Lingard is already contracted until the age of 29, if he gets a new deal he hasn't remotely earned (and he hasn't even remotely earned his current deal either) then it's categorical proof that Woodward, Judge and indeed Ole dont have a fecking clue what's going on or what should be going on.
We set a catastrophically bad precedent with Sanchez's contract. It literally killed our chances of signing or retaining (De Gea and Pogba) any more "galacticos". Even if we had CL football we would have been on a path of financial ruin chasing players like Greizmann or Dybala because of the wage precedent Sanchez set.
Now we're on the "young, hungry and British" path the best single way to feck that plan up is to start massively over inflating the wage structure for those sorts of players, and we already know the transfer fee situation for them is over inflated so we're going to end up doubly fecked.