devilish
Juventus fan who used to support United
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Anyone following certain youtube channels know about the outrage being caused at the prospect of United selling those three players in January. The likes of Goldbridge and Ruby think that we're setting ETH to fail and that we will become a selling club. I disagree
A- I am not anti ETH. However the manager had dictated our transfer market for the past 2 years. This year's signings were underwhelming at best even when the writing was pretty much on the wall (converting an off form no 10 in a deeper role was always going to be risky). Considering our league table position + we're out of Europe in January then ETH's had set himself to fail.
B- United has a history of selling players even in their prime when the attitude is off (Ince, RVN, Beckham and Ronaldo to mention a few). Casemiro has been plagued with injuries for months, Martial has been 'ill' for weeks and its evident that there's friction between Varane and ETH. All of these players are on silly salaries, they are past their prime and haven't shown anything this season to deserve being kept
C-We've been told a million times that January is a seller's market. That should work in our favor for once. The lack of options available might push clubs to spend reasonable decent fees for these players which would help filling our coffers for next summer
D- We're out of the Carabou cup and Europe. That means that we've got far less games then initially forecasted. We can afford trimming the squad at this point
E- This is probably transfer talk. We won't sell those players and if we do then I can see adding at least 1 player (Todibo?) in the mix
A- I am not anti ETH. However the manager had dictated our transfer market for the past 2 years. This year's signings were underwhelming at best even when the writing was pretty much on the wall (converting an off form no 10 in a deeper role was always going to be risky). Considering our league table position + we're out of Europe in January then ETH's had set himself to fail.
B- United has a history of selling players even in their prime when the attitude is off (Ince, RVN, Beckham and Ronaldo to mention a few). Casemiro has been plagued with injuries for months, Martial has been 'ill' for weeks and its evident that there's friction between Varane and ETH. All of these players are on silly salaries, they are past their prime and haven't shown anything this season to deserve being kept
C-We've been told a million times that January is a seller's market. That should work in our favor for once. The lack of options available might push clubs to spend reasonable decent fees for these players which would help filling our coffers for next summer
D- We're out of the Carabou cup and Europe. That means that we've got far less games then initially forecasted. We can afford trimming the squad at this point
E- This is probably transfer talk. We won't sell those players and if we do then I can see adding at least 1 player (Todibo?) in the mix