Transfer Tweets - Summer 2017 | Keep it on topic

finneh said:
In terms of our ability to spend only Real Madrid come close. Which makes sense as we have the highest turnover and the lowest wage to turnover ratio.

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Real Madrid as the next closest reporting £145m.

Including player sales in overall profitably is a bit bizarre in my view as they're somewhat exceptional.
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Dont entertain him please.

He's not worth it.
 
finneh said:
In terms of our ability to spend only Real Madrid come close. Which makes sense as we have the highest turnover and the lowest wage to turnover ratio.

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Real Madrid as the next closest reporting £145m.

Including player sales in overall profitably is a bit bizarre in my view as they're somewhat exceptional.
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Just ignore him. He's not worth it. :(
 
You know on another forum i am on one user started derailing every topic going. Loads of us put them on ignore and after a week or two we stopped seeing them even getting quoted by other users. It improved the place no end. Food for thought.
 
nokillingmoths said:
You know on another forum i am on one user started derailing every topic going. Loads of us put them on ignore and after a week or two we stopped seeing them even getting quoted by other users. It improved the place no end. Food for thought.
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I've had GlastonSpurs on ignore since I got promoted. The only problem now is I keep going in to threads and it looks like people are talking to themselves. Would be a nice improvement if we could also hide posts that are quoting ignored members.
 
Really thought I would wake up to transfer news but no, yet again it's Gladstone Brookes derailing yet another thread with his blinkered BS!
 
FCBarca said:
Ouch, Celtic fans will be gutted if this comes to fruition. Losing Roberts tough enough but Dembele too?
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And for £20 million. I have a few Celtic supporting friends who were talking about letting him go for 50 mil +.
 
acrebo said:
I don't think so. Even if there was a budget set for "summer '17" which placed Perisic's value at, say £35m, I've never heard of any suggestion that the budgets cant be flexed a little bit and reconciled in subsequent windows.

I'd highly expect that, if the original budget didn't allow for an extra £10-15m in the first place, it would just be revised against subsequent transfer windows. Particularly as, in Jose's eyes, that £10-15m could be the difference between mounting a title challenge and not.
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I think the issue could be that we are being quoted way beyond our perceived valuations for both our wing and DM targets, so we're now in a bit of limbo while we wait to see whether time/desperation brings the prices down.

I'm all for the idea of having a price in mind and sticking to it, but if they join at the last minute, take until Xmas to bed in and we struggle in the league again that could end up being far more costly than the savings that we'll have made on their reduced transfer fees.
 


"Nice to meet you, Federico". Bernardeschi undergoing his medical in Turin.
 
SATA said:
Why isn't Glastonspur banned yet? I wouldn't mind opposition fans here at all but his posts are just so annoyingly tiresome
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We have some good oppo fans on here but with Glaston it's the same thing over and over again. And I'd guess posters been banned for less.
 
GlastonSpur said:
I've simply pointed out that United over the last 3 year-period of published accounts (maybe longer since I've haven't checked) have not been the most profitable club in England (let alone the world). Instead of acknowledging this, the response has been a variety of obtuse and silly posts.

It seems that some posters can't bear have to incorrect assertions questioned.
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Don't worry there is an outside chance we might be boosting your team's profits before the end of the transfer window if you offer enough cash the Levy will break.
 
Zoo said:
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My guess is Kaveh is doing his usual and just copying what some French source is saying without giving them the credit. Hence why such a low fee is stated. I can't see any chance of Celtic selling for just £20m after quoting other teams £40m earlier.
 
Peanut Butter said:
Really thought I would wake up to transfer news but no, yet again it's Gladstone Brookes derailing yet another thread with his blinkered BS!
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All I've done is pick up on an incorrect statement about United being the most profitable club in the world, a claim that was used to explain United's alleged transfer policies in terms of monies paid for players. That is not "de-railing" this thread and nor is it "blinkered" (the figures I gave come from published accounts).

But instead of either tacitly accepting the figures I gave (by not questioning them) or - god forbid - actually acknowledging the truth, my post was then followed by a series of posts that mostly attacked me for having posted (like your post). Why are not those posts - and your post - considered to be derailing this thread?

You might consider that I've actually done United fans a favour by not allowing false facts to inform your discussion about transfers. However, I'm done with the club-profitability side-topic in this thread, so if you wish to stick with your illusion then so be it, I won't respond further.
 
GlastonSpur said:
All I've done is pick up on an incorrect statement about United being the most profitable club in the world, a claim that was used to explain United's alleged transfer policies in terms of monies paid for players. That is not "de-railing" this thread and nor is it "blinkered" (the figures I gave come from published accounts).

