yes, but let's just stop signing 'potential' on big wages, and managing it so badly. We seem really bad at this for squad players.
Lingard signs new £100k 4 year contract (Sky) | Official: Option to extend for a further year
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) was joined by comedian Ali Woods to look back at the best and worst moments of a rollercoaster season with the annual United Hour Awards.
Has Ten Hag been sacked yet? We're not sure and we hope not, but it's looking more likely as the days pass.
Who should replace him and why is it taking so long to make a decision?
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Great.
We don't throw it away. We invest it on players the manager wants as part of his long term strategy.
is this a late april fools thread or something?
The club cannot be serious
The club cannot be serious
Don't know why but I nearly pissed myself laughing at this one
That makes no sense. Player value is global, not relative to each club. Why should we pay average players more than other clubs just because we can afford to? Sounds like a stupid way to do business and a good way to continue our trend of spending vast sums of money and having nothing to show for it.
Jesus it'll be hard to offload him in a couple of years when we come to our senses.
How much would it cost to buy a squad player of similar quality?
I think it would cost us far more to buy a replacement, than the total increase in wages we give him over 4 years.
Like I read somewhere else, an increase of wage of 50k over 4 years amounts to around 10.4m. Could we buy a similar quality replacement for less?
I think it would cost us far more to buy a replacement, than the total increase in wages we give him over 4 years.
Like I read somewhere else, an increase of wage of 50k over 4 years amounts to around 10.4m. Could we buy a similar quality replacement for less?
Isn't it no wonder we are making no progress as a club when we are giving Jesse fecking Lingard 100k a week. Should be sold in the summer, don't care about this local lad shit and he tries hard...he's not good enough and never will be for Manchester United
Its not global, its relative to a club's income and how much the club can afford to pay their players in weekly wages. This is why clubs have wage structures.
Scandalous
So Lingard is now going to be on more than Tottenham's highest paid player.
We've gone from being the stingiest club in the world in 2010 to the most profligate in 2017.
We've gone from being the stingiest club in the world in 2010 to the most profligate in 2017.
Will be at Sunderland in 3 years
It is because I made a right cats arse of posting it.
Will also make it harder to shift these players in the future when a better alternative comes available. Who else is mad enough to pay £100k for Lingard?
Feck I just offered this guy 35000 a week until 2020 in Football Manager and thought it was too much!
Now we've got that out of the way, you're trying to be pragmatic here so what is going to happen when we are actually after top talent? Basically if we are talking to Griezmann he'd be well within his rights to want 400K a week if we are tossing this kind of money around on medicore squad fillers, it makes a rod for the clubs back when negotiating which is not good business.
Happy for him. A few more rockets at Wembley and it will be worth every penny.
Spurs are horrible on wages. Half their players could easily double their wages by moving elsewhere...and they probably will at some point.
Rival fans will be happier about this news than most United fans, which says it all.
Sounds like you're inventing a straw man of 400k to prove a non-existent point. If we buy Griezmann he would certainly be within his rights to pursue Zlatan/Rooney/Schweinsteiger type numbers.
Fantastic news!
I might be in the minority here but I think he's a fantastic player that will continue to improve as he matures.
I might be in the minority here but I think he's a fantastic player that will continue to improve as he matures.
Shambolic. Wouldn't get in over half the teams and the league and were trebling his wages. feck off.
Great post. Promote immediately.
It's a gamble. I'm assuming his contract was running out so it was either sell for pennies or keep him for another few years. One of the things I was worried about was Jose gutting the team and replacing with mercenaries. So I'm calm about this news.
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It's a not a straw man argument at all, we have just shown that prices are going up when we offer a player like Lingard that kind of money, we just moved the goalposts for what we pay an average nobody, a world class superstar will then surely expect to be the beneficiary of that knock on effect, it's business 101.
The reaction at the wage Even squad players will be paid premium at a club like United - just how it is.
Even squad players will be paid premium at a club like United - just how it is.I believe most of the wages would be paid off by shirt sales in Manchester; and image rights from twitter.
No one, just as no one is mad enough to pay Young £120k, or Rooney £250k, or Jones £80k, or Depay £100k, or Schweinsteiger £250k. The list goes on. Our club is so poorly run but what's worse is we're not learning from our mistakes.
It feels like when France kept picking Dugarry because he was Zidane's bestie, being mates with Pogba poays off!
He has given us more than Rooney or Schweinsteiger over the last 2 years, now that you mention it.
Seriously mate, do you think that people like Lingard and an ancient Carrick can make us win the league?
Those salaries are net salaries.
You're just inventing a false construct to support your non-existent point. What we pay Lingard or Darmian or Rojo, have feck all to do with Griezmann. Each player is evaluated individually relative to their football and brand values.
Bloody hell! That's shockingly money for him. The wages in football will ultimately kill the sport IMO it's simply not sustainable long term.
Presumably it is Lingard who has to pay United £100k a week to be able to play in the team, would make more sense.
Apparently we have a choice between a player of Messi's standard or we have to have Lingard - according to Lingard's fans/apologists there is nothing in between.
They say things come in threes , first Brexit, then Trump, now Lingard, the lunatics really have taken over the asylum.
Just when I thought we may have a chance of winning the league soon, looks like at least another 4 year wait
Apparently we have a choice between a player of Messi's standard or we have to have Lingard - according to Lingard's fans/apologists there is nothing in between.
They say things come in threes , first Brexit, then Trump, now Lingard, the lunatics really have taken over the asylum.
Just when I thought we may have a chance of winning the league soon, looks like at least another 4 year wait
Why? Because he is English maybe? United product? Otherwise he has to be gone.
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