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Originally Posted by devo22
the thing is, he wasn't handed a blank cheque. Herrera and Shaw were not his buys at all, they had already wrapped those deals up for some time and he just gave his final approval. Di Maria and Falcao are no brainers if you can get them, nobody would turn that down ... and the general belief is that those were more of statement signings than anything else. That only leaves Rojo and Blind, and those are just depth signings. They obviously wanted to bring in another CB or two, but the market was really thin. Benatia turned them down because he wanted CL football (understandable), Godin didn't want to leave Atletico (understandable), Arsenal didn't want to sell Vermaelen to them (thank god, bullet dodged) and unfortunately, Garay had already signed with Zenit after Moyes vetoed that deal for Garay a year before (sigh). Who else would have been available that was clearly better than what United already had at CB?
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I dont know what the market was like for CBs or anything, I just know that from coaching soccer, when I coached lower-tier teams you had to do your best with what you had, but when I was tasked to coach elite teams I had the luxury of picking players that fit the system and style that I wanted.
That was the impression of LVG that I got, he could do as he pleased and that money was effectively no object.
I wasnt aware that he didnt have any input other than acceptance over Shaw and Herrera, although they and Blind and Rojo arent exactly a bunch of scrubs.