23 Sep 2025 06:40:59
Well well, I was on here a few years ago saying we should buy Ousemane Dembele and not Jadon Sancho. I got the usual derision but made me both smile and be annoyed to see who won the Balon Dor.
23 Sep 2025 08:15:14
It's neither clever nor funny to gloat, Mr Red Man. :-)
23 Sep 2025 08:33:40
Red Man, in hindsight that looks an obvious call, at the time it was probably 50/ 50 considering the injuries that Dembele was dealing with. Either way well done.
Lets just hope that come the summer that phase of our past is done and the enigma that is Sancho can darken someone elses door.
23 Sep 2025 09:14:11
Whats he done to win balon’dor?
23 Sep 2025 09:21:01
It is questionable if he would be the same player for us, different league, coach, teammates. he was always a good player, no doubt.
23 Sep 2025 09:37:32
Ousmane Dembele would not have won the Ballon d'Or if he joined us Red Man. He would be a completely different player to what he is now.
23 Sep 2025 13:53:53
My son was all for Sancho. I was not. Looks like I was right. Yay me!
Maybe if Sancho had stayed where he was rather than being wrested out of Dortmund for a ridiculously excessive transfer fee and wage he would have become a better player than he now is. Being at Man Utd over the last dozen years or so has hardly improved any player's career.
23 Sep 2025 15:15:05
All he would've won with us is a fat paycheck on a long contract!
23 Sep 2025 18:57:55
Dembelle didn’t arrive at PSG the player he is now. It’s more a case that PSG have worked extremely hard to change the club’s culture, and Dembelle has responded by matching his talent with effort.
I’m glad that United didn’t sign him. Would be a shame for a player like that to wither in this club’s toxic culture, whereas Sancho fits right in.
24 Sep 2025 05:02:01
We’ll take a pat on the back Red man, I said we should have got Flick, Or Luis enqirue, was given loads of stick, said we should never have got ETH or signed Sancho, said Amad never a RWB, said our team will struggle defensively this season… but bully for you RedMan, you said we should sign Dembele that was actually what 140 million at the time and next breath you moan about over indulging on players…. LOL.
24 Sep 2025 05:16:47
Dembele had injury concerns and disciplinary issues at Barcelona when he left PSG. It's the culture there that changed him. If he had gone to United as he was back then, I reckon he would have been similar to how Sancho is now.
{Ed001's Note - also he was never going anywhere else, he had no interest in joining anyone but PSG.}
24 Sep 2025 08:45:47
He's a phenomenally gifted player, yet his injury record is awful. The reason he has been a serious Balon d'Or contender this year is because it's one of the few seasons he's been able to stay fit for most of it.
That is why Barcelona were happy to let him leave.
I'm 100% sure that if we signed him and he had the same injury record with us that he has had so far in his career then pretty much all United fans would be calling him a flop and a bad signing. You just need to look at the opinions of Mount to know that.
24 Sep 2025 11:23:47
I don't know about everyone else but with Messi and Ronaldo off the scene in terms of future winners of the Balon d'Or, I don't see there being an outright best player in Europe right now. I know those two were on a different planet, but there never felt like a third best player behind them, more like them then everyone else. Neymar liked to put himself in the same bracket but for me he never belonged in the same sentence. Closest for me until recent seasons would have been De Bruyne.
24 Sep 2025 13:13:13
AnotherUpset
At the time I suggested it Dembele price was circa £35m and Sancho £75m. I suggest you wind your neck in and get your numbers right.
24 Sep 2025 13:22:22
Shappy
Instead we signed Sancho and look how that worked out!
24 Sep 2025 13:37:54
As a new poster when did you post all this anotherupset?
24 Sep 2025 19:38:04
Ken ?
Crazy how easy it is now to spot the identity of this one troll.
24 Sep 2025 23:35:20
He makes it so obvious within 1 post every time. Will be blocked again and come back as another name. Like clockwork.
25 Sep 2025 05:24:02
Does it matter what name he uses, the facts are he is always right virtually every time… just sad you guys hate him for that, says more about you than him/ her…
BTW it’s not me…. but knock yourself out if you think it is.
25 Sep 2025 12:13:49
Ha! We're on to the denial stage. Enjoy this whilst it lasts folks, the impending full blown near fallout stage comes shortly where the posts become ever increasingly erratic and push the boundaries of.
25 Sep 2025 12:45:38
German was a dope. Glad to hear its not you.
25 Sep 2025 18:34:03
Have we ever considered that these are like different personalities for them? Like, they are all these different voices in the head united by the same persistently negative football opinions?
25 Sep 2025 19:01:35
Bit deep Danny…. Maybe he just thinks and is honest in his opinion… RA is not level required like many of the players, but he is willing to admit it others ain’t!
25 Sep 2025 21:29:11
Oh Christ the clown is talking in 3rd person. Back to the asylum.
26 Sep 2025 09:43:02
''the facts are he is always right virtually every time'' 60% of the time, it works, every time!