Jadon Sancho| Staying at Dortmund for now

[redshaw]

What's even more embarrassing is Sancho is already on a pandemic bundle he's only 20 million more than Maguire ! Dortmund sold Dembele for a much higher fee despite not impacting the Dortmund team to the same extent as Jadon. I don't understand why we are fooling around, oh yes I do it's Woodward leading the charge.

Sancho is 28 million more. Maguire went for 80 and Sancho is 108 million.

Also Dembele went for £95-97 million with the rest being addons. Dortmund don't want to do addons for Sancho. Some of the addons for Dembele are due to appearances, he's only played 51 times which is just 10 million euro over 3 years, it's reported to be 5 million euro every 25 appearances. With these addons you get a lot of time to spread the payment and Barca had a huge payday from Neymar. United as nearly everyone else has been hit with the covid pandemic and have no sales of thier own yet

 

[RUCK4444]

Radio silence from the club, and all the top journo's are basically regurgitating other club talking points so they can sell their player to arsenal (example) for more.

If we have walked away...where is the briefing?

This is pretty much the only thing that's keeping me thinking we are still determined to work on this one.

If we had no intention of signing the player then the club would want to shut down the huge fan expectations of such a move rumbling on in the press, especially when other clubs are making moves for big name players. It's just setting yourself up for a fall, from the clubs perspective, to allow this to rumble on. imo.

 

[WPMUFC]

This is pretty much the only thing that's keeping me thinking we are still determined to work on this one.

If we had no intention of signing the player then the club would want to shut down the huge fan expectations of such a move rumbling on in the press, especially when other clubs are making moves for big name players. It's just setting yourself up for a fall, from the clubs perspective, to allow this to rumble on. imo.

yeah, i don't get it. We briefed walking away from Dybala. At the VERY LEAST, where are all the "leaks" from our second/third choice signings? Why is no other player entourage or club leaking that we are going for them? Why is it radio silence? Have we moved into a "Sancho-or-bust" stage and Ed is basically making this the only signing of the window?

 

[Judas]

There's no reason to doubt this move unless the standard typical and pretty much guaranteed mass briefing of it being off comes out. That's how we operate and how we do things these days. It is still very much on, but even I can admit its boring and long winded, even if we will get him eventually.

 

[WPMUFC]

There's no reason to doubt this move unless the standard typical and pretty much guaranteed mass briefing of it being off comes out. That's how we operate and how we do things these days. It is still very much on, but even I can admit its boring and long winded, even if we will get him eventually.

Do you think it's turning into a "Sancho-or-Bust" window? I just don't see how we go all the way to the end of the window and then turn around and go "here is our new signing....a rotation winger from Bournemouth". It certainly does not fit with Ole's comments about signings. However making one singular huge signing and nothing else still fits with Ole's comments.

For me, the silence means sancho-or-bust is likely. But I could easily look like a bigger prat than i am and we brief today that we moved on

 

[Berbasbullet]

This is pretty much the only thing that's keeping me thinking we are still determined to work on this one.

If we had no intention of signing the player then the club would want to shut down the huge fan expectations of such a move rumbling on in the press, especially when other clubs are making moves for big name players. It's just setting yourself up for a fall, from the clubs perspective, to allow this to rumble on. imo.

Yep and been no real links to anyone new tells me we are determined to make this deal work.

 

[Andersons Dietician]

This is pretty much the only thing that's keeping me thinking we are still determined to work on this one.

If we had no intention of signing the player then the club would want to shut down the huge fan expectations of such a move rumbling on in the press, especially when other clubs are making moves for big name players. It's just setting yourself up for a fall, from the clubs perspective, to allow this to rumble on. imo.

I don’t know if we would, if you think of us now as an Instagram model or Kardashian it suits us to be talked about, have countless stories written about us so we can go to investors and say look at our social media profile or interactions. We are the most spoken about or clicked on sports team or entities in the world.

That will generate cash somewhere and what’s going to garner more clicks on the United brand than people looking for info on a deal for one of the highest rated footballers in the world.

It dragging out probably suits the buisness model plus even if we are in for him and a deal is close, I would think we’d pick a week where there isn’t much happening to garner maximum publicity and clicks.

