AK-3001

Be civil. I assume you're young, but please try and act with maturity.

Grow up buddy

Of course it makes sense. You need Tammy to play week in and out, not sit on the bench. To develop the player. Also, Llorente is Spanish and will be well used against opposition that park the bus, if we're struggling to score goals at the end of the game. Morata looks up to him as an elder brother too and Conte has coached him previously. Fits the bill well in all aspects.

In Ox's case though, it isn't the attraction or anything. He just doesn't want to play as a wing back. Pretty much all there is to it.

You make too much sense mate. They won't be convinced though. Save yourself the effort.

Yeah and Morata wanted to be coached by Conte after all these years cause he admired him. That's a strong pull.

VVD and Lukaku are World Class now?

Add Kante to the least. And tbh, he never coached Morata before.

There were reports about it, but I guess the club thoguht they'd be able to convince him. Doesn't seem that way. Anyway, time to move on to other targets.

Why do you assume that we wouldn't have done that? It was known beforehand, yet the club tried. There has to be a plan B imo

People need to chill the fuck out. Everytime a transfer doesn't go our way, we start blaming the club. 2 days left, panic mode yes, but keep faith ffs!

We bid for him thinking he'll play RWB. But he doesn't want to play there.

Doesn't want to play RWB. Club can't do much about it, can it? Still 2 days left. Let's hope we can pull a wing back out of the hat.

Terrible captain? Was the in field captain last season when we won the title..

Liverpool haven't come in for a bid yet, it's close to deadline day so Ox will have to decide fast, if there's any doubts. I am 99% sure this is happening.

http://sportslens.com/chelsea-manager-jose-mourinho-takes-swipe-manchester-united/147201/ It was the whole package. Yeah, wages too.

Never made a formal bid for him, Mourinho was put off by the price tag

Even if he was named in the squad, he could have still played. He wouldn't be allowed to play if he actually made an appearance in the group stage. But LOL @ ARSENAL

Our player player?

Homegrowns don't need to be Englishmen. At this moment, our HG players are Fabregas, Moses and Cahill. If we sign Ox and Drinkwater, that takes the number to 5. Which is very healthy. In the PL, a club has to have not more than 17 Non HomeGrown players. Club needs to have at least 4 HG players and the rest 4 can be covered by U-21 players if the club doesn't have more than 4 HG players. Our U21 this season are Kenedy, Musonda and Christensen at the moment. All in all, we have a very healthy squad balance in that sense. It doesn't matter if we don't have a player from England or have only one. That tells us more about the National Team than our squad to be honest.

I don't understand why Drinkwater is being compared to Keita at all. Or Liverpool's transfer activity with ours. People just complain about everything. We don't sign players, they complain. We sign players. They complain. We sign backups, they complain. Why is it so difficult to understand for people here that Drinkwater probably would be 4th choice mid and Keita will play in week in and out from next season? Also, why do people casually ignore the fact that our best player is aiming more titles with us, while Liverpool's best player is sulking so much for not being allowed to leave that he has a back problem due to it? Seriously doubt some members' IQ here.

An agreement of a deal was reported a few hours back, personal terms were still left. Judging by this report, looks like it's all going well on that front too

To back this up..

Jim White is known to go against the crowd. When there were reports from numerous journos that United have agreed a deal with Everton for Lukaku, he came in and said it's all false and no deal has been agreed. Later jumped on the bandwagon inside 24 hours.

Neither do I. He isn't worth 40 mil for a place on our bench too.