That story is just a smoke screen to cover up our incompetency. If we fans are delusional our former coach certainly knows something about football.
Exactly. Its just PR spin. And people are lapping it up like crazy.
It’s very difficult to believe there is much money left over if/when the De Jong transfer is completed. Get the impression there is only enough for one other significant purchase and deciding who that will be is dependent on how much are Jong costs.
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We already know the maximum it'll cost for De Jong, and apparently we're only €10-20m off that. We should already know the worst case scenario and who else we can realistically sign, and surely if the budget is so tight that €20m is significant we can make it up in sales (or maybe the Glazer cnts could pay back their dividends)
Only delusional people believe that. Everything points to us having smaller budget and relying on outgoings. But no one wants our dross and they don't want to leave. If we even get De Jong at some point before deadline we can afford one more player at most. And that's only if Ajax agree. So it is very likely we end the summer with just one first XI signing.
That's exactly my thought.
Their maximum might exceed ours though and we might be factoring in selling other players in order to sign players other De Jong. And let’s face you couldn’t bank on much from player sales, especially as one of players likely to generate a decent fee is about to leave on loan.
How dare he be so negative…
I have no idea. Could you explain? Are they big spenders in NFL?
Well the club was saving money in January window and decided against players like Diaz to properly back the new manager.
It is (I mean American football) by a country mile the most popular sport in America. It's not about spending (yes, they spend) but how much money they have. A one minute commercial (literally) during halftime in Super Bowl costs millions of dollars. The season lasts only about 5 months months. Forgive me if I am wrong (too lazy to check it out) but out of 10 most watched TV programs in the history of USA TV, six or seven are Super Bowls broadcasts. It is unbelievable. The NFL have some crazy shit of money, couple of years ago they reported over like $10 billion in revenue And Bucs won the title two years ago (they brought Tom Brady to do it)
Yesterday was Jummah too and no one really likes working on Mondays. Tuesday it is.
Our CEO stated that.This is immense
How does somebody work those hours? Especially in such a position of management! Is he doing literally every single thing himself? Does he have admin? How long are his breaks? Does he play haxball in between, and during, his MS Teams meetings? so many questions
I suspect that may be the case too
Just a random hunch based on what Mitten was hinting.
Liked him before he went to Barca, I think he’d suit the PL. can definitely be better than he showed at Barca. Could be a reasonable priced deal I’d imagine
You have absolutely nailed it, we need six signings and not enough money to do it. If we could actually SELL players might feel differently
Yeah no signs of improvement on this front yet
Yep, they don’t care what we think at all.
Totally gutting that no one has been signed in time to bed in on tour but not surprised
Yup does suck, we hear it every summer, managers want all buisness done before pre-season and it never seems to happen. Fair enough DeJong deal I bet is complicated, and it’s clearly a statement if pulled off. But feck me I’d have loved for this to be finished already.
Fans also have to remember due to the departures United are weaker squad than last season's team. All this noise about changes behind the scenes has been a ploy to show that there are still incompetent individuals throughout the entire infrastructure from the glazers down. Confidence towards the board and staff should be an all time low and ETH should be concerned because as it stands he is heading into a pre season without his preferences in signings. Even if FDJ is signed I reiterate he's only realistically replacing Pogba. Slow progress in this regard is no progress when rivals are raising the standard.
Got to wonder given it’s a screen grab from documents used to send to “sponsors” and hopefully ‘new sponser” what did they think that sort of package would contain? I’m sure there were other conversations of the footballing merit of bringing a Paul Pogba in.
Their point was you could have an argument around was that all they cared about, the only thing they wanted to sell was social media interactions and not football results. Which funnily enough likely has a big impact on sponsorships because your club winning things makes you the attractive destination for sponsors and talent, and as we decline, as the fans turn away, as new football fans turn to City/Liverpool et al. what does this kind of focus really achieve and is it still hampering our thought processes in this window.
