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Who? A player coming on free will get a signing on fee. We paid around £14m for a season of Ighalo. £2.5m to loan Weghorst for half a season. Not as simple as you think.
The more things change, the more they stay the same...Surely not
Isn't that just diplomat speak. We are talking could mean anything. Like talking about going out on loan.
We are talking with them. Not that we want to renew them.
That sounds way too good to be true.
No chance we get that offer.
Would treat with a great deal of caution. Often these Turkish clubs' offers are nowhere near as good as they sound if they are real at all - it might be - a bag of sweets and if Martial scores 200 goals in four games we'll start paying you cash money, in Turkish lira, which could eventually reach £7m if he plays 100 years.
It's EUR so knock a mil off. A pathetic fee but shifting the wages will be valuable to us.
Just taking him off the wage bill would be a massive win for the club.
This happens on a regular basis. Fenerbahce know that in the summer his options are plentiful and they will probably lose out. So they would have approached him (if rumour is true) directly, and Martial would have agreed to the contract, and now they want to make sure they get him this transfer window.
I honestly don't think he's going to have many clubs better than fenerbahce interested. He's the definition of 'busted flush'.
Saha was a great player, he was just made of crackers. Martial isn't even close to him.
If anyone wishes to pay a transfer fee for him - definitely.
7 million
I can't see our results being impacted by Martial being here or not. Does anybody believe him being here results in us finishing higher up the table?
don’t think he has the energy/desire/ to do that in his dreams never mind on a football pitch.
Clubs should get together and agree to take players' base salary down to minimum wage, with the rest of it being made up in performance related bonuses. It'd prevent lazy fecks like Martial and Sancho taking the piss
That would be total chaos with in-fighting.
Had a quick gander on Wikipedia so here's a few attacking players with less appearances for United than him:
That's absolute madness. Some of those players are worth 20 Martial's.
That contract extension on ridiculous wages was extremely stupid.
The problem over the last few years is that we always leave it too late. We seem to negotiate contracts when the players have a year left so could leave for free and have all the negotiating power. That's what caused the ridiculous De Gea contract and others.
