So you want a few bullshit rumours “48 hours” “matter of time” etc. to be posted by someone who knows feck all? Then it will definitely happen.
Jadon Sancho| Staying at Dortmund for now
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Dortmund knew they will be posting significant losses and would lose negotiating power once the news it's out. That's probably why they wanted it be done before Aug 10th.
Hopefully now that the results have been announced, they accept that this is a buyers market due to cash issues across Football and sell him to us at whatever price we are comfortable at.
Dortmund knew they will be posting significant losses and would lose negotiating power once the news it's out. That's probably why they wanted it be done before Aug 10th.
Hopefully now that the results have been announced, they accept that this is a buyers market due to cash issues across Football and sell him to us at whatever price we are comfortable at.
Oh, they will sell out their home tickets the moment the restrictions will be lifted (which will be a step by step process anyway). Thinking otherwise means seriously underestimating the demand for both season tickets (their wating list is longer than the number they give out) or match tickets for Borussia Dortmund. They filled out their portion of the stadium tickets rather easily when the global financial crisis hit in 2008 and they will do so in the future (their supporter base has grown by a lot since then).
If I meant it to be funny I'd have posted the smiley
Only thinking of it and how fans would react given how things went down and the scenes we saw in January before Bruno got signed.
Whether it's justified or not, I don't think that level of it is, a lot of anger and venom will be aimed at the board and Ed by association if we end up having a poor window after the strong finish to the season especially after Ole's been vocal about imrpoving the quality in the squad
At the end of the day if the Glazers and Ed don't back Ole the fan backlash will be a lot and rightly so. We are supposed to be a football club before a business.
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Singing about killing him isn't justified, no matter how strongly you feel about his inability to do the job.
I saw a speculative theory on social media that Woodward is trying to facilitate a move for Depay or Zaha to Dortmund as a replacement for Sancho. If we have a sell-on clause in those contracts (e.g. for 25% or resale value as reported here https://www.football365.com/news/wilfried-zaha-deja-vu-man-utd-transfer-clause-palace-price), and Dortmund uses our cash to buy one for 60m euros, that would reduce our effective outlay by about 15m and could make the deal doable. You could even imagine a type of scenario where Dortmund sell Sancho to us, Palace sell Zaha to Dortmund, and we give Palace Lingard (or other deadwood) on the cheap to facilitate the whole thing.
Don't know if any of this is true, but the theory would make some sense and potentially explain why the whole thing is taking so long. It would take a lot longer to negotiate multiple transfers in parallel than just to do a single deal.
Don't know if any of this is true, but the theory would make some sense and potentially explain why the whole thing is taking so long. It would take a lot longer to negotiate multiple transfers in parallel than just to do a single deal.
Nothing about the loss is any news, though. They informed their share holders end of June that they would finish firmly in the red this season with a loss in the ballpark of 50 Mil. €. What they now provided is a more detailed view on the actual numbers which show that while matchday income tanked by a lot, the overall revenue bar transfers is actually nearly the same as last season (they originally expected growth, though), so what really drives the number down is the money they spend on the transfer market, especially in the Winter window, and no transfer income (not only for Sancho but players in general).
Some of the spending in the Winter was definitively with the expectation to make money on the market in the Summer. Then Corvid came and changed the landscape. I have no doubt in my mind that without Corvid Sancho would no longer wear yellow and black right now and they would have already signed a replacement. That was the whole point about the secrecy of Sanchos actual contract length, because he had an agreement to be able to leave if a club payed a certain amount until a certain point in time and a departure with two years left on contract would have simply looked better. The original number that floated around in the Winter was 150 Mil. € which was then probably adjusted down because of the circumstances around Corvid.
Also, its strange Woodward gets all the abuse and not the Glazers. Ultimately, Woodward can only spend what he's sanctioned to do so. It's not his money. I'm 100% confident that if the management have told Ed they absolutely want Sancho and the Glazers tell Woodward the money is there to make it happen, he would get the deal done in an instance. What personal reason would he have not to do the deal?
Precisely. The vitriol he gets is odd. Even if you think he's a big shit at his job, there's only so much he can do in terms of the transfer market.
combined rumors seem to point to this scenario. It's complex if that is the case.
