Nobody said they'd win it. City are clearly a better side.
Levy understands (or should do) that if he doesn’t cash in this summer, it is highly likely Eriksen will go for a free next year. Does he want a world class player to go for a free?
But probably Eriksen is quite happy with B and entitled to go down that route. He's seen Ramsey doing it an ending up on £400k a week.
"IT DOESN'T MATTER, WHAT YOU THINK!"
No but nor will he sell for less than what he deems the market value for a player like Eriksen to be. Levy will not be bullied, he'd rather let Eriksen go for free than sell him for anything less than 80m
What is the problem to pay 80m for Eriksen?
He wants to go somewhere to win titles, no offense but with City and Liverpool on current form, United isn't a place where that is guaranteed to happen in the next season or 2.
How can we not? £55M for Ndombele and £45M for Lo Celso probably £25M for Sessingon. £120M give or take spend, we have gotten £10M for Janssen, £20M for Trippier, and possibly £20-25M for Rose. We have had a net or less spend for a few seasons.
We wont pay it
Pretty much this, he didn't cost us the world, and we have certainly have good value from him. Again I think he will sign a new contract (with conditions) IF a club he doesn't deem "exciting" comes in for him.
Like @InLevyITrust says, we have gained money from sales + netted a large amount of money from reaching the CL final last season. We're not short on cash.
“We won’t pay it” based on what? We are negotiating a 80m for Maguire, it is a given we would have paid the same (or roundabouts) for Eriksen. Besides, Woodward would have come out of this as a hero
Come on, it is pretty cool.
Other than money, what reason would Eriksen have to go to you?
Based on the fact that we haven't paid 80m for Maguire have we. Maybe eventually we will but maybe we wont
Maguire is one year into a new 5 year deal, Eriksen is coming into his last year, that's the reason why Maguire is costing so much. If he was in his last year I would say his fee would be around £35M.
They used to win meaningful things with that Ferguson guy.
Agreed, it's very sci-fi.
Perhaps he is not sure RM or Barcelona will be calling in the end of the day - there are other players in the world as well, and places are limited.
How much more than £200K a week would he be offered?
Because we're a monster fecking club.
You mean if he joins Man Utd now? I would have thought at least 300k/w contract for 5 years.
More than Pogba then? Crazy.
Pogba will get more when/if he renews. The contract he signed was in 2016.
Of course he will, no doubt, throw him another £50K a week and reset the timer.
What?
As opposed to the meaningful things he’s won at Spurs?
The market have changed, Pogba joined a while ago and salaries of top players have risen since. Please bear in mind we (if rumours are to be believed) are finalising a 6-year deal for de Gea worth... 375k/w.
If you offer him more money he will shut up for a season or so before he starts his "I want a new challenge" BS.
You know exactly what I am talking about, Pogba has said he wants a "new challenge", his agent has said he wants out. I said at the start of all this Pogba could very well sign a new contract. If United have the same season they had last season what stops Pogba doing exactly the same thing? Pogba has been rumbling about his unhappiness since Jose was in charge.
It has nothing to do with "extra 50K", If we don't improve he will leave as he won't waste his prime years playing for club that's not achieving much. This throw him 50K and he will shut up is just ridiculous.
It really isn't, players and certainly ones with agents like fat face do this constantly to bleed as much money as possible, if Pogba really wanted to leave so badly he wouldn't sign a new contract that would keep his value high. Rooney did the same thing. Player gets more cash, agent gets a big fee, rinse and repeat.
I wouldn't swap Kane for Neymar
How's that meant to help Eriksen with his short term goals of winning trophies and playing in the CL?
Yeah that 50K is going to change everything when he can get shit loads more when he moves to different club.
