Winter 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.

[cdbearsfan]

The worst thing wrong with the rashford deal is that it allows man utd to go and buy a new striker. Why are we helping them out of their own mess.

Taking £160k a week off their wage bill (assuming they will cover half) isn't going to solve their financial problems. Despite making a fortune it all goes to paying off the Glazier's debt. They haven't a pot to piss in.

The only way it works out for Man United is if Rashford plays so brilliantly that a team is persuaded to take on his salary and give them a fee for his services. If that happens, it will have been great for us, too.

If Rashford doesn't play well for us, he's back at Man U, still with his huge contract that runs until 2028, and presumably fewer potential suitors.

It only "helps them out" if it helps us out.

Just getting him away from Old Trafford is massively helping them out. He'll be back there in the summer. I just hope he doesn't cause too much damage whilst he's here.

Hope he causes absolutely fucking loads of damage, tbh.

[tomd2103]

Wherever Rashford moves next I’d imagine what he wants/needs most is a good environment, a great coach and a club who don’t hang him out to dry in front of the media at every opportunity. That might end up being us, it might not but there’s a good player there somewhere and his next move is probably his last chance to prove it at this level.

Maybe I'm remembering it wrong, but I feel like he got a lot of criticism when he was just feeding kids,   even from his own team's fans? A lot of people were just waiting for him to fall off so they could say told you so. Obviously he hasn't helped himself by partying and flying off when he shouldn't and what not, but I can't imagine what it would be like to attract that much criticism and vitriol for just doing some good. You can say the criticism of him now us warranted but you know a lot of it is coming from people who just hate him for no good reason.

It started around that time, I think you are right. The media scrutiny seemed to go up a notch and because he’d got credit for a great initiative it was a tabloid vendetta to bring him down, as they do.

Most recently, having your coach tell the world he’d rather play the goalkeeping coach than you isn’t particularly helpful either.

But surely those comments from the manager reflect how bad his performance and attitude must have been?

I'm not saying his attitude or situation now doesn't warrant the criticism he's got from Amorim. I'm just questioning how he got to this position.

There was an almost gleeful reaction from some corners when he did start to drop off professionally, and if you've just spent a year being slated by even your own fans for essentially doing a good thing, and then your form slips and the reaction is more vitriol, then I dunno, that's bound to mess with your head a bit.

I said it earlier too, by all accounts there's a very negative atmosphere at Man Utd, so if you're dealing with something mentally and you go to work and it's just more shit, it would be very easy to lose interest. Obviously because these people get paid silly money there's often a consensus that they should just suck it up and stop being soft babies.

It's entirely possible he is just a lazy waster and we're about to make a massive mistake. I'm just saying we don't know exactly what's led to him being where he is now. And if we look at the Duran situation, we seem to have put a lot of effort, as a club, into helping him settle and progress. It didn't work for him, but maybe it's the kind of environment Rashford needs to be in to start moving forward again.

That's a good summation.  With Duran gone we need a back up striker to.Ollie Watkins and the big one for me would be if he could play on the right side, as I do think we need another option there as well.

It might well be the case that he's completely gone at Manchester United (there's been a few like that there recently) and needs a complete change of scenery to get his career back on track.  If that is the case and there is a genuine fire burning in him, then it could work out well. 

The concern obviously is that he is that far gone that he can't recover what he once had.  Dele Alli is a prime example of that and then you're left with a player that could be a problem. The fact that it's a short loan kind of negates that a bit, but it looks like it will be a very expensive one.

I just think it's a bit of strange one, as I can't really see where he is needed as a starter, unless he is going to come in on that right side.  That said, it might just be a case of adding a player of his potential calibre to the squad for the important run-in.

[AV84]

^ I agree it's an odd one and seemingly not one we were looking at doing until yesterday, basically, and  questions over whether we need a player in that position are valid.

However writing the guy off entirely based on his history at a club that's been rotting from the inside for years, is unnecessary, and some of the certainty I'm seeing from posters that Rashford himself is the sole problem, are unsettling, to say the least.

[tomd2103]

^ I agree it's an odd one and seemingly not one we were looking at doing until yesterday, basically, and  questions over whether we need a player in that position are valid.

However writing the guy off entirely based on his history at a club that's been rotting from the inside for years, is unnecessary, and some of the certainty I'm seeing from posters that Rashford himself is the sole problem, are unsettling, to say the least.

Regarding the first paragraph, it has crossed my mind today that him coming in would be a kind of insurance policy in case Arsenal did come back with an offer for Ollie Watkins that we couldn't turn down.

[danno]

The big red PR machine in the past week alone has had Scholes Keane and Rooney rolled out to publicly slate him. It reminds me a little bit of how Gareth Bale was treated when he was at Real Madrid.

He doesn’t fit into that 3-4-3, and his wages are too high for them to pay for the next three years.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I wish that were the case, Danno.

[JUAN PABLO]

Marco Asensio would be great addition with chumps league and his experience so starting to like the idea of this one now the cat is not coming.

Rashford aint got a clue , was a really good player once and Unai likes these type of players to sort out , thou the wages are a bit scary.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I think PSG pay him a fortune as they signed him on a free transfer from Real Madrid .

[Tuscans]

I think PSG pay him a fortune as they signed him on a free transfer from Real Madrid .

Aye, Monchi said, one is tricky because of transfer fee, the other because of wages when talking about Felix and Asensio.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

^ I agree it's an odd one and seemingly not one we were looking at doing until yesterday, basically, and  questions over whether we need a player in that position are valid.

However writing the guy off entirely based on his history at a club that's been rotting from the inside for years, is unnecessary, and some of the certainty I'm seeing from posters that Rashford himself is the sole problem, are unsettling, to say the least.

Regarding the first paragraph, it has crossed my mind today that him coming in would be a kind of insurance policy in case Arsenal did come back with an offer for Ollie Watkins that we couldn't turn down.

I though the general feeling was Rashford was better coming off the left rather than a central striker.

[PeterWithe]

Where's he from, Nose City?

No, it's an odd thing to pick up on.

I hope the meek get something.

[Tuscans]

🚨🟣🔵 Marcus Rashford has agreed personal terms with Aston Villa! Deal imminent after initial green light in the morning.

Understand Villa and United are closing in on loan deal, discussing buy option clause.

Emery called Rashford, player attracted by project & UCL football.

[cdbearsfan]

Exciting news. Now get a centre-half by the Monday night and I'll be happy.

[Dave]

Marco Asensio would be great addition with chumps league and his experience so starting to like the idea of this one now the cat is not coming.

Rashford aint got a clue , was a really good player once and Unai likes these type of players to sort out , thou the wages are a bit scary.

In a pretty disastrous season for Rashford in which he's barely played for the last two months he's scored as many goals as Asensio has in the last year and a half.

So why would Asensio be great and Rashford awful?

[Jane]

I'm just surprised by the Rashford thing, but assume that Unai knows what he's doing. We shall see.