From a commercial perspective it makes all the sense.
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If we pay a penny of Ronaldo's wage so he can play for another club in the CL, I will personally travel to Florida, break into Joel Glazers house and cover his bedroom floor in Lego.
Yeah. Except it isn’t. Ronaldo absolutely must not be here on the 2nd September and if us paying him his wage gets him to feck off to Napoli AND gets us Osimhen then it’s a fecking dream scenario. Napoli might not go for it - unless the honour of having the great Ronaldo for a year means that much to their president I don’t get why they would - but sweet Jesus the deal I’m talking about is absolutely brilliant for us.
We are in big trouble now with games coming up every 3 days. We have nowhere near enough decent attacking players
One thing I've learnt in this window is not to believe any report unless it's from tier 1s (Fabrizio, Ducker, Ornstein etc)
Sunk cost fallacy.
We're in this situation. We owe him 25m or whatever it is to see out his contract. He doesn't want to be here, and isn't up to playing in ETH's system anyway. Also chances are he'll sulk around and impact team morale.
If nobody will take him for free then we should just pay the entire 25m and keep him around.. because?
Not a snowball's chance in hell we cover Ronaldo's wages and as much as I like Osimhen, he is not a £100m player. We hold the cards here. Either Ronaldo lowers his wages or he gets used to being a squad player for one year because nobody will touch him with a barge pole. This is what happens when you choose to be a selfish egomaniac your whole career. Its all good when you're on top and at the peak of your powers but as soon as you start to drop off, nobody will even look your way anymore.
Well yeah, if they want Ronaldo and if they are interested in losing Osimhen.
Laurentius did vow never to buy more African players so maybe he wants the ones they got out too.
No, Ronaldo should lower his demands at his new club if he is that desperate to leave.
Yeah that would be nice wouldn't it, but he isn't doing that and here we are.
The precedent is awful. So basically going forward any United player can throw a strop, sulk, demand to leave, effect morale, but don't worry, we'll pay their wages at their new club for the privilege.
Personally I think the precedent is don’t sign players past their best on huge contracts when they don’t fit your system just because they’re available. But then we didn’t learn with Sanchez so why would we with Ronaldo.
we've been paying players wages who leave for years, that precedent is already set in that regard and the problem lies in our recruitment
but the majority of players won't kick up a fuss and burn their own reputation to force a move, the dead-wood don't need to do that as the club wants them out anyway
Ronaldo is a special case as he is the biggest celebrity and ego in the sport, retaining him this season could ruin our season
Osihmen would be more likley if we are walking away from antony deal. Id rather have the napoil striker at €100mil than antony at €100mil.
If Ronaldo wants to leave he needs to drop his salary demands. Simple as.
¿Por qué no los dos? Money be damned we both a RW and a striker.
We have to subsidise wages when players leave because they inevitably get paid more to play for Man Utd instead of some other team.
There are some bad contracts at Utd don’t get me wrong. But to suggest we should be able to get players signed for the same kind of wages Napoli to Lille or whoever offer just isn’t going to happen.
The only way we could significantly tighten the wage bill is by being hugely successful on the pitch so that players absolutely want to be here or you sell players like Rashford or Martial when they have 2 years left on their deal and start demanding £250-300k a week when they don’t deserve it.
Personally, I’d love to start seeing us be more ruthless by moving on talented players who demand too much but our board doesn’t seem to agree with this. Why we didn’t tel Bruno in April he needed to earn a new contract this season I don’t know.
Yeah massively short in forward line and shock horror owners not rushing to do anything
I'm not sure why Ajax are digging their heels in regarding Antony, if he is that good there's no way he will stay at Ajax for his whole career & they risk him running his contract down & get nothing instead of the 90 million UTD are offering, plus back in the mid-90s when Ajax won the European Cup their star players were only too happy to leave Ajax for bigger clubs.
Yeah me too, its contract game theory basically and we've been shite at it for years. Giving managers new contracts at the wrong times too. But when the team is underperforming like us it makes it 10x harder as all the players are devaluing.
Rashford is another one we've gotten into a bad situation with. If it's true PSG want him we should bite their hands off and save ourselves a headache.
Yeah we weren't willing to sell the likes of Rashord/Martial when we get some money
Let just publical inform that:
Ronaldo have informed he wants to leave and he is free to join any club he wants for free.
If he cannot find a new club he is velcome to terminate his contract.
We do not want to keep a player who does not want to be here, but we will not pay him anything to leave.
If he chose to stay we expect him to play the role ETH gives him.
This way we have taken the high road but still pushed him to leave to save his reputation.
Ronaldo have informed he wants to leave and he is free to join any club he wants for free.
If he cannot find a new club he is velcome to terminate his contract.
We do not want to keep a player who does not want to be here, but we will not pay him anything to leave.
If he chose to stay we expect him to play the role ETH gives him.
This way we have taken the high road but still pushed him to leave to save his reputation.
We really are. Not only that but we got a dreadful draw with the fixtures this season. All our easier games are at the back end of the season, it's going to be hard to build a winning run pre Christmas.
I am not really sure what the plan here is considering we have not really thought that Amad & Garnacho are ready yet either. We basically only have
Rashford
Elanga
Sancho
Ronaldo ( looks unfit and doesn’t want to be here )
Martial ( injured twice already. Also hamstrings & Achilles are persistent injuries)
At this level when there are so many quality teams in the PL you need attackers that can do crazy things by themselves . We have very little of that if any. No idea how we got to this situation
We got to it by owners not giving a crap and letting generational talents snub us for projects across the city instead. Will hold my hands up got zero hope we are going to improve this area in the next 4 days despite it needing to happen desperately.
Elanga has proved quite clearly that he is either not ready or simply not good enough. So so poor in possession and wasteful touches.
Apparently there is also Sommer and Gusto coming in this window. Deals agreed for Timber, Nkunku, Endrick and Sesko to come in January!!!!!So Antony, FDJ and Oshimen in the next 4 days. That is quite something
Still time for a RB and number 9, get moving. I have begrudgingly accepted we aren't getting a progressive CM this summer
In his next Tweet the Hamstelaar dude (whoever he is) says 'Antony is gone' and quotes a Tweet from one of the incredibly unreliable United accounts UtdReview with a photoshopped pic of Antony in a United shirt.
As far as I can see none of this is verified and I thought posting from bullshit accounts like this wasn't allowed? Only reliable sources? Who even is Hamstelaar anyway?
Can you fools stop posting absolute garbage here? The rules for this thread are clear. Take it to to the Antony thread or elsewhere on the forum.
That is not a BS account. Pretty reliable for Ajax news from what I know.
Hope that's true
Maybe not, but the United account that Hamstelaar got his info from is definitely a bullshit account and using a photoshopped picture too.
We all fall for dodgy Transfer Tweets from time to time, just wondered if there was any verified accounts or actual news sources saying the same? As far as I can see, there are not yet, so these lot are just hedging their bets in a bid to be first so they can claim they are ITK
That's definitely what the quoted United 'source' does regularly.
Seems legit
Hamstelaar sounds like a Pro Evolution version of Huntelaar
Well it seems to be blowing up on Twitter but not from anybody reliable yet
He's apparently a reliable source for Ajax. We also have another Ajax reporter (Bart Sanders) also saying that Antony has been sold so we'll see. I've been posting transfer tweets on here long enough to know the rules.
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