‘Successful’ scenarios for Summer ‘23

[tomaldinho1]

This isn't a 'realistic scenario.' We won't get anything close to 100m for your proposed sales and Osimhen will cost a lot more than 85m

We shall see

 

[Nou_Camp99]

You clearly have not seen the New legislation from Uefa starting June 2022 I’ll send link now.

https://www.skysports.com/amp/footb...gulations-to-replace-ffp-all-you-need-to-know

It’s not about having a quiet summer then things get worse read what I’ve said, the percentage allowance is greater this summer than it will be in 2024/25 where the Sales Revenue to wage percentage will be mandated at 70% not 90% like it is this summer. This will mean more transfer activity will naturally be done this summer.

We will definitely be active. That's not in any doubt.

I think some fans dreaming of £300m are going to be disappointed though.

I'm expecting Kane / Osimhen to be our major signing and then maybe 2-3 free transfers / cheaper ones.

Our financial situation is dire. Even with new owners thats not going to change overnight as all expenditure has to be accounted for.

 

[Woziak]

We shall see

We don’t need to get £100m in sales, the two most beneficial players for the club to sell this summer are Dean Henderson and Scott Mctominay because they did not cost the club anything and are currently contracted to June 2025 which means if we sell them for £20m each that represents pure profit for the club under FFP rules so the club would receive £40m this summer and amortise that figure over 2 years the length of their contracts given the club £20m per year in net transfer adjustments. This is unlike Harry Maguire who signed a 6 year contract in 2019 and now has 2 years left so if we sell Maguire for £30m we would have a small net profit since we could amortise sales of £15m per year against the original purchase price of £80m over 6 years which is £13,330,000 so a small adjustment of 1.67m. For example If Osimhen is bought for £120m and quickly on a 6 year contract before the new max 5 year contracts come in the cost would be £20m per year and cancelled out by selling Mctominay and Dean Henderson for £20m each.

It’s actually hysterical looking at football fans saying we can sell these players for £100m and add that to the budget of £150m would gives the club £250m and so and so costs £75m so we’ve got £175m left it doesn’t work like that and never did this is why Tod Boehly was able to spend nearly £600m In two transfer windows he amortised the contracts over 7 years so he really spent £85m Gross without sales against a revenue of £450m and a wage bill of probably £290m, in other words the club is still probably under the 90% transfer, wages and agents fee to sales revenue, just no club thought to give 7 year contracts until then.

 

[Woziak]

We will definitely be active. That's not in any doubt.

I think some fans dreaming of £300m are going to be disappointed though.

I'm expecting Kane / Osimhen to be our major signing and then maybe 2-3 free transfers / cheaper ones.

Our financial situation is dire. Even with new owners thats not going to change overnight as all expenditure has to be accounted for.

That’s the point it is dire because of the Glaziers, however just like Chelsea whose players thought they might not get paid at sone points during last season, it did change overnight and if specific owners buy the club, the debt goes immediately, our business Covent goes up and we can actually spend £300-350m this summer by selling and buying the right players on 5-6 year contracts.

 

[Nou_Camp99]

That’s the point it is dire because of the Glaziers, however just like Chelsea whose players thought they might not get paid at sone points during last season, it did change overnight and if specific owners buy the club, the debt goes immediately, our business Covent goes up and we can actually spend £300-350m this summer by selling and buying the right players on 5-6 year contracts.

We will see I suppose. I'm still not expecting a huge summer.

PL will only allow amortization over 5yrs from next season onwards too. Another loophole closing on us and everyone else.

Shifting our deadwood has always been impossible too due to wages. Nobody is daft enough to take them and can you blame them.

 

[RkkMan]

Another fifa/fm player! We will NOT get 30m for Henderson or McT.

Maybe not Henderson due to wages(reckon £25m isn't impossible though) but we easily get it for McTominay. West Ham have him amongst the top options to replace Rice whom they'll get big money for plus Newcastle with Oil Money are confirmed admirers. Low wages, homegrown player, Scottish international plus 2/3 PL clubs in a bidding war for him gets us a fee similar to Daniel James' if not more and James was worse for us than McTominay

 

[tomaldinho1]

We don’t need to get £100m in sales, the two most beneficial players for the club to sell this summer are Dean Henderson and Scott Mctominay because they did not cost the club anything and are currently contracted to June 2025 which means if we sell them for £20m each that represents pure profit for the club under FFP rules so the club would receive £40m this summer and amortise that figure over 2 years the length of their contracts given the club £20m per year in net transfer adjustments. This is unlike Harry Maguire who signed a 6 year contract in 2019 and now has 2 years left so if we sell Maguire for £30m we would have a small net profit since we could amortise sales of £15m per year against the original purchase price of £80m over 6 years which is £13,330,000 so a small adjustment of 1.67m. For example If Osimhen is bought for £120m and quickly on a 6 year contract before the new max 5 year contracts come in the cost would be £20m per year and cancelled out by selling Mctominay and Dean Henderson for £20m each.

