At least Boehly recognizes he needs someone to take the reigns on recruitment. But they should just reach back out to Marina Granovskaia
Transfer Tweets - Manchester United - 2023/24
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At least Boehly recognizes he needs someone to take the reigns on recruitment. But they should just reach back out to Marina Granovskaia
From earlier:
Jason Wilcox? The left winger who used to play for Blackburn?
Yep. Went into youth coaching at City after retirement, eventually rising to academy director before being taken on as DOF at Southampton at the start of last year.
More PL winners medals than Steven Gerrard as well.
You’ve got to admire the balls on Chelsea, you really do
We already have a Cox in the acadamy?!
Another club enters the race for Zirkzee:
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I think ETH is slowly accepting that Antony isn't up to it/is abit shit.
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Once again, MEN don't put an author in the article, so their sources are definitely tied to the outlet as a whole.
Once again, MEN don't put an author in the article, so their sources are definitely tied to the outlet as a whole.
That's a name I havent heard in 20 years - him and Ripley were very good wingers, supplying Shearer with crosses when Blackburn won the league
Good is pushing it with that one.
I don’t understand refusing to pay. Getting a top sports director would easily save around £10m on deals anyway
So, Brailsford/Murtough/Wilcox someone else run it for a year giving Ashworth a few calls now and then. Setting up the organization in accordance. Man Utd will wait for a year. Probably less.
I'd imagine it's just us establishing a bargaining position.
There was probably an approach yesterday - Newcastle responded with a ridiculous number and we have briefed this to show that we're not going to be taken for mugs.
Establishing that we're not going to jump and pay the first stupid amount demanded is exactly why we're making these changes in the first place. Then we find a compromise in a few weeks or even a month when Newcastle realise it's in their own best interest not to draw it out playing silly buggers.
Yeah, we need to stop attitudes like 'the United tax', and INEOS coming in and paying whatever compensation teams ask is only going to send out the same kind of message we've done for the last ten years.
We need to show we mean business, and that we're not going to be pushovers anymore. And while getting the talented staff in place as quickly as possible would help with the first part, paying whatever teams demand in compensation would send out all the wrong messages for the second part.
We're targeting the right people, and it looks like, hopefully, we're also going to be tougher in negotiations. And hopefully that'll also help set a precedent for when we're discussing transfers fees - ins and outs - and wages.
"Preparing an assault." Sounds a bit mean.
Good is not good enough but rubbish is fine.
Bremer would be an amazing signing and be a beast next to Martinez. Quick, string, great in the air, anticipation and positional sense is too draw. If it’s 60mil then that’s a bargain. Lads a monster defender.
Let's try being good for a start before deciding on whether it is good enough or not.
Thanks to @unplayable in the Dan Ashworth thread (Tier 2):
Lengthy post, but Ben Jacobs (Tier 2) reports that PSG are interested in Marcus Rashford as part of their post-Mbappé rebuild:
If I'm being honest if they were to come in with an offer that wasn't taking the P*ss I think we'd be mad not to seriously consider it. Would help with the FFP too
It might mean we'll have to bring in a second person for the role, with Wilcox occupying the left hand side only.
Apologies upfront for this terrible excuse for a joke.
Agree, I actually think he might be a good fit there.
Rashford to PSG would be the “unzipping” moment of summer 2024
Waiting for Godot... Or not in this case
Anyone knows what Stuart Ripley is up to these days ?
He is a solicitor.
Celebrity player for a celebrity club.
Probably because no news on the club/Ratcliffe & Co looking for one, or I might have missed that.
I like that we are willing to wait for Ashworth gardening leave to end instead of throwing cash at the problem.
The United tax doesn't feck off until we feck it off.
The United tax doesn't feck off until we feck it off.
This isnt united tax though..
Any club would do the same for any senior official going to another club they feel they are competing with.
I do quite like the idea of us paying it and Ashworth's first agenda point being "You know how you got me here? Stop doing that."
Senior official can leave his contract and go on automatic gardening leave or whatever non compete is drawn up.
The clubs negotiate on ending gardening leave early. There is also the Court of Arbitration for Sport who can deem gardening leave time period as unfair. There are courts in a variety of countries trying to do away with non compete clauses as it's effectively anti-capitalist. This could get messy if Newcastle try to be arseholes.
If Ashworth was going back to the FA, Newcastle would wave any fee. Because he's joining what they now see as a direct rival they will ask for ridiculous compensation. Worse still, as United have overpaid for every player over the past decade. The United tax is real because we keep paying it. Woodward himself took his cock out and waved it at everyone when he said we can do thing sin the transfer market other clubs can only dream off. Well they sure got him back for that one.
Newcastle have reportedly asked for £10 million in compensation. That's the largest figure for any non playing/coaching staff ever.
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Stranger things have happened in the last few years, at this point nothing would surprise me if Newcastle play hard ball
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