He's been saying this over and over yet each summer comes and we keep spending the money due to our mammoth revenues, like you say he's just on the WUM and amazingly some still bite after all these years of the same act.
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He's been saying this over and over yet each summer comes and we keep spending the money due to our mammoth revenues, like you say he's just on the WUM and amazingly some still bite after all these years of the same act.
Thanks for the update, appreciate it.
Just like we couldn't move on Nani or RVP.
Do you think we have some amount of money and if we spend it that's that, no money is coming into the club.
Or we won't, I don't know, sell players and similar?
We seem to be briefing again about Pogba. I hate to use the word 'embarrassing', but it might seem that way when Madrid come and snap him up.
As a one off, that wouldn't be too bad, but it keeps happening with all high profile targets who are being courted by other top clubs.
As a one off, that wouldn't be too bad, but it keeps happening with all high profile targets who are being courted by other top clubs.
Players like Mata, Herrera and Rooney if they were transfer listed wouldn't be short of any takers, the same goes for Carrick next season.
Rojo and Jones clubs like Everton, Stoke would be all over too.
A player like Pogba will always end up with the Media briefed, if United don't the agent will.
As an Agent you notify everywhere possible to try and get more money.
Anyone doubting the transfer price just think about this for a second. Imagine next season watching Mkhitaryan playing in Martial,Ibrahimovic,Rashford and Pogba.
That is a mouthwatering prospect.
Plus, Pogba is an excellent provider as well as is Martial, so not only would we have plenty of players putting the ball in the back of the net, we have a few players who excel at finding those players in dangerous areas.
We would still have plenty of areas of the pitch that need addressing, but that attack is certainly good enough to carry us through our problems in defence and even midfield to an extent.
That is a mouthwatering prospect.
Plus, Pogba is an excellent provider as well as is Martial, so not only would we have plenty of players putting the ball in the back of the net, we have a few players who excel at finding those players in dangerous areas.
We would still have plenty of areas of the pitch that need addressing, but that attack is certainly good enough to carry us through our problems in defence and even midfield to an extent.
If Martial, Pogba and Schneiderlin all occupied the same triangle of the pitch it bodes well for france too.
It isn't the reality at all. It's the reality you've convinced yourself of from all the hype. Alli cost £4m. Dier cost £5m. Has the football world changed so much since then?
You seem to have taken as gospel all the media guff about which clubs have offered what amounts for player X, when most of it is, of course, not true. Even £35m for Mane pales besides £100m for Pogba.
Absolutely. Although I still think Schneiderlin has plenty to prove, but if anyone can get him at its best it's Mourinho.
Don't forget we have won ONE TROPHY more than Spuds in our deepest darkest days
They have won the square root of feck all
Are people still suckered in by Glaston? If WUMing is an artform, his is a stickman drawn in shit on a toilet cubicle wall.
Yes it has. The new tv deal has given money to clubs lower in the league that they never had before. You got lucky with alli being at a poor club originally, I can't see it being so easy from now on.
The good old "[so and so] has told close friends"...
I think we are confident that we can out price them. They really don't need to be entering silly money bidding wars for midfielders.
A pub player can give you that.
They're also happy to punch people in the stomach too
There's really too much smoke right now in this story. Although Madrid can always swoop in and take him. But all the papers are running a story about how we're negotiating and are willing to pay the fee and stuff.
Confirmation inbound?
As long as mods still allow him to do whatever he does, then people still want be entertained
How has he survived this long?
Somebody at least thread ban him please. Nobody wants to read what some Spuds fan thinks of Manchester United's transfer policy and financial situation in a Paul fecking Pogba thread. Back to transfer muppetry! I have no idea ,actually I already wonder the same thing. It's not a really necessary signing but conditioned by the future transfer ban
We should get Evra back as well.
Did not you get the memo? He is better than Zlatan Ibrahimovic who would struggle to get a start for spurs.