It’s actually hysterical looking at football fans saying we can sell these players for £100m and add that to the budget of £150m would gives the club £250m and so and so costs £75m so we’ve got £175m left it doesn’t work like that and never did this is why Tod Boehly was able to spend nearly £600m In two transfer windows he amortised the contracts over 7 years so he really spent £85m Gross without sales against a revenue of £450m and a wage bill of probably £290m, in other words the club is still probably under the 90% transfer, wages and agents fee to sales revenue, just no club thought to give 7 year contracts until then.

We. Shall. See.

 

[Woziak]

We will definitely be active. That's not in any doubt.

I think some fans dreaming of £300m are going to be disappointed though.

I'm expecting Kane / Osimhen to be our major signing and then maybe 2-3 free transfers / cheaper ones.

Our financial situation is dire. Even with new owners thats not going to change overnight as all expenditure has to be accounted for.

Ok Just for one second allow yourself to dream and be happy and travel forward in time just 2 months;

It’s the 9th Of May 2023 and the club has entered into a binding agreement to sell all the Glaziers class A voting shares where a new wealthy owner (no names ) decides to do the following;

1. Sack the CEO but tell the DOF he has this summer to prove himself however at the same time giving the Manager a direct line to his office and asks the manager what players he would like this summer

2. He appoints new CEO who spends no time in assembling a team that are tasked with getting new sponsors which have been kindly left vacant by the old owners

3. He appoints a new CFO for the first time and then pays off the clubs debt rumoured to be anything from £500-650m and injects a working capital of £150m

4. The Manager then sends a list of players he would like to the DOF and also to the new owner( Yes this is how a genuine hands on owner works) the list includes an A and B option as requested by the new owner, we are Man united we don’t need C and D lists!

5. The list includes 12 players for 6 positions ; (CFW) - V Osimhen or H Kane, (GK) D Rayna or D Costa, (CM) A Rabiot or M Sabitzer, (DM) (D Rice or Caciedo), (CB) J Timbour or K M Jae, (AM) M Kudas or J Maddison

6. The owner tells the CEO, CFO and Director of Football to get these deals done as quickly as possible so the manager can have them for pre season not the last week of the window. The CFO quickly works out that the sales revenue will be £540m this year and Salaries were reduced due to Europa League to £325m. He also works out that the 6 signings wanted will cost from £300-360m or £60-72m amortised on 5 year contracts plus agents fees which are made as one off payments snd could be as high as £35-45m on all these players. He then crunches some numbers and realises to make these transfers and stay within FFP for next years 80% threshold we need to sell 5 or 6 players and be prudent with salary offers, especially players that cost the club nothing but offer net amortised transfer sales revenue. The CFO then tells the owner the situation who targets the CEO to get new improved sponsorship deals and DOF now knows what wages he can offer and what transfer fees, some of this has already been worked on in the last 6 months hence the reason he kept his job.

The summary is United become competent and do all the transfers suggested with the A or B option, the wage increases to £350m, (Players like De Gea have a new contract that pays £175k not £375k per week) our net Sales transfer amortised is £50m because we sold Mctominay and D Henderson for £20m each and that gives us £20m to offset against the £72m spent giving us a net position of £52m. So in total we are now spending £350m(wages), £52m(Net transfer amortised), £45m (agents fees and admin fees) Total sales Revenue of £540m now divided by £447m would be 82% which is below the 90% allowed this year but 2% above what’s allowed in the season of 24/25. The club would offset next year simply by growing the revenue back to £600-625m by better sponsorship deals and playing CL football next season.

