And then the likes of Rio , Evra and Vidic leave the club and save over £300K a WEEK
And while we will have to bring in new players, they wont be on the same level of wages that those players were on.
Did you have a point? 300k a week is 15mil a year, 100k a week on 3 players is, well, Mata will already be on way more 100k a week himself(closer to 200k?), add Fellaini. This previous numbers are with huge sponsorship increases, but without Fellaini or Mata's transfers or wages on the books. So 300k a week saving would most likely only offset what those two are on.
Then we have, why wouldn't players be on the same level of wages? What Ronaldo started on at Utd and what Hazard would have started on years later at Chelsea is hugely different amounts.
Utd need top players for central mid and defence, and those players coming in both know how weak Utd are, and how strong the clubs revenues are, that puts them in massively stronger negotiating position, not least because the average wage has moved on massively from when Vidic, Rio, Evra, Carrick, etc, joined.
Thinking you'll get "cheap" wage players to replace these guys is frankly, silly. For every player who leaves, Anderson, Evra, Giggs, Vidic, you need someone BETTER than those players are currently and will be signing them at a time when there is more money in football. Utd wages are higher than they were when those guys signed, money at all their competitors across Europe is higher. A player signing in 2005 and 2014, same quality player in the same situation will be asking for vastly different amounts of money.
The only way losing a bunch of players helps financially is if you get rid of 5 players, NOT getting replacements and saving the difference for a few years. In reality, you lose some players, you buy others, their agents/lawyers/managers know precisely how much money UTd have, what other players are on around Europe, know what they are worth and they'll be on the same or higher wages than those guys are currently. They all signed deals before tv money was huge, before the shirt deal came through, the next batch will all sign knowing about that money and negotiating from that starting point.