Our spending is all rather new and as such we don't have a lot of baggage on the books from the Fergie/Gill days. Since then our net spending has not really been as high as you might think given the headlines. Meanwhile our revenues have grown substantially. Through the first 9months of fiscal 2016, it's up 32%(!) from the previous year. That's incredible growth, and practically unheard of for an already-gigantic operation. Operating profits (what's left *after* expenses like salaries and transfer fees) have nearly tripled to £65m. No, we cannot buy just £100m players and survive. But if we continue to do business as we have done, including selling to recoup some fees and adding from the academy, then we can certainly afford to spend similarly to this summer's plan, e.g. £125m net, for the foreseeable future.
Where are the steel chairs?
Dortmund didn't want so sell either.
Has he failed his medical yet?
At the end of the season he was WUMMING everyone by saying, no good player from a CL club would join United (regardless of money), because United have no CL football.
Check his posts history.
He has changed his tune now
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Pogba needs to force a move. Its that simple. Looks like he wants to come just needs to hand in a transfer request and throw a few things
The increased amounts of money being given to Premier League clubs from the new TV deal has directly affected prices of players, even in relation to last summer, so yes.
Dier and Alli were both very much unproven at the top level anyway when you signed them. It makes sense that neither of them would command fees close to those of players who have played in the Premier League, or even the Champions League and World Cup in Pogba's instance.
I'm not sure why you're so quick to dismiss it all as 'media guff' when most of those bids have been corroborated by well respected journalists and media outlets.
Ask him about the transfer price of Soldado and Lamela. Wages of Adebayor (for partying all year in toga) etc.
We've been itching to spend a world record transfer fee on one player since we unsuccessfully bid 100m for bale in the summer he moved to Madrid. Since then we've tried to buy Neymar and Muller. We didn't really spend much net last summer due to sales such as Di Maria. I agree with you that 100m for Pogba is silly, but I disagree it'll have any significant effect on United's future spending power. I don't think it'll affect us as much as you think it will. I think we've probably got enough to buy a galactico for that kind of money every summer, on top of one or two other 'standard' 30m purchases.
I agree there are bargains to be had, none more so than producing your own academy players or promoting from the reserves. In that regard, we have Rashford and TFM to look forward to, amongst others. We've actually saved probably circa 60-70m in those two players already.
In summary, I agree 100m is a bit nuts, but I doubt it'll leave much of a dent on United's spending ability going forward.
I think I'll pass
At the end of the season he was WUMMING everyone by saying, no good player from a CL club would join United (regardless of money), because United have no CL football.
Check his posts history.
He has changed his tun now
No, that's not what I've said. Clearly you haven't checked my posts history. But that's fine, because I wouldn't be even remotely bothered to check yours.
So many posters just want to read what they want to read ... usually the blindly optimistic stuff. Anything to the contrary is conveniently dismissed as "WUMMING". And in any case, if you're going to throw £100m + 200k/week wages at a club and player, the question merely becomes which CL clubs and players will refuse? Hardly any.
My contention is simply that Pogba is not remotely worth £100m, and that United's continuing, post-Fergie policy of trying to bludgeon-spend your way to league success is deeply misguided. It's fine for you to disagree. It's not fine to dismiss my perspective as mere WUMMING. But have it as you wish ...
Worth adding that a player's transfer fee is amortised over the length of his contract in relation to FFP. So let's say Pogba is signed for £100m on a five year deal, an outflow of £20m for the next five seasons would be on United's accounts. It's an important factor that people sometimes forget when assessing a club's capacity to make a huge signing.
Is has had an effect on prices, yes, but nothing like as much as to account for £100m for Pogba. £100m! Plus vast wages! For a player who will be lucky to have even a third of the impact of someone like Bale or Modric.
And of course Dier and Allie were unproven, but that still doesn't account for the huge discrepancy between £9m for the pair of them and the idea of more than 10 times that amount for Pogba. I could realistically speculate that, right now, out there somewhere, are several young CMs who will be better than Pogba and obtainable, if only they could be found, for relative peanuts. The morale of this story? Invest in scouting, not 'big name' players.
As for the rest, 90% of all media football transfer stories - whether from "well-respected" journalists and media outlets or not - are rubbish. They mainly write to attract attention - because that's the core of their job.
Do you want Pogba for £100 million?
Is it my money? No
Is he going to improve the club I love? Yes
...So, I would sign him.
Is it my money? No
Is he going to improve the club I love? Yes
...So, I would sign him.