Luckhurst: United prepared to move for a holding midfielder in January

Give Bayern a blank cheque for Kimmich; allow me please, one can dream.
 
Frenkie de Jong from the only remaining ESL club we haven’t shopped at this summer. :drool:
 
If Dalot is leaving then it has to be Trippier.

We need a DM much more though.
 
They cant afford his wages and I think Martial will prefer to play outside the EPL.

Martial would probably prefer to play outside of football. I imagine he would just spend all day fishing or something.
 
I think there is the potential that Mbappe going to PSG may result in a domino effect leading to us selling a player or two.
I can see that.

Mbappe leaves for Real, PSG sign Pogba to replace him as their French Galactico, United use the profit to sign a bona fide midfielder.

Given how stacked we are in attack now, how thin we are in midfield, and how high our wage bill has just become, it makes sense on a lot of levels. Rashford should be back in a month as well.
 
People said the same yesterday before it became obvious we had hijacked the deal.

I actually think the likes of Rio and co for the first time ever have inside knowledge on our dealings because it’s no longer a complete hush hush closed circle of Woodward and his team. We’ve got Murtough running that side of things with Fletcher organising the approach for each target and they’re savvy enough to know they can bring their old team mates and United legends into the fold for a bit of transfer dark arts.

It’s what Real used to do, getting the likes of Zidane to text or call targets. It doesn’t matter if it leaks, it helps build pressure.


Yeah you're probably right, it seems rio does have insider knowledge of stuff, he's obviuosly very involved in the club still.

It's interesting that Ste Howson is good mates with Rio and he tweeted something to Saul yesterday so maybe we are getting him on loan or something.

Eitherway I think Rio is expecting we get another signing over the line.
 
I have a feeling it'll be Saul on loan. Whether or not he will solve our midfield issue, I dont know but there are not many top class DM available these days so someone who's an all arounder makes sense as well. Anything to improve the control in the middle of the pitch.
 
Camavinga's got a big decision to make.

Does he want to play alongside Messi or Ronaldo.
 
Our options for the front 4 - Ronaldo/Cavani/Pogba/Sancho/Rashford/Bruno/Mason/Martial

We don't need Lingard, James and Mata, obviously Mata will see his 1 year extension out and probably join the staff next season, but we should be able to get £40M combined for the other 2 and buy a midfielder .
 
Ronaldo 500K
Varane 400K
DDG 375K
Sancho 350K
Pogba 275K
Martial 250K
Cavanni 250K
Mguire 200K
Bruno 200K
Rashford 200K
Matic 150K
Mata 130K

DVB 100K
G'wood 50K
Fred 120K
Shaw 120K
Jesse 100K
Hendo 100K
AWB 90K
Lindelof 90K
Jones 100K
Baily 100K

Telles 80K
McT 20K

Almost 210M GBP per annum on major players, hopefully things wont get out of hands financially as it seems we have the biggest wage bill in the world of football
 
Ronaldo 500K
Varane 400K
DDG 375K
Sancho 350K
Pogba 275K
Martial 250K
Cavanni 250K
Mguire 200K
Bruno 200K
Rashford 200K
Matic 150K
Mata 130K

DVB 100K
G'wood 50K
Fred 120K
Shaw 120K
Jesse 100K
Hendo 100K
AWB 90K
Lindelof 90K
Jones 100K
Baily 100K

Telles 80K
McT 20K

Almost 210M GBP per annum on major players, hopefully things wont get out of hands financially as it seems we have the biggest wage bill in the world of football
I'm sure most of these numbers are wrong and some include bonuses and image rights.
 
Ronaldo 500K
Varane 400K
DDG 375K
Sancho 350K
Pogba 275K
Martial 250K
Cavanni 250K
Mguire 200K
Bruno 200K
Rashford 200K
Matic 150K
Mata 130K

DVB 100K
G'wood 50K
Fred 120K
Shaw 120K
Jesse 100K
Hendo 100K
AWB 90K
Lindelof 90K
Jones 100K
Baily 100K

Telles 80K
McT 20K

Almost 210M GBP per annum on major players, hopefully things wont get out of hands financially as it seems we have the biggest wage bill in the world of football
I doubt that as psg , Barcelona, real and city(or atleast what they're paying behind the scenes) should be comfortable above us

Though your correct the squad is getting a tad to bloated, hopefully by next year considering the guys whose contract runs out and sellings we should be looking at a pretty reasonable wage structure

But I guess the ludicrous amounts were paying some of our players might cause us problems finding suitors so I guess we'll be seeing martial around for a while
 
Our options for the front 4 - Ronaldo/Cavani/Pogba/Sancho/Rashford/Bruno/Mason/Martial

We don't need Lingard, James and Mata, obviously Mata will see his 1 year extension out and probably join the staff next season, but we should be able to get £40M combined for the other 2 and buy a midfielder .


