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23 Nov 2025 14:40:06
Talks of Utd going for Joao Gomes in the January window, £44m is the fee mentioned. Good addition? Anybody seen him play more than I have? If so, how good is he?
1.) 23 Nov 2025 15:01:08
Very good player (Ed001 agrees too) . He is a good all rounded midfielder with a lot of energy and stamina. I don't want him instead for say Anderson but if we intent to buy three cms and Gomez is one of them i would be happy.
2.) 23 Nov 2025 15:30:18
He's very good. As with what Heaven said, if he's one of 2 or 3 CM additions in the next couple of windows I'd be thrilled.
3.) 23 Nov 2025 21:56:03
He'd be a great signing, can play both the 6 or 8, mobile, energetic, physically commanding, and strong defensively/winning the ball back.
We need at least two midfield signings by the start of next season. João Gomes makes a lot of sense, especially if we then went on to sign Anderson who'd pair really well with him.
4.) 24 Nov 2025 10:21:05
He should give us what we expect from Ugarte and help close our games.
5.) 24 Nov 2025 23:43:02
Agree but I don't think he is great player. Better than we have but nowhere near elite level. I suppose that's where we are but it's depressing when you recall the calibre of top top midfielders we used to have.
25 Oct 2022 12:05:13
Question For ED002.
Is there any truth in United making an offer for Michael Edwards as sporting director ED?
{Ed002's Note - Manchester United want Edwards to lead the recruitment and negotiation side of things - but the relationship with outhers is unclear.}
1.) 25 Oct 2022 13:08:02
ED002,
Would he be a good appointment?
{Ed002's Note - It depends on what he is expected to do.}
2.) 25 Oct 2022 14:09:18
ED002,
Don a clown suit and join the rest of the circus?
3.) 25 Oct 2022 20:32:43
I'm guessing nothing is agreed Ed02 as the report suggests that we've made a 'hugely attractive offer' to him.
{Ed002's Note - I am not aware of any agreement.}
4.) 25 Oct 2022 21:18:12
Well for a team that wasted over a billion on crap in a few years paying somebody a kings ransom to spend the next billion properly would probably be a sensible choice.
5.) 26 Oct 2022 07:26:04
What a coup it would be to get him.
Hopefully they're not that silly as to not play to his strengths.
6.) 26 Oct 2022 12:19:59
Thanks Ed002.
22 Aug 2022 12:34:50
Hi Ed002, hope you're well.
Is there anything truth in Pedro Neto being offered to United? Would bite their hand off for him, super player!
{Ed002's Note - Not that I am aware.}
1.) 22 Aug 2022 13:43:31
I rate him too. Would be happy to get him, unfortunately don’t think we hold any interest.
2.) 22 Aug 2022 14:15:19
Personally I'd take him over Antony.
{Ed002's Note - Way back there was a discussion with his agent.}
25 May 2020 18:25:10
Nice to know Angel Gomes has signed a new contract. 🔴.
1.) 25 May 2020 21:16:20
Has it been confirmed Scholesy mate?
2.) 25 May 2020 21:40:41
Not that I’ve seen Damon but a lot of chat on twitter so I’d take it with a pinch of salt at the moment. If it’s true and he has signed then hopefully he kicks on. Not developed as we’ve expected when he made his debut. Maybe a loan spell would be good for him.
16 Feb 2019 14:03:45
If you have the time Ed002, which clubs are interested in Jadon Sancho? Rumours of United 'lining up a move'.
{Ed002's Note - Right now no one is interested as he is not for sale. In confirming Manchester City's option when asked this week Watzke also said there has been no approach for the player who is not for sale. When he left MC at least Spurs, Manchester United and Arsenal expressed an interest but he had his heart set on Dortmund that was in 2017.}
1.) 16 Feb 2019 16:25:46
Hardly a word about it till Dortmund came to town.
Complete fabrication i'd say.
Scholes. Just watch between now and the end of the season how often united are linked with players playing in any high profile game.
The easiest way to get clicks and readers is to link united with a player.
2.) 16 Feb 2019 19:56:11
I assume he still has a few years worth of development at dortmund left.
