Transfer Tweets - Manchester United - 2024/25

Totally agree with this. Why is accepting £150-200k a week to play where you want such a non-starter? Accept that you got overpaid for a couple years but if you want a move that means less salary. Or don’t play football. There is this weird narrative that once a player gets a certain pay check it can only be at that level or higher.

Not sure I agree with this. Let’s say you get overpaid at your job. You might be trying your hardest at work, but say your employer doesn’t rate your work anymore, would you agree to quit because you got overpaid and save some money for your employer?
 
Not sure I agree with this. Let’s say you get overpaid at your job. You might be trying your hardest at work, but say your employer doesn’t rate your work anymore, would you agree to quit because you got overpaid and save some money for your employer?
If you are close to retirement age, you may want to stick around: you’ll never get the same money elsewhere. If I was younger, I‘d want to work somewhere else where my work would be appreciated.
 
Totally agree with this. Why is accepting £150-200k a week to play where you want such a non-starter? Accept that you got overpaid for a couple years but if you want a move that means less salary. Or don’t play football. There is this weird narrative that once a player gets a certain pay check it can only be at that level or higher.

They have a contract for that salary for a number of years into the future and would likely have factored that into their plans.

Would you just take a pay-cut if your employer decided they wanted to cut your contract short and was trying to get rid of you?

I absolutely doubt that you would.
 
They have a contract for that salary for a number of years into the future and would likely have factored that into their plans.

Would you just take a pay-cut if your employer decided they wanted to cut your contract short and was trying to get rid of you?

I absolutely doubt that you would.

That’s their choice though. Comparing it our lives is nonsensical. We might jump to a new job for a 5k a year bump. They are choosing between rich and richer.

Nobody is forcing them to cancel their contract. They should be forced into making a choice between playing or not though. If you decide to leave Utd publicly the way Rashford has it’s not on Utd to maintain his pay check at the same level. Part of his choice to leave comes with the understanding that it’s likely for less money elsewhere.
 
They have a contract for that salary for a number of years into the future and would likely have factored that into their plans.

Would you just take a pay-cut if your employer decided they wanted to cut your contract short and was trying to get rid of you?

I absolutely doubt that you would.

Being a professional footballer isn't the same as working a regular job though.

Yes this is his job and Manchester United are his employers. But as a footballer/sportsman the most important thing to him should be actually playing the game, not how much he gets paid. Just because he's on X now doesn't mean that he is automatically entitled to that same amount of money for the rest of his career.

So no, no one would leave their normal job because their employer wanted rid, for less money. But normal people can also just hand in their notice and quit when they want, footballers can't; because they don't have a "normal" job.

He can show it's about the game and go somewhere else for first team football and a bit less money (how will he ever survive on only 8M a year though?!) or show that all he cares about is money and stay at a club who don't want him, and won't play him, for fans who hate him, for an extra few million quid.
 
They have a contract for that salary for a number of years into the future and would likely have factored that into their plans.

Would you just take a pay-cut if your employer decided they wanted to cut your contract short and was trying to get rid of you?

I absolutely doubt that you would.

And when you decide to leave you accept that it’s not for the same money. Contracts are broken by both parties.

Any player who leaves agrees a new contract with the team they are joining. It’s not like I leave my job and take £10k a year less and then ask my old employer to make up the difference.
 
Rashford need to be careful here , Ineos in their brief stay have shown they aren't afraid of bad press things could turn real uncomfortable and nasty for him if he doesn't move .
 
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That’s their choice though. Comparing it our lives is nonsensical. We might jump to a new job for a 5k a year bump. They are choosing between rich and richer.

Nobody is forcing them to cancel their contract. They should be forced into making a choice between playing or not though. If you decide to leave Utd publicly the way Rashford has it’s not on Utd to maintain his pay check at the same level. Part of his choice to leave comes with the understanding that it’s likely for less money elsewhere.

Only because you think footballers are some kind of special case. They're not. They're people with lucrative though very short careers and many don't hold on to their wealth after retirement.

He said that about leaving after the club made noises they were looking to get rid and while I don't think it was the smartest move it was said in that context.

I'm not sure what you mean by playing or not playing. He'd play tomorrow if picked but Amorim isn't putting him in the pitch. Not that I have any issue that decision.

He has a contract and he gets to decide if he wants to take another club up on their offer and yes United do have to keep paying him.

Being a professional footballer isn't the same as working a regular job though.

Yes this is his job and Manchester United are his employers. But as a footballer/sportsman the most important thing to him should be actually playing the game, not how much he gets paid. Just because he's on X now doesn't mean that he is automatically entitled to that same amount of money for the rest of his career.

So no, no one would leave their normal job because their employer wanted rid, for less money. But normal people can also just hand in their notice and quit when they want, footballers can't; because they don't have a "normal" job.

He can show it's about the game and go somewhere else for first team football and a bit less money (how will he ever survive on only 8M a year though?!) or show that all he cares about is money and stay at a club who don't want him, and won't play him, for fans who hate him, for an extra few million quid.

He's not entitled to anything for the remainder of his career but he's entitled to his current wages for the remaining length of his contract. We can't force him to take up an offer from anyone and he's well within his rights to hang on regardless of how annoying we find it. There could well be more suitable offers in the Summer.



And when you decide to leave you accept that it’s not for the same money. Contracts are broken by both parties.

Any player who leaves agrees a new contract with the team they are joining. It’s not like I leave my job and take £10k a year less and then ask my old employer to make up the difference.

Nobody has left though. That's the point. I think it would be better that he goes obviously but he doesn't have to agree to go somewhere he doesn't want to go.