 

[Nou_Camp99]

Ok Just for one second allow yourself to dream and be happy and travel forward in time just 2 months;

It’s the 9th Of May 2023 and the club has entered into a binding agreement to sell all the Glaziers class A voting shares where a new wealthy owner (no names ) decides to do the following;

1. Sack the CEO but tell the DOF he has this summer to prove himself however at the same time giving the Manager a direct line to his office and asks the manager what players he would like this summer

2. He appoints new CEO who spends no time in assembling a team that are tasked with getting new sponsors which have been kindly left vacant by the old owners

3. He appoints a new CFO for the first time and then pays off the clubs debt rumoured to be anything from £500-650m and injects a working capital of £150m

4. The Manager then sends a list of players he would like to the DOF and also to the new owner( Yes this is how a genuine hands on owner works) the list includes an A and B option as requested by the new owner, we are Man united we don’t need C and D lists!

5. The list includes 12 players for 6 positions ; (CFW) - V Osimhen or H Kane, (GK) D Rayna or D Costa, (CM) A Rabiot or M Sabitzer, (DM) (D Rice or Caciedo), (CB) J Timbour or K M Jae, (AM) M Kudas or J Maddison

6. The owner tells the CEO, CFO and Director of Football to get these deals done as quickly as possible so the manager can have them for pre season not the last week of the window. The CFO quickly works out that the sales revenue will be £540m this year and Salaries were reduced due to Europa League to £325m. He also works out that the 6 signings wanted will cost from £300-360m or £60-72m amortised on 5 year contracts plus agents fees which are made as one off payments snd could be as high as £35-45m on all these players. He then crunches some numbers and realises to make these transfers and stay within FFP for next years 80% threshold we need to sell 5 or 6 players and be prudent with salary offers, especially players that cost the club nothing but offer net amortised transfer sales revenue. The CFO then tells the owner the situation who targets the CEO to get new improved sponsorship deals and DOF now knows what wages he can offer and what transfer fees, some of this has already been worked on in the last 6 months hence the reason he kept his job.

The summary is United become competent and do all the transfers suggested with the A or B option, the wage increases to £350m, (Players like De Gea have a new contract that pays £175k not £375k per week) our net Sales transfer amortised is £50m because we sold Mctominay and D Henderson for £20m each and that gives us £20m to offset against the £72m spent giving us a net position of £52m. So in total we are now spending £350m(wages), £52m(Net transfer amortised), £45m (agents fees and admin fees) Total sales Revenue of £540m now divided by £447m would be 82% which is below the 90% allowed this year but 2% above what’s allowed in the season of 24/25. The club would offset next year simply by growing the revenue back to £600-625m by better sponsorship deals and playing CL football next season.

You've too much time on your hands my friend. Hahaha

 

[Woziak]

We will see I suppose. I'm still not expecting a huge summer.

PL will only allow amortization over 5yrs from next season onwards too. Another loophole closing on us and everyone else.

Shifting our deadwood has always been impossible too due to wages. Nobody is daft enough to take them and can you blame them.

Mctominay has 2 years left on his contract at £77,000 and Henderson is on a ridiculous £100,000 however spurs need a GK and Newcastle/ West Ham can easily afford S Mctominay as I’ve explained already even £20m each is a win for the club because they cost the club nothing and therefore there is no amortised buying fee to be offset by selling fee, plus their homegrown which adds a sellers tax, we also need to be mindful of the homegrown rule of 8 from 25 squad players.

This is why Maguire May stay and Lindelof sold. Maguire being sold for £30m on his original 6 year contract means we would receive amortised sales of £15m for two years against the £13.3m we still owe so a £1.7m net profit each year.

Victor Lindelof extended his 2017-21 contract in 2019 to 5 years to 2024. His transfer fee of £32m was originally amortised from 2017-2021 at £8m per year so if we sold him for £25m we would get that whole £25m in next years accounts as he only has 1 year left on his contract. The recent alarming suggestion that the club owed £300m to others clubs around Europe would not surprise me in the slightest as we’ve probably tried to right down some fees against new contracts.

The next two weeks will be interesting because some if this is going to leak as new potential owners are shown the books.

 

[Woziak]

You've too much time on your hands my friend. Hahaha

No the last 10 years supporting united, our unbridled religion has made me sad and now I’m actually happy because they are definitely going? Aren’t they ? Please say yes ?
What’s that film where they keep saying “Are we there Yet?”

 

[Nou_Camp99]

No the last 10 years supporting united, our unbridled religion has made me sad and now I’m actually happy because they are definitely going? Aren’t they ? Please say yes ?
What’s that film where they keep saying “Are we there Yet?”

