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Amorim gets almost £100m transfer budget to start Manchester United rebuild
(www.theguardian.com)
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Is this before or after selling players like Rashford that the club wants gone?
If it's before then they likely to get somewhere around to £180m with the number of players they want gone.
If it's after then that's a joke as they adding what, £20m to the transfers out?
£180m is starting to approach the money needed, the squad needs 6 or 7 good players and that gets may be 6 at £30m.
£100m is likely 3 players, not going to pig the gaps at all.
Cunha is like £60m, Delap is £35m? Lol they fucked, Ruben should walk if these numbers true.
Then again United would need to find someone to buy the deadwood from their current squad. Honestly, given the wages someone like Rashford is on (reportedly £ 325k per week), I'm not sure many clubs would really consider them.
Rashfords people been dropping hints that he would take a paycut if the right team, like Barca. Of course where he would actually fit into that squad is pretty comical.
Only reason we took him in January was a wage cut, and even then he still broke our wage structure big time.
I have no idea if Unai actually wants him and has a target wage he would sign him for, but I would hope that a wage of 200k a week would work for us. £40m to buy Rashford is a bargain and goes a long way to covering some of the extra wages over our approx. current ceiling of about £150k.
Rashford is worth extra investment in wages due to increased media interest leading to sponsorships, shirt sales, etc.
Would Rashford take that much of a cut? Start of the transfer window, probably not, by the end? Much more likely as what's the alternative? Rotting in the man united youth squad?
We have similar going on with Acensio, he's on about 200k ish and he's looking to move permanently, which means a paycut that he seems to accept he needs to take for first team football.