As with every other summer, no one is touching this lot with the wages they’re on. We’ll be subsidising their wages in any deal. Ed Woodward heritage.
Transfer Tweets - Manchester United - 2023/24
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Its always difficult with wages. But also, have to look at it from total cost point of view - if we hold out for loads of transfer fee it makes the buying clubs life a lot harder because they have the high wages and the transfer fee to contend with so the total cost of the deal is pushed up. Its probably a leading factor in why we have been unable to sell players for any sort of fee or even at all. If we are all in for a cultural reset we may have to look at savings on wages as well as transfer fees in.
Like if Varane, Martial, Casemiro, Eriksen, Maguire, Antony and Rashford left thats about 93 million a year of the books in wages
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One of ETH favourites. Surely this, if true, is a indication that ETH hasn't got long here?
I think it's just an indication he's not in charge of transfers any more, which is the same if he stays or goes.
No idea how we could ever sell Antony, has a crap attitude, doesn't perform, on wages that are way higher than his talent deserves!
Sometimes we need to take a L and move a player. No point of keeping him here he doesn't have anr redeeming quality.
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as long as he doesn't describe it as disneyland, think we're good.
As decent as Ollie Watkins is, it’d be a daft signing when you consider his age against the price we’d have to pay
No, he is not making any decisions and he's not doing it himself.
Believe it all apart from the Watkins rumour, why would he leave Villa for us, that’s how poor we are right now.
Ok on the McTominay part, I’ve defended him in the past but I can agree he’s of limited use to us. However, his goals this season are directly responsible for 12 points. Without them we’d be in 14th.
I just don’t understand why anyone would want to spend any money at all on Amrabat. You could pin a list of midfielders available for £10m up and throw a dart at it, and whoever it landed on would be a better midfielder than Amrabat. He’s so far out of his depth at United it’s unreal. The other poster who said we’ve already spent money on him so why not a little more, is just sunk cost fallacy. Sell both by all means, but there is no justification for selling McTominay and using part of those funds to buy Amrabat.
We're not going for him, around 100 million fee and 28 years old at a club that will be playing CL football next season.
I'd say Sesko is our target after seeing his agent was at the Arsenal game. Or Toney if we get Frank in as manager.
Yeah can’t see that being a starter. Should look at Solanke instead. Good all round game and younger
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Ed also mentions that United got in touch with McKenna's representatives, so they're certainly doing more than just monitoring his situation.
Ed also mentions that United got in touch with McKenna's representatives, so they're certainly doing more than just monitoring his situation.
Would almost definitely cost £100m + also.
I think there is enough concrete manager links now to confirm to me that INEOS have decided to sack Ten Hag end of the season.
Two exceptionally well run clubs targeting him tells you everything you need to know.
If its truly a firesale, all these players will find new homes. We just need to see the gains from a wages perspective than a salary perspective and crash our asking price.
Makes a firesale/clearout even more critical if he's the one being hired. He needs to work with players who will listen to him because if its the same group of players, it will crash and burn quickly.
Exactly. McKenna is all about improving players, that is why he was such a good youth team coach. Last thing he needs is players who think they have achieved everything and know everything. He needs players who want to get better, are hungry to learn and desperately want to win things. They would still need a bit of experience in there, so it will be vital they keep the right characters of current squad and ditch the ones with the wrong attitude. I bet the meetings with the players was actually an eye opener as to who the s**t stirrers are.
I was reading about the reaction of Barca fans to Xavi's snub of Vitor Roque, who they recently signed ahead of other big clubs but then barely played. He might be an option for us, as it looks like he could be leaving.
Yeah, United have even started to monitor his situation, so there's a chance that we may go in for him this summer.
Yep 80 to 90 min, then they can get Neves. Big risk of course, but seems to be a player who will live up to his potential.
Omg! Watkins would be an absolute dream! I would muppet hard for that guy, I think he’d combine beautifully with Rashford and Garnacho.
Correct decisions on Eriksen and Antony too. The good news just keeps coming. What a summer it’s going to be!
I don’t think so. He’s simply selling the INEOS ethos and vision to prospective signings. He’s there to give it the big sell on the future project. He’s not deciding who to target and he isn’t negotiating the money. Football barely comes in to it to be honest.
Amrabat hasnt really played and looked okay in a deeper midfield against Arsenal. If his purchase is 21mil and we already paid 9 of it then for 12 mil its worth completing in my opinion as we have a body in for midfield and can sell mctominay and use Whats left for other business.
Harry winks dropped to the championship for 12 mil after a failed loan in italy. Not really sure what anyone thinks we would get for that kind of money
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Tuchel's definitely not going but they're also still replacing him. Talk about hedging your bets Florian.
Just shows there are feck all options.
Bayern got rejected left and right, there is probably something that we don't know.
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- Lack of clear communication has irritated multiple players
- Feeling that the older, more experienced players are being pushed out of the team
- Feeling of uncertainty among the players about the club's future
- When Fernandes met with senior execs last week, he felt more assured about his and the club's future.
- No contract discussions in this meeting
- Fernandes is looking for a new contract with a pay rise that'll put him on similar terms to Rashford
- Rashford's current salary: approx. £300k/week
- Bruno's current salary: less than £250k/week
- INEOS want to reduce the overall wages, so they're currently reluctant to offer Bruno such a lucrative contract
I don't see any bet-hedging here. All he's saying is that Tuchel's the guy that Bayern Munich are working on. If Tuchel himself decides not to renew, then they'll make a stronger push for ten Hag and de Zerbi.
I think Antony only has something like 3 starts in 2024.
In the league...
Antony has 1332 mins
Rashford has 2263 mins
Garnacho has 2486 mins
Antony has not been a favourite for a long time, I believe both club and manager would let him go.
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