Transfer Tweets - Manchester United - 2024/25

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I’m presuming all these reports online in the last few hours about Bruno’s agent meeting with Al Hilal regarding summer transfer is nonsense seeing as no one big has picked up the story yet
 
IrishMcD said:
I’m presuming all these reports online in the last few hours about Bruno’s agent meeting with Al Hilal regarding summer transfer is nonsense seeing as no one big has picked up the story yet
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The guy who broke the story in Saudi is quite reliable. First one to mention that Al Hilal were talking to Messis/Neymars agents.
 
the_cliff said:
The guy who broke the story in Saudi is quite reliable. First one to mention that Al Hilal were talking to Messis/Neymars agents.
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Interesting. They’d have to make a huge offer, and honestly he’s the only player we have that could attract a huge Saudi bid. If only we could trust the club to reinvest the fee wisely and make us a stronger team
 
IrishMcD said:
Interesting. They’d have to make a huge offer, and honestly he’s the only player we have that could attract a huge Saudi bid. If only we could trust the club to reinvest the fee wisely and make us a stronger team
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Yeah like taking Wirtz from under nose of Madrid/City, oh crap forgot about Bayern too who cherry pick bundesliga
 
IrishMcD said:
Interesting. They’d have to make a huge offer, and honestly he’s the only player we have that could attract a huge Saudi bid. If only we could trust the club to reinvest the fee wisely and make us a stronger team
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He did just say they are talking to his agent, nothing about if they've come to an agreement or anything. iirc Messi ended up rejecting them and I think Bruno would probably do the same.
 
EtH said:
Would go down like a batch of napalm with the supporters. I don’t think Jim is that brave.
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Think if Bruno does want to leave it would take a monster 100m+ offer for us to accept. Don't see how Jim or anyone sane would reject that tbh.
 
the_cliff said:
He did just say they are talking to his agent, nothing about if they've come to an agreement or anything. iirc Messi ended up rejecting them and I think Bruno would probably do the same.
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Yeah that's a very good point indeed
 
Honestly, selling your only consistent performer within a team full of young inexperienced players and injury prone players seems stupid.

Even if they offer to break British transfer record, considering our poor transfers in recent years, we won't be able to replace him.
 
Even if we did sell him for over £100m, you jus know every player the club would look to bid for would suddenly see their price increase by €20m as they’d know we would be even more desperate than we currently are. Fun times
 
I would not consider anything below £200m; take it or leave it. We will need 2-3 quality players that can give us his output, there is no way we can do that with £100m
 
FrankDrebin said:
Must be a bid over a £100 million to consider.
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The problem is - any half decent player (or sometimes poor player) costs us minimum £50m these days anyway - think of what we spent on Fred, Ugarte, Maguire, AWB, Antony, Mount etc.

Selling Bruno for £100m to fund a rebuild sounds reasonable on paper until you realise that £100m will get us just two players, neither of them are gonna be anywhere near Bruno's quality given our track record.

I do understand sales are profit in the year we sell and buys are spread over many years so selling for £100m could open up further PSR wiggle room this summer, but the principle remains what seems like a big sum doesn't actually go very far in this market.

I think ultimately this comes down to I don't trust our recruitment team to make good singings. And I don't think we're in a position to reliably attract top talent to the club at the moment either. If we had a recruitment team you could trust it might be worth considering.
 
Withnail said:
£100m would be nowhere near enough for Bruno.
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It would, given Bruno's age. £100M and £300k a week freed up (Bruno's current pay) would get you most of the way to Isak. You think we wouldn't swap Bruno for Isak?

I think we'd take £100M and be very happy with it.
 
bb8 said:
It would, given Bruno's age. £100M and £300k a week freed up (Bruno's current pay) would get you most of the way to Isak. You think we wouldn't swap Bruno for Isak?

I think we'd take £100M and be very happy with it.
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There's no guarantee the club would get an adequate replacement for £100m and they'd certainly not get Isak out of Newcastle at that price. Even if we paid an extra £50m to get Isak, and (big if) he was willing to come to United, we'd be ridiculously light in midfield. We'll be light in midfield in any case.

Everyone's talking about strikers and wingers and yeah we need goals but who is our midfield next season?

Bruno/Ugarte/Mainoo?

Cas and Eriksen are done and I don't think Collyer's gonna make it.
 
Anything north of 120m should be seriously considered, but then 2 creative
cm needed to replace Bruno. One should be cherki. Goes without saying buying needs to be done in advance
 
If Bruno does not want to go anywhere no don't sell him even if some club offer more than 100m, but if he fills he wants a new challenge then that a different thing.
 
bb8 said:
It would, given Bruno's age. £100M and £300k a week freed up (Bruno's current pay) would get you most of the way to Isak. You think we wouldn't swap Bruno for Isak?

