United thread 2019/20

[Shirley]

From a follow up article from Ducker:

The England striker has put pen to paper on a new four-year deal that will commit him to Old Trafford until June 2023 although it includes the option of a fifth year.

The contract is understood to be heavily incentivised but if Rashford meets all of his performance-related targets and United deliver on the pitch it could be worth in excess of £300,000 a week to the 21-year-old and will place him at the top end of United’s pay scale, on similar money to Paul Pogba, but behind the highest earner Alexis Sanchez.

 

[Vienna_70]

The rags have been unjustifiably inflating money in football for decades and yet they continue to get a free pass.I like Rashford,but to award him with such a deal is comical,no other club would have gotten close to those figures.

Once more, unless he starts producing Ronaldo-in-his-prime-level performances, he’s effectively just locked himself in to being at United for the foreseeable future, unless he is willing to take a massive wage cut, as no other club would be able to even entertain such a weekly outlay.

The Sanchez effect.

 

[bluealf]

And on a different level , Sane has 25 goals in 89 games. I don't know his assists are but I bet it's more than Rashbore.

Sane has 28 assists, Rashford has 14

 

[Vienna_70]

BBC report United signings at the figure before add-ons, City's at figure assuming all add-on targets met.
Same with salaries offered with new contracts.

Don’t all media outlets do the same?

 

[waspish]

Henry Winter: “his new salary is less than half some of the crazier figures mentioned in headlines.”

As usual everything United does gets inflated for headlines. Case in point just this week: All bonuses for Wan Bissaka are accounted for and now his fee is commonly said to be a solid £50m. Meanwhile they don’t include the bonuses when reporting the fee that Spurs are set to pay for Ndombélé.

Nice of the turncoat to defend the rags but never utters a word when all the media do it about us.

 

[Marvin]

Henry Winter: “his new salary is less than half some of the crazier figures mentioned in headlines.”

As usual everything United does gets inflated for headlines. Case in point just this week: All bonuses for Wan Bissaka are accounted for and now his fee is commonly said to be a solid £50m. Meanwhile they don’t include the bonuses when reporting the fee that Spurs are set to pay for Ndombélé.

Quoting from Man Utd's last quarterly results (3 months to 31 March 2019):

Employee benefit expenses for the three months ended 31 March 2019 were £84.8 million, an increase of £9.7 million, or 12.9%, over the three months ended 31 March 2018, primarily due to investment in the first team playing squad.

And they were already the highest in the Premier League. For the full year for 2017-18 they were £296m. City's annual wages for the same period were £260m.

As regards AWB. £50m for a player who has 42 league appearances is a 'solid' £50m. Is that supposed to value?! Recall Man Utd fans comments regarding the cost of Mendy and Walker who are outstanding full backs, or were at the time they were bought.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Sane has 28 assists, Rashford has 14

Rashford has scored just 22 goals in his last 100 league appearances. It's a pathetic return for a forward and yet the media continue to build him up. Not even the most diehard United fans think he is worth the money he is now getting. They must be one of the worst run clubs in European football. People have joked about Woodward being like Swales but in fact the sort of decisions happening at the Rags now are exactly like those made by Swales when we signed people like Steve Daley etc on huge money. It's great.

 

[oman0115]

Buy a guy from Swansea, not linked with a Villa midfielder, is the golden boy preparing his squad for a quite rise back from the championship?

 

[Blue Til Death]

Fuck me, Rashford signs a 4 year deal on £300,000 a week, unbelievable Jeff, he is bang average and couldn't hit a cows arse with a banjo... I'm lovin this, another £62 million and change chucked down the old toilet ;-))

 

[roxy]

From a follow up article from Ducker:

The England striker has put pen to paper on a new four-year deal that will commit him to Old Trafford until June 2023 although it includes the option of a fifth year.

