Why was Yorke allowed to go so cheap?

[Ninja]

This thread has probably already been exhausted, but i am still mystified why a guy who cost 10+ million in 1998, can be let go for 2million. And those of you who think that United were trying to soften Blackburn up for the Duff bid, get a grip, why didnt we just make him part of the deal then?

 

[True Treble Reds]

Duff aint coming.

Disco was let go on the cheap, imo, because a) He burned his bridges with SAF, b) The PLC desperately wanted to get rid of his salary and c) £2m now is better than £0 in 12 months.

 

[MancFanFromManc]

Poor business all round, but what do you expect. We're victims of our own success.

Players are linked to Man Utd just to inflate their value, and players we genuinely are interested in go through the roof. The flip side of course is that poorer clubs wont up offers for our players.

Look who we've just let go for buttons:
Irwin, Johnson, Wallwork, Yorke, Rai and Rachubka



Dont get me wrong; I wouldnt swap with any other clubs financial position in the world. Basically we have to take it on the chin that we're going to get scorched everytime we enter the transfer market.

 

[Travis Bickle]

Originally posted by MancFanFromManc:
<strong>Poor business all round, but what do you expect. We're victims of our own success.

Players are linked to Man Utd just to inflate their value, and players we genuinely are interested in go through the roof. The flip side of course is that poorer clubs wont up offers for our players.

Look who we've just let go for buttons:
Irwin, Johnson, Wallwork, Yorke, Rai and Rachubka

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Irwin, Johnson, Wallwork and Rai were all out of contract, so there was no money to be made on them. Irwin and Rai were also mid 30s.

Yorke was 30 on £25k a week with a year left on his contract. He was useless for the club as he was never going to get first team football again with his attitide. Every month he cost 100k and he could sit on his arse for a year for a million. If nobody except Blackburn wanted this lazy twat - and the player has to want to go as well - then United only had one offer on the table. They either took it or Yorke was going nowhere, because unlike most players he didn't seem to care that much about his situation.

We got 8m for Cole which was pretty good buisness for a 30 year old, and 16m for Stam who was 29, so we haven't done badly in selling.

United nearly always sell a player past his prime, or a youngster coming up who is not going to make it at OT. It is not suprising that we pay larger money than we sell for.

 

[MancFanFromManc]

I know the seasons for all of the above. My point, is that I dont see any other club with the luxury of allowing players, even the older ones, to leave for nothing.

We're in a privilaged position to be able to allow out faithful servants to leave on a free and hence have total freedom to pick a club of their choise to continue their carear.

 

[dmode]

Originally posted by MancFanFromManc:
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Dont get me wrong; I wouldnt swap with any other clubs financial position in the world. Basically we have to take it on the chin that we're going to get scorched everytime we enter the transfer market.

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That's true and Alex knows that too! Time's ticking, get Duff once and for all and no more worries about the future...

 

[Travis Bickle]

Originally posted by MancFanFromManc:
<strong>I know the seasons for all of the above. My point, is that I dont see any other club with the luxury of allowing players, even the older ones, to leave for nothing.

We're in a privilaged position to be able to allow out faithful servants to leave on a free and hence have total freedom to pick a club of their choise to continue their carear.</strong><hr></blockquote>

I doubt very much that the PLC sees it like this at all. Older players come out of contract at other clubs all the time. You can't force a player to sign a contract, nor did we offer contracts to Irwin or Johnsen or RAI. Presumably United didn't want them any more. In what way would any other club act differently?

As for Yorke, his attitude is very unusual. He preferred to sit on his arse for 25k a week rather than leave.