They have already agreed to sell pulisic to chelsea in the summer so no pressure on dortmund to sell him.
3.) 16 Feb 2019 21:47:19
Thanks Ed002.
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27 Jan 2026 16:22:08
How was the game Ed001? Did Firmino start?
{Ed001's Note - yes mate, great game except for the result. First half was good but second half Firmino turned it on and scored 2, including the winner with the last kick to make it 3-2. I seen something similar happened in the Prem that day too....
I did miss a lot of the first half being interviewed by various TV stations in the region. This season so far I have been interviewed by TV from 5 different countries. I really should figure out a way to advertise the sites while doing them!}
1.) 27 Jan 2026 17:52:34
ED001,
Just wear a football transfers rumours T - Shirt, Hat ?.
{Ed001's Note - good idea, I should get some stuff printed up!}
2.) 27 Jan 2026 20:12:48
A beautiful 'RTFP' t-shirt would be amazing.
{Ed001's Note - yeah we always said we should make them to sell, but after Ed2 passed away I didn't want to profit off his passing. It would be good to have one to wear myself though. Great idea. I will have to take a trip to Dragon Mart I think, you can get anything made there cheap.}
3.) 27 Jan 2026 21:46:05
Maybe you could get a lead to a charity that he may have supported. I'd get one for a start.
4.) 28 Jan 2026 09:20:40
Sounds amazing Ed, plus got 2 goals. Yes, I preferred the last minute winner on Saturday though?. It was the wind.
{Ed001's Note - that was embarrassing. Slot really has completely lost the plot this season and Virgil has gone along for the ride.}
5.) 29 Jan 2026 10:11:23
Yh i'm surprised how bad youve been, you had really winnable fixtures in the last games too. Can see you missing out on the CL spots too if he stays.
{Ed001's Note - I agree, he is taking the club backwards, but he will just have a dig at Klopp for not getting in the Champions League a couple of years ago, like he did in the post-match presser last night. Deflect, deflect, deflect.}
6.) 29 Jan 2026 12:36:46
Sounds like Ten Hag at times, think he'll be gone by the summer though. Hope you get Glasner.
21 Jan 2026 13:21:03
Any chance of the weekend match review ed001?
{Ed001's Note - yes mate, I am doing it now. Sorry been a busy few days sorting out stuff and going to footie here. I probably won't be able to do next weekend's though, as I am going to Qatar to watch Al-Sadd v my local team here in the Asian Champions League. They did a really cheap deal and Al-Sadd have Bobby Firmino playing for them, so I couldn't not jump on it! I love Bobby as a player so much.}
1.) 21 Jan 2026 15:17:24
Amazing ed, only asking since we destroyed city, really upset we didn't score more.
Hope you enjoy the game, top player i must say. Will probably be about 10 steps ahead of his team mates though?.
{Ed001's Note - be great, travelling with the team as well, and get a free team shirt, hotel with brekkie included, all for less than 150 quid! I got the very last place, so well happy. Though I am going to have to remember not to start singing the Firmino song during the game!}
2.) 21 Jan 2026 16:29:20
Sounds like a really good fan experience, not like over here when the players walk past and act like you don't exist.
Do you live in Qatar atm or still in UAE?
{Ed001's Note - still in Dubai mate. To be fair the team here has a Klopp-like manager in Paulo Sousa, so they have to consider the fans, he wouldn't let them do otherwise. To be fair, most of the other lads watching probably have more money than the players, this is Dubai and it is locals that support the team....}
3.) 22 Jan 2026 18:25:06
Well i hope you enjoy it; got to make the most of your younger years ?.
{Ed001's Note - yeah, luckily I am still young.}
18 Jan 2026 12:08:29
Shootout to the one who shows what it means to be a Utd player, and that is Amad. Unbelievable, genuinely the perfect man utd player, the desire, effort, he doesn't stop running; technically brilliant. 11 Amads is all we need.
1.) 18 Jan 2026 13:04:14
Might be a bit short for a keeper ?.
2.) 18 Jan 2026 15:41:42
Cant be worse than Onana?.
3.) 18 Jan 2026 20:01:36
Who we still own ?.