But instead of either tacitly accepting the figures I gave (by not questioning them) or - god forbid - actually acknowledging the truth, my post was then followed by a series of posts that mostly attacked me for having posted (like your post). Why are not those posts - and your post - considered to be derailing this thread?

You might consider that I've actually done United fans a favour by not allowing false facts to inform your discussion about transfers. However, I'm done with the club-profitability side-topic in this thread, so if you wish to stick with your illusion then so be it, I won't respond further.
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Thanks.
 
finneh said:
In terms of our ability to spend only Real Madrid come close. Which makes sense as we have the highest turnover and the lowest wage to turnover ratio.

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Real Madrid as the next closest reporting £145m.

Including player sales in overall profitably is a bit bizarre in my view as they're somewhat exceptional.
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wondering how this will be spun.
 

Neymar's entourage: "The player hasn't made a final decision yet."
 
EyeInTheSky said:
Did he really just insinuate that spuds make more profit than United?
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Indeed, he even done us a favour by only going back two years cos any further it'd make us look like a championship club compared the Tottenham!

I hate talking about size of clubs but when someone says Spurs are bigger/more financially powerful than United then something has to be said.
 
GlastonSpur said:
All I've done is pick up on an incorrect statement about United being the most profitable club in the world, a claim that was used to explain United's alleged transfer policies in terms of monies paid for players. That is not "de-railing" this thread and nor is it "blinkered" (the figures I gave come from published accounts).

But instead of either tacitly accepting the figures I gave (by not questioning them) or - god forbid - actually acknowledging the truth, my post was then followed by a series of posts that mostly attacked me for having posted (like your post). Why are not those posts - and your post - considered to be derailing this thread?

You might consider that I've actually done United fans a favour by not allowing false facts to inform your discussion about transfers. However, I'm done with the club-profitability side-topic in this thread, so if you wish to stick with your illusion then so be it, I won't respond further.
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The ranting, the myopia, the obsession with false news. All you need do to go full Trump is to end your posts with a single word and an exclamation mark. Fact!
 
What do you think is behind Neymar's whole PSG escapade? He's playing for Barcelona, and he has a contract until 2021. Is he REALLY that unhappy playing 'in the shadow' of Suarez and Messi? I doubt it.

This definitely whiffs of media sensationalism.
 
Seriously lads and ladies, can we ignore Glaston Finance in here? There's a Spurs thread for all that boring rubbish.

Tweets and trasnfer tittle tattle in here?
 
StonedhamsterZA said:
What do you think is behind Neymar's whole PSG escapade? He's playing for Barcelona, and he has a contract until 2021. Is he REALLY that unhappy playing 'in the shadow' of Suarez and Messi? I doubt it.

This definitely whiffs of media sensationalism.
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Messi just got a pay rise, so it's obvious tbh.
 
Surely, in terms of profit, if United had a year where they didn't buy or sell a single player, they would have the highest net profit in English football. The fact we spend a load on players means that the end of year accounts show only a modest 'profit'.
 
GlastonSpur said:
Are you even the most profitable club in the Prem (never mind the world)?

Over the last two seasons for which there are published accounts (as far as I'm aware) - 2014-15 + 2015-16 - Spurs made more profits than United: £50m vs £45m. Even Leicester City made only £3m less profit than United over that period.

Of course there may be more recently published accounts of which I'm not aware ...

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/jun/01/premier-league-finances-club-by-club
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Even in that article, we are ahead when we consider the year ending August 31, 2015. We have a 45 mil profit compared to Spurs' 38 mil. In any case, the turnover is a big factor here. Our profits are less(er) because we have the ability to spend big and oay very good wages. So if we want to spend again, it will depend on our turnover. The profit number is as a result of our spending, not because we aren't able to generate revenue. Our wages are more than your turnover. Does that not simply make thr point we shop in different markets?
 
GaryLifo said:
Surely, in terms of profit, if United had a year where they didn't buy or sell a single player, they would have the highest net profit in English football. The fact we spend a load on players means that the end of year accounts show only a modest 'profit'.
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Glaston either doesn't understand this simple point or is being obtuse to derail a thread which is about transfer tweets.
 
StonedhamsterZA said:
What do you think is behind Neymar's whole PSG escapade? He's playing for Barcelona, and he has a contract until 2021. Is he REALLY that unhappy playing 'in the shadow' of Suarez and Messi? I doubt it.

This definitely whiffs of media sensationalism.
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He, his father and their inner circle are trying to maximise profit and exposure of the Neymar brand maybe? Paris may even be a step forward, in that respect, compared to Barcelona.
 
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