Manchester United will most likely have a quiet January transfer window, says the club's executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward. He admitted the situation might change if any important long-term targets became available but said the club would not consider "short-term fixes".
The Red Devils spent just over 150 million pounds last summer, including a club record £59.7m transfer of Real Madrid winger Angel Di Maria. The big-money transfers did not turn the cub fortunes around though as Manchester United are currently seventh in the Premier League table.
"We are not looking to enter the market for short-term fixes," said Woodward. "However, we have targets we are looking at for next summer. Should any of them become available in January, which is obviously rare, we will consider acting. But it is a low probability." United also bought Ander Herrera (£28m), Luke Shaw (£27m), Marcos Rojo (£16m) and Daley Blind (£13.8m) last summer and they spent another £6m to bring in Radamel Falcao on loan.
Manchester United are 50/1 at Bet365 to win the Premier League this season.
Tomas.White 9 years ago
Well, if you look how much they spent last summer, this information should not be that unexpected. They should focus on some defensive players, because they have too many of them on attack positions. Few good players to support back line, and to De Gea stays, and they are one of favorites in next years Premiere League.
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kruno1414 9 years ago
It would be funny if they didnt stay quiet cause they already have spent way too much money . Fans of Manchester United fans were always like : "Look at Manchester City , they are fake team they dont produce players , they only buy players for ridiculously high ammounts of money" but look at them now . I really dont know...
It would be funny if they didnt stay quiet cause they already have spent way too much money . Fans of Manchester United fans were always like : "Look at Manchester City , they are fake team they dont produce players , they only buy players for ridiculously high ammounts of money" but look at them now . I really dont know where is that financial fair play that Fifa was talking about ...
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sharpe 9 years ago
I am also agree with Ed Woodward that United don't need a short term buys, if some good players are available on a reasonable price then why not, but any signings just for the medias or some fans will be foolish.I don't think that MU defenders are so bad, defence is not a separate part from the team and have to start from...
I am also agree with Ed Woodward that United don't need a short term buys, if some good players are available on a reasonable price then why not, but any signings just for the medias or some fans will be foolish.I don't think that MU defenders are so bad, defence is not a separate part from the team and have to start from the opponents penalty area.
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galata86 9 years ago
I don't think that is too early to talk about january transfer window. Manchester united is Big club and I think that two years in a row without champions league will be disaster for them. And if they continue like this, this season they won't qualify for euro competitions. So I think that they should do something and try...
I don't think that is too early to talk about january transfer window. Manchester united is Big club and I think that two years in a row without champions league will be disaster for them. And if they continue like this, this season they won't qualify for euro competitions. So I think that they should do something and try to fight for champions league.
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Shumar4life 9 years ago
It's too early to talk about january transfer window, but like I said yesterday they will need serious changes in defense if they want to make progress i CL next season. This defenders in United are not good enough to play in this club, and I believe that this is theirs main problem in this moment
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timidi 9 years ago
in my opinion manchester united need to buy some defenders as soon as they can. But I don't know why they let go Vidic and Ferdinand. I think that two players could play on high level couple more years and for sure to be better than players who play now in manchester.
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sebeksk 9 years ago
I think no one was thinking that Manchester United will win Premier League this season, at least not while they playing like this, but they should buy at least one good player for defense, maybe even two. This defense is too bad for club like Manchester United.
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VlahovicNovo 9 years ago
Manchester is good in offense but in defense are so poor.What about champions title in Premier League i think that no 1% of chance to Mufc take it.Now is late for some dreams about title but next season if team will stay they will be very concurently for title.
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sebeksk 9 years ago
I think that Manchester United should bye some decent player for defense, because i don's see how are they going to play with players like Blackett and Evans and still fight for Europe this season. De Gea is having some great matches, but without good defense concede at least one goal per game.
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kkole 9 years ago
I think that this is smart move. They alredy spent a lot of money, they have new manager, a lot of new players and I think that this team now need more time to get working and paying off. If they buy some new players in january I think that they will just make thing worse, becouse new players will need more time to adapt...
I think that this is smart move. They alredy spent a lot of money, they have new manager, a lot of new players and I think that this team now need more time to get working and paying off. If they buy some new players in january I think that they will just make thing worse, becouse new players will need more time to adapt and there is no time after january. But I think that this team will be great next season and this season is just preparation for next :)
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