Joel Pereira going out on loan
Mejia signed last season. Radek Vitek, Joe Hugill and Logan Pye from Sunderland and Isak Hanson Aaroen have all been signed this season if your including youth team signings.
He's passed his medical whilst on International duty, and his Dad says he's signed so it's good enough for me
All supporters should as loads of dead wood on high wages need to be shipped out yet.
I doubt there will be many United fans checking an Ins and Outs thread(that probably won't even reach a second page) on the hour every hour for news of certain players(oft referred to as deadwood)leaving United. The next time the Internet crashes it will almost certainly be when Jesse Lingard and/or Phil Jones have left the building!
I was delighted to see Sanchez off the books and will be happy to see the back of quite a few more. Lingard etc....
There might be one or two more in-comings but I doubt there will be any great exodus this window, as we still need squad depth.
I get the point about the squad depth but we have like 5 players in the squad that are not even good enough for that so what’s the point in having them.
Don't be fooled by Ole's reluctance to use certain squad players towards the end of last season, they were all must win games for starters and you keep your best players on unless they are injured, and the drop-off of in fitness levels of the starters and bench players was huge, probably bigger than when players are at peak fitness halfway through a normal season and those just starting pre-season.
Deadwood prevents new players arriving. For example Upamecano won't be done until Smalling has gone.
Not necessarily, if we brought another CB in first Smalling, Jones and Rojo would all know they are further down the pecking order and they'd be more likely to consider moving to clubs they might not have done if the new CB hadn't came in.
I am sure there's work being done as we speak with regards Smalling and Rojo.
Pereira might leave, think Lingard will stay though.
That should be the case, Periera has failed here without question. Lingard was pivotal in 2017/18 season let's not forget. He shouldn't be anywhere near a starter but if he's happy to be a squad player with very little game time then we've had far worse options down the years.
It’s a shame as Lingard is a decent option to have on the bench when he gets his head down and really plays. He’s become distracted and hasn’t prioritised his football in the last couple years. Surely his change in agent means he’s on his way out though.
Who has he been linked to?
Agree with this. He's easily the most useful squad option out of that group that also includes Mata and Pereira.
The thing about Lingard is the money he’s on. We need to get away from drastically overpaying our players and it starts with shipping out the deadwood on big sums
You can add Fred to that I think.
COVID made everyone cautious. Bigger clubs, with few exceptions Chelsea, aren’t raiding the smaller clubs this window. So likely destinations for players we allegedly want to sell dont have the cash. Smalling seems likely to go. I’ll be surprised if any of the others are off the books this summer.
Well - wages. Trimming the wage bill (further) seems like a good idea. Some of those players are on very good money.
That's true enough it just depends on whether we have the numbers or we'd them need to get somebody else in. If we can get someone in on cheaper wages for a similar price as to what we obtain for Lingard then grand. We need to stop over rewarding players for a purple patch and I'm not convinced we've learnt that lesson.
Agreed, Can someone explain why we gave such a huge contracts to Jesse/Jones/Rojo and few others when no club is ready to pay that kind of money to them ?
Bar Dalot and Lingard, they should leave this summer. If the before mentioned leave this summer as well - great. But will take some work to get rid of all.
It’s how we do business.
Why should we give 100K a week salaries to players like Lingard/Rojo in first place?
Because why would they accept less when we’ve got Pogba and De Gea on £300k? McTomminay and Williams make almost £100k.
In that case we shouldnt renew their contracts and find better players for 100K a week wages.My opinion anyway but you may disagree.
I agree. They’re not good enough to play for United but unfortunately someone decided they were a few years ago.
You’re quite literally just making numbers up. Williams and McTominay don’t make anywhere near £100k.
I’m not. Rashford now makes north of £200k, Williams just signed a new deal for north of £50k and McTomminay signed a new deal earlier in the year that was a bumper on his £50k deal, something like £75k wasn’t it? I appreciate they’re some way off £100k but they’re close to that fee than £100k is to £300k, which is what we’re paying the big guns
