I remember the days when posters talked about whether the 09 and 11 finals could have been won with him in the team.
We do that a lot. Even Murtough was already at the club. This "United" DNA thing is complete bs. Get the people who are the best at their job to do their job for you. It's not hard but we insist on putting bankers, accountants and ex players with no managerial experience to run the club and are surprised when they fail.
Other clubs must be poor judges of talent if they want Rashford and would give him similar money but you're a better judge I guess.
Oh, I see it's the classic other people know better argument. Not worth my time.
The reality is that clubs like PSG and Chelsea would happily pay Rashford 350k a week, especially if he was available on a free transfer as he would be in a year's time. The Athletic has previously reported on a £400k contract offer from PSG made last summer and Chelsea are currently reportedly paying the likes of Sterling approx. £325k a week having payed a transfer fee for him on top of that.
We would need to find an extra 60m+ (minimum) just for a transfer fee for a replacement. Even if the replacement earns 150k less per week (impossible to be honest), that's about 8m a year. So it would take about 8 years to payback that initial 60m excluding interest, so even longer in reality. Also, Rashford actually loves the club and is settled, and he is clearly a positive ambassador for the club's image. It's a no brainer from a financial perspective.
If every top club including Manchester United and most fans rate a player there's certainly something good about him I would think. That's all.
Yeah at least he's performing for us. Sancho, Maguire, DDG and Antony are all bigger issues as far as their wages goes.
To be fair, it’s probably out of his hands at the moment. Can’t bring anyone in until the takeover is sorted and can’t afford to lose anyone until we know we can bring in replacements.
I can give him some slack regarding incoming transfers (because of takeover) but sales should have been way ahead by now. No matter who new owner is, ETH will not change his mind towards some players.
Our squad is already too thin so we can’t afford to lose anymore until we can start to bring players in. Worst case scenario will be the same squad as last time, maybe with a few loan returnees
We have bloated squad. We have to sell few players.
No chance. Fletcher wouldnt have made one iota of a difference. That was prime Barca and Fletcher was average at best, so no way.
Fletcher wasn't average at best.
It's mindboggling really. Any other fans would take him yesterday yet he seems to be questioned by our own.
I still hold the belief that if we had played Nani, Berbatov, and Scholes we could have stood a chance. When Nani and Scholes came on during that game we were able to hold the ball better. I know everyone always gives the excuse that it was just Barca taking their foot off the gas but I watched them enough to know they never took their foot off the gas. Also Berba's hold up play as well as his ability to flick the ball onto other players would have helped us in my opinion. Valencia and Carrick were non-existent that game. Anderson also pocketed Messi not but two months later in a friendly so probably should have played as well thinking about it. As an aside did they ever say why we had to play in our second kit when the game was held in England?
We always kick the can down the road. A case study in poor planning and ineptitude. We have not clue what we are doing beyond new Rashy contract and Mount in my opinion.
The 2011 XI was the same eleven we played in the whole CL run and the PL final run. It was a set XI.
We stuck Park on Messi and Dani Alves duty from what I recall so while the formation had him as a left midfielder he was more in a free role pressing those two. Carrick at that point in time still wasn't that great for us compared to how he was post 201. I think Anderson over Carrick at the time provides the energy you would lose by having Scholes there but it would be a positive trade as Scholes was the only midfielder we had at the time that could pass around their press. Also, I still disagree with Fergie's treatment of Nani that year switching him to the left once Valencia got back as he was one of the most productive wingers in Europe that season and it was pretty much the only season where he predominately played on the right where he was better rather than on the left and then dropping him completely in the final. If people look at the stats for that year Nani had 22 goal contributions in 24 games playing on the right. Even Hazards best ever season saw 31 in 37 and yet we relegated him to his worse position and dropped him. Maddening thinking about it.
No Park didnt do a man marking job like say Phil Jones did on Ronaldo in 2013, or even Park against Milan. And Anderson would be positionally less aware than Carrick, we rarely played Ando and Scholes together.
Transfer window is not just about buying players (where he sucks too). Guy, so far as DoF, managed to loan Henderson, sell Iqbal for 900k, sell Pereira for 10 mil and terminate Ronaldo's contract.
The starting 11 that ended 2011 played some of the best football in the SAF era in my opinion. The players weren't as good as previous teams but the energy and workrate of this team was incredible sprinkled with the obvious quality. Rooney in the hole was playing like the 3rd best player in the world, you couldn't move him out wide in that form.
Can we take this conversation into a relevant thread and not clog up this one?
Credit him for Mount?? Havertz and Kovacic have pretty much been wrapped up by City and Arsenal despite their interest seemingly coming after ours for Mount.
Sorry John.
“Easy” - this ain’t FM pal
What?A guy who had a very high position at the PL is out of his depth
The odds are stacked against our football staff. Not only do they have to operate under the dithering Glazers but they're also having to navigate the summer while the club's future hangs in the balance due to uncertainty over the ownership.
Iqbal never played a game for the club and 10m was probably more than Pereira's market value at the time. Just because he's done well for Fulham since doesn't change that.
Agreed. It's still early days in this window as well. It's not like we're on our 3rd choice player at this point either.
You've a bit of a point with Pereira but he'd been impossible to shift prior that and we've a sell on clause for Iqbal who's obviously not rated at all by the manager.
