Club Ownership | INEOS responsible for the football side
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Interesting. So the rules won't prevent them from spending big. Let's see if they actually decide to pony up the money.
"Don't watch this space."
Jim Ratcliffe plans to make the players sing God Save The King before training begins.
Pisses me off too, then you have to work out who will play where and work out the formation from there.
Referring to himself?!
Behind a paywall, but communal area sounds positive!
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They are now!
Oh god, communal areas, that will get us out of our funk. Is he trying to do every cliche in the book?
Carrington has had more face-lifts than Joan Rivers, I'm pretty sure communal areas have been done already, i seem to recall an issue with it being generally too communal not long ago. It's getting like the Tory government, they'll go to all kinds of bizarre lengths to avoid addressing actual problems.
Is this true? Any sources?
I get they want to run a business to be profitable but these news stories just make INEOS sound like real penny pinchers. Hopefully the focus is on improving the culture, standards and results first and foremost.
In Joan Rivers?!
Thanks. I didn't know that. Well I did want the qatari bloke to take complete ownership of Utd.
You are right they have. We need a new training facility. ETH said they would be completely rebuilding it that would have been better
True, they dithered leaving staff uncertain, then eventually came up with their own version which was bobbins.
Great post
In fairness it’s a decent question
So did they actually tell staff that they were being furloughed? Must admit that's not something I've heard. Or seen anywhere.
Would that not be a good thing?
What will penny pinching achieve when your paying underperforming players like Rashford 300k a week?
Introduce a maximum salary limit say 150k a week and the rest is made up of performance related bonuses.
Which makes you wonder how they burn so much money on stupid contracts and wages
A bit like paying Zlatan 400k a week, but charge him for orange juice
I'm sure theyl bring in a new wage structure but there's little they can do about the ones on existing contracts.
Is communal areas the 2024 version of getting iPad under Moyes?
My bad, I did mean to write, for new contacts going forwards.
Come back to the real world with that suggestion.
Yeah, I’d love to see him at United. Centre forwards with a lot of potential are in such short supply these days. The issue is the fee!
He’s name checked in the article in any case.
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I can't remember exactly how it unfolded, but I remember we were under the impression we were getting Furloughed, then they realised they'd face a backlash and slowly cobbled together their own version, I remember a lot of uncertainty. Now I think back, they may not have promised furloughed via an official communication, but during the beginning of covid there was an absence of any direct communication.
Pellistri could well be sold for more than we paid for him, that's the point of buying youth players and Maguire was the wrong profile of player in part because of his age. He was never going to get better than he was when he join, and he was only just good enough then.
If we buy Maguire at the time Leicester did, say for double the money as there's a United tax and an extra 50% on top of his wages, that's £25m and £130k a week. Now that doesn't make Maguire a brilliant signing, but by god it would feel a lot better and we'd have had buyers when we wanted to sell.
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I'm sure I read we'd of actually had more spending freedom had we not qualified for Europe, as we now also have to abide by their stricter rules.
I feel like they are doing this to chance the thinking about the club, after years of everyone seeing United as a cashcow. United wants someone? Ask crazy money. United wants to talk contracts? Ask crazy salaries. I feel like it's all part of the bigger picture in which united is seen (because it is) a sensible club who's not wasteful because of endless revenue.
The dozen or so people I knew that worked there at the time
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The bit about budgets is daft, because they've always been run like that. Budgets for everything were always minimal. Middle management had a real penny pinching culture because they knew it'd get them a bigger bonus if they came in under budget for their departments.
So no, then.
I very much hope that the wage structure is evaluated and brought down to earth.
£200k per week should be the ceiling and only reserved for proven players who regularly deliver like Bruno. Rashford should never be on that absurd contract and should be moved on at the earliest opportunity.
Unfortunately, that's unrealistic unless we are okay with losing our best players regularly. That will only be possible if it's like a wage cap applied across europe or PL.
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