Based on this comment only assume you haven't a breeze about finance.
It isn't just £60m, its everything else prior to that as well. Jose spent £350m in transfers, then our wage bill increased nearly double under his tenure, up to £300m.
Are you seriously telling me our wage bill should be 80-90% of our spend? We'd be ran into administration within a few years feck me its ridiculous. We do have other outgoings as well as player salaries, there are other staff to consider as well? Maintenance of training facilities, Old Trafford and god knows what else.
We don't have a bottomless pit to delve into for transfers and wages like you suggest, unless you want to end up like Leeds?
Why are they only off loading players now? - Can I give you an example?
- Lets take Fellaini shall we? Jose publicly stated he wanted him. The club were either not in a hurry to retain his services or didn't value him at what he and his agent valued himself at (salary wise).
- Jose goes public stating he must have Fellaini, he is a vital player to him.
- So where is Ed situation? Rock and a hard place.
- He has to be seen to be supporting his manager but is trying to balance the books, whilst he has a manager demanding centre backs and singling out expensive targets.
If Ed renews, he is mocked and blamed for doing so for retaining an average player. If he lets Fellaini go he is not supporting the manager. It's a lose lose scenario for him.
But we've a crazy fan base that expects both goals to be met in this scenario time and time again.
You want to know why players are kept continually, most likely cause the manager rates the player and admires some quality of theirs. The fact we've retained Smalling, Jones & Young shouldn't come as a surprise at all when Jose routinely favored all 3 over his own investments.
Jose picked Smalling and Jones over Bailly and Lindelof. He favored Young over Shaw (not his signing but you get the gist).
Ole has also spoken out in favor of certain players.
Managers have a massive input to who stays and who goes by an large. So when X player (Fellaini in the example) is demanded £150k for arguments sake...
Who is to blame?
- The manager for demanding the player be Kept?
- The CEO for delivering what his manager requested?