United Thread | 2025/26

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Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
Tough to offload them I'd have thought. It's not just the deluded fees the rags will expect but the rockstar wages most of these wankers are on too.
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There is a difference between asking for a transfer and actually being sold.

Just because they want to move, it doesn’t mean that they will. Their agents will still want their 10% or whatever commission they are paid, and if the best outcome for the agent is for the player to sit tight, that’s what the agent will advise.
 
mexico1970 said:
They have been offloading shit players since Sanchez and Pogba :)
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But they had to pay up the piano player's contract to get rid of him, and I’ve no doubt that they will have to do the same to be shut of that "wonderful" quintet.
 
Vienna_70 said:
There is a difference between asking for a transfer and actually being sold.

Just because they want to move, it doesn’t mean that they will. Their agents will still want their 10% or whatever commission they are paid, and if the best outcome for the agent is for the player to sit tight, that’s what the agent will advise.
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Hopefully they stay and are absolutely toxic in the dressing room as well as costing a fortune. Happy times.
 
Vienna_70 said:
But they had to pay up the piano player's contract to get rid of him, and I’ve no doubt that they will have to do the same to be shut of that "wonderful" quintet.
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While the magnificent 5 remain,Jim is paralysed in the transfer market , hopefully leading to more overpriced / overpaid / overrated panic buys on deadline day
 
We thought that defeat in the UEFA Cup combined with Man Utd's pre-tax losses of £130m in 2023-24 would kill Man Utd's transfer activity stone-dead but Man Utd created a UK subsidiary, called it Red Football Ltd, and submitted a new set of accounts that showed just £36.2 m losses for the same football club. They have one football club called Man Utd and yet they can create 2 sets of accounts, one of which excludes much of the takeover costs and debt finances costs incurred to buy the club. You work that out, I can't. City's approach to the Premier League regulation was to desperately find sponsors in the early post takeover years but Utd didn't bother with all that real world activity, they just re-did the paper work knowing that no one asks questions of Man Utd. If Chelsea can sell hotels and their women's team to directors for made up values then Man Utd can do what they want.

The result from a PSR perspective is that the restrictions on Man Utd buying players are effectively gone. The restrictions are now more practical. How do you manage a squad where Rashford, Sancho, Antony and Garnacho are in open dispute with the club and where Hojlund and Onana might join them. They want to force these players out using their fanbase as leverage. Their fans are led by social media influencers who will say anything to monetise them. The environment for Rashford, Sancho, Garnacho will be so difficult that they will go. If you are willing to accept any financial loss at the end of the window then this tactic will produce a clean slate. It will create a loss, but who cares, the can has been kicked down the road for another year.

In my opinion Utd will write all these players off and they will end up with a totally re-built forward line of Cunha, Watkins and Mbeumo. And to be honest that is formidable. They won't win the league but they could finish 5th.
 
DTKOAG said:
How more comical does it get..


Manchester United are making a move to sign English striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin, 28, who is a free agent after leaving Everton at the end of his contract this week. (Sun)
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He'll only be fit for about 4 games a season..... but still end up their top scorer
 
RodneyRodney said:
Unfortunately, they've all been banned from training.
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Doesn't mean they won't still be in contact with the other players and able to continue to spread discontent, if anything banning them from the dressing room could make the atmosphere even worse if they've got teammates who are buddies with them and have sympathy for them.
 
Hate to say it but if they bring in Cunha and Mbuemo and get rid of the shit they've got in their squad they've done much better than I expected. Didn't see players like Cunha and Mbuemo going there once they lost the Europa League final, so fair fucks to them. Those 2 players are much better than what they have in those positions.

Problem with United is that they need more than 5-6 new players, and offloading average players on mega wages is going to be very very difficult. Hojlund, Casemiro, Mount, Rashford, Sancho, Onana and Garnacho all have to leave, but who's going to buy them on those wages? We will have the same problems with Grealish and Phillips.
 
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Marvin. said:
We thought that defeat in the UEFA Cup combined with Man Utd's pre-tax losses of £130m in 2023-24 would kill Man Utd's transfer activity stone-dead but Man Utd created a UK subsidiary, called it Red Football Ltd, and submitted a new set of accounts that showed just £36.2 m losses for the same football club. They have one football club called Man Utd and yet they can create 2 sets of accounts, one of which excludes much of the takeover costs and debt finances costs incurred to buy the club. You work that out, I can't. City's approach to the Premier League regulation was to desperately find sponsors in the early post takeover years but Utd didn't bother with all that real world activity, they just re-did the paper work knowing that no one asks questions of Man Utd. If Chelsea can sell hotels and their women's team to directors for made up values then Man Utd can do what they want.

The result from a PSR perspective is that the restrictions on Man Utd buying players are effectively gone. The restrictions are now more practical. How do you manage a squad where Rashford, Sancho, Antony and Garnacho are in open dispute with the club and where Hojlund and Onana might join them. They want to force these players out using their fanbase as leverage. Their fans are led by social media influencers who will say anything to monetise them. The environment for Rashford, Sancho, Garnacho will be so difficult that they will go. If you are willing to accept any financial loss at the end of the window then this tactic will produce a clean slate. It will create a loss, but who cares, the can has been kicked down the road for another year.

In my opinion Utd will write all these players off and they will end up with a totally re-built forward line of Cunha, Watkins and Mbeumo. And to be honest that is formidable. They won't win the league but they could finish 5th.
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Formidable?
I think you'll catch a few in your net with that one mate.
They will still be wide open in midfield and shit at the back so yep your prediction of 5th bottom seems legit.
 
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