Old Trafford Naming Rights or Antoine Griezmann

[GJNJ]

After securing Paul Pogba Ed is looking at his phone checking Man Utd's and Pogba's twitter hits and see's Antoine Griezmann has tweeted Pogba saying "Congrats, See you soon...Hopefully , PS. I wish it would rain more in Spain ". The tweet is quickly deleted.... this gets his muppet jucies flowing.

Some minutes later he is fastening his belt back up, he then fields a call from Boddingtons Brewery and they are reopening a new brewery and are going big on advertising. They want naming rights to Old Trafford and will pay £150m over 5 years to name it Boddingtons Old Trafford Stadium.

His first thoughts no because that fans will go ape shit but then thinks with the money he maybe able to trigger Griezmann's buyout clause and pay him for 5 years with the money.

What should Ed do?

Basically if it meant signing a player like Griezmann would anyone be fussed about the naming rights for Old Trafford?

Edit: Didn't realise this needed to be spoon fed and be made literal. This isn't happening, the premise for the question was what are your feelings on the naming rights, how much would it take? Would you not want it on under any circumstances?

I'm wouldn't want us to unless we financially had to but i accept it will be inevitable at some point.

 

[JackRed]

History is more important than any single player

 

[Offside]

I wouldn't have Messi and Neymar at United for the stadium to be called anything other than Old Trafford.

 

[Werder Herzog]

After securing Paul Pogba Ed is looking at his phone checking Man Utd's and Pogba's twitter hits and see's Antoine Griezmann has tweeted Pogba saying "Congrats, See you soon...Hopefully , PS. I wish it would rain more in Spain ". The tweet is quickly deleted.... this gets his muppet jucies flowing.

Some minutes later he is fastening his belt back up, he then fields a call from Boddingtons Brewery and they are reopening a new brewery and are going big on advertising. They want naming rights to Old Trafford and will pay £150m over 5 years to name it Boddingtons Old Trafford Stadium.

His first thoughts no because that fans will go ape shit but then thinks with the money he maybe able to trigger Griezmann's buyout clause and pay him for 5 years with the money.

What should Ed do?

Basically if it meant signing a player like Griezmann would anyone be fussed about the naming rights for Old Trafford?

Wouldn't bother me- all the top sports teams especially state side do it.

 

[Cassidy]

We should never sell out like that, and we don't need to in order to sign Griezmann anyway

 

[NinjaFletch]

We can blatantly afford players of this calibre without doing this.

 

[Dracula]

Who the feck would say no to this question? We should have no problem buying any player in the world without selling our stadiums name

 

[Kill 'em all]

Old Trafford. Only way I would ever accept selling our stadium name was if the club was going under. We can easily afford Griezmann's buyout clause anyway. Our players have to take photos holding a gulf oil bottle with their faces on it. Spare some dignity for crying out loud.

 

[Sky1981]

Wtf is this?

Renaming old Trafford for 1 griezman? U drunk?

 

[CG1010]

No. We already got Pogba and many other super signings this season. Next season I am sure we can afford big signings again without needing to sell stadium naming rights.

 

[The red panther]

He should ask for far more than £150m over 5 years and then when they are willing to increase their offer he should tell them to feck off and say the naming rights are not for sale.

Meanwhile he should use the money from the EPL tv rights, the addidas deal and the chevy deal and sell Rooney to the chinese to buy Griezmann anyway

 

[devilish]

I would rather stick to Valencia and Young then see OT renamed

 

[MJJ]

Why is this in the transfer forum?

 

[Werder Herzog]

Will happen eventually. If there is cash to be had Glazers will milk it.

 

[ChaddyP]

I would rather be relegated than lose the old Trafford name. It's that serious for me.

 

[GimmeAKitKat]

No, not for any player or any fee.

Dont like old grounds selling their names. If your building a new ground and the sponsorship can pay for/towards it, then fair enough, but dont agree with old grounds being changed.

 

[Sigma]

I wouldn't lose any sleep over it, but probably not the best thing to do

 

[dirtygringo]

Better idea: Ed pays the sum of £150mill to buy the naming rights to Atletico's Vincente Calderon Stadium. Come watch Griezmann play at the famous Manchester United Stadium in Madrid

 

[Samid]

I would rather jump from a cliff than sit and watch Old Trafford losing its name.

 

[RedTiger]

After securing Paul Pogba Ed is looking at his phone checking Man Utd's and Pogba's twitter hits and see's Antoine Griezmann has tweeted Pogba saying "Congrats, See you soon...Hopefully , PS. I wish it would rain more in Spain ". The tweet is quickly deleted.... this gets his muppet jucies flowing.

Some minutes later he is fastening his belt back up, he then fields a call from Boddingtons Brewery and they are reopening a new brewery and are going big on advertising. They want naming rights to Old Trafford and will pay £150m over 5 years to name it Boddingtons Old Trafford Stadium.

