Spurs owners aren't pulling money out of the club. Ours take enough out of United to build a new stadium every 5 years. With as many cheese rooms as you like.
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Spurs owners aren't pulling money out of the club. Ours take enough out of United to build a new stadium every 5 years. With as many cheese rooms as you like.
I'll give you Smalling, Fridge, but the rest aren't going to command much of a fee, if any. Most of them will probably still be at United on October 6th.
While I agree with your point about the hypocrisy of Woodward claiming we can't spend when we distribute 11M in dividends to our owners twice a year, my point was genuinely about Spurs' finances. Whether or not their owners take money out of the club, spending a billion GBP on a stadium and weathering a pandemic in which they're surely losing a few million/game, and then turning around and looking to spend upwards of 100-150M on players this summer is rather baffling to me. I know from an accounting side there are methods they can utilize to try and balance the books (I am sure they're depreciating the stadium for both accounting and tax purposes), but from a financial perspective it blows my mind.
a) Yes I have
b) We are two games in to the season.....I see several players could become unhappy over the season in that side, possible clique of unhappy English players, youngsters sold a dream and replaced and also the pressure on Lampard with the money spent. Due to the transfer ban I think people have forgotten how ruthless the owner as been in the past. Do people think a trophyless season, Lampard is safe from the chop....hasnt had any pressure on him yet, how will he handle it.
I think they have a very talented and very strong squad. Same token I think a lot of there success may actually depend on how well SIlva does both as a centre back and a leader, two areas they have been and still are weak in if he isnt a success. Also think a couple of there signings will be relative flops and are actually not as good as the players they have replaced.
Think it will be a very interesting season with the London clubs. Sure Mourinho will fall out and be sacked this season, wouldnt be surprised if Lampard goes....yet the side looked weakest....Arsenal I think may actually do quite well this season....though quite well though still inconsistent
I would imagine they are taking the view that there is nothing they can do about the pandemic and focusing on what they can control. For all his faults, Levy is primarily concerned with the success and future of Tottenham Hotspur and is a shrewd business mind. Perhaps he and his team feel the cost of investing in the team now is less than the cost of spending a second season outside the Champions League.
Our owners seem more interested in sweating their asset when they can. They'll spend when we're outside the CL because they can feel it on the bottom line but once we qualify again all is rosy as far as they're concerned. No point spending money when they don't have to, especially not when the last ten years have shown us they're not to concerned with the big picture.
Yes must be something other than the players abilities stifling interest. Forgetting wages and fees, as much as I dont like any of them....I find it hard to believe several clubs in the premiership wouldnt be improved with the experience and performances of these players. ALl of these players improve a lot of sides in the league, this cant be doubted when you look at the players playing there positions, no matter what we think of them
You mean like Kevin de Bruyne?
The relative strength of sides in the prem has improved so much though. Pick the starting 11s for most clubs and it's not that straightforward to say guys like those 4 would start for any of them. Then you have to figure in the wages these guys are on and compare them to other players those same clubs could bring in on half the wage or less.
We've lost to pretty much every club in this league over the last few years, most of them multiple times and that is with our first team. To suggest our deadwood would improve several of them is a bit much.
They took a huge loan out to cope with the pandemic
I missed that news. Would definitely go a long way toward explaining how they have the money for this summer's dealings.
It was few years back when we had a huge list including jones, lingard etc near end of contracts and they held all the cards. Gave them money to stay and now cant get rid.
90 fecking thousand? For a backup keeper? Christ our club is shit.
600k/week for keepers. Mental
We got Romero free for feck sake.
Our third choice keeper, Romero, earns the same as City's and Liverpool's first choice keeper. Henderson hasn't even played a single league game for us and earns more than every keeper in England except DDG.
We are a joke club. An absolute train wreck.
We are a joke club. An absolute train wreck.
Romero more than Ederson and Alison? 
how much is Dean on? 100k? Surely not. Hope not
how much is Dean on? 100k? Surely not. Hope not
£175 mill government loan
I know.
Sounds disgusting when they tried to furlough staff but at least it allows their club to spend vast amounts on players and keep the big, disgusting money football wheel spinning
Stop believing everything put in print.
