It's always easier to have a good window when you have a successful team with few weaknesses. Easier to keep hold of you good players. Easier to get a decent fee for departing players. The luxury of picking a small number of incoming players (who are attracted to joining) to make the team even better, rather than trying to fill as many holes as possible. Selling clubs don't see us as desperate.
2007 is massively overrated. It collectively helped us win the CL the following season, but most those players didn’t really contribute that much overall whilst at the club.
2004, 2005 - summer and Jan - and 2006 were better windows as we actually signed players that became legends.
Tevez, Nani, Anderson and Hargreaves was superb?
Nani hit and moss, mostly miss.
Anderson awful.
Hargreaves injured.
Tevez of course.
Hargreaves was a sick note but for that one season he stayed fit he was a big part of the double.
98/99 when we bought Yorke, Stam and Blomqvist.
Two players who went straight in and improved us straight away and one who was good cover for Giggs because he was injured quite a lot that season.
On paper LVG’s window where we got Memphis and Schneiderlin etc looked really good. They pretty much all ended up being Kak.
Can't think of many successful windows for us tbh. Certainly not under the Glazers. Even with Fergie still in charge we had some shockers.
Can't think of many good ones in hindsight. 07 was probably the best - it might not look that way in hindsight but the first team didn't actually need much work at that point - what those players brought to the squad though made us competitive on all fronts.
The 2 worst, ironically, were the one when we let Ronaldo go and the one where we brought Ronaldo back.
We'd kill for Nani now, massively underrated. Hardest thing for him is he was getting compared to a Ballon D'or winner in Ronaldo.
comment by -bloodred- (U1222)
posted 11 minutes ago
Can't think of many good ones in hindsight. 07 was probably the best - it might not look that way in hindsight but the first team didn't actually need much work at that point - what those players brought to the squad though made us competitive on all fronts.
The 2 worst, ironically, were the one when we let Ronaldo go and the one where we brought Ronaldo back.
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It gave us stronger squad depth, but it’s not like we weren’t a strong team the season before. Carrick being our only signing the season before had a bigger overall impact on the team than any of the signings we made in 07. And was vastly more influential in his time at the club. If we can’t use hindsight to judge the windows then 06 summer was a crap window, as everyone went mental that he was the only signing. Hindsight tells us otherwise, as it did in 07, where the myth of this superb window lives on, despite all the signings being relative failures, Nani aside.
Actually, in hindsight our best was probably January 2006
Just it if interest have we managed to get rid of Jones yet or is he still loitering around the Carrington Physio room.
Yep. Vida and Evra were significantly more influential for Manchester United than Tevez, Nani, Anderson and Hargreaves were. It’s one of the best windows we’ve ever had.
comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 1 minute ago
Just it if interest have we managed to get rid of Jones yet or is he still loitering around the Carrington Physio room.
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he's slowly being removed in instalments, body part by body part.
comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 2 minutes ago
Just it if interest have we managed to get rid of Jones yet or is he still loitering around the Carrington Physio room.
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Cancel that. He has probably been declared unfit to loiter.
Cheating but if you take 2006 as a year (both windows) and that was possibly the best year for signings for us with Vidic, Evra and Carrick coming in
And everyone was going mental at the time because Vida and Evra looked dodgy at first and Carrick wasn’t the Keane replacment everyone craved. Our recruitment really went downhill after that year.
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posted on 1/9/23
It's always easier to have a good window when you have a successful team with few weaknesses. Easier to keep hold of you good players. Easier to get a decent fee for departing players. The luxury of picking a small number of incoming players (who are attracted to joining) to make the team even better, rather than trying to fill as many holes as possible. Selling clubs don't see us as desperate.
posted on 1/9/23
2007 is massively overrated. It collectively helped us win the CL the following season, but most those players didn’t really contribute that much overall whilst at the club.
2004, 2005 - summer and Jan - and 2006 were better windows as we actually signed players that became legends.
posted on 1/9/23
Tevez, Nani, Anderson and Hargreaves was superb?
Nani hit and moss, mostly miss.
Anderson awful.
Hargreaves injured.
Tevez of course.
posted on 1/9/23
Hargreaves was a sick note but for that one season he stayed fit he was a big part of the double.
posted on 1/9/23
Tevez superb.
posted on 1/9/23
98/99 when we bought Yorke, Stam and Blomqvist.
Two players who went straight in and improved us straight away and one who was good cover for Giggs because he was injured quite a lot that season.
posted on 1/9/23
On paper LVG’s window where we got Memphis and Schneiderlin etc looked really good. They pretty much all ended up being Kak.
posted on 1/9/23
Can't think of many successful windows for us tbh. Certainly not under the Glazers. Even with Fergie still in charge we had some shockers.
posted on 1/9/23
Can't think of many good ones in hindsight. 07 was probably the best - it might not look that way in hindsight but the first team didn't actually need much work at that point - what those players brought to the squad though made us competitive on all fronts.
The 2 worst, ironically, were the one when we let Ronaldo go and the one where we brought Ronaldo back.
posted on 1/9/23
We'd kill for Nani now, massively underrated. Hardest thing for him is he was getting compared to a Ballon D'or winner in Ronaldo.
posted on 1/9/23
comment by -bloodred- (U1222)
posted 11 minutes ago
Can't think of many good ones in hindsight. 07 was probably the best - it might not look that way in hindsight but the first team didn't actually need much work at that point - what those players brought to the squad though made us competitive on all fronts.
The 2 worst, ironically, were the one when we let Ronaldo go and the one where we brought Ronaldo back.
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It gave us stronger squad depth, but it’s not like we weren’t a strong team the season before. Carrick being our only signing the season before had a bigger overall impact on the team than any of the signings we made in 07. And was vastly more influential in his time at the club. If we can’t use hindsight to judge the windows then 06 summer was a crap window, as everyone went mental that he was the only signing. Hindsight tells us otherwise, as it did in 07, where the myth of this superb window lives on, despite all the signings being relative failures, Nani aside.
posted on 1/9/23
Actually, in hindsight our best was probably January 2006
posted on 1/9/23
Just it if interest have we managed to get rid of Jones yet or is he still loitering around the Carrington Physio room.
posted on 1/9/23
Yep. Vida and Evra were significantly more influential for Manchester United than Tevez, Nani, Anderson and Hargreaves were. It’s one of the best windows we’ve ever had.
posted on 1/9/23
comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 1 minute ago
Just it if interest have we managed to get rid of Jones yet or is he still loitering around the Carrington Physio room.
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he's slowly being removed in instalments, body part by body part.
posted on 1/9/23
comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 2 minutes ago
Just it if interest have we managed to get rid of Jones yet or is he still loitering around the Carrington Physio room.
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Cancel that. He has probably been declared unfit to loiter.
posted on 1/9/23
Cheating but if you take 2006 as a year (both windows) and that was possibly the best year for signings for us with Vidic, Evra and Carrick coming in
posted on 1/9/23
And everyone was going mental at the time because Vida and Evra looked dodgy at first and Carrick wasn’t the Keane replacment everyone craved. Our recruitment really went downhill after that year.
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