JerryDungle wrote:

Arabdownsouth wrote:

Well that looks like it for this week, I'm wondering what happened to the rest of the rumoured signings? By all accounts Stephenson and the other lad from Liverpool were imminent last week, as was the Finnish winger.

 
Stephenson’s still on holiday in Italy going by his Instagram so wouldn’t expect anything imminent on that front. The Finnish boy is a done deal from what I’ve heard.

 
Except for here obviously

Arabdownsouth wrote:

Tek wrote:

Arabdownsouth wrote:

Some people talk some amount of shite then,done deal apparently yesterday.

I've looked back and i don't see anyone saying it was a done deal.

I said about a week ago, he was close to signing, and i believe from the two sources i heard from that he was.

His agent has subsequently went to Breda and asked for more money. We move on.
 

 
Post 140 mate, I've quoted it so you dont have to go back through.

Just for clarity, I'm not saying that the poster is talking shite,rather his source instead.

Fair enough, i missed that.

JD probably heard the same as me. This move was definitely very close, looks like typical bullshit agent stuff.

Moving the goalposts at the eleventh hour. Good riddance tbh, kinda glad it never happened now.
 

Shakey Isles Arab wrote:

Arabdownsouth wrote:

Shakey Isles Arab wrote:

Mate I hope so I really do, but we're down to loanees and out of contract guys not to mention that of the guys you bring in irrespective of Jim's excellent eye for a player we'll end up with at least one dud - that's just the way it falls.  Not to mention foreigners bedding in to the brutality and pace of Scottish football .... jeez I'll be looking for the Prozac at this rate.
And yeah totally agree about Jim being offski if his hands were tied.
 

 
That's only the case until next Monday mate,the window reopens then

Sorry, thought I saw on here that window had shut.
What's the story that you say "reopen" ?
Cheers
 

 
The window only opened for a week for the club World Cup ie Trent could sign for Madrid from Liverpool for 10 mill

Reopens on Monday

I’d be expecting United to make at least another 10 signings

SuperMario wrote:

Shakey Isles Arab wrote:

Arabdownsouth wrote:

 
That's only the case until next Monday mate,the window reopens then

Sorry, thought I saw on here that window had shut.
What's the story that you say "reopen" ?
Cheers
 

 
The window only opened for a week for the club World Cup ie Trent could sign for Madrid from Liverpool for 10 mill

Reopens on Monday

I’d be expecting United to make at least another 10 signings

Cheers mate.
 

Arabdownsouth wrote:

The boy Taylor from St Mirren has signed for Bolton, so that's another one that was rumoured that we can forget about.

 
The new recruitment boy working with Bolton on the side I think😂.

SuperMario wrote:

Yevhen Kucherenko

Ukrainian goalkeeper linked

 
Not opening the champagne for that one. Very risky.

Everyone has been off on holiday.  Pre-season hasn't started, so regardless of who we might sign, there would be nothing for them to do anyway.

Besides, it could be the case that we have signed players, but we're waiting to unveil them when they are in Dundee with a scarf above their head and they are able to give a proper interview instead of getting a 5 second video clip of a random player saying "hi Dundee United fans, can't wait to see you all at Tannadice".

In advanced talks with a centre midfielder and a striker

Interested in Ukrainian keeper

Source: Courier

Arabdownsouth wrote:

Snacks94 wrote:

In advanced talks with a centre midfielder and a striker

Interested in Ukrainian keeper

Source: Courier

 
Just sounds to me like we haven't been sourcing players until recently. I know I'm probably being unnecessarily twitchy this time but we have emptied the entire spine of last seasons team and until I see what we plan to replace them with I'll continue to feel the same.

Courier saying at least ont expect to be made official this week,  not exactly what I was hoping to see tbh

 
I find it impossible to believe that the Goodwins have just started sourcing players recently. This stuff goes on all year round, but final deals always go to the wire if players have options.

I completely trust that we'll see plenty of incomings in the near future.

Tangy wrote:

I guess until a month ago, we didn't know our budget or what we can offer players ie Europe etc - I'd still like to see business done but not panicking yet.

On a slightly negative side (and i hate being ngative before hes signed - let alone played but watched a video of the goalkeeper and he looks pretty awkward somehow. Tbf to him, he also had a good few good saves.

Also seems to push the ball into play rather than out of play. Tbf, I am not a scout for united - so hoping they know more than me.

 
As mentioned earlier, if we sign him as our number 1 I'll be  very disappointed.
Massively important to have a top keeper between the sticks. We've seen what a bad one costs and we've seen last 2 seasons what a difference a good one makes. Crucial to get this right.

Always_United wrote:

 
I find it impossible to believe that the Goodwins have just started sourcing players recently. .

I don't think that's the case, but i do think Bolton have put a bit of a spanner in the works signing two of our top targets (Sam Dalby and Richard Taylor), maybe we've also missed out on other top targets and are now having to source other targets instead.

I can't see any other reason why business has been so deadly slow given the amount of players we need to sign.


 

Tangy wrote:

I guess until a month ago, we didn't know our budget or what we can offer players ie Europe etc - I'd still like to see business done but not panicking yet.

On a slightly negative side (and i hate being ngative before hes signed - let alone played but watched a video of the goalkeeper and he looks pretty awkward somehow. Tbf to him, he also had a good few good saves.

Also seems to push the ball into play rather than out of play. Tbf, I am not a scout for united - so hoping they know more than me.

I looked at a highlights video, maybe the same one? the things that stood out for me was that [a] if thats his best saves for a highlights reel, we are in trouble [b] the second save was like a bar of soap, and very troubling and [c] HE SEEMS TO PUSH A LOT OF SAVES OUT INTO THE MIDDLE OF THE GOAL

i hope united have seen something thats not showing in the video i watched?

 

RogerTheAlien wrote:

Keeper’s the most important position in a team. If we even had a decent championship keeper in goals instead of him we do not say, we wouldn’t have been relegated in 2022.

I don’t mind scouting abroad for players but not for keepers until they’re proven.

We have Richards as a deputy. The last time we got relegated we had no decent backup.