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Of course there has. Bit difficult to praise him nowadays, but Wiley's easily one of the greatest rappers of this millenium.
Not sure he was a good rapper, Kano was always clear, but he certainly pushed the UK grime scene to the mainstream.
 

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Not sure he was a good rapper, Kano was always clear, but he certainly pushed the UK grime scene to the mainstream.
Hard to judge for me as a non native speaker but in any case Wiley is also an amazing producer
 

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Is it worth it to hold on to a non-motivated player at a high salary just to use him sparingly off the bench? It’s not, just use a hungry youngster whenever you thought about using Lingard
We are already using hungry youngsters in front of him. But he has still be in 4 of the last 5 match day squads so he's not completely surplus to requirements at this point. The club can easily afford to keep him, so there's no desperation to give him away for nothing, no matter how much you want to see the back of him.
 

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This makes no sense. Lingard will leave on a free in the summer. We may or may not get a loan fee, but it is a huge risk for the sake of a few million quid. We would already save some money if a club pays his full wages on a loan and that should be seen as a reasonable outcome. What the club are doing is greedy and is exactly the reason why we struggled to offload players such as Rojo and Pereira, whilst also allowing players to run down their contract. If anything, it shows the club has not really changed or learned, contrary to what you think.
You said it yourself. The club is not desperate for money, so there's no need to do anyone else a favour and give him away for nothing.

Rojo and Pereira situations were different.
 

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You said it yourself. The club is not desperate for money, so there's no need to do anyone else a favour and give him away for nothing.

Rojo and Pereira situations were different.
It's not a favour is it. If we loan him we save all his wages.

Not loaning him out is basically the same as loaning him ourselves. The idea we'd loan a player like Lingard for the cost of his wages in case he might play an odd game would be ludicrous.
 

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It's not a favour is it. If we loan him we save all his wages.

Not loaning him out is basically the same as loaning him ourselves. The idea we'd loan a player like Lingard for the cost of his wages in case he might play an odd game would be ludicrous.
But what are we saving on his wages for? Him staying or leaving does not and will not affect our future spending in any way.

As I said in my OP, if this move was blocking a new arrival then fair enough, I would also be annoyed.
 

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Anyone else not a have problem with this? Lingard is (depressingly) our most valuable sellable asset, and if we were any other club other than 'gives away players for free' United, no one would bat an eye. Newcastle just paid 30m for Chris f*cking Wood. They proport to be the richest club in the land, and will do anything to survive relegation.

Okay cool, 15m sounds rather reasonable to me. Hell, make it 20m.

Shows the market maybe our clown show has left with the clown in chief, and we're a real football club again.
 

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As much as I want us to sell him, I have to admit that is funny :lol:
 

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They’re offering 2.5m and paying his wages. Absolutely nothing wrong with asking for a bonus if he keeps them up which earns them 120m. Granted 12.5m is crazy but I’m sure an agreement will be found. It’s called a negotiation. All parties want it to happen.
 

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Anyone else not a have problem with this? Lingard is (depressingly) our most valuable sellable asset, and if we were any other club other than 'gives away players for free' United, no one would bat an eye. Newcastle just paid 30m for Chris f*cking Wood. They proport to be the richest club in the land, and will do anything to survive relegation.

Okay cool, 15m sounds rather reasonable to me. Hell, make it 20m.

Shows the market maybe our clown show has left with the clown in chief, and we're a real football club again.
I think its a bit silly. We have to give him away in six months anyway. Bank the money they're offering and let him go.

We're Man Utd. When we sell players its usually because they've failed. Its rare for us to get good prices for them.

If we paid our players less this might be addressed a bit. But such is life.

I think the club is trying to show its not a pushover but they've chosen the wrong battle, again. We look like pretenders rather than serious people.
 

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Anyone else not a have problem with this? Lingard is (depressingly) our most valuable sellable asset, and if we were any other club other than 'gives away players for free' United, no one would bat an eye. Newcastle just paid 30m for Chris f*cking Wood. They proport to be the richest club in the land, and will do anything to survive relegation.

Okay cool, 15m sounds rather reasonable to me. Hell, make it 20m.

Shows the market maybe our clown show has left with the clown in chief, and we're a real football club again.
Feel a bit sorry for Lingard b/c he deserves to go find playing time after effectively being misled by OGS. That said, completely agree with the club’s stance here. We are under no financial pressure to sell as we lose him on a free in 6 months anyway. If NUFC want him so badly then pay through the nose then. At this point I’d take him over Dele any day (who is clearly in a free fall) if I needed an AM to secure PL next season.
 

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Anyone else not a have problem with this? Lingard is (depressingly) our most valuable sellable asset, and if we were any other club other than 'gives away players for free' United, no one would bat an eye. Newcastle just paid 30m for Chris f*cking Wood. They proport to be the richest club in the land, and will do anything to survive relegation.

Okay cool, 15m sounds rather reasonable to me. Hell, make it 20m.

Shows the market maybe our clown show has left with the clown in chief, and we're a real football club again.
Agreed, I don't really care about our position on this.

Martial is already out, likely DVB probably goes out as well, he can be part of the squad if they don't want to pay for him. They're paying feck all for a player of his quality.
 

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About time we started squeezing some balls.

Take newcastle to the fecking cleaners and show lingard who's boss.
 

