If this is anywhere near true, how is this possible? What are they (Glazer) doing with all the money??
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If that's the case then we should be aiming on Rabiot at all cost, sell Pogba or may be even Lukaku. Selling Pogba basically gives us chance to sign 2 very good or top players that can improve us.
And also I expect players like Gomes & Greenwood to play important role.
This is one for the [dare not say an offensive word] on here that think selling Pogba will add to the coffers.
If we sell pogba for £150mil & spend £200mil all summer we’ll have been fleeced as fans.
That was pre-Neymar and we were apparently ready to spend 80 million on Varane last year and about 100 on Sancho this year. Woodward/the board/Glazers are useless but they're not afraid to spend, they just want to look good.
Horseshit
How the feck were we in for the likes Sancho and De Ligt if we only have 100m. And why the feck will our budget be so low.
If we only have 100m then why arent we going for those cheap options?
- Meunier - 25m
- Tielemans - 40m
- Rabiot - 0m
- Alderweireld - 25m
- Daniel James - 15m
The £100 million figure is not even what is truly bad about this. This would just be the £100 million they did not spend last summer
.Has to be BS. If we only have 100 mil we wouldn't be going near AWB, we'd have snapped up Meunier as a more cost effective option. I also doubt we'd be taking a speculative gamble on Daniel James either, we'd be going for someone more established so we can compete for top 4 this year. Also reckon we'd be all out for Rabiot and probably Bale if we're that restricted.
Roughly - but given that we need at least 1 cb, 1 rb, 2 cm and 1 st this window.. no wonder the policy is to buy young players
Min 4 club trained players & min 8 home grown player criteria is needed for champions League 25 man squad. I think it may be same for Europa.
We need decent squad players, who can develop into first XI contenders. Mctominay is one. Selling him is a non starter unless we have excess in this context and his position.
Crap speculative journalism and Craig Burley talking shite in the background. How will i ever get those two minutes back? :-)
Typically if you dont have money you dont go and waste what you do have so I think your view is deeply flawed
Best post I have read on the Caf in a while. Hope you are right
All fluff to keep fans on side... Get used to it they ain't going to spend big.
As for those thinking we sell Pogba and they will reinvest? Nah won't happen.
Actually makes a lot of sense. 15m for James, 25m for Longstaff, 50m for AWB is three positions potentially sorted for 90m. Also, factor in that we've actually only spent 15m as it is.
Well, I actually take encouragement from this that Rom and all the other shite will be off. Jones, Sanchez, Darmian, Lingard and Young absolutely have to go.
Surely putting it out that we have a £100m budget for transfers this summer is merely the club attempting to undercut selling clubs from adding the usual United premium?
Ogden doesn't know a thing.
He's been out of the loop for some time. Pure speculation, though I don't doubt that our net spend this summer will be below 100m. But this is more because players now have better options than us, rather than us not having the funding.
He's been out of the loop for some time. Pure speculation, though I don't doubt that our net spend this summer will be below 100m. But this is more because players now have better options than us, rather than us not having the funding.
Only two of those have a chance of leaving.
What we can do in the market, only other teams can dream about.
The more that goes on at United it is clear where the problem is.
I've expected £150m net at the most. Lack of CL money and pay off of Mourinho will have affected this.
I've long such thought as much as well. I think the Glazer's essentially pulled the plug on any more big spending after Jose's second summer when we brought in Lukaku (75m), Lindelof (30m) and Matic (30m)
Having seen Fergie shop in the bargain basement for many a year towards the end of his time the era of the Di Maria, Pogba and Lukaku type spending was only ever going to last so long as it was a complete 360 to how we worked the transfer market before it
Even for the sugar daddy clubs their spending ends eventually, no one of note last summer for PSG and hardly anything happening for them thus far this year either, same goes with City (albeit that may be about to change). Chelsea the first oil money club haven't been huge spenders for ages either
Ogden loves winding up United fans so i wouldn't put it past him bullshiting but to be fair have we ever spent more than £150m in a window anyway?
Problem is though that young players cost a bomb now too. I think it explains why we are looking at Championship players. If James played in the Prem I reckon his fee would be close to double what we paid.
I feel this will go down real well on here...
I'm going to put my tin hat on and dig in for the bombardment
...I think the £100m net figure is about right, we were never going to spend more. We will rely on selling a couple players and getting Sanchez off our wage bill.
Exactly. We've been outspent by Man City in every one of the last 10 windows. That's the major reason they're so far ahead. How can we catch up if we're not allowed to spend our own money? Meanwhile City spend someone else's?
It's worked for Man City and it's bound to be better than relying on our current players. Part of the issue is we're getting conflicting messages. Woodward says we can afford to buy a Pogba every year and that we can do things no other club can. Now we're hearing we might only sign Championship and mid-table players at best? I'd be fine to give the team a season to gel if we spent 400m on 5 or 6 quality players. But if we spend 100m or less yet again, we're going to go backwards. No amount of coaching can turn a shit player into a good one. It's why Guardiola was given the funds to replace Bravo with Ederson. Zabaleta with Kyle Walker. Mangala with Laporte. Last summer, Mourinho was told to stick with Bravo, Zabaleta and Mangala and if you don't win the league it's your fault. We're ten seasons of investment behind Manchester City, at least two seasons behind Liverpool and Chelsea, and the likes of Wolves and Leicester are catching up by having far superior scouting systems. Now is not the time to take punts on championship players IMO.
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The Longstaff link, 35m+ 15m in add ons for AWB stars to make more sense. Still though how we didn't put more effort into Rabiot with that info in mind is ludicrous....but what about the De Ligt links. Were they false?
We outspent by West Ham last summer let alone City.
I would be with you on it if we had spent less than 4 other clubs. But Arsenal and Spurs can only dream of the kind of spending we have done the past 6 years.
Wouldn't be surprised with what Ogden is saying tbh. The Glazer's are reported to be actively looking to sell the club for a year now and prospective buyers have balked at the price thus far. Can see them fecking off sooner rather than later though
Bale isn't a cheap alternative. It's similar logic that means people think Sanchez came for 'free' when really he was effectively a £100m+ signing when you factor in wages, signing on fee, agent fee etc.
Getting Bale in for one season would probably cost more than what Daniel James will over 4.
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