Manchester United Thread 25/26 - Teamtalk/Transfers/Gossip Mod Note in OP 26.09.24

I think that's Chelsea's 6th signing now?

It's pathetic from utd

Approximately £600 million spent

It's absolutely nuts

Chelsea's model is to throw money at as many players as possible and hope they do well if not sell them off.

We absolutely can't do that.

We'll get our transfer done but not as fast as hoped, I'd rather that than the mercenary approach.

And if Chelsea are spending close to 60M on João Pedro then Mbeumo is gonna be a bargain signing once it gets done.

Another silly Chelsea 7 year contract

Other clubs can't compete with that

I'd love to see this all fall in on Chelsea. They're making a mockery of the financial regulations.

I don't think it will for Chelsea. Player contracts they are getting in avaergaing 100-160k a week spread over 7-8 years. Compared to say us giving lads 3-4 year contracts on 200+ over 3/4 years.

Their players, if they perform can negotiate a new contract or the club could sell them for a profit if they do well.

Their wage structure is very good. Palmer for instance is 140k a week. While sterling, Chilwell and possibly James will be gone soon as the highest earners won't have much of a future for the fact they rarely play. (maybe James if he keeps injury free as he was Cap at one point.)

There's a few on that list that will be gone.

Why do they need so many wingers?

PL voted to keep that loophole…selling assets to yourself. uefa dont allow it, so they'll get a token 500k fine.

we should prob do it now given no european football, though that would take away PSR as an excuse for not buying players.

No sympathy for him or anyone who drink drives!

Newcastle should now turn their attention to Garnacho. And to make sure they don't miss out on another player this summer they should offer the 70M United were talking about.

Take both they can keep each other company on the bench up there.

On the Mbuemo bids, I don’t understand how they are so far apart in terms of when the first bid was made and the second.
But I absolutely understand why the price keeps going up. We’re bidding below the asking price, trying to get a better deal. If we bid exactly what Brentford asked we’d continue to get rinsed by every club. If we end up at that original price and sign him in time to take part in preseason then what have we lost? Not a lot in my eyes.

Moving players on requires a market for players and players will to move. Sancho has seemingly turned down moves / made crazy wage demands. Rashford has limited himself to one club who don’t seem overly fussed on signing him. Anthony has made his preference for Betis clear, again limiting our negotiating power. I’m surprised by the lack of interest in Garnacho, given his wages currently aren’t huge.

Get him cheap and he'd be a decent signing. Villa need to reduce their wage bill but today they've done a Chelsea and sold their women's team so should be alright when it comes to PSR.

Would bring plenty of experience and is PL proven. Think Chido could learn a lot from Watkins.