Jose Mourinho admits he is powerless to stop Marouane Fellaini leaving Manchester United
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How dare you suggest we actually have a team of economists that budget for this thing! Don't you realise the whole club is finely balanced on Fellani's wages and we don't actually have different budgets for different departments? We could be looking at administration if we don't meet our yearly Bovril sale targets. You won't be laughing when tickets prices go up to £1000 per game to offset next seasons warm winter training camp.Fellainis wages have absolutely zero corellation with ticket prices? Did we raise our ticket prices from January onwards because we signed Sanchez and are paying him ridiculous money?
Players wages will come out of a completely different budget than all of the above, you surely cannot be serious.
I've heard it all now, blaming Fellaini for reduced investment in our training facilities and stadium. I don't even rate him but this is just ridiculous.
The state of this club. .
We were so close to being rid of this footballing atrocity and getting in two quality new CM's, now we are going to have two more years of giving up playing footbal with 30 minutes to go and throwing on a big lump to play Stokeball to.
Even worse a channel with his passing and ball control
That boat has already sailed with Lingard getting 150 K a week and of course it is small change compared to the money we are paying Sanchez a week.
Every player in the squad is already looking at Sanchez's pay and thinking that they are grossly underpaid. That's what happens when you smash your salary structure for one player.
To be fair on most occasions we aren't playing much football even before he comes on. Its usually because our tactics to contain haven't worked.
I take it you don't actually watch his passing, and ball control ?
No, I actually have on more occasions than I care to remember.
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I have no problem with that you don’t like him, he’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but to label him “anti United” and a “fraud” is from my perspective a sign of lack of maturity. I like that you have a strong opinion about our players and that you want us to be successful, we are on the same page, but sometimes in life patience is a good thing to have.
All reports and the majority of the posters on Redcafe agrees that we need at least one, probably two new fullbacks. We also need to bring in one quality midfielder, someone who can challange Herrera and hopefully can compliment Matic. That’s a lot of money. Right winger? Maybe keeping Fellaini a year or two as a cover and plan B gives us flexibility if we going for the expensive options.
Fellaini is a very good pick when we need aerial presence in the boxes. He can score goals but he can also defend when the opposition go all in late in the games. Don’t underestimate his contributions.
We all want United back at the top but I fully expect it will take at least two more summer transfer windows before we are there.
Stop fighting it Jose. Just let him go. You know it's the right thing to do. Seriously all he is is a bench option. He should never start games, so should be paid accordingly.
I love that clip.
I'll be frustrated as feck if he signs a new contract. Our plan b should never be "lump it forward to the tall guy".
He's not our plan B, he's our plan C or plan D at best.I love that clip.
I'll be frustrated as feck if he signs a new contract. Our plan b should never be "lump it forward to the tall guy".
Bravo, how long have you been saving that ?
There's so much football snobbery on these boards at times it's laughable, do you not appreciate how much skill it takes to run(at pace I might add)diagonally from the right-hand corner of your own penalty area to play the ball out inch perfectly over the half-way line, deary me
Bravo, how long have you been saving that ?
There's so much football snobbery on these boards at times it's laughable, do you not appreciate how much skill it takes to run(at pace I might add)diagonally from the right-hard corner of your own penalty area to play the ball out inch perfectly over the half-way line, deary me
To be honest, I just needed an excuse to post that, and your comment was very inviting. That gif always gets me.The club has a finite amount of money that it can spend and money squandered will result in either higher prices or lower investment in salaries, transfer fee's or infrastructure. Just like if you squandering £100 on a fruit machine it means that you'll have to either work more hours, buy less things or save less money.
Players wages will come out of a completely different budget than all of the above, you surely cannot be serious.
I've heard it all now, blaming Fellaini for reduced investment in our training facilities and stadium. I don't even rate him but this is just ridiculous.
If you accept this as common sense and also accept that as a United fan you want to see the club utilise its resources in the best way possible for the present and future of the club... Then you'll also accept that overpaying a player £4m per season is ludicrous.
Unless you believe that this £4m per annum grows from Fellaini's Afro and therefore is income generated as a direct result of him...?
/Edit - Hell even if it had literally zero effect on Man Utd I'd prefer the club ran itself in a responsible way and gave the £4m to the MU Foundation. At least that would have a discernible benefit to the community.
I just don't think that some United fans understand the rules of Rugby, sometimes you have to play for touch
i really really hope we replace him. He's not deserved all the abuse he's got over the years, but he's only been good in patches, and was never going to set the world alight for us. Take the China money you mop headed elbow machine.
So you think it would be a massive coup for a club like United to sign Fellaini for 3 more years?
Desperate for Fellaini to stay, happy for Martial to go.
Mourinho.
Mourinho.
The poster you responded was joking.
Didn’t see any white text...to be fair.
Or maybe he is desperate for both to stay and both are at different stages of their negotiations?
Why is he fighting to keep this lump?
We don’t want him, the club doesn’t want him, just stop already.
We don’t want him, the club doesn’t want him, just stop already.
We gave Lingard 100k per week.
not with this current condition where £30ish millions is the bare minimum for a decent footballer.
Lingard is a first team regular, Fellaini is a backup player.
Comparing what we pay Lingard to what Fellaini is demanding is like comparing Herrera and Pogba.
That would leave our current 3 in midfield, the two youngsters, new signing and fellaini. That's too many bodies and youngsters would just want out again. Let him go and trust the younger players to cover if a new signing doesn't work out.
IMHO we have a set budget. If Fellaini goes then we need to replace him, if he stays then we have enough bodies and quality in the midfield to look at other areas that need strengthening.
I'm also surprised why United don't want to sign at least 3 year contract with him. Get him to pen the deal this year and sell him next summer*
* Fifa career mode trick
7 for 3 doesn't sound too bad to me at all, in the past we usually had around 5 for 2 positions.
I just dont see the benefit for Jose taking any risks. The media and our own fans would jump on him at our slightest down turn in form as it is.
Sad times for Manchester United FC. Must be full of himself to be discussing his negotiating leverage in ongoing discussions. Can't believe Jose is going to let Fellaini bend us over a barrel. Even Ronaldo wouldn't say such
I don't get the logic that we should sign a world class player to replace Fellaini. If we're replacing Fellaini/Carrick then we would be looking for rotation level players. No hot prospect is signing with us if our intention is to play him every other week
Fellaini is over here properly mugging the club off publicly for a new deal while Mourinho grovels at his feet to keep him...
Yet the same man is marshalling a talent like Martial out the exit door,what's happening to my club??
Yet the same man is marshalling a talent like Martial out the exit door,what's happening to my club??
The state of them quotes
Those quotes.
From those quotes I'm hoping Fellaini sets unrealistic wage expectations and we bid farewell.
Wow - if that quote is true, I don't care anymore and he can leave. Even if he is ready to play for free i don't want him
Don't like that negotiations should be a private matter. Saying that he's not wrong, the club did feck up and they'll have to pay for it if they want to keep him
Those are not good comments at all but there does seem to have been a theme in recent years of leaving it very late to renew/extend contracts. Would hate to think about better players than Fellaini having similar thoughts.