Raoila holding it up?
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
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Christ, Sky are abysmal. Agreement not yet reached, what makes you say that? is it the fact that the Mkhitaryan has arrived to train for the club that he is still contracted to? Pretty sure you "heard" that from a twitter picture.
Additionally, transfers take time. Especially ones involving Raiola. Everybody just needs to relax.
Do you honestly think that 70k ish a week is the reason he went to United? - I think he had no problem playing for utd or city. But yes I believe the extra 70k a week (you make it sound like that's a small amount of money) was the tie breaker
Do you honestly that he sets what wages he wants? - do YOU honestly think he had no say on the matter? You think he has no idea what his agent is negotiating and that his agent had him bent over a chair and Alexis has to just take it?
So he's getting a tractor for his club car instead of a Chevrolet?
Raiola 
feck off, Mino!
Knew it.
Mhiki deal could still go either way, there is plenty still left in this yet.
It wasn’t even positivefrom memory, someone asked if he was joining United, and he said No, no - and people took it as a double negative and that he’s joining
only on the Cafe lol."could go either way"...
Wasn't it something like "you never know". I remember it was clutching at straws!It wasn’t even positive
That whole saga left me totally deflated. I decided to skip the whole Pogba thing!
Finally some real journalism
SanchOFF
You guys don't do sarcasm I guess
I mean, relatively speaking it is.
If he picked an extra £70k a week over playing for City, he clearly didn't actually have his heart set on being there.
Think Sanchez will happen regardless, we may just have to pay money if they can’t cough up for Mhkitarayan.
Operation sign Sanchez and Saving Private MkhitaRYAN
Just buy him outright for 30m and when Arsenal finally wakes up we can sell Mkhi to them for the same price.
We're being punished for Arsenals incompetence here.
We're being punished for Arsenals incompetence here.
I know it was about a 1000 pages ago but thanks for the info. Super promising. Glad he's got the summer off for a change.
Should we worry?
Done deal today ! like that was ever going to happen, IF the deal still goes ahead, it will be well into next week before it is finalised
Beginning to look like a 23:59:59 job.
If there are no "hangover" payments involved from sell-on clauses then the FA will have minimal involvement, just need the paperwork received in time - this has less capacity for leaks as it is a small team in FA HQ.
If money has to go through the FA (as is the case when money goes overseas - the FA acts as a "Clearing house" to keep everything above board) then there is much more potential for leaks from the multiple different finance teams involved who could leak to the press.
A swap deal would essentially just involve 2 players registrations being changed over - simple 5 minute task.
Nah, if the Armenian is difficult then I'm certain United and Arsenal will trash out a cash only deal. It's too far gone with Sanchez - no way back for him at Arsenal.
Not surprising as we make a lot of money. We have the highest turnover in the world."Even with Rooney and Schweinsteiger still at Old Trafford, United's wage bill as a percentage of turnover was the lowest in the Premier League last season."
Is that accurate?!
I just hope we give him the #7 soon and completely shut down the bogus Ronaldo story he's using to negotiate better terms at Madrid.
Nope. We're in exactly the same position we were yesterday, and the day before. It's all a matter of time.
No, it's another Mino brief, First Sky saying the representative side of the deal wasn't done, now Mkhi is mentioned as the factor to be resolved.
It's a classic Raiola leak.
Still expecting it this weekend.
Yeah I know, I just never had thought of it that way since we have so many highly paid players.
I don't imagine it depends on Mkhitaryan specifically, but, as Wenger confirmed yesterday, any deal for Sanchez certainly is contingent on Arsenal securing a replacement (whether that's Mkhi or someone else).
Deal isnt going to happen may as well just accept it ,Mhki has clearly decided he hasnt annoyed us enough and is going to reject Arsenal and see out his contract with us no matter what
Damn. I’m guessing he’s going to sign early next week then. I said the same thing a week ago, la.
Sigh...
Sigh... ffs
Yep, Ornstein's reporting on this Sanchez-Mkhi swap has been entirely based on Raiola's briefings. Mkhi could be trying on Arsenal jersey sizes and yet the fat feck would say deal's still not done.
EDIT: Sorry, meant to quote the poster above you.
Clearly Mino doesn't care about keeping us onside
.Seriously though, while I understand his desire to wrangle the best deal out of Arsenal, it's possibly going to be a long wait, given how legendary Arsenal's stinginess is... They're losing Ozil and Sanchez because of it FFS. Taking the Mkhi to think they'll change now!
"could go either way" is not very encouraging
The fact that Wenger has confirmed Mhki’s wages is not a problem, then it must be the agent fee holding things up?
According to Twitter thread, Marca say we have put a stop to that rumour.
This is going to take a while...
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