In Terms of player sales, we have plenty who i think the club & the fans would feel its a good idea, in many cases the players wouldn't be too sad leaving either so i don't. think its as desperate a situation as media will make out. the following are players, I have thought are players that would hopefully leave permanent in summer, fees i feel aren't entirely unrealistic and reported base salary of players from whats been released (obviously with bonuses etc. they get paid well more than that. I've included De Gea because some may feel with Henderson impressing on loan this may be right time to cash in on David and reduce wage bill.
I'm aware that whats likely to happen is a lot of these players struggle to find a buyer because high wages so would have to go on loan instead so this is more of a hypothetical Player Sales list
Player | Annual Base Wages | Potential Transfer Fee |
Paul Pogba | | £100,000,000 |
David De Gea | | £60,000,000 |
Andreas Pereira | | £25,000,000 |
Phil Jones | | £10,000,000 |
Marcus Rojo | | £3,000,000 |
Chris Smalling | | £12,000,000 |
Jesse Lingard | | £20,000,000 |
Nemanja Matic | | £0 - Contract End |
Timothy Fosu Mensah | | £0 - Contract End |
Cameron Borthwick-Jackson |
| | £0 - Contract End |
Tatith Chong | | £0 - Contract End |
Andre Gomes | | £0 - Contract End |
Lee Grant | | £0 - Contract End |
| | £10,000,000 |
Total | £79,560,000 | £240,000,000 |
A lot of those Players are on loan, never feature, not proven at senior level so most leaving wouldn’t affect our Squad Numbers/ Quality.
- De Gea replaced for free by Henderson. Nice Fee, No Cost to replace, Much lower wages for a younger premier league proven GK
- Pogba leaving looks inevitable, if he leaves along with Lingard, Matic & Pereira - I'd say 3 signings 1CD, 1CM & 1CAM are needed.
- Grant, Jones, Smalling, Rojo, Fosu Mensah, Borthwick, Chong, Gomes Leaving wouldn't really make any difference imo.
- If we got Sanchez and his wages gone for good that would be incredible.
That would be a huge amount off the wage bill (more when you factor bonuses), and one of the biggest transfer fees in, in history with little affect on the 1st Team.
We'd need 4 maybe 5 players in the summer to A. Replace those & . Improve areas like RW. We may even end up with a net spend profit, which if squad is improved and that much dead wood is gone, then great. even with new signings our wage bill would be down Massively and the club & Squad as a whole would look far healthier.
Potential In comings for Summer
Player | Annual Base Wages | Potential Transfer Fee |
Dean Henderson |
£3,900,000 (75k a week, new contract) |
| £0 |
CDM | | £35,000,000 |
| | £45,000,000 |
CM/CAM | | £70,000,000 |
RW | | £100,000,000 |
Igalho (1 year deal, New ST in Summer 2021) | | £5,000,000 |
Total | £28,444,000 a year | £255,000,000 |
Net Spend | -£51,116,000 a year | £15,000,000 |