United's recent history of huge contracts and subsequent performances

[AkaAkuma]

I dont see the large senior contracts being an issue, INEOS seem strict on expense.
The bruno increase seemed like a small hike and likely was seen as a means to keep him happy and motivated for a year, rather than a precedent.
The contracts for young 3 might be the important issue raised and time will tell.
Selling either Mainoo or Garnacho would help future budgets enormously.

 

[Westerkerk]

If young players (and their agents) like Mainoo and Garnacho think they milk the club dry for big contracts whilst doing the absolute square root of feck all to deserve it, I hope we get rid. Honestly, I mean it. They're talents, and unproven ones at that. The biggest paid players should be earning their ridiculous salaries through consistency, not holding a gun to the heads of the club that brought them through and doing absolutely jack to warrant it.

 

[Bastian]

Almost all of the contracts in first post were when Glazers running football matters, Mainoo and Garnacho have got ages left and … it’s a Daily Mail piece.

List the players bought since Ratcliffe took control.

Why do I need to list those players? Arnold, Murtough and co briefed two years ago that they were going to reign in the exorbitant spending on contracts. Soon after there was talk about Maguire getting an upgraded contract. Maybe his form contributed to that horror idea being shelved, but they decided to give Rashford 300K a week.

If we only look towards the new hierarchy, then we apparently gave de Ligt 200K a week (I can't imagine an ex Raiola client would move for anything less), but were more prudent with the other four, Yoro on 115K which is enormous for his age, but we did spend a huge amount on the transfer. The biggest sign that reigning in huge money on non-star performers was INEOS and co. giving Bruno that 300K. That was not needed, there was no one seriously in for him, he had 2+1 years on his deal, was already paid 200K which is maybe the maximum he could expect given performances, and they decided to extend his deal by a year when he was turning 30 and pay him 300K a week, while simultaneously confronting the fact that we carry a host of players being paid way way way above their actual value and that we need to fix that for a variety of reasons, such as cultural malaise, dressing room morale, PSR/FFP issues, and keeping players hungry rather than entitled and lazy.

There has been slight improvement on this front, but the Bruno deal really was a Woodward-esque move on their part.