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Why not? There are several United players there. The ones not on international duty were given a week off
Just seems odd to me that a player who’s barely played for us at all this season and who may be loaned out in the next few days would take a week off right now.
 

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Just seems odd to me that a player who’s barely played for us at all this season and who may be loaned out in the next few days would take a week off right now.
It might be the only chance he gets if it’s straight into a relegation battle
He can fly back if needed, his agent will handle everything
 

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Anyone else not a have problem with this? Lingard is (depressingly) our most valuable sellable asset, and if we were any other club other than 'gives away players for free' United, no one would bat an eye. Newcastle just paid 30m for Chris f*cking Wood. They proport to be the richest club in the land, and will do anything to survive relegation.

Okay cool, 15m sounds rather reasonable to me. Hell, make it 20m.

Shows the market maybe our clown show has left with the clown in chief, and we're a real football club again.
The only clown is your post. What world does it live in to think we’d get 15m-20m on a player who’s free in 6 months. Newcastle may be rich and desperate but they’re not stupid. They will move onto a different target. Take the 5m or whatever it is on offer and move on
 

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The only clown is your post. What world does it live in to think we’d get 15m-20m on a player who’s free in 6 months. Newcastle may be rich and desperate but they’re not stupid. They will move onto a different target. Take the 5m or whatever it is on offer and move on
We'll see. I think Newcastle are very desperate, when you consider what relegation means to their 'project'. There aren't a huge number of proven premier league attacking forwards that would either choose to go there right now or be made available by clubs with their own ambitions at this stage of the season.

Sure, Newcastle can spend 15m on a player from outside the league, but will the acclimatise in a few weeks? No club near Newcastle are going to sell players to them (Burnley aside apparently). The big six have their own demands, and lots of games coming up.

For the sake of 5m, I'm happy for us to try and show we're not the mugs this time around. Newcastle want him, they can afford him. So pony up.
 

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Great bonus. Survival to them is worth more than a loan fee to us. You've got money, pay if you want him. Or take the risk you'll stay up without him.
 

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Anyone else not a have problem with this? Lingard is (depressingly) our most valuable sellable asset, and if we were any other club other than 'gives away players for free' United, no one would bat an eye. Newcastle just paid 30m for Chris f*cking Wood. They proport to be the richest club in the land, and will do anything to survive relegation.

Okay cool, 15m sounds rather reasonable to me. Hell, make it 20m.

Shows the market maybe our clown show has left with the clown in chief, and we're a real football club again.
Your big issue here is you are comparing a 4/5 month loan fee against a permanent acquisition. In 4 months, they still have an asset with Wood, they do not with Lingard, it's that simple
 

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Just seems odd to me that a player who’s barely played for us at all this season and who may be loaned out in the next few days would take a week off right now.
Why would he not? There's no one at Man Utd to train with. While in Dubai he's actually training with other players.
 

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Your big issue here is you are comparing a 4/5 month loan fee against a permanent acquisition. In 4 months, they still have an asset with Wood, they do not with Lingard, it's that simple
Isn't the asset Premier League status?
 

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ma...n-united-transfers-jesse-lingard-21597631.amp

"Ole [Gunnar Solskjaer] made it clear to me quite early in the transfer window that he wanted to keep him.

"So I knew pretty early in the transfer window that he was staying at Manchester United. I had a private conversation with Ole who made it clear that he was staying."

It was ole decision not to sell him.
Why does something David Moyes said keep being brought up as evidence of anything? It certainly doesn't prove that Solskjaer told Lingard he would be getting loads of games this season.

Solskjaer didn't deal with transfers at United so no idea why Moyes was phoning him up. Plus what else would Solskjaer say to the potential buyer of the player he wanted to sell? Of course he would say he wanted to keep him, does it make sense to tell them you want to sell?

Barely played for a calendar year and then loaned out for 6 months, so obviously Ole wasn't looking to make him central to his plans.
 

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We'll see. I think Newcastle are very desperate, when you consider what relegation means to their 'project'. There aren't a huge number of proven premier league attacking forwards that would either choose to go there right now or be made available by clubs with their own ambitions at this stage of the season.

Sure, Newcastle can spend 15m on a player from outside the league, but will the acclimatise in a few weeks? No club near Newcastle are going to sell players to them (Burnley aside apparently). The big six have their own demands, and lots of games coming up.

For the sake of 5m, I'm happy for us to try and show we're not the mugs this time around. Newcastle want him, they can afford him. So pony up.
They go and get Ali on loan instead, whilst we continue to pay for a now very unhappy player to sit on our bench. I hope there’s a compromise because that suits nobody
 

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Made zero sense for us to not let VDB go too and also not to let Jones and Bailly leave for free. But it happened…..
Jones would never have agreed to leave last summer he's sitting on another 2-3 years of his current deal getting a guaranteed salary he won't get elsewhere.

And it would have made zero sense to let Bailly leave for free last summer also. He's a decent 4th choice CB (when fit) and some club somewhere would pay some sort of fee for him.
 

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£50m?! :lol:

Now I can see how we ended up getting taken to the cleaners for Fred and Wan-Bissaka.
 

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Can somebody just feck this idiot out of the club asap.
 

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£50m?! :lol:

Now I can see how we ended up getting taken to the cleaners for Fred and Wan-Bissaka.
This is the crux of our problems in the transfer market, we are rubbish at gauging prices both for buying and selling
 
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