Imagine finishing 15th but somehow managing to qualify for next year's CL, only to sell your best player in the summer.
Bruno Fernandes Out?
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He's the only player I'd see as completely unsellable. Take him out of the team this year and sprinkle Ipswich with just a little more luck and we could genuinely be going down. It sounds ridiculous but I think that's clearly the case.
Hopefully we'll be less of a fecking bin fire next year and won't need to rely on one player to drag us through, but that's too much of a risk to take at this point.
Plus the guys a United legend for my money, dragging us through the muck for years surrounded by an ever changing carrousel of human flotsam.
Al Hilal can take a bargain bucket of Mount, Rashy, Sancho, Lindelof & Case for half that cash though. What a deal guys! You've got our fax number.
Hopefully we'll be less of a fecking bin fire next year and won't need to rely on one player to drag us through, but that's too much of a risk to take at this point.
Plus the guys a United legend for my money, dragging us through the muck for years surrounded by an ever changing carrousel of human flotsam.
Al Hilal can take a bargain bucket of Mount, Rashy, Sancho, Lindelof & Case for half that cash though. What a deal guys! You've got our fax number.
I’d be fecking devastated. But no chance do I see him going there.
I just don't trust the club to adequately replace him. If they offer something silly like £100m, then you let Bruno decide. Personally I don't see him being interested anyway.
Ridiculous scenario.
and they get Hojlund free
over 100m I'd definitely sell and use it to rebuild
we're years away from competing for the top trophies
we're years away from competing for the top trophies
I think they would absolutely be offering three figures.
But they pay landscaping for duration of contract.
The thing is, we don't have to sell too many players to be able to buy all the players we need. And if that's not enough, then one of Garnacho or Mainoo could also be sold for another 50m or so. There's no need to sell Bruno.
I can see Bruno still starting at 45 years of age. He's here for the long haul. He ain't going nowhere.
For a 30 year old? I’d imagine they’d offer us enough for it to be seen as a sensible enough offer but him a monumental salary.
Don’t see him going, though. At least not for another 2 years or so. Fernandes doesn’t strike as that type of player (dreams can’t be buy) but the wealth on offer is life changing.
It's been how many years and we're yet to replace Scholes. You think money would get will get you Bruno caliber players?
A thirty year old who is currently playing some of the best football of his life and it's not like Saudi clubs worry about resale value. I think we could get a huge sum.
I hope he tells them no though.
anything close to/above 100M - I’m selling.
He’s turned it on again this season - but he’s 30 and he plays a lot of football/hardly misses any game. Guy has an incredible engine but that toll will be felt eventually.
He’s turned it on again this season - but he’s 30 and he plays a lot of football/hardly misses any game. Guy has an incredible engine but that toll will be felt eventually.
no i just think what i said
I get that, but playing devils advocate, he’s coming of a very good individual season stats wise, his value will never be this high again as he’s entering his 30s, and this might be the only time the Saudis are willing to pay stupid money.
I’d have no issue with letting him go as long as it was an outrageous offer and meant we could totally rebuild our first team as a result. Not sure the offer would be more than £80m anyway so think it’s a nonstarter
No
Nope
He might need to be if he's going to lift the PL trophy for United before he retires.
Need to be at least Liverpool's Coutinho money.
You never know how players fall off when they age. Liverpool sold Coutinho and completed the whole rebuild.
If a crazy offer like that comes in, they would certainly consider it.
Nope unless it’s money that funds Cunha, osimhen, Mbeumo and Wharton
if they are willing to pay you 200m up front with no installments....you'd have to tempted to pull that trigger
So far the offers from Saudi for United players have been terrible, not Dortmund or Italian clubs level of terrible, but not far off!
That's true, although the most important responsibility of the owners, execs, and head coach are to win major trophies in the near term; which obviously can't happen if United are a team who sell their best players. Selling Ronaldo was obviously an outlier since even if he left, we would've still had one of the strongest United teams ever left. Selling Bruno would be completely antithetical to any near term goals of winning any silverware (never mind that Amorim would probably resign since we already know how he feels about it).
I'm absolutely certain he will before he hangs up his boots. He is the heart and soul of this team which is why I can't see him going anywhere no matter the money being offered.
Never knew this thread existed. Basically no unless it is Coutinho money as someone mentioned
mega money, or no
The thing with Liverpool and Coutinho is that Liverpool had shown they could target the right players in previous transfer windows.
They were bringing in technical, press resistant players on a consistent basis that helped take them to the next level. Even when they were getting the signings wrong at times, they were targeting the right things.
We are still yet to show that in the transfer market. Zirkzee is probably the best player we've signed in terms of technical ability/press resistant attributes in recent years, and he still may not be cut out for the league even though, before his injury, he was showing signs of settling in.
This past decade, you could probably count on one hand the amount of times we've sold a player and bought an upgrade, and we're still yet to see if INEOS will place an importance on press resistant qualities that our previous structure didn't. It's a bigger risk for us selling Bruno than it was for Liverpool to sell Coutinho.
They were bringing in technical, press resistant players on a consistent basis that helped take them to the next level. Even when they were getting the signings wrong at times, they were targeting the right things.
We are still yet to show that in the transfer market. Zirkzee is probably the best player we've signed in terms of technical ability/press resistant attributes in recent years, and he still may not be cut out for the league even though, before his injury, he was showing signs of settling in.
This past decade, you could probably count on one hand the amount of times we've sold a player and bought an upgrade, and we're still yet to see if INEOS will place an importance on press resistant qualities that our previous structure didn't. It's a bigger risk for us selling Bruno than it was for Liverpool to sell Coutinho.
Would £100m really be enough? I think he's worth more than that to us. He's our only player anywhere near to being world class, our only creative outlet, our captain, is always fit.. There's a small but not insignificant chance we are as poor next season as this one, even with Bruno, if our summer transfers flop and Amorim doesn't improve things. Whether our recruitment has improved is still to be determined. £100m isn't enough to pay for the increased risk of relegation. If we had our shit together more, finished around 8th and were looking ready for a top four push next season I'd consider the £100m more. But as we are, we really need to ensure we don't drop any deeper and selling our best player right now sounds like a terrible idea. I don't think any club would offer enough money for it to be worth it this summer.
Bruno is by far the best player in the team. However, he will be 31 years old at the start of next season, and is likely to have 2-3 years left at his absolute prime level. I think we have to realise that we will not be title contenders for the next 2-3 years, so selling Bruno and building for the future might be sensible. So for 100 mill I would absolutely sell. Maybe this could help building a relation to the Saudi clubs as well, allowing us to ship unsellable players there for profit, Chelsea-style.
It's Saudi where Duran went for 64m. Bruno is worth 150m in a Saudi market.
Dreams can't be buy
For everything else, there's Saudi oil money
They're welcome to most others!!
Yeah there’s not enough grease to push this transfer through.
Don't think Bruno would go there even if the link was genuine, it's a small time move and he isn't that
Can't they just buy United instead. Jim and Glazers gone and we can keep Bruno.
you've convinced me lets call it 150