Can't wait to see the back of them. Not a fan of being ME owned though either tbh.

Football has lost itself up its own backside though sadly. Well the PL has anyway.

 

[sincher]

Seems many are keen to have Sabitzer on a perm. Not sure I am fussed. He is decent but hasn't shown much really to suggest anything more than that. The defensive side of his game is not that great.

 

[Woziak]

Can't wait to see the back of them. Not a fan of being ME owned though either tbh.

Football has lost itself up its own backside though sadly. Well the PL has anyway.

If take anyone preferably SJR but the Glaziers need to go at any cost they just need to go!

 

[Von Mistelroum]

I think any successful summer has to be successful in terms of selling players. This won't be easy as we have plenty of players who are on high wages but are worth nowhere near as much as they probably think they are.

Take McTom as an example. He'd probably be fine for a lower end Premier League club, but he often starts for United and in his head probably thinks that's his level. He'd be reluctant and would need convincing, and then there's his wages which would surely have to be substantially cut. It's similar with many of the players we would be looking to move on for decent money and most clubs wanting them are unlikely to want to fork out much money as a result.

In an ideal world though, I would want to sell some of the players who clearly don't have either the talent, the mentality or both at the highest level. I'd be looking to move on:

Jones (lol)
Maguire
Bailly (is he still here?)
Van de Beek
Telles
Elanga
Mctominay
Martial

And would be open to selling:

Fred
Sancho
Dalot

I just don't see a load of money coming in for these players though, so I think we'll still 3-4 at most and for less than we would like.

Ideally this summer would at least bring a new striker and midfielder. I think we could do with gutting a few of the 'mentality mice' from past regimes and replacing them but I don't see that happening so I think we could get away with our current defence if our midfield was properly stocked and we had a reliable and actually good striker.

For me the absolute ideal would be Osimhen and De Jong, also keeping Sabitzer. I think these two would strengthen us by a huge amount and would reduce the need to use players who are substandard such as McFred. I don't see us getting either of these though but a good midfielder who can reasonably stand in for Casemiro in a pinch would be great, and a striker with the right mentality and who is able to actually score some goals.

 

[Oranges038]

I think, the team definitely needs 4 new starting 11 players. Keeper, right back, midfield and striker.

With that in mind I think the best way to achieve a more balanced squad and raise funds is to get sell players.

Out - not including out of contract players - none of those out of contract this year should get a new deal.

Maguire
Dalot
AWB
Williams
Donny
McT
Elanga
Bailly
Martial
Telles
Henderson
Fred

Might get 150m for that lot at 10/15m a piece. They won't be missed. Bring back Hannibal, Diallo and give some young lads their minutes, these players are just a waste of time.

In - Possible Frees as backup / rotation
Keeper - Neto
RB - Aina
CB - Skriniar/ Ndicka
MF - Tielemams / Kroos / Rabiot / Aouar
CF - Thuram / Brereton Diaz

In Transfers - not all but some of them - Bolded should be brought in for the right price.

Gk - Costa
CB - Timber - could also provide cover at RB
RB - Frimpong (maybe Tete/ Aarons as backup)
MF - FdJ, Lavia, Sabitzer
CF - Oshimen/Kane (Richarlison if Everton go down) (Edit: turns I forgot he already left and he's actually become invisible but was last seen playing for Spurs)

 

[Stevondo8]

What deadwood is out on loan at the moment? Just Telles and Henderson? Telles 5m), Henderson (15m? Seems reasonable for a keeper that’s still young and has decent epl experience), maguire (35m? Don’t know where to pitch his fee really), Williams (5m), tuanzebe (5m) and mctominay (15m? Again lots of epl experience) should raise a reasonable sum (i make it 80m).

Main thing has to be a proper striker, not too fussed about whether it’s Kane or Osimhen (but would prefer Osimhen) but need one of them. That’s the obvious major upgrade to the first xi. Then it’s depth. 3rd choice cb, make Sabitzer permanent and if there’s money leftover, improve right back.

 

[Havak]

The perfect window isn't something we will get, but here's the kind of strategy I'd hope we are looking at:

Sell / Don't Offer New Contract:

Cat 1. Bailly, Jones, Telles, Williams.

I think these four have to be the biggest 'givens' in the squad. They haven't been missed when not playing. I would argue having them on the bench would have made next to no difference, so they are without a doubt surplus to requirement and could be sold without replacement. There's also a few million to be made in transfer fees to help balance the net spend - surely there's at least £25m+ from the three that we can ask money for. Jones released.

