In terms of salary, yes. Players going there to play in a stadium that's falling apart in front of plastic fans, turning up for training to see Brenda getting her P45 because their 200k a week contract means more cut backs, probably not having the same manager at the end of the season and then the new guy coming in and benching them for one of his signings
It'll be 4yrs in October since we were taken over, on the pitch has been fantastic, but off the pitch has been pretty poor so far. Recruitment of players has been far short of whats required, the exec team still hasnt been settled and we've not made half of the required moves in terms of sponsorship.
Everything will be fine, but what happens is people set their hopes on certain players, and then whoever else is bought they don't what so much. I think recruitment in terms of the players has been exceptional. I wanted it clarify that, because when I said I agree with Mitchell, I'm looking at the off the pitch psr situation. It's **** isn't it psr? Fans all looking at accounts and all kinds of utter crap. I miss the days of simply talking about football and that being the only real concern.The transfer windows are crap now also because it's not an open shop any more. It's a pecking order system.
Some Greek journo is saying we're about to put in a big offer for Babis Kostoulas of Olympiacos. That would kind of count. Would cost a little more than £5m though - Brighton are after him for around £30m according to Ornstein.
Just to highlight that not only did we fail to sign any bar Osula, we didn’t sign anyone at all. Quite the 18 months we’ve had. And 3 days.
To counter that, Mitchell did also oversee the signing of various youth players with potential, which is his main focus. As well as Osula, his other signings included Salia, Yildiz and Cordero. All highly thought of. Whether any turn out to be real gems is to be seen, but let's at least give them some time. Are you wanting: 1. Young players with real potential 2. Established players (or as you say, "lazy recruitment") 3. Gems that nobody else has found, none of us have heard of, yet are already world class and ready to set the PL & CL alight, despite being completely unknown and untested at that level. Because #3 can be slightly tricky.
What we need is Bruno and Joe to set up links with some scouting network in Brazil and Bruno and Joe as ambassadors to showcase why NUFC is a great project. Sweep up some of the young talent there before Chelsea and Barca get them all.
Bruno Fernandes turned down move to Saudi. They won't be signing Mbuemo and thankfully neither will we.
Like most clubs in the CL I’d like a mix of all three. We’ve signed youngsters but not on the scale of other clubs, however it’s promising. We’ve signed Tonali and Isak so can do the 2nd bit, but haven’t done anything for more or less 2 years. We’ve uncovered absolutely nobody. And as I’ve said elsewhere, before this season nobody had heard of Zabarnyi, Huijsen, Doué, Schade, Kerkez, Semenyo, Delap, Murillo, Aina, etc. I’d like us to be significantly better here. We seem to prefer adding plodders than aiming for gems. This is I think where Howe has been at odds with both DoFs.
They can do what they want mate, they’re Man U and have been named 2nd most valuable club. They’ll sign at least 5 first team players plus more for the squad. Garnacho, Rashford, Hojlund, Zirkzee, Antony and others makes more than enough in sales.
IF they can sell them. That's another issue of paying overly inflated wages, it's then hard to offload players as only so many clubs can / will match the terms. So Man U buy big, overpay, then struggle to get rid. Great strategy.
