No.... You are incorrect.
United were cheesed off with us for spoiling a move from Villa for Cleverly for £7.5m. we tried to hijack the move and it meant villa never got the business done for a transfer and instead loaned him for a year and cleverly joined us on a free a year later.
As a result United played hardball over Rojo and Romero . They wanted £8m for Romero which we were right to refuse, he's in his last year and we can get him for nothing
There's the facts. You turn it into slating brands if you want
Stop talking rubbish lad - Utd aint arsed about a few quid from years ago when they are one of the richest clubs in the world.
Utd wouldn't loan him to us as they saw us as a direct rival - even the Manchester Press pretty much gave that as the reason when Romero's wife came out and slammed the club for not letting him leave.
Had we stumped up silly money they may well have let him go but a loan move is all Brands wanted and they wouldnt loan to what they considered at the time to be a rival as we were top of the table about 6 points better off than them and they knew Pickford is our big achilles heel.
Worship Brands all you want- facts are we needed a new GK yet he waits until the last day of the window to try get one - same as he waited to try sign a CB last summer and signed about 3 players the summer before that around the deadline day.
Its a risky strategy that if it doesn't come off you're knackered until January with a problem area not addressed.