Cat 2. Henderson, Maguire, McTominay, Fred, van de Beek, Martial.

These ones could be slightly more controversial due to their positions (or potential positions) in the squad and are dependent on other signings - ie. We would probably have to replace them if we sell them which makes them different from cat 1. Maguire is pretty much gone in most people's eyes and I agree - hopefully we can get £40m+ for him and sign a young CB to be fourth choice relatively cheaply. I think it's time for Martial to go and be replaced with that 'wordlie' striker so to speak. Henderson is probably gone and I think we can justify £25-30m. I actually think a significant amount of the players in 'category 2' would be Spurs targets and could sweeten the deal on Kane. ie. Henderson, Maguire, van de Beek, and Martial. McTominay or Fred could go, but I highly doubt both. I think at least two players from the above will stay regardless, it's just dependent on what deals we can get over the line.

Cat 3. Heaton, Butland, Sabitzer, Weghorst, Tuanzebe*, Elanga*, Amad*, Pellistri*

Heaton/Butland might be kept on a 1-year, hugely dependent on de Gea, Henderson and whether it's this window when we sign the new keeper. I think Dave stays another year minimum, but we could release both current back ups and sell Henderson to fund the new goalie... But would they (or Dave) take a year as no.2? Maybe we just wait and see if Raya doesn't sign a new deal. I would be content getting Weghorst and Sabitzer on permanent deals if the price is right and we sign for example Kane and De Jong. *If we do the right deals, we could do some loan deals, but I'd like Amad to be given a go in the first-team squad. Pellistri and Elanga on loan would be nice, as I don't necessarily think we 'need' to sell these players just yet, there's time. They might come good.

Targets:

Kane, Osimhen, Thuram
Weghorst

Bellingham, de Jong, Rice
Sabitzer

New GK & CB?

Ideally, buying a player to go right into the first XI and then securing a further squad option that is an improvement on the bench we have at the moment. Personally, I think Weghorst and Sabitzer do the latter. The CB is a squad option and the GK could be either, so I think we can have the money to achieve all of this in the Summer.

Potential squad:

GK: de Gea, Raya, Butland
DF: Dalot, Wan-Bissaka, Varane, Lindelof, Martinez, New CB, Shaw, Malacia
MF: Casemiro, de Jong, Bruno, Fred, Sabitzer, Eriksen +1 more? McTominay/Donny?
FW: Kane, Rashford, Antony, Weghorst, Garnacho, Sancho, Amad

Sold/Released:

Henderson, Heaton, Maguire, Bailly, Jones, Telles, Williams, McTominay/van de Beek, Martial

Loan:

Tuanzebe, Elanga, Pellistri + some other younger players.

I fully believe we can raise in excess of £100m in player sales this summer. Did we ever do anything like that before bar maybe when we sold Lukaku? We'll probably spend £200m+ in recruitment though!

 

[JustinC00]

I don't think there will be any. seems more and more like the money sucking glazers will still be here which means we can only buy if we sell and we don't really have much to sell.

 

[Matthew84!]

No need for long paragraphs on this.
Sell Maguire, McTominay, Martial.
Buy Kim Min-Jae, FDJ, Kane also make Sabitzer loan permanent.
Then go into getting rid of the fringe players

 

[RedBanker]

M Kudas is an attacking midfielder not a right back, he plays false 9, number 8, number 10 and inverted right striker as he’s left footed he’s not a right back!

My bad. Confused between Dumfries and Kudus. It's Kudus by the way. No one named Kudas.

 

[DJ_21]

Get rid of all the deadwood finally. Including Phil Jones. How he’s lasted so long at this club I’ll never know. Sign a top class ST that fits in with the managers style. Sign a RB. Another Midfielder. Get a permanent captain wether that be a new player or a current one but someone who’s a proper leader.

 

[SungSam7]

I think, the team definitely needs 4 new starting 11 players. Keeper, right back, midfield and striker.

With that in mind I think the best way to achieve a more balanced squad and raise funds is to get sell players.

Out - not including out of contract players - none of those out of contract this year should get a new deal.

Maguire
Dalot
AWB
Williams
Donny
McT
Elanga
Bailly
Martial
Telles
Henderson
Fred

Might get 150m for that lot at 10/15m a piece. They won't be missed. Bring back Hannibal, Diallo and give some young lads their minutes, these players are just a waste of time.

