The Official Manchester United Thread (Vol 12)
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RoadRunner220 said:
simon800 said:
Maybe I'm just living in hope, as it all seems eminently sensible!
You're not the only one, I too hope the article is entirely true.Just on Brandon Williams seeing as he was mentioned in the article. What I would like to see us as a club do more of is being more ruthless with our youth players. Too many times in recent years you see a youth player come through, get a few appearances, look half decent, and then they just don't get the game time and fade into obscurity. It's like we don't want to sell them on 'just in case' but then we don't play them and they just leave on a free anyway.
What I want to see us do is, if we think they aren't going to get the game time, just sell them, cash in, add in a sell on clause and get rid.
City have done this well recently, Cole Palmer being the latest. Yes he's turned out to be quite a player, but he wasn't going to get game time at City, and he had what, two starts ?, and they got £40m for him, and will get more because of sell on clauses.
And it will help a lot with FFP
Williams was an odd one. Played a few games, got a massive pay increase and no one would buy him. I think he was rumoured to be on 40k a week. Can’t get a game in the championship
Challo said:
During the summer we started to implement that policy with regard to youth. If the club doesn’t think they have a chance with the first team then sell them, but add in buy back and sell on clauses. As you say no point them sitting around doing nothing.
Williams was an odd one. Played a few games, got a massive pay increase and no one would buy him. I think he was rumoured to be on 40k a week. Can’t get a game in the championship
It’s weird, because he looked like a decent player in the making, proper little sWilliams was an odd one. Played a few games, got a massive pay increase and no one would buy him. I think he was rumoured to be on 40k a week. Can’t get a game in the championship
thouse with decent pace and good positional awareness. Then he seemed to just vanish into the squad and then the reserves, never to be seen in a United shirt again. GTO-3R said:
Frimley111R said:
Jesus! Squad motivation must be high with news that most of them are up for sale!!!!
About time they had a dose of reality and realised they're not in charge.Maybe it will never happen but this ridiculous wage model has to be looked at…with new FFP it’s the beginning of the end for the player gravy train.
Anyone got the stats on average wages in the other top EU leagues?
GTO-3R said:
Frimley111R said:
Jesus! Squad motivation must be high with news that most of them are up for sale!!!!
About time they had a dose of reality and realised they're not in charge.You can put everyone up for sale but you still have to find clubs who are prepared to pay what United want, pay the players what they want and also be a club that the players want to join. Otherwise the players will just sit out their contracts playing 5-a-sides at Carrington and leave on a free.
Edited by TEKNOPUG on Tuesday 30th April 18:20
57Ford said:
TEKNOPUG said:
Saudi Pro League figures must be nonsense. The vast majority of players are Saudi and they aren't going to be earning 6 figures a week.
I agree you might be right but the average is likely to be considerably dragged up by the few superstars. Good grief, a lot of this article could easily be written about us:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ckr5...
Sorry, hate blind links - it’s an article about the fall of Schalke as a club.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ckr5...
Sorry, hate blind links - it’s an article about the fall of Schalke as a club.
Frimley111R said:
57Ford said:
I don’t think so because we’re told that even the 4th highest earning Casemiro is on £300k a week which is £15M per year.
Yep, you're right. I wonder if it corrects for the number of players in each league (assume so), however it kind of shows us what we know I guess.The gulf between the premier league and say Bundesliga or Serie A is big, but then also add in those leagues only a handful of the clubs will pay very good salaries. Most of the other clubs have very small budgets.
Its great that United can pay huge wages, but what happens when it all goes wrong and you need to sell i.e. Sancho. The financial impact to United is massive.
57Ford said:
Good grief, a lot of this article could easily be written about us:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ckr5...
Sorry, hate blind links - it’s an article about the fall of Schalke as a club.
That does have some quite spooky similarities. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ckr5...
Sorry, hate blind links - it’s an article about the fall of Schalke as a club.
57Ford said:
TEKNOPUG said:
Saudi Pro League figures must be nonsense. The vast majority of players are Saudi and they aren't going to be earning 6 figures a week.
I agree you might be right but the average is likely to be considerably dragged up by the few superstars. 
It's certainly promising. Hopefully it's along the lines of the old Honda TV ad - "Hate something, change something, make something better..." rather than the other Honda ad "The impossible dream" but at least they are trying.
It makes sense to get trusted interims in now (or at least from the end of the season, that bit is a little unclear as I've heard conflicting reports on that) to get the summer moving asap. We can't really wait for Berrada and Ashworth too much longer before it will impact next year.
It makes sense to get trusted interims in now (or at least from the end of the season, that bit is a little unclear as I've heard conflicting reports on that) to get the summer moving asap. We can't really wait for Berrada and Ashworth too much longer before it will impact next year.
Sycamore said:
"Manchester United is pleased to announce that Marcus Rashford has signed an 8-year contract with the club, on a deserved salary of £750k per week."
Gotta protect that valuable asset…Hopefully we’ve seen the last of these ridiculous deals with our new overlords. The next few years are looking exciting to me at the moment.
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