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.