Dunno, mate. As I said, we went into this window ideally needing 6, minimum 4 and tend to end a window at least 2 shy of what's required. The club may fail so badly that Howe has to change formation just to suit the players he has. But that 5-4-1 was toothless. I could see us trying 5-3-2.
Rumours this morning from Calciomercato about Moise Kean, and that we won't meet his £40m release clause. Napoli also interested (so that's presumably the end of that).
Brentford and Cameroon forward Bryan Mbeumo, 25, is hoping for wages of £250,000 a week - five times his current wage - if he joins Manchester United. (Times - subscription required) **** that, **** that, **** that. Literally over twice as much as Isak is getting. Let him join the overpaid wasters in that clusterfuck of a club then, he should fit right in.
That's actually a very point. We might well be 'agreeing' deals behind the scenes but with nilo intention to officially sign until 1st July. And we wouldn't want to announce them any sooner in case the dirty 6 then try to gazump us - again.
I absolutely promise you this isn’t it. We can easily agree deals to pay 1st July mate, this is the same inactivity we’ve seen window after window.
Yeah this. If that is his only motivation then we simply can't (and shouldn't) compete. End of. It's Man U creating yet more problems for themselves down the line. They will never learn. One day, the PL / FA / FIFA will stop turning a blind eye and the likes of Man U and Chelsea will get absolutely battered to the point of oblivion.
In the meantime I'll just laugh at them underachieving with a heap of lazy overpaid mercenary slobs. The days of spotting Cristiano Ronaldo as an 18 year old are long gone. Joao Pedro rumours still going on, I'd prefer him to Moise Kean. £50m for Joao Pedro and £40m for Elanga would be a good outcome.
I mean with 18 players on over £100k p/w and up to £350k p/w, no European football this year and Ratcliffe suggesting they will go broke without sacking their tea ladies they must be in danger currently. Signing 2 players for £110m and offering another £450k p/w for them supposedly is just adding fuel to the fire unless they are going to be bent over a barrel later in the window. Any club with an inkling of negotiations will just bide their time until late in the window when Man U are desperate to sell the overpaid bollocks they've got on their books... Must have been devastating to them for Fernandes not to go to Saudi for £100m and get his £300k p/w off the books. From what I can see they are paying out around £170-175m a year just in wages to their players and I don't think that includes any bonuses, agent fees etc
Their wage bill for first team squad is £250m alone. Total wage bill for first team, development and academy is £367.4m
But their revenues are about £600m which - even if figures need to include academy - means they’re at under 60%.
That’s simply wages…… take in agents fees, amortisation on transfers etc. lack of CL football then they’re in the ****
Be very interesting to see where they end up at the end of this year with no European football again. Read something the other day that they scrapped through the PSR affordability by £2m this year, unless they shift a lot of the high earners I think they will be massively screwed next summer. Just need PIF to politely advise Saudi clubs not to sign any player from Man U this summer.
And even that was with some dodgy agreement with PL that Covid still impacted them about 5 times more than everyone else, so they were allowed more 'affordable losses'. All bullshit. Them and Chelsea.
Forgot about that bullshit tbh. I do think sometimes, surely the other clubs should be kicking up more a of a fuss about stuff like that and Chelsea's sale of their hotels, carparks and womens team to... themselves.
I think this is why the City case has been allowed to drag on and on, other clubs are lining up challenges but the PL are hiding behind this one refusing to make a decision.