If you’re a cynic you could say we’ve never ever intended to buy him and just wanted to be linked with him to generate clicks and views on the name.

 

[SATA]

Or maybe there was never any intention on our side to brief at all. We keep it quiet and move on and perhaps saving ourselves from any embarassment realising we couldn't afford the player. Or perhaps today is finally Sancho day?

 

[foolsgold]

I don’t think comparing transfer fees pre and post Covid is reasonable. 108m is a huge amount of money with clubs having no match day income, Dortmund will suffer from this more than anyone due to their higher dependence on gate money.

Spending 100m on a single player is just too much of a risk, its not like anyone else is rushing to pay it, let the contract run down for a year and reevaluate.

 

[VP89]

Or maybe there was never any intention on our side to brief at all. We keep it quiet and move on and perhaps saving ourselves from any embarassment realising we couldn't afford the player. Or perhaps today is finally Sancho day?

Not really what we did with De Ligt and Griezmann though.

 

[hungrywing]

This is pretty much the only thing that's keeping me thinking we are still determined to work on this one.

If we had no intention of signing the player then the club would want to shut down the huge fan expectations of such a move rumbling on in the press, especially when other clubs are making moves for big name players. It's just setting yourself up for a fall, from the clubs perspective, to allow this to rumble on. imo.

yeah, i don't get it. We briefed walking away from Dybala. At the VERY LEAST, where are all the "leaks" from our second/third choice signings? Why is no other player entourage or club leaking that we are going for them? Why is it radio silence? Have we moved into a "Sancho-or-bust" stage and Ed is basically making this the only signing of the window?

There's no reason to doubt this move unless the standard typical and pretty much guaranteed mass briefing of it being off comes out. That's how we operate and how we do things these days. It is still very much on, but even I can admit its boring and long winded, even if we will get him eventually.

Yep and been no real links to anyone new tells me we are determined to make this deal work.

Do you guys think Pogba/Raiola make their recent announcement without knowing Sancho is done and dusted?

 

[WPMUFC]

Or maybe there was never any intention on our side to brief at all. We keep it quiet and move on and perhaps saving ourselves from any embarassment realising we couldn't afford the player. Or perhaps today is finally Sancho day?

fair enough that we may not brief. So we've moved on to other targets and literally no one from those clubs / local press etc etc is talking about our interest in their player? Why the complete radio silence from everyone?

 

[Berbasbullet]

Do you guys think Pogba/Raiola make their recent announcement without knowing Sancho is done and dusted?

Yeah I do to be fair. I don’t think Pogba re-signing is predicated on Sancho, as much as I want you to be right.

 

[Beaucoup]

After LVG’s list, this should be a piece of piss for Woodward!

 

[CG1010]

fair enough that we may not brief. So we've moved on to other targets and literally no one from those clubs / local press etc etc is talking about our interest in their player? Why the complete radio silence from everyone?

Sancho deal looks to be dead mostly given there is no seemly new information that we may be waiting for. We don't have any big player to sell anymore and we have already got rid of Sanchez wages. And Dortmund look comfortable retaining him this season, whatever hopeful muppets want.

My speculation is that the club thought Sancho was in the bag (based on Ole declaring before the season ended that he would be bringing competition for our front 3) and they will have entire summer to get 1-2 players more for backup. With the unexpected result in Sancho negotiations, they have gone back to drawing board to devise a completely new strategy. Current radio silence is due to the club reconsidering its options. My guess is we would sweat and get 1-2 players by the end of the window by the end of it.

 

[theklr]

Or maybe there was never any intention on our side to brief at all. We keep it quiet and move on and perhaps saving ourselves from any embarassment realising we couldn't afford the player. Or perhaps today is finally Sancho day?

A reasoning behind this could be that we dont want other clubs we are trying to buy from know that we suddenly have £100 m. available.

 

[amolbhatia50k]

I think the reality is that we aren't that rich as a club. Having to account to shareholders makes it difficult to justify taking risks especially in a pandemic. We need someone to buy the club and take it private if we want to buy with impunity, FFP being satisfied of course.

