Well within his rights to let his contract run down and get a big sign on fee. He owes nothing to a club or its fans that terms him as an "asset". He should do what's best for him.
If it meant kicking up a fuss and leaving sooner to play to get a shot at England WC team. And if he believes he can still do that from United AND get a good sign on when he leaves, then good for him.
Half the fans here are deluded to believe that every single person should treat the "club" as some saintly charitable entity and do right by it when it has, itself, mostly gone about its operations like a commercial entity. An incompetent one. But a commercial one none the less.
Looks like another case of our delusional feckwit owners holding out for a big fee that we were never going to get and refusing to sanction a much needed sale as a result. I take back the negative things I said about Lingard, it looks like he would have happily accepted a move.
I think it was over priced. The fact that nobody sniffed around tells us that.
player almost out of contract. I think 15m with maybe a few add-ons would have been fair
All true and, lets face it, nothing we haven't seen before.
How long have we been hawking Andreas around with a delusional asking price?
How long did the club chase money for the likes of Rojo and Romero.
I think back to Darmian, who thought for sure he was leaving two summers in a row, only for United to hold out for money that was never coming and end up letting him go for about a third of what we asked Milan for.
The way the club is run beggars belief. We can make our kids and women's team change in portacabins because we don't want to spend on upgrades to Carrington. However, we are happy to pay millions in wages to players who will be lucky if they get two dozen appearances between them every season. Just look at the length of deal we gave Matic! Four years when he was already, obviously, on his last legs.
The costs the club tries to control, as opposed to the ones it doesn't, baffle me. Don't understand it at all.
We could have easily got our wage bill down by a significant amount if we just accepted smaller fees for players, or stopped renewing the deals of unwanted players. Jesse's actually done United a favour by refusing a new deal. Would anyone be surprised if in a couple years time Bailly is still here, Jones is still here and the club are briefing journalists we can't buy any more players until we get some off the wage bill?