I'm not mad at the others but Phil Jones getting a new 4 year contract last year was criminal. I wouldn't be surprised if he sees out his contract until the summer of 2023.
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Yeah I thought that was a bit dumb, I can believe there's no market for Phil Jones though.
Shocker.
Even though these guys have been pretty poor for us they could definitely do a job for a few teams in the league.
They would never get sold to any of those teams tough
High wages and unrealistic transfer fees
Really? Nothing?!
If true (debatable), more to do with the salary they would demand rather than that they are not competent footballers for lower league sides.
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Grim.
Even for nominal fees?
Jones at Burnley being a former Blackburn player would be brilliant.
No interest in Jones, Rojo, Pereira and Lingard?
Go figure...
Go figure...
But it shall mean that there was interest in Romero, Dalot, Mata - we could at least sell those (and Smalling where interest is officially confirmed)
I see when it's bad news, Sky is now a tier 1 source.
Time to do what Juventus and Barcelona have done with so of their finished players/deadwood and rip up their contracts and take a hit on those clowns of so-called footballers.
But that would be a footballing decision and not a business one and the board, Glazers and Woodward won't think of it like that
Not on the wages they are on you can get better for less investment.
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It’s not the quality that’s the main problem it’s the massive wages we pay these players who are either bang average or crocked. I’m sure theres plenty interest in said players until the potential buyers hear their current salaries.
It all boils down to their wages.
Edit: Seems everyone is in agreement here.
Edit: Seems everyone is in agreement here.
Jones wouldn’t get anywhere near Burnley’s team
If the price is right, there will be interest:
Jesse Lingard: £25M
Andreas Pereira: £20M
Phil Jones: £10M
Marcos Rojo: £5M
Total: £60M
That's over halfway to Sancho.
This, it makes no sense that you see average players at mid-low table clubs across europe selling for 5-15 million, the problem is though with our lot is that their salaries are too much hassle for clubs to take on based on what they can offer ability wise, though I didn't think Pereira was on as much as the others and to be fair to him he has been hit outside of united in la liga.
Jesse Lingard: £100M
Andreas Pereira: £50M
Phil Jones: £30M
Marcos Rojo: £25M
While we’re being ridiculous with fees, I’ve just got us enough for Sancho and Haaland
Well, other clubs have hardly seen them play in the last 3 seasons which can be a questionmark on what buying clubs actually get. None of them have been playing reguraly PL football since forever. What’s their level nowadays? Championship?
I for one am shocked...shocked I say
The crazy thing is Liverpool and Chelsea would probably get even more for them, and yet we can’t even give them away for fecks sake.
Great idea from the powers that be to award Jones a new contact 18 months ago.
That alone is a sackable offense
Least shocking report I have ever seen
Our club need to take a long hard look at how ruthless Chelsea are with moving players on, they dont cling on to players forever in hope of them coming good based on some small bit of form that they had once produced a season or 2 ago like we do with players.
Put yourself in the shoes of any club. Would you pay those prices and make them one of your highest paid players, £100k+ a week? £10m for the permanently injured Jones?
I could easily imagine jones being one of those players that if left united this summer he would end up in league 1 within 2 or 3 seasons
Liverpool are the champions currently. We also sold our players easily when we were top.
Our fans also disparage our squaddies all the time, which also deflates their value.
How many of Liverpool’s bench players are earning close to £100k a week? That’s the main problem and why we usually sell players for dirt cheap so the buying clubs can afford to pay their crazy wages.
Any other top club could easily shift Pereira and Lingard, probably for £10m and £15-20m sums respectively. Liverpool and Chelsea are particularly adept at those sorts of sales.
Rojo is wanted back but we're obviously being idiots and hard balling on the fee. The whole point is to get them off the fecking wage bill, not recoup big fees.
Jones is the only player who should be truly unshiftable. Because he's not capable of playing football any more, and is sat on 75k a week for a contract that lasts for years. No one in world football would give him even a fraction of that contract.
Any competent board would have sold Pereira and Lingard in the first week of the window for nominal fees, even if they were as low as £5m and £15m, and lined up someone like Brooks to replace them.
Rojo is wanted back but we're obviously being idiots and hard balling on the fee. The whole point is to get them off the fecking wage bill, not recoup big fees.
Jones is the only player who should be truly unshiftable. Because he's not capable of playing football any more, and is sat on 75k a week for a contract that lasts for years. No one in world football would give him even a fraction of that contract.
Any competent board would have sold Pereira and Lingard in the first week of the window for nominal fees, even if they were as low as £5m and £15m, and lined up someone like Brooks to replace them.
We should look into loaning out a couple of the players we cannot sell. We could be lucky that they do a good job wherever they go and would then easier be able to sell them next season. Of course this is only possible for players for with contracts longer than 2021
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