37.5 mil + 12.5 mil in potential add-ons. So 37.5m upfront is a bargain, until bonus targets are hit.
Which wingers in the world currently would cost us over £50m though? I genuinely struggle to think of any.
37.5m + 12.5m = 50m. You can't call something cheap if you don't even know what the adds on is.
The 2 contracts up lists no one on there who is starting now needs keeping. Hopefully the youth on there have been given a chance in the next 15 months and some may be worth keeping. Ronaldo if here in 2023 will be too old and slow anyhow. Heaton, Lindelof, Shaw and Mctom could be sold as they offer little value. We can sign better.
And what we need now is almost the same as back then.
Thing with winning mentality, people think that means buying big name players who have won something elsewhere. A lot of the players from our great sides had not won anything when they joined us, but they had that determined, ambitious, fighting attitude. Pogba has won a world cup, leagues with Juventus. I would not say he had a winning mentality. The club also have to be careful when judging what the players actual ambitions are.
Absolutely. It's the thing which set SAF's transfers apart for me, he always seemed to find the right balance of characters to build a successful team.
Oh this lot are far too media obsessed
While I agree, that can't actually happen. It would be chaos.
We need a football structure first and foremost. otherwise we just continue with this mess and replicate the same mistakes, especially the naive hope that a new manager will be the salvation of the club all on their own. We do need a clear out, so Pogba, Mata, Lingard, Jones, Bailly, Matic, Cavani, Martial and Henderson will go either as contracts are up or they are pretty useless and we jsut need to get rid. I suspect Ronnie goes as well, also good. We then probably need a clear out of several other players over next few years, to include possibly Rashford, AWB, Telles and others. We bed in lots of young players, a sprinkle of astute signings, and start to build. It will take time.
To be fair, we have created that recently. Whether or not it will yield any results is another matter. There's no way we can move everyone on in one go, the new manager should align with Murtogh and fletcher, with Ralf probably influencing Murtogh. Our recruitment team is massive, so we definitely will have an absolute laundry list of player we can chose from, just manager haven't really be bold enough in their decisions.
I would argue it not about managers being bold, its that we havent had a clear recruitment process and football philosophy, so basically allow managers to sign who they want. LVG awful signings, Mou awful signings, Ole seemingly overrode recruitment team to buy Magure and AWB, both awful signings. WHoever comes in as manager need to be willing to work within a broader football structure and decision making process. One that should also NOT involve the Glazers or the CEO.
And you’ll wake up with your head in your cornflakesWhat do we need?
Rid of half of this squad at least
In reality, new fullbacks, particularly RB, a new competent CB, mobile CDM, covering ST and of course the coveted RW position.
2022/23 - CDM, CB, ST, RB
Winter/Summer 23 - RW, ST, LB, GK?
15/17 out, 8 in?
That would be progress and a good start
Is a myth it will be chaos. We have a host of young players who are ready to be first team squad players. We need to stop pretending we don't have a host of players we need to cut our losses with and stop wasting summer windows
I think logistically would be chaos, not to mention trying to negotiate deals, whilst trying to do pre-seaon, without a full squad.
If I'm not mistaken City trimmed a host of them who were in or around the first team in pep's second summer window. Plus Chelsea did so the summer window the year Mourinho arrived.
Indeed. CDM, Pogba Replacement, RW, and CF should be our priority additions in the summer to upgrade the first xi. Which we can comfortably fund by trimming the excess in our first team player list.
In today's market for striker/inside forward, 37.5 + 12.5 is a bargain, especially it is rumoured Luis Diaz is on just £56,000-a-week at Anfield. He slotted seamlessly in Liverpool's team and doesn't need half a season to adapt to the league at all.
