He isn't going anyway. Those rumours are most likely planted by his agent or are complete BS alltogether. Bruno most likely wants a bigger contract - and why wouldn't he, especially looking at the most recent history of our club in terms of salaries. Still hope our decision makers will not go down this route. I am also on the side that it would be a big mistake not considering an offer but at the end of the day, it won't happen. Don't think the club has the cojones for such a move. Most of the arguments against selling him are weak though.
I don't really get the short term thinking, there is very little chance that we are going to play for the highest honors next season, probably not even the season after. With or without Bruno. This team is not going to go for that - it will take a reboot and this will take money. I understand fan sentiment, I understand people liking the player but I really hope we make the right decisions now to be able to be competetive in 2-3 years time because we won't be next season anyway. For all the praise he gets, in parts surely deservedly, people have to acknowledge that having such a player, such a good chance creator, is a) not a guarantee to be productive as a team and b) isn't a necessity to generate chances. If he is as good as people make him out, they have to see, that there aren't many teams who have such a player yet many of those teams are able to generate chances just fine (and just fine means "way better than us last season").
Ye fair point. Money does usually talk. But it all depends who we replace him with. He’s the only creative player in the team. We lack creativity and it’s such an important assets to have.
This is an issue we have to adress anyway. Bruno or not. I mean, for all the "wonderfulness" of Mr. Magnifico - our team isn't producing enough. So we have to do something about it anyway. Bruno also isn't a spring chicken anymore, a smartly run club simply has to consider how life after Bruno will look like and whether a potential successor could or should be brought in right now to acclimatize.
100M we can bring in Toney, Eze and Warton already. That's lot of money and enough to get great potential and quality players to replace Bruno .
In no world do you get those four players for that amount of cash. How do you come up with such a number?
On one hand, selling him for £100 million or more makes perfect sense. He is 30 years old and that amount of money can be invested into other players. If they come with such an offer, I'd usually sell him. But on the other hand, nothing guarantees the funds won't be wasted on premium dross like Antony and Mount. Considering the transfer history of this club, the chance of that is very high indeed.
If that is the issue, we might as well close the club. Obviously mistakes have been made in the past but that simply can't lead to doing nothing out of fear to make another one. There will always be mistakes - the issue at United isn't that there were mistakes - the issue is the number of them and the lack of good and forward-thinking decisions for a long time. Not selling Bruno because "we wouldn't generate chances next season" would be just in line with such mistakes. As if people haven't seen what we generated even though we had him last season.
