We signed five players in LVG's second summer, and six during his first summer. We signed four players in Mourinho's first summer.
People would say we always get three players max, but it's just not true. It depends on circumstances.
£20m Summer Transfer Budget
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People would say we always get three players max, but it's just not true. It depends on circumstances.
i think that happened around 10 years ago. @Spoony ?
Yeah that was probably around 2007.
The best thing about this story is it’s in an article stating our top targets are Kane and rice 
Wasn't it the Kaka story that got into The Sun?
I very much doubt anyone believes it.Is anyone stupid enough to believe that’s our budget?
I'd expect (hope) this will be the biggest summer spluge in the history of our club, especially with the £70 million a year saved through players leaving/released.
The thread is in the classics forum. Even Berlusconi had to deny the rumours.
The only way.
There is always the Juventus model of a free infinite loan deal with the option to buy after 10 years.
Then the rumour to start is that some journalist we don't like have only used redcafe as a source for the last decade.
So we will do a City and cook the books?
That’s still dreadful
20m plus fees from sales… so maybe £10m-15m for Henderson.. and maybe £10m for martial. That’s it.
Wages freed up will surely have to be spent on the wages of incoming players
Maybe if we keep leaking this instead of headlines about, "war chests" we wouldn't have to sign players for 150% their value.
‘‘WE CAN DO THINGS IN THE TRANSFER MARKET THAT OTHER CLUBS CAN ONLY DREAM OF. WATCH THIS SPACE’’.
I don't see what the problem is guys. We got Dwight Yorke for 12.6m. That leaves around 7m++ for us to then get Bebe.
Is it better than telling the whole world money isn’t a problem. Looks like we are learning . Good riddance Woodward
I must have ran an abundance of clubs into the gutter on deals like that
Yet, we all know best
Takes all the pennos, done dealio
Turty tree and a turd
Amazing that this nonsense has got this much discussion.
It's that time of season where someone will create a thread of the sales we'll make, and estimate an utterly hilarious total we'll apparently bring in.
Made more difficult this year by the likes of Cavani,Lingard, Mata, Matic (i assume?) and Pogba being out of contract. As otherwise they'd suggest we'd be looking at 120m for that lot.
Actually, wow, if those 5 do go for free (although I suspect we'll sign at least 2 of them back up), that's one big reduction to the squad.
Made more difficult this year by the likes of Cavani,Lingard, Mata, Matic (i assume?) and Pogba being out of contract. As otherwise they'd suggest we'd be looking at 120m for that lot.
Actually, wow, if those 5 do go for free (although I suspect we'll sign at least 2 of them back up), that's one big reduction to the squad.
Who here was arguing that we only spent 28m last summer or something like that?
Go on then, what’s my agenda?! I’m curious….
I certainly didn’t mention Rice, nor would I support such a signing for that much.
100%. Complete bollocks.
Hope for the best, expect the worst. I would think 3/4 signings tops.
We seem to have learned from the mistakes made under LVG.
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Why do people even bother posting this rubbish.
Do they actually think it's true.
Ban them.
Do they actually think it's true.
Ban them.
Being a sports journalist is an easy job, you can write anything and basically cover yourself with "sources from the club".
There needs to be some accountability from these rags
There needs to be some accountability from these rags
I don't think that there's a right or wrong when it comes to signing a certain amount of players.
Sure, in a good situation, when you have a good team, you don't want to disrupt it by making too many signings at the same time.
If you don't have a good team, then there's nothing to disrupt. And if you plan to sign a large number of players over the next few transfer windows anyway, then you might as well get as many as you can in early.
How many can you get? Obviously it depends on the targets, their availability and their prices. If you go for big names mostly, of course it will be hard to afford many at the same time.
I said "Damn it Glazer, I ain't got no tree fiddy"
Anything is possible on simulation games. Remember a bug in championship manager 03/04 where you could create a new manager at a different team, put a player you wanted in the youth team, swap back to your real team and sign them on a free transfer as the game considered them to have youth contracts
Does that actually work in that game?
I can remember CM 95/96 you could change the transfer offer even after it had been accepted, offer 20m wait for the offer to be accepted then change the offer to zero and sign basically whoever you wanted. Signed the deadly strike duo of Shearer and Bierhoff for nothing.Anything is possible on simulation games. Remember a bug in championship manager 03/04 where you could create a new manager at a different team, put a player you wanted in the youth team, swap back to your real team and sign them on a free transfer as the game considered them to have youth contracts
Has Daniel Levy bought the club from the Glazers?
Not enough unless a player like Kamara on a free is added on top. Or if Ralf has some gems.
Well it's a lot more than the £20M mentioned in this ridiculous thread, isn't it.
McDonnell also said Rangnick would have £100m to spend in January. Pointless posting this nonsense.
This is a piece from a Guardian article a few years ago that highlighted myths about how football transfers work:
Clubs don't have one budget for transfer fees and another random budget for every other part of the transfer's cost. Free transfers don't magically have zero impact on what else you can spend in the summer, as if only nominal fees count but not wages. Just ignore these yearly stories.
Not suggesting that this is necessarily true but if we lost Pogba, Matic, Mata, Lingard ,Cavani and maybe a few others, that should free up a lot in terms of salaries. If we can buy good players without ridiculous wage demands, we should be able to spend 150 million plus in my opinion. We will need to anyway to try and make sure we have enough depth in the squad
Would not put it past the Glazers