If we're actually not that rich, we could be in a state of mediocrity for a long time, because I can't see us building a top side of a small budget. Being intelligent and efficient in the market just isnt something we do. Our transfer dealings have as much subtlety as I do when playing PES master league.

 

[groovyalbert]

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A reasoning behind this could be that we dont want other clubs we are trying to buy from know that we suddenly have £100 m. available.

Extension of this logic could lead you to suggesting that this deal has in fact been agreed to, but won't be made public/concluded until BVB are able to spend the cash without getting rinsed.

 

[Adam-Utd]

I feel like we expected Dortmund to cave - then they dropped the bombshell about the secret contract extension and it's all died from that day.

I just feel bad for Ole. He was obviously promised money for reinforcements and expected to have Sancho - now he's going to be the fall guy once we can't keep up again.

 

[Berbasbullet]

I feel like we expected Dortmund to cave - then they dropped the bombshell about the secret contract extension and it's all died from that day.

I just feel bad for Ole. He was obviously promised money for reinforcements and expected to have Sancho - now he's going to be the fall guy once we can't keep up again.

There’s no way we didn’t know about his contract length through talking with Sancho.

 

[Cnaiür urs Skiötha]

There’s no way we didn’t know about his contract length through talking with Sancho.

Fully agree. Of course our negatiators have always been aware of all contractual details.

 

[romufc]

I feel like we expected Dortmund to cave - then they dropped the bombshell about the secret contract extension and it's all died from that day.

I just feel bad for Ole. He was obviously promised money for reinforcements and expected to have Sancho - now he's going to be the fall guy once we can't keep up again.

There is no way that Ole comes out saying "we can take advantage of the market" if he had not had conversations with Woodward.

Ole was so determined to get top 4, from the position where we were, he delivered top 4. The club have to deliver for him.

Everyone talks about money and covid but look at the money we have saved.

Wages of Fellaini, Young, Sanchez, Lukaku, Darmian, Herrera and all whilst delivering top 4 and 3 semi finals with a poor squad. We could be selling Smalling and Rojo which means they are off the wage book.

Sancho was the main target, then we should do everything we can to get him.

 

[RkkMan]

Sancho deal looks to be dead mostly given there is no seemly new information that we may be waiting for. We don't have any big player to sell anymore and we have already got rid of Sanchez wages. And Dortmund look comfortable retaining him this season, whatever hopeful muppets want.

My speculation is that the club thought Sancho was in the bag (based on Ole declaring before the season ended that he would be bringing competition for our front 3) and they will have entire summer to get 1-2 players more for backup. With the unexpected result in Sancho negotiations, they have gone back to drawing board to devise a completely new strategy. Current radio silence is due to the club reconsidering its options. My guess is we would sweat and get 1-2 players by the end of the window by the end of it.

Its been almost 2/3 weeks since that public stunt from Dortmund how long does it take to create a "new strategy" or "reconsider options" for fecks sake then? Any half competent club starts reassessing its options from the very first moment if it was the case and Utd are not like Chelsea we don`t operate as silently as they do

 

[Judas]

Do you guys think Pogba/Raiola make their recent announcement without knowing Sancho is done and dusted?

He was going nowhere this summer with or without Sancho to be honest. Love that to be the case though.

 

[Adam-Utd]

There is no way that Ole comes out saying "we can take advantage of the market" if he had not had conversations with Woodward.

Ole was so determined to get top 4, from the position where we were, he delivered top 4. The club have to deliver for him.

Everyone talks about money and covid but look at the money we have saved.

Wages of Fellaini, Young, Sanchez, Lukaku, Darmian, Herrera and all whilst delivering top 4 and 3 semi finals with a poor squad. We could be selling Smalling and Rojo which means they are off the wage book.

Sancho was the main target, then we should do everything we can to get him.

Let's be honest Woodward is full of hot air. He did the famous speech about "being able to do things others can't" and then proceeded to do nothing of the sort.

He probably did promise Ole Sancho, but now the excuses are starting and maybe he's been undermined by the Glazers once the original deal went south.

It just seems very strange that everything seemed so positive and was moving relatively quickly, then bam it's gone dead.

