How many players have we gave new contracts to and sold them a short time later under the Glazers? I'm guessing a grand total of zero. Lingard isn't going to be the first. What our genius negotiators do is give everyone a pay rise which then proceeds to price interested clubs out of the market. My only consolation is that it's WUM newspapers reporting it.I think if Lingard gets a new deal it's really only so his sell on value go up rather than down, he's only got 1 year left so we might not get as much as we'd like,
Sign him up make him, sign a few players and he'll realise he won't play at all and he'll ask to leave, at the moment he could fetch 30m or more,
What a charming way to talk about a current Utd player, you seem really lovely.Is this loser coming back to United?
Don’t forget Matic. Last summer we gave a 31yo (then) and clearly past it Matic a 3-year new contract. So he has another 2 years left and will be here till he’s 34, collecting 6 figures per week, even though his legs haven’t been able to carry him since he turned 30.what is this utter nonsense about offering him a new contract??? have we lost our bloody minds?
So we're going to give another aging player an extension to his contract so he becomes deadwood on our books like Jones, Rojo, Romero...etc
when will these numpties learn?
that is one of the many things about Fergie that i admired.....he knew it was time to let someone goHe has to go. A joke if he stays and gets a new contract.
Amad and Sancho can play at #10 and should be more creative than Lingard.I'd rather keep him and actually rotate him with Bruno so Bruno isn't overplayed if Lingard is ok with being a squad player. But actually rotate. Not 1 game every 3 months. Not Bruno playing 90 minutes 3 times a week for 4 weeks straight. Would much rather have him as a 10 and get rid of someone like Van de Beek who really doesn't provide much as a #10 for us. In fact if we get rid of Lingard I'd say we are lacking a #10 to rotate Bruno sometimes, which is something Lingard is capable of. Front 4 options of:
Cavani, Rashford, Sancho, Bruno, Greenwood, Lingard, James, Amad is a decent blend IMO, and the rest I'm ok with getting rid of. Just we have to use our squad players properly which we haven't been.
Would completely hope that's the case going forward.Secondly, think with the football matters being left to football people should hopefully mean less chances of making poor decisions of extending contracts for players that have no business getting one.
Time for the football people now to really earn their money by moving some of the players that Ole has no intention of playing.
The likes of Lingard and Pereira need to be moved on, it's the best for the club and their careers at this point.So is Jesse leaving or what?
Will he hang around for another year and try to run his contract down?
Rumour is he's not keen to return to West Ham.
Probably will get a new contract, to ensure we don't lose value on him, his wages will then make him unaffordable in the market. Who else is paying Jesse >60k per week?
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Leicester bought Patson Daka, a like for like replacement.You know what. I get the feeling that the player Jesse could give cover for most directly for is Vardy at Leicester.
But A.M is asking £30M for Trippier who is 31y.o with no selling-on value.Athletic claiming that we are asking a 30m fee for Lingard.
I hope this is just posturing, and we will sell him for 20-25m. We do this all the time and refuse to sell at a reasonable fee and then extend players contracts to preserve "value".
Time to reedem hinself
No one is paying £30M for Trippier. Jesse is also on higher wages.But A.M is asking £30M for Trippier who is 31y.o with no selling-on value.
Jesse's an attacker and only 28 and isn't there normally an English tax? So £30M isn't exorbitant.
Because it's cheaper than buying new playersWould completely hope that's the case going forward.
As the Glazer's apparently count every penny, they must surely ask awkward questions about why the feck some of these lucrative contracts are handed out to fringe players.
If the budget is tight this Summer, then the incentive must be there to listen to offers, you would think..
I agree. I thought £30m was the right ball park until I realised he has only one year left on his contract. Honestly I think West Ham will expect to pay £15m, £20m tops.Athletic claiming that we are asking a 30m fee for Lingard.
I hope this is just posturing, and we will sell him for 20-25m. We do this all the time and refuse to sell at a reasonable fee and then extend players contracts to preserve "value".
A.M dont want to sell Trippier, we want rid of JesseBut A.M is asking £30M for Trippier who is 31y.o with no selling-on value.
Jesse's an attacker and only 28 and isn't there normally an English tax? So £30M isn't exorbitant.
It's sad we have to be the fair ones when no one is really ever fair to us.20m is a fair price
We must hope that it is, we'd be doing well to get £15-20m for him. If anything like that is offered we should snap their hands off.Athletic claiming that we are asking a 30m fee for Lingard.
I hope this is just posturing, and we will sell him for 20-25m. We do this all the time and refuse to sell at a reasonable fee and then extend players contracts to preserve "value".
Because they don't want to sell him, totally different situation.But A.M is asking £30M for Trippier who is 31y.o with no selling-on value.
Jesse's an attacker and only 28 and isn't there normally an English tax? So £30M isn't exorbitant.
Exactly - £30mil is reasonableHs is an attacking English player who played an important role in WHU getting European football.
Anything less than 20m would be a joke and that's just because he got 1 year left on his contract.