09 Nov 2025 21:31:15
Regarding Ugarte, not sure if its been mentioned on here, but his reading and anticipation is really poor. Gave him a pass since it was his first season in a new league, more intensity, pace etc, but he just doesn't seem to have learnt, crazy how many times he dives into challenges and doesn't win the ball, even duels that are blatantly obvious he won't win, he still goes in for them and we're a man down on the opposition counter.
But the team looks to be getting better, his subs are sketchy to say the least but let's see if he learns, we have got better as the seasons gone on. However we do obviously need more signings; lack in quality from the bench is costing us points atm. Lwb is a priority, hear Mendes hasn't agreed a contract at PSG?, would be a hell of a signing but i'm dreaming.
Would really like to see a midfielder come in who can just control the game to put it simply, just pass and hold, we never have a good grip of the game when we have a lead, it's way too end to end but also unfair imo to ask Case and Bruno to do something they've never done.
Got some winnable fixtures after the break so onwards and upwards. Note, Mbeumo is bloody brilliant; so good. Will be a huge plus once its clicks for Cunha too.
28 Sep 2025 12:08:00
Think that was the game that seals his fate, even if we somehow beat Sunderland. We only won last week due to a red card.
We're crap, his system is awful but what i find staggering is his refusal to adapt, the top coaches all adapt in game, he doesn't. The same subs, same sh1t every week, truly terrible.
But some of these players, my God, Shaw, Maguire, Dalot, Fernandes, Ugarte, Bayindir, shocking. Bruno just isn't a captain, he's a pathetic loser, can't handle pressure, bottlers it when it matters. And he mentions a cultural reset but plays two of the biggest losers I've ever seen at the club in Shaw and Maguire, Shaw should have been sold in 2018 under Jose and yet he's still playing, madness! He's literally making a minimum of 2 big mistakes per game since he came back from injury in April and the fool in charge starts him every game.
Should have terminated his contract when he got fit for England and then got injured straight after again, pathetic loser, literally undoubtedly one of the worst utd signings ever. If there's a player that sums up the club's downfall, its him. Overrated tosser.
1.) 28 Sep 2025 14:07:16
Simon stone reporting that ratcliffe still backs him and think he deserves a full season…that sounds like a great idea! If that happens we will be in serious relegation trouble, that’s not hyperbole that’s a fact. He’s been in charge nearly a full season of games and we’ve amassed 32 points. Clueless.
2.) 28 Sep 2025 14:55:34
I think we beat Sunderland, then there's a mini break during which time the narrative will be all about the buzz of trying to reach the heady heights of winning a second successive game again :D.
3.) 28 Sep 2025 16:09:05
Which we have no chance of because it’s Liverpool at Anfield.
I don’t think it’s a fact that we will be in relegation trouble, it’s just an opinion and certainly is hyperbole, especially at this stage.
4.) 28 Sep 2025 16:20:10
It feels like the directors have doubled down as much as they can. You can’t keep backing a coach who is failing this badly.
I’m gutted that it didn’t work out for Amorim because he brought a bit of swagger to the job that has been missing. But the worst fears about his inflexibility have come true. At this point he looks completely defeated, and unwilling to try something different.
The sooner he goes, the better for everyone, including Amorim.
5.) 28 Sep 2025 16:58:13
Id thank him for getting rid or at least trying to get a decent amount of the wasters out- then wave him goodbye. He can't do the job, end of.
6.) 28 Sep 2025 17:15:56
If they didn't hire him, he would've been sacked long ago.
GDS, I know it's not really right to put the two seasons together but we are in relegation form here. Its unacceptable the level he has us playing at.
I'm not even bothered by the set up, the tactics, even the constant rotation of players positions. It's the fact that he can't seem to get a tune out of the players, either last year or this.
Maybe he just needs more time on the training pitch ?.
7.) 28 Sep 2025 20:05:37
I just want these players gone now. Too many managers sacked, too many open wounds. Wont trust them again. I don't care what happens with the coach as long as all players from 4 plus seasons also go. can't defend the coach anymore, but I am desperate for hin not to be to blame. This is mich deeper than him. This squad has no fight.
