Where has all this money come from!?

[Compton22]

One minute, we're needing to raise funds through player sales. Now here we are, possibly about to spend well over 100m on players.

Where is it coming from?

 

[The Cat]

One minute, we're needing to raise funds through player sales. Now here we are, possibly about to spend well over 100m on players.

Where is it coming from?

Levers.

 

[balaks]

One minute, we're needing to raise funds through player sales. Now here we are, possibly about to spend well over 100m on players.

Where is it coming from?

Panic

 

[Samid]

Michael Knighton's pocket

 

[Skills]

Doesn't the club hold about £200m in cash?

 

[clarkydaz]

New York investment

 

[ThemanGiggsy]

scared of the bad press they have been getting pounded with this month and protests planned on Monday.

trying to save face

 

[horsechoker]

Crime

 

[Ldn FanBoy]

It was always there! They was just being tight! And the threat of the protests getting nasty they're now mass panic buying!

 

[AndySmith1990]

Perhaps it's partly a desperate ploy from the Glazers to appease Ronaldo and convince him we're ambitious and he should stay

Also, obviously we're a laughing stock, we're bottom of the table, and we desperately need some quality players for Ten Hag to make his system work

 

[K Stand Knut]

scared of the bad press they have been getting pounded with this month and protests planned on Monday.

trying to save face

This.

Knowing the protests are starting to gather pace and momentum and that the majority of fans will forget everything bad until next summer if they splurge now and pretend that they invest

 

[Yakuza_devils]

Glazers returned all the dividends to appease the fans.

 

[Adam-Utd]

Murtough pulled his lever and spunked up 100m

 

[Jev]

We were always ready to spend 70 million on FDJ, on top of 50 for Martinez and 15 for Malacia, plus whatever else we were planning, we were bidding big for Antony earlier in the summer. This is nothing new, money was always there, as they always have been.

 

[spiriticon]

Yeah the money was always there, waiting to be spent on FDJ. Apart from overpaying for Lisandro, we have spent close to f all this summer.

If we get FDJ as well this window, then you start to wonder where the money is coming from. In that case, probably next summer's budget knowing the Glazers.

 

[amolbhatia50k]

They're feeling the heat. They know this gets fans off their backs.

 

[BeltUp]

It isn't money - it's credit that will have to paid off with money at some point in the future.

 

[MinGin]

I do think the money is always here until those put into Glazers pocket. We are not like that Spanish Lever club.....
Also, big salary saved from let go Pogba, Lingard, Cavani, Mata, Matic etc...

Glazer don't want to invest the team and think the squad can be competed with big spent Chelsea, Spurs etc...before got smash by 1-6 to two teams

 

[Infra-red]

The owners being openly criticised by Sky etc and panic following the first two results = Florida have opened the taps a little.

 

[Rightnr]

They've already told us next year will be shite and so they might as well appease now and deliver the shit sandwich next year

 

[royboy16]

Fear.

 

[HeeFMaN]

They've already told us next year will be shite and so they might as well appease now and deliver the shit sandwich next year

When did they say this?

 

[bosnian_red]

Board realizing that we are in fact shit and need signings, so they approve it belatedly.

 

[The Firestarter]

It's simply the Frenkie money.

 

[The Boy]

Japanese noodles and Korean tractors

 

[Big Ben Foster]

Most transfers are paid in installments. The annual end of summer panic signing bonanza is going on the company credit card.

 

[wangyu]

The glazers just started their yearly "lets calm the fans" program. You will protest disappear in no time.

 

[SirAnderson]

Shirt sales.

 

[SirAnderson]

Redcafe footing 50% of the bill. Niall is generous like that.

 

[Fox outside the box]

There's probably a decent discussion and debate to be had around this.

Sadly, the Internet simply isn't capable of managing that and it will predictably be a bunch of snide one liners, which won't bother trying to dig into it but will make that individual feel better for about a second, maybe 2.

 

[Adamsk7]

There’s many reasons they are splashing the cash now and none of them are for the good of the club. That’s all we need to remember

 

[bond19821982]

Protests. They know they just can't get away with it anymore.

 

[redshaw]

De Jong clicks

 

[DutchCruijff]

Doesn't the club hold about £200m in cash?

£100m.

As for where this has come, future revenue. I suspect the Glazers looking for a minority stake sale are looking to use some of that back into the club.

That or they are looking to sell up and want the club in a healthy state

 

[Fortitude]

Isn’t it all being put on the club? Basically Amex Black on steroids and HGH.

 

[::sonny::]

One minute, we're needing to raise funds through player sales. Now here we are, possibly about to spend well over 100m on players.

Where is it coming from?

Debt increase simply

 

[::sonny::]

It isn't money - it's credit that will have to paid off with money at some point in the future.

This is why United have more debts now than after the leverage buyout

 

[Compton22]

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Selling off our assets? No, I've had enough of these parasites

 

[Gandalf]

Doesn't the club hold about £200m in cash?

I thought the last published accounts said we were down to 30M cash on hand. I am hoping the sudden loosening of the purse strings is an indication that a sale is close, along the lines of chucking down some new carpets and painting the walls when you sell a house. If the Glazers are going to be gone this year then they won't have to figure out how to pay for any of this, the fees will be paid in instalments over several years but the immediate impact is adding assets to the balance sheet worth tens or even hundreds of millions. Kind of like putting lipstick on a pig but it does make sense.

 

[phelans shorts]

Perhaps it's partly a desperate ploy from the Glazers to appease Ronaldo and convince him we're ambitious and he should stay

Why the feck would anybody care about appeasing that prick?