Watching Fulham right now and for both clubs sakes wish they would take Rojo, Smalling and Jones. Instantly would improve them no end. Could loan 2 and sell 1(?). Wages the obvious issue.
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Ed needs to get in touch with Khan....
Wonder if we have made a mistake in keeping Lingard,get the feeling we thought that the others would bring in money.
Rumours suggest we might sell Periera, Smalling and Dalot this week. James too if we sign Sancho but i feel that's very unlikely. Still if we get out those 3 it's still good news.
Pereira and Dalot will be going on loans and we subsidize their wages ffs. We're better off keeping them.
Smalling should stay imo but at least I'd be happy if we could get 20m.
20m might be more realistic though
And why would anyone under a contract will accept that?
We can't keep them. Tuanzebe, Rashford, AWB, TFM... are no longer U21. They need to be registered. We're some "senior" players over the squad limit before any addition to the squad, that is not U-21 (Sancho is a dream signing partly due to this factor). So our issue is some of them may get paid but not eligible to play first team football at all. Even if we can't sell, we have to loan them out. It's a shamble in term of squad management really.
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I have answered to another poster with the following: It depends. Jones is 28 and by the time his contract ends he will be a 31 years old player who probably has played 5 games per year and will probably be in a difficult position to find a new club with a decent contract then. However, If he accepts a compensation of around 30% of his wages (realistically, it may be even up to 50%), he can find a new club with another 3 years contract. His wages would be lesser or equal to 50% of want he receives now. In a short run of 3 years he may receive 5-10% less than if he had stayed here. The difference is that in another team he would play (not when injured), his mistakes would not be highlighted and he may be able to find a new club at 31 with a decent contract. Thus, in the long run he will receive more money. Of course, he may end up unemployed after a year etc and no team picks him, so eventually he loses money. So, it is up to the player's ambition, self determination and luck (especially with Jones). Another, way is of course to offer him for free and pay again a big amount of his contract, thus making sure to the player that he will at least receive his current contract by the two teams combined (e.g. us paying the 50% of his wages).
Of course it is an assumption. I could 100% understand if Jones would not agree on voluntary redundancy.
We haven't actually sold a single player 
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And we haven’t bought a single player for the first XI, either. Think about it...We haven't actually sold a single player
Impressively shambolic.
Ed + LvG,JM, Ole keep giving contracts with high wages to deadwood that we had slam dunk chances to get rid, instead they get extensions and here we are.
I bet Leeds United will take James for free and salary being subsidized by Man Utd. It can be done.
we arent ever getting rid of bloody lingard, are we?
When he gets his extension I'm partially blaming this post for tempting fate.
When he gets his extension Im treating it as a sign of the impending apocalypse and hanging myself to avoid the rush!
This thread is going to be interesting in a few hours.
fecking incompetent.
Jones, Rojo, Smalling, Dalot, Pereira, Lingard, Mata of which only Dalot and Pereira got loans away.
We’ve not even shifted Romero, after signing Henderson. (Well ending his loan and extending)
We’ve not even shifted Romero, after signing Henderson. (Well ending his loan and extending)
Bankers attempting to play football. Try not to laugh.
Why?
Soccer
We do not gain anything from holding on to these players. Their value just goes down window after window. Even if we feel we are being low balled we should just let them go. The money we want for them will never, ever come.
Need to at least get Romero and Rojo out today.
Jones, Rojo, Lingard, Grant, Romero remain with Pereira and Dalot sent out on loan.
Simply not good enough.
Simply not good enough.
Is the transfer window still open after today anywhere else in Europe?
We haven't actually sold a single player
With the expected incomings - Cavani etc - how many players are now in your squad?
Amazed we didn't sell Romero, thought there would be lots of takers, pointless holding onto him when he's not even going to be making the squad most games and will leave for free next summer...
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I believe there are 4 senior players we won’t be able to register. It’s mind boggling. People bang on about how we don’t spend but it just isn’t true. We continually piss money away.
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Romero, Rojo and Jones should seriously be leaving. Then Ighalo goes in January too, so that takes it down to 26.
Romero, Jones and Rojo I assume will be shipped off to Championship clubs if possible in the next 10 days?
Romero wasn't allowed to go to Everton because they actually have a better starting 11 than us now. I don't think we can sell them abroad now so let's see who wants them.
Hopefully Dalot does well enough to either prove himself in Italy or well enough to sell him.
I think we're still 2 starters away from challenging for the top 4 this season in a Centre Back and a Right Winger which should've been Upamecamo and Sancho.
On Reddit someone posted that Mata, Rojo, Lingard, Romero, Grant and Fosu-Mensah all have their contracts running out next year, also Ighalo's loan expires in January. I think we'd be wise to let every single one of them go.
If the past is any indication of the future we'll renew all of their deals to 'protect value.' Then we'll spend the next few years desperately trying to find someone willing to pay big money for them.
A bit annoyed that Rojo is still here. Surely we will terminate his contract and he will go back to Argentina?
Been a difficult summer to get rid of players. Not just for us but for other clubs too.
Been a difficult summer to get rid of players. Not just for us but for other clubs too.