Mrs Smoker
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Very cool.
I agree, but you could also say that the club are protecting themselves.It shouldn't be one way. If Maguire has shit season will he agree to take pay cut?
Ha, bless.I agree, but you could also say that the club are protecting themselves.
If we spend £80m on PP and then he decides he wants to leave, United will want to recover the money and some?
But looking at it logically, no defender is worth £80m. It is selfish from the club because Leicester are not going to challenge top 4 or titles (yes they won it I know) but when a player who thinks he should be playing for a club that challenges, wants to leave and says I want to leave the club should turn around and say we will let you go. They are making money of him, they will be getting good fee to get another player.
With PP, the reason we are not letting him go is that we know with a couple signings we can challenge the top teams so he will get an opportunity to win things. His reason for wanting to go is lack of club ambition.
This is a good point and i suppose is no coincidence that we've seen 4 of our youth team attend the pre-season tour.It will balance itself out soon enough. All it means is that you will likely see more talent signed at youth level rather than as pros. Utd have been snapping up youngsters this summer, and the signs on our current team already show the benefit. While a team like Leicester will maybe have one guy that talented, utd could have 4 or 5 that can eventually make the first team. It feels more like how the transfer window was in the 90s. You will not see us spend on 6 players in a window anymore. City won't be able to do this either. So finding the right player will take more time and work to set up. I also see a future of more free transfers, so at the end of the day, clubs will wait to sign players when their contracts run out, and players will hold out till their contracts run out, where big clubs can still snap them up.
I don’t disagree but I also think then that clubs will keep their hands in their pockets more then and the huge money built up will not be put back into the clubs.Transfer fees have reached the realistic ceiling now and the market is screwed up. When Newcastle value a young unproven midfielder who has played a handful of games at £50m, its time to re-evaluate and wonder how much better he actually is than your young academy prospect. Premier League clubs are all loaded and don't need to sell.
Having said that next week will probably be insane, but hopefully this is a sign that transfer fees will start to fall.
The positive would be that all this money could go towards the youth development, facilities and scouting, and the "properly run clubs" would shift into that direction, but likely is the majority would just keep it and not reinvest.I don’t disagree but I also think then that clubs will keep their hands in their pockets more then and the huge money built up will not be put back into the clubs.
Overall very good post but I agree with this section the most.Unwilling Selling Clubs
Politically European clubs have always been resistant to the Premier League, jealous of its finances, greedy of its finances, threatened by its finances, threats realised in 2018-2019.
Add to that the potential for inceased political rivalry from Brexit - the history of economic break-ups shows its permeation of all aspects of culture - and there is zero favourability towards selling to British clubs.
It's because Woodward is shit, obviously.Tweet
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It did feel as if it was a shockingly quiet transfer window, though I was half thinking it was just United being shit at making transfers. So why is it that at a time when the premier league has more money than ever, are teams struggling so hard to complete any transfers? I understand it being difficult for premier league teams to buy from other premier league teams, with every team being able to demand "feck off" fees for players if a team truly wants them because they never need to sell, but you would think it should make it much easier to sign players from the rest of Europe.
Looking around the premier league, look at the number of signings per club. Sheffield United and Villa made by far the most signings (5 & 10), Watford and West Ham on 4 signings each but the rest being 3 signings or fewer, for a total of 59 so far. Not sure where everything goes from here, but it's interesting none the less that with all the money the premier league was getting led to the mid table teams getting a lot stronger initially to now basically nobody being able to complete signings.
Totally.It's because Woodward is shit, obviously.
Why not? There are very few really exceptional footballers but lots of really good ones. There is a lot of knowledge going about of what makes a top athlete, and kids are being primed for professional football almost from birth. A lot of teams can compile a squad of really good to great footballers, so to be the best, you need to be better than the rest at making them singWould it be fair to say that playing style is more important than ever? So it's more about getting the manager to come up with a way of playing that beats the opponent than trying to have the better individual players?
Yes I agree, people might get caught up in the headlines but pound against the euro and dollar is the same as 2017, basically gone sideways the whole time. The weaker pound didn't stop a flurry of activity in the last two seasons. The brexit deadline is looming but I'd say it's more about reaching an impasse in transfer fees, wages and agent fees, plus bans and packed squads doing relatively well.I’d also say everyone is overestimating the economic impact of Brexit on this summer’s window. Of course the weakness of the pound has a slight effect but not to the impact of killing transfers stone dead,