I don’t think any of our players or deadwood would wanna go to Palace, let alone the whole of that scenario happening
Woody has it within his power to swallow his pride and hire a DOf etc
He like the power and enjoys it so he doesn't replace that part of his job. Therefore he is a large part to blame. Shows his big ego imo. If he didn't want to be in the limelight it would have been very easy to maintain his CEO role and step back on the football side of things years ago.
Even our chief negotiator Matt Judge is one of his pals from his old Job. They where both involved in the leveraged takeover of Man United. They are very much to blame. Glazers more so but at the end of the day Ed wastes the money that they do give him by being incompetent.
Liverpool showed what can happen if you get the right people into a club.
Teletext?
Well, you shouldn't have posted it - it's very offensive. I don't know what goes through some people's minds sometimes, to think that's appropriate.
This is the muppet inside me coming out, but from Ole's comments a couple of days ago, I get the feeling his thoughts were all about Sancho. How he talks about we need to be "100% sure when we make them deals" before any transfer is done. Clutching straws, but it seemed like it was carefully given answers without giving too much away.
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Well if Ole doesn't back Ole, then he hasn't a hope in hell to be fair.
I imagine it will something similar to last Summer. Big money signings but only after sales, deals falling through and positions being neglected. I don’t mind the slow rebuild though but sadly we will need to sell before we can buy and we don’t have a Lukaku we can shift for £75m this time. We need to slowly shift shite players for as much as possible.
Great. Still doesn't justify singing about mutilating his corpse though, does it?
Right, my mistake for posting a video of United fans at OT on a United forum, not sure what came through my head.
I guess the rule change since the thread on the scenes at Woodwards house in January flew under my radar since I can't quite remember it being locked or discussion of it being banned
Just a bit ironic how United fans get reprimanded more than rival fans clearly coming on here to troll and WUM it up but I digress
Seems to feel like the deal is faltering a bit, hoping for some form of news
C'mon the video is in bad taste, there's other ways of getting your point across.
There's nothing more Woodward can do, other than use the budgets we have.
Doesn't apply to me!!
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I had just come across it minutes prior and thought of this saga right away and how OTT the fanbase can be when angered but I guess it's more acceptable to describe in text form than video illustration.
Just didn't think it'd be outrage worthy or breaking any rule as I've seen worse posted recently, Pogba being verbally abused off the pitch for one, but I guess that was a lapse in judgment on my part.
Now I know, can't be having unflattering images of the fanbase posted now I suppose.
Dortmund are enjoying being centre stage of the football gossip grapevine this summer. But surely these distractions will also have a negative effect in pre season planning, especially when wide right forward is a key role for a pressing team.
Now I'm interested in knowing what you posted.
The video of United fans singing that glazer Woodward bonfire song
Mass Anti-Woodward chants at Old Trafford
He will sign on the the page number 777, write fast guys.
There is no sell on clause in the Depay deal. We get first refusal only and even that I believe is a gentleman's agreement as the French laws are different.
If I was a body reading expert from that clip my inner muppet died. He didn't sound to upbeat about anything transfer wise, almost like Jose and LVG in previous years. To be fair, this was immediately after the loss so his mind was still on that.
I reckon there are journalists between those who are reliable i.e Fabrizio and WUM's like Castles. Like your Henry Winters, Kavehs etc. A few updates from those kind of sources, who are somewhat in the know would suggest, yeah things are moving foward. Right now it seems neither Utd nor BVB will budge and there is no active dialogue between the clubs.
Tell effin Sancho to put in a transfer request.... I don't see him being interested in moving to United at all. You look at Havertz and he's trying his level best to have his move to Chelsea go through. Not only are we dealing with Dortmund on having paying so much but we are not even doing other deals which are equally important. Sancho alone is not gonna win us the league.
Havertz handed in a transfer request?
Has Havertz handed in a transfer request? I must have missed it!
He hasn't handed in any sort of official transfer request, but he's already agreed personal terms with Chelsea (like Sancho with us), and he's already let Leverkusen know about his desire to leave.
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