In - Possible Frees as backup / rotation
Keeper - Neto
RB - Aina
CB - Skriniar/ Ndicka
MF - Tielemams / Kroos / Rabiot / Aouar
CF - Thuram / Brereton Diaz

In Transfers - not all but some of them - Bolded should be brought in for the right price.

Gk - Costa
CB - Timber - could also provide cover at RB
RB - Frimpong (maybe Tete/ Aarons as backup)
MF - FdJ, Lavia, Sabitzer
CF - Oshimen/Kane (Richarlison if Everton go down)

I know Richarlison has been anonymous this year but he signed for Spurs last summer?

 

[Oranges038]

I know Richarlison has been anonymous this year but he signed for Spurs last summer?

Oh yeah. No idea how the feck I forgot that..

Maybe if Spurs go down then.

 

[PSV]

I would get Skhiri and van den Boomen as challengers for Casemiro and Bruno respectively.

Both free and was quality last season and have followed it up this season. Low risk with a potential massive upside.

 

[Woziak]

Short and simple ;

Sell and Release - H Maguire, S Mctominay, D Henderson, A Telles, E Bailey, A Martial, B Williams, P Jones, A Tuanzebe

PL Loans - F Pellistri, H Mezbri, J Huigall, K Maino

Buy - D Rayna(GK), J Timbor(CB), A Rabiot (DM/CM), M Sabitzer (CM/AM), M Kudas (RWS/No 10), V Osimhen(9) or G Ramos (9) E Ferguson (9) and loan him back to Brighton for 1 year.


I’m hoping we get £100m in Transfer and that lot will cost £240-280m so bet spend £140-180m

 

[Lux Thunder]

David Raya ~ £20m
Kim Min-Jae ~ £50m
Mateo Kovačić ~ £30m
Harry Kane ~ £85m
Marcel Sabitzer ~ £15m
Wout Weghorst ~ £7m

With sales of some players like Martial, VDB, Maguire, Telles, Bailly, McTominay and Henderson, I think it would be possible to add both depth and great quality to the above-listed players. This would be a very solid scenario in the summer.

 

[McGrathsipan]

any scenario where an eye watering amount of money is spent on Kane is not ideal.

He is too old.

 

[colombianmancunian]

any scenario where an eye watering amount of money is spent on Kane is not ideal.

He is too old.

The same was said about RVP and he won us the league.

Back on topic.


Sold/Released:

Henderson,, Maguire, Bailly, Jones, Telles, Williams, van de Beek.

In:

Harry Kane, FDJ (or Bellingham if Qatar buys us), Sabitzer (permanent deal), Timber, Raya (if he acepta being DDG understudy and is set on winning the number 1 spot, if not pass, he ain’t ready).

 

[croadyman]

I think, the team definitely needs 4 new starting 11 players. Keeper, right back, midfield and striker.

With that in mind I think the best way to achieve a more balanced squad and raise funds is to get sell players.

Out - not including out of contract players - none of those out of contract this year should get a new deal.

Maguire
Dalot
AWB
Williams
Donny
McT
Elanga
Bailly
Martial
Telles
Henderson
Fred

Might get 150m for that lot at 10/15m a piece. They won't be missed. Bring back Hannibal, Diallo and give some young lads their minutes, these players are just a waste of time.

In - Possible Frees as backup / rotation
Keeper - Neto
RB - Aina
CB - Skriniar/ Ndicka
MF - Tielemams / Kroos / Rabiot / Aouar
CF - Thuram / Brereton Diaz

In Transfers - not all but some of them - Bolded should be brought in for the right price.

Gk - Costa
CB - Timber - could also provide cover at RB
RB - Frimpong (maybe Tete/ Aarons as backup)
MF - FdJ, Lavia, Sabitzer
CF - Oshimen/Kane (Richarlison if Everton go down) (Edit: turns I forgot he already left and he's actually become invisible but was last seen playing for Spurs)

What's your reason for Kane over Osimhen,also forget De Jong he won't even leave Barca if they were burning to the ground

 

[croadyman]

David Raya ~ £20m
Kim Min-Jae ~ £50m
Mateo Kovačić ~ £30m
Harry Kane ~ £85m
Marcel Sabitzer ~ £15m
Wout Weghorst ~ £7m

With sales of some players like Martial, VDB, Maguire, Telles, Bailly, McTominay and Henderson, I think it would be possible to add both depth and great quality to the above-listed players. This would be a very solid scenario in the summer.