The contract is understood to be heavily incentivised but if Rashford meets all of his performance-related targets and United deliver on the pitch it could be worth in excess of £300,000 a week to the 21-year-old and will place him at the top end of United’s pay scale, on similar money to Paul Pogba, but behind the highest earner Alexis Sanchez.

Looks like they’re safe then.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Comparing overall wages between clubs needs a punch of salt as the costs are all different - who owns the image rights, how much of the pay is basic salary, and how much is bonuses, etc.

We have The transfer twietter thing claiming 250-300, citing Utd as a source; the BBC citing 200k, and Winter implying about 100-125. None of us know which is right, if any.

 

[citytill1die84]

rags are absolutely crazy they call us for overspending but it's ok to put a striker who's never been prolific, never will be and only has pace on 300k a week haha

Absolute laughing stock, mugs.


Mugs mugs mugs.

They will pay Maguire 300k a week as well it's the only way they can beat us in the market theses days the name Man Utd means fuck all anymore.

Happy days.

 

[TonyM]

To be fair you can never believe the media when it comes to wages. Also I'd suspect that at least half the incentive bonuses are unlikely to be achieved. I'd suspect that Rashford is really now on similar money to one of Bernardo, Sterling or Sane. He may not be as good but he's as important to them so they are probably not being too crazy.

I'm hoping what I'm thinking is true and that our players understand that there's not some new wage increase frenzy required. I'm hoping that other than the obvious outliers (like Sanchez) that all the top clubs are much the same money wise but we are just a better, safer, happier, healthier, funner place to be.

 

[bluealf]

Rashford has scored just 22 goals in his last 100 league appearances. It's a pathetic return for a forward and yet the media continue to build him up. Not even the most diehard United fans think he is worth the money he is now getting. They must be one of the worst run clubs in European football. People have joked about Woodward being like Swales but in fact the sort of decisions happening at the Rags now are exactly like those made by Swales when we signed people like Steve Daley etc on huge money. It's great.

I said as much a page or so back, it is desperate stuff from them and that is exactly the panic buying Swales entered into as he tried to get close to our bitter rivals, boot is now on the other foot now though lol

 

[Deleted member 81382]

Wan Bissaka, Young, Maguire, Jones, Smalling, Shaw, McTominay, Longstaff, James, Lingard, Rashford etc.

How the mighty have fallen. It's like looking at an Everton squad or something.

 

[domalino]

£170m on Wan-Bissaka, Maguire, James and Longstaff.

wow.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Comparing overall wages between clubs needs a punch of salt as the costs are all different - who owns the image rights, how much of the pay is basic salary, and how much is bonuses, etc.

We have The transfer twietter thing claiming 250-300, citing Utd as a source; the BBC citing 200k, and Winter implying about 100-125. None of us know which is right, if any.

I know for certain that when the media were reporting Ya Ya on £250,000 a week soon after he joined us he was only on around half that figure so you can't trust most of the press figures. That said it seems clear Rashford has been given a huge pay rise which he hardly deserves based on his performances. He has gone backwards as a player in the last three years.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

I know for certain that when the media were reporting Ya Ya on £250,000 a week soon after he joined us he was only on around half that figure so you can't trust most of the press figures. That said it seems clear Rashford has been given a huge pay rise which he hardly deserves based on his performances. He has gone backwards as a player in the last three years.

What Rashford seriously needs is someone to coach him. I'm not sure anyone has. He appears a prime candidate for the reported Guardiola/Sterling circles on the pitch treatment.

I remember Ture being quoted around that level too.

 

[northendenton]

rags are absolutely crazy they call us for overspending but it's ok to put a striker who's never been prolific, never will be and only has pace on 300k a week haha

Absolute laughing stock, mugs.


Mugs mugs mugs.

They will pay Maguire 300k a week as well it's the only way they can beat us in the market theses days the name Man Utd means fuck all anymore.

Happy days.

The name of manure still means a lot it's just a different meaning now lol

 

[manimanc]

Fuck me are they preparing for a relegation battle? Absolutely odd ball signings.