Agreed. I actually think basically any coach would like him due to some of his rare qualities.
Up until lately I figured he would be too expensive, but with their issues currently it could be an opportunity there.
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Agreed. I actually think basically any coach would like him due to some of his rare qualities.
Up until lately I figured he would be too expensive, but with their issues currently it could be an opportunity there.
Most coaches would definitely take him imo.
If he's available for a reasonable price, then I think we should be in for him. He might not score a lot but him being in the team would improve us as a collective unit.
There's also a young 18 year old (Benjamin Sesko) striker at Salzburg who is of a similar profile. But he'd be someone that we'd be best loaning straight back to Salzburg if we bought him. But he looks a very interesting prospect.
Anyone read this? What are the key pointers?
Honestly there is zero new information or insight... United "beginning to make moves on a new manager" and "a round of reconnaissance has been carried out" because United want to know as much as possible about the candidates. The Athletic being The Athletic.
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That Brandon Williams, right?!!
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£80m to spend if we make CL, £50m if we don't. At least its more realistic than the usual £200m reports people fall for every summer.
£50-80m simply won't do.
Yeah it's more an opinion piece that also updates people if they missed out on the news.
It can stretch. Arsenal supposedly had that budget when they signed Pepe and a few other players. If you structure it properly it works.
Same like how Liverpool bought Jota when the word was that they wouldn't be able to afford it.
We won't be spending much more than that net. We never do.
Yes, that limit doesn't take into account installments. Not every transfer has to be an 80M wiretransfer to Leicester City.
If that's how it's being reported then fair enough. If not, it's nowhere near enough to fill some of the many gaps we have.
With the money we'll be saving in terms of wages, there should be plenty of funds available to sign three or four quality additions. I don't anticipate us getting top 4 and £50m won't cut it.
Oh the scenes when Mata and Matic get extensions, and Martial is starting the first game of next season…… sorry boys but this isn’t FM, it is Manchester United under the Glazers. 3 or 4 signings and we are done. I guess this news puts paid to the massive clear out and reboot everybody was expecting. You can probably expect Ralf to be in the dug out next season too.
*edit* just read this back, if it comes across as gloaty it’s not intended - kinda bloody disappointing to be honest!
"They are set to hire a permanent manager this summer, with Mauricio Pochettino and Erik ten Hag among those considered, but the new appointment’s first window is not predicted to top the spending of last summer when Jadon Sancho arrived for £73million and was joined by Cristiano Ronaldo and Raphael Varane."
£50-£80m means £50-80m total. It's not reported as installments or outgoings or anything like that, if so they wouldn't reference last seasons fees as they weren't lump sum payments (as 99% of transfers aren't). It's a great case of Glazernomics given we're due to save about £40m in wages next year from the out of contract players leaving.
What news? That's the thing, don't think there has been any news to speak of but I get that the Athletic needs to keep putting out content.
That we've gotten official confirmation of the managerial search process being ongoing.
Every year we get floods of "X club have X million to spend in the transfer market" stories even though that absolutely isn't how budgeting for transfers actually works. It's total nonsense.
The transfer fees clubs pay to other clubs is only part of the cost of the transfer, along with wages (which takes up more than half the total cost) and ancillliary costs like agent fees, image rights payments, etc. So you could have two players who carry the same signing fee but who actually cost wildly different amounts. And by extension you could spend the same actual amount every year but have that be represented as very different amounts in terms of transfer fees and net spend per transfer window.
The way journalist present these "transfer budget" stories makes it sound like there's one pot of money for the transfer fee part of signings and another entirely separate pot of money for everything else, with the two being completely unrelated to each other. That isn't how it works. Clubs plan and limit spending based on total cost per year, not the small portion of it they happen to agree to give to the selling clubs in a given year.
The only way to actually know the figure we'll end up spending on transfer fees in advance would be to know the total financial space available including wages and ancilliary costs, know all the players we intend to sign, know how the total cost of signing each of them will happen to break down in terms of all these seperate parts, then work backward from there to get the abritrary amount in transfer fees this summer's signings will equate to.
Or you could do what these journalists actually do and say the range our "net spend" happens to fall within every year is our transfer budget for this year.
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It's not official and it's not news, but anyway
Wouldn't it have been sensible to get some money in for the likes of Pogba and Lingard instead of letting them run their contracts down. Instead it would be typical we will renew contracts of players who failed to get us CL football.
Ha yeah, when did sensible or logical ever factor in the clubs thinking?
Not recently.
Looking at our side, £50-80m should be the minimum we are selling, if there werent a few contracts ending and anumber of players may wishto leave, Id say far far more
So the Football Director saying that we've actually begun the process isn't official? Interesting.
Sounding very football manager, if it was net and we did things properly in terms of players out,itwould beplenty
How loaded is he ?
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