Transfer Tweets - Manchester United - 2024/25

[Raoul]

Not Jamie that's reporting this. It's Will Unwin.

There aren't any quoted sources in the article, even anonymous ones.

Months ago i was against selling, but 70m against PSR would be massive to buy and invest in new players this summer.

 

[Lennon7]

There aren't any quoted sources in the article, even anonymous ones.

Months ago i was against selling, but 70m against PSR would be massive to buy and invest in new players this summer.

Mainoo is one to keep though, and will shine in a better set up. Look at him with England, we're just too weak in midfield and shocking up front - you can't blame him for thinking "what's the point"

 

[Raoul]

Mainoo is one to keep though, and will shine in a better set up. Look at him with England, we're just too weak in midfield and shocking up front - you can't blame him for thinking "what's the point"

I just don't see him as a natural midfielder, and from his comments, i suspect Amorim agrees. On the other hand, he's not a winger either, so I'm sure that if a solid offer came in, Ruben would make the argument to Berrada that he could use the money to buy a striker or for another needed position.

 

[bb8]

Tier 2:

Good grief. The way nearly everyone writes about PSR is soooooo poor. This tweet just frames the situation really inaccurately. Here's the reality:

Antony has £32.5M in amortization remaining from his purchase after this season -- his transfer amortization is spread over the lifetime of his contract and there are two years left. If we don't sell him, we'll have:

2025-2026 season: £16.25M in amortization on our books for PSR purposes + all his wages (let's say £120k a week; £6M a year). £18.25M total costs
2026-2027 season: £16.25M in amortization + £6M wages = £18.25M total costs

If we do sell him for let's say £20M without having to subsidize his wages, we technically take a "PSR loss" but it VASTLY improves our cost structure. It would look like this:

2025-2026 season: £32.5M total remaining amortization - £20M sale price = £12.5M "PSR loss" amortization on the books. No wages. £12.5M total costs
2026-2027 season: Zero costs

Total benefit: Selling Antony for £20M without subsidizing his wages would give us +£5.75M in PSR room in the 2025-2026 season, and +£18.25M in PSR room in the 2026-2027 season. We should be crying tears of joy if we got a deal like this, and anyone fretting about a "PSR loss" doesn't understand what that really means. It's only a loss compared to never offering him a contract at all. Given we do have a contract with him and the amortization is going to hit our books one way or another, the proceeds from a sale are all upside for us.

 

[Red Company]

I just don't see him as a natural midfielder, and from his comments, i suspect Amorim agrees. On the other hand, he's not a winger either, so I'm sure that if a solid offer came in, Ruben would make the argument to Berrada that he could use the money to buy a striker or for another needed position.

But he could play as one of the #10’s in the current setup and that’s where he was played a bit before his injury if I’m not mistaken

I’d rather keep him than replace him with another player for the #10 position as he played fairly well and could improve further if given time and I’m sure his replacement wouldn’t be cheap either

 

[Big Ben Foster]

Good grief. The way nearly everyone writes about PSR is soooooo poor. This tweet just frames the situation really inaccurately. Here's the reality:

Antony has £32.5M in amortization remaining from his purchase after this season -- his transfer amortization is spread over the lifetime of his contract and there are two years left. If we don't sell him, we'll have:

2025-2026 season: £16.25M in amortization on our books for PSR purposes + all his wages (let's say £120k a week; £6M a year). £18.25M total costs
2026-2027 season: £16.25M in amortization + £6M wages = £18.25M total costs

If we do sell him for let's say £20M without having to subsidize his wages, we technically take a "PSR loss" but it VASTLY improves our cost structure. It would look like this:

2025-2026 season: £32.5M total remaining amortization - £20M sale price = £12.5M "PSR loss" amortization on the books. No wages. £12.5M total costs
2026-2027 season: Zero costs

Total benefit: Selling Antony for £20M without subsidizing his wages would give us +£5.75M in PSR room in the 2025-2026 season, and +£18.25M in PSR room in the 2026-2027 season. We should be crying tears of joy if we got a deal like this, and anyone fretting about a "PSR loss" doesn't understand what that really means. It's only a loss compared to never offering him a contract at all. Given we do have a contract with him and the amortization is going to hit our books one way or another, the proceeds from a sale are all upside for us.

Thank you for this.

Sports journalists should absolutely not be commenting on accounting matters, seeing as most of them have yet to even grasp a concept as simple as exchange rates.

 

[top1whoisman]

Banned source, for a reason.

 

[langster]

Banned source, for a reason.

I've deleted it because it's a banned source but it's a sound report as it's being reported in lots of places. The Manchester Evening News have picked it up too.

 

[Withnail]

I've deleted it because it's a banned source but it's a sound report as it's being reported in lots of places. The Manchester Evening News have picked it up too.

They're all all just reporting that caughtoffside said it, aren't they?

That doesn't make it any more believable.

 

[langster]

They're all all just reporting that caughtoffside said it, aren't they?

That doesn't make it any more believable.

Well Yahoo, MSN, PSG news and loads of French outlets are reporting it too. Are Yahoo and MSN on the ban list as well? I would have thought they were credible? I thought it was an exciting possibility as he's a cracking player.

Anyway it's not worth arguing about. As I said, I deleted the Tweet. Maybe someone will put it up from a more reliable source.

 

[Withnail]

Well Yahoo, MSN, PSG news and loads of French outlets are reporting it too. Are Yahoo and MSN on the ban list as well? I would have thought they were credible? I thought it was an exciting possibility as he's a cracking player.

Anyway it's not worth arguing about. As I said, I deleted the Tweet. Maybe someone will put it up from a more reliable source.

None of those sites ever break a story as far as I'm aware. They just report whatever is going round.

I've had a look and yes as expected, the source quoted in all of those articles is caughtoffside.

Are you serious?

 

[golden_blunder]

Well Yahoo, MSN, PSG news and loads of French outlets are reporting it too. Are Yahoo and MSN on the ban list as well? I would have thought they were credible? I thought it was an exciting possibility as he's a cracking player.

Anyway it's not worth arguing about. As I said, I deleted the Tweet. Maybe someone will put it up from a more reliable source.

They seem to have all regurgitated the same source

 

[elmo]

They're all all just reporting that caughtoffside said it, aren't they?

That doesn't make it any more believable.

Upcoming free agent is interested in joining a league that has teams that can pay him the most.

It’s no surprise other news outlets will blindly report this as a rumour.

 

[Withnail]

Upcoming free agent is interested in joining a league that has teams that can pay him the most.

It’s no surprise other news outlets will blindly report this as a rumour.

Except they literally all do reference the original bad source. None of them are even dressing it up as their own information. You don't have to read past the first couple of lines to see it which is why I was surprised they doubled down that other outlets were reporting it too.

 

[bb8]

Except they literally all do reference the original bad source. None of them are even dressing it up as their own information. You don't have to read past the first couple of lines to see it which is why I was surprised they doubled down that other outlets were reporting it too.

If we can beat Sociedad we'll likely get a close-up look at David in the quarterfinals to help with our evaluation.

 

[croadyman]

If we can beat Sociedad we'll likely get a close-up look at David in the quarterfinals to help with our evaluation.

Depends if they beat Dortmund