We can look at off loading Martial too, He wont be happy to be on bench and probably giving Matic on loan to anyone

We can only register max 25 players to the league I guess so we need to trim down the squad especially if we are bringing in a CDM.
 
Really do not want Trippier. We need a DM who can pass desperately. Please let the injury to McTom make that very clear! We don’t have anyone else!
 
Ronaldo 500K
Varane 400K
DDG 375K
Sancho 350K
Pogba 275K
Martial 250K
Cavanni 250K
Mguire 200K
Bruno 200K
Rashford 200K
Matic 150K
Mata 130K

DVB 100K
G'wood 50K
Fred 120K
Shaw 120K
Jesse 100K
Hendo 100K
AWB 90K
Lindelof 90K
Jones 100K
Baily 100K

Telles 80K
McT 20K

Almost 210M GBP per annum on major players, hopefully things wont get out of hands financially as it seems we have the biggest wage bill in the world of football

I am concerned too about the wage bill. The good thing from our perspective is that a lot of these high wage earners have shorter contracts or have contracts which expire in the next 24 months. Ronaldo, DDG, Cavani, Mata, Matic would be in this bucket. Sancho and Varane numbers seem higher than what I recall seeing earlier.
 
Ronaldo 500K
Varane 400K
DDG 375K
Sancho 350K
Pogba 275K
Martial 250K
Cavanni 250K
Mguire 200K
Bruno 200K
Rashford 200K
Matic 150K
Mata 130K

DVB 100K
G'wood 50K
Fred 120K
Shaw 120K
Jesse 100K
Hendo 100K
AWB 90K
Lindelof 90K
Jones 100K
Baily 100K

Telles 80K
McT 20K

Almost 210M GBP per annum on major players, hopefully things wont get out of hands financially as it seems we have the biggest wage bill in the world of football

I’m fairly certain there are a lot of inaccuracies there. Furthermore, most of the contracts have significant performance stipulations - such as appearances, goals, assists, clean sheet bonuses etc., some also include image rights.

We clearly have to shift some earners off the books but the number to really look at is the wages to turnover ratio which we won’t know until the club publish their financial reports. Historically we’ve always had one of the best ratios in the division.
 
Funny how Sancho last summer would have been the marquee signing.

This summer it's almost as if he doesn't exist after signing varane and ronaldo :lol:
 
Funny how Sancho last summer would have been the marquee signing.

This summer it's almost as if he doesn't exist after signing varane and ronaldo :lol:

Yeah, he is flying under the radar now. Which is insane considering the hype over 2 years.

I am an Ole supporter but he sure knows how to kill the excitement of a new signing :(

But this might be good for him. Less pressure and all that.
 
Agree with this, didn’t Rio help with Varane too or have I made that up?

he said he’d text Varane to see what’s going on - and didn’t mention anything after that.

There’s little doubt that Rio does have insider knowledge to certain players - but I do also recall Howson saying that he asked Rio in private and he wouldn’t say anything, same with the Ronaldo thing.
 
Our wage bill to our turnover was less than 50% when we had dip in revenue due to Covid. With matchday revenue coming back and deferred payment from shirt sponsorship still to come (plus i think we have one major sponsor slot still left to fill) , we will be fine with addition that we have made this season.

Just hope we have Covid free this season and full matchday revenue throughout this season
 
Amazing to think we might actually have a better window than PSG.
If PSG ends up with loosing Mbappe im not sure if theirs window been good .

Donarumma is really good. But they had Neves. Who is not that far behind.

Ramos is probably not as good as he was.

Messi is still a beast, but i rather have 22 year old Mbappe.
 
We need a new plan to compete cause we clearly don't have a good one. Chelsea and City have top class managers and money to burn

Liverpool got a top class managers and absolute geniuses on the board who work wonders in the market with making their money stretch.

We got an Ok manager, an incompetent board and an ability to never finish a rebuild. Sometimes you just go to bite the bullet if you want a shot at the big boy trophies.

Where is our Tom Brady?

All the Glazers aim to do is stop the protesets. That's their goal for the season.
Prescient.
 
Bossumo looks like he's ready to move to the next level, a great option but unlikely as we need to shift too many players out to make room.
 
Will be good for him. He's just 21.

Yeah this is an excellent point. Ronaldo will take all eyes and pressure on himself and it will give Sancho a change to adapt without the pressure of being the One.