Dante
Average bang
Not as good as KFC's Tweet.
Food-wise, they're equally shit.
Can only hope it's to give Gomes/Garner a chance
It’s Fred and Pereira that will get undeserved chances. Would rather see McT, Gomes, and Garner.
Do you really think a multi-billion £ organisation with a Financial invester/accountant as Executive Vice-Chairman, is not going to chair a meeting after the worst season in years and outline a stratergy/financial plan for the coming year?
I guess this was fake news like arsenal's 45 million dollar budget
Can only hope it's to give Gomes/Garner a chance
If we were so concerned about our bloated wage bill, we wouldn't keep giving poor and aging players contract extensions. Players like Smalling, Jones, Young, Rojo, and Mata should be encouraged to leave as soon as possible so we can replace them with players of a standard that befits the size and status of the club. However, we won't force them out because it's cheaper to keep crap players on the wage bill than it is to spend the increasingly exorbitant transfer fees to replace them.In the 5 years directly after Ferguson left, we spent an absolute fortune, more than every other club in the world excluding City (on fees, but probably more than City if you include wages). Not a single one of these transfers have been a resounding success, and we have bloated our wage bill with players we've hardly seen in the last two years. These players are on huge contracts, and have offered sod all.
The window is closed but if anyone wants to dive into the numbers, SwissRamble explains it very well :
If we were so concerned about our bloated wage bill, we wouldn't keep giving poor and aging players contract extensions. Players like Smalling, Jones, Young, Rojo, and Mata should be encouraged to leave as soon as possible so we can replace them with players of a standard that befits the size and status of the club. However, we won't force them out because it's cheaper to keep crap players on the wage bill than it is to spend the increasingly exorbitant transfer fees to replace them.
It all comes down to spending as little as possible, despite the fact that the club could spend half a billion in each transfer window without worrying about violating FFP restrictions. Usually, we only spend enough in each window to keep the squad competitive for Champions League places, but after the past few windows, I'm not entirely sure that's true anymore.
I suspect that Ed Woodward has been the leading figure in a lot of our previous signings. There's a tendency to maintain the same transfer targets after a manager gets sacked for instance, which suggests Woodward pushes on with those targets rather than wasting the groundwork he's already put in. That would be understandable if we were then bringing in a manager with the same MO but that isn't usually the case.Truth is we've bought incredibly badly season after season for a long while now.
The board and the owners are probably sick of slashing out only to lose millions on these players who fail and are either a write off or worth a tiny fraction of their buy price.
I think past managers have been supported and bad contracts have been given, leading to this situation.
Do I wish we had spent more and bought a midfielder? Yes.
Are the board skeotucal having taken a bath on Fellaini, losing Hererra on a free and possibly being forced to write Sanchez off? That's the equivalent of £60m plus write off there.
Not to mention Fred who looks like a £50m write off currently.