I think we'd take £100M and be very happy with it.
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You'll get a Cunha and half a dibling for 100m. And both put together won't even be half the player that Bruno is for us.
 
bb8 said:
It would, given Bruno's age. £100M and £300k a week freed up (Bruno's current pay) would get you most of the way to Isak. You think we wouldn't swap Bruno for Isak?

I think we'd take £100M and be very happy with it.
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Agreed. £100M is obviously more than enough for a 30/31 year old midfielder especially on the wages he’s on, but most people on the caf will tell you otherwise though. He’s having a great season by the way, but yeah, £100M the club would be crazy to not snap their hands for it.
 
TsuWave said:
Agreed. £100M is obviously more than enough for a 30/31 year old midfielder especially on the wages he’s on, but most people on the caf will tell you otherwise though. He’s having a great season by the way, but yeah, £100M the club would be crazy to not snap their hands for it.
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But isn't this boiling it down to a ridiculous level? He's not just any 30/31 year old? Why can't you see or understand that? The importance he currently has for us makes him worth a lot more.
 
Judas said:
But isn't this boiling it down to a ridiculous level? He's not just any 30/31 year old? Why can't you see or understand that? The importance he currently has for us makes him worth a lot more.
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Why are you seemingly making my positions for me? - at which point did I say he’s any 30/31 year old? In the paragraph you quoted it says verbatim - “he’s having a great season”. Go check the list of players that moved for £100M and see how many 30/31 year olds are involved. That’s evidently an above market rate valuation for Bruno. He’s on big wages and has a lot of mileage. His form - prior to this season - has fluctuated considerably.

With £100M and his wages off the book United might not find a singular player as productive as him, but it can potentially get a stronger first 11/squad. It’s not as if Bruno gets sold football stops for United or something.

More importantly, I’m not even arguing against the people that wouldn’t sell him. I simply said I would - why would this be something to take up an issue with?
 
Insanity said:
His agent already wants a new contract from us? Greedy feck!!
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good thing we got him until 2028, signed a new deal last year and INEOS will not entertain any new contract demands, Bruno and his agent know this, so these links aren't instigated by the agent, it is probably legit links if we trust the source in Saudi Arabia
 
TsuWave said:
Why are you seemingly making my positions for me? - at which point did I say he’s any 30/31 year old? In the paragraph you quoted it says verbatim - “he’s having a great season”. Go check the list of players that moved for £100M and see how many 30/31 year olds are involved. That’s evidently an above market rate valuation for Bruno. He’s on big wages and has a lot of mileage. His form - prior to this season - has fluctuated considerably.

With £100M and his wages off the book United might not find a singular player as productive as him, but it can potentially get a stronger first 11/squad. It’s not as if Bruno gets sold football stops for United or something.

More importantly, I’m not even arguing against the people that wouldn’t sell him. I simply said I would - why would this be something to take up an issue with?
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You wont get a potentially stronger first 11 with 100m. You live in a fantasy land. City squad is already strong yet they splashed close to 300m last January. 100m can only get you 1 top player from some mid table PL clubs. Heck Dibbling is going to cost north of 40m and hes just a kid playing for a relegated club.
 
OmarUnited4ever said:
good thing we got him until 2028, signed a new deal last year and INEOS will not entertain any new contract demands, Bruno and his agent know this, so these links aren't instigated by the agent, it is probably legit links if we trust the source in Saudi Arabia
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Let's keep our fingers crossed then.

Unpopular opinion, but I would have no issue letting him go even if its for 80m. And I know the likely scenario is that the recruitment team are going to blow it on someone half as good for 1.5x the money, but I think we need to move on from Bruno if we ever want to go back to the top. I am dreamer, who would like to keep believing that they'd eventually get it right, even if it looks like a pipe dream right now.
 
TsuWave said:
Why are you seemingly making my positions for me? - at which point did I say he’s any 30/31 year old? In the paragraph you quoted it says verbatim - “he’s having a great season”. Go check the list of players that moved for £100M and see how many 30/31 year olds are involved. That’s evidently an above market rate valuation for Bruno. He’s on big wages and has a lot of mileage. His form - prior to this season - has fluctuated considerably.

With £100M and his wages off the book United might not find a singular player as productive as him, but it can potentially get a stronger first 11/squad. It’s not as if Bruno gets sold football stops for United or something.

More importantly, I’m not even arguing against the people that wouldn’t sell him. I simply said I would - why would this be something to take up an issue with?
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There is this legitimate fear in the Caf that either a 100M wouldn't be enough to replace Bruno's productivity or the club's recruitment team are not good enough to find the right player(s), so the prevailing thought is that it's easier build a stronger squad around Bruno, and I kinda lean towards that myself.
 
bb8 said:
It would, given Bruno's age. £100M and £300k a week freed up (Bruno's current pay) would get you most of the way to Isak. You think we wouldn't swap Bruno for Isak?

I think we'd take £100M and be very happy with it.
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You think you're replacing a 37 g/a captain for 100m? Tell me, who are you buying?
 
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