Skinflint board rears its head again....

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As evidenced by the fact that they wouldn't even pay 3 million pounds for Di Canio

I seriously doubt the new manager will have a lot to spend this summer, I fear he will only be allowed to buy one defender to replace the retiring Blanc and anymore purchases will have to be financed by sales of existing players

Once again, dividends are prioritized :mad:
 
Yeah, but it's not just the transfer fee is it? How much would his wages be for the rest of this season and the next? Because he wouldn't just come till the end of the season - he'd probably want a two and a half year contract. That's why they want to get rid of Yorke first.
 
True, but why not just buy Di Canio now before the deadline, and then get rid of Yorke later? Yorke didn't have to leave before this deadline. And having Di Canio around would put more pressure on him to leave, because he'd know he wasn't ever going to play for United again. To be cheap about buying Di Canio is very bad business if it means we go out of the CL early, and/or lose our prem crown.
 
Originally posted by WeasteDevil:
<strong>Yeah, but it's not just the transfer fee is it? How much would his wages be for the rest of this season and the next? Because he wouldn't just come till the end of the season - he'd probably want a two and a half year contract. That's why they want to get rid of Yorke first.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Are we that skint to not even be able to afford an extra player's wages? <img src="graemlins/houllier.gif" border="0" alt="[Houllier]" />

Screw the board!
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I think its a matter of wages. Yes, it seems logical to sign Paulo now, and sell Dwight whenever, yet both players are on/will be on fairly hefty saleries, having two players at the club - where only one is necessary, for an unknown amount of time is a risky tactic - in their eyes anyway :rolleyes:
 
Originally posted by lchk:
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Screw the board!</strong><hr></blockquote>

Unfortunately, we don't hold the cheque book
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Originally posted by Neil Thomson:
<strong>True, but why not just buy Di Canio now before the deadline, and then get rid of Yorke later? Yorke didn't have to leave before this deadline. And having Di Canio around would put more pressure on him to leave, because he'd know he wasn't ever going to play for United again. To be cheap about buying Di Canio is very bad business if it means we go out of the CL early, and/or lose our prem crown.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Because we can't force Yorke to go, and have to pay his salary until his contract is up. 18 months isn't it? McManaman did it at Real Madrid. You can't force a player out, which is why it was confusing to me why Stam left so quickly. If he didn't want to go he wouldn't have gone. He only had to wait until the season was out.
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Originally posted by lchk:
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Are we that skint to not even be able to afford an extra player's wages? <img src="graemlins/houllier.gif" border="0" alt="[Houllier]" />

Screw the board!</strong><hr></blockquote>

You've got to balance the books at the end of the day! If every business just splashed cash around when it felt like it, then they would all go the same way as Marconi - almost bust.

And being a PLC has provided us with a lot of money. It financed the investment put into the stadium and the Carrington complex, as well as new player. That's why all companies float on the stock market - to raise funds for investment.
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Yorkes agent knows full well that Boro' wouldn't pay the daft demands. Yorke is a far more valuable client as a United player than a Boro' player. The £58k salary was requested because Yorke would lose endorsement money by going to Boro' and even though he could be frozen out at OT, he would still be a Manchester United player and that is worth it £'s wise.

He has three seasons of Europe under his belt so he could still be valuable to the team and he knows it. All it will take is an injury (God forbid) to RVN or OGS and he is back in the fray!

Hopefully, he'll get a game were he scores a couple, then someone will come in for him in the summer coz it looks like we are stuck with him 'til May now :(
 
We're stuck with him for as long as he wants, or his contract runs out.
 
Yorke's marketing value decreases everytime he acts like a w*nker. There is a lot of prize money at stake in winning the CL, so it would be profitable to get Di Canio even if it meant we went out in the semi's rather than quarters. Yorke only earns £30k at the moment anyway, Di Canio probably isn't on a whole lot more at poor West Ham though may well expect to be paid 60 as it would be his last pay day. I doubt forlan is on as much as Cole was, not sure about Blanc vs. Stam. Whichever way you slice it, they are being very tight-fisted.
 
Originally posted by WeasteDevil:
<strong>We're stuck with him for as long as he wants, or his contract runs out.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo :mad:
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And then then the git will have cost us 18months wages, maybe a CL title, and £6.2m! :mad: Booooooooooooooo! ;)
 
We are the number one club in the world in terms of size and profit, but not in term of football. Fergie said that for a team to be considered as a true great team in the history they must win the CL for more than just one time. Yet with the current rule of PLC we have limited ability to strenghten our team to a state that we just cannot compete with the best in the world.

And this also make me think about the Stam issue again. Only a idiot will think Stam's leave is "football reason". And from what's in his book it seems that was also not the reason of his left. Together with PDC's case now, it can be nearly sure that Fergie is forced to sell Stam to "balance the book" for the purchase of Veron.
 
Originally posted by uranushk1:
<strong>We are the number one club in the world in terms of size and profit, but not in term of football. Fergie said that for a team to be considered as a true great team in the history they must win the CL for more than just one time. Yet with the current rule of PLC we have limited ability to strenghten our team to a state that we just cannot compete with the best in the world.

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"Limited ability"? We spent £47 million on two players in the close season. No matter how you cut it that is a hell of a lot of beer vouchers. Plus we've spent, what, £5 mill on Forlan? To be fair, if the board were tight arses, Veron would never have had the chance to lose his sun tan. I've said in the United forum that the board may have its hands tied by PLC regulations - investor protection rules or something like that. I'm sure that the PLC can dictate what our transfer and wage budget is and so Fergie's only chance of getting De Canio was through losing Yorke. I know that the board can seem like ar**holes sometimes but I'm not sure it's necessarily their fault that we couldn't splash the cash on De Canio.
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Originally posted by WarDog:
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"Limited ability"? We spent £47 million on two players in the close season. No matter how you cut it that is a hell of a lot of beer vouchers. Plus we've spent, what, £5 mill on Forlan? To be fair, if the board were tight arses, Veron would never have had the chance to lose his sun tan. I've said in the United forum that the board may have its hands tied by PLC regulations - investor protection rules or something like that. I'm sure that the PLC can dictate what our transfer and wage budget is and so Fergie's only chance of getting De Canio was through losing Yorke. I know that the board can seem like ar**holes sometimes but I'm not sure it's necessarily their fault that we couldn't splash the cash on De Canio.</strong><hr></blockquote>

And now is the time to recoup that 47 million back
that's what the board is saying.

Sales of stam, cole and probably yorke in the near future. Plus possibly a bunch of deadwood.

Only one purchase this summer as a replacement for the departing Blanc.

I seriously doubt the new manager (if Sir Alex hasn't resigned yet) will be handed a big transfer fund - which might deter potential candidates like Capello and O'Neill, shareholders rule supreme

That's all - that means no Cisse

But it might mean a Hofland or an Ayala or even a Mexes

That is if Real Madrid or Milan doesn't go in for them.
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