Because Portugal is a significantly less expensive place to live than the UK.
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Because Portugal is a significantly less expensive place to live than the UK.
Yeah I get that, but it’s symbolic isn’t it. Not increased wage, not even doubled but more than tripled. Maybe I’m tight, but that doesn’t seem like a suitable way to proceed.
That line up would haemorrhage goals down the left and has virtually no goals in it. Although it's hard to see where the goals come in any setup given the squad we have.
No, it's not symbolic. It's just the difference of wealth between the leagues and clubs.
Fair Point, but I’m not sure that’s relevant to somebody earning tens of thousands every week. And I’m not saying we shouldn’t increase his wage, but 3 times more seems excessive as a starting point.
He was on £2.15m per year at sporting so if he’s been offered £6.5/7m per year over 5 years it’s £33m, we’ve thrown that away with Antony in the last three years and paid Sancho half that a year for playing for Dortmund and Chelsea in the last 12 months.
In real terms it’s £2/3m less than ETH, £13m less than Pep, £8m less than Arteta, similar to Arnie Slott, £2m more than Enzo Maresca, £1.8m less than Unai Emery,
So in the grand scheme of things it’s more than fare if he produces the goods.
If he wins big at United with in 2/3 years he’ll be offered double that just to keep him from Madrid or Barcelona. Let’s unite and get behind him, let’s hope part of him saying yes was a decent budget in winter transfer and Summer transfer windows.
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He did better until he started to put his stamp on this team..... thats when things went to shit
Would be an interesting appointment. I haven't exactly watched much of him, but clearly he's one of the most sought after managers in Europe right now so that had to count for something. Of course, so too was Ten Hag.
I like that fact he's quite young for a coach, so I'd hope that would mean he's very progressive. His stats as a manager are very impressive, as if winning a club their first league title in 19 years.
Sounds like the tactics would be a bit of an adaption, but I'd kill for a bit of exciting attacking football at this point.
Very surprised to see us target a manager under contract at the moment though.
I like that fact he's quite young for a coach, so I'd hope that would mean he's very progressive. His stats as a manager are very impressive, as if winning a club their first league title in 19 years.
Sounds like the tactics would be a bit of an adaption, but I'd kill for a bit of exciting attacking football at this point.
Very surprised to see us target a manager under contract at the moment though.
Again you’re harping on this “tripled” wages without even knowing if it’s accurate. Why?
Wing backs are essential to his system so he'll demand that the club get at least two or three in in the summer. I think he'll want someone faster than Martinez for the LCB role too.
What bizarre minutiae to get stuck on. We neither know what he's earning at Sporting, nor what he might be earning at United. What's the point of your outrage?
Those ideals do not really work when there is so much money in football. Actually, those ideals don't work in any normal scenario in terms of talent acquisition; no one's gonna come work for you if you aren't at least paying competitive wages (which I suppose that 3x most likely is given the wage disparity between managers in Portugese league vs EPL), and the more the talent is wanted by others, the more you have to offer.
Premier League strikers still shiver at his twisted reign of injury inflicting terror during that run.
People have this misconception that 3 at the back = defensive football. This is clearly not the case for a team that has scored something like 130 goals in 38 games
Cos this is a discussion forum mate. People share their thoughts and opinions. It’s kinda how the site works.
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I don't really agree. I mean, this is exactly what Ten Hag tried to do. He tried to play a mixture of tactics to suit player strengths and it resulted in disjointed nonsense. He tried to build out from the back, press from the front, get into counter attacking situations, and also try to play quick transitions and he ended up doing none of this well.
Pep, on the other hand, got rid of Joe Hart on day 1 because he didn't fit the system. He almost axed Walker because he wanted his fullback to tuck in more. He's consistently prioritized players that have great technique, tactical flexibility, and those who fit the system he has from the ground up and you can see the rewards.
3 centre backs doesn't bother me in the slightest. Its everything infront of them that does.
If those numbers are correct, that would slot him in below Pep, Emery, Arteta, Slot and what Ten Hag was on, and slightly above the likes of Dyche and Ange. Seems more than reasonable for the manager of Manchester United to be honest.
I suspect City being linked with him if Pep leaves may have pushed us.
Destroying everything in their path
Great another trending manager
I don’t really see why it would haemorrhage any more goals than a back 4 with Martinez at LB would. Especially with the greater solidity in midfield that would come with it.
People keep posting teams that are broadly what we're doing now but swapping Rashford for a centre back and I can't help but doubt that is the answer to our goalscoring woes.
Also hypothetical, given none of us actually know whether it's true.
And if it is true, it's one of the consequences to giving the previous manager license to run the football club into the ground. We need to learn to act promptly in future if a manager proves himself incapable of leading the football club, else it makes everything harder.
Well you all got me real hyped up, so if we dont get him now I'm going to be real disappointed just so you know.
Better to get someone out of fashion in really, Alan Curbishley perhaps.
Wildly speculating based on nothing is an opinion mate. If we agree a salary of say €5m then you say it’s too high that’s a valid opinion.
This sounds like the sort of thing a serial killer might say.
What utter nonsense. It's reported he's on a wage of around £2m at the moment so triple that would take him to around what ETH was on. How is that backing ourselves into a corner?
Well hopefully it works out better for us than Sanchez, Fred or Maguire!
are you wumming or something? What do you mean 'why is that relevant?'. How can you say we are offering him too much by tripling his wage if you don't even know what he's currently making?
I just hope he’s the first manager we’ve had since probably LVG (?) who values having a midfield and controlling games.
I’m absolutely sick to death of watching every team we play, no matter the level of opposition or result, consistently control games and dominate the ball.
I’m absolutely sick to death of watching every team we play, no matter the level of opposition or result, consistently control games and dominate the ball.
It’s widely reported that his yearly salary is currently €2.5m(£2.15m) so multiplication by 3 is £6.45m, knowing United we’ve probably offered him €8m just so we could report we’ve offered more than triple his current salary and we’ve paid off the current manager and paid his €10m compensation.
Ineos in full spin to show the fans that they have money to invest and turn this current s…show round?
I think part of it is the players wages. Manager can't be on any less than 100k a week when we've so many players on way above that.
"The last guy earned 6.5m pounds a year, and we were unhappy with him. We want you to come in and do a better job, and earn less. What do you say?"
Would love a feedback post from one of our Sporting posters
Look up @Sly’s post. He has been posting all day about this.