Willingly? Each of those examples told the club that they would not renew at the end of their current deal, all of which had 12 months left, meaning the club sold them rather than lose them on free transfers.
This is exactly right. But when you ask 'what's the plan?' the answer you get back is 'I'm not in charge of recruitment but they should know'. Basically, the argument seems to be that:
As has already been pointed out, this isn't out of step with other players playing this role
I can tell you with absolute certainty that we won't be a top team before Bruno goes off a cliff edge. He's 31 in September. It'll take years to be competing at the top again and Bruno will be gone by then either way. Imo he's got 1 to at the absolute most 3 seasons before real deterioration sets in. For that simple reason Bruno's presence or absence won't be the determining factor in any United return to the top.
Funny isn't it, as without him this season we'd probably have been relegated. So maybe it's not just about 'will he help us to win titles?' Also, getting top 4 is enormously important and I don't think we should be writing off the possibility of competing for top four in the next few years. And for that we've got a much better chance with Bruno than without him.
It is amusing watching posters tie themselves in knots to advocate for selling Bruno.Based on INEOS early moves, I would say its a promising start. I am especially encouraged by their push for the brightest youth prospects like Kone, Ob-Martin and Enzo Biyik. That said, the real test will be the summer window. If they secure a top-tier striker or two, a #10 and a midfielder while cutting deadwood like Sancho and Rashford, I will be cautiously optimistic about our future.
He doesn't "deserve" a fecking thing because he is not nearly the player that a lot of you on here seem to think he is.
Oh bore off. Literally carried our fecking season, putting in performances every year and some of you are never fecking happy.
"Carried" us to 16th going on 17th. Amazing. Give him the Ballon D'or. The level of delusion in here is astounding.
Ouch, that’s insanely terrible, even more so from his “deeper” role. Not sure what happened to him yesterday - but he lost his head and composure. Amorim playing him in that deeper role also didn’t help at all.
Weirdly, good players can play in bad teams. Just because a team is bad it doesn't automatically mean that all is constituent parts are. Revelatory I know but glad to educate.
Where the feck would we be without him? Relegated. It takes more than one player to make a team. Tell you what let’s fecking just sell everyone, some of you guys are clueless.
Agreed, I think if a decent European club comes in for him, he’ll see it as time and ask to go.
Stop speaking in hypotheticals. Where the feck have we been with him all these years? He has been the focal point of our team throughout all these years and see where we are. Great players elevate everyone around them. Bruno not only does not do anything close to that, he cosnsitently shrinks when the lights are the brightest.
There's a difference between "good" and the level that you and others here believe him to be at. There are many good players. There's very few great players and he is not remotely close to being great.
What the feck are you on about? Is he meant to do it all by himself. He’s been carrying us for years. Without him we’d be fecked. This season we’d be in the fecking Championship. Get a fecking grip.
Dont agree.
Could arguably be relegated without him
Such a boring, circular conversation. There's absolutely no guarantee that we'd be able to buy well enough to compensate for what we'd lose. He's our best player and by some miracle seems willing to stay. We should be pleased about that not wishing him out the door.
There's no argument because United can already barely win a game with him, and we have no idea how the team would be constructed if he weren't part of it.
Considering he was pivotal in almost every good game weve had, I don't think it's a stretch to say that we'd lose. In the few games he's not on the pitch we look far worse.
Honestly probably in the same position.
We needed him yesterday and he didn’t turn up
Agreed about him being our best player, but I guess the conversation is if we sign Cunha & a CF, we’re probably going to be using Bruno as an 8 mostly, in that deeper position.
None of them did