His first thoughts no because that fans will go ape shit but then thinks with the money he maybe able to trigger Griezmann's buyout clause and pay him for 5 years with the money.

What should Ed do?

Basically if it meant signing a player like Griezmann would anyone be fussed about the naming rights for Old Trafford?

Are you having a laugh? You'd sell the naming rights of Old Trafford for 150m over 5 years?? Mate, if we sell then it would be for 500m minimum.

 

[Robertd0803]

No renaming Old Trafford. And Griezeman annoys the hell out of me so certainly not for him.

 

[villain]

After securing Paul Pogba Ed is looking at his phone checking Man Utd's and Pogba's twitter hits and see's Antoine Griezmann has tweeted Pogba saying "Congrats, See you soon...Hopefully , PS. I wish it would rain more in Spain ". The tweet is quickly deleted.... this gets his muppet jucies flowing.

Some minutes later he is fastening his belt back up, he then fields a call from Boddingtons Brewery and they are reopening a new brewery and are going big on advertising. They want naming rights to Old Trafford and will pay £150m over 5 years to name it Boddingtons Old Trafford Stadium.

His first thoughts no because that fans will go ape shit but then thinks with the money he maybe able to trigger Griezmann's buyout clause and pay him for 5 years with the money.

What should Ed do?

Basically if it meant signing a player like Griezmann would anyone be fussed about the naming rights for Old Trafford?

What a car crash of a thread

 

[Lurpak99]

Some things just aren't for sale, and Old Trafford is one of them.

 

[Ish]

Wtf is this?

Renaming old Trafford for 1 griezman? U drunk?

ouch

 

[TheNewEra]

I'd sell the naming rights of OT for the right price sure.

Get money from all over the business including the Stadium.

If Old Trafford stays in the stadium name I'm not bothered.

 

[Trigg]

Some things just aren't for sale, and Old Trafford is one of them.

So you wouldn't sell the rights for a £1B a year?

Everything has a price.

 

[MartialsBeard]

Yeah why not, Id just ask they keep the name in the new name so wit would be like:

"Adidas Arena Old Trafford"

 

[DOTA]

That's the first time I've thought about Boddingtons in at least ten years.

 

[Theonas]

Oh yea definitely! While we're at it, why not change our colours from red to yellow for a shot at Neymar? And who cares about our crest as long as we win a trophy at the end of season which the signing of Müller will ensure? Seriously, the desperation of some of our fans to sign, sign, sign you'd think we haven't been successful for a century.

 

[Lennon7]

What's with the sudden influx of completely bonkers scenarios on this place

 

[hbgreg]

The see you soon means both are signing for Madrid in a few years, even in this hypothetical scenario.

 

[Lennon7]

Yeah why not, Id just ask they keep the name in the new name so wit would be like:

"Adidas Arena Old Trafford"

No. I'd be livid if our stadium name changed at all.

 

[TheNewEra]

No. I'd be livid if our stadium name changed at all.

Why? would you be livid if your job title changes name too, or your missus changed her hair colour?

 

[GJNJ]

We should never sell out like that, and we don't need to in order to sign Griezmann anyway

We can blatantly afford players of this calibre without doing this.

We could next season, but I doubt we would stump up the cash in this window after signing Pogba. I have always been in the No camp but seems invitable at some point.

 

[ChrisNelson]

Abramovich has never sold out on Stamford Bridge so this gives me confidence Old Trafford is here for a good while yet.

 

[Raees]

Would rather see Valencia's penis than see OT renamed. Feck that shite.

 

[Scholsey2004]

After securing Paul Pogba Ed is looking at his phone checking Man Utd's and Pogba's twitter hits and see's Antoine Griezmann has tweeted Pogba saying "Congrats, See you soon...Hopefully , PS. I wish it would rain more in Spain ". The tweet is quickly deleted.... this gets his muppet jucies flowing.

Some minutes later he is fastening his belt back up, he then fields a call from Boddingtons Brewery and they are reopening a new brewery and are going big on advertising. They want naming rights to Old Trafford and will pay £150m over 5 years to name it Boddingtons Old Trafford Stadium.

His first thoughts no because that fans will go ape shit but then thinks with the money he maybe able to trigger Griezmann's buyout clause and pay him for 5 years with the money.

What should Ed do?

Basically if it meant signing a player like Griezmann would anyone be fussed about the naming rights for Old Trafford?

Do we have to use 'Boddingtons' in this analogy. Cant we be renamed Durex Stadium? We could change our nickname to 'the johnnies'

 

[Noc-Z]

It would bother me. Surely some things are still sacred? Probably not.

 

[Scholsey2004]

Would rather see Valencia's penis than see OT renamed. Feck that shite.

Valencia says no. Sorry.

 

[NotoriousISSY]

Wouldn't be the absolutely end of the world, because it's always going to be known as Old Trafford. The Adidas Arena, or the Aeroflot Stadium might be right by definition if it happened, but in conversation it will always be Old Trafford.