8.) 28 Sep 2025 20:07:34
You like Shaw then! But have to pick up on the Bruno bit, how would you feel, if your employer took you out of the position you excel in and put you in a position that you don’t like and makes you look awful that’s also detrimental to your colleagues and the companies performance… would you be happy and we all know if your not happy you don’t give 100%
RA is huge problem I heard a stat today that out of 49 games he changed his CB 43 times….
The in game management is awful…mount on LWB. Is weird but all because he can’t change his philosophy! It’s bordering on insanity, then after the game comes out and says all the things players did wrong. well maybe trying to rectify that in game maybe useful.
Cunha and Mbuemo now gone backwards under him too
It’s diabolical and he got to go
If they can’t get Iraola then Xavi is out there, I have even got to the stage I would take Rooney till end of season, it can’t get no worse if we stick with RA it’s going to be painful.
9.) 29 Sep 2025 11:58:06
He's missed 2 penalties with the slightest bit of pressure, league games against Fulham and Brentford, not the bloody champions league final! He's a joke captain, and needs binning, such a weak fragile captain.
scholes_18_18's rumour replies
06 Jan 2026 18:35:13
Probably fits Nevilles idea of "Utd Dna", whatever the f that is! Genuinely embarrassing when they say this.
12 Oct 2025 17:38:34
That’s not what I said at all. I never told you not to take sportswashing seriously, I said don’t act like the Glazers are some moral alternative. And no, that’s not whataboutism, pointing out that both sides are rotten isn’t deflection, it’s context.
11 Oct 2025 16:18:45
And no, that’s not whataboutism, that’s just called having a memory. You don’t get to downplay one set of rotten politics just because it’s wrapped in a different flag.
If we’re talking morals, the Glazers have happily bankrolled people who create the mess, while the other lot are using football to cover theirs. One’s direct, one’s indirect, both are still rotten to the core.
One stinks less loud, that’s all. Still stinks.
11 Oct 2025 16:14:38
"Some prats I don’t like" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there and i’m not saying the UAE investors and the Glazers are identical, one’s a state trying to polish its image. But let’s not act like the Glazers are some neutral ‘just business’ owners either. Their money’s been tied up in nasty sh1t
If the point is moral high ground, there isn’t one. It’s picking between a sportswashing operation and parasites who’ve bled the club dry while funding war-mongers. Different flavours of the same ? sandwich. I just don’t want either anywhere near United. ”.
11 Oct 2025 14:30:01
You mention sportswashing but conveniently forget to mention the awful history of the glazer family in American politics DonRed?
Extremely large contributors to the Bush presidental campaign, which eventually led to an illegal war that killed millions?
Its only fair to mention both, two cheeks of the same arse as far as I care, but you must be fair. Again, I absolutely do not agree with sport washing nor would I endorse for any of these c**** to own the club, who are undoubtedly involved in atrocities across planet. No to both!
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29 Jan 2026 12:36:46
Sounds like Ten Hag at times, think he'll be gone by the summer though. Hope you get Glasner.
29 Jan 2026 10:11:23
Yh i'm surprised how bad youve been, you had really winnable fixtures in the last games too. Can see you missing out on the CL spots too if he stays.
{Ed001's Note - I agree, he is taking the club backwards, but he will just have a dig at Klopp for not getting in the Champions League a couple of years ago, like he did in the post-match presser last night. Deflect, deflect, deflect.}
28 Jan 2026 09:20:40
Sounds amazing Ed, plus got 2 goals. Yes, I preferred the last minute winner on Saturday though?. It was the wind.
{Ed001's Note - that was embarrassing. Slot really has completely lost the plot this season and Virgil has gone along for the ride.}
23 Jan 2026 10:18:39
Can see why Casemiro is leaving but hurts seeing him go before a few of the absolute crap here to be honest. wouldn't have opposed to a one year rolling deal for him.
22 Jan 2026 20:51:29
It was, genuinely not being an arse licker but I find your analysis to be top, better than what you seen on sky etc.
{Ed001's Note - now I am blushing! I look like the card Rodri got this week....}