I don't know what we're doing. I feel like there's all this talk about transfers and signings and players wanting to join United - Emi Martinez being the latest - but what are the club actually doing?
It's obviously great that we have so many top players happy to come to MUFC but even as a United fan, I have to ask the question: seriously?
Like, do they truly want to come to our club? 15th in the league last season, trophy-less and no European football?
I know the United pull will always be there but to have Matheus Cunha join us, a very good chance that Bryan Mbeumo does as well and now potentially Emi Martinez who according to Fabrizio Romano, "Initial contact has been made with Emi Martinez' agent and it's understood he is willing to join #mufc even without Champions League football.
Martinez is waiting to see what happens with Andre Onana", is positive but we still ain't doing shit.
This is a frustration for us all as much as it is for Amorim.
Like I said, it's really great that these players are willing to join United despite not being able to offer them much, but there's no point having all these talks and doing nothing.
I get that we're only in the middle of June and the transfer window closes at the start of September, but when you have that much time, you do tend to procrastinate. It reminds me of when you're in college and have the entire semester to do a project and you postpone it and postpone it but before long, it's a week left and you shit yourself because you haven't even started yet and you begin to panic.
And panic is the word because you know how good we are when it comes to panic buying. Clubs also know that at such a late stage in the window, we will be desperate for a player allowing them to milk us for as much money as possible.
Every day we also see the same news that Mbeumo still wants to join United even with the links to Spurs due to his former boss Thomas Frank becoming their new manager, the Viktor Gyokeres talk, now this stuff about Martinez. It gets boring after a point because people start to regurgitate news and say the same things in different ways.
You also don't know what to believe because there are a lot of contradictory reports.
This isn't unusual for United in the transfer window but considering we have new co-owners in their second summer window, we've signed early and the fact that we're shite, you would have thought that they would get a move on with transfers.
We also have the advantage of clubs playing in the Club World Cup. This pretty much rules them out trying to sign players whilst in that tournament giving us the opportunity to be first priority for some of these players. Maybe Martinez does want to join United but what if Chelsea wanted him? If they were not in the CWC, perhaps he would've been leaning towards them?
This is one of the reasons why we need to move quickly.
Another is because it's better to have some of these players in before pre-season. We know how important it is whenever clubs go on tour as it signals the start of moving forward into the new campaign.
A lot of the xcitment is seeing these new players in action but it's very rare that United seem to get a good amount of business done before pre-season.
And why it's so important for them to link up early is to obviously start getting to grips with their new manager, his tactics, style of play, and their new teammates as well as bonding and developing connections off the pitch with these new teammates which is of utmost importance as well. Those relationships could create a brilliant understanding on the pitch like what we had with Andy Cole and Dwight Yorke all those years ago.
They will also be more up to speed for the start of the season and that could make a difference as well.
Disco Mirror are saying that "Ruben Amorim wants his new signings on board for #mufc's pre-season tour in four weeks. He sees the tour as the ideal environment in which new signings can fully integrate with the squad, as well as enabling them to adapt to the team's system" via UtdDistrict.
Four weeks is going to go by so fast. Can we get the deals we need done in time?
When you sign players once the season has already kicked off and you're three or four games in, maybe you've dropped points that should that player have been in the team, may not have happened. Maybe we win the game with these subtle differences adding up come the end of the season.
Looking at our start to the campaign, to have Arsenal, City and Chelsea in our first five is almost as if we've already lost three games. Bring in the likes of Mbeumo, Martinez and a Gyokeres, maybe that won't be the case.
Seeing the new signings on the pitch at the start of the season also just adds good vibes and a positive feeling for the campaign ahead.
The last thing we want is to see the same fools that have let us down so many times before. The new signings could also help improve the rest of the team's game as well which would be an added bonus. It can create healthy competition.
United are also not selling players either. There are more than enough of those to go around yet all we ever see is news about Marcus Rashford. We know he wants to go to Barcelona but with them looking likely to sign Nico Williams, that could rule out a move for MR10 to join the Spanish champions.
Where to next then?
Some reports were saying perhaps another loan deal. Others that he wants Champions League football which is why he won't go to Saudi Arabia or Turkey.
Regardless of all of that, he remains a Man Utd player.
So does Antony, Jadon Sancho, Andre Onana (who is the potential holdup to Emi Martinez joining as the Cameroonian apparently wants to stay), Rasmus Hojlund (who also wants to stay), Altay Bayindir, Tyrell Malacia, Luke Shaw and Alejandro Garnacho.
That's easily worth around £100m at least. Plus you remove a lot of wages and you bring in funds to help sign new players.
Can we not say to Napoli we'll give you Garnacho and £30m for Osimhen? At least try it 🤷♂️.
I'm not even going to go over the stuff that came out about the new Director of Football Jason Wilcox. That's just a positive PR spin to get some smiles on faces. I think after having seen such shite for so many years, the fan base is able to see through all this nonsense.
We're smarter than this. Yet the club somehow don't see it. Or choose not to.
To top it all off, the club have announced that they have renewed their partnership with Apollo Tyres as a club sponsor for the next three years.
This was the reason why Harry Maguire, Andre Onana and Diogo Dalot jetted off to Mumbai whilst on tour in Asia. They went to Bollywood while the rest of the squad flew to Hong Kong for the second game of that tour.
We're announcing new sponsorship deals but not new signings or even the sale of players.
This is what Manchester United Football Club has become.
Final Thoughts
I'm just really annoyed and I'm sure a lot of you are as well.
Did they not see what happened to us last season? Did they not watch that horrendous joke of a performance in the Europa League final? Because of these fools who wear the shirt, we will go down in history as a team that lost a European final,
to SPURS!
You know how embarrassing that is?
I guess you do but I don't think they at the club do.
And we had our CEO come out and say we can win the league in 2028 🤦♂️.
It just keeps getting better, doesn't it?
There is a little light at the end of the tunnel.
INEOS did back Erik ten Hag last year and give him the players he wanted even though it was clear the club wanted him gone with Sir Jim Ratcliffe even saying that "We gave Erik the benefit of the doubt. It was the wrong decision. It was an error" when speaking to Gary Neville.
The fact that they spent £200m on the Dutchman despite wanting him gone shows that they can do something in the window.
It's also only mid-June so there is ample time to get things done.
However, as I said, all of us including the manager would like some business done before the pre-season tour in the USA (again!) in a month's time. So if INEOS are going to pull a madness, they better get moving.
Are you panicking a little with the lack of business done by United so far? Are you frustrated? Or do you think it will all be okay in the end?
Ruben Amorim: Image credit: Getty Images via Goal
Emiliano Martinez: Image credit: Getty Images via Goal