Cracking window,only thing it lacks is a RB and can we afford to leave Osimhen for Chelsea

 

[Oranges038]

What's your reason for Kane over Osimhen,also forget De Jong he won't even leave Barca if they were burning to the ground

I'm not too sold in Oshimen, maybe I just haven't seen enough of him.

Kane just looks like more of a sure thing the money. Should get 3/4 good years out of him.

 

[Lux Thunder]

Cracking window,only thing it lacks is a RB and can we afford to leave Osimhen for Chelsea

Yes, but I think ETH will hold on with RB as we have more urgent positions to address and if Dalot can find his pre-WC form we would have two very good but different options to use, depending from match to match, in Dalot and AWB.

As for Osimhen, it all depends on Napoli's asking price, but if Qatari money comes in I would welcome him here as long as we sign at least GK and CM too.

Kim Min-Jae is less priority but he represents great value for money if his release clause is true and he is capable of playing both LCB and RCB positions.

 

[AshRK]

Sell
Maguire- 40m
Mctominay-20m
Henderson-20m
Vdb- 5m
Bailly-5m

Buy
Kane-80m
Midfielder- 50m
Another Midfielder- 30m
LCB- 50m

Total net spend close to 110m. I would like to go and buy a keeper but doubt that will happen.

Would also won't selling sancho and martial.

 

[Herschel Krustofsky]

Focus on the next game heh

Clear

 

[PSV]

There's some good suggestions in this thread, but with some we're running into issues with homegrown players (correct me if I'm wrong here):

* I can't see us bringing in a goalkeeper that isn't English alongside De Gea. It's either replace or focus on other positions. Having 2nd and 3rd keeper as homegrown is quite beneficial.
* Assuming Jones, Tuanzebe and Williams leave -- Shaw, Maguire, AWB, McTominay, Rashford, Elanga and Sancho are the 7 outfield players we have left that are homegrown.
* Unless we sign someone that can fill the quota there's only 1 of them leaving. We could of course vacate the slots, but judging by this season we need all the players we can get.

 

[Messier1994]

Sell:
Maguire — 20m
McTominay — 20m
Henderson — 20m
Martial — 15m
Lindelof — 20m
Elanga — 17.5m
Pellestri — 10m
Donny — 10m

Buy:
Oshimen — 120m
Gvardiol — 90m
Diego Costa — 70m
Lavia — 50m
Vitor Roque — 35m
Ahmedhodžić — 30m
Wout — 15m
Rabiot — 0

ST — Osimehn / Wout / Roque
LW — Rash / Garnacho
RW — Antony / Diallo
AMC — Bruno / Sancho
CM — Eriksen / Lavia
DMC — Casemiro / Rabiot
LB — Shaw / Malacia
LCB — Martinez / Gvardiol
RCB — Varane / Ahmedhodžić
RB — Dalot / AWB
GK — Costa

Depth: Fred / Bailly

 

[FrankDrebin]

...Aaaaaaaaaaaaand back to reality.

 

[Mwooyo]

5 transfers is all we need to become unstoppable
1 is ruben neves or palinha as cover for casemiro
2 is make sabitzer permanent to cover fred
3 is buy mateo retegui as our striker for next season. Osihmen, ramos and kane are way tooo pricey for their real value. Besides, benefica or napoli will sign him to replace ramos or victor if they leave
4. Sign axel disasi from monaco to replace maguire
5. Sign raya to replace de gea

Sell maguire, mctominay, martial, bailly, telles, tuazebe.

Loan out elanga and pellistri, zidane iqbal and maybe mainoo.

Bring back amad and let him cover anthony.(really think amad will actually bounce anthony by season end)
Thats it, thats all we need to become unstoppable. 3 players per position...we can comfortably compete for all 4 trophies without much dip in quality between teams

 

[fergiewherearethou]

Let's be realistic we are not selling 8 players and buying other 7, this is reality not Football Manager.

I would say 2-3 transfers in, with a ST and a CM being the priorities for this summer - 2 absolute starters, good players that must improve us immediately.
So a striker named Kane/Osimhen would be great, a CM named De Jong/Jude would be perfect.

For departures the priority should be offloading players that will never get to play again for us, Jones, Bailly, Telles, B Williams maybe also DVB.