We're absolutely awful at selling, likely due to wages.
Helpful when you have no money for fees. I think this would be a good deal for the club - the midfield is the weakest area of the squad and Amrabat would be a welcome addition. While not elite, his passing from deep is much better than our other midfield options, too.
They’re generally all much better players than the shite we’re trying to shift though.
I mean, if you really want to sell you typically do that by lowering the price until you find a buyer. We haven’t been willing to do that. We held out for £45m for Scott McTominay. So it sounds like upgrading on him is not a priority.
Fiorentina would never agree to that. It will be an obligation to buy next season. I hope he’s the real deal.
Exactly! I don't think we're that terrible at selling, it's just we're stuck with a decade of average players underperforming in a disappointing team with high wages and long contracts.
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Unless its a conditional obligation to buy it would be simply considered as sale and won't be of much help in United's FFP issues if they exist .
We haven’t been offering bargain deals though have we? Asking £35m for a 30yo CB and £45m for a bench warming midfielder (McTominay). These don’t sound like bargains irrespective of the salaries. Once you add the salaries they seem quite high demands.
At least we've moved on from fax machines, right?? ( obviously I wouldn't put anything past this club, plus its having the material, i.e. official offer with t and cs, to scan in the first place rather than how you send it..)
Please don’t! Otherwise it will all go quiet on this transfer again.
If VDB was an option he'd have been on the bench in one of these last games. He's had one foot out of the door all summer.
Yes, and a number of people at the time indicated that these were awful miscalculations, but were shot down by being told we didn't understand how negotiation worked.
The football department had one job this summer. Raise as much as possible from sales. They failed.
I’d take them both tbh, him and Gravenberch
There will be an incentive for sure.
If they are going to lose him for free and he doesn’t want to be there they get his wages off their books.
They'll sign him on a year extension and then loan him out with some sort of obligation to buy maybe? Brentford did it with Raya.
Fiorentina player? Check.
Some posters say he’s rubbish some say he’s class we’ll find out I guess
Maguire deal collapsed due to him wanting a bigger payoff. Granted McTominay's price should have been lower. Nobody wants Bailly for free it seems and hopefully VDB will be sold.
I understand he’s had one foot out the door. But I also understand that until both feet our out the door, it’s hard to sign someone if you’re at squad size or FFP limit.
every player we are linked with at least half the caf, and often more, say the player is shite. Then they sign for someone else and often turn out good
Perhaps 6-month loan and a fixed price for Jan? Just an idea. Jan falls under next financial year, no?
We spent more than our budget on the other 3 players. Especially Hojlund and Mount
He isn't.
Except it’s been reported several times that the club’s interest is being overstated by italian media, no later than on the last page for instance
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Haha you bellend Luckhurst. Suck it.
