Bruh they wasted a week on this shite deal.
We flew to Turin ffs
Should have sorted his salary demands day zero.
Surely its not insane to expect the club to be precise and efficient this late in the window?
Adrien Rabiot | signs 1 year deal at Juventus. See you all next year
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We flew to Turin ffs
Should have sorted his salary demands day zero.
Surely its not insane to expect the club to be precise and efficient this late in the window?
Murtough working 18 hour shifts for this
Yeah more mcdred.. great
We don't need an elite midfielder...we need at least a couple of good ones. A solitary midfielder no matter how good won't do it unfortunately
With only the smell of his fingers to keep him going..
Now what
Seems very strange that this dragged on so long- he’s clearly on a massive wage in Turin and not going to want to reduce it to come to a struggling club.
If Juve are really desperate for him to go, then why don’t they subsidise his wages like we have to do to expensive flops over the years. Alternatively give him to us on a free?
If Juve are really desperate for him to go, then why don’t they subsidise his wages like we have to do to expensive flops over the years. Alternatively give him to us on a free?
He's known to be the highest earner in Serie A. With preferable tax in Italy versus the UK.
It'd be absolute naivety for us to think he would walk away from free agency for a mid range wage. Even if its the same, it's still less because of Tax.
Bizarre reactions here. I didn't want rabiot on his own, but him plus another midfielder made sense at 18m. Hes an upgrade and we have to accept that our next step is not a title fight, its getting back to top 4.
Fair enough if we set a wage limit, but nonetheless disappointing if we end up with zero or one midfielders, when we need 2
Fair enough if we set a wage limit, but nonetheless disappointing if we end up with zero or one midfielders, when we need 2
Aye, I'm not sure he'll have that many suitors either (only really Arsenal, iirc, were linked) but yeah, I wouldn't mind him but then again, i am probably living in 2019 or thereabout
Yeah, but i think we headed to Turin at the request of Veronique Rabiot. She didn't want to deal with any intermediaries.
This. My God are they stupid. We need to get a Murtough out trending
I don't care anymore.
I know right incompotent fools, have they not heard about zoom?
Happy this deal is over, some on here were thinking it's Rabiot or McFred and nothing else which was bizarre. They will be more panic and pensioner rumours coming
How are you gonna discuss a transfer with someone for 2 weeks and then bottle it last second
If he is looking for massive wages then I am glad we didn’t capitulate to the demands. I expect he will end up lowering his demands and moving somewhere before the window closes because the World Cup is coming up. Sitting on the bench at Juve where he seems to be out of favour won’t do him any good.
Why would he agree to that? We're not as attractive as Juventus right now and he's a free agent in a year, is he not? Seems a no brainer that he'd want a pay increase.
I'm not too unhappy that we're not overpaying players, but the lack of self awareness from those in charge of transfer dealings at the club is a massive worry. And now we're being linked to casemiro. If you didn't laugh, you'd cry at the ineptitude
I'd rather we pull out than give exorbitant wages to players just to convince them to join us.
Lack of quality midfielders is an issue at this club, but so is overpaid, underperforming players who don't fully want to be here.
We don't fix one problem by adding to the other.
Lack of quality midfielders is an issue at this club, but so is overpaid, underperforming players who don't fully want to be here.
We don't fix one problem by adding to the other.
Let's hope the club has other targets. I wasnt against the signing, but I am against the club being taken to the cleaners by players. So from that perspective, I am glad we're walking away if they are being unreasonable.
Well, for the first time ever, man utd have considered someone's wages to be absurd. Sounds like we don't know what the feck we're doing and are saving every penny to throw at de Jong who doesn't even wanna look our way.
We just have no money. This whole money being saved for FDJ looks to be a smokescreen to show that they tried and the player refused.
Very disappointed this fell through. He's world class at the only thing that matters.
Finished club. Hope EtH bails. This board deserves nothing less.
I have come to peace that whoever we bring this window would be a disaster, so I am glad for one that we did not offer 500k to Rabiot and made another stupid problem for the future.
100% correct.
No point bringing in an elite if he is surrounded by McFred.
A couple of good midfielders could turn out better than one 'Elite'
We did that with Ronaldo last year and look whats going on there now.
I don't think this is what "bottle" means.
Would at least keep the Glazer out sentiment going, and protect the squad from been loaded with panic buys that we'll have to deal with for years to come.
I've been hoping too long.
Not expecting shit from the club tbh. Casemiro ?
Good Luck
Looks to me that they're just throwing out names right now with no intention of actually signing anyone. Who's next ? KDB ? Maybe Bellingham?
Meanwhile players like Bennacer/Caicedo that are actually obtainable aren't anywhere to be seen.
Yeah. We should have been doing this for a few years now but Ed Woodward wanted to show off. Dumbass.
The clown Murtough must have had a deadline to use his airmiles so decided to feck off to Turin for a pointless meeting.
Make that a trip to Barcelona and now Turin that have proven to be absolutely pointless.
Make that a trip to Barcelona and now Turin that have proven to be absolutely pointless.
For the first time man utd consider a wage to be too high lool and amidst that we are panicking and running around like headless chickens.
We were negotiating for 14 days and only now realised he's asking for too much when the windows about to close?
It's clear for all to see. We are not aware of what we are doing.
As i was reading that, i was thinking might as well aim for KdB, Rodri while we're at it. It's so scattergun and chaotic, one can only laugh
(or cry!)I'm getting 2013 'Returning to Manchester for URGENT transfer business' vibes
Agreed
Very disappointed this fell through. He's world class at the only thing that matters.
If he wanted mad money we were right to walk away.
The issue is that there is genuinely no transfer plan.
The issue is that there is genuinely no transfer plan.
Because one party doesn't budge from an unreasonable position?
It is exactly what we SHOULD be doing, we shouldn't be shelling out desperation money.
I'm sure he will if no other signings arrive. Walk away and rebuild his reputation elsewhere. Murtough and Arnold have absolutely shafted him.
When converting from Euros to pounds and adjusting for the fact that they list their salaries after tax and not before; this is around £294k per week pre-tax that he’s asking for which would put him as our 4th highest earner behind only Ronaldo, Sancho & DDG which is ludicrous for a player of his quality (or lack of).
The commission request is also truly outrageous and utterly laughable.
The commission request is also truly outrageous and utterly laughable.
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feck that, feck him and his mother
We're desperate but not that desperate. He'll join another team on a free for less than he currently earns at Juve next summer.
feck signing up for another high earning piece of future deadwood
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