Seems like Chelsea, Juventus, and PSG feel the need to hoard all the world's decent midfielders. I hate them.
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Ah, thats true. Easy when you dont need to care about money I guess
He’s not remotely a DM or the player we need. Honestly I’d rather wait for a target that actually makes sense. Camavinga wanted Madrid, Saul wasn’t right and Neves isn’t currently good enough. Let’s be honest here.
Next summer it’ll be our number one priority and we’ll have the money to spend.
So much crying on here and socials. We’ve had a bloody amazing window! Some are acting like spoiled brats
Next summer it’ll be our number one priority and we’ll have the money to spend.
So much crying on here and socials. We’ve had a bloody amazing window! Some are acting like spoiled brats
Can't wait for the next fans forum when Woody and Joel tell us how we "invested heavily" in improving the first team squad, yet after the James sale we've broke even, maybe even made profit for this summer.
Neither do we. Not signing a CM isn’t because of money. This was a must do deal. Is he exactly what we need? No. Is our CM situation that dire? Yes.
Strange list considering Juventus didn't have a single decent midfielder before they signed Locatelli, and midfield is arguably the area where PSG are the least stacked.
Even Chelsea's midfield wasn't exactly brimming with quality in depth, really, let's not pretend like everyone rated Jorginho that highly, or Kovacic for that matter. I certainly didn't, and kind of still don't.
Rice is a more 'United' signing in midfield than any of the others you've been linked with this window.
Next summer we will need to sign a world class striker, and potentially replace Pogba. So by not getting a DM now we are just trying to catch up every season. Getting it done now would make far more sense.
How do you work that one out?
A profit? How are you working that out?
People don’t realise we’ve been saying “we’ll be complete next season” since SAF retired. It’s a never ending process. It’s obscene.
So this is how Spurs decided to announce their new signing.
How?
Paying Sancho off over 5 years, Varane over 4 and Ronaldo over 5.
£14.6m for Sancho
£11m for Varane
£4m for Ronaldo
£29.6m total
£28.2m for James
Fair enough it's not profit but net spend of -£1/2m isn't great.
I mean there's lots of people that go into serious credit-card debt because they don't understand that it has to be paid off at some point later.
Because we are paying for the incoming over a number of years in instalments. Total expenditure is something like 26 million this year.
And he's taking the James fee as one lump sum, neglecting to factor that that too is being paid in instalments.
It's an intellectually dishonest point to say we've broke even on the net spend this season.
PSG 
It really doesn’t work like that
The income statement is not a true indication of the cash in hand. If you want to know whether United would have had the cash available for more signings, check the cash flow statement.
We're paying for our transfers in installments, but we're also receiving the transfer fees in installments.
Not yet, no, and there haven't been any serious developments on him in the past few hours. Spurs are, however, trying to sell him.
What about the transfers from last year, the year before and the year before that which were also meant to be paid in instalments? Which would be paid this year? Oh and you do realise that Leeds will be paying that fee in instalments too right? Its the norm in football.
Take a look at the outgoings every year in transfers in our accounts, you might be in for a shock with just how much we've spent and just how much will leave our accounts this year.
That's not really how it works though.
And if you're looking at it that way are you also leaving out all the transfer fees we're still paying off. How much is left there?
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Haaland is number 1 next summer.But we should be able to afford someone decent for midfield after that.
It's the 1st time I've seen people calculate transfers like that, good PR from United leaking these figures to the press I guess.
We've spent about 120m on players without add-ons and received 25m in sales, all the other numbers are just noise for me.
That's depressing.
How much are we paying for other transfers this year? How much have we committed next year instalments? Would another signing impact our ability to sign players next year? Is the James fee in one sum? How much has our wage bill increased? How much will it further increase with Shaw, Bruno and Pogba contracts? Are we limited by FFP? Well done though. We’ve only signed Varane, Sancho and fecking Ronaldo. Let’s all have a good whinge eh.
Cheers. So they have this guy, Aurier, Doherty and Tanganga. 4 right backs!
If we were buying Saul, sure. But as a loan it was a deal absolutely worth doing. If we get no one else it was a huge miss.
Curious to see how you are going to double down on this.
I have a feeling you'll just ignore all these posts.
You're quite right I will
Yup, and they're also trying to let go of Doherty along with Aurier.
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