Manchester United Teamtalk/Transfer Rumours/Gossip 2019/20

Mitch Connor wrote: »

Would he? In theory, yes. But just look at the summer gone. Did we act like a team with a lot of financial fire power? Add in last january, summer 2018 and January 2018. Do United act like a club with massive financial strength or one working to moderate net spend?

Net spend in summer 2018 and 2019 very similar. Coincidence?

Sure we spent big on Maguire and AWB - but we sold Lukaku for a fair wedge. Let Herrera leave without replacing him (having sold and not replaced Fellaini) and loaned Sanchez out without replacing him. Not only did we take in a good sum of cash from the Lukaku sale - we substantially reduced the wage bill.

At United would Poch really have that much more financial power? Or would he have his hands tied behind his back like the last few United managers have had.

One would assume there was reluctance to speed big considering Oles inexperience, or perhaps Ole genuinely believed the players at the club were sufficient, we will never know for sure but we have spent big (and foolishly in alot of cases) in the last 7 years.

Lads saying ole only does the bad stuff and somebody else does the good stuff doesn’t help the club.

Accountants give contracts, work out wages and length of contract. To think they let Ole jiggle the finances of a billion pound corporation because he scored the winner in a champions league final is ludicrous.

It’s 2019. Stuff like the manager putting an old pro on 30 bob a week is long gone.

Jones has been kept at the club way longer than ole has been there. If he has a run of ten games in a row he will sell for 15 million ideally but I think it was a bad decision made by accountants and advisors and maybe marketing men. Herrera wanted way more than he was worth, maybe ole wanted to keep him but accountants said no. Or maybe he was told he could spend 800 000 a week on his midfield wages and Herrera could only be offered less than he wanted to make that happen. He certainly didn’t decide to pay off interest only on a loan in the first quarter of the fiscal year to cover half his wages then cut croissants from the canteen to cover the other half.

He picks the team and tells them how to play and tries to keep them motivated. Coaches are just like super valu supervisors now, They decide who packs the shelves and who sweeps the floor and sometimes they might get a say on recruitment.

The club is slowly being squeezed. Just like Liverpool was under hicks and the other fella. All costs squashed right down to a minimum until they sell off in a crisis when it’s been fully squeezed.

I refuse to throw ole under the wheels of it and have it go further then under a new manager. Honestly how people can watch all these managers struggle and think we need a new manager is madness.

I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if behind the scenes mick phelan ran the team and ole does the interviews and the marketing department thought Carrick would look good standing there with a clip board.

The supporters need to push against how the club is run, not how the team is run.

Mitch Connor wrote: »

No, you can't. But you can expect a manager to do BETTER than Ole is doing. Relegation form is the best a manager could do at United with these players?

Why did he sanction the sale of Lukaku and Fellaini without replacements? Why did he sanction the loan of Sanchez without replacement? Why did he not demand a replacement for Herrera?

Maybe he did... demand replacement but Woodward knows there is no chance Ole will speak out or speak up cause Ole knows there is no effing chance he gets a better job. Its United or back to Norway with him.

He has a long contract. If he speaks out and gets sacked he will be paid off.