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To celebrate not playing in Europe next season, Manchester United are now preparing to spend a quarter of the entire spending of La Liga during the last summer transfer window (mind you, Spanish clubs even ended up with a net surplus that window). It sure is fun being a strong but not top 1-2 side in Europe's non English top five leagues.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I'm unsure why people are acting shocked and surprised.

First of all, anyone who knows anything about football knows transfer budget numbers are plucked out of someone's arse.

Second, given the mess that United are in, they were always going to need a rebuild and have been planning for a rebuild since hiring Amorim. He himself has said on multiple occasions that they discuss is every day in management meetings.

Lastly, failure to get United back into the top six will mean that all hopes of paying off their debts will crumble. Don't forget that this is the same club with rats in the stands and a leaky press conference room roof.

United will attempt to sell off their dead wood and bring in people that can play their system, as they should. I expect them to spend around £250 million this summer.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Seems like a great financial choice for a club over a billion in debt

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Love to see it!

YNWA ❤️

[–] UndercoverUlrikHD 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And here I had the impression they were struggling financially. The Europa loss will cost them ~120 million less pound in revenue next season, and they still got money?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Yes. Didn't you hear? Big Sir Jim recently sacked the tea lady and made the rest of the staff pay extra for their lunch at the office. That ought to cover a few extra transfers this summer.

[–] UndercoverUlrikHD 1 points 22 hours ago

We were all making fun of Manchester United's overpaid players, little did we know Woodward gave similar contracts to normal staff too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Prem (and PSG, Madrid) spending is absolutely ridiculous

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

So how many players can they affort with £100m? Like 3 to 4 established players or up to 15 of non established players?

The footballing market is way too bloated...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Currently this would be the price for one "superstar" (not that many would consider ruining a promising career at United right now), 3-5 established players, depending on where they played before and what their track record looks like, or 5+ "kids" with little to no experience on the highest level. Then again someone like Omar Marmoush recently set back City about 60 million pounds despite only having one good season under his belt.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

They would have to poker to get a bunch of Sporting players that know Amorin and want to play for him agian, but I doubt any of the bigger names like Gyöskeres would be willing to go for cheap.