...

Fear you'll be shouted down by the hard of thinking brigade though.

They'd much rather have all our youth players out on League One loans and be paying £30k a week to grizzled PL rejects to fill our team.

Wilder can now successfully play the siege mentality card with a squad of young, hungry, athletic, dynamic bastards and i only hope he proves the majority of the fan base wrong!!

These kids in the main are nowhere near championship level

 

[Blade58]

I agree that quality over quantity is what we seem to have gone for. However, if we have spent our budget, to bring more players in we would have to have gone for quantity over quality. As the aim is promotion I'm comfortable with the gamble we have made.

Difficult to work out what sort of budget we had? It’s almost as if we didn’t have one. How many players went off the books and salaries saved? How much raised from sales? It looks to me like the players purchased are generated from those sales only and no initial budget for fees? Then of course Trusty gone today, so very difficult to establish any sort of datum?

I appreciate we had no choice but to reduce the wage bill. I guess the amount that left combined with some well established players on decent salaries the bill will have come down considerably and a necessity.

Looking at the incomings, again guessing that one or two are on decent salaries and one or two on average Championship salaries

All guesswork but would assume there’s still some money in the kitty based on Trusty going today

 

[The Crab]

you're right - we should just have 11 players.

No good arguing with them.

It’s not like we have a poor injury / fitness record…

 

[JJ Sefton]

... and lost 20.

So if Moore and Gilchrist are injured for any length of time, what are we doing then?

 

[The Crab]

Is it really paper thin? Dont be silly!

We could have done with a bit more cover, it would have been preferable. But it is what it is

 

[The Crab]

Campbell will have a good season if he is half as good as his dad.

His dad was a fine player, but I can’t come up with too many players who were as good as their dad. He hasn’t really shown it in his career so far but he’s here so let’s see

 

[Yogi]

His dad was a fine player, but I can’t come up with too many players who were as good as their dad. He hasn’t really shown it in his career so far but he’s here so let’s see

Haaland we’re saved

 

[The Crab]

Haaland we’re saved

Touché

 

[Not_a_Cheat]

Point missed is it’s a significant rebuild from one of the worst squads assembled, that doesn’t automatically equate to meaning it’s particularly good

Now don’t get me wrong, 1st 11 on paper looks good enough to finish top 10, but you all know we don’t play on paper

You realistically can’t play 46 games with same 11 bar maybe a gk, you will have to make changes, you will get suspensions and injuries

And more importantly if you have a bad run of form you have limited options other than relying on inexperience

I get the wanting to make a point about the overreaction etc etc but it’s not a major success if you are having to rely on guys who have had major fitness issues like Brewster and RND to just cover now and again either, it’s a gamble

Is January 46 games away? Doh!

 

[Not_a_Cheat]

I think it'd fair that we are concerned about a thin squad. Last I heard we were possibly going to sell Anell and Trusty. That would leave us ludicrously short at centre half. The championship season is 46 games not including the cup. We are very light currently and probably need to get promoted to keep players.

We are out of the cup and they've cancelled January transfer fucking window just for you

 

[Brownieblade]

Is January 46 games away? Doh!

lol just assuming that we are going to do business in Jan doh

We may do something in January, it may already be too late by then or not

 

[Rodley]

Disappointing as we’re a quality striker and a centre half away from challenging for the playoffs and potentially the top two.

As it stands I don’t think we’ll score enough and I’m worried about our defence. 8th to 10th is my prediction.

I’m surprised we didn’t make a couple more acquisitions. Let’s hope one surprises us late on before tonight’s deadline.

 

[Snowflake]

10 have come in.

20 have gone aka left the wage bill. Fact. (Not counting youth loans out)

Wes
Amissah
Bogle
Baldock
Basham
Holgate
Egan
Trusty
Lowe
Larouci
Osborn
Norwood
Slimane
McAtee
Jebbison
Osula
Traore
Archer
BBD
Mcburnie

Aren’t there 12 that have come in ?

 

[Original United]

Assuming no further deals I am happier than i expected at the start of the transfer window. Think if we could have kept Baldock & McBurnie (i know they have injury concerns) then I would like the squad balance and would have fancied our chances for autos.

 

[metalblade]

As it stands the squad screams lower mid table a shakey defence and nothing up front probably means a repeat of last season but sprinkled with enough wins to keep us safe from relegation. I can't believe how so many Unitedites are pleased with this transfer window not selling Hamer or Blaster is a bonus but the squad is threadbare a few injuries and we are fucked. Easily pleased you lot.

 

[Shadota]

Let's be clear. The recruitment that has been done is excellent. We've brought in some terrific players, and our starting XI looks at least as strong as anyone else in the league. On our day, we can certainly take on any of the 23 teams we're going to face this season.

But right now, that's pretty much all we have. A starting XI.

The strength in depth is minimal at best. Had there been a more concerted effort to renew some of the contracts that expired this summer, we would likely not be as stretched as we are in certain positions. If we had been more swift in identifying targets, and agreeing deals, we might not be either.

But the fact is we failed to do those things.

We could have re-signed players to prevent us being so thin (e.g. McBurnie). We could have looked to get some deals completed earlier, to leave more time to chase other targets. But we didn't.

We were never going to have a completely rebuilt squad by tomorrow. Expecting us to have such a squad is naive. But I think it's reasonable to be critical when key areas have not been addressed.

At the start of the summer, we had 2 Championship-quality right backs. We haven't replaced either of them.

We had 4 strikers who either already are, or are likely to be, Championship-quality. We have signed one, and have a backup with a goalscoring record worse than Ben Brereton-Diaz managed for us in half a season, in a fucking miserable side.

We had no Championship-quality left winger. We still don't have any. We are, in fact, even worse off than we might have been. Traore, while not world-beating, might have done a job in that position, but instead we let him go. One of the only players to have played there has now also left (Slimane).

The club likely knew before last season was over, that the change of tactic was coming. And we still failed to address some of the key positions in that setup. That for me, is simply negligent. And Wilder should feel very unhappy at being let down that way. We now have to scrape our way through to January with a squad that is not suitably equipped to handle the strains of a Championship season.

 

[Champagneblade]

Easy to overlook that we probably have the best XI in the league.

1. Best keeper
2. Potentially very highly rated defence
3. Best midfield
4. Most sought after winger
5. Tallest player up front who played for both Rotherham and Barnsley

 

[mancunianblade]

Easy to overlook that we probably have the best XI in the league.

1. Best keeper
2. Potentially very highly rated defence
3. Best midfield
4. Most sought after winger
5. Tallest player up front who played for both Rotherham and Barnsley

Don’t rate Moore all that highly but he’s been promoted out of this league in 2 of the last 3 seasons hasnt the?

 

[Silent Blade]

Do you sometimes log on as Blade in Spain?

Eh? I have never been to Spain apart from Tenerife (which isnt mainland Spain) in 1991. I will be going to Seville at the end of October

 

[Gavlar]

We are out of the cup and they've cancelled January transfer fucking window just for you

Me and you playing centre halves till then I guess, with my dad upfront.