It’s a tough situation. We either try and sell him now and potentially have to spend 80 million on a replacement or trust Henderson, who’s never played at this level. Or we wait a year, lose him on a free, risk him playing badly because his hearts not in it. Who knows how Henderson will do. May need to spend another 80 million with no incomings.
It’s a lot of money, but I think everyone would have been happy with it before March. Hopefully we can figure out what happened and help him get his mindset right. Personally, I’d make him captain. He might not be the most vocal, but I think he could do with a confidence boost and we don’t really have many options.
I think it’s just a massive commitment and we are in a position where we have so many players on wages that are so far above what they could get else where that it’s is starting to become a huge problem for us.
Look at the defender situation we’re trying to sign Maguire but we currently have 6 centre backs 5 of which seem to be unsellable. We have Sanchez who we have committed another 3 years to and won’t be able to shift.
We’ve just put Rashford on a wage that means he either has to become one of the world best strikers to justify his wage.
I’m a big fan of De Gea but commuting to paying a player for 6 years on a wage that means their is 0% of us been able to sell him if things don’t go well is a mistake. Espicailly when you have bright keeper coming up behind him in the ranks. Doubly so when the player is coming of a disappointing season, and will contribute to what is obviously becoming a massive problem at United which is the spiralling out of control wage demand of players.
Arsenal owners last week said they are a Europa league team that has champions league wage budget.
While we have more income then Arsenal we also have a much higher wage budget, correct me if I’m wrong but I fairly sure we have the second highest wage budget in world football? And we are paying that to a europa league squad and still offering bigger and bigger contracts all the time.
Woodward mentioned last year when the profits where announced that rise is wages where reducing profits, we’ve seen since Sanchez signed the expectations of what players expect in wages has drastically gone up. We are seeing the problems I knew selling players on wages more than they are worth is having in squad numbers.
We need to start getting a grip on our wage structure and we arnt we are doing the exact opposite.