The Manchester United Chronicle
Transfer targets10 Sep 2029
Nicolas Jackson stays at Tottenham as time runs out
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Manchester United will try again when the window opens; Tottenham may not be selling by then.
Market10 Sep 2029
Peter Edwards agrees terms with Adelaide United
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Manchester United people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market10 Sep 2029
Manuel Ugarte’s move to Huddersfield Town falls through
The deal that would have taken Manuel Ugarte to Huddersfield Town has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Manchester United with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Market10 Sep 2029
Vangelis Pavlidis wants more than Manchester United are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad10 Sep 2029
A falling-out at Manchester United
Youri Tielemans and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Sep 2029
Estêvão wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Manchester United can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Market10 Sep 2029
Southampton expected to open talks for Youri Tielemans
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Manchester United will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad10 Sep 2029
A row about effort at Manchester United
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marcus Rashford was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout10 Sep 2029
Patrick Dorgu gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
- Squad 7 new faces, and Manchester United are still learning each other
- The dugout Vangelis Pavlidis has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout Carlos Baleba asks for a word with the manager