 

[LawCharltonBest]

Do you think it's turning into a "Sancho-or-Bust" window? I just don't see how we go all the way to the end of the window and then turn around and go "here is our new signing....a rotation winger from Bournemouth". It certainly does not fit with Ole's comments about signings. However making one singular huge signing and nothing else still fits with Ole's comments.

For me, the silence means sancho-or-bust is likely. But I could easily look like a bigger prat than i am and we brief today that we moved on

That's what i said a few pages ago

Does feel that way.

Maybe from United's point of view, they think Sancho is a once in a generation English talent who will take us to the next level over the coming years (like Rooney) and think if they don't get him now, then he will go somewhere else next Summer, so they will be happy to wait until deadline day to make it happen (like Rooney).

They could swing signing Sancho, keeping Pogba, reminding us that Bruno Fernandes was an early Summer Signing, promoting some young players (Laird, Menji, Garner), getting some players back from loan (Henderson, Smalling) and back from injury (Tuanzebe) as a good Summer if it comes off.

If it fails though we're just going to look like we've fecked up the one summer where we had a genuine open-door chance to close the gap between ourselves and the top teams in Europe. They had better be sure it's going to pay off if they're going down the Sancho or Bust route!

 

[amolbhatia50k]

Let's be honest Woodward is full of hot air. He did the famous speech about "being able to do things others can't" and then proceeded to do nothing of the sort.

He probably did promise Ole Sancho, but now the excuses are starting and maybe he's been undermined by the Glazers once the original deal went south.

It just seems very strange that everything seemed so positive and was moving relatively quickly, then bam it's gone dead.

The silence is certainly strange when you consider the lack of noise across the board in relation us whether it be Sancho or anyone else. And you're right that the deal took a very sharp u turn - from incredible positivity and momentum to a real shutdown from Dortmund. On face value it comes across a shoddily handled but let's wait and watch. Maybe we'll see things come together soon.

 

[RkkMan]

That's what i said a few pages ago

Does feel that way.

Maybe from United's point of view, they think Sancho is a once in a generation English talent who will take us to the next level over the coming years (like Rooney) and think if they don't get him now, then he will go somewhere else next Summer, so they will be happy to wait until deadline day to make it happen (like Rooney).

They could swing signing Sancho, keeping Pogba, reminding us that Bruno Fernandes was an early Summer Signing, promoting some young players (Laird, Menji, Garner), getting some players back from loan (Henderson, Smalling) and back from injury (Tuanzebe) as a good Summer if it comes off.

If it fails though we're just going to look like we've fecked up the one summer where we had a genuine open-door chance to close the gap between ourselves and the top teams in Europe. They had better be sure it's going to pay off if they're going down the Sancho or Bust route!

He`s not staying though if you`ve been following up on the news that Roma have new owners who have him as their top target and have the money to get him

 

[CG1010]

Its been almost 2/3 weeks since that public stunt from Dortmund how long does it take to create a "new strategy" or "reconsider options" for fecks sake then? Any half competent club starts reassessing its options from the very first moment if it was the case and Utd are not like Chelsea we don`t operate as silently as they do

Who said we are competent? We should ideally have got the sense of price Sancho would like to go for, and atleast created a backup strategy in case it doesn't work out. But rather than the big club we are, we continue to act like novices in the transfer market. Although since Ole has come, we have certainly got better at selling players.

 

[CG1010]

He`s not staying though if you`ve been following up on the news that Roma have new owners who have him as their top target and have the money to get him

My guess is when that happens, we will buy a new CB using Smalling money and topping it up a bit.

 

[Infra-red]

Do you guys think Pogba/Raiola make their recent announcement without knowing Sancho is done and dusted?

Yes, why?

 

[romufc]

Let's be honest Woodward is full of hot air. He did the famous speech about "being able to do things others can't" and then proceeded to do nothing of the sort.

He probably did promise Ole Sancho, but now the excuses are starting and maybe he's been undermined by the Glazers once the original deal went south.

It just seems very strange that everything seemed so positive and was moving relatively quickly, then bam it's gone dead.

He is full of hot air, he has made promises to fans alot of times, but to make false promises to the manager is pure negligence IMO.

