January Transfer Window 21/22

Martynt74 said:
I'll admit the post was fairly tongue in cheek rather than quoting specifics, but the Fellaini saga mention above pretty much sums it up.

Obviously rumours are pretty much just that, but there always seems to be stories of United arguing over the price for months and then either caving at the last minute or missing out on a player over what it likely to be a fairly trivial amount. For a club like United i would've said even £10m was fairly trivial had it been identified that it was the right player for the squad.

I should've probably added a third point to my post though that includes "City have shown an interest in a player, so we must gazump them to prove that we're bigger than them"
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Exactly. For one of the richest clubs in the world they’re awful for penny pinching. I use ‘penny’ loosely of course but it happens every transfer window. ‘United offer £32m, club wants £35m, United continue to negotiate.’. If that player gets them one round further in the champions league or one place higher in the PL that £3m they’ve cheaped out on is paid off and more.
 
Martynt74 said:
Obviously rumours are pretty much just that, but there always seems to be stories of United arguing over the price for months and then either caving at the last minute or missing out on a player over what it likely to be a fairly trivial amount. For a club like United i would've said even £10m was fairly trivial had it been identified that it was the right player for the squad.
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The only recent ones I can think of are Sancho (where we offered a great price that they didn't accept and then we got him cheaper the next year so entirely valid and AWB where they wanted to get rid of the Zaha sell on percentage we would have got, at the time that was definitely worth keeping because there were a lot of rumours of him leaving.

Most recently of course with Martial Sevilla only offered half his wage, now they've taken him with us paying nothing. Should we have accepted the first offer?

Businesses don't become successful by just ******* away 10m all the time. I can't think of any players we've missed out on over a trivial amount.
 
Shamikebab said:
Businesses don't become successful by just ******* away 10m all the time. I can't think of any players we've missed out on over a trivial amount.
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Its usually complete speculation that we have missed someone over a few million so who knows how true it is. There are also always the rumours about us being rejected with a bid of X million only for them to go to another club for X - 30% which usually means the original rumours were BS.

It does sound like we paid more for Maguire after waiting to buy him

The area we are truly awful at is selling but part of that is that we overpay for players, pay them too much, kill their value by not playing them or having them underperform in an underperforming team and then wonder why we only get a pittance when they go.
 
Oh and it sounds like we are being quite cheeky and trying to insert a clause into any deal for Lingard that will net us a large payout if he helps them to stay up this season.
 
fez said:
Oh and it sounds like we are being quite cheeky and trying to insert a clause into any deal for Lingard that will net us a large payout if he helps them to stay up this season.
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Seems pretty smart to me, if Newcastle stay up they'll get a lot more money. Why shouldn't we ask for some if we're a big part of it?
 
Shamikebab said:
Seems pretty smart to me, if Newcastle stay up they'll get a lot more money. Why shouldn't we ask for some if we're a big part of it?
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Because we are being cheeky and its the sort of thing that will probably make them look elsewhere. So instead of getting his wages off the books for 6 months we are going to end up just leaving him on the bench at £90k/week for the rest of the season. Its not like we are asking for a small amount either. Sounds like we want about £12m "bonus" along with wages covered and a loan fee.
 
fez said:
Because we are being cheeky and its the sort of thing that will probably make them look elsewhere. So instead of getting his wages off the books for 6 months we are going to end up just leaving him on the bench at £90k/week for the rest of the season. Its not like we are asking for a small amount either. Sounds like we want about £12m "bonus" along with wages covered and a loan fee.
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It's not cheeky at all. What is cheeky is Lingard leaking all these articles about just wanting to play and being concerned about his playtime affecting his chance at the World Cup. If he was actually concerned he would have left last summer. He wanted to sit around for a year and take instagram photos with Ronaldo and then get a big payday in the summer, nobody is buying his ******** now.
 
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