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Did they hire Ed Woodward?
Al Woodward
Did they hire Ed Woodward?
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Agreed. I feel like the Saudi's have had their wild season of splurging and we're slightly late to the party. 30-40m would be strong.Getting any fee for him would be a bonus to just getting him off the books.
This Caught Offside report is clearly nonsense, but £30m-£40m should be our aim
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BOGOF chuck Antony in.God that'd be great, we could get ourselves another Antony with the money.
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Yeah this. I think we’d almost be happy clearing the wages off the books and not worrying about any kind of fee.If that included his wages and signing on fee, it would be somewhat believable.
But nevermind it coming from Caughtoffside, the guy behind the actual article is their Arsenal writer and he has form for just making shit up for them. At least he's got plenty of retwats now though.
The very next thing he wrote was that Bruno was off to Saudi for €150m, so he clearly knows what works in fairness.
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Yeah this. I think we’d almost be happy clearing the wages off the books and not worrying about any kind of fee.
A three year contract on 400k a week is over £60 million by itself.
Looking into it.Just had a thought, INEOS specialise in Oil/Chemicals. Saudi Arabia are obviously involved heavily in Oil Production.
Could INEOS then contact the people behind the Saudi League, offer exclusive business deals etc, in exchange for huge bids for United players?
In Casemiro's case, they pay £70m for a player they could likely get for £30m, and the Saudi fund make more than the difference back in business deals outside of football?
Very interesting.
I’m not sure that version of Fabinho was anywhere near as finished as this version of Casemiro, or whether they had to pay off as much in wages as they will need to with Casemiro.I think we'd want whatever his remaining book value is so we weren't still technically paying for a player still at the club. So like £37.5m I think? Which as has been mentioned, is around about what they paid for a finished Fabinho a year ago.
Terrible source, they just post made up nonsense.April 1st joke? Anything near that would be mind-blowingly amazing.
Still making sure we get new tiling around the pool at Carrington.Agent Ronaldo
I’m not sure that version of Fabinho was anywhere near as finished as this version of Casemiro, or whether they had to pay off as much in wages as they will need to with Casemiro.
It’s also true that neither of those things really matter to Saudi, so we’ll see. In an ideal world getting the transfer fee cleared off the books completely would be incredible, but it would probably be the biggest overpay of the lot if they were offering that.
The reality is that if he plays like he did last season, it would be better to book the fee as a loss and free up £350k a week with him out of the squad, rather than still have the fee on the books and have to keep him in the squad on those wages.
He was absolutely class at times, and absolutely woeful in some games.I don't think I've ever seen a player drop off so drastically from one season to the next. He was outstanding last year
Fabinho went there at 29 but I don't care. Casemiro is a much bigger name, Real Madrid legend and threepeat member, 5 CLs to his name, etc. Easily has at least 3 good years in him in the Saudi League. We need to ask for at least 40m.
I don't think I've ever seen a player drop off so drastically from one season to the next. He was outstanding last year
I don't think I've ever seen a player drop off so drastically from one season to the next. He was outstanding last year
Rooney perhaps? Henry was pretty awful in his final year at Barca. Torres of course but that was mitigating circumstances rather than age.