Mason Greenwood | Officially a Marseille player

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Chairman Steve said:
Sell him and get that money and FFP breathing space. I don’t think he’s going to be as good as people initially thought he would be anyway.
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He might well give us more FFP breathing space by playing for us, certainly in the longer run.

The real FFP jackpot is Rashford. Maguire, Lindelof and Wan-Bissaka would also likely net good FFP returns - and Varane, provided we don't have to pick up any of his wages. And McTominay.
 
Raoul said:
None of them are good enough to play there. Garnacho is the only one who comes close to Greenwood levels of production, so unless we are planning on bringing Sancho back to play on the right (a distinct possibility) then we can't rely on one goal Antony, Pellistri, Amad, or some yet unidentified academy player.
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Well the issue is not whether any of them is good enough rather that Mason has already been replaced in terms of the first team squad so he does not need replacing again and therefore the cost of some new player does not need to be factored into his departure.

If we feel that the alternatives are not good enough then we sell and replace them but in that case the funds generated from those sales would presumably go towards an incoming transfer. Logically we won't be selling Antony this summer due to the massive hit we would take but it seems very probable Pellistri and quite possibly Amad would be sold and if we are lucky Sancho will have rebuilt his reputation to the point where he can be moved on too. Those deals should generate a decent amount and if Sancho does go we will be shedding a huge amount from the wage bill.

Greenwood can in this case be looked at purely as an asset that has already been written off and replaced and so any fee at this point is pure profit to the club.
 
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Gandalf said:
Well the issue is not whether any of them is good enough rather that Mason has already been replaced in terms of the first team squad so he does not need replacing again and therefore the cost of some new player does not need to be factored into his departure.

If we feel that the alternatives are not good enough then we sell and replace them but in that case the funds generated from those sales would presumably go towards an incoming transfer. Logically we won't be selling Antony this summer due to the massive hit we would take but it seems very probable Pellistri and quite possibly Amad would be sold and if we are lucky Sancho will have rebuilt his reputation to the point where he can be moved on too. Those deals should generate a decent amount and if Sancho does go we will be shedding a huge amount from the wage bill.

Greenwood can in this case be looked at purely as an asset that has already been written off and replaced and so any fee at this point is pure profit to the club.
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Okay. If you need it fed to you with a small spoon: No, he does not need to be replaced. But he can effectively replace someone else who has to be replaced (Martial). Which comes down to the same fecking thing.
 
justsomebloke said:
Okay. If you need it fed to you with a small spoon: No, he does not need to be replaced. But he can effectively replace someone else who has to be replaced (Martial). Which comes down to the same fecking thing.
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So the bolded was uncalled for.

Won't stoop to your level but for the record he is not coming back, never going to happen and so you need to make your peace with that.
 
justsomebloke said:
You need to consider one thing though: If he's brought back, he effectively replaces Martial. If he isn't, then we are going to have to sign someone else to do that. If you sell him for maybe 25m, that's a roughly 30m FFP gain (factoring in wages saved). That's not likely to outweigh the FFP cost we'll incur from signing a striker.
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In my opinion, he doesn't though. Martial is a CF in the squad currently and Greenwood hardly ever plays that role. He's a wide forward (Martial in his youth if you will).
 
SAF is the GOAT said:
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He simply has to be sold.

The club needs a clean slate this summer and not another season of talking about whether he can be reintegrated into the squad. It doesn't matter if it's another season or five. Greenwood will never be acceptable back at this club.
 
Can someone explain, if the club consider another loan with him going into his last year of contract, is the club then looking to sign him to a longer deal before or what?
 
van Nistelrooy said:
He simply has to be sold.

The club needs a clean slate this summer and not another season of talking about whether he can be reintegrated into the squad. It doesn't matter if it's another season or five. Greenwood will never be acceptable back at this club.
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This. Take the best offer we can get.
 
Yeah don’t fecking loan him

Getafe are taking the piss

He’s a £60m talent, and that’s still a steal for his talent

Sell and replace with the funds. A loan does absolutely nothing for us
 
Another loan? Either we bring him back or sell. No more loans. Surely, some bigger Spanish/Italian clubs who can afford to pay higher transfer fees might be interested, if not then our hands are tight and may need to agree to Getafe loan deal again.
 
If we cannot sell him this summer we should agree a mutual termination of his contract. It has to be ended now for the good of all involved.
 
I expect Getafe wouldn't be able to afford him and we won't want another loan. Be interesting to see if he comes back to United training in July if a deal hasn't been agreed, or whether he will be told to stay away until a deal is agreed elsewhere (I suspect the latter).
 
Gandalf said:
If we cannot sell him this summer we should agree a mutual termination of his contract. It has to be ended now for the good of all involved.
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We'll obviously sell him, it's a question of how much. It's been reported we'll be extending his deal to 2026, I doubt we have any interest in letting him leave for free.
 
Gandalf said:
If we cannot sell him this summer we should agree a mutual termination of his contract. It has to be ended now for the good of all involved.
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The least likeliest of all plausible scenarios as the club aren't going to piss away a transfer free at a time when our own inbound transfer budget is limited.
 
LawCharltonBest said:
Yeah don’t fecking loan him

Getafe are taking the piss

He’s a £60m talent, and that’s still a steal for his talent

Sell and replace with the funds. A loan does absolutely nothing for us
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He's not, because no one would be willing to pay even a third of that.

Getafe are our best hope and they are skint.
 
Raoul said:
The least likeliest of all plausible scenarios as the club aren't going to piss away a transfer free at a time when our own inbound transfer budget is limited.
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The most moral though.

We really can't complain though. You can't expect fair value for an asset you have ostracized.
 
LawCharltonBest said:
Yeah don’t fecking loan him

Getafe are taking the piss

He’s a £60m talent, and that’s still a steal for his talent

Sell and replace with the funds. A loan does absolutely nothing for us
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He may be a £60m talent, but there won't be a £60m transfer.
 
adexkola said:
The most moral though.

We really can't complain though. You can't expect fair value for an asset you have ostracized.
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:lol: the irony is not lost.
Yakuza_devils said:
Well played by Gatafe President
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Not really. He's fecked up any chance of us sending players there in the future operating like this and it's probably not done anything to help him get Greenwood.
 
golden_blunder said:
United have done? He brought in on himself
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He did what he did. We chose to ostracize him. Argue the rights and wrongs of that (that's none of my business nowadays) but strictly financially, expecting fair value subsequent to making it clear he is not desired at the club again, is stupid and playing both sides. If we didn't care about financial return at all, we would have paid out his contract and released him, feck the impact to the balance sheet and FFP. We obviously care about the finances, but also about morals, so are stuck in this dumb middle ground.

Either kick him out or do everything possible to de-stench him before the sale to the next dummy. This isn't rocket science
 
Apparently two premier league clubs after him.

I imagine one is Arsenal, who clearly don’t care about this sort of thing being an issue based off the starting 11s they’ve had out recently.

Wonder who else?
 
Bwuk said:
Apparently two premier league clubs after him.

I imagine one is Arsenal, who clearly don’t care about this sort of thing being an issue based off the starting 11s they’ve had out recently.

Wonder who else?
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Newcastle, they don't care about bad press.
 
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