Prone to brain farts, not as tactically aware of De LIgt. Fast and decent in the air, probably not good enough to cover Martinez' short comings. To replace Lindelof in the squad he's pretty much perfect.
Transfer Tweets - Manchester United - 2024/25
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So worth the money or not?
Young English etc so standard fee. Wouldn't want him as a starter as he is now.
Sounds like you think we should find a way to reach compromise with Bayern or have you another name in mind we haven't been linked with yet.
Is he was on a similar level to de Ligt Chelsea wouldn't be selling him and he'd be starting most of their matches.
Lets say we dont manage to sell Rashford and Casemiro and hence we dont sign Simons and Zubimendi.
But we sell AWB (£10m) , Lindelof (£5m), Kambwala (£7,5m), Donny, McT (£25m), Pellistri (£7,5m), Sancho (£30m), Antony (£25m) and Greenwood (£20m). Those 9 players would likely bring in minimum £130 mill. They would reduce depreciations with approx £40 mill. And along with Varane, Martial, Williams and Eriksen they would save wages of £110 mill a year.
Purchase of Yoro, Zirkzee, de Ligt, Ugarte, Toney and a RB would cost approx £250 mill. Depreciation of approx £50 mill a year. And added wages of approx £60 mill. In other words, it would represent a net investment of maybe £120 mill and remove £40 mill of cost of the books.
Rashford and/or Case out for a sensible fee would obviously also be very lucrative.
It would make a very interesting reset. Probably difficult, but not unlikely.
110m on wages/year is quite a bit. But assuming 2-3 players from you list are unable to be sold, practically we get Ugarte and De Ligt.
Another RB would only come if we’re able to sell AWB, not so sure about Toney, there’s not too many rumours on him atm.
I think a lot of our bonus summer signings are based on if we can get 30-40 mil for Sancho.
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I didn't question Shaw's quality, but his availability. Being injury prone makes him overall unproductive, you can't really rely on him.
That’s very true.
Then we should lower our demands enough.
Better and cheaper probably. But players without a Dutch connection are unlikely for Ten Hag.
I agree completely. Shaw's injury record means we cannot count on him throughout a season, it might not be the biggest priority but we would foolish not to explore a high quality replacement.
It probably doesn't even matter what left back we sign - we just need to sign a new one every summer until Shaw retires. He always has a good season fitness and performance-wise whenever a new left back comes into the squad.
He's the tyre that will only go flat when you don't have a spare. The ticket inspector who never checks the train until the day you jump the barriers. A phone that only dies when you're in the middle of nowhere with no way home.
He is Luke "Sod's" Shlaw.
Apt analogies
Brilliant!
Can't believe these Chalobah rumours. Why would we sign Chelseas rejects? He's not better than anyone we currently have at CB.
IT'S LIKE RAIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNN ON YOUR WEDDING DAY
IT'S A FREE RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE WHEN YOU'VE ALREADY PAID
IT'S THE GOOD ADVIIIIIIIICE THAT YOU JUST CAN'T TAKE
And who would've thought 'it figures'?
Chelsea fans don't want him to leave though, do they? It's a business decision by their American overlord. It doesn't look like an entirely football based decision.
Not every player has to be signed for the first team, and he's arguably a better option than Linderlof and Maguire.
I remember people kicked off when we were linked with Akanji a few years ago, look how he turned out for City.
With that being said, obviously De Ligt or Branthwaite would be my preferred options but the fact is we need another CB and we need to be able to afford it.
Not that i want us to sign him but he is a homegrown talent who will get them more than 20m of pure profit.
Tweets?
Wrong thread
Yes this would be a fantastic window if the club actually completed all sales and purchases you’ve listed however I don’t see Antony being sold for £1m let alone £25m, even with the 25% Europa reduction to his wages he’s still going to be paid £150k per week and no one in Europe will pay his wages and a small loan fee. Our best hope with Antony is he starts the season on fire and we get some interest from Saudi as their window starts and finishes later than Europe.
I think we are at an impasse. No one wants to pay the valuation of the players we want to get rid and clubs are quoting us ridiculous prices for the players we are interested in. It's a game of chess in play. Let's see who budges first.
I just hope that we are able to make another solid midfield signing to pair with Mainoo. Rest is bonus.
Slow transfer news days.
All transfer gone a bit stale. Just looking forward to a couple in and being pleasantly surprised soon
We need to sell first
There is no news on sales either!
It looks like we have no money left. Have to sell some players to buy someone, and we're not good at selling, nor we have good assets for sale.
It's gonna be another long season and probably again no UCL next season(2025/26).
It's gonna be another long season and probably again no UCL next season(2025/26).
Aye. We haven't signed anyone for a week in mid July - time to write the season off.
Oh well, thats that then, I might cancel my sports subscriptions
Hes either stealing the info from elsewhere (most likely) or he may have a source at United academy level as hes posted a few times about youth players that you would expect to be common knowledge.
Reality has hit that we're in a financial hole and will probably only sign one more player or two dependent on sales. Not good news for ETH as I think he needs more than that.
Aye. We haven't signed anyone for a week in mid July - time to write the season off.
The impatience on here is crazy at times
Maybe someone can help me understand. Why is the club so hung up on transfer fees when so many of these players are immensely overpaid? Surely the impact of the wages saved should be taken into consideration when evaluating bids. We are not in a situation where we can afford to be picky on bids. The players we want to get rid of are severely limited at absolute best and terrible at worst. If we retain them, we will languish in mediocrity again. You have to take big losses on the fee side if you want to shift them and get better as a team.
It will take years to properly rebuild the club. We will maybe compete for PL title in 3 years - not sooner.
You're correct, ETH is probably a goner with the current state of the squad.