I seriously doubt every figure put out by the media when it comes to United. Whether it be wages or transfer fees
EDIT: Lampard confirms this as well.
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Not 90k. No wonder he hasn’t made any noise about leaving. No one will pay him that much. Would have moved him on long time ago if he is asking for that much. We could have promoted an academy product or brought in a 2nd string for much cheaper wages.How much do you want to pay him then?
I would agree with you if it wasn't clear that we can't get rid of any of these guys which means that these wages must be true
not true
Manchester United Player Wages & Contracts 2020
| PLAYER | AGE | WEEKLY WAGE | CONTRACT LEFT |
| David de Gea (New Deal) | 28 | £300,000 | 4 Years (2023) |
| Sergio Romero | 32 | £50,000 | 2 Years (2021) |
| Lee Grant | 36 | £20,000 | Last Year (2020) |
| Joel Pereira | 21 | £10,000 | 2 Years (2021) |
| Marcos Rojo | 29 | £80,000 | 2 Years (2021) |
| Phil Jones (New Deal) | 27 | £50,000 | 4 Years (2023) |
| Chris Smalling (on loan) | 29 | £80,000 | 4 Years (2023) |
| Eric Bailly | 25 | £75,000 | Last Year (2020) |
| Victor Lindelof (New Deal) | 25 | £75,000 | 5 Years (2024) |
| Harry Maguaire | 26 | £150,000 | 6 Years (2025) |
| Luke Shaw | 24 | £70,000 | 4 Years (2023) |
| Ashley Young | 34 | £110,000 | Last year (2020) |
| Axel Tuanzebe | 20 | £15,000 | 3 Years (2022) |
| Wan Bissaka | 21 | £60,000 | 5 Years (2024) |
| Diogo Dalot | 20 | £40,000 | 4 Years (2023) |
| Fred | 25 | £120,000 | 4 Years (2023) |
| Namanja Matic | 31 | £120,000 | Last Year (2020) |
| Andreas Pereira | 23 | £45,000 | 4 Years (2023) |
| Daniel James | 21 | £45,000 | 4 Years (2023) |
| Juan Mata (New Deal) | 31 | £120,000 | 2 Years(2021) |
| Tim Fosu-Mensah | 21 | £15,000 | Last Year (2020) |
| Jesse Lingard | 26 | £50,000 | 2 Years (2021) |
| Paul Pogba | 26 | £290,000 | 3 Years (2021) |
| Scott McTominay | 22 | £60,000 | 4 Years (2023) |
| Anthony Martial | 23 | £75,000 | 4 Years (2023) |
| Alexis Sanchez (On Loan) | 30 | £350,000 | 3 Years (2022) |
| Marcus Rashford | 22 | £150,000 | 4 Years (2023) |
| Mason Greenwood | 18 | £15,000 | 4 Years (2023) |
What's the source of these figures?
Microsoft Excel
I'm surprised you haven't found a way to blame it on Romano.
Sad but true. Even worse is that Smalling is by far the best of that bunch and plays in a position where we lack depth, and he's the one we'd lose.
We signed Romero on a free, 12 months after he'd started a world cup final. It's hardly surprising that he came at a relatively significant wage.
There are probably 15 players at the club I would have greater contract concerns about than Sergio.
There are probably 15 players at the club I would have greater contract concerns about than Sergio.
Apparently, Inter are also eyeing Chris Smalling as an alternative to Fiorentina's Nikola Milenkovic to replace Skriniar.
Maybe there are hefty bonuses on top, and that could be the issue.
I though the same because I’m pretty certain that Luke Shaw is on over £100,000 a week now.
But that has to be activated.
Seeing that again really makes me hope someone lost their job over that Sanchez deal. Fkin hell. Can we hire Evra as DoF to tell it like it is?
Is he any good these days? There was a few posters who tried to convince everyone he was prime Baresi at one point.
How are they spending so much? Didn’t they take a loan of £180m from the Government during the pandemic?
Exactly. When OGS is asked about incomings as says that we can “get to champs league spots” with the squad we have that must just make Woodward et al cream their pants as they put the cheque book back in the drawer.
Hold on! weren’t Spurs out here taking Wonga loans mid-lockdown!?
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