Doesn’t help that United keep signing benchwarmers onto new contracts for £100k+ a week then wonder why they don’t want to leave for lower wages to other clubs.Liverpool are like Chelsea. Sneaky ********. Manage to sell their janitor and lunch lady for millions somehow. And the worst part is that the lunch lady will have probably never served a lunch in her life.
Very annoying as a United fan
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Nail on the head. Who the hell would want a crock like Jones on 100k a week? Liverpool and Chelsea seem to have it right at the moment.
Looks like wolves are having to offload too before making moves. Cutrone hopefully will be off - waste of 16m
It does not! Thats why a wage structure is so important. It was crazy that we were paying more in wages that pretty much anyone in the league when our squad was about half the strength of the likes of City and Liverpool at one point. I think the club was so worried about losing what talent they had that they were willing to pay silly contracts to some players which then bumped everyone up.
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Phil Jones would be a steal for Liverpool. They all can play together on the doctor's table.
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That’s what I was thinking as well. United would be close to unstoppable if FFP was an actual thing they implemented and enforced.
Some company for Matip in the treatment room
I mean, we would be if the Glazers didn't **** the club over. We still have massive spending power but apparenly in 2019 we had paid over £800m in interest on the debt so thats probably getting close to 1bn that has been taken out of the club.
There's some mad stuff in this thread. First of all re Mbappe and who can and can't afford him. Pretty much any major club could and would sign him if they had the chance. Mbappe either now or even better, next summer, is an absolute no brainer. He's already one of the best players in the world and imo and the opinion of many people, he's going to go on and establish himself as the best player in the world and also the biggest star in world football. With 1 year on his deal how much would he cost? £100m? £150m? Whatever it is, the moment he puts pen to paper on a contract with another club, his value will increase by 25%. Any club that signs Mbappe could get 5 years service out of him and sell him for more than they paid, offsetting part of what you've paid in wages for him.
As for why we manage to sell fringe players for decent fees compared to a Utd, it has very little to do with wages because we're spending the same money as Utd on wages. For the past 3 seasons our wagebill (and now revenue) is broadly the same as Utd's, in fact it was higher than Utd's in 19/20. Not as extreme as Chelsea but we're quite opportunistic with some of our signings, particularly signings of fringe players. We don't tend to buy many fringe players but the ones we do seem to be players who have short contracts or cheap release clauses that are wanted by mid table sides. The Solanke and Davies signings probably demonstrate that the best - we picked them up cheap, knowing that we could flip them for a big profit if needed. We've sold well because we've sold players that are wanted by other sides and used the loan system well to create a market for these players.
As for why we manage to sell fringe players for decent fees compared to a Utd, it has very little to do with wages because we're spending the same money as Utd on wages. For the past 3 seasons our wagebill (and now revenue) is broadly the same as Utd's, in fact it was higher than Utd's in 19/20. Not as extreme as Chelsea but we're quite opportunistic with some of our signings, particularly signings of fringe players. We don't tend to buy many fringe players but the ones we do seem to be players who have short contracts or cheap release clauses that are wanted by mid table sides. The Solanke and Davies signings probably demonstrate that the best - we picked them up cheap, knowing that we could flip them for a big profit if needed. We've sold well because we've sold players that are wanted by other sides and used the loan system well to create a market for these players.
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Crazy, basically got the club for free.
I think they're meaning you can't afford him in that, other clubs out there will just offer more money in both wages/bonus and transfer fee than what Liverpool would be willing to do.
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Yeah they got really lucky. Don't forget all those interest only buy to let mortgages were doing the rounds which is basically what they did. What a different world pre 2007.
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I’d be livid if we spent £32m on him. He’s no better than Leno.
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Arsenal really are funny with keepers
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Wait so we chose Leno over Martinez, let the better keeper go for £20mil, Leno now reportedly wants out but no one wants to buy him. As a replacement we're signing a keeper probably worse then Leno for more than we let Martinez go for? 
Please let it be trueWait so we chose Leno over Martinez, let the better keeper go for £20mil, Leno now reportedly wants out but no one wants to buy him. As a replacement we're signing a keeper probably worse then Leno for more than we let Martinez go for?
Wait so we chose Leno over Martinez, let the better keeper go for £20mil, Leno now reportedly wants out but no one wants to buy him. As a replacement we're signing a keeper probably worse then Leno for more than we let Martinez go for?
Lols.
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I would rather Neto, who we have been linked with.
To think he went to the euros. Shows how bad our keepers are.
Whatever happened to the glory days of Shilts and Seaman?
To think he went to the euros. Shows how bad our keepers are.
Whatever happened to the glory days of Shilts and Seaman?
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It was better when we had no money. At least we couldn’t pay over the odds for our crap!Wait so we chose Leno over Martinez, let the better keeper go for £20mil, Leno now reportedly wants out but no one wants to buy him. As a replacement we're signing a keeper probably worse then Leno for more than we let Martinez go for?