Like you said, this is going to take a turn for the worse for Ole and all the Ole out fans will be increasing the pressure on him when it is not his fault.

Exactly, there was signs of Sancho, maybe Grealish, but we all knew and accept we wont get £150m plus to spend.

I think most fans would be relatively happy with Sancho and then selling 3/4 players and then buying 1/2 cheaper players for the squad.

We are not screaming out for £200m outlay which is probably what is required to become title challengers.

 

[Infra-red]

Fully agree. Of course our negatiators have always been aware of all contractual details.

Which makes the notion that we might be able to negotiate down the fee, even more ridiculous. The player has sufficient time left on his deal to ensure he at least holds his value until next summer. Dortmund are therefore under no pressure to sell and consequently will have no inclination to reduce their asking price.

If we can't afford that asking price, then we should move on to other targets. Continuing in this limbo is a waste of time.

 

[LawCharltonBest]

He`s not staying though if you`ve been following up on the news that Roma have new owners who have him as their top target and have the money to get him

Maybe. We'll see. I think he's more likely to go, but it also wouldn't surprise me if we dig our heels in and make him stay. Especially as I'm sure Solskjaer would rather sell Jones and Rojo first. And we probably aren't signing any CB's

 

[WPMUFC]

That's what i said a few pages ago

Does feel that way.

Maybe from United's point of view, they think Sancho is a once in a generation English talent who will take us to the next level over the coming years (like Rooney) and think if they don't get him now, then he will go somewhere else next Summer, so they will be happy to wait until deadline day to make it happen (like Rooney).

They could swing signing Sancho, keeping Pogba, reminding us that Bruno Fernandes was an early Summer Signing, promoting some young players (Laird, Menji, Garner), getting some players back from loan (Henderson, Smalling) and back from injury (Tuanzebe) as a good Summer if it comes off.

If it fails though we're just going to look like we've fecked up the one summer where we had a genuine open-door chance to close the gap between ourselves and the top teams in Europe. They had better be sure it's going to pay off if they're going down the Sancho or Bust route!

i agree with everything you've said. if we aint going to pay the 120 million and we are going "Sancho-or-Bust" the fury is going to be immense and every headline is going to be "Board don't trust ole". Again, we could both look like mugs if we brief today/tomorrow that it's no Sancho deal and we'll look at XYZ....however, if we are already looking at X/Y/Z, where is all the noise? Where is all credible speculation?

Signing a rotation Bournemouth Winger tomorrow (hypothetically) is completely against Ole's comments on this transfer window. So wtf does the radio silence mean. For me, right as of this post, it means "Sancho or Bust"

 

[Zehner]

The silence is certainly strange when you consider the lack of noise across the board in relation us whether it be Sancho or anyone else. And you're right that the deal took a very sharp u turn - from incredible positivity and momentum to a real shutdown from Dortmund. On face value it comes across a shoddily handled but let's wait and watch. Maybe we'll see things come together soon.

You think so? Wasn't it already quite uncommon and considered "bad manners" by United that Dortmund demanded an intermediary/agent in those negotiations? That sounds like Dortmund was pissed from the beginning and United even more so after that move by the BVB. The vehemence of Dortmund's statement that Sancho is going to stay was also quite surprising. Maybe the past dealings (Haaland/Raiola snatch, Mkhitaryan/Raiola antics, etc.) also strained the relationships between both clubs.

 

[Red Company]

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[dwd]

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That's Premier League ITK, who is very well respected in the Bullshitters Union I believe.

 

[Adisa]

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Probably a 12 year old.

 

[ForeverRed1]

Agreed. Not coming close to challenging for anything if Woodward doesn't get this deal done. 100mill is becoming the norm for rising stars.

If we walk away now, it's dreadful business from our point of view. Wasted a lot of time and resources looking at this deal if we walk, instead of looking at other potential options. Our board is letting Ole down. It's so frustratingly clear we need players, yet we're wasting most of the transfer window faffing around.

you can almost see a pattern with previous managers too. They have all literally said the same thing and end up getting sacked due to being rubbish!
A manager can only go so far and do so much.