Transfer Rumours Let's ignore the big ****ing elephant and blame the latest manager, again. Are we nearly there yet?

He will hardly get any game time - more like a glorified sub for most of this season, and that's if they even manage to register him with La Liga.

 

My take on players like Rashford, etc, is that we are a self defeating club. We have recently become a club that witch hunts our own players publicly to the point of becoming ostracized which effectively kills their resell value. This happens with every team, mind you. But the rate at which we have done this in recent years demonstrates a fundamental flaw in our operational strategy.

Take this statement: Ruben Amorim says rival clubs might be in for a "shock" if they think they can sign Manchester United's unwanted players on the cheap this summer.

We don’t even have any leverage to demand meaningful transfer for our players because we have misused them, mismanaged them (stupid salaries, holding on to them for too long), and misread the transfer market thinking we will command higher price as others do to us.

Back on Rashford; love him, hate him, he was a massive loss for us last season because he didn’t “somehow” fit into a system and we squarely blamed him for it. Yet the so-called system delivered squat without him in it while his salary became a problem for Villa who would have been happy to have him.

Overall, we fkin stink operationally. While I hope this is a phasing out period, I am not certain that simply shifting out the parts will solve the structural problem.

 

Interesting that on the United website rashford and Sancho are the only two players that don't have a squad number on their pic.

https://www.manutd.com/en/players-and-staff/first-team

 

Not really, United are actively trying to sell both players and Amorim likely has no intention in including them in his match squads next season, sold or not.
There are other players that United would be willing to sell, like Garnacho for instance, but if they arent sold, my guess is Amorim would utilise them in his squads for next season. For Rashford and Sancho, I dont think there is any coming back for them, whether they go or not, Amorim has decided they are persona non grata.

 

It is strange though.
Garnacho and Antony have both been told to find a new club but they still have their numbers. It's like Rashford and Sancho have already gone and they have just forgot to remove the pics.

 

Its like I said though, United want rid of all 4 of those players, yes, but I think if Garnacho and Antony DONT get sold, they will play for United next season, in some capacity. Rashford and Sancho have burned their bridges, Rashfords falling out with Amorim is well known, and Sancho's "Freedom" Tweet when he went to us on loan last season probably also pissed Amorim off immensely. I dont see a world in which, if not sold, either of those players pull on a United jersey ever again.

Garnacho and Antony are to be sold for footballing reasons, where as